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Ab
abandon [ ê`bandên ] (vt317) … a search (6) … hope (116) … faith (242)
… one’s attempts to do sth. || … an idea || … a place ( to sb.* ) ( (243, 313 * )
to … sb. || … oneself to despair / vice (247 / -49) … sb. to their faith (256) … sb. for sb. (282)
… the opposition (310) … a match // a car / a paper (317 // 320) … ship / all hope (323)
abandon (U) to do sth. with ( `gay * ) … (261,* 282)
abandoned (adj.) an … house (13) to feel … (230) an … pet / person (247 / 256)
an … person (fig.) / behaviour (261) an … car (295)
abandonment (U:310) a husband’s … (283)
abatement (U) noise … (643)
abattoire (E) [ `abêtwå~ ] (C:794)
abbess [ `abis / `abes ] (C:222) abbey [ `abi ] (C:162) abbot [ `abet ] (C:222)
abbreviation (C,U) an … (124)
abdicate [ `abdikeit ] (v&t) … ( the throne ) (362) … responsibility / one’s responsibilities (476)
abdication (U,C:362)
abdomen [ `abdêmên / ab`dêumên ] (C) an … of a mamal / an insect (457 / 650)
abdominal [ ab`dåminl ] (adj.) the … wall (459)
Abelard (N:166)
abide [ ê`baid ] ( pat & pap : abode ) (vi&t) … by the regulations / a decision (74 / 242)
sth. … in sb. / forever (123) sb. can’t … sbth. (242)
abiding [ ê`baiding ] (att. adj.) to have an … love for sb. (142) law–… (515) an … relationship (641)
ability [ ê`biliti ] (C,U) a person of (great) … / …ies (15) sb’s …ies (35) to rely on one’s own … (135)
financial … (996)
abject [ `abd§ekt ] (adj.) … poverty (245) `abjectly (adv.) to … surrender (351)
abjure [ êb`d§uê ] (vt) … a belief etc. (696)
ablaze [ ê`bleiz ] (pred. adj.) to set sth. / be … (306)
able [ `eibl ] (adj.) an … student (1) to be …to do sth. (2) ablest (adj.) sb. is the … (15)
abnormal [ ab`nå~ml ] (adj.) an … delivery (459)
abnormality (U,C) physical an psychical …ies || conspicious … (1091)
a congenital / an inflicted … (1091)
abnormally (adv.) sth. is … positioned (459)
abolish [ ê`båli$ ] (vt) … feudalism (147) abolition (U) … of governmental restraint (146)
abominable [ ê`båminêbl ] (adj.) … revengefulnes (392) abominably (adv:393)
abomination (C) sb. is an … (392)
abo`riginal [ abê`rid§ênêl ] (C:16)
abort [ ê`bå~t ] (vi&t) … ( a child / pregnancy / foetus ) (907) … a performance (912)
abortion (U,C) have an … (907)
abortive (adj.) an … coup (312)
abound [ ê`baund ] (vi) examples … || a place … with / in pl. (172) stories full of humour … (1247)
abound (vi) sth. … with / in sth. (1244)
about [ ê`baut ] (prep.) to think … sth. (2)
about (adv.) to throw one’s money … (8) (be) … to do sth. (39)
about-face / E& about-turn (sg.) to do an … on / over / in sth. (239)
above [ ê`bûv ] (adv.) the powers … (92) (be) … doing sth. (fig:179)
above-mentioned (adj.) the … person (11)
abreast [ ê`brest ] (adv.) to keep … of ( the development ) (637)
abroad [ ê`brå~d ] (adv.) opportunities … (224) to go / settle / live // travel … (236 // 299)
abrupt [ ê`brûpt ] (adj.) an … departure from a job (1112) an … halt (1114 / 1130) an … end (1115)
an … tone / change (1129)
abruptly (adv.) to command sb. … (1129) to complain … (1142)
absence [ `absêns ] (C,U) … of control (146) conspicuous by one’s … (517)
absent [ `absênt ] (adj.) sb. is … owing to sth. (56)
absentee [ absên`ti~ ] (C:350)
absentminded (adj:656) absentmindedly (adv:656)
absolute [ `absêlu~t ] (adj.) an … beginner (8) … rule || an … monarch / monarchy / ruler (145)
to place … trust in sb. (1097)
absolutely [ `absêlu~tli ] (adv.) to know … nothing about sth. || to have … no experience of sth. (8)
to make it … clear (58) … certain (67) … everything (119) to be … sure (that) - (197)
to be … willing to do sth. || to be … right (1097)
absolution [ absê`lu~$n ] (U) to grant / give sb. … || to have … (749 || 1097)
absolutism [ `abselu~tizêm ] (U) royal … (155)
absolve [ ab`zålv ] (vt) sb. … sb. of / from sth. (161)
absorb [ êb`så~b ] (vt) a bar … a stress (204) a language … words (217)
to be …ed in one’s car / book (296,464) sth. … moisture (447)
sth. is …ed in the body (621)
absorbing (adj.) an … book (951)
absorbtion [ êb`så~p$n ] (U) … of nutrution / nutrients (936)
abstain [ `eb`stein ] (vi) … from (doing) sth. (178)
abstention [ êb`sten$n ] (C,U) x …(s) (814)
abstinence [ `abstinêns ] (U) sexual … (611)
abstract [ `abstrakt ] (adj.) … art (215) to draw / paint an … painting (1304)
abstract (C) to draw / paint // make an … (1304+)
absurd [ êb`sê~d ] (adj.) an … way of doing sth.(381)
absurdity [ êb`sê~diti ] (U,C) the … of sth. (836)
abundance (sg.,U) commodities in … || an … of products (266)
an … of possibilities / opportunities (390)
abundant [ ê`bûndênt ] (adj.) a table … in food (80) an … dinner (82) an … land (224)
an … supply (266) … opportunity / <ties (390) an … element (568)
abundantly (adv.) … rewarded (81)
abuse [ ê`bju~z ] (vt) … a text (237) … a position (279) … sb. (611)
abuse [ ê`bju~s ] (C,U) drug …(55) … of office (98) to pour / heap … on sbth. (206)
a stream of … (276)
to subject sb. to … (377) to recover from one’s … (608)
abuser (C) a child … (739)
abusive [ ê`bju~siv ] (adj.) to become … (261) … language || a … remark (276) an … person (536)
abysmal [ ê`bizmêl ] (adj.) an … failure (788) (sb’s) … ignorance (846) … poverty / despair (890)
abyss [ ê`bis ] (C) to plunge into an … of econimic ruin || be / stand on the edge of an … (fig.) (784)
to step back from the edge of an … (787) an … of ignorance (846) a gaping … is ahead of sb. (863)
on the edge of an … (865) an … of poverty / deapair (890)
Ac
academic [ akê`demik ] (adj.) an … subject (195) strictly … school (1166)
academy (C) a military … (195) to win an A… Reward (1308)
accelerate [ êk`selêreit ] (vi&t) … a process (149)
acceleration (sg,U)
accelerator [ êk`selêreitê ] (C) put one’s foot (hard) down on / press (down hard on) the … (584)
accent [ `aksent ] (C) to speak with an … (185)
accentuate [ ak`sent$ueit ] (vt) … sth. ( in drawing ) (1234)
accept [ êk`sept ] (v) … the blame (for sth.) (24) … sth. as sth. (31) … defeat (38)
acceptance [ êk`septêns ] (U,sg.) to have sb’s … (131) to gain … from sb. (523)
access [ `akses ] (U) to gain / get … to a place (6) there’s (no) public … to a place (212)
to have … to a place (382) an … road (578)
accessible [ ak`sesêbl ] (adj.) … to sb. (3)
accession [ ak`se$n ] (U) the … of sb. (775)
accessory [ ak`sesêri ] (C) to be an … to sth. (115) an … before / after the fact (1144)
accident [ `aksidênt ] (C,U) sb’s … (10) in an … (31) a fatal … (64) … cover (294) to do sth. by … (307)
an … victim (321) … and emergencies (419) a road / traffic … (583) the scene of the … (884)
what an … (1157)
accidental [ aksi`dentl ] (adj.) … damage (294) an … shot (307)
accidentally (adv.) to be … hurt (294)
acclaim [ ê`kleim ] (vt) sb. … sb. (388) … sbth. as sbth. (388)
acclaim (U) sb. wins popular … (388) to itch for … (785)
acclaimed (adj.) a highly … performance (388)
acclamation (U) to elect sb. by … (145)
accolade [ `akêleid ] (C) to confer knighthood with the … (152) to receive an … (401)
to attend the … (402)
accommodate [ ê`kåmêdeit ] (vi&t) … sb. with sth. (162) … sb. (well) (772)
accommodating (adj.) sb. is very … (741)
accomodation (E:U / A:pl.) …(s) for the night || overnight … (251|| 726)
accompaniment [ ê`kûmpênimênt ] (C,U) sth. is a good / an excellent … to ( the ) salmon (262)
accompany [ ê`kûmpêni ] (vt) sb. … sb. (69) a smile … a look (81) a feast … a baptism (158)
sth. … a newspaper / a holiday (988+)
accomplice [ ê`kûmpli$ ] (C:78)
accomplish (vt) … a plan (428) … an aim / a goal / an objective / a target (816)
accordance [ ê`kå~dns ] (U) in … with a rule / the truth(154 / 1295)
accord [ ê`kå~rd ] (C,U) to do sth. on one’s own … (19)
according to (prep.) to do sth. … a design (20) sth. goes … plan (38) … sb. (70)
accordingly (adv:548)
accost [ ê`kåst ] (vt) … sb. (7)
account [ ê`kaunt ] (C) an … is empty (28) to give a full and particular … (58)
a contemporary … of sb. (70) to leave sb. out of … (124) sb’s … of an event (207)
an … book || to keep an … || to do / keep ( the ) …s || keeping of …s ||
to draw up a statement of …s (254)
to keep an … of sth. || to keep …s of sth. and sth. (255)
to tuck away money in an … at / with a bank (293)
to settle an … ( with sb.) (394) to by one’s own … || by / from all …s (691)
to pay money into / deposit money in an … (780) to take … of sth. || to take sth. into … (815)
account [ ê`kaunt ] (vt&vi+for sth.) sb. ( can’t ) … for sth. (113) sth. … for sth. (281)
accountancy (U:254) accounting (U:254)
accrue [ ê`kru~ ] (vi&t) …ing /…d interest (780)
accumulate [ ê`kju~mjêleit ] (vi&t) … food (144)
accurate [ `akjêrêt ] (adj.) … shooting (14)
accusation [ akju`zei$n ] (C,U) to throw back an … (9)
accusative (C) a word in the … (1218)
accusative (adj.) a word in the … case (1218)
accuse [ ê`kju~z ] (vt) … sb. of ( *doing ) sth. ( * 9, 86) to stand …ed of ( doing sth. ) (117)
accused (C) the … ( sg. & pl.) (115) accuser (C:86)
accustom [ ê`kûstêm ] (vt) … oneself to sth. (205)
accustomed (adj.) to become / get … to (doing) sth. (205) sb’s eyes grow … to the dark (269)
ace [ eis ] (C) an … ( of a dice / of hearts ) (8+) to come within an .. of doing sth. (321)
acellular [ ei`seljêlê ] (adj.) virus is … (648)
acetaldehyde [ êsi~t`aldêhaid ] (570)
acetic acid [ ê’si~tik `asid ] (U:570)
acetone [ `asitêun ] (U:570)
ache [ eik ] (vi) sb’s head … (40)
ache [ eik ] (C) to have a head>… || to suffer from hip …s (40)
achieve [ ê`t$i~v ] (vi&t) … ( one’s goal ) (3) … (a) notoriety (27) to … one’s aim (145)
… spiritual purity (227) … good marks E/A grades (725)
… an aim / a goal / an objective / a target (816)
achievement (C,U) to crown the … (39) to fulfil one’s … (145) a crowning … (432)
acid (U,C) an … (569) acetic `… (570)
acid (adj.) an … drop (1228)
acknowledge [ êk`nålid§ ] (vt) … one’s debt to sb. (111) … the reasons (243) … receit of sth. (254)
… a letter (403) … (that) - (465) … sb’s presence (770) … sb. as / to be sth. (901) … sb. / sth. (909)
… being sth. || … oneself to be sth. || readily … sth. (912) … sb’s claim || … the truth of sth. (921)
… an applaus with a smile (958) … sb. / sb’s greeting (987)
acknowledg(e)ment (C,U) a formal public … (373) in … of sb’s efforts (784)
send an … of sb’s application (902) sb’s … of sb. as sth. (921) sth. is a small … of sth. (948)
in … of the / one’s situation (951) a raised hand of … (987)
aconite [ `akênait ] (C) a winter … (403)
acquaint [ ê`kweint ] (vt) … sb. / oneself with sth. (40+)
acquainted (pred. adj.) … with sth. / sb. (41/44) to make people … (44)
acquaintance (C: person:44)
acquaintance (C,U) to improve on … (44) to have … with sth. (44) an … (45)
acquiesce (vi) … in / to sth. (853)
acquiescence (U) … in sth. (853)
acquiescent (adj.) an … person (853)
acquire [ ê`kwaiê ] (vt) … a skill (47) … authority (153) … knowledge (335) … a taste for sth. (458)
… a character trait from experience (1094) … sb’s estate / property etc. by inheritance (1103)
… a fortune (1286)
acquired (adj.) an … character (1109) … deafness (1271)
acquisition [ akwi`zi$n ] (U,C) a desire for …s (853) an … of empire (1035)
acquisitive [ ê`kwizêtiv ] (adj.) an … consumer (853) acquisitiveness (U:853)
acquit [ ê`kwit ] (vt) … sb. of a charge / crime (708) … oneself well in E/A on one’s exam (725)
… well in a business (1125)
acquittal [ ê`kwitl ] (C,U) … on a count (of inditement / sth.) (688)
acre [ `eikê ] (C:157)
acrobat [ `akrêbat ] (C:329)
acrophobia (U) to suffer from … (1118)
across [ ê`krås ] (prep:29)
across `country (adv.) to ride … (410)
acrylic (adj.) …s || … paints (875) to paint in …s (1305)
acrylic (U,C) to paint in …(s) (1305)
act [ akt ] (C) in an … of folly (8) to put on an … (36) a comedy … (48)
an A… of human rights || protected under an … dealing with sth. (47) an … of a play (51)
( a stage of / for ) an … of God (62) the A…s of the Apostles (70) an … of holiness (163)
an … of war (203) an … of Parliament (803)
act [ akt ] (vi&t) … like a fool (8) … stupid (37) … like this / that (38) sth. … on sth. (40)
… (well) || … a part / role / film / character || … (as) sb. || … the part (of sb.) (36,,,,50+)
… `up to sth. (42) … one’s age (43) … out (53) sb. / sth. … (up)on sb. / sth. (47 / 57)
… from conviction || … (up)on order(s) (56) … with care / speed and efficiency) (42 / 597)
… out of character (62) … in the belief that - (106) … to (a) sinister purpose (114)
… in bad faith (1292)
actable [ `aktêbêl ] (adj.) an … part (52)
acting [ `akting ] (U) an actor’s … (52)
action [ `ak$n ] (U,C) to bring sb. to … || to put sb. / sth. out of … || to be killed / missing in … (24)
( to be ) in … || to call / bring / put sb. / sth. into … (50) word(s) and …(s) agree (52)
court … (54) to take … (against sb.) || to make concerted … (56) to go into … || a plan of … (57)
to bring / take legal … (against sb.) (58) to bring … for damages || bring libel … against sb. (60)
a line of … (190) killed in … (552) an … group (615)
actionable (adj:54)
action-packed (adj:50)
activate (vt) … an alarm (29)
active (U) in the … (46)
active (adj.) … consideration || to take … part in sth. (11) an … list / market (26)
an … vocabulary / sentence verb / ( form of a ) verb || the `… voice (46) an … life (56)
activity [ ak`tivêti ] (U,C) (26)
actor (C:48) actress (51)
actual (adj.) in … practice (43)
actually (adv:27)
acute [ ê`kju~t | (adj.) an … mind (41) an … analysis (315) … dislike || an … problem (417)
an … situation || in … pain || an … illness (418) … anxiety (458) … case (646) an … angle (647)
… embarrassment (685) an … informer (916)
acutely (adv.) … ill / sick || … aware / conscious that - / of sth. (418) … describe (916)
acuteness (U:477)
Ad
AD ( Anno Domini ) [ `anêu`dåminai ] (70)
ad [ ad ] (C:26)
adamant [ `adêmênt ] (adj.) to be … on / in sth. || to be … that - (107)
adamantly (adv:107)
adapt [ ê`dapt ] (vi&t) … || … ( oneself ) to sth. (113) to be …ed to do sth. (651)
add [ ad ] (vt, speech:69) sth. … to the gaiety (20) … some script to a line (53) … a parting word (69)
… a and b (125) … sth. to sth. (215)
added (adj:246)
addict [ `adikt ] (C) a drug … || a film / movie … (49) an adrenalin(e) … (1156)
addicted [ ê`diktid ] (adj.) to become … to a drug (49)
addiction [ ê`dik$n ] (U,C) … to alcohol (55)
addictive [ ê`diktiv ] (adj.) an … drug (49) to find acting … (55)
addition [ ê`di$ên ] (C,U) a sum in … (125) in …, sth. is / does - (296) an … to a building (A) (858)
an … to a statement (1233)
additional [ ê`di$ênl ] (adj.) an … wheel (319) … payment (576)
additionally (adv:296)
additive [ `adêtiv ] (C) an artificial … (981)
address [ ê`dres ] (vt) … one’s worship to sb. (223) … sb. in a foreign language (299)
sb. … a question of sth. (682) sb. … an assembly (1058)
address [ ê`dres E/A `adres ] (C,U) a return … (298) a form / mode of … (299) an election … (807)
addressee [ adre`si~] (C:298)
adduce [ ê`dju~s ] (vt) … an argument (807)
adequate [ `adikwêt ] (adj.) to have … insurance cover (138) … security measures (307)
adequacy [ `adikwêsi ] (U:520)
adhere [ êd`hiê ] (vi) … to an aim / a goal / an objective (816) … to an allegation (831)
adherent [ êd`hierênt ] (C:22) an … of a religion (70)
adjecent [ ê`d§eisnt ] (adj.) … room(s) (524) … to sth. (527)
adjectival (adj.) an … form (1220)
adjectivally (adv:1220)
adjective [ `ad§iktiv ] (C:652) a genuine / derivative / inflectional / comparable … (1219)
adjoin [ ê`d§åin ] (vi&t) sth. and sth. … || sth. … sth. (501)
adjoining (adj.) … room(s) (524) an … canal (561)
adjust (vi&t) … ( oneself ) ( to sth.) (113) … a binding / fastening (1155)
adjustable (adj.) an … chair (1266)
administer [ êd`ministê ] (vt) … a sacrement (161) … a rite to sb. (755)
administration (U,C)148)
administrative [ êd`ministrêtiv ] (adj.) an … centre (148) an … error (335)
administrator [ êd`ministreitê ] (C:215)
admirable [ `admêrëbêl ] (adj.) … confidence (747) an … person (1232)
