Vocabulary Enrichment

ab initio advantageous authentic material capacity communication strategy communicative competence communicative effectiveness concise; conciseness conventional; convention convergent thinking; convergence disparate divergent thinking; divergence framework historical account implication intelligence learning style lexical extension lexical innovation literal loose analogical reasoning manifestation meaning extension

metaphoric awareness metaphorical analogies paraphrase problem-solving to accommodate to account for to approximate to contend; contention to employ to enrich language production to foster metaphoric intelligence to highlight to make up for a lack of knowledge to pervade / pervasive to process to promote to raise metaphoric awareness to underlie ubiquitous; ubiquity vocabulary building vocabulary retention word coinage

3. Make sure you can explain the following terms:

authentic material, communication strategy, communicative competence, divergent thinking, learning style, metaphor, problem-solving, word coinage.

4. Match the words with their definitions:

1. being the basic or usual meaning of a word or phrase;

2. following what is traditional or the way smth has been done for a long time;

3. giving only the information that is necessary and important, using few words;

4. good or useful in a particular situation;

5. seeming to be everywhere or in several places at the same time;

6. the ability to learn, understand and think in a logical way about things; the ability to do this well;

7. the ability to remember things;

8. the ability to understand or to do smth;

9. the process of inventing a word or phrase;

10. to consider smth, such as smb’s opinion or a fact, and be influenced by it when you are deciding what to do or explaining smth;

11. to do smth that corrects a bad situation;

12. to encourage smth to develop;

13. to give an explanation of smth;

14. to help smth to happen or develop;

15. to say that smth is true, especially in an argument;

16. to use smth such as a skill, method for a particular purpose;

5. Use the proper derivative:

1. This sentence is not to be understood (literal).

2. The following is an (advantage) technique.

3. The author of the article favours the (employ) of a number of activities.

4. The (underlie) meaning is hard to grasp.

5. What is his (intelligent) quotient?

6. Are there any special (conventional)?

7. This is an (advantage) proposition.

8. This theory highly (diverge).

9. It’s a doubtful (contend).

10. The approach he (promote) is ubiquitous.

11. What is the (underlie) idea of the theory?