Vocabulary Exercises

71. Look up the following words in an explanatory dictionary, copy out their basic meanings and provide an example of their use in context, following the established format.

obscure, attune, sustain, extinct, uproar, impeccable, ancestral, linger, anachronism, fierce, stubborn, shrink, ubiquitous, abandon, strenuous, idiosyncratic, fuse (-ion), discard, wither, impose, extinguish, mingle, mangle, pertinent(ly), transmute, incongruous, articulate, diminish, impoverish

72. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1. I find that many papers are obscure and I simply don’t understand them. And these most powerful genetic engineering facilities in the world are based in an obscure Central American country.

2. From the earliest age you see how fiercely attuned kids are to the concept of fairness. Women are more often attuned to the negotiation of connections: is the other person trying to get closer or pull away?

3. If the country sustains a 6 per cent growth for five years it will join the world’s 20 strongest economies. The viability of the community heavily depends on sustaining citizen participation.

4. They have managed to clone extinct animals from the past. Standing at the summit of this extinct volcano was a thrilling experience. There were no cities when the Neanderthals [ni'ændətaːlz] went extinct.

5. There may be a national uproar and outrage if the government further neglects public sentiments. The uproar forced the press to confront some basic questions.

6. She was dressed in jeans and a white T-shirt, but on her impeccable body that looked glamorous and never sloppy. In the film he battles street thugs with the impeccable manners and irreproachable ethics of a Boy Scout.

7. It was clear that it was an ancestral custom, but what had been its origin? The family intends to win back its ancestral farmland.

8. The whales lingered a while, misting the crew with spray from their blowholes. The protesters said the motive was the lingering anger over voting irregularities. The allergic reactions could have been triggered by the potential toxicity of lingering dust in the apartment.

9. North Korea remains a Cold War anachronism and a danger to regional stability. Most citizens view authoritarian rule as an anachronism and an embarrassment. The association promotes anachronistic ideas of gender relations.

10. Petitions were signed by Freud’s fiercest and most dedicated enemies. He was also a fierce bicycle racer, winning many medals at country fairs.

11. She seems to be more stubborn and a harder witness than what her appearance would suggest. His uncanny ability to coax information out of the most stubborn computers and databases made him highly employable.

12. The world’s largest ice sheets outside the poles are shrinking about 7 per cent a year. The children shrank from the task finding it unappealing.

13. Spotless, ubiquitous and frequent trams go everywhere. It is these smaller, more ubiquitous forms of pollution that have caused the greatest problems.

14. There were houses and gardens abandoned by people on the run to save their necks and souls. The captain of the ferry that had to be abandoned in the British Channel had his license taken away.

15. The new law was passed after years of strenuous campaigning, mostly by Mexican-born Americans. We took a strenuous hike to the mountain lake.

16. The research employed wide-ranging field-work and often idiosyncratic methodologies. He was, in short, a bright and idiosyncratic young man with a sense of life and humour all his own.

17. After the fractured bone fused and healed he could return to his regular exercise. This jazz artist fused elements of DJ culture into his performances. She saw a complex fusion of dislike, impatience and bewilderment in his face.

18. The president has discarded almost everything he was saying prior to his election. Discard any food that becomes mouldy, slimy or foul-smelling.

19. California’s giant agricultural industry will wither and die during the next 20 years. His face went all withered and serious. With one person, one vote, slavery might have withered away.

20. The army did not impose a curfew, which is something that they normally do when organized riots were afoot. It may be seen as being imposed by the United States. The government invented its own definition of Christian “Englishness” and decided to impose this tradition on British society.

21. Fire-fighters of west China have managed to extinguish a huge blaze that has raged for very long. Authoritarian parents may help extinguish children’s any desire to try new things.

22. He mingles among/with varied dignitaries. In the marbled lobby, families mingle and fret in low voices.

23. The man who leapt from a tall building was now mangled and worse off than before. She fell off the bicycled, mangled both wheels and bruised her left foot.