admirably (adv:747)
admiral [ `admirêl ] (C) A … of the Fleet (191)
admiration [ admê`rei$n ] (U) to extort … from sb. (401)
admire [ êd`maiê ] (vt) … sth. (408)
admissible [ êd`misêbl ] (adj.) … evidence (115)
admission (U,C) to make a frank … of failure (196)
(an) … charge / fee || to gain / be refused … (to sth.) (642+) to make an … sin (196 / 748)
admit [ êd`mit ] (v&t) … sb. (in)to a university (1) … defeat (38) … (that -) (44) … sth. (55)
a place is (not) … to the public (212) … (to) (doing) sth. || be …ed to do sth. || it is …ed (that) - (841)
to be …ted as a solicitor || to be …ted to the Bar (A) (1127)
admittance (U) to gain / be refused … ( to sth.) (264, -75, 642+)
admonish [ êd`måni$ ] (vt& speech … (sb.) :142) admonition (U,C:715)
admonitory (adj.) … talk (920)
ado (U) sth. is much … about nothing (37) do sth. without further … (99)
adolescent [ adê`lesênt ] (adj.) … `high jinks (732) an … person (1276)
adolescent (C:1274)
adolescence (U) during one’s … (1274)
adopt [ ê`dåpt ] (vt) … feudalism (149) … Christianity (224) … a child (256) … a report etc. (513)
… a cunning stratagem (694) … a proposal / bill / law (823) … a venal behaviour (1105)
adopted (adj.:417) … country (417)
adore [ ê`då~ ] (vt) … sb. (94)
adorn [ ê`då~n ] (vt) sth. is …ed with sth. (217) sth. … sb. (442)
adrenalin(e) [ ê`drenêlin ] (U) … surges through sb’s veins (1064) to get the … flowing (1156)
adroit [ ê`dråit ] (adj.) an … person (81) adroitly (86)
adulate [ `adjuleit ] (vt) … sb. (1026)
adult [ `adûlt / ê`dûlt ] (C:123) … suffrage / education (801 / 846)
adult [ `adûlt / ê`dûlt ] (adj.) an … member (7)
adulterer [ ê`dûltêrê ] (830,841)
adulterous [ ê`dûltêrês ] (adj.) an … relationship (841)
adultery [ ê`dûltêri ] (U) to commit … (43, 841)
advance [ êd`va~ns ] (vi&t) sb. … by forced march (193) spl. … from swh. to swh. / up a river (218)
sb. … their power (366) sb. … on sb. (805) … an oppinion / a plan (807)
… the frontiers of knowledge (1212)
advance (U,C) to block the … of a demonstration (211) to make ( amorous ) …s to sb. (264)
to do sth. in … (101) payable in … (781)
advance (adj.) … credit / publicity (115 / 277) … knowledge (912)
advanced [ êd`va~nst ] (adj.) … technology (4)
advantage [ êd`va~ntid§ ] (C,U) to derive … from sth. (48) sth. is to the common … (181)
to take … of sth. (to do sth.) / of sb. (603) to do sth. to sb’s … (791) to get an … for oneself (956)
a competitive … over sb. (965)
advantageous [ advên`teid§ês ] (adj.) sth. is … to sb. (1243)
advent [ `advent ] (sg.) the … of sbth. (1038)
adventitious (adj.) … deafness (1271)
adventure [ êd`vent$ê ] (C:6) adventurer (C:621) adventuresome (A) (adj:675)
adventurous [ êd`vent$êrês ] (adj.) an … person (341)
adverb [ `advê~b ] (C:847)
a genuine / derivative / inflectional / comparable // interrogative … (1219+)
adverbial (adj.) an … member (1222)
adversary [ `advêsêri ] (C:14)
adverse [ `advê~s / êd`vê~s ] (adj.) an … fate (289) an … ( side * ) effect (607 *, -38)
an … condition (648)
adversity [ êd`vêsêti ] U,C) to struggle with … (284) in the face of … || to overcome many …ies (401)
advert [ `advê~t ] (C:26)
advertise [ `advêtaiz ] (vi&t) … a book (26)
advertisement [ êd`vê~tismênt E/A advêt`taizment ] (C:26&U) ( a ) screen … (49)
advertising [ `advêtaizing ] (adj.) an … campaign (316)
an … circular / folder / pamphlet / brochure (1063)
advice [ êd`vais ] (U) take sb’s … (2) to be liberal with bold … (7) give … ( to sb.) (on sth.) (8,136)
give (sb.) (a piece of / a word of) (good / legal etc.) … (on sth. / about (doing) sth. ||
to take / follow sb’s … (136) to ask (sb.) for / sb’s … || to seek (sb’s) … || do sth. on sb’s … (137)
an … column / <ist (A) (137) wholesome … (1264)
advisability [ êdvaizê`bilêti ] (U) sb’s …(137)
advisable [ êd`vaizêbl ] (adj.) it is … to do sth. || an … person (136)
advisably (adv:137)
advise [ êd`vaiz ] (vi&t,speech (sb.)136) … sb. (* on sth.) (8,*136) … with sb. || … sb. to do sth. (136)
… that sth. (E& should) be done || … doing sth.|| … (sb.) about (doing) sth. || … (sb.) on sth. ||
…sb. whxx || … caution || … (sb.) against (doing) sth. (137)
it is (strongly) …d that - || … sb. of sth. (138)
advised (adj.) be well (-) …d to do sth. (136)
a badly … / ill-… decision || a well (-) … arrangement (138) an ill-… remark (141)
advisedly (adv:137) adviser / <sor [ êd`vaizê ] (C:3)
advisory (adj.) an … capacity || an … role (136) an … body || … service (137)
advocaat (U:1158)
advocate [ `advêkêt ] (C) … for sb. / of sth. (7) a judge … (208)
advocate [ `advêkeit ] (vt) … (sth.) (doing sth.) / that - (7)
Ae
Aegean [ i`d§i~ên ] (adj.) the … Sea (761) Aeneid [ `i~niid ] (170)
aerial [ `eêriêl ] (adj.) … combat (667)
aerial (C:126)
aerobic [ eê`rêubik E/A e`roubik ] (adj:581)
aerobics (U:581) to do … (581)
Aesir [ `esir ] (pl:223)
aesthetic [ i~s`#etik ] (adj.) an … sense (986) aesthetics (U:48,934)
Af
affair [ ê`feê ] (C) domestic …s (21) an account of an … (58) a love … ( with. sb.) 175)
current …s (619) sth. is a sober … (990)
affect [ ê`fekt ] (vt) sth. … sb. (53) affectation [ afek`tei$n ] (C,U:868))
affected (adj.) an … attitude (363) to be … with sanguiness (1241)
affection (U,sg. / pl.) to win sb’s …s / to insinuate one’s way into sb’s …s (42)
to do sth. with … (67,130) to have great … for sb. (94)
sb. needs ( lots of ) love and … || (not) show sb. ( much ) … || to hold sb. in ( deep ) … ||
to have a ( special ) place in sb’s …s (130)
to have ( a sneaking ) … for sth. (602)
affectionate [ ê`fek$ênêt ] [adj.) sb. is … towards sb. (238) an … look (251)
affirm [ ê`fê~m ] (vt) … one’s commitment || … that - (79, 550)
affirmation [ afê`mei$n ] (U) to nod in … (95)
affirmative [ ê`fê~mêtiv ] (U) to answer in the … (79)
afflict [ ê`flikt ] (vt) an …ed area (313) sb. is …ed with disease (314)
affluent [ `afluênt ] (adj.) an … person (183) an … neighbourhood / country (301 / 315)
afford [ ê`få~d ] (vt) sb. can (not) … ( to do * ) sth. (6*, 60) sb. can ill … ( to do ) sth. (1239)
afoot [ ê`fut ] (pred.adj.) trouble … (529)
afraid [ ê`freid ] (adj.) … (that) - (65) … of sth. (167) … of doing / to do sth. || … for sb. / sth. (269)
Afro- [ `afrêu ] (prefix) …-`American (629)
after [ `a~ftë ] (prep.) … a while (5) … all (172) to be / come `… sb. (974)
after (adv.) soon … (8)
after (conj.) … sb.does sth. (90)
`after-effect (C) an … of sth. (430)
afternoon [ a~ftê`nu~n ] (U,C) on a lazy … (11) this … (79)
afters (E) (pl.) have sth. for … (796)
afterwards [ `aftêwêdz ] (adv:31)
Ag
again [ ê`ge(i)n ] (adv.) to do sth. … ( and … * ) / once … (5, 14* / 47)
against [ ê`ge(i)nst ] (prep.) to warn / a warning … sth. (8) to be … sth. (12) to do sth. … sb. (24)
a joke is … sb. (37)
age [ eid§ ] (C,U) to come / be of … (2) sb. of old … (12) to act / be one’s … (43) sb’s old … (69)
at the … of x (115) the Middle A…s (147) the Dark A…s (172) sth. is adj. with … (221)
down through the … (1108)
age (vi&t) sth. … sb. (430) sb. … (433)
ag(e)ing (adj.) an … person (433)
agency [ `eid§ênsi ] (64) a news / press … (507)
agenda [ ê`d§endê ] (C) a hidden … (78)
agent [ `eid§ênt ] (C) estate … (137) a sleeper … (520) a cleansing … (872) a press / publicity … (1058)
…s of production (1173)
aggrandize [ ê`grandaiz / `agrên - ] (vt) … sb. (367)
aggrandizement [ ê`grandizmênt ] (U) personal / territorial … (372)
aggravate [ `agrêveit ] (vt) sth. … a depression // sb’s symptios / a situation / a quarrel (429 // 1260+)
aggravation (U,C) a brief … of sb’s symptions // a situation / conflict (1260+)
aggregate [ `agrêgeit ] (C) an … of cells (766)
aggression (U:154) naked … (771)
aggressive [ ê`gresiv ] (adj.) an … war (196) nakedly … (771) aggressively (adv.15)
aghast [ ê`ga~st ] (pred. adj.) to be / stand … (1102)
agile [ `ad§ail ] (adj.) an … mind / brain (464) an … person || mentally … (503)
agility [ è`d§ilêti } (U:386,503)
agitate [ `ad§iteit ] (vi&t) sth. … sb. (36) sb. … to do sth. (45) sb. … ( for / against sth.) (47)
the wind … the sea (661)
agitating (adj.) an … party (47)
agitation (U,C) to recover from one’s … (1285)
agnostic [ ag`nåstik ] (C:82) agnostic (adj.) an … person (82) agnosticism (U:82)
ago [ ê`gêu ] (adv.) years … (28) long … (532)
agonize [ `agonaiz ] (vi) … over / about sth. (48)
agonizing (adj.) an … choice (2)
agony [ `agêni ] (U,C) an … aunt / uncle / column (E) (137)
it is … doing sth. || sth. prolongs the … (428) to do sth. in … (429) (all) the … / …ies of sth. (430)
agoraphobia (U:1276)
agree [ ê`gri~ ] (vi ,no prg.&t& speech:252) … to do / on sth. (25) to be …d on sth. (28)
sb. … to sth. / a suggestion (43 / 66) sth. … with sth. (48) sth. and sth. … ( with each other ) (52)
sb. … ( that ) - (65) … a time / place || … on a time (an hour) / place (66) sb. … ( with sb. / to sth.) (84)
sb. … || sb. is …d (that) - || sb. … with sb. on / about sth. (101) spl. … to differ (195)
sb. … a sum with sb. (296)
agreeable (adj.) sth. is … to sb. || sb. is … to sth. (24) an … person / tone of vioce (34)
an … place / day (66)
agreed (adj.) an … sign (95)
agreement (U,C) a reluctant … (21) in … about rebellion (22) to reach a peace … (24)
to keep an ( amicable ) … between sb&sb. (61) to make an … to do sth. (66)
to sign an … || to have an … with sb. (93) to signify one’s … (101) to reach … (307)
by tacit … (686) a collective … (791)
agriculture [ `agrikûlt$ê ] (U) a college of … (4) to practise … (17) minister / ministry of … (812)
agricultural [ agri`kûlt$êrêl ] (adj.) … land (18) … productivity (169)
aground [ ê`graund ] (adv.) to run / go … (661)
aground (adj.) to be ( fast ) … (661)
Ah
ahead [ ê`hed ] (adv.) to have sth. … (68) sth. lies … (94)
ahead of (prep.) to have sth. … you (68) … of time (253)
Ai
aid [ eid ] (vt) … sb. to do / in doing sth. (145) sth. … sth. in doing sth. (159)
… sb. in / with (doing) sth. (166)
aid (U,C: E hist.:356) a navigational … (226) an … agency / organization / package / worker (314)
humanitarian / emergency // foreign … (314+) to give sb. first … (1149)
aide [ eid ] (C) murse’s / nursing … (657) …-de-camp (534) Aids [ eidz ] (U:293)
ail [ eil ] (vt) sth. … sb. (o-f) (518) sth. … a company (593)
ailing (adj.) … business / economy (594)
aim [ eim ] (vi&t) … at doing / to do sth. (4) well-…ed (adj:16) … at a deer (199)
to be ..ed at sb. / doing sth. (fig:628)
aim [ eim ] (C,U) to do sth. with the … of doing sth. || the … of sth. is to do sth. (123)
sb’s sole … is sth. (372)
a main … || to adhere to / set / pursue / accomplish / achieve / attain / meet / reach an … (816)
aimlessly (adv:269)
air [ eir ] (U,C) to punch the … (15) in / into the … (18) to travel by … (64) with an … of superiority (103)
there’s an … of festivity in a place (127) to cultivate an … of a father / mother figure (146)
an … force (195) sb. has an … of assurance (240) there’s an … of uncertainty about sb. (250)
… safety (314) the … passages (646)
light …s (force 1) (661) an … battle / raid (667) … `traffic controller (673) an … terminal (776)
to gasp for … (863) to get some fresh / have a breath of fresh … (866) to float / walk on … (968)
to be (completely) up in … (968) an … strike (1087)
with an ( a contemptuous ) … of forbearance (1101) sth. fills the … (fig.) (1124)
a result / contract is up in the … (808 / 1127) a programme is on ( the ) … (1160)
to have … cover (1287)
air (vi&t) to … E/A+ () out a room / clothes || a room / clothes … E/A+ out (1158)
a broadcaster … a programme || a programme … ||
sb. … their views / worry / complaints (1160)
airbag (C:296)
aircraft = pl. (C) a military … (211)
air-dried (adj.) an … dead body (1253)
airing (C) to give sth. an … (1158)
airlift C:1210)
airline [ `eirlain ] (C) an … passenger (414)
airman (C:667)
airplane (C:64)
airport (64) … tax (414)
air-raid (adj.) an … shelter (667) an … warning (1087)
airstrip (C:667)
airway (C) the … (of a body) (766)
aisle [ ail ] (C) go / walk down the … (434) aitchbone [ `eit$bêun ] (C) … ( steak ) (795)
Ak
akimbo [ ê`kimbêu ] (adj.) (with) arms / legs … (477,479)
Al
alarm [ ê`larm ] (vt) sbth. … sb. (1087)
alarm (C,U) false … (73) an … keaboard (29) to set an … clock for x o’clock (301) an … call (576)
to raise / sound / give the … (1087)
… bells (start to) ring || there is cause for …|| to do sth. in .. || there’s (growing) … at sth. (1087)
to be …ed by / at sth. (1087)
alarming (adj.) … news (394) at an … rate (81)
alarmingly (adv:429)
albeit [ å~l`bi~it ] (conj:321)
album [ `albêm ] (C:326)
alchemist [ `alkêmist ] (C:408) alchemy [ `alkêmi ] (408)
alcohol [ `alkêhål ] (U:10) blood … level (949)
alcoholic [ alkê`hålik ] (C:55)
alcoholic (adj.) an … beverage (11) an … person (55)
alcoholism [ `alkêhålism ] (U:55)
aldehyde [ `aldehaid ] (U:570)
alderman [ `åldêmên ] (C:222)
ale [ eil ] (U,C) (a) light / pale / dark / brown … (617)
Alec(k) ( ~ Alexander ) (N) sb. is a `smart a… (1123)
alert [ ê`lê~t ] (C,U) to be on (the) … for sbth. (271, 1087) (a state of) … (511) a bomb … (1087)
the army is on simple … || the army is placed / put on ( reinforced / full / high / general ) … (1087)
a hospital is ( placed / put ) on red … (1090)
alert (adj.) be … to sth. (271, 1087) an … person (1087) to keep … (1087) with all senses … (1088)
alert (vt) … the police etc. (617, 1087) … sb. to sth. (618, 1087)
to be ..ed by sth. || sb. … sb. that - || to be … to the possibility of sth. (1087)
alertness (U:271)
Alexander [ alik`zandê ] (N) … the Great (164)
Alexandria [ alik`zandriê ] (N:70)
algebra [ `ald§ibrê ] (U:647)
algebraic (adj.) an … problem (200)
alien [ `eiliên ] (adj.) sth. is … to sb. / sb’s nature (961)
alibi [ `alêbai ] (C) to check out sb’s … (1357)
alienate [ `eiliêneit ] (vt) … sb. (1036)
alight [ ê`lait ] (vi) sb. … from sth. (421) a fly … on sth. (448) sb. / sb’s eyes … on sth. (421)
one’s mind … (up)on sth.(477)
alight (adj.) be … with excitement (431) to set sth. / catch … || sth. is … (430,458)
to set the world … (465)
alike [ ê`laik ] (pred. adj.) spl. look … (67) sth. and sth. are … (319)
alike (adv.) sbth. and sbth. … (161)
alimentary [ `alimentêri ] (adj.) the … ca`nal (938)
alimony [ `alimêni ] (U) to pay … to sb. (841)
alive [ ê`laiv ] (pred.adj.) to be … to sth. (595) to keep a hope … (116) to get through sth. … (1090)
all [ å~l ] (pron.) … of sbth’s sth. (2) … sth. (4) most of … (12) … the time (31)
not / none at … (36 / 157) … in … (sth. is) sth. (102) … the world || … and sundry (65) after … (172)
when … is said and done (212,481)
all (adv.) … the same (8) … of a sudden (23) to be … smiles (32) … `over (sth.) 108) … at once (531)
… but - (550)
`Allah (70)
all-around [å~lê`raund ] A/E -`round (adj.) an … education / teacher (335 / 1162)
allay [ ê`lei ] (vt) … pain // sb’s anger / suspicion (645 // 691)
allegation [ alê`gei$n ] (C) to prove an … (59) to make (an) …(s) (of sth.) (against sb.) (207)
to investigate / deny // withdraw an … (208 // 210)
allege [ ê`led§ ] (vi&t,& speech:240) … (that) - (207) … one’s innocence (208)
it is …d that - || sb. is …d ( to do * ) sth. (209*, 533) … sth. (as an excuse) for sth. (917)
alleged (adj.) an … highbrow (10) an … crime (210)
allegedly (209,638)
allegiance [ ê`li~d§êns ] (U,C) an oath / a vow of … || to pledge / swear … to sb. ||
owe / give … to sb. (402) to switch / transfer / change … || to have a strong (political) … (406)
allegory [ `alêgêri ] (C:164:U 465)
allegorical [ alê`gårikl ] (adj.) an … story (1060)
allergic [ `alêd§i ] (adj.) to be … ( to sth. ) (416)
allergy [ ê`lê~d§ik ] (C) to have an … ( to sth. ) (416)
alleviate [ ê`li~vieit ] (vt) … poverty (309) … suffering(s) / a problem (628 / 629)
alley(way) [ `ali ( wei ) ] (C:614)
alliance [ ê`laiêns ] (C,U) to be in … with sb. (145) an … of sb. with sb. (356)
to make / form / forge an … || to enter into an … (532) an uneasy … (806)
allied (adj.) the A… Powers / forces (666 / -68)
allocate [ `alêkeit ] (vt) … sth. ( to sb. / for sth. ) || … sb. sth. (404) allocation (C,U:404)
