Vocabulary Exercises

1. Translate into Ukrainian paying special attention to the words from the essential vocabulary.

A.

1. Should I drop a hint (= give a hint) to Matt?

2. The walls were painted white with a hint of peach.

3. Sarah hoped he’d take the hint and leave her alone.

4. He was homeless, so we took him in.

5. It has been suggested that mammals took over from dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

6. I think he’s quite taken with the idea.

7. They’s only four cylinders to these here old' Dodges. I took one down one time. 

8. It lurched forward with a bellowing roar and this time it took down the main support to the left of what had been the window. That section of the roof fell in with a grinding crash. Plaster dust billowed up. The dozer pulled free.

9. I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. 

10. My mama took me down there a few days later.

11. He took down his drink as if it were a drop in the bottom of a glass.

12. The team excels at turning defence into attack.

13. As a child he excelled at music and art.

14. Our anticipated arrival time is 8.30.

15. The eagerly anticipated movie will be released next month.

16. The programme concluded with Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’.

17. The commission concluded its investigation last month.

18. A trade agreement was concluded between the two countries.

19. It took the jury some time to reach the conclusion that she was guilty.

20. New evidence might lead to the conclusion that we are wrong.

21. We can safely draw some conclusions from our discussion.

22. In conclusion, I would like to thank you.

23. If we took this argument to its logical conclusion …

24. That was a smart career move.

25. OK, I admit it was not the smartest thing I ever did.

26. We set off at a smart pace.

27. After he left I just tried to carry on as normal.

28. Carry on the good work!

29. He carried on peeling the potatoes.

30. We live in an age of rapid technological advance.

31. She asked for an advance on her salary.

32. It’s cheaper if you book the tickets in advance.

33. People were evacuated from the coastal regions in advance of the hurricane.

B.

1. The troops were finally given the order to advance.

2. They had advanced 20 miles by nightfall.

3. This research has done much to advance our understanding of language learning.

4. They worked together to advance the cause of democracy.

5. We will advance you the money.

6. This button advances the tape to the beginning of the next track.

7. We need advance notice of the numbers involved.

8. No advance booking is necessary on most departures.

9. It has been used to signal early warning in advance of weather-related disasters.

10. Built-in doesn't mean unmalleable; it means organized in advance of experience."

11. The white lines are what's called an advance fuel cycle, where you reprocess.

12. More and more, the inventors of things will not be able to say that in advance.

13. But these objections are now vanishing through advances in materials.

14. So I don't have to plan it out in advance, but I can improvise, making it longer or shorter as I go.

15. We have to do it, because to let our movement advance.

16. And as humans, we are far better at seeing the problems way in advance, but ultimately we knock them down.

17. And I was standing just anonymously in a sweatshirt, putting my hand on and off of a trashcan to signal the advancement.

18. He was my personal tutor at university.

19. She’s in my tutor group at school.

20. And some of you all might know, about five years ago I was an analyst at a hedge fund, and I was in Boston, and I was tutoring my cousins in New Orleans, remotely.

21. And that's where you gotta smarten up...... and cut somebody sometime.

22. So I want to try and convince you in about 15 minutes that that's a ridiculous and ludicrous thing to do.

23. And that's an outrageous and ridiculous finding, but it's true.

24. And you can say, "That's ridiculous, Steve.

25. This is just completely ridiculous.

26. Don’t be ridiculous! You can’t pay £50 for a T-shirt!

27. 8,000 animals in the world. You're thinking, "That's just ridiculous. No way." So Les did a finer study and he found out it came out about 9,000.

28. It seems to me to be such a plausible, natural extension of the democratic principles we already have, that I'm shocked to think anybody would find that just ridiculous.

29. It would be ridiculous to claim that we know how we make consciousness in our brains, but we certainly can begin to approach the question, and we can begin to see the shape of a solution.

30. (Laughter) Who folded that thing up there, and why? (Laughter) Some people get carried away.

31. So, the wind carries the sand onto the site and then it carries the redundant sand away from the structure for us.

32. How many people around the world are dancing with elation at this very minute?