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English Audio Request

Inna_G
516 Words / 1 Recordings / 2 Comments
Note to recorder:

It's for studying words. Please, make a pause after every part to give me a possibility to answer before you tell me the answer. Comments would be good too. Thank you so much!!!

a fox is...
cunning = sneaky = sly

to use something for advantage
to exploit

describes someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation as you
fellow; ex: fellow citizens, fellow students, fellow travellers .

a helpful or good effect
a benefit; ex: financial benefit

a person who has the power to treat people without using ordinary medicines
a healer

animated
flashing

to give a title to a book, film, etc
to entitle

to change
to alter

too willing to believe that someone is telling the truth, that people's intentions in general are good etc
naive = gullible

someone who wheels and deals
a wheeler-dealer

to propose
to come up with

an advertisement
a commercial = an add

to provide the money to pay for an event, activity, or organization
to fund; ex: He plans to donate money to fund health centers.

a vehicle designed for travel in space
a spacecraft

distant
faraway; ex: faraway planets

unusual and surprising
remarkable = outstanding

little, not enough
meager

more, extra, or additional
further

to make a substance flow, esp. out of a container and usually into another container
to pour; ex: Would you like me to pour you some coffee?

to manage with
to cope with = to handle

to make someone responsible for someone or something
to entrust with

related to a subject or to something happening or being discussed
a relevance

an idea, opinion, or piece of information that is said or written
a point; ex: If you listen to me without skepticism, you'll surely see my point.

to increase in amount
to pile up; ex: The work was piling up, and I decided I had to go in to the office on the weekend.

without hope
bleak; ex: With no job, the future looked bleak.

a very large and usually expensive house
a mansion

to oppose and cause someone to lose in a competition or war so that you can win
to defeat; ex: Bill Clinton defeated George Bush for the presidency in 1992.

giving something your full attention
glued to something

to decide or arrange something at an earlier time
to predetermine

unlucky day
bad hair day

superstitions
wives’ tales

cannot be considered separately
inseparable

to think about a particular subject or thing
to consider = to regard

to scare children with...
Boogey Man

finally; in the end
ultimately = eventually

automatically thinking or behaving in a particular way
hard-wired = inborn ant. Acquired

as a result
in effect

a method or way of doing something
means of; ex: They had no means of letting him know that the flight was canceled.

to hunt
to prey on

a barn
a shed

ant. for 'sharp'
blunt

the short finger that is at an angle to the other fingers
a thumb

the flat part of the face, above the eyes and below the hair
a forehead

immediately start doing smth.
to hit the ground running

to take an easy way
to take the back streets

to be new and different
to break the mold

an idea
a concept

Recordings

Comments

GrahamCates
Dec. 5, 2012

animated/flashing ??

superstitions = old wives' tales
to scare children with..= Bogeyman
to give a title to a book, film, etc
to entitle .... strictly correct - but no-one would use it in this sense.

Inna_G
Dec. 5, 2012

Thanks a lot for the recording and comments, Graham! Hope to here from you soon with new request in Russian :)

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