allot [ ê`lot ] (vt) (373,380,391,404) <ment (373,395,404)
all-out [ å~l`aut ] (attr. adj.) an … war / support // offensive (203+) an … effort (207)
all-out (adv.) to go … ( on the battlefield ) (204) to go … for a victory (209)
allow [ ê`lau ] (vi&t speech:850) a system … sb. to do sth. (7) … sth. to do sth. (25)
… oneself the arrogance of sb. (185) … oneself to do sth. (212) sth. … sb. to safe face (396)
a law … for sth. (802)
sth./ sb. … sth. || sth./ sb. … doing sth. || sth./ sb. … sb. to do sth. (814 / 860)
… sb. a visit / an hour / a sum (842) (not) … a problem to do sth. (844) … sb. + adv. (846)
sb. … that - (850) … oneself (to do) sth. (850) sth. … sth. to do sth. (857)
sb. … for sth. / the possibility that - || time / weather etc. …ing (859)
sb. … (oneself) some time / food (for sth.) || sth. … sb. sth. (862) sth. … for sth. || … sth. for sth. (880)
allowable (622) maximum … concentration / dosage (622 / 896) an … cost /E deducton (841)
(not) … (for sb.) to do sth. (843)
allowance (C,U) a tax … (E) (841) give sb. (a weekly) … of £ x (842, 845) an … in a premium (845)
make …(s) ( for sb.) / ( for sth.) (845 / 880) a baggage / mileage / travel // clothing … (858 // 871)
a prescribed / recommended … of medicin || to make an … for sb. || sick … (896)
allowed (adj.) be … + adv. (845) an hour / a dictionary is … { to do / for a test (848)
alloy [ `alåi ] (C,U) light-… metal (673)
allure (U) sexual … (102)
allure (vt) … sb. into (doing) sth. (102)
alluring [ ê`luêing ] (adj.) something … (76) an … smile (77)
all-round [ å~l`raund ] E/A -a`round (adj.) an … education / teacher (335 / 1162)
all-time (adj.) the audience’s … high (63)
ally [ `alai ] (C:532)
ally [ ê`lai ] (vi&t) … ( oneselfself ) ( with sb.) (532)
almanac [ å~lmênak ] (C:142)
almighty [ å~l`maiti ] (adj.) the A… God (739)
almost [ `å~lmêust ] (adv.) … everybody (25) to … certainly / definitely do sth. (269) … certain (309)
alone [ ê`lêun ] (adj. / adv.) to leave sb. … (34) time … will tell (76) to feel … (248)
along [ ê`lång ] (adv.) to coax a car … (31)
along (prep.) … a path (10) … the way / line (544)
alongside [ ê`långsaid ] (adv.) to walk … (48) alongside (prep.) to cast sb. … sb. (62)
aloof (adj.) stand … (1195)
aloud [ ê`laud ] (adv.) to read … (5)
alphabet [ `alfêbet ] (C) the Roman `… (767) a phonetic alphabet (1221)
alphabetical [ alfê`betikl ] (adj.) … order (198)
already [ å~l`redi ] (adv:46) also [ `å~lsêu ] (adv:9)
altar [ `å~ltê ] (C) a ceremony before an … (152) to prepare the … for servce (228)
altarpiece [ `å~ltêpi~s ] (C:743)
alter [ `å~ltê ] (vi&t) sb’s life … (130) … an institution / a name (149 / 254)
alternate [ å~l`tê~nêt E/A `å~ltênêt ] (adj.) an … (eA) way (88)
to have … feelings of sth. and sth. (449)
alternate [ `å~ltêneit ] (vi&t) sth.and sth. … (436)
sth. … between sth. and sth. || … sth. and / with sth. (449+)
alternately [ (adv.) … (doing) sth. and sth. (422)
alternating (adj.) an … touch (450)
alternative [ å~l`têñêtiv ] (adj.) an … way (88)
alternative (C) there is an … (28) to be an … to sth. || to have no … but to do sth. (89)
although [ å~l`dêu ] (conj:6)
altitude [ `å~ltitju~d ] (C,U) the … of the sun (663)
altogether [ å~ltê`gedê ] (adv.) sth. agrees … with sth. (48) to stop doing sth. … (50)
…, (sth. is) sth. (102) … more sth. (110) ( not ) … barbaric (215) ( not ) … by sb. (220)
aluminium [ ê`lu~minêm ] E/A aluminum [ alê`miniêm ] (U:582)
always (adv.) … do sth. (15)
Am
AM (amplitude modulation) (620)
amalgam [ ê`malgêm ] (U:646,&C) a film is an … of lives / cultures (608+)
amass [ ê`mas ] (vt) … debts (109) … riches / wealth (374) … information (401)
amateur [ `amêt($)ê ] (C:50)
amaze [ ê`meiz ] (vt) to be …d (277) sb. / sth. … sb. (837)
it … sb. how - / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
amazed (adj.) an … silence || to be / look … (to experience etc.) (837)
to be … at sth. || sb. is … how / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
amazement (U) to do sth. in … (41, 837) to look at sth. with. … (129) to sb’s … (836)
amazing (adj.) an … view (139) it is … how - / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
an … decision (850) an … player (851) an … number of sth. || an … voice (855)
amazingly (adj.) take sth. … well (833) to look … handsome (838) … good (855)
amber (U:566)
ambition [ am`bi$n ] (C,U) an outlet for sb’s … (154) social … (175) to have …s (537)
sb’s burning / sleepless … (538)
to have / cherish / nurse / harbour an … to do / of doing sth. || sb’s … is to be sth. ||
to achieve / fulfil / realize one’s … || || a lack of … (539)
ambitious [ am`bi$ês ] (adj.) an … person (537) to be ( intensively ) … ( for sb.) || an … plan (539)
ambitiously (adv:539) ambitiosness (U:539)
ambulance [ `ambjêlêns ] (C) … service (418)
ambush [ `ambu$ ] (C,U) to lie / wait in … / fall into an … / be killed in an … (140)
ambush (vt:140)
amenable [ ê`mi~nèbl ] (adj.) sb. is… ( to blame / reason // advice / criticism ) (274 // 969)
sth. is … for / to ( being ) sth. (276+)
amend (vt&speech:823) … a law / a statement // one’s evidence (823 // -31)
amended (adj.) an … programme / evidence (823 / -31)
amendment (C,U) to make an … to a programme (806)
to introduce / propose / table an ( a reasoned ) … || to pass a law without … (823)
to carry an … to a bill (1187)
amends (pl.) to make … ( to sb. / for sth. ) (840)
amenity [ ê`mi~nêti ] (C) local / basic …ies || the … of the climate (51)
America [ ê`merikê ] (N:147)
American [ ê`merikên ] (adj.) an A… Indian (558)
amiable [ `eimiêbl ] (adj.) an … person / tone of voice (34) amiably (adv:32)
amicable [ `amikêbl ] (adj.) an … relationship (34) an … settlement (59)
amicably (adv.) to listen to sb. … (45)
amid [ ê`mid ] (& mid / amidst) (prep.) … tight security (308) … infighting (372) … countryside (379)
… tremendous applaus (387)
amino [ ê`mi~nêu ] (adj.) … `acid (571)
ammonia [ ê`mêuniê ] (U) … `chloride (570)
ammunition [ amju`ni$n ] (U:498)
amnesia (U) to suffer from … (114)
among [ ê`mûng ] (prep.) … them (1)
amorous [ `amêrês ] (adj.) … advances / glances (264 / 1167)
amount [ ê`maunt ] (C,U) an certain … of scepticism (85) a large … of followers (92)
an … of money (97) any / no … of sth. (108 / 111, 131) a considerable … of money (292)
amount (vi+ to sth.) sb. never … to much (846) sth. … to a poor offer (879)
a cost … to sth. || sth. … to many hours || it … to the same thing (880)
sth. doesn’t … to anything / a great deal (881) sth. … to a breach (889)
amphibious [ am`fibiês ] (adj.) an … animal 651)
amphitheatre [ `amfi#iêtê ] (C:775)
ample [ ampl ] (adj.) … space (277) in … time (298) … evidence (618) … opportunity (984)
an … bosom (611) … buttocks (1245)
amply (adv.) to … exceede sth. (786)
amplitude (U) … modulation (AM) (620)
amuse (vt) … sb. || it … sb. to do sth. (326) amusing (adj:591)
amusement (U,C) a smile of dry … (33) to the (vast) … of sb. (765)
an … park || an … for children || sb’s eyes sparkle / twinkle with … (992)
An
an (ind. art.) … education (2)
anabolism (C,U:569)
anaerobic (adj.) … respiration (649)
an(a)esthesia [ anês`#i~sia ] (U) to be trained in … || to be in … (657)
an(a)esthetic [ anês`#etik ] (C,U)
to give sb. / have / use ( a general ) … || to do sth. / be under … ||
to come round from / out of the … (657)
an(a)esthetic (adj.) an … drug (459)
an(a)esthetist [ ê`ni~s#êtist ] (C:657)
an(a)ethetize [ ê`ni~s#êtaiz / A: ê`ne.. ] (vt) … sb. (657)
analyse E/A <ze [ `anêlaiz ] (vt) … a habit (315)
analysis [ ê`nalêsis ] (C,U) an acute … (315) (a) microscopic … (1288)
anarchic [ ê`na~kik ] (adj.) an … belief / lifestyle / society (146)
anarchism [ `anêkizêm ] (U:146) anarchist [ `anêkist ] (C:146) anarchy [ `anêki ] (U:146)
ancestor [ `ansestê ] (C:222) the lines of sb’s …s (1092)
anchor [ `angkê ] (C:660) a ship is / lies / rides at … (658)
ancient [ `ein$ênt ] (adj.) an … regime (147) in … history (151)
and (conj:1)
anew [ ê`nju~ ] (adv.) to do sth. … (168)
angel [ `eind§l ] (80) a guardian … (83)
Angeln (N:218)
anger [ `anggê ] (U) sb’s feelings partake of … (11) to do sth. in … (16) to be filled with … at sb. (282)
to look at sb. with … (129)
anger (vt) sth. … sb. (211)
angle (vi) to go …ing (14)
angle [ `angl ] (C) to look at sth. from another … (252) an acute / obtuse / a right … (647)
to wear one’s hat an a jaunty … (1110)
anglepoise (U) an … lamp (E) (653)
Angles [ `angêls ] (pl:218)
anglican (adj.) the A… Church / communion (734)
angry (adj.) an … look (36)
to be / get / grow … { with / at sb. ( for doing sth.) // at / about / over sth. // ( that ) - (65)
to make sb. … (66)
angrily (adv:241)
anguish (U:460) anguished (adj:539)
angular (adj.) … distance (663) an … object (940) angularness (940)
animal (C:13) an experimental / a research … (408) … kingdom (650)
`animate (vt) a smile … sb’s face (839) sth. … sb. (1047)
animate (adj.) an … being (825)
animated (adj.) an … discussion (822) sb’s face becomes … (839)
animatedly (adv.) discuss sth. … (824)
animation (U) do sth. with … (822) suspended ..`.. (1066) animosity (176) ankle (C:104)
an`nex (vt:379)
announce (vt, speech:580) … one’s candidacy / candidature (99)
announcement (101) announcer (C:126)
annoy (vt:336)
annoyed [ ê`nåid ] (pred. adj.) to be … with sth. (34)
annoyance (U,C) to do sth. in … (86) ( much ) to sb’s … || to sb’s ( great ) … (302+)
annoying (adj.) an … fly (65)
annual (adj.) an … turnover of x (281) an … plant (650)
annual (C) an … lives for one year (650)
anoint (vt) … the dying (745) extreme … (745)
a`nonymous (adj:395)
another (det., pron.) … choice (4) from one thing (in)to … (19) spl. envy one … (97) yet … sth. (280)
answer (C) to give a prudent … to a question (4) to get an immediate … (57)
to find an … to a problem (410) a quick … (592)
answer [ `a~nsê ] (vi&t, speech:6) … (sb.) back (35) … in the affirmative / negative (79 / 82)
… sb’s prayer (232) … quickly (592) … a question (685) ant (C:11) have …s in one’s pants (504)
answerable (adj.) be … to sb. (811)
antecedent ( adj.) an … event (751) … experiences (754)
ante`cedents (pl.) events:753, experiences:754, ancestors:756)
antenna, pl: antennae (C:126)
anthem (C:589)
antibiotic (C:1258)
antibody (C:1258)
anticipate [ an`tisipeit ] (vt) … ( doing* ) sth. (352,*1042) … whxx / that - || … sbth. doing sth. (1043)
anticipation (U) in (eager) … for / of sth. (1051+) full of … ( at the prospect of sth.) (1052)
antidote (C:505)
`antimilitarist (C:12) antimilitaristic (adj:12) antimilitary (adj:12)
antipathy (U,C) an inborn … (1199)
antiperspirant [ anti`pêspirênt ] (639) (an) armpit / E& underarm … (639)
antipope (C:928)
`antiquated (adj.) an … idea (469)
antique (adj.) an … object (763)
antique (C) an … (587, 763) an … shop (587)
antiquity (U) the classic … (147) a monument / relic of … (775)
antiquity (C:763)
antisocial (adj:577)
anti-terrorist (adj.) an … squad (849)
antshill (C:783)
anus (C:938)
anvil (C:1235)
anxiety (U) sth. causes … (203) 269) … attack (614) acute / intense / deep … (458)
anxious [ `angk$ês ] (adj.) … that - (36)
anyhow (adv:63)
anything (13) do … but - (540)
anytime (adv:75)
anyway (adv.251)
anywhere (adv:60)
Ap
apace (adv.) ill weeds grow … (1249)
apart (adv.) to keep sth. … (22) sth. sets sb. / sth. … ( from sb. / sth.) (35,49)
take sth. / fall … (50) take () sb. / sth. … (fig:41) … from sth. / the fact that - (61)
to pull () sb. / sth. … ( fig:65 / 68)
to keep … from sth. || to know / tell two things … || to be `poles / worlds / miles … ||
sth. is a place … || to move in a world … || to hold oneself …(66)
jesting / joking … (69)
apartment (C) … ( in a house ) (eA:51) an … house (778) royal etc. …(s) (455)
apathetic (adj.) an … person / temperament || to fell … || to be … about sth. (1241)
apathy (U) affected with … about sth. (1241)
ape (vt) … sbth. (1099)
`aperture (C) the … ratio / relative … ( of a camera ) (588)
A`pocrypha (N) the … (70)
a`pocryphal (adj:40) apocryphally (adv:1169)
apologize (vi) … ( to sb. ) ( for sth. ) (59)
apologetically (adv:249)
apology (C,U) to accept an … (59) to make an … to sb. (549) to send one’s …ies (653)
to make no … for sth. (1421)
aport (adv.) to turn … (227)
`a posteri`ori (adj.) … knowledge ||
an … theory / conclusion / judgement / argument / faculty / trait (935)
a posteriori (adv.) make a theory / conclusion etc. … (935)
apostle [ ê`påsl ] (C) the Acts of the A…s (70)
apostrophe (C:1218)
appal(l) (vt) sth. … sb. (290) it … sb. to hear etc. / that - (1064)
it … sb. to hear etc / that - (1064)
appalled (adj.) to be … at sth. (493) to be … by sth. (1064)
appalling (adj.) the … conditions of sb. (500) in … conditions (613)
an … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
apparatus (C) a motor … (650,1263) a sensory … (936)
apparent [ ê`parênt ] (adj.) an … lack (50) to make it … || … kindness (86) for no … reason (87)
sth. is … (94) it’s … that - (107) an heir … (1106)
apparently (54) … dead (1066)
appeal (C,U) to have a immediate … to sb. (171) with a look of mute / silent … (169)
to have wide … (602)
appeal (vi,speech:321) … to sth. (187) … for sb. to do sth. (709)
… to the country (fig:803+) … to sb’s better nature / feelings ( 920 / 1047)
appear (vi+adv. / link) … to do sth. (seem:6) it … (that-) (26) (it) … (to be) sth. / adj. (seem:33)
… in a play / film / on TV || … as sb. (50 || 64) sbth. …(+ adv.) ( be seen: 76,81,,,)
… in court / before a justice on a charge of sth. ||
… as (a) witness (for the defence / prosecution) (115) … at (the) Bar
appearance [ ê`piêrêns ] (C,U) outward / external / physical / general … (72,77)
a(n) early / late … of sth. (72) to give every … of sth. (79) to make one’s … (83) to put in an … (85)
public … (115) sb’s … before the public (486)
appearances (pl.) by / to all … (73) judge by … (77) keep up / save … (56)
for …’ sake / for the sake of … (101) have all … of sth. (106)
appease (vt) … sb. (224)
appeasement (U:1208)
appetite (U,C) a ferocious …(505) a ravenous ... || sth. spoils sb’s … (580)
to work `up / get up an … (954,1239) sensual …s (1050)
… comes with eating || sth. gives sb. an … || to have ( got ) a healthy / hearty … (1239)
to lose one’s sexual … || to whet sb’s … (1245)
sth. takes () away sb’s … || a greedy / voracious … (1251) to eat with an … (1252) loss of … (1258)
to recover one’s / a healthy … (1264)
appetizer (C:793, fig:1245)
appetizing (adj.) an … steak (1252
applaud (vi&t) the audience … (279) … sb. ( for sth.) (388) … sb’s decision (392)
sb’s efforts are widely …ed (399) … loudly / thunderously / rapturously (450)
applause (U) to give sb. a big round of … ||
to break into / receive { raptuous / thunderous / tumultuous … (387)
light … || to receive / win loud … (450+)
apple (C,U) … crumble (67) upset the `… cart (206) to be the … of sb’s eye (268)
to be a rotten / bad … || there are rotten / bad …s in sth. (fig:742)
appliance (C) a household / domestic … (297) an electrical … (572)
applicant (C:256) an … for a job (592)
application (C,U) a practical … ( of sth.) (46) to submit one’s … for sth. (99)
to send () in an … for sth. (292) sth. is available on … to sb. (295)
to send for a passport … || an … form (298) a job … (592)
applied (adj.) ( the ) … science(s) (195)
apply (vi&t) … ( to sb.) ( for sth.) (57) a law … to public places / private property (212)
… powder / lipstick ( to one’s face ) (445) sth. … to sb. || sb. … sth. to sb. (546) … the brakes (584)
… pressure (586) … oneself to sth. (1170) … a principle to sth. (1197)
appoint (vt) … a government (7) … a king / queen (145) … sb. { to a post / to do sth. (736 / 806)
… sb. (as) sth. (806)
appointed (adj.) an … time / place || at the … time and place (66) self-… (829)
appointee (593)
appointing (adj.) an … committee (901)
appointment (C,U) … (as sth.) (99)
to make / have / keep / miss / book E/A schedule an … || a dentist’s / dental … (646)
conditions of … (784)
