depictin

contemplat
ing

compressi
ng

stimulati
ng

partitioni
ng

hilariou
s

duration

enthrall
ed

managem
ent

indiffere
nt

berserk

determine
dly

persisten
tly

elocution

wrecka
ge

concealm
ent

precinct

pursuit

jubilee

culminatio
n

supplicati
on

lintel

indicates

initial

hostile

optional

correlatio
n

defect

imaginatio
n

compact

charisma

chagrine
d

fiscal

chastised

habitat

radiate

1. Amateur: not professional who does an activity for the love of it

2. Management: the way you run a business etc.
3. Enthralled: excited, fascinated
4. Duration: period of time
5. Hilarious: very funny
6. Partitioning: dividing in parts
7. Stimulating: arousing interest or enthusiasm
8. Contemplating: look thoughtfully for along at
9. Depicting: representing in a picture
10.
Spire: tower of a church
11.Pursuit: chase or act of following in order to overtake or reach a
goal
12.Precinct: an area in a town that is closed to traffic
13.Concealment: the act of hiding or covering up something
14.Wreckage: remains of something that has been badly damaged
15.Elocution: art of speaking clearly in public
16.Persistently: determinedly keeping doing something against all
odds
17.Determinedly: with determination (persistence)
18.Berserk: out of control, mad
19.Indifferent: marked by a lack of interest; not showing sympathy
20.Institution: organisation founded for religious or educational
purposes
21.Correlation: mutual connection or relation
22.Optional: not obligatory or compulsory
23.Hostile: aggressively unfriendly
24.Initial: first
25.Indicates: points out, shows
26.Lintel: horizontal support across the top of a door or window
27.Supplication: action or begging humbly or earnestly
28.
Culmination: coronation or achieving the highest or apex of
something after a long time and efforts
29.Jubilee: special anniversary of an event
30.Dubbin: grease for softening or water proofing leather
31.Radiate: emit energy in the form of rays
32.Habitat: natural home or environment of an animal, plant etc.

33.Chastised: punished, especially corporally

34.Fiscal: of income related to taxes
35.Chagrined: feel distressed or humiliated
36.
Charisma: charm, personality and attractiveness to inspire
others
37.Compact: closely and neatly packed together
38.Imagination: faculty or action of forming new ideas, images or
concepts of external objects not present to the senses
39.Defect: flaw, imperfection
40.Compressing: squeezing or pressing

Phrasal verbs
Carry out
Meaning: Perform a task
Example: The government is CARRYING OUT test on growing genetically modified
crops.

Carry out
Meaning: Food bought from a restaurant to take away
Example: I'm too tired to cook- let's get a CARRY-OUT.

Carry through
Meaning: Complete successfully
Example: They CARRIED the reforms THROUGH despite the opposition.

Cut off
Meaning: Disconnect
Example: The telephone's been CUT OFF because we didn't pay the bill.

Cut off
Meaning: Isolate or make inaccessible
Example: The heavy snow has blocked many roads and CUT OFF a number of
villages.

Cut in
Meaning: Start functioning
Example: The fans CUT IN when the engine starts getting too hot.

Fall over
Meaning: Fall on the ground
Example: I slipped on the ice and FELL OVE

Find out
Meaning: Discover
Example: I went to the library to FIND OUT all I could about the life and work of
Joe Meek.

Get along with

Meaning: Have a good relationship with someone
Example: I don't GET ALONG WITH my sister- we have nothing in common

Give away
Meaning: Entrust your daughter to her husband through the marriage ceremony
Example: He GAVE his daughter AWAY and told the groom to look after her.

Give up
Meaning: Stop doing something that has been a habit
Example: I GAVE UP taking sugar in tea and coffee to lose weight.

Give up
Meaning: Stop doing something
Example: I have GIVEN UP trying to help them.

Give up
Meaning: Surrender, stop trying

Example: I can't think of the answer; I GIVE UP.

Give up
Meaning: Sacrifice or dedicate time, etc, to something
Example: I GAVE UP all my free time to the project.

Give up
Meaning: Allow someone to sit in your chair, take your place, etc

Give up
Meaning: Allow or give away a run while pitching (baseball)
Example: He has GIVEN UP 14 earned runs in 14 innings.
Example: I GAVE UP my seat to a pregnant woman.

Go off
Meaning: Explode (bomb), start ringing (alarm)
Example: The fire alarm WENT OFF because someone was smoking in the toilets.

Go off
Meaning: Go bad
Example: The milk WENT OFF because I forgot to put it in the fridge.

Go off
Meaning: Leave a place
Example: Please don't GO OFF until we have sorted this out.

Go off
Meaning: Take place, follow a plan or pattern
Example: The party WENT OFF well.

Go off

Meaning: Stop working (electric/electronic equipment)

Example: The lights GO OFF automatically when the office is empty.

Go after
Meaning: Chase, try to get
Example: The cat WENT AFTER the pigeon, but it flew away.

Hold up
Meaning: Delay when travelling
Example: I was HELD UP by the terrible traffic and arrived half an hour late for my
appointment.

Hold up
Meaning: Rob with violence or threats thereof
Example: Two armed men HELD UP the bank in High Street this morning and got
away with 75,000.

Make out
Meaning: Make a cheque payable to somebody
Example: Please MAKE the cheque OUT to RGM Productions Ltd

Ring back
Meaning: Return a phonecall
Example: I phoned and left a message this morning but she still hasn't RUNG me
BACK.

Sort out
Meaning: Resolve a problem
Example: Has the firm SORTED OUT its tax problems yet?

Step down
Meaning: Leave a job or position so that someone can take over

Example: The CEO STEPPED DOWN after the share price dropped.

Take over
Meaning: Assume control of a company or organisation
Example: The bank was TAKEN OVER by a Hong Kong bank that needed to buy a
bank to get into the British market.

Other grammar units include:

1.
Punctuation Fiction p 79
2.
Adverbial clauses N Fiction p 61
3. Adjectival clauses Fiction p 61