1 Flashcards by Sally KIM

Appalling

=Awful

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(UK) pants= (US)

underwear

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(Adj) blunt=

Not sharp (a knife)

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Pull sb’s leg=

To trick sb (into believing sth false => not serious)

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(UK) loathe =

Hate

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Detest =

Hate

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Can’t stand=

Hate

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Paralyse

마비시키다

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Avalanche

눈사태

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Paraplegic

하반신 마비된 사람

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Quadriplegic

사지 마비된 사람

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Limb

다리

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Gate crasher

Sh who goes to an event without an interview

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Cellar

지하 저장고 (와인)

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Bring sth back

Make sth in the past remember in present

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Despise

Hate

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Ward

In a hospital, a large room with many beds for patients

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To deign

To lower yourself to sb else’s standard

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To relegate to a lower division

격하시키다

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Grave (gravely) urgent situation, problem

Serious

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Grave (그라브)

Accent/ accute

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Lengthening (form)

(N)

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Do sb a good turn

To help sb with sth

To do sb favour

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To go bankrupt(adj)

To file for bankruptcy

파산하다

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To file for

신청하다 제기하다

file for divorce, bankruptcy

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In the foreseeable future=

Near future

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Sell off

싸게 팔아치우다

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A golden opportunity

Once in a lifetime opportunity

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Lame (adj) to give lame excuse

question

설득력없는 stupid

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Huge enormous massive gigantic

거대한 큰 엄청난

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Radical change my hometown has undergone radical change

근본적인 철저한

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Go through experience receive a process/tests

They are carrying out research experiments on you

겪다 (not 부정적

수행하다 실시하다

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In the recent past

(Opposite of the meaning ‘in the foreseeable future’)

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Augment sth 오그멘ㅌ

Make bigger, increase

Supplement your income

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Hostility

Fight

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Reply to sb/sth

Answer sb/sth

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Require (formal)

Need (informal)

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Exceed

Be more than

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Cease

Stop end finish

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Seek

Look for (job)

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Decline (phrasal Verb?)

Turn down

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Adhere to

Follow, stick to(-very similar meaning)

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Glue (factory formal)

Adhesive(n)= glue

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Encounter

Meet

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Remit payment=

Send money

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Terminate a contract, an agreement, a deal, a negotiation =

End

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Ascertain 애썰테인 (the cause of a problem)=

Find out

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The root cause (of a problem)

문제 근원

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Remunerate sb

Company remunerates you

To pay (income, salary)

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To complement sth/sb

보완하다 보충하다

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The girl happily skips across the yard
Jump (straight with legs)
Hop (with 1 leg)
Leap (widely)

깡충깡충뛰다

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Take in my trousers

To reduce the waist size of your pants

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Take on

Take sb on

고용하다

-와 시합하다

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Once in a blue moon

Hardly ever, rarely

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Situation circumstance position = singular or Plural?

Singular/ condition = can be plural

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Only one + singular

Only +

Plural Noun

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Exclusive rights, record deal

do business/deal with one company

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To opt for sth

to do sth

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Decide to, on(Noun)

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Elect a vote

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Unusual =strange
Unlikely= probability 20% chance
Unfamiliar=don’t know sth/sb

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take sth into account/consideration
Consider sth= to think about sth (carefully)
To bear sth in mind= consider
Weigh (up) the pros and cons= balance

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Proximity to sb/sth
=distance how far sb
Sth is in the vicinity= is close to/nearby
Immediacy(about time)
Locality=immediate area(uncommon)

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Afford sth = to have enough money to buy sth

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Fantasise about
Hope for
Wish for
Aspire to

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Turn up
We arranged to meet at 7pm but she never turned up
He’s still hoping something will turn up

잃어버렸던 물건이 나타나다
도착하다
(우연히) 생기다

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Turn around

(경기 경제 등) 호전되다

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Take off

~(동안) 쉬다

(공공서비스를) 중단하다

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The hustle and bustle

(Neutral) busy movement and activity

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Out of the blue(adv), clause

Suddenly and unexpectedly

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long for sth

long to do sth

Have a strong wish or desire

Deep desire, probably, difficult to get

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Solitude

The state of being alone (usually positive but neutral)

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Eccentric(adj)

A person who is a bit different and slightly strange

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Quaint village, town, place

Small, cute, charming

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Expatriate

국외 거주자

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to outshine/ outshone- outshined

To surpass in shining
To surpass in splendor, ability, achievement, excellence

A product that outshone all competitors; to outshine sb
-> he outshined all his brothers
형제중에서 그가 가장 빛난다
무색케하다
뺨치다