apportion (vt) … loot // blame // land to / among / between spl. (236 // 241, -75 // 313)
apportionment (U,sg.) (an) … of land (313)
apposite (adj.) sth. is … to the situation (264)
appreciate (vi&t) … a good chatter (65) … the significance of sth. (92) … sb. (93) … that - (107)
… sb. doing sth. (118) … doing sth. (120) … what - (119) … it if - (127) an investment … (291)
appreciation (U,C) a profit due to … (291) to show one’s … (401)
apprehend (vt) … sth. (o-f) (164) apprehension (U) beyond … (o-f) (948)
apprenticeship (C,U) to serve one’s … (4)
approach (vi&t) an event / a bird… (61 / 67)
sb. … the bank etc. for sth. / about ( doing ) sth. (300) … a matter lightly (469)
approach (C) to have / take a xxx … to sth. (59 /188) an `innovative / innovatory … to sth. (965)
approaching (adj:586)
appropriate [ê`prêupriêt ] (adj.) sth. is ( painfully ) …(143)
appropriate [ ê`prêuprieit ] (vt) … sth. (788)
approve (vi&t) … of a practice || … a proposal (43)
approval (U,C) to nod (in) … (90) by tacit … (695)
approximate (adj.) an … estimate (576)
apricot (C,U) dried …s (448)
April (457) (to make an) … fool ( of sb.) (458)
a priori [ ei prai`å~rai ] (adj.) an … existence (164)
… knowledge || an … theory / conclusion / judgement / argument / experience / faculty / trait (935)
a priori (adv.) sth. exists … (164) sth. experienced … || to make a theory / conclusion etc. … (935)
apron (325) apropos (adv.) … of sth. (984)
apt (adj.) an … pupil (4) an … remark / name (24 / 965) to be … to do sth. (963)
an … person / student (966) to be … for a job (968) an … attempt (976)
aptitude (C) have / show a (natural) … for (doing) sth. (963) an … test (968)
Aq
aquatic (adj:651)
Aquinas (N) Thomas … (165,930)
Ar
Arabian (adj.) The …Nights Entertainments (952)
arable (adj.) … land / farming (17+) an … crop / field / farm (18)
arbiter (C:1231) sb. is an … taste / style / fashion || to be the … of sb’s life (1232)
arbitrariness (U:398)
arbitrary (adj.) an … decision / leader (279) … powers (1231) … choice (1232)
arbitrarily (adv.) to settle a dispute … (1231) to choose sth. … (1234)
arbitrate (vi&t) … ( in ) a dispute || … between sb&sb. (1231)
arbitration (U) to go to … || to settle a dispute by … (1231)
arbitrator (C) to agree on an … || to be the final … of sth. (1231)
arcane (adj:375)
arch [ a~t$ ] (C) a pointed … (861)
arch (vi&t) a cat … its back (886) trees … over sth. (866)
arch (adj.) an … look / smile (1228)
archly (adv:1228)
archbishop [ a~t$`bi$êp ] (C) the A… of Canterbury (220) to style an A… ‘’ His grace ‘’ (1004)
archdeacon (734)
archery (U:330)
archipelago [ a~t$i `pelêgêu ] (C) the A … (761)
ardent (adj.) an … supporter (387)
arduous [ `a~d§uês ] (adj.) an … climb (862)
are (v:1)
area (C:18) a subject … (334)
argon (Ar) (568)
argosy (C:1013)
argue (vi&t) … (with sb.) (22) … the converse (43) … that - (164) … one’s case (466)
argument (C,U) to punch holes in sb’s … (17) to do sth. without (further) … || for the sake of … (196+)
to have a heated … ( with sb.) about / over sth. (378) a powerful … (463)
to sustain / uphold an … (477) deductive / reasoned … (1214) sb’s … succeed (1292)
argumentation (U:196, 463)
argumentative (adj.) an … person (960)
arid (adj.) (an) … climate / region // land (18 // 555)
arise (vi) an occation … (77) a condition of sth. … from sth. (148)
knowledge … out of experience (165)
arithmetic [ ê`ri#mêtik ] (254)
arithmetic (<al) [ ari#`metik (<êl ) ] (adj.) an … error (135)
aristocracy [ ari`ståkrêsi ] (C:persons:132)
aristocrat [ `aristêkrat E/EA ê`ristêkrat ] (C:133)
aristocratic [ aristê`kratik ] (adj.) an … family / life (144 / 162) … manners (185)
`Aristotle (N:48,164)
Aristotelian [ aristå`ti~liên ] (adj.) the … aesthetics (48)
a`rithmetic (U:254)
arithmetic(al) (adj.) an … problem (200)
---------arm (C, of a company:598, river:658) an … of a shirt (14)
to throw / * fling one’s ..s round sb’s neck (69, * 266 )
the (long) … of the law (406) to touch sb. on their … (421)
to link … with sb. || to link one’s … through / in sb’s || to walk … in … (422)
to put one’s … (a)round sb. || sb’s … goes round sb. (423) ( a list ) as long as their … (439)
to have sb. on one’s … || to have a handbag on one’s … || to carry sth. under one’s … (445)
to have a napkin over one’s … (446) to hold sth. at ..’s lenght (454) to take sb. by the … (461)
an … of a chair (464) to do sth. … in … with (fig.) (470)
to twist sb’s … about (doing) sth. (480) to keep sb. at …’s lenght (486)
to cost / pay an … and a leg (590) to twist sb’s … (behind them) (624)
the political … of sth. (629) to chance one’s `… (638) sb.would give their … for / to do sth. (641)
armband (C:427,E:658)
armchair (288,464) an … hero etc. (495)
armful (C) by the … || with an … of sth. (515)
armhole (C:438)
armpit (C) (an) … antiperspirant / deodorant / sweat (<ing) / odour (639) sth. is the … of sth. (664)
arms (pl.) to lock one’s … (a)round sb. (15) to throw one’s … about / up and down (38)
a babe / child / infant in … (424,461) to cross / fold one’s … (464) to come to sb’s. … (454)
(with) … akimbo (477) … outstretched (462) with open … (472) to thrust sb. into sb’s … (484)
arm (vi&t) … oneself with sth. (23)
… (against sb.) (509) … sb. (513) .… sb. with sth. (fig:466)
armed (adj.) … with sth. (15, fig:21) … uprising (23) heavily … (24) an … warrior (151)
the … forces / E& services (195 / 202) an … conflic / struggle (495) ( to keep sb. under) … guard (511)
… to the teeth (514) … robbery || an … wing (671) … peace (672)
arms (pl.) capable of bearing … (144) to carry / bear … (196) a coat of … (402, 441)
dexterity in … (403) to receive a call to … (469) to take up … for / against sb. (470,513)
up in … (about / over) || a passage of … (473) by force of … (495) … are sb’s profession (496)
an … depot (498) small … (499) fire … || a town in … (512) resist in / rise up in … (512+)
a / to call to … (513) be under … (514) (lay down) (one’s) … (551) … race (670)
… trade || an … dealer (672) … control (679)
man-at-arms (499)
----------------armada (C) an … of sth. (fig:441)
armament (U:495) … race (670) nuclear … (670) armament (C:666)
armaments (pl:495) … industry (672)
armistice (540) conclude an … (550)
armour (169, tanks:666) a chink in sb’s … (481) … plate / plating (666)
armour-clad (adj.) … vehicle (624) armour-`plated (adj.) … vehicle (666)
armoured (adj.) an … combatant (154) … division / car / personel carrier (668) armourer (402)
armoury (498) a weapon in sb’s … (fig:626) an … of sth. (fig:635)
army (13,fig;527) … officer (496) … corps [ sg: kå~ / pl: kå~z ] (497) to raise an … (514)
----------around (166) … the clock (458) get … a trap (fig:688) around-the-clock (adj:459)
arousal (U) emotional / sexual … (612)
arouse (vt) … indignation (493) … sb. (611) … sb’s / anger etc. / suspicion(s) (523 / 613,615) … sb.
(from sleep) (614) … feeling(s) (against sbth.) (993)
arrange (20) … to do sth. (66) an …d marriage (378)
array [ ê`rei ] (vt) to be … in a velvet garb / in armour (370 / -95) to be …ed in battle array (395)
array [ ê`rei ] (C,U) to be dressed in opulent … (370) an … of luxuries / talent / options (370 / -83 / -91)
in battle … (395)
arrest (vt:352)
arrest (C,U) to resist … (305) to make an … (1137)
arrival (69, do sth. on … (103) … platform (E) / track (A) (69) a late / an early * … ( person ) (523,1057*)
… time / …s area (777)
arrive (vi) … at work (31) … at the time / hour agreed on (66) the day of parting … (69) … early (277)
… late for work (596)
arrogance (U:165)
arrogant (adj.) sb. is … (133)
arrogate (vt) … ( to oneself ) sth. (401)
arrow (C) bow and … (381) an … key (840) an … points the way (855)
arse (E) (C) to take a peep at sb’s … (611) to fall / be on one’s … (792) a `smart … (1123)
arse (v) … about / around (885)
arsenal (C:498)
arsenic (539)
arson (U:234) an … attack (237)
art (U,pl.,C) the faculty of …s (1) a piece / work of … (138) the `fine …s || …s and crafts (139)
doing sth. is an … || the … of (doing) sth. (141)
by the … of lying etc. || to get craftiness down to a fine … || to bring / carry manipulation to a fine … ||
to make a fine … of manipulation || to use all one’s … to do sth. (180)
it would be quite an … to do sth. (182) … history || … of medicine (195)
A…s Council (609) industrial …s (899) an … shop (1306)
artful (adj.) … practice (43) an … person (180)
artfully (adv.) … practised (43)
article (C) an … on / about sth. (321) … of faith (681) a writer of an … (840)
articulate [ a~`tikjulêt ] (adj: person / phrase:46,475)
articulate [ a~`tikjuleit ] (vi&t) … (a word / an idea etc.) (46,475)
articulated (adj.) an … lorry (E) (586)
articulately (adv:46)
articulatory (adj.) an … expression (1061)
artifice (U) by means of … (181)
artificial (adj.) … light / lightning (443)
artificially (adv.) … produced (443)
artillery (U:499)
artisan (C:168)
artist (C:139)
artistic ( adj.) an … example of sth. (138)
… abilities || an … person / talent / career || to do sth. in an … way (139)
artistry (U) to develope one’s … (138) to do sth. with … (450)
artless (adj.) … sincerity (43) an … person (180) an … souvenir (763)
artwork (C,U:138)
arty ( -farty) E/A artsy ( -fartsy ) (adj.) an … person (139)
As
ascendancy [ ê`sendênsi ] (U) sb’s … (1031)
as (prep.) to consider sb. … sth. (1) … soon … (14)
as (conj.) … sbth. does sth. (2)
as (adv.) … soon … - (6) … well … - (10) … usual (11) … for / to / regards sth. (14)
to do sth. … if sbth. did sth. (31) … to whxx (148) … even … (421)
… to do sth. (603) … certain / sure … sth. is sth. (1102)
ASA (American Standard Association) (588)
ascension (sg.) the A… (818) ascent [ ê`sent ] (norm. sg.,U) social … (466)
ascot (C:1101)
ascertain [ asê`tein ] (vi&t:) … sth. (673) … that - (1114) … sb’s identity (1115)
Asgard (N:236)
ash (U,C) … erupts from a volcano (418) A… Wednesday (679)
ashtray (C:318) a filled-up / full … (881) ashore (529)
Asia (N) … Minor (925) Asian (adj:71)
aside (C) a writer’s … (41)
aside (adv.) to draw a (the) curtain(s) / sb. … (30 / 228) to lay () `… sb. (48)
to lay () … formalities / one’s irony (54) to lay / set () … an evening (55)
to put / set () … a feeling / an opionion (56)
to brush () `… criticism || … from sth. (prep.) || to lay () … one’s tools / work ||
to set () … an offer / a claim (57) to set () … sb’s rights (58)
to leave / put () … the thought that - || to put / set () … a ticket (64)
to lay / put / set () … money || to set () … a room (69) to turn sb. … (228)
ask (vi&t&speech:9) … whxx (6) … for sth. (8) … sb. for help (57)
… (sb.) their name / their opinion / the price (90 / 250 / -58 / 326)
… a ( * difficult ) question ( * about sth. ) (252, * 688) … for an opinion (258)
sb. who … for it (603)
asleep (27,424,+) fall … / fast … (424) … at the switch / wheel (593)
aspect (C,U) all …s of sth. (151) sth. assumes a feudal … (161)
asphyxia [ as`fiksiê ] (U:430)
asphyxiate (vt:430)
asphyxiating (adj.) an … gas (418)
asphyxiation (U:418)
aspiring (adj:357)
ass (E) (C) an … ( o-f for donkey ) (769) to make an … of oneself (770)
ass (A) (C) to take a peep at sb’s … (611) a `smart … (1123)
ass (v) … about / around (885)
assail (v:15) sth. … (the nostrils etc.) || be …ed by sth. (fig:16) assailant (15)
assassin [ ê`sasin ] (C:428) assassinate [ ê`sasineit ] (vt:426) assassination (C,U:427)
assault (C,U) an … on sb. / a castle (15 / 395)
assault (vt) … sb. (15) the howling … sb’s ears (31) assaulter (C:15)
assemble (vi&t) a crowd … (124) … a scaffold (328) … information for sth. (1087)
a`ssembly (C,U) a `legislative … (7) an … of machinery (134) an … hall (444) to blow the … (1086)
a public (legislative) … (1057) an … ground (1086)
assent [ ê`sent ] (U:84) nod ( one’s ) … || give ( one’s ) … ( to sth.) (92) to receive sb’s … (97)
by common / general … (101)
assent (vi, speech:104) … ( to sth.) (84)
assert [ ê`sêrt ] (vt,speech:207) … ( that ) - (84) it is …ed that - (203) … one’s innocence (208)
sth. … itself (211) … oneself (239) … one’s right (347) … one’s authority (362)
assertion (C:84) … that - (730) as`sessor (687)
assess [ ê`ses ] (v) … whxx (687)
assessment (C,U) a tax … (841) a sober … (969)
`asset (C) tangible ..s (112) be an … to sth. (590) `… stripping (U) (895)
assiduity (U:340)
assiduous (adj.) … in one’s work (340)
assiduously (340)
assign (vi&t) … sb. sth. || … sth. to sb. (52)
assignment (C,U) to complete an … (334) to complete a written … for homework (334)
assignation (C:29)
assist (vi&t) sb./sth. … (sb.) (in doing / with / in sth.) || … sb. to do sth. (75)
… at sth. (93) sth. … sth. (149)
assistance (U:75,,,) come to (sb’s) … || be of (any) … ||
to offer / provide / give …(to sb) (in doing / with sth.) || give sb. … to do sth. (75) public …(1040)
assistant (C) a shop / sales … (93) assize (C:1026)
associate (C:45)
associate (vt,v+with) … sth. to sth. (45) … with criminal elements / sb. (210 / 606)
association (C,U) a voluntary … of individuals (146)
assuage [ ê`sweid§ ] (vt) … pain (645)
assult (C/v:395)
assume (vt) sb. … (that) - (59) sth. … a feudal aspect (161) … sth. to be sth. (249)
… an air of sth. (264) … the worst (269) … sb. to be / have sth. (272) … the form of sth. (278)
it can ( safely ) be …d (that) - (284) … a duty (735) sb. … power (1091) sb. … responsibility (1183)
sth. … generosity / that - (1233)
assumption (C,U) act on a right … (57) … (U) of power (925)
assurance (C,U (270,311,328) there’s an air of (self-) … about sb. (240) to say with … (253)
despite sb’s …s (267) to seek / receive … (that) - (270)
… (E) company / policy (296) in full / the confident … that - (491)
assure (vt &speech+sb:243) 318,329) … oneself / sb. of sth. (241 / -67)
… oneself / sb. that - (269+) sth. … a play’s success (279) a result … sb. sth. (303)
assured (adj:309) sb. is … (240) to rest … that - (249)
to be … of sth. (253) an … voice (267) a secure future is … (296)
assuredly (adv:240,-67,309)
assured (E) (sg.) the … (296)
astonish (vt) to be …ed (277) sb. / sth. … sb. (837) it … sb. how / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
astonished (adj.) … eyes (837) to be / look … (to experience etc.) (837)
to be … at sth. || sb. is … how / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
astonishing (adj.) it is … how / (that) - / to experience sth. (838) an … decision (850)
an … player (851) an … number of sth. || an … vioce (855)
astonishingly (adj.) look … handsome (838) … good (855)
astonisment (U) to sb’s … (836) do sth. in … (837)
astound (vt) … sb. (844)
astounded (adj.) be … by / at sth. / (that) - / to experience sth. (844)
astoundedly (adv.) to look … at sth. (844)
astray (adv.) a plan does … (6) to lead sb. … (9, 212) a letter etc. goes … (95, 646)
a shot goes … (199)
astrologer (C:89)
astrology (U:89)
astronaut (C:671)
astronomical (adj.) an … object (995)
asunder (adv.) to be put … (439) to be rent / torn / split … (669)
At
at (prep:1)
Atatürk (N) Kemal … (767)
ate (pat. of eat:5)
atheist [ `ei#i ist ] (C:82) `atheism (U:82)
athe`istic (adj:82)
Athens (N:151)
athlete (C:317) …’s foot (649)
athletic (adj.) an … meeting (E) (634)
athletics (U) to go in for / engage in … (634)
Atlantic (Ocean) (224)
AT`M card (96)
atmosphere (C,U) a bad … (38) a gloomy / sinister … (129) a festive and jolly … (185)
to create a romantic … || in a pleasingly relaxed … (285) the … lightens (449)
a warm … of excitement (851) the … (1062)
atmospheric (adj.) … pressure (1062)
atom (C:567)
atomic (adj.) … number (567) ( relative ) … mass (568) … energy / power (621) … theory (1169)
atonement [ ê`têunmênt ] (U,sg.) to make … a sin etc (1096)
atrocious (adj:365)
atrocity (C,U:112)
attach (vt) prestige …ed to (doing) sth. (154) sb. becomes …ed to sb. || … oneself to sb. (1099)
attached (adj:298)
attachment (C,U) a sentimental … to sbth. (1041)
attack (vi&t) sb. … sb. (15) … sb. for (doing) sth. (98,468) an animal … (504) an army … ( sbth.) (510)
… a meal with vigour (591)
