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jeanlouis Sam 6 Sep - 18:42UNIT 7 Creative writing
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
To Dial To Pretend To Squander To Open up Faithful To Hang up Purpose To Stick to
If something ____________ _________ opportunities or possibilities, or if they ________ _______, they are created. New opportunities are ___________ _________ for investors who want a more direct stake in overseas companies.
A __________ is the part of a machine or instrument such as a clock or watch which shows you the time or a measurement that has been recorded. The luminous_________ on the clock showed five minutes to seven.
If you _________or if you ____________a number, you turn the dial or press the buttons on a telephone in order to phone someone. He lifted the phone and ____________led her number.
Someone who is ___________ to a person, organization, idea, or activity remains firm in their belief in them or support for them. She had been ___________ to her promise to guard this secret. A __________account, translation, or copy of something represents or reproduces the original accurately. Colin Welland's screenplay is _____________ to the novel.
If you _________ ________or you ________ _______the phone, you end a phone call. If you ________ _________on someone you are speaking to on the phone, you end the phone call suddenly and unexpectedly.
Mum hung up the phone. You can use _________ _________to indicate that someone stops doing a particular sport or activity that they have regularly done over a long period. For example, when a footballer hangs up his boots, he stops playing football. Keegan announced he was _____________ _______ his boots for good.
If you ________________that something is the case, you act in a way that is intended to make people believe that it is the case, although in fact it is not. Sometimes the boy __________ed to be asleep.
If you ___________ money, resources, or opportunities, you waste them. Hooker didn't __________ his money on flashy cars or other vices. He had _____________red his chances to win.
If you ____________ __________ something or someone when you are travelling, you stay close to them.
_________________ to well-lit roads. If you ___________ _________ something, you continue doing, using, saying, or talking about it, rather than changing to something else. Perhaps he should have _________ to writing. If you ___________ __________ a promise, agreement, decision, or principle, you do what you said you would do, or do not change your mind. But one problem is that few people can _________ ________ a diet for long.
The _________________ of something is the reason for which it is made or done. The_______________ of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies. = aim Your _____________is the thing that you want to achieve. His ___________ was to make a profit by improving the company's performance. = aim, objective
You use for all practical ______________s or to all intents and ______________s to suggest that a situation is not exactly as you describe it, but the effect is the same as if it were. To all intents and__________________s the case was closed. = in effect, effectively If you do something on ____________, you do it intentionally.
Was it an accident or did David do it on purpose? = intentionally * by mistake
CHOOSE THE BEST WORD OR EXPRESSION TO MATCH THE DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS GIVEN BELOW
To Dial To Pretend To Squander To Open up Faithful To Hang up Purpose To Stick to
If something ____________ _________ opportunities or possibilities, or if they ________ _______, they are created. New opportunities are ___________ _________ for investors who want a more direct stake in overseas companies.
A __________ is the part of a machine or instrument such as a clock or watch which shows you the time or a measurement that has been recorded. The luminous_________ on the clock showed five minutes to seven.
If you _________or if you ____________a number, you turn the dial or press the buttons on a telephone in order to phone someone. He lifted the phone and ____________led her number.
Someone who is ___________ to a person, organization, idea, or activity remains firm in their belief in them or support for them. She had been ___________ to her promise to guard this secret. A __________account, translation, or copy of something represents or reproduces the original accurately. Colin Welland's screenplay is _____________ to the novel.
If you _________ ________or you ________ _______the phone, you end a phone call. If you ________ _________on someone you are speaking to on the phone, you end the phone call suddenly and unexpectedly.
Mum hung up the phone. You can use _________ _________to indicate that someone stops doing a particular sport or activity that they have regularly done over a long period. For example, when a footballer hangs up his boots, he stops playing football. Keegan announced he was _____________ _______ his boots for good.
If you ________________that something is the case, you act in a way that is intended to make people believe that it is the case, although in fact it is not. Sometimes the boy __________ed to be asleep.
If you ___________ money, resources, or opportunities, you waste them. Hooker didn't __________ his money on flashy cars or other vices. He had _____________red his chances to win.
If you ____________ __________ something or someone when you are travelling, you stay close to them.
_________________ to well-lit roads. If you ___________ _________ something, you continue doing, using, saying, or talking about it, rather than changing to something else. Perhaps he should have _________ to writing. If you ___________ __________ a promise, agreement, decision, or principle, you do what you said you would do, or do not change your mind. But one problem is that few people can _________ ________ a diet for long.
The _________________ of something is the reason for which it is made or done. The_______________ of the occasion was to raise money for medical supplies. = aim Your _____________is the thing that you want to achieve. His ___________ was to make a profit by improving the company's performance. = aim, objective
You use for all practical ______________s or to all intents and ______________s to suggest that a situation is not exactly as you describe it, but the effect is the same as if it were. To all intents and__________________s the case was closed. = in effect, effectively If you do something on ____________, you do it intentionally.
Was it an accident or did David do it on purpose? = intentionally * by mistake