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adj. dismissive

무시하는

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Vast ocean

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A large number of children

A large amount of traffic

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Crucial, vital, essential resources

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Marginalised people

No one gives them job

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at their disposal (formal)=

~that they can use(informal)

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A lack of sth

To lack sth

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Slightly fractionally marginally larger than New Zealand

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To reveal

Show sth that was hidden/unknown

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To express

Show opinion/feeling/idea

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Sth lay(lies) forgotten (coll)

That sth exists and people have forgotten about it

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To be protective of sth
sympathetic to
be defective

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umpire - volley ball tennis baseball

Sit and see

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Referee-football

Run and

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Work - artwork, great achievement, amazing piece of art

Labour- construction

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To fetch sth=

Collect/ To dog “Fetch”

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To bid/ to make a bid

가격 부르면서 경매

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To create puzzle/mystery(coll)

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Indeed=really, in fact

More formal

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Augment sth 오그멘ㅌ

Make bigger, increase

Supplement your income

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Hostility

Fight

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Reply to sb/sth

Answer sb/sth

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Require (formal)

Need (informal)

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Exceed

Be more than

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Cease

Stop end finish

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Seek

Look for (job)

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Decline (phrasal Verb?)

Turn down

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Adhere to

Follow, stick to(-very similar meaning)

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Glue (factory formal)

Adhesive(n)= glue

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Encounter

Meet

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Remit payment=

Send money

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Terminate a contract, an agreement, a deal, a negotiation =

End

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Ascertain 애썰테인 (the cause of a problem)=

Find out

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The root cause (of a problem)

문제 근원

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Remunerate sb

Company remunerates you

To pay (income, salary)

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To complement sth/sb

보완하다 보충하다

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The girl happily skips across the yard
Jump (straight with legs)
Hop (with 1 leg)
Leap (widely)

깡충깡충뛰다

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Take in my trousers

To reduce the waist size of your pants

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Take on

Take sb on

고용하다

-와 시합하다

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Once in a blue moon

Hardly ever, rarely

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Situation circumstance position = singular or Plural?

Singular/ condition = can be plural

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Only one + singular

Only +

Plural Noun

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Exclusive rights, record deal

do business/deal with one company

To opt for sth

to do sth

Decide to, on(Noun)

Elect a vote

Unusual =strange
Unlikely= probability 20% chance
Unfamiliar=don’t know sth/sb

take sth into account/consideration
Consider sth= to think about sth (carefully)
To bear sth in mind= consider
Weigh (up) the pros and cons= balance

‘

Proximity to sb/sth
=distance how far sb
Sth is in the vicinity= is close to/nearby
Immediacy(about time)
Locality=immediate area(uncommon)

Afford sth = to have enough money to buy sth

‘

Fantasise about
Hope for
Wish for
Aspire to

‘

To downsize home/

Adj. cosy

Comfortable+small

A hoarder/ to hoard

A compulsive collector, and cannot throw stuff away

A hem/ to hem/ adj. hem
To feel hemmed in= to be surrounded by walls
Facility of restriction/ limitation

To feel edgy,

Nervous

Mortgage=

A loan specifically to buy a house

To take out a mortgage(coll)

It gets to me(coll)

It makes me uncomfortable, and slightly annoyed

That’s a real plus

Expression

Take up= occupy

The chest of drawers 서랍 전체

To make room (coll)

Standing room =only room to stand

To have room for dessert (in your stomach)

Clingy = to cling on to sb/sth
=stick to
클링이

Cling wrap

Room temperature (expression)

Icy cold beer

adj. Tepid

미지근한

No room to swing a cat

Really really small

Adj. cramped room

비좁은 uncomfortable, very small, not enough room for your stuff

Adj. roomy

넓은, =spacious

Room and board

Accommodation and (preparing food)

Leg room

In aeroplane

To know sth like the back of my hand (+)
                        inside out (+)
                        by heart (memorised the words)

National anthem 국가

Realise ambitious

To comprise sth/ consist of sth = to have

3 men and a woman make up the committee.

The committee consists of/comprises 3 men and a woman.

To concern sb = is relevant/connected to sb

This matter does not concern you=it id none of your business

Agreeable weather

=nice

Seriously doubt (coll)

To resemble sb=look like

To reassemble

Disassemble

Look sound taste familiar(coll)

Deserve a reward/promotion

To strongly suspect

To be reliant on = cannot live without

Adj. visceral

Real, real-life you can touch it

N. Facade fa싸드

Face, surface of a building

V. Beam up

전송하다 보내다

Adj. Thorough

Diligent, conscientious, meticulous

Vault

금고

Subvert

(체제를)전복시키다, (믿음을) 뒤엎으려하다

To frequent somewhere
=visit often/more than once **발음

quent 발음 강하게

N. disinterest

=detachment

(N, c) accomplishment

=feat of sth

He demonstrated an amazing feat of strength when he lifted the school bus.