attack (C,U) an … on sb. (15) a surprise … (war:24) to launch / make / mount an … (192)
an … ( of a team) || to play in … || a maintained / sustained … (201)
to stand up to / resist / withstand … (204) an … against sth. (fig.) (212)
an … on sb. / sth. || ( to come / be under ) / ( to go on the ) … (criticism:468) a light … of a disease (518)
to suffer an … (550) to have / suffer an … of nerves (593) anxiety / heart / panic … (614)
attacker (C) an … ( in an assault / sports / war ) (15 / 201 / 512)
attain (vt) … status (175) … spiritual purity (227) … despotism (368) … good marks E/A grades (725)
attainder (U) an Act of A… (1019)
attempt (vi&t) … to do sth. (9)
attempt (C,U) an … at ( doing * ) sth. (33, 216 * ) to make an / every … to do sth. (37 / 154)
in a vain … to do sth. (38) to fail in one’s … (42) an escape … (308) a coup [ ku~] … (312)
an apt / appropriate … (976) a feeble … at sth. (1248)
attempted (adj.) … escape (308) an … coup [ ku~] (312)
attend (vi&t) … (a) college etc. (4) to be …ed to ( in a shop ) (29) … a performance / show (100 / 277)
… one’s school (work) (141) a poorly …ed meeting (309) to cease to … (359)
… sb. || … to sb. / sb’s needs (371) … to one’s work / duties etc. (141,748)
attendance (U,C) school … (1162)
attendant (C) an … (in a park) (29) a personal … (153) an … at a museum (986)
attendee (C:1059)
attention (U, pl.) to have sb’s … (57) to turn one’s … to sth. / ( in`decent ) …s to sb. (78 / 752)
to attract / catch / capture / get sb’s … (80) to draw / call (sb’s) … to sth. || focus … on sth. (316)
to fasten ‘one’s … on sth. (421) to call … to the fact that - (466) to pay (*no) … to sbth. (776,*789)
to divert sb’s … ( away from sth.) || to distract sb’s … ( from sth.) (1133)
attentive (adj.) to be … (261) attentively (adv:261)
attic (C:524)
attitude (C,U) sb’s … (34) a change in … (35) sb’s foolish …(37) sb’s unscrupulous … of mind (41)
to change one’s …(s) to(wards) sb. / sth. (41,466) … to life (45) a commercial … (168)
to decide one’s … to sth. (474) to take (up) / strike an (xxx) … (907 / 1101)
to take (up) an unsympathetic … to(wards) a proposal (1245)
attorney (C) A… `General (E/A) (811)
attract (vt) an election … a record `turnout (309)
sth. … a xxx audience (764) … sb’s attention to sth. (1136)
attraction (C,U) force of … (567) sexual … (752)
a nude scene / a film is an … (764)
attractive (adj.) sexual … (32) under … terms (167) attractiveness (33)
Au
auburn [ `å~bên ] (adj:441)
audible (adj.) barely … (763)
audience (C+ sg./ pl.) a select … (5) the … applaud(s) (279) a viewing … (853)
`audit (C,U) to conduct an … of a business / sb’s accouts (971)
`audit (vt) … the financial accounts (971)
auditor (C:594,971)
auditorium (C) a theatre / cinema … (63 / 599)
augment [ å~g`ment ] (vt) … expenditure / an army / sb’s confidence // production / income (203 // 259)
augmentation (U,C) (an) … of expenditure / an army // production / income (203)
augur (C:72)
augur (vi&t) sth. … well / bad / ill / good luck etc. (73,89)
augury (C) to be a benign / good / bad / ill … ( of sth.) (72+)
(St) Augustine (166)
Augustus (N) emperor … (775,923)
aunt (C:542) an agony … (137)
`auspice (73) under the …s (pl.) of sb. (72)
au`spicious (adj:73)
austere [ å~`stiê ) (adj.) an … monk / cell / life (227)
au`sterity (U,C) …ies of crop failure (224) a life of … (229)
Austria (N:1031)
Austrian (adj.) an … prince (1030)
Austrian (C:1030)
autheticity (U:820)
author (C) the … of a guide (34) … of a scheme (831)
authoritarian (adj:374) authoritarian (C:374) authoritarianism (374)
authoritative (86,374)
authorities (114,374)
authority (U,C:371,397,409) to challenge / defy sb’s … (54) to exceed one’s … (74)
to acquire … over sb. / land (153) sb’s … is weak (171) to assert one’s … (362) to be in … (374)
on good …(393)
authorization (U,C397) authorize (vt:395,397) authorized (adj:385)
autobiography (C,U) sb’s … (1274)
autocracy [ å~`tåkrêsi ] (U,C:145)
autocrat [ `å~têkrat ] (C:145)
autocratic [ å~tê`kratik ] (adj.) an … king (145)
autograph [ `åtêgra~f ] (C:126)
automatically (adv:324)
autonomous [ å`tånêmês ] (adj:23)
autonomy [ å`tånêmi ] (C21) autonomist (C:21)
autopsy [ `å~tåpsi ] (C) to perform an … (541) the … shows that - (709)
autotrophic (adj:648)
autumn (eE) (U,C) in (the) … (72)
auxiliary [ å~g`ziliêri ] (adj.) an … nurse (657) an ( modal * ) … verb (847, 1222* ) an … force (927)
auxiliary (C) nursing … (657) an … ( in a compound verb ) (847) a modal … (1222)
Av
avail (vt) … oneself of an opportunity (123)
avail (U) (be) to / of no … (124)
available (adj.) further particulars are … (57) further information is … on application to sb. (295)
an unmarked player is … (302)
availability (U:414)
avalance (C) to set off an … (1156) an … of applications (1162)
avenge [ ê`vend§ ] (vt) … sth. || … oneself on sb.(548) avenger [ ê`vend§ê ] (C:548)
average (C,U) above the … (1224)
average [ `avêrid§ ] (adj.) an … rate / earner (292)
averse [ ê`vê~s ] (pred. adj.) to be … to sth. (36)
aversion (U,sg.) ( to have / take an ) … to sb. / (doing) sth. (35+) a pet … (37)
avert (vt:227,232,272,312,321) … one’s eyes / glaze / face (233) … suspicion (272)
aviation (U:1210)
avid (adj.) an … collector / reader || to take an … interest in sth. (463+) ( to be ) … for sth. (493)
avoid (vt) … action (24) … a risk (74)
Aw
await (233,425,,,455) … (a chance) (484) awaited (pred. adj.) long / anxiously … (434)
awake (adj:269,425,453,459) (fully / wide) … (426) (stay) … (465)
awake (v:424) … (to the fact that) (fig:483) … emotions (465) … to one’s vocation (fig:469)
awaken (425) … (sb. to the fact that) (fig:483) … an interest (465)
awakening (C) sb’s rude … (fig.) (118) a widespread … (fig.) (166) to have a rude … (426)
sb’s sexual … (462) sb’s political … (466) … of an interest (466)
award (C,U) to win an Academy A… (1308)
award (vt) … a free kick etc. (25) … sb. with sth. (49)
aware (pred.adj.) ( *acutely )… of sth. / that - (10,*418)
awareness (U,sg.) sb’s … of sth. (72) … that - (902)
away (adv.) to throw `… sth. (13) to play … (300) further … (1115)
away (adj.) an … match / game (300)
awe [ å~ ] (U) to do sth. in / with … (91) sb. is / stands in … (92) sth. invokes … (223)
awe (vt) sb. is …d by sth. (92)
awed (adj.) in … silence (93)
awesome (adj.) … beauty / power (77 / 92)
awesomely (adv.) … popular (92)
awestruck (adj.) an … person (92)
awful (adj.) an … lot of sth. (47) an … smell (1062) an … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
sb. is … to sb. (1066)
awfully (adv. ) sth. goes … wrong (1066)
awl (C:889)
awkward [ ` å~kwêd ] (104) ( to put sb.) in an … position (584) … question (688)
sth. is an … matter / business to do sth. (708)
awning (C:1081)
awoke (425) awoken (421)
Ax
axe E/A ax (C:381) to swing an … || a stroke of an … (1104)
axle (501) axis / axes (pl.) [ aksis / aksiz ] (501)
Bb
B and B (77) BA ( Baccalaureus Artium / Bachelor of Arts ) (172)
Ba
babble (vi&t) … away / on (about sth.) (in a xxx language) || … nonsense / xxx words (954)
babble (C) a … of voices (954) babbler (C:954)
babbling (adj.) a … brook (983)
babe (C) a … in arms (424)
baby (C: 17,254,321,326,337) a … sister (67) a … boy / daughter / girl / son (286)
… blues || sth. is sb’s … (fig.) (288)
to sleep like a … (432) a bottle … || a … bouncer || a … carriage (A) (1230)
baby (vt:336)
bachelor (C) a knight … || …-at-arms (153)
bacillus (C:648)
back (vi&t) … `down /A& off (306) … down / off at sth. (1079)
… down { on / from an idea etc. || … off from (doing) sth. (1085)
back (C) in the … of a bus (31) to laugh behind sb’s … (39) to turn one’s … on sbth. (233+)
sth. fastens at the … (438) (a) … of veal (C,U:795) to rather see the … of sb. (960)
to put one’s … into it (968) at / in the … of a crowd / queue E/A line (1062)
to sit with one’s … to the direction of travel (<ling ) (1151)
back (adj.) … page (321) … payment (576) a … seat (585) a … garden (866)
back (adv.) to go … (6) answer (sb.) … (35) to go … on a promise (247)
backer (C:639)
back-`bench (adj.) … rebellion / revolt (601) back-`bencher (601) backbone (C:795)
background (C) sb’s … (41) a … set (51) in the … (53) to be from a disadvantaged … (845)
… knowledge (970) backhand, … stroke (317)
`back-seat (adj.) a … `passenger / `driver (586)
backstage (adv.) be allowed … (855) backstreet (325)
`backup (C) a … ( copy ) (335) sb’s … / to have … (1130, -32)
backside (C:611)
backward (adj.) a … parking (991)
backwards / eA -ward (adv.) to know sth. … (E) and forwards (A) (967, 971) to park … (991)
bacon (U) cooked … (77) to save one’s … (233) fried … (723)
bacteria (pl:205)
bacterial (adj.) … infection / disease (766)
bacterium (C:648)
bad (adj.) … intentions (7) … money (8) … luck (71) … nerves (99) … weather (69)
sth. isn’t half … (853) … `feeling (U) (914) to feel … (944)
bad (U) the … (516) to take the … with the good (520) sb. goes to the … (787)
badge (C) to wear a … (E) (758)
badger (vt) … sb. to do sth. / into doing sth. (777)
badly (adj.) sb. / sth. acts … (50) badness (U) feel … (944)
bag (C) a punching … (14) a `… lunch (78) to make no / a good … (199) a sleeping … (205)
a coffee filter … (453) a body … (1279)
bag (vi&t) sb’s trousers … out (1234)
baggage (eA) (69) hand … / `carry-on … (762) … reclaim eE/A claim (U:777)
( bag>) pipes (pl.) to play … (193)
bagpipe (adj.) … music (193)
bail (U) to remand sb. on … (208)
to be granted … with a surety of (a sum) || to go / stand … for sb. || release on … (292)
bail (vi) … () out sth. (526) … () out sb. (of sth.) (589)
bailiff (C) a … ( of land / a farm ) (E) (377)
bait (C:14) to swallow the … (fig.) (1067)
bake (vi&t) … bread (262) a `… shop (A) (874) … pottery (1316)
baked (adj.) freshly / newly … bread (874) hard … clay (1317)
baker (C:355) …’s (874)
bakery (C:874)
baking (U) … powder (656)
balance (vi&t) a budget … (28) sth. … sth. (1062) … a viewpoint against another (1231)
balance (U,C)
the … of evidence / probality suggests etc that - || on the … of evidence / probality, - (177)
sth. upsets the … of the economy / environment (203)
sth. tilts the … (of sth.) (401) … of payments (628) to pay the … (783) to redress the … for sb. (414)
to throw sb. out of … (475) a trade … (628) a result // contract is / hangs in the … (fig.) (808 // 1127)
to lose one’s … (1157)
balanced (adj.) a well … temperament / temper (1250)
bald (adj:422)
bald-`faced (adj.) a … lie (751)
Balkans (N) the … (926)
ball (round object:14+, dance:390) a fish / meat … (793)
ballast (U: railway:562)
ballet [ `balei / A&: ba`lei ] U,C) a … step || to dance … (765)
balletic (adj.) a … leap (765)
ballot (C) the secrecy of the… (463) (mark) a … paper || … rigging (808) an invalid … paper (809)
ballpark (C) a … estimate (576)
ballpoint (C) a … (`pen) 103)
ballroom (C:444)
Baltic (adj.) … homelands (218) the … Sea (224)
bam`boozle (vt) … sb. (1067)
ban (vt) to … sb. from doing sth. (40) statute ( law ) … sth. (201) sb. … the use of sth. (315)
ban (C) there’s a … on domping (333)
band (vi&t) … together (513) … sth. (580)
band (C) an age … (52) a military … (193) a warrior … (214) a metal … (396)
a rubber / E& elastic `... (572)
bandage (C:14)
bandmaster, bandleader, bandmember, bandsman, bandstand (C:580)
bandwagon (C) to be on the ... (578) to jump on / get on / climb / join the ... (579)
bang (C) a (loud) … (418) …s (A) (pl:877)
banish (vt) … sb. ( from a place ) (244) … sb. from / to a place || … the memory of sb. (1104)
revenge … all other thoughts from sb’s mind (1142)
banishment (U.1104)
banister = bannister (C:1117)
bank (vi&t) … on sth. / sb. { * doing / to do sth. ) || * … on doing sth. (281, * 1125++) a plane … (995)
… blood (1114) a motorcycle … (1117) … a ball (1123) … ( money ) ( at / with some bank ) (1125)
… (up) earth ( into sth.) || … a river (1127) … (up) a fire (1128) … ( usu. up )  snow (1151)
bank (C) a …()note (5) a … of a river (14)
to take money out of / debit a … account || to draw money out of a … ||
to withdraw money from the … (96)
a … holiday (E) (674) a fishing … (678) the B… of England (1129)
to pass a … package (784) a … of an embankment (1111) a … of fog (1113) a blood … (1115)
a grassy … || a gentle / steep river … (1116) a … of a billiard / pool table (1123)
to pay money into the … || the … balance || a … passbook E/A a … book ||
to save money in a piggy … || a … `holiday (E) || sth. doesn’t break the … ||
to laugh all the way to the … (1125) a … of earth / clouds // snow (1127+ // 1152)
bankable (adj.) a … business / person (1125)
banked-down (adj.) … revengefulness (1142)
banked-up (adj.) … anger (1142)
banker (C) a City … (E) (410) a firm of …s (1125)
banking (U) … hours (1125)
bankrupt (C) a(n) (un)certified (E) … (895)
bankrupt (vt) sth. … a company / sb. || to be … of vision(s) / *compassion (895 / *1134)
bankrupt (adj.) to go … (112) to declare sbth. … || a morally … person (895)
to be … in good manners (1142)
bankruptcy (U) to look towards financial … (143)
at / on the point of … || to file a petition in … || the moral … of sth. (895)
banns (pl.) to ask the … || to call / publish one’s … (1077)
banner (C) to fight under sb’s … (153)
banneret (C) a knight … (153)
bannister (C) = banister (1117)
banquet (C) … room (139)
banqueting (adj.) … hall (139,444)
baptismal [ bap`tizmêl ] (adj.) a … service / ceremony / font (158)
`baptism (C,U:158, 745) a … of / by fire (159) to give sb … (755)
baptize [ bap`taizd /A& `bap - ] (vt) … sb. (sth.) (158)
baptized (adj.) a … person (755)
bar (prep.) … none / one (1125 / 1136)
bar (vt) a crossing is …red (1115) a fence … sb. from a place / doing sth. (1117)
a law etc.* … sb. from ( doing ) sth. (1122, -28* ) … oneself `in || … ( up ) a door / window (1137)
a sky …red with clouds (1139)
bar (C) a steel … (204) x beats in each … || a … line (193) a window with (iron) …s (308)
a … of light (442) the prisoner at the … (537) a … of sand (662) head of the … (811)
a lounge / public `… (1081) a … of (toilet) soap (1112) a … of a railing (1118)
to be in a … // at / behind the … (1123) a gold … (1125) a window … (1126)
the … ( in the high jump ) || to read for the B… || to be called E/A admitted to the B… ||
sth. is a … to happiness / success (1127)
a … lock || a sliding … (1137) to put sb. behind …s (1138) a prison … (1139)
at the … of { the public opinion / one’s conscience || to appear / be tried at (the) B… (1139)
the prisoner at the … (1143)
bar`barian (C:167) bar`baric (adj:215) `barbarous (adj:350)
barbed (adj.) … `wire (559)
barbecue /<que (vi&t:794) barbecue /<que (C:794)
barber (C) a …’s || (A) a … shop (877)
bare (vt) … one’s shoulder / breasts (232) … facts etc. (746) … one’s soul (to sb.) (753)
… one’s teeth (759) … (parts of) the body to sth. (764)
bare (adj.) … breasts (232) a … light / bulb (619 / 770) … from the waist and upwards (233)
lay () `… sth. (768, fig:747,753) the … `facts / bones (of sth.) (747, 754)
a … arm / leg / floor / wall / shelf // room / wire / branch (763 // 781+) the … minimum (of sth.) (763)
the … necesseties / essentials (760 / 763) a … sabre (767)
… rock (768) do sth. in … feet / sb. with … feet (769+) do sth. with one’s … hands (&fig:771)
sth. is a … pass (779) a … chance / possibility (781)
bare-`arsed (E) / -assed (A) (adj:770)
bareback (adj./adv.) a … rider / ride … (769)
barefaced (attr. adj.) a … lie / cheek (753) … woman (767)
barefoo(ed) (adj./adv.) a … person / go … (769)
barehanded (adj. / adv.) do sth. … (&fig:771) barehead(ed) (adj./adv:767) barelegged (adj:763)
barely (adv.) … / only just succed (207) … 20 rooms / half an hour (763+)
… have time || … have done sth. when - (768) … be able to do sth. || … audible / visible (770+)
bareness (U) the … of a landscape (768)
bargain (vi) … over sth. (791) bargain (C) into the … (fig:545) make (pick up / strike) a good ... (579)
… price (878)
bargaining (U) col’lective `… (791)
barge (C:29)
