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enConfusing Vocabulary
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1. Obesity is not caused by over-eating alone / only. 2. was alone / sole in the office 3. Alone / Only in certain cases does this behavior cause anxiety. 4. She alone / solely knows what happened. 5.Детальніше
Match each word to an appropriate group a The (...) figures are higher. Their (...) weight was much higher than their perceived weight. Several thousand people have been reported as dying, but the (...) number is still not known.Детальніше
1. A set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions called a policy / politics. 2. If you want to pursue a career in politics / policy you should have a hide like a rhinoceros. 3.Детальніше
I feel cold because I have dressed/ wore/put on lightly.Nobody has ever seen her dressed/ put on /wore in white.How can I recognize you? - I shall be putting on wearing/ dressinga pink scarf.Детальніше
take after - resemble parents in appearance, but more in behaviour or character. look like - to be similar in appearance to someone or something He takes after / looks like his father, as absent-minded as he used to be.Детальніше
advise - verb advice - noun She advised / adviced us that we should apologize.My advise / advice is that you should leave the country.I want to advise / advice you against lending money to her.Детальніше
adapt / adopt / adept adapt make something suitable for a new use adopt legally take another’s child / accept and approve adept expert The library has been adapted / adopted /adept to be used as an office.Детальніше
an ad is an advertisement (informal) add- put a thing on the other thing, increase What a germ this ad / add you have put in the magazine.If you ad / add in some lemon juice the taste will be better.Детальніше
during+noun / gerund / a period of time (if smth develops gradually from the beginning to the end of that period) while+participle (doing/being done/done), subject+predicate for+a period of time for a while= for a short time Match each word to an appДетальніше
