2 // English vocabulary
2 // voc, phrasal verbs, collocations CAE// 06/01/17, 09/01/17, 20/01/17
2 // voc, phrasal verbs, collocations CAE// 06/01/17, 09/01/17, 20/01/17
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unangenehm
unpleasant
difference meaning? a few? few? // little ? a little?
a few / a little = positive, few / little = not many negative meaning
andeuten
to imply
David is in great demand
sehr gefragt
Not an questionmark sentence: How difficult ________________ with new ideas for the festival every year!
How difficult it is to come up with new ideas for the festival every year! (exclamation) pay attention to the sentence structure
erbärmlich / armselig
pathetic
fähig
capable
Good reputation.
The company is highly spoken/thought of in the local area.
Eine Frage der Zeit
a matter of time
think ______ (seriously, carefully)
deeply
surprised, or shocked about the big number.
no fewer than twenty dinosaurs on display.
bedrohen
threaten
gefesselt sein, z.B. von einem Photo
sb. / sth. captivated
other word: no fewer than
This exhibition will appeal to everyone because as many as twenty dinosaurs are on display.
other word: curious // neugierig
enquiring mind
bereichert, dieses Bild bereichert mich
enriched / this photography enriched me
if you like sth, it ______ to you
if you like sth, it appeals to you
wahrscheinlich / unwahrscheinlich
likely / unlikely
erwarten, ahnen, vorhersehen
ability to anticipate problems
einreichend
handing in
wihtout or no doubt? They were ________ that she would be a great tennis player.
They were in no doubt that she would be a great tennis player. //Because of "that" // not in any doubt
Grabung / Ausgrabung
excavation
change to adjectives
- face
- office
- commerce
- benefit
- logic
- influence
- face → facial
- office → official
- commerce → commercial
- benefit → beneficial
- logic → logical
- influence → influential (pay attention!)
coc: ...Harold Edgerton ____ the limits of photographic technology...
...Harold Edgerton extended the limits of photographic technology...
change to verbs
- central
- standard
- familiar
- energy
- emphasis
- memory
- minimum
- maximum
- public
- centralise
- standardise
- familiarise
- energise
- emphasise
- memorise
- minimise
- maximise
- publicise
change to adjectives
- snow
- wind
- sun
- rain
- snowy
- windy
- sunny
- rainy
coc: valued __
valued as
change countries into citizens / adjektives
- Japan
- China
- Spain
- Korea
- Mars
- Belgium
- Japanese
- Chinese
- Spanish
- Korean
- Martian
- Belgian
coc: ______ change
radically change
change to verbs
- wide
- thick
- deep
- long
- short
- widen
- thicken
- deepen
- lengthen (pay attention!)
- shorten
the once at the beginning of sth. _____ sports photographers were as interested....
Early sports photographers were as interested....
change to nouns
- wide
- thick
- deep
- long
- short
- width
- thickness
- depth
- length
- shortness, shortage
coc: they do more than ____ tell the story
they do more than simply tell the story
coc: In the age before the motor car, ____ was travelling in London like?
In the age before the motor car, what was travelling in London like? what was it like collocation
change to adjectives
- business
- mountain
- mountain (person)
- businesslike (sachlich, nüchtern)
- mountainous (gebirgig)
- mountaineer (Bergsteiger)
change words
- back
- after
- clock
- backwards
- afterwards and the oppisit is beforehand
- clockwise (Im Uhrzeigersinn) and the opposite is anticlockwise
change to verbs
- simple
- class
- intense
- false
- pure
- beauty
- identity
- simplify
- classify
- intensify
- falsify
- purify
- beautify
- identify
change to nouns
- simple
- intense
- pure
- public
- simplicity
- intensity
- purity
- publicity
change to nouns
- arrive
- survive
- deny
- arrival
- survival
- denial (Leugnen, Verleudnung)
change to verbs
- high
- less
- fright
- tight
- loose
- fresh
- heighten (the noun is height) (pay attention!)
- lessen (verringern)
- frighten (erschrecken)
- tighten (anziehen, verschärfen)
- loosen (lockern, lösen)
- freshen