barge (vi+ adv.) … into sth. / in (464) … ones way + adv. (480)
bargeman, bargee (659)
bargepole (C:659) not touch sbth. with a … (661)
bark (vi&t) … at sb. (322) bark (C,U) a … (of a dog) (322)
barley (18)
barline (C:1124)
barn (C:277)
barmaid (C:1123)
barman (C:1123)
barometer [ bê`råmitê ] (C:1062)
baron (C:173) baronage (U:173) baroness (C:173) baronet (C:173) barony (C:173)
baronetcy (C:1019)
baronial (adj:350)
barrack (C) an army …s || a … room (1086) confinement to the …s (1284)
barrage (C) a … ( to protect soldiers ) || a … balloon (1090) a … of questions (1091)
barred (adj.) a … door / window (221 / 1137)
barren (adj.) … ground (17)
barrel (C) a heavy … (225)
barricade (C:229)
barricade (vt) … a door || … oneself in (229)
barrier (C) a class … (180)
sth. forms a traffic … between two places || a level-crossing … (1111)
sth. is a natural … between two places (1120)
sth. is a … to progress || sth. raises a … between classes (1127) to pass a … (1152)
barring (prep.) the future looks bright … accidents (1125)
barroom (C:858)
barrow (C) to bury a dead person in a …. (213)
bartender (C:1123)
base (vt) parliamentarism is …d on representational forms of government (7)
Judaism is … mainly on the Bible (70)
base (C,U chem:569, lowest part:572) on a military … (210)
baseball (U,C:633)
baseless (adj.) a … rumour (533) basement (29)
basic (adj.) … necessities / needs (16/19) … training / education (843) basicly (43)
basin (C) a wash … (E) (564)
basis (pl: bases) (C) sth. forms the … of a choice (30) to put the economy on a sound … (253)
basket (C) a fruit …(5) a litter … (E) (29) a clothes / laundry … (30) a picknic / wicker … (32)
a waste-paper … (875) a shopping … (879) a cat / dog … (886) a firewood … (887)
Basque (adj.) the … capital (1268)
bastard (C:536)
baste [ beist ] (vi&t:265)
bastion (C:511)
bat (C) to bat a ball with a … (15) to do sth. off one’s own `… (56) like a … out of `hell (583)
to have …s in one’s belfry (748)
bat (vi&t) … ( a ball ) (15) … () a`round an idea / a plan (56)… one’s `eyes / eyelashes (79)
not … an `eyelid (E) / eye (80) to go to … for sb. (A) (106) … a thousand (A) (112)
batch (C) … of people (1174)
bated (adj.) with … breath (1228)
bath [ ba# ], pl. baths [ bads ] (C) a … (<tub ) || to have /eA take a … (564)
bath [ ba# ] (E) (vi&t) to … sb. || to … (o-f) (564)
bathe [ beid ] (vi&t) … sth. EA /A … (sb.) (564)
bathed [ beidd ] (adj.) … in (sun>) light (441) … in sweat (772)
bather (E) (C:322)
bathing [ `beiding ] (E) (U) a … place (322) bathrobe (30)
bathroom (C:564) to go to the …. (A) (619)
bathtub (eA) (C:564)
bathwater (U) (254)
`baton E/A ba`ton (C:530, 634)
battalion (C:192)
batter (vt&i+adv.) an invation … a place (149)
batter (C,U) a … ( in baseball / cricket) (15 / 633) pancake … (796)
battery (586) be light on … (power) (586)
battle (vi&t) … for sth. (144) … with / against / for sth. (469,516) …for survival (529) … it out (589)
… hard (589) … one’s way to sth. (595) … to do sth. (639) … (against) the flames (667)
… against / with { a disease / an illness (1262)
battle (C,U) to lose a … (87, 516) a … for sth. (144) a naval … (226) to defeat sb. in … (221)
wounded in … (236) the tide of the … turns ( against sb.) (328) the B… of Hastings (330)
a … axe / flail (381) to join … ( with sb.) (469, 502)
a … with / against / for sbth. (469,516)
to fight an uphill / a losing … ( with / against sb.) (469, 516) to win / gain a … (469 / 1287)
the … lines are drawn ( fig.) (470) a … of wills / wits (472)
a comprehensive … || to do … ( with sb.) ( over sth.) || a pitched … ( with sb.) (473)
to fight one’s own …s (479) to draw up in … order (496) to ride into … (499) to do … for (501)
to do / give … (502) … cry (510) a confused indecisive … (511) to refuse … (523)
the … is to the strong (525) a legal … (605) sth. is half the … (636) an inconclusive … (666)
the B… of Britain (666) an air … (667) to win the … against a disease / an illness (1262)
battleaxe / A:<ax (381, fig:834)
battlecruiser (C:666)
battledress (E) (U:499)
`battlefield (C:13) on the … (204) a … for sth. (fig:548) (a problem) is a … (621)
battleground (C) on the … (204) in a … state (621) a … for sth. (621) (a problem) is a … (621)
battlements (pl:370)
battleship (C:666)
bay (C:226)
Bayeux (N) the … Tapestry (330)
Bc
BC ( Before Christ ) (164)
Be
be ( am / are / is, was / were, been ) (aux./ link.v&vi) to … sth. (1)
beach (C) a … boy (322) a sandy / shingle / pebble / pebbly / muddy … (1115)
beacon (hill, light:663) a … of hope (111) a radio / radar … (673)
bead (C) a … of sweat (53)
beading (U:574)
beaker (C) the B… Folk (214)
beam (v:287) … with joy (543)
beam (C:432) … of light (433) on full … (586) dipped (E) / low (A) …s (586)
bean (C) a string / kidney / runner (E) / French (E) / haricot (E) / navy (A) / wax (A) … (1156)
beanpole (261)
bear (C:703)
bear (vt) … a charmed life (37) ( to have ) to grin and … it (39) … `arms / capable of …ing arms (144)
… no comparison with sbth. (182) … one’s misfortunes || … doing / to do sth. (249)
… (sb.) a child / daughter / son (286) … a heavy burden / load (fig:430+) … the responsibility (476)
… little / no relation(ship) to (478) … the weight of sth. (498) … witness to sth. (510)
… the light of the day (522) … resentment (538) … it lightly (546) … the cost (of sth.) (783)
… (sth.) in mind (816) … ill will against sb. (1096) sth. would not … the light of day (1294)
beard (C) to grow a … (299) to wear a ( full ) … (758)
beard (vt) to … the lion in his `den (827)
bearing (C) take a (compass) … (673) bearings (pl.) lose / find / get / take one’s … (235)
Béarnaise (N) … ( sauce ) (1156)
beast (C) a … of pray (366) a … of burden (498)
beat (C) a … (in music) (193) sb’s heart misses / skips a … (266)
beat ( beat, beaten ) (vi&t) … an enemy (73) if you can’t … them, join them ( 87)
a card … a card (100) … a carpet (297) … eggs || … yolk and white together (448)
( without ) … (<ing * ) about / around the bush (475,* 477)
the sun … down (884) … sb. at their own game (910) … (the) hell out of sb. (1279)
beaten (adj:387) off the … `track / path (608)
beater (C) a carpet … (297) an egg … (448)
beauty (U,C) sb’s … (32) the … of sth. (33) a … (77)
beautiful (adj.) a … woman (27)
beautifully (adv.) … dressed (77)
became (pat.of become) whatever … of sbth. (127)
because (36)
become (vt) sb. … a slogger (14) sth. … current practice (42) … addicted to sth. (49)
it … apparant that - (109) whatever will … of sb.? (118) to be fast …ing sth. (653)
beck (C) to be at sb’s. … and `call (278)
bed (vt) … sb. (452) … an animal (499) … sth. (in sth.) (561) … down (504)
bedded (adj.) (be) … with (a disease) (518)
bed (C,U:17,213,426,,,) … and breakfast (77) to go to … || the narrow … (427)
… (of sth.) (layer:446,504, in garden:437, in waters:677) the `sea / ocean … (678)
to get out of … (456) make the … (456)
as you make your … so you must lie on it (536) to put sb. to … (459)
to get out of … on the wrong side E/A to get up on the wrong side of the … (475) a flower … (441)
a … of `roses (475) sea / ocean / river / reed / oyster … (664) the head / foot of a .. (720)
to be ill in … (1254)
bed and `breakfast ( B and B ) (U,C) to do … || … and breakfasts (77)
bedbug (C:504)
bedchamber (C:456)
bedclothes (pl:329,456)
bedcover (C, pl.) a … E || E the …s (456)
bedeck (vt) to … sth. with / in flowers etc. (1283)
bedding (U) … ( for animals ) (18) … ( for a bed ) (456)
bedfellow (C) a strange / unlikely … (470)
bedhead (E) (C) to lean against / on the …(707)
bedlam (U:426)
bedlinen (U:456)
bedridden (adj.) a … patient (1263)
bedrock (U, sg. ) to get down to the … (537)
bedroll (A) (C:504)
bedroom (C17,426)
bedside (C) a … table (437) a … lamp (465)
bedspread (C:456)
bedstraw (C:723)
bedtime (U:426) to observe one’s … (920)
bee (C:504)
beef (v) … about sth. (631) beef (U:79) … cattle (794)
beefsteak (C,U:794)
been (pap. of be) (1)
beer (U,C:124) … on draught / draft || draught / draft … (617)
beet (C,U:794) … sugar (571)
beetle (C:650)
beetroot (E) (C:794)
befall (vt:395) befallen (pap. of befall:398) befell (pat. of befall:399)
before (prep.) … doing sth. (10) … deadline (101) sb. appears … a justice (112) … an alter (152)
before (con.) … sb. does sth. (12)
before (adv.) to have done sth. … (52)
beforehand (adv:210)
befuddled (adj:272)
beg (vi&t &’speech’… (sb.):232) … (sb.) for sth. || … sth. of / from sb. || … (sb.) to do sth. ||
… that - (231) ‘ I … to differ,’ (237) sth. … the `question of / as to / that sth. (238)
… ( for money ) ( from sb.) || … ( money / food ) from sb.… (245) … `leave (246) … sb’s pardon (249)
began (pat. of begin:48)
beget (vt:377,378,406) begetter (C:378)
beggar (C:113,244)
beggar (vt) sth. … be`lief / de`scriptioin (246) … oneself for sb. (283)
beggarly (adj.) a … person (246) beggary (U:246)
begin (vi&t) … a search (6) sth. … with sth. (16) … to do sth. (30) … doing sth. (118)
to do sth. to … with (119) sth. … at home (122) sb. … a book (1082)
beginner (C:8) a …’s fault (855) beginning (C:76)
bequest (C) to receive a … of £ x (1109)
beguile [ bi`gail ] (vt) … sb. (into doing sth.) (85) begun (v) pa.p. of begin (6)
behalf (U) on sb’s … (56) on … of sb. (234)
behave (vi) … like sth. (10) … ( well / oneself ) (141)
behaviour E/A behavior (U,C) such … (36) sb’s … towards sb. (47) a mode of … (158)
indecent … (179) (an) abandoned … (261) lively / excited / disorderly … (732)
a norm / standard of … (854) to adopt a venal … (1105)
behead (vt) …sb. (698) beheader (C:698)
beheading (U) death by … || to execute sb. by … (698)
behind (prep.) … parliamentary language (7) from … sth. (25) to do sth. … sb’s back (39)
the story … sth. (199) a team is … (302) to be ( the one ) … sth. (534) sth. lies … sth. (fig:612)
to lay / put sth. … you (608 / 668)
behind (C:611)
behold (vt) … sth. (705) sbth. is a sight / joy / pleasure etc. to … (857/ 867)
being (C) a human … (43) a supernatural … (70) an animate … (825)
belated (adj.) a … person (1249)
belatedly (adv.) to arrive … (1249)
Belgae (pl.) the … (215)
belch (vi&t) sb. … (1229) flames / smoke … (out) || sth. … (out) flames / smoke (1236)
belch (C:1229)
beleaguer (vt) … a town (512) beleaguered (adj.) … castle / townsmen (395 / 512)
beleaguerer (C:512)
belfry (C:743) to have bats in one’s … (748)
belief (U,C) (70,94) ( to have ) (a) … ( in sbth.) (44,70) … that- (70)
in / under the (mistaken) … that - (81,94) sth. is / do sth. beyond … (83/98)
it’s one’s (firm) … that - (84) (contrary to) popular … (85) implicit … (91)
sth. shakes / shatters one’s … in oneself (119) true … (1275)
believable (adj:84)
believe (vi&t): norm. no prog. :70,,,94) … sth. to do sth. (3) … (that) - (10) … (in) sbth. (41,70)
to make sb. … that - / in sbth. (82/ 86) sb. who … (85) it’s difficult / hard to … sth. / that - (94)
believed ( pp) (be) … to do sth. (3) (be) … + adj. (72)
its’ (widely) … (that -) || sbth. is … to do sth. (94)
believer (C:70) to be a (great / firm) … in sth. (74)
belittle (vt) … sbth. (561) belittlement (U:541)
bell (C) a … rings (14) sth. rings a few …s (166) as sound as a … (431) a servant’s … (453)
a … pepper (A) (656) a church … || a … tower (743) a … chimes || tubular …s chime (1159)
bell-ringer (C:743)
bellboy (C:103)
bellhop (A) (C:103)
bellows (pl.) to work the … (1235)
bellpull (C:453)
belly (C) to fill one’s … (170) to crawl ( along ) on one’s … (1088) a … button (1228)
… dance || a … dancer (1245)
bellyache (C,U) to suffer from … (1252)
`bellyache (v) … about sth. (631)
bellyaching (adj.) a … person (1251)
belong (vi) … to sb. / sth. (253) … to a club / team (581) … in a place (782)
belongings (pl:119)
beloved (adj.) a … person (380) beloved (C:380)
below (prep.) … the surface / the horizon (102 / 782) to rank next … sb. (191)
belt (C) to wear // * put on / fasten / undo a seat / safety … (64 // * 585)
to wear both … end braces || a …-and-braces policy (290)
to tighten one’s … ( & fig. ) (889)
bench (C:350)
benchmark (C:315)
bend (vi&t) sth. … a rail || a rail … (884) … the truth (1295)
bend (C) a … in a road (332) to overtake on a … (584) a … ( of a rail ) (884) to do knee …s (1070)
to round a … in a road (1119)
beneath (prep.) … the surface ( fig.) (102) it’s … sb. / sb’s dignity ( to do sth.) 186)
in authority … sb. (374) … contempt (480)
Benedictine (N:162)
benefice (C:354)
beneficial (adj.) … for / to sth. (602)
benefit (U,C) to derive … from sth. (49) to reap the …(s) of sth. (168) sickness … (E) (U:779)
fringe …s ( norm. pl.) (785) to sb’s … || of … to sb. (791) to give sb. the … of the doubt (1297)
benefit (vi) … from sth. (183) … by sth. (676)
benevolence (U:1163)
benevolent [ bê`nevêlênt ] (adj.) a … look / smile (448) a … person (469)
benign ( bi`nain ) (adj.) a … person (44) a … augury (72) a …smile (80)
a … influence || in … amusement (448) a … tumor (1308)
benignly (adv.) to smile … (448)
bent (adj.) … on doing sth. (469)
benumb (vt) …ed by cold (1286)
bequeath [ bi`kwi~d / # ] (vt) … sb. sth. (159)
… one’s estate, property etc. to sb. || … sb. one’s estate etc. (1108)
bequest (C) to give sth. as a … (161) to receive a … (1103)
bereaved (adj.) a … person (380)
bereaved (pl.) the … (380)
bereavement (U:380)
bereft (adj:380) Berlin (172)
berry (C) to gather / pick …ies (723)
berth (C) a … ( on a train / a ship ) || a ship sails into a … || to put a ship in a … (563)
to look for a … (1121)
berth (vi&t) …  a ship (563)
beseech ( beseeched / besought, = ) (vt) … sb. ( to do sth. ) (1103)
besides (adv., prep.: 2)
besiege (vt) … a castle / town (395,512) besieged (adj:314) … with (513) besieger (C:512)
best (C) the … of the joke (37) to the … of their knowledge (84) to do one’s … (to do sth.) (816)
best (adj.) … practice (40) … picture (50) … friends (67) … `man (440)
to the … of one’s knowledge (920) a …-seller (125) at … (782)
bestow (vt) … sth. on sb. (1174)
bet (C) sure … (275) sbth. is a good / safe … as / for sth. (fig.) ( 284 / 292 / 309)
the safest / best … is to - (298) it’s a sure … (that) - (309)
betrothed (C) one’s … (543)
betray (vt:283) … oneself (275) to be …ed (427) sth. … the fact that - (457)
… one’s ideals / principles etc. (487 / 548) … sb. / sth. to sb. || … sb’s trust (487)
… one’s presence (504) … sb. into sth. (532)
to be …ed by one’s accent / a bird (519 / 529) … an ambition || … one’s fear (549)
betrayed (adj.) to feel … (544) a … person (adj:547)
betrayal (427,487) … of (sb’s) trust / pledge (545) betrayer (C:427,487)
betrothal (C) breach of … ( to sb.) (548)
betrothed [ bi`trêudd ] (adj.) … to sb. (543)
better (sg.,U) sb. / sth. gets the … of sb. (913 / 920) appeal to one’s … self / nature (920)
better (adj:24) … do sth. (85 to be / get … (458) to go on / do … than sb. (913)
appeal to sb’s … nature / feelings (920 / 1047) sb. had … do sth. (1104)
to get the … of a disease / an illness (1262)
better (vt) … oneself (73) … sb’s lot (1175)
betterment (U) hope of … (73) … for the society (309)
between (prep.) to choose … sth. and sth. (1) … them (399)
beverage (C) an alcoholic … (11)
beware (vi&t, only imp. & inf. ) … ill-advised remarks (141)
bewildered (adj:705)
bewitch (72) bewitching (77)
beyond (prep.) … sth. (an event) (16) sth. is … belief (113) … the bounds / realms of possibility (911)
sth. is … sb. / sb’s powers (948) sth. … one’s years (1305)
Bi
bias (U,sg) have a … in favour of / towards // against sb. (30)
biased / biassed (eE) (adj.) be … in favour of / towards // against sb. (30) … ruling (622)
bib (C:288,325)
bible (C) the ( Hebrew / Christian ) B… (70) a … (104)
biblical (adj:159)
bicker (vi) sb&sb. … ( about / over sth. // at to ) (1168, -70)
bickering (U:1168)
bicker (vi) spl. … (1277)
bicycle (C:297) … lane (A) (297) a … rack (1152)
bid (C) a `takeover … (596)
to invite …s / to submit a … { for /A& on a contract || a rival / competitive … (1147)
bid (bid / bade, bid / bidden) (vi&t) … sb. welcome / sb. good evening etc. (441)
