Unit 1. FAMILY LIFE - KEY
VOCABULARY
STT | WORDS | WORD FORM | SYNONYM | ANTONYM | COLLOCATIONS AND IDIOMS |
1 | nurture (v) | - Nurtural(a) - nurturing(n) | Bring up/ care for | Ignore/ neglect |
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2 | contribute (v) | - Contribution(n) - contributer(n) | Donate/ give/provide/ support |
| Contribute + enormously/generously/heavily/equally/directly exactly/clearly/effectively/actively; to be asked/ encouraged to contribute |
3 | divide: (v) | - Division(n) - Divisible(a) - Divisor(n) | Separate/split | Join/unite | Divide st up equally/ fairly/; divide into; |
4 | laundry (n) | - Launderette/ laundrmat(n); - launder(v); - laundress(n); - laundryman |
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| Do the laundry/ hang out/up the laundry; laundry bags/basket/service |
5 | encourage (v) | - Encouragement - encouraging | Boost/ hearten | discourage | Encourage in; be greatly/strongly encouraged; actively/positively encourage |
6 | share = (v) the housework |
| split |
| Fully/equally share; be widely shared; be reluctant to share/be forced to share/agree to share/refuse to share |
7 | raise (v) |
| bring up/ look after/ nurse (children) | Neglect/ |
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8 | Earn money (v) |
| = make (money) | Spend money | Earn a wage/salary/living/fortune |
9 | neat (a) | - Neaten(v) - neatly(adv) - neatness(n) | Elegant/ tidy/ well- ordered/ well- organized/ | Messy/ disordered/ disorganized/ | Appear/look/seem/be/make st neat ; extremely/fairly/quite/rather/surprisingly neat |
10 | suitable (a) | - Suitableness(n) - suitably(adv) - suitability(n) | Appropriate/ fit/ right | inappropriate | Look/seem/prove/sound/make suitable for; considers/deem st suitable for; really/especially/quite/equally/hardly suitable |
11 | tidy (a) |
| Neat/ | Messy/ untidy | Keep st tidy; neat and tidy/ clean and tidy; |
12 | Willing to (adv) | - Willingly(adv) - willingness(n) | Enthusiastically; keen; eager | Reluctant; unwilling | Increasingly/perfectly/quite willing to |
13 | Critical(a) | - critic(n) - critically(adv) - criticism(n) - criticize(v) -criticizable(a) | Disapprove/ complain/ disparage | Praise/ encourage | - Criticize for - criticize fiercely/ heavily/ roundly/ sharply/ strongly/ severely/ openly/ publicly - be widely criticized as st - criticize sb/ st on the grounds that |
14 | enormous(a) | - enormously(adv) - enormousness(n) | Huge/ vast/ giant/ gigantic/ immense | Tiny/ small/ little/ | |
15 | responsible(a) | - responsibility(n) - responsibly(adv) | - Be/ become/ remain/ make sb responsible for - entirely/ totally/ wholly/ largely/ mainly/ primarily/ collectively/ jointly/ formally/ legally/ nominally responsible for | ||
16 | chore | Routine/ task/ job/ duty | - Little/ small/ daily/ day-to-day/ routine/ administrative/ domestic/ household chore - Carry out/ do | ||
17 | breadwinner | ||||
18 | finance | - Financial(a) - financially(adv) - financier(n) | |||
19 | iron | - Ironing(n) - Ironer(n) | |||
20 | prepare | - preparation(n) - preparable(a) - preparatory(n) - preparator(n) - preparatorily(adv) - preparative(a) - preparatively(adv) |
PART II. PRACTICE
I. Choose the best answer
1. During the Medieval period, people were made public ____ of being witches.
A. complaint B. criminal C. trouble D. accusation
2. My dad often shares the housework ___________my mum.
A. for B. with C. to D. into