Adv. Playfully = archly

In a not serious way

Reconnaissance (N, unc)
=exploration/scouting
정찰

Fabric =Structure (N) =physical
The fabric of society
(Abstract of structure)
구조

Parameter= limitations of a project

To Intersect=to meet

= two ir more linear path that meet

To. Pepper

The city is peppered with wonderful cafes and bay.

후추 치듯 널리 퍼져있고 randomly

Juxtaposition of sth and sth

병치, 연결

Adj. World-renowned =famous all over the world for people or things

(N) movie-goer, theatre-goar

=sb who goes to the theatre/cinema

Adj. Top-brand company, clothing/

Purpose-built(adj) for building

=designed and built for one specific reason

Sun-soaked(adj) beach city resort =receive a lot of blue skies and sun

Wind-swept (adj)

Receive a lot of wind

Bylaws (N,always pl)

=laws/rules for a specific area or community or group of people

long-standing friendship = endure

run-down neighbourhood, area

=old, poorly

Cut-price airline tickets =reduced/discounted (airfare)

Drop-down menu

Middle-aged (40-55)

Far-fetched idea/story/movie/plot

=unrealistic

To endow 기부하다

Highly regarded =highly respected

High-rise =very tall building

Life-saving transplant operation

Built-up open spare

Air-conditioned apartment

Hastily=quickly

헤이슬리

To. Devour

(배가 고파서) 집어삼키다 파괴하다

Unfortunately 발음 unfallchu넷리

Perform 프form

Atypical, asexual (negative)

Non-stop, nonsense, non-smoking

Anti bacterial, social, clockwise

Im balance, moral, possible

il + L, R

Disused -used before, but not anymore

Unused -brand new

thou = you
art = are

Re used, paid

Pre paid cooked

Under used cooked paid

Over cooked, used

Rely on sb

Reliable - able to believe
Reliant *on

To move-> movement (N)
To inform -> information
=> 80% of all verb -> noun transformations

completion (N)

To complete sth

Endure durable

Uncommunicative

A shortage of labour

Congregation (예배위해모인) 신자들
To Congregate (uc)

Segregation

Alienation

Misinformed - unintentionally given the wrong information

Unimformed - don’t have the information, because no one told

There’s no substitute for sth

-만큼 좋은건 없어

Which that who + clause/V+obj

Whose when why where + S + V

Date back # year = exist for # year

To make your hair stand on end

=to be really frightened

To be out of the ordinary (adj)
=unusual, not normal, not typical
Seeing Gui do writing homework was really out of the ordinary

To be paramount (adj)
=very important
It is paramount that you save enough money before coming to Australia.

To commission sb to do sth

= pay a specialist/professional (usually lots of money to build/make/design/do sth for you

Remuneration 보수 (N, unc) =salary

To indulge myself by doing sth

=to enjoy doing sth -> a guilty pleasure=sth you really enjoy, but you shouldn’t do too much.

To arrange for sth to V

Complain about

Provided (that), as long as (1st con) = if
As long as -> stronger condition
i.e. there is no choice or flexibility

As for sth =regarding sth

When you want to indicate a change in topic

As yet=until now

As it is=current
The current situation
The situation as it is + V

As=since=because

At start). (Middle position

Who were you talking to?

= To whom were you talking?(more formal)

The government recently implemented a number of laws regarding alcohol consumption.

Most of them have been ineffective.

The government recently implemented a number of laws regarding alcohol consumption, most of WHICH( preposition + relative pronoun; whom or which + relative clause ) have been ineffective.

There are 2 people on my table, neither of whom are from Europe. / one of whom (half percent) both of whom ( 100% percent )

3 or more people
None of whom are
Half of whom are
All of whom are

All other quantifiers = a quarter
Many/most/a few

((To show the results))I’ve heard it might rain this weekend. In that case/So, I’ll probably stay home.

-> I’ve heard it might rain this weekend, in which case(=so) I’ll probably stay home. (More formal)

Alcohol-related crime has increased recently. Therefore(=as a result, so), the government has deployed more police to the streets.

-> Alcohol-related crime has increased recently, as a result of which(=so)/the result of which, the government has deployed more police to the streets.