( to invite sb.* ) to … for /A& on a contract (564, * 1147) … to do some work (1147)
biddable (adj.) a … person (1261)
bide (vt) … one’s time (996)
biennial (adj.) a … plant (650)
biennial [ bai `eniêl ] (C) a … lives for two years (650)
big (67) … day (434) … money (604) … sister (67)
bigamy (U:817)
big-bang (C) the … theory (821)`big-head (C:778) big-`headed (adj:778) bigness (U:940)
`bigot (C:841) `bigoted (adj.) … belief / opinion (841) bigotry (U) religious / political … (841)
bike (v:297) bike (C:297) … lane (A) (297) biking (U:297)
bile (U) … pigments (938) black / yellow … (1239) to have much yellow … in ones complexion (1244)
bilge (C ) … water (526)
bill ( banknote:5, poster:90) to pay the … (80) to throw () out / reject a … (23, 815)
to pay an overdue … (109) to sponsor / veto a … (803)
to place a … before Parliament / to introduce a … in P (814) a contents … (826)
billiards (U) to play … (1123)
billiard (adj.) a … table (1123)
bin (C) a dust / litter / rubbish / waste … (E) (29)
bind ( bound, = ) (vi&t) sth. … sb. to do sth. ( 22) sth. … sb. to `chivalrous conduct (153)
… sb. to confidentiality (306)
binding (C,U) a ski … (1155)
binding (adj.) a … agreement / contract ( 93)
binding (C:1269)
binder (C,U) a ring … (875) bindweed (U:273)
binoculars (pl.) to look through (a pair of) … (139)
biographer (C:1304)
biography [ bai`ågrêfi ] (U,C:326)
biology (U:27)
birch (C,U) a … (tree) (859) birchwood ( 887)
bird (67) the … has flown (108) a …’s nest / …s’ nests (331) a game … (1120)
birdcage (C:278)
birth (C,U) date / place of … (103) sb. noble of … (153) within hours of … (158)
to give … to (sb.) || have a premature … || die at … || to do/be sth. from … || a … defect (286)
a … certificate (298) the … canal (459) birthday (33) a … boy / girl (952)
bishop (C:161) king’s / queen’s … (198)
bit (C / a …: adv.) it’s raining a ( little ) … (63) a … of sth. (eE) (199) a … more (199)
a ( little ) … of sth. (252)
a ( drill ) … (574) a … ( for a horse ) (719)
bite ( bit, bitten ) (vi&t) mosquito(e)s … (you) (504) … () `back ( a retort / one’s anger ) (54,* 792)
bite (C:504)
biting (adj.) … wit (466)
bitten ( pp. of bite ) once …, twice shy (35)
bitter (adj.) a … pill to swallow (596) to learn from … experience that - (1248)
bitterly (adv.) to … regret sth. (398)
bitterness (U) a look of … (28) … (of taste) (941) bizarre (105) bizarrly (610) Black(s) (C:629)
Bl
black (adj.) … `magic (71) send sb. a … look (129) the B… Death (360) … `market / market`eer (515)
… people / man / woman / slaves (629) a … eye (633) the B… Hole (of Calcutta) (1034)
sth. is (down) in … and white (1052) put sth. in … and white (1054)
to see an issue in … and white (1056)
black-and-white (adj.) a … decision (1056)
blackberry (C,U) to pick a … (1117)
blackberry (vi) to go …ing (1117)
blackening (C) a gunpowder … (891)
`blackmail (U:60)
black-market /-marketeer (v:516)
blacksmith (C:509,1235)
`blackout (C) a news … (655)
bladder (C) a urine … (937)
blade (C) a saw … (308) a sharp / keen … (875)
blame (vt) … sth. / sb. ( for sth.) (38, 235 / 237,-40) … sth. on sth. (237,-40) … oneself ( for sth.) (238)
sth. is widely …d for sth. (244)
blaize (U) covered with … (1123)
blame (U) to accept / take the … for sth. (24, 241) to put / pin / place the … on sb. / sth. (38, 340)
( where the ) … lies (58, 241) spl. share the … (241)
blameless (adj.) a … life (238) … in a matter (274) blamelessliness (U:241)
blamelessly (adv.) 249)
blameworthy [ `bleimwê~di ] (adj.) … conduct (274)
blank (adj.) a … slake (164)
to draw a … (992)
blanket (C) sb. spreads / throws a … on the ground (32) a … of cloud / mist / haze / fog (235)
to hold a security … || sth. is sb’s security … (fig.) (288)
blare (sg:383,415) blare (vi:383,415)
blas`pheme (vi:691) `blasphemer (C:690) blasphemous (adj:690) blasphemy (U:690)
blast (C) to receive a … ( of criticism ) (621)
blast (vi&t) … sb.! (212) … sb. for sth. (621)
blat (vi&t speech:541) a sheep etc. … (499)
blat (C:580)
blatant (adj.) … disregard (183) … manners (537) … exploitation (538) … poverty (537)
blatantly (adv:538)
blaze (C:306) to tackle / fight / control a … (306)
blaze (vi) a fire … (306) the sun … down (1470)
blazing (adj.) a … sun (685) a … row (709)
bleach (vi&t:76,442) bleach (C,U:442)
bleak (adj.) a … landscape (128) the outlook for sb. is … (159)
bleakly (adv.) a … impressive garden || sb. whispers … || a … lit coridor (128)
bleat (C/vi&t:499,580)
bleed (vi&t) … to death (778)
bleeding (U) to have a severe / heavy / profuse … (1277)
blend (vi&t) … flour and water ( together ) (262) a building … in with its surroundings (1263)
bless (vt) to … sb. || to be …ed with sth. (180)
blessed [ `blesid ] (adj:180)
blind (C) a Venetian … (872)
blind (vt) … sb. ( to sth.) (109)
blind (adj.) to be … || a near-… person (38) … belief / devotion / faith / obedience / trust (81)
to turn a … eye ( to sth.) (206) fortune is … (290) a … bend in a road (332)
blind (adv.) … drunk (951)
blinded (adj.) … by self-exaltation / megalomania (179 / 379)
blindly (adv.) to … follow sb’s orders (90) to … obey a rule (278)
blindness (U) partial … (38)
blink (vi&t) a light … (1111) … away / back one’s tears (1113) … away / back one’s tears (1113)
sb.doesn’t even … || to do sth. before sb. can … (1123)
sb’s eyes … || … one’s eyes || … () away sth. (1151)
blinker (C:324)
bliss (U) sth. is sheer … || celestial / married / wedded / family … (68,100)
blissful (adj.) … ignorance (56) a … smile / time (78 / 89)
blissfully (adv.) … ignorant / unaware (76) … happy (79)
blob (C) a … of snot / cream (759 / 774)
block (vt) … a slot (26) … sb’s view (852) … one’s own way (955) sth. … sb’s way (1078)
sth. … () `up a pipe (1082)
block (C) a … ( of a street ) (416) … `capitals / `letters (656) a … of flats (E) (778)
to lay one’s head on the … (698) put one’s head / neck on the .. for sb. (708) a … of chocolate (863)
I’ll knock your … off (1281)
blockade (vt) … a port (1035) … a land route (1210)
bloke (C) a nice … (44)
blonde (C:76) blond(e) (adj:76)
blood [ blûd ] (U) to make sb’s … boil (65) a … alcohol level (949)
… grouping || a … group /eA type determination || sb. is a … group E || A sb. has a … type (1093)
to give / donate … || a … bank || to bank … (1115) … as a humour (1239)
bloody [ blûdi ] (adj:177)
bloodstream (sg.) bacteria enter the … (1257)
blot (C:439) a … on one’s escucheon / the landscape (441 / 664)
blossom (C,U) a tree covered in … || to be in full … || a pink … (1267)
blotch (C) a … on the skin (1257)
blotting paper (U:492)
blouse (C:64)
blow (vi&t) winds … (6) … the final whistle (30) … sth. off || … () down sth. (628) … () out (sth.) (437)
sth. … a fuse || a fuse … (573) … sth. sky-high (667) … one’s nose (766)
… sth. (up) out of (all) proportion (961) … the assembly (1086) … sb’s socks off (1276)
to … sb’s cover (1293)
blow (C) to exchange (poweful) …s (15) a … with ( the flat of) a sword (152)
to give / strike sb. a … to the head || to land a … on sb’s head / a … lands on sb’s head ||
to receive a (heavy) … to the head || by a (severe) … in the face || by a single … to the jaw (530)
to deal { sb. a … / a .. to sb. (531)
sth. deals / is { a serious / severe / major / shattering / devastating / bitter … to sb. / sb’s confidence ||
sth. deals / is a final … to sb’s career || sth. is a final … for sb’s career (950)
sb. comes to …s with sb. || spl. come to …s over sth. (960)
to knock sb. out with a hammer … (fig.) (1176) sth. deals a death … to sb’s career (1277)
sth. comes as a shattering … to sb. || sth. is a grievous … (1283)
blue (adj.) … eyes (75) to vanish into the … (108) navy … (1234) to feel … (1242)
blueprint (C:404)
blues (U, pl.) to get the … || to suffer from baby … (pl:288)
bluestone (C:214)
bluff (C,U) a cliff forms a … (1116) to fall for sb’s … (1133) to call sb’s … (1135, -88)
bluff (adj.) a … person (1123)
bluff (vi&t) to … it out || … sb. into ( doing ) sth. (1133) … one’s way + adv. (1135)
blunder (C:38) to make a … (196)
blunt (vt) … a weapon (154, 387)
blunt (adj.) a … weapon (154,381) bluntly (adv.) to put it … (766)
blur (vi&t) tears … sb’s eyes / vision || sb’s eyes / vision … (839)
blush (C) spare sb’s …es (279)
blush (vi) … ( scarlet ) ( with embarrassment ) ( at sth.) (750) to feel oneself … / …ing (958)
bluster (vi&t:225,239,&speech:241)
bluster (U:240)
blustering (adj.) … weather / winds / waves (225) a … person (228)
blustery (adj.) weather / winds / conditions (225)
Bo
boar (18) wild … (676)
board (vi&t) … a plane || a plane is …ing (763 || 776) … a train (1152)
board (C,U) to go by the … (85) chess>…(198) to give notice of … meeting || chairman of the … (330)
director of the … (593) … of elections (A) (809) President of the B… of Trade (812) a `diving … (1081)
boarder (255) boarding (U) … (=getting on a plane) (776) a … house (255) a … pass / (E&) card (776)
boast (vi&t & speech 377) … a glory (363) … ( about / of sth. // that - ) (375)
boat (224) bob (C:877)
bobby (C) a `… pin (867)
bode (vi) a sign … well / bad / ill ( for sbth.) (73)
bodily (adj.) … harm (621) a … need / sensation (936) sb’s … state (944)
body (C,U) a legislative … (1) a … search (6) a celestial / heavenly … (821)
a (vast) … of facts / works (934 / 952) a foreign … (1055) a healthy / sound … (1263) a … bag (1279)
bodyguard (C:144)
bodywork (U:31)
bog (C,U:139,356)
boggy (adj.) … ground (134)
bogus (adj:358)
bohemian (C:171)
bohemian (adj.) … crowd / existence (605)
Bohr (N) Niels Henrik David … (1169)
boil (C) bring sth. to / be on { the / a … (E/A) || have a … (722)
boil (vi&t) ( to make ) sb’s blood … (`up) || sb’s temper … over (65)
to keep the pot …ing || what it all … down to is - (722)
… `down || … () down sth. || … sth. down to sth. (&fig.) || … water / food / a pot, kettle etc. ||
water / food / a pot, kettle etc. … || liquid … away / over (722+)
… () `up food || a pan … over / dry || … an egg for sb. || … sb. an egg (723)
… over with emotion etc. (724)
tempers / a crowd … over || anger / a situation … up (731)
boiled (adj.) a … sweet (777)
boiler (C:727) a … suit (727)
boiling (adj.) … waves (720) … (hot) day // sun / weather / temperature || … heat (722 // 884)
… water || a … ( hot ) soup (723)
boiling point (C,U) the … (of water) (722) the tension reaches … (U) (890) boisterous (171)
bold (adj.) … advice (7) … person (28) bold (U) print sth. in … (type) (1054)
boldface (U) print sth. in … (type / print) (513)
bollard (660) Bologna (172) bolster up (one’s influence) (539)
bolt (C) to screw a nut onto a … (31) crossbow and … (381)
bolt (vi&t) a horse … (719)
bomb (C) a … threat (68) a … shelter (667) a … impact (1088)
bombard (510) … sb. with questions (688)
bomber (C:667)
bombing (C,U) … target (667) bond (v:569)
bond (C:436, money:292) …s of `matrimony (439) a ionic [ai`ånik ] / covalent [ kou`valênt ] … (569)
to release on … (292)
bond(s)man / <woman (C:231)
bondage (U) to have sb. in … (231)
bone (C,U) a … in a leg (321) to feel in one’s …s that - || to feel it in one’s …s (968)
bonfire (C:29) bonnet (E) (C:768)
bonus (C:779)
boo (booed) (vi&t) sb. …(400,914) … sb. off the stage (949)
boo (excl.,C) … from sb. (400) sb. won’t say … to a goose (724)
book (C:4) B…s of Moses (70)
to skim ( through ) / leaf through a … || to dip into a … (143)
a … on / about sth. || at / in the front of a … (849) sth. suits one’s / sb’s …s (E) (1098)
book (vi&t) … ( a seat ) (277) to get …ed up / fully …ed (726)
bookcase (C:30)
booking (C,U) a … clerk (64) lack of …s (68) … office (E) (69)
bookkeeping (U:168)
booklet (C:2)
bookloving (adj.) a … public (1072) bookseller (C:875) bookshop (C:5,875)
boom (vi&t) thunder … (436)
boom (C) a ( feverish* ) … in economy (997,1206* )
booming (adj.) … trade (1206)
boor (C:1142)
boorish (adj.) a … person (1142)
boorishly (adv.) to behave … (1142)
boost (vt) … one’s influence (539)
boot (C) a pair of ( shooting * ) …s (198+) a car … (319) hiking / walking …(s) (762)
bootlicker (C:1106)
bootlicking (U:1105)
booth (C) a market … (266) a lottery / second-hand ... (579)
booty (U:224)
booze (U:605) boozer (C:261) boozing (U:385)
border (vi&t) sth. … on sth. (fig.) (186) inclines … the marsh (1117)
border (C) a … ( between countries ) (314) a … ( on a piece of cloth ) (1246)
border-seeker (C:1248)
border-seeking (adj.) a … person (1248)
bore (C) sb. is a real … (261) bore (vi&t) sb. … sb. (261)
bored (adj.) … ( stiff / to death / tears / out of one’s mind ) with (doing) sth. (261)
boredom (U:449) feel … (944)
boring (adj.) a … part (13) a … person (261)
born (pp. o. pas, without by) a new>… baby (36) a tradition is … (165)
to be … into the lower class (174) as (if) to the nabber … (180) to be … with a defect (286)
born (adj.) a … sceptic (87) sb’s first>… ( child ) (287)
borne (pap. of bear:555)
borough (C:149,406) … council (623) a pocket / rotten … (1182)
borrow (vi&t) … (heavily) || … sth. (from sb.) (28,292)
borrower (C:96)
borrowing (U,C) a … ( as a word ) (1217)
bosom (C) a(n) ample / full … (611) a … friend / pal / A& byddy (616) in the … of sb. (616)
–bosomed (adj.) broad–… (611)
boss (C:9,213)
botany (U:195)
both [ bêu# ] (det., pron.) they … do sth. (5)
both (con.) … sbth. and sbth. (5)
bother (U) to save sb. { a lot of … / the … of doing sth. (319+)
bother (vi&t) sb. … sb. (337)
bothered (adj.) sb is (all) hot and … (788) to be … with sth. (868)
bottle (C) to go / take to the … (60) to … feed (sb.) || to suck milk from a baby’s /E& feeding … ||
a … baby || an animal sucks milk from a feeding E/A nursing … (1230)
bottle-feeding (U:1230)
bottom (28, part of body:611) the … line is that - (167)
to get to the … of a crisis etc. || sth. is / lies at the … of a crisis etc. (600)
to / on the … of the sea / ocean (662) to be ok at … (986) the … of a cliff (1119)
bottoms (pl.) tracksuit … (634)
bough [ bau ] (C:529)
bought (pat. / pap. of buy) to have … a ticked (277)
boulder (C:678)
bouncer (C) a baby … (1230)
bound (pap. / adj.) sb. is … to do sth. (22) to be … to confidentiality (306) sth. is … to do sth. (425)
bound (C) beyond / within the …s of possibility (911) a place is out of `…s (to / for sb.) (920)
sth. knows no …s (964) to overstep the …s of truth (1295)
bounden (adj.) a / sb’s … `duty (736)
bounder (C:274)
boundless (adj.) a … will (1096)
bouquet [ bu`kei ] (C) bridal / wedding … (758)
bourgeois [ `buê§wa~ / `§wa~ ] (adj.) … mentality (169) a petit / petty … mentality (200)
bourgeois (C, = pl.) a ( petit / petty ) … (200)
bourgeoise [ `buê§wa~z / -`§wa~z ] (C, = pl. 200)
bourgeoisie [ buê§wa~`zi~ ] (sg.+ sg. / pl.) the ( petit / petty ) … (200)
bout (C) a boxing … (14) an eating and drinking … (236)
bow [ bau ] (vi&t:375)
bow [ bêu ] (C:381) a … and arrow (381) a … tie (758) to have … legs (1266)
bow [ bau ] (C) the …(s) ( of a ship ) (1129)
bowels [ bauêls ] (pl:524) empty the … (542)
bowl [ bêul ] (C:235) a salad // fruit / sugar … (890 // 1317)
bow-legged (adj.) to be … (1266)
bowler (C, cricket:633)
box (C:105) a dice … (8) a … of bibles / matches (106 / 617) a witness … (E) (710) a … room (782)
a call (E/A) phone … (1079)
`box office (C) a (huge) … hit / success || a (big) … draw (855) … takings (902)
boxer (14) … shorts (pl:760)
boxing (U) a … champion / championship / meeting (632)
boy (C:20)
boyish (adj.) do … tricks (724)
Br
bra (C:760)
braces (E) (pl.) to wear both belt and … || a belt-and-… policy (290)
bracket (C) a tax … || to put sth. in (round E/E square) …s (411) … lamp (572)
brag (vi & speech:377) … ( to sb.) ( about / of sth. // that - ) (375)
bragging (U:275)
braid (U, eA:C) have ones hair in a … / …s (758)
brain (C:28) (one’s) … reels (454) to have …s (358) to rack one’s …(s) (755)
braindead (adj:639)
brake (C) … light (586) a … pedal (584) to jam on / slam on the …s (331)
to put on / apply the …s (584)
brake (vi) … sharply / hard (584)
