1. Thanksgiving day.

Thanksgiving is a happy holiday on the fourth Thursday of each November. Americans of all religions celebrate this holiday with big dinners and family reunions. It is a time to remember all the good things in life and to be thankful.

2. associate editor the editor's assistant and partner

3. carfare (Am) fare for carrying a passenger on a car, esp. A street car(tram); hence a very small sum of money

4. across the Bay across the San Francisco Bay (on the coast of California at San Francisco). The Bay is 40 miles long and 3 to 12 miles wide.

5. Pullman (car) (after George MrPullman who introduced them) a railroad posh passenger carriage

6. dig up (Am. Slang) to give money; to make contribution

SPEECH PATTERNS

1. Economize as he would, the earnings from hack work did not balance expenses.

Economize as he would, he couldn't scrape together such a sum.

Pull as he would he couldn't the old man could not get the fish out of the sea.

2. What I want is to be paid for what I do. What they all want is to pass the quiz.

What he felt after defeat was despair and frustration.

3. Mr. Ends turned as if about to leave the room.

The old woman opened her mouth as if about to say something.

She touched the receiver as if about to call the doctor.

They pushed the little boat into the river as if about to go boating.

4. "And I want my five dollars" was what Martin would have liked to demand.

"I'm sorry for intrusion,¹ "was what the lady would have liked to say".

"How smart you are" was what the gentleman would have liked to exclaim".

WORD COMBINATIONS AND PHRASES

due to smb/smth

to borrow smth. from smb.

to hold smb. at arm's length

run one's eyes over smb.

to be past repair

across the bay

the wrong done smb.

to keep an eye on/upon smb./smth

in token of smth.

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY

1. lose verb

to stop having something because it has been taken from you or destroyed.

Mike lost his job last year.

The family lost everything when their home burned down.

Lose smb., smth (make someone lose something)

They feared losing the sale to a rival company.

To lose sight (track) of (smb, smth) to forget an important fact or forget what your main aim is.

I think he has lost sight of the origin of the company

The policeman lost sight of the thief.

I've lost track of what she is doing now.

To lose one's temper — to get angry or impatient

Don't lose your temper, try to control yourself.

To be lost in thought (wonder, admiration)

Martin was lost in thought and did not hear the door open.

The girl was gazing at the picture lost in admiration.

To be lost upon smth to fail to impress or attract the attention.

My hints were lost upon my friend.

to lose one's head — to become so upset or worried that you stop thinking clearly She lost her head at the sight of the fire.

to lose one's heart to smb to fall in love

Do you know that Jack has lost his heart to Gwendolen?

loser noun

Some of Britain's top business leaders of the 1980s have become the country's greatest losers in the recession.

I'm sure the prime minister will turn out to be a good loser.

"She's got an awful lot of baggage-three kids! What about their real father?" — What can I say, Ron, the guy is a loser"

When parents split up the real loser s are the children loss noun the state of no longer having smth.

It was an ancient car anyway, so it was no great loss.

The soldier died from loss of blood.

to be at a loss — not to know what to do.

I was at a loss to understand what had happened.

to be at a loss for words — not knowing what to say.

The student was at a loss for a word.

2. abrupt adjective sudden and unexpected, often in an unpleasant way:

Our friendship came to an abrupt end.

behaving or speaking in a way that seems rude to other people

because you do not take the time to be friendly: The sales clerks were abrupt and impatient with the customers. abruptly adverb All of a sudden in the middle of the sentence he stopped abruptly

and left the room.

"No, said Roger abruptly, -"I'm staying here".

abruptness noun

His abruptness was really impolite

3. mature adjective

behaving in the sensible way that you would expect an adult to behave. This is usually used about children and young people: He's more mature than the other boys in his class. That wasn't a very mature thing to do.

maturity noun

the qualities and behaviour that you would expect of a sensible adult:

He hasn't got the maturity to be a father.

full growth or completed development:

It takes roughly forty years for the trees to reach maturity.

BUSINESS the time when the interest and profits on money that

has been invested must be paid:

Their investments are in bonds of varying maturities and yields.

4. hint noun

something that you say to show what you are thinking or feeling,

without saying it directly.

hint that:

He seemed so relaxed and gave no hint that anything was wrong.

take a/the hint (=understand what someone wants you to do):

She hoped he would take the hint and leave her alone.

drop a hint (⁼say something in an indirect way):

Sam keeps dropping hints about what he wants for his birthday.

Ferguson has dropped his broadest hint that he will retire next year.

give someone a hint to give someone a small piece of information that helps them to guess somethinghint of a small amount of something:

There was a hint of impatience in his voice. 'Maybe,' she replied with the hint of a smile. This leaflet is full of handy hints about safety in the home.

hint verb

to say what you are thinking or feeling in an indirect way:

hint (that): The Prime Minister hinted that the crisis could continue throughout the summer.

5. yield verb

to produce something useful such as information or evidence:

Knowing about our past does not automatically yield solutions to our current problems.

yield results/benefits:

The search for truth is beginning to yield fruitful results.

to make a profit:

The combined investment is expected to yield J5,000 in the first year.

to produce fruit, vegetables, or other foods

to finally agree to do what someone else wants you to do:yield to:

The sport should not yield to every demand that the television companies make.

to give something to someone else:

to finally allow people to see something that has been hidden:

This latest dig has yielded up over a hundred pieces of fine Roman silverware.

yield noun

an amount of something that is produced:

increased crop yields produced on some farms

a yield of over 12% on overseas investments

What is the yield of the barley per acre this year.

After repeated digs his trousers pocket yielded four dollars.

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