—-> keep continuing (advanced relative clause)
((To talk about time))
ELC opened in 2004, since when thousands of students have studied there
(Since + always perfect tense)

I waited for her until 7pm. At 7pm(=at that point) I gave up and went home.

-> I waited for her until 7pm, at WHICH point I gave up and went home.

At that point~afterwards, and then, after that.

——->
The war ended in 1945(=by that/ by that time), millions of people had lost their lives.
= The war ended in 1945, by WHICH time millions of people had lost their lives.

Present simple (or continuous)
+ relative clauses

Let’s visit the people who live in the forest (X)

Let’s visit the people living in the forest (O)

A passive (usually past/present simple) in the relative clauses

The latest Star wars film, which was directed by JJ Abrams, is the find chapter in the series.
-> The latest Star wars film, DIRECTED BY JJ Abrams, is the find chapter in the series.

With phrases the first/second,..last
(TO inf)
The first person who finishes will win the prize.
-> The first person to finish will win the prize

Her husband left her. She had been married to him for 14 yrs. After that, she was burgled.

-> Her husband, who had been married to her for 14 yrs, left her, at which point, she was burgled.

The next thing to happen was that her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Her mother had always been healthy.

-> The next thing to happen was that her mother, who had always been healthy, was diagnosed with cancer.

That very day she gave it away to a museum. The museum collects objects. They belonged to the poet.

->
That very day she gave it away to a museum which collects objects belonging to the poet.

Relieved = reassured

Sth is a bit of slog

=just long, boring, slow, monotonous (머넛언어스) to describe a book/movie, or a waste activity

Cultivated image

What gets me

=what irritates, annoys me

Shortly= soon

I’ll be there shortly

Continual - many individual interruptions

Continuous - continuing cycle

Imaginative = creative
Imaginary = fictional

Permission - abstract

Permit - physical document

Raise - 목적어 필요

Rise - 목적어 불필요

To sow seeds in a field

(씨)를 뿌리다

Stationary = not moving
Stationery = school supplies

Go stark raving bonkers

Stark raving 아주 완전히
go Bonkers 돌아버리다 (완전히 제정신 아닌)

Rows 롸
Usually with sb very familiar
=arguments

Empathise = 공감하다
Empathise with sb

Sympathise with sb 동정하다
= understand and share the feelings

Eloquence 웅변
Eloquent 말을 잘하는

Inarticulate 말이 어눌한

Banter 정감 어린 농담 밴터ㄹ

N. Unease 불안 =discomfort
Uncomfortable - physical, mental
I feel uneasy - only mental

Haunted house 귀신이 나오는 집

Comfortable = to be at ease
relieved (relaxed)
-> mental

Sporadic randomly

On a diet of football

To do say what was a huge part/influence on your childhood

To come to terms with sth

=to accept an undesirable/negative situation

Grieving period

Grief (n) 비탄

Join in - dont need a object
Take part in STH
Participate in STH

To play by the rules

Sport

Take heart “dont worry”

Regime 정권

Uncontrolled out of control

Uncontrollable - not to control sth

Able

Enrich enable empower

Intrusion
Intrude
Intruder

Curable

Cure (n, v)

Have a chat
Have a conversation
Make conversation (no article)
=to start
Have a debate (informal)
= hold a debate (formal)
Hold a discussion (formal)
Have a discussion

Have a gossip
to gossip about sb/sth

Give a presentation

Make=give a speech

Give a statement (목격자가) 진술하다
to officially report sth to the authorities/media
Make a statement =to communicate what you support/believe in

Referendum

국민투표/총선거

To give a talk(workshop, educational presentation for professionals) =have a talk

To keep STH going

STH is a matter for debate

=sth is very complex

To put your trust in sb
Trustworthy (adj)
Dependable reliable honest

Trusty (adj) + STH : sth that old, but very high quality and reliable

Adj. trusting (adj)
Sb who trusts people too easily

Be mistrustful of sb/sth
=dont trust sb/sth only with mis

(Un)trustworthy

Naive -adult , innocent -neutral

Gravelly -negative of husky 걸걸한
Phlegm 가래
Croaky 꺽꺽거리는 목소리
Lively
Mellow =chill,relaxed 그윽한 목소리
Monotonous=flat
Soothing -진정시키는 목소리
To soothe sth makes it feel comfortable
Squeaky 끼익거리는
The table is wobbly 워블리 불안정한
Wobbly voice - when you give a speech in front of the public

Hinge 문뚜껑의 경첩

WD-40

Nostril 콧구멍

Drowsy (adj) 졸리는 나른하게 만드는

Drowssiness

Speak IN a high-pitched way/voice

To do sth in anger

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