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jeanlouis Sam 6 Sep - 17:08Unit 6 City of contrast
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
Uptown To Allow To Bargain Real Estate To Dot Melting Pot
To Bear Witness To To Lure Pot-Pourri To Wander High-Rise
Mind-Boggling Heady
If you go ___________, or go to a place ____________, you go away from the centre of a town or city towards the edge. Sometimes refers to a part of the city other than the main business district. (mainly AM) Example: He rode ____________ and made his way to Bob's apartment. * downtown Also an adjective. Example: ...___________clubs.
If someone is _________________ to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble. Example: The children are not _______________d to watch violent TV programmes. = permit, let * forbid If you ______________ something to happen, you do not prevent it. Example: He won't _____________ himself to fail.
Some people say `_____________ me' as a polite way of offering to do something for someone. (FORMAL) Example: ________________ me to buy you a drink at the bar. = permit me
When people ______________with each other, they discuss what each of them will do, pay, or receive. Example: They prefer to _____________ with individual clients, for cash.
= negotiate Something that is a _____________ is good value for money, usually because it has been sold at a lower price than normal. Example: At this price the wine is a __________.
____________ _______________ is property in the form of land and buildings, rather than personal possessions. (mainly AM) Example: By investing in __________ ___________ he was one of the richest men in the United States. = property
A ______________ __________ is a place or situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together. Examples: The republic is a ___________ _________ of different nationalities. ...the cultural _____________ _____________.. Marseilles has proved to be a better racial __________ - ____________ than Lyons.
If a person or thing ____________ ___________ ________something, they show or say that it exists or happened. (FORMAL) Examples: Many of these poems __________ ___________ ______________ his years spent in India, England, California and China.
Many veterans believe it is their job to ___________ _____________ _________ the horrors of war that they personally experienced.= testify
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
Uptown To Allow To Bargain Real Estate To Dot Melting Pot
To Bear Witness To To Lure Pot-Pourri To Wander High-Rise
Mind-Boggling Heady
If you say that something is ___________- _____________, you mean that it is so large, complicated, or extreme that it is very hard to imagine. (INFORMAL); Example: The amount of paperwork involved is ______________- ______________
If you __________________ in a place, you walk around there in a casual way, often without intending to go in any particular direction. Example: When he got bored he__________________d around the fair.
To ______________ someone means to trick them into a particular place or to trick them into doing something that they should not do. Example: He ___________d her to his home and shot her with his father's gun. = trick A _____________ is an object which is used to attract animals so that they can be caught.
________________-_____________is a mixture of dried petals and leaves from different flowers. ________________ is used to make rooms smell pleasant. A ___________________of things is a collection of various different items which were not originally intended to form a group. Example: Displaying a _______________ of architectural styles from all over the world, the village looks as outlandish as a colourful film set. = miscellany
___________ - ______________ buildings are modern buildings which are very tall and have many levels or floors. Example: ... _____-__________ apartment blocks.
A ______________ drink, atmosphere, or experience strongly affects your senses, for example by making you feel drunk or excited. Examples: ...in the _________________ days just after their marriage... I felt _______________ and euphoric.
A _____________ is a very small round mark, for example one that is used as the top part of the letter `i', as a full stop, or as a decimal point. You can refer to something that you can see in the distance and that looks like a small round mark as a _______________ Example:
Soon they were only _____________s above the hard line of the horizon. = speck, spot
When things ____________ a place or an area, they are scattered or spread all over it.
Example: Small coastal towns ___________ the landscape.
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
Uptown To Allow To Bargain Real Estate To Dot Melting Pot
To Bear Witness To To Lure Pot-Pourri To Wander High-Rise
Mind-Boggling Heady
If you go ___________, or go to a place ____________, you go away from the centre of a town or city towards the edge. Sometimes refers to a part of the city other than the main business district. (mainly AM) Example: He rode ____________ and made his way to Bob's apartment. * downtown Also an adjective. Example: ...___________clubs.
If someone is _________________ to do something, it is all right for them to do it and they will not get into trouble. Example: The children are not _______________d to watch violent TV programmes. = permit, let * forbid If you ______________ something to happen, you do not prevent it. Example: He won't _____________ himself to fail.
Some people say `_____________ me' as a polite way of offering to do something for someone. (FORMAL) Example: ________________ me to buy you a drink at the bar. = permit me
When people ______________with each other, they discuss what each of them will do, pay, or receive. Example: They prefer to _____________ with individual clients, for cash.
= negotiate Something that is a _____________ is good value for money, usually because it has been sold at a lower price than normal. Example: At this price the wine is a __________.
____________ _______________ is property in the form of land and buildings, rather than personal possessions. (mainly AM) Example: By investing in __________ ___________ he was one of the richest men in the United States. = property
A ______________ __________ is a place or situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get mixed together. Examples: The republic is a ___________ _________ of different nationalities. ...the cultural _____________ _____________.. Marseilles has proved to be a better racial __________ - ____________ than Lyons.
If a person or thing ____________ ___________ ________something, they show or say that it exists or happened. (FORMAL) Examples: Many of these poems __________ ___________ ______________ his years spent in India, England, California and China.
Many veterans believe it is their job to ___________ _____________ _________ the horrors of war that they personally experienced.= testify
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
Uptown To Allow To Bargain Real Estate To Dot Melting Pot
To Bear Witness To To Lure Pot-Pourri To Wander High-Rise
Mind-Boggling Heady
If you say that something is ___________- _____________, you mean that it is so large, complicated, or extreme that it is very hard to imagine. (INFORMAL); Example: The amount of paperwork involved is ______________- ______________
If you __________________ in a place, you walk around there in a casual way, often without intending to go in any particular direction. Example: When he got bored he__________________d around the fair.
To ______________ someone means to trick them into a particular place or to trick them into doing something that they should not do. Example: He ___________d her to his home and shot her with his father's gun. = trick A _____________ is an object which is used to attract animals so that they can be caught.
________________-_____________is a mixture of dried petals and leaves from different flowers. ________________ is used to make rooms smell pleasant. A ___________________of things is a collection of various different items which were not originally intended to form a group. Example: Displaying a _______________ of architectural styles from all over the world, the village looks as outlandish as a colourful film set. = miscellany
___________ - ______________ buildings are modern buildings which are very tall and have many levels or floors. Example: ... _____-__________ apartment blocks.
A ______________ drink, atmosphere, or experience strongly affects your senses, for example by making you feel drunk or excited. Examples: ...in the _________________ days just after their marriage... I felt _______________ and euphoric.
A _____________ is a very small round mark, for example one that is used as the top part of the letter `i', as a full stop, or as a decimal point. You can refer to something that you can see in the distance and that looks like a small round mark as a _______________ Example:
Soon they were only _____________s above the hard line of the horizon. = speck, spot
When things ____________ a place or an area, they are scattered or spread all over it.
Example: Small coastal towns ___________ the landscape.