24. Be sure to include as many pertinent details as you need to make your thought clear to everyone. Radio, television and most pertinently newspapers became implicated into election campaigns.

25. The medieval alchemists attempted to transmute base metals into gold. As a consequence the issue has inevitably become transmuted into a political question which demands resolution.

26. Despite his bizarre manners he had an incongruous ability to charm certain women. Pictures of Wendy with her incongruous handbag slung over her wrist were heart-breaking.

27. The instructor needs to articulate a goal that the participating global learners can work towards. He probably lacked vocabulary or conceptual resources to articulate exactly what was at issue.

28. Violent crimes have diminished while economic crimes’ rate remains unchanged. If the job is done poorly, it can immediately diminish the product’s strength and durability.

29. Only a perverse economic system could impoverish a people so basically talented. Those cuts are to impoverish at least an additional one million children.

73. Translate the sentences into English using the vocabulary of the exercises above.

1. Кока-кола найрозповсюджена торгова марка в світі.

2. Школа не може відмовитись від предметних кабінетів на користь класних кімнат, оформлених за дитячими інтересами.

3. Після півдня напруженої роботи потребується друга половина дня, щоб відлежатися.

4. Не треба забувати, що навчання унікальний процес – кожний учень неповторний.

5. Полотна поєднують його філософські погляди і підсвідомі відчуття.

6. Ми побачили жінок, одягнених в сучасне вбрання, з корзинами часів діда-прадіда.

7. Таке ставлення ще має місце, але тільки як спогад минулого і вже не моральна настанова.

8. Середня школа залишилася анахронічною і відбиває реалії минулого.

9. Нам доведеться зіткнутися з упертим фактом, що мир прийде не скоро.

10. Він значно схуд в порівнянні з тим, який він був, з тих пір як ми востаннє бачилися.

11. Він відкопав мій обліковий запис на якомусь забутому сайті випускників.

12. Вона каже, що її вухо краще сприймає чоловічий голос.

13. Двоє осіб зазнали випадкових травм.

14. Цей біологічний вид вимре вже за нашого життя, якщо ми не вживемо заходів.

15. Я ніколи й не думав, що буденний вуличний інцидент викличе стільки галасу.

16. Книжка написана бездоганним стилем, а ілюстрації просто блискучі.

17. Всі почуття вкладаються у мову танцю.

18. Висновок, до якого вони прийшли, був у вищій мірі недоречний.

19. Керівники Канади проголосили потужну програму заходів щодо охорони природи у себе вдома.

20. Займаючись силовими тренуваннями, всього за два місяці можна навіть зменшити целюліт.

21. Ці методи ведення сілького господарства збіднюють ґрунти і руйнують ареали.

22. Хтось викинув обігрівач води.

23. Підчас посухи трава висохла до бурого кольору.

24. Конгрес наклав санкції на Російську Федерацію за порушення міжнародного права.

25. Двадцять років життя у надбережному містечку не погасили в мені любові до моря.

26. В голосі тітки Марти чулися змішані почуття задоволення і тривоги.

27. За доволі вільного володіння мовою вона жахливо перекручує англійські ідіоми.

28. Засоби масової інформації надають щоденну слушну і актуальну інформацію своїм користувачам.

29. Вони сидять по різні боки цієї запеклої полеміки, яка вирує в країні.

74. Match the collocations from the article and cite their context.

three	Kernowek		bound up	shrinking
speak	tide		steady	power of English
in impeccable	cheers for Guernsey		official	efforts
hastily	stubborn thing		endangered	the native tongues
sustain	tongues		economic	heritage
ancestral	volumes		crushing	with the revival
lingering	apologised		abandon	support
rolling	of identity		strenuous	languages
fierce and	a conversation		minnow	necessity
badge	anachronisms		literary	languages

idiosyncratic	speakers		transmute	Latin
unromantic	of Latin		go	of ancestry
equip	means		in incongruous	something
by artificial	of English		articulate	into non-existence
fly	fusion		integral part	into separate languages
imposition	logic		powerful pull	on people
multiplicity	in the face of experience