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jeanlouis Ven 19 Juin - 18:31Folder 6 Addictions
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
Addict To Increase Due To To Advertise To Appeal To Manipulate Someone
If you ______________to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them. Example: The United Nations has ___________ed for help from the international
If you _____________ something such as a product, an event, or a job, you tell people about it in newspapers, on television, or on posters in order to encourage them to buy the product, go to the event, or apply for the job. Example: In 1991, the house was _______________d for sale at $49,000.
An _____________ is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them. Example: He's only 24 years old and a drug ______________.If you say that someone is an __________, you mean that they like a particular activity very much and spend as much time doing it as they can. Example: She is a TV____________and watches as much as she can.
If something ___________s or you __________ it, it becomes greater in number, level, or amount. Example: Japan's industrial output __________d by 2%.* decrease
If you say that someone _______________s people, you disapprove of them because they skillfully force or persuade people to do what they want. Examples: She's always borrowing my clothes and ____________ing me to give her vast sums of money. They'll have kids who are two, three, who are ____________ting them into buying toys.
If you say that someone ________________s an event or situation, you disapprove of them because they use or control it for their own benefit, or cause it to develop in the way they want. Example: She was unable, for once, to control and _______________ events.
= manoeuvre ________________ion Example : .accusations of political _______________.
If an event is _________ ________ something, it happens or exists as a direct result of it.
Example: My desire to act was ___________ __________ Laurence Olivier's performance in `Hamlet'. __________ _________ is sometimes used to introduce the reason for an undesirable situation. Example: The flight has been delayed one hour, ___________ __________ weather conditions. This use is fairly common, but some people object to it. Instead of saying `due to', you can say owing to or because of. Example: Owing to the heavy rainfall many of the roads were impassable.
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
Addict To Increase Due To To Advertise To Appeal To Manipulate Someone
If you ______________to someone to do something, you make a serious and urgent request to them. Example: The United Nations has ___________ed for help from the international
If you _____________ something such as a product, an event, or a job, you tell people about it in newspapers, on television, or on posters in order to encourage them to buy the product, go to the event, or apply for the job. Example: In 1991, the house was _______________d for sale at $49,000.
An _____________ is someone who takes harmful drugs and cannot stop taking them. Example: He's only 24 years old and a drug ______________.If you say that someone is an __________, you mean that they like a particular activity very much and spend as much time doing it as they can. Example: She is a TV____________and watches as much as she can.
If something ___________s or you __________ it, it becomes greater in number, level, or amount. Example: Japan's industrial output __________d by 2%.* decrease
If you say that someone _______________s people, you disapprove of them because they skillfully force or persuade people to do what they want. Examples: She's always borrowing my clothes and ____________ing me to give her vast sums of money. They'll have kids who are two, three, who are ____________ting them into buying toys.
If you say that someone ________________s an event or situation, you disapprove of them because they use or control it for their own benefit, or cause it to develop in the way they want. Example: She was unable, for once, to control and _______________ events.
= manoeuvre ________________ion Example : .accusations of political _______________.
If an event is _________ ________ something, it happens or exists as a direct result of it.
Example: My desire to act was ___________ __________ Laurence Olivier's performance in `Hamlet'. __________ _________ is sometimes used to introduce the reason for an undesirable situation. Example: The flight has been delayed one hour, ___________ __________ weather conditions. This use is fairly common, but some people object to it. Instead of saying `due to', you can say owing to or because of. Example: Owing to the heavy rainfall many of the roads were impassable.