bramble (C,U) …s grow here and there || to pick a … (1117)
branch (of candlestick:443) to cut off the … you’re sitting on (606) a … of a company (763)
a … of philosophy (924)
brand (C) an inferior … (7) a … of a drink || sth. of best … (853)
to have one’s own … of humour (1247)
branded (adj.) … goods (878)
brandy (1158)
brash (adj:740)
brat (C) a spoiled / spoilt … (131) bratty (adj.) a … kid (131)
brave (adj.) a … deed (155) a … person (236) to put on a … front (833) bravely (adv:236)
bravery (U) skills and … (236)
brawl (C) to get into a drunken … (300)
brawn (U) to have sb’s … without his brains (358) to cook … (E) (725)
bray (C:499)
bray (vi:499) … with laughter (536)
braying (adj.) ( in a ) … voice (540)
breach (C,U) a … of the peace (23) a … of security (306) a … of promise (545)
sb. is in … of the constitution / a law (556) sb. is in … of contract (1147)
breach (vt) … a rule (390)
bread (U) a … roll (77) to bake … || a loaf / slice of … (62)
breadcrumbs (pl:79)
breadded (adj.) a … cutlet (79)
breadth (C,U:321)
break (C,U) the … at half time (25) to take / have a … (271)
at / after ( lunch ) … ( at school ) (E) (724)
break (vi&t) … the law (15) … the peace (23) war … out (24) … a promise (98)
sth. … () `down an organization || a system … `down (149) an empire … up (217) … an egg (448)
… the ice (449) … sth. in two (531) … a fast (657) … one’s arm (639)
a wave … on a sandbar / the shore (662) sb. … down (831) a storm / the weather … (859)
… a door open (1137)
breakdown (C,U) a nervous … (99) a … of government (149) the … of a system (160)
breaker (C) a … with its surf / the …s on the shore (662) an auto / a car … (1122)
breakeryard (C:1122)
breaking-up (U) a … ceremony (580)
breakfast (C,U) to throw oneself on one’s … (30) bed and …(s) (77)
to have / eat ( a light / big / large / hearty / cooked / English / Continental ) … || to have sth. for …(77)
breakneck (adj.) at … speed (577)
breakthrough (C:654)
breast (v) … the tape (638)
breast (C:111) … milk (424) a … pocket (758) a … milk substitute (E) (1230)
breast-feed (vi&t:288)
breath (C,U) to struggle for … (250) to save one’s … (264) short of … (458) under one’s … (536)
sb’s … comes in short / shallow {gasps // pants (839 // 863) to gasp for … (863)
to take a ( *deep ) … (888,*891) ( to get ) out of … (961) at the same … (1041) with bated … (1228)
breathe (vi&t) … a sigh of relief (118) … heavily (437) … at a fast pace (458) … () in / out (sth.) (888)
to recover one’s … (1287)
breather (C) a heavy… (437)
breathing (U) sb’s … returns to normal (250) heavy / laboured … (437/ -58) sb’s … eases (458)
a … space (1176)
breathtaking (adj.) … virtuosity (450)
-bred (adj.) an ill-… child (1246)
breed (vi&t) animals … (140) … plants / animals (144) … stock (558) … fish (1125)
breeding (adj.) … animal (18) … stock (U) (144) … ground (404)
breeding (U) ill … (1246)
breeze (C) a light / summry … (435+)
a slight (force 2) / gentle (3) / moderate (4) / fresh (5) / strong (6) … (661)
Brethonic (adj:215)
brethren (pl.) the weaker … (486)
brevity (520)
brew (vi&t) a storm is … ing (436) trouble / war is …ing (503) there is something … (549)
bribe (C:604) offer / give / accept / take a … / …s (788)
bribe (vt) … sb. (with sth.) / ( to do / into doing sth.) (787)
bribery (U:605)
brick (C,U) to do sth. like a ton of …s(407) a … (441) to be up / run one’s head against a … `wall (601)
a sun-baked mud … (1303)
brickwork (U:858)
bridal (adj.) … wear / veil / bouquet (758)
bride (C) a … of sb’s choice (67)
bride (C) a …’s maid (440) a …-to-be (434)
bridegroom (C) a … of one’s dreams (68)
bridesmaid (C:285)
bridge (C) to throw a … over sth. (29)
bridge (vt) … a river (216)
bridle (C:719)
brief (C: lawyer (E) / lagal case (E):626) to give sb. the … of doing sth. || it’s sb’s .. to do sth. (509)
to stick to one’s … (518) to hold no … for sb. (523) a pair of …s (610)
brief (adj.) a … peace (24) in … (506) a … summary (507) a … time (518)
a … moment / pause / silence (520) to be … (521) a … life (541)
brief (v) … sb. (about / on sth.) (518) … sb. to do sth. (522)
briefing (C,U:518) briefly (26,255,521)
brigadier general (191)
bright (adj.) a … smile (32) a … person (43) a … colour (77) a … spell (116) … light (603)
the … `lights (602)
brighten (vi&t) the sun … ( up  ) the sky || the sky … (up) (116)
a business outlook … (up) || a business outlook … ( up ) (143)
sb. // sb’s face / eyes … (up) (1092)
brightly (adv.) to smile … (32) to … say hello (134) the sun shines … (435) a … lit room / castle (443)
sth. is … painted (1303)
brilliant (adj:302) brilliantly (adv:302) brilliance (U:359)
brim (vi) a treasure … (1003)
brim (C) … (of a hat) (758) (wide)-brimmed (adj.) a … hat (441)
brimstone (U,C) fire-and-… preacher (742)
bring (brought, = ) (vt) … () `out sth. (24) … sb. into sth. (26) … () `about sth. (151)
sb. … with them sth. (213) to … knowledge of sth. (214) sth. … in a good deal of money (281)
to … () up a child || … () back a memory (289) … () down a king (358)
… sb. out of action (531) sth. … () in a sum (1267)
brink (C) to be on / get to / bring sb. to { the … of collapse / an abyss / a precipice ( fig. ) (61,465, 784)
to pull sbth. back from the … ( of sth.) (784) the … of cliff / bluff / precipice / precipitous slope (1117)
on the … of doing sth. (1124) to be ( teetering ) on the … of collapse // death / the grave (1134 // -38)
brinkmanship (U:1188)
brisk (adj.) … trade (873)
bristly (adj.) … hair (1122)
Britain, Briton (215) British Isles (N:224)
brittle (adj.) … star (C:651)
broach (vt) … the subject of sth. ( to / with sb.) (407)
broad (adj.) a … grin (32) a … hint (34) …-bosomed (611) a … term (1263)
broadly (adv:182)
broadcast (vi&t) … (sth.) (live) (619) … the fact that (fig:621) broadcast (C:126) a news … (619)
broadcasting (U) a B… House (576) … company / corporation (619) … media (625)
broaden (vi&t) … one’s horizon (1082)
broadsheet (C:625)
broadside (C:1012)
brochure (C:75)
broil (A) (vt:794) broiler (A) (C:794) … (chicken) (794)
broiling (A) (adj.) … (hot) sun / weather / temperature / day || … heat (884)
broke (pred. adj.) to be … (244) to go for … || to be ( flat / stone // dead ) … (702 // 704)
broke (pat:149)
broken (v:12) broken (adj:321) … arm (639) … stones (562) (in) … English (771)
broken-down (adj:31)
bromine (567)
bronchial (adj.) a … tube (766)
bronze (U:214) the B… Age (214)
brood (vi&t) … over / on / about sth. (1071) a bird … (its eggs) (1077)
broody (adj.) to feel … (1085)
brook (C) a tributary / babbling … (658 / 983)
broth (C;U) too many cooks spoil the … (448)
brothel (C:1245)
brother-in-law (C:343)
brotherliness (U:183)
brought (pat. / pap. of bring:42)
brow [ brau ] (C) to knit one’s …(s) || the … of a hill (10) sb’s … furrows / creases / wrinkles (41)
to mop / wipe ( the sweat from ) one’s … (54) to wrinkle (up) one’s … (274)
brownie (C) to earn / score / win … points (850) a … ( in a fairytale ) (1238)
bruise (C:625,656)
bruise (vi&t) … (a part of) the body (624) … sb’s feelings (629) … fruit (656)
to suffer …d ribs (625) feel …d / suffer a …d ego (633)
bruiser (C:632)
bruising (U) to suffer internal … (625)
bruising (adj.) a … experience (645)
buck (C) to aim at a … (199) to make a fast … (603) … naked (A) (764)
buckle (C/v:582) brown (adj:441)
Bruce (N) Robert … ()356)
brunch (C,U:453)
brush (C,U) to be tarred with the same … (117) a shaving … (299) a stroke of the … (871)
a broad / fine ( paint>) … (875) to paint a story with a broad … (1304) a … stroke (1305)
brush (vt) … () `aside critisism etc. (57) … () `up one’s French || … up on one’s French (141)
… () away a hair (1110)
brusque [ bru~sk / brusk E/A brûsk (adj.) a … tone (1129)
brutal (adj.) … regime (678) … murder (711)
brutality (C,U) the … of sb. (152)
brutally (adv.) … suppressed (16)
brute (C:371)
brute (adj.) … force || a … person (371) … facts (387)
Bu
bubble (C) a ( finance ) … bursts (784)
bubo (C:1257)
bubonic [ bju~`bånik ] (adj.) … plague (360)
buccaneer (C:139)
buck (C) … naked (A) (758) look / feel like a million `…s (988) bucket (387)
buckle (C) a …(of a rail) 884) buckle (vi&t) sth. … a rail || a rail … (884)
bud (17) a taste / gustatory … (941) Buddha, Buddhism (71) Buddhist (83) budding (adj:542)
buddy (C:616)
budget (C,U) a … balances (28) to draw () up a … (255)
buffalo (U,C:558)
buggy (C) a ( baby ) … (E/A) (1230)
bugle (C:1086) bugler (C:1086)
build ( built, = ) (vi&t) … a canal / a road / a hotel (18 / 29 / 69) … () up one’s hopes (111)
sb’s attitude is … on cynicism (185) … () up a team (201) tension … up at work (297)
… up a picture of sth. (1310)
build (U,C:421)
builder (C: person:168, & company:560) a speculative … (784)
building (13) … site (565) … society (E) (291) a … contractor (560)
built ( pat. / pap. of build ) (18)
bulb (C) a (light) … goes (572) a bare / naked … (770)
bulge (vi) sb’s eyes … (572) sb’s belly … (out) (1228)
bulge (C) the battle of the … (657)
bulk (C) the great … (1005)
bull (C) an angry / a mad … (267)
bulldog (C) a B… clip (875)
bullet (C) to be hit by a … (1088) a … hole (1279)
bulletin (C) a news … (655)
bullock (794)
bullseys (C) to hit the … (992) bullshit (447) bully (C:364)
bully (vt) … sb. ( * into (doing) sth.) (821, * 844)
bulwark [ `bulwêk ] (395) … against sth. (397)
bum (adj:591) … rap (591) to give / get a … deal (612) … (part of the body) (A) (657)
bum (part of the body(E):611, person (A):613) get / put …s on seats (E) (609)
bum (v) … a`round / about || … sth. (off sb.) (613)
bump (vi&t) … into / against sbth. (249 / 915) … one’s head / arm (against / on sth.) (915)
… into sb. (fig.) (951) … sb. out (fig.) (966) sth. … sb. `off the market / into unemployment (969)
… sth. up the stairs (981)
… a passenger (989) … () `up prices (990) a car … along / its way (991) … () `off sb. (994)
bump (C) do sth. with a … || a … (on the body) (388) things that go … in the `night (913)
a … in the road / on one’s head (949) a loud … || give sb. the …s (952) be involved in a … (991)
bumper (attr. adj.) a … issue (of a newspaper etc.) (988) a … crop / harvest (991) a `… car (992)
bumper (C) cars are … to … (991)
bumper-to-bumper (adj.) … traffic (991)
bumpkin (10,379)
bumptious (adj.) a … person (966) bumptiously (adv.) behave … (966) bumptiousness (U:966)
bumpy (adj.) a … road / drive // ride (949 // 991) give sb. / have a … `ride / time (fig.) (950)
bun (C) have / wear one’s hair in a … (758)
bunch (C) wear one’s hair in …s (758)
bungle (vt) … a project (186)
bunion (C:142)
bunk (vi) … off ( school / work ) (333 / 596)
bunk (C) a … ( on a train / a ship ) (563)
bunker (C) a golf …(1231)
bouy (vt) …ed (up) by one’s humour (1248)
buoyancy (U) a sensation of … (1046)
burden (C) a debt … (109) an interest … (135) sb. is a … on / to sb. (182)
a tax … || ( a heavy ) … of taxation (412+) to spread the … / heavy load (427)
sth. is a heavy … to bear / carry (430) (bear / carry a heavy) … of responsibility (431)
(the) … of a speech (454) … of proof (531) … of sin (540) (heavy) (bear the) … of war (497)
(beast of) … (498) a ponderous … (1084)
burden (vt) … sb. / oneself ( with worry ) (429)
burdened (adj.) to be … by / with self-blame (269) sb. is … with a heavy tray (446)
sb’s memory is … by / with sth. (454)
burdensome (adj:487)
bureaucracy [ bjuê`råkrêsi ] (U,C:155)
burger (C) a veggie … (794)
burgess (C) a … class (149)
burglar (C:301) burglary (C,U:301)
burial [ `beriêl ] (U,C380) a … plot (720) a … ceremony / service (757)
burlesque [ bê~`lesk ] (C:27,609) burlesque (adj:609)
burn (C) a gunpowder … (891)
burn (vi&t) wood … (30) … a town (218) sb’s eyes … darkly (477) … foodstuffs (888)
to feel one’s eyes …ing (949)
burner (C) a ( gas ) … (564)
burning (adj.) a … interest (98)
burning (adv.) … hot (313)
burnt (pat. / pap..of burn)
burp (vi) sb. … (1229)
burp (C:1229)
burst (vi&t) … into ( peals of ) laughter (39) … out laughing (97) …. in (up)on (392)
a bubble … (fig:784) … into flame(s) (667) … sth. (677) sb. … out,‘ speech.’ (1143)
… with confidence (1101)
bury [ `beri ] (213) … oneself in prayer / work (228) …ied in a book (464) to be …ied in private (746)
bus (C:31) … service (333) to get on / off a … || to be on a … (587) a … load E/A <load (587)
busstop (C:51)
bush (C) to hide in the …s (13)
bushel (C) to hide one’s light under a `… (420)
business (C,U) … connection / lunch (78) ( doing ) sth. is … business (255) to run a … (258)
it’s sb’s … to do sth. || the … of doing sth. (455) to get down to … (577) to mind one’s own … (748)
a … trip (786) to carry on a … (860)
businesspeople (pl:78)
bust (C) a … of sb. (1263)
bust (adj.) sb. goes … (784)
busy (vt) … sb’s mind in sth. (365)
busy [ `bisi ] (adj.) sb’s … occupation (27) a … signal (93) to keep one’s mind … (116)
to be … at work (163) a … time (197) ( to be / * get ) … doing sth. (268, * 508) a … road (582)
busyness (U:268)
but (conj:2) sth. is anything but - (245)
butcher (C:355,580) a …’s (shop) E/A … shop (874)
butcher (vt) … an animal / … people (580 / 861)
butchery (U) the misfortune of … (232)
`buthane (570)
butt (C) a cigarette … (318) a riffle … (1088)
butt (vt) … a cigarette (318)
butter (vt) know on which side your bread is …ed (956)
butter (U:18)
butterfinger (C:448)
butter-fingered (adj.) a … person (448)
buttermilk (U:18)
buttock (C:611) ample / full …s (1245)
button (C) to press / push / punch a … (29)
to do up / undo one’s …s E/A to button / unbutton one’s …s (300)
to wear a … (eA) (758)
to push / (eE) press (all) the (right) `…s || to push / press sb’s …s (1056)
a belly / tummy … (1228)
button (vt) … (up) a dress (265) … the / one’s buttons (300)
sth. … (up) (at the front * / * back ) (300 *, 657, * 660) … (up) a coat (581)
buttonhole (C:265)
buttress (C:375) buttressed (adj:357)
butyric acid (U:570)
buxom (adj:232)
buy (vi&t) … sth. (26) … sb. sth. (44) sb. able to … (672)
buy (C) an expensive impulse … (96) buyer (C:255)
buzz (v:504)
By
by (adv. / prep:1)
bygones (C) let … be … (836)
bystander (C:114)
byway (C:4)
Byzantine [ bai`zantain / bi- / -ti~n // `bizênti~n ] (adj:927) By`zantium (N:926)
Cc
Ca
cab (184)
cabal [ kê`bal ] (C) the C… (1024)
cabaret (C,U:48)
cabbage (C,U:79) a head of … (723)
cabin (C) carry / take sth. with you in the … (762)
cabinet (C) a government / shadow … (803) a … meeting (813)
a cabinet-maker (C:574)
cable (C:31) a … car (1157)
cack-handed (adj.) a … person (448)
cad (C:261)
caddy (C) a ( tea ) … (E) (453)
cadet [ kê`det ] (C:195)
Caesar (N:215)
Caesarian section (459)
cafe (C) a pavement E/A sidewalk … (991)
cage (C:278)
cage (vt) … sb. (up) (278) caged (adj:278,287)
cagey (adj.) to be … (about sth.) (280)
cajole (vi&t) … sb. into / out of sth. (34 / 37)
cajolery (C:34)
cake (C,U) (a) chocolate … (67) a fish … (793)
calamity (U,C:628) calamitous (628)
calcareous (adj:213)
calcine (vi&t) …d gypsum (1154)
calcium (U) … carbonate (213)
calculable (687)
calculate (vt) … the cost(s), etc (64,687) … the economic prospects (135)
… on sth. || … on sb./ sth. doing sth. (685) … (that) - || … sth. (and make it sth.) (687)
… to do sth. (688) … whxx (689)
calculated (adj.) … attempt / question // look / risk (684 / 688 // 702) calculatedly (adv:689)
calculating (adj.) … questioning / look (688 / 702) calculatingly (adv:689)
calculation (37) work () `out / make a … (687) cold … (702) political / religious … (716)
calculus (U) … of probability (188) the … (1170)
calendar (C:159)
call (C) to give / return a (phone) … (66,340) a religious … (372)
to make / receive a … || an alarm / emergency … || a deluge of …s (576)
not much / little … for sth. (598) to feel a …(ing) to do sth. (682) to pay / make (sb.) a … (on sb.) (738)
to be out on a (duty) … (741) ( to feel ) the … of nature (938) a … box (E) (1079)
to pay a sick … on sb. (1254)
call (v) … () `off a search. (6) … sb. sth. ( to be …ed sth.) (26) … sb. into action (50)
… a meeting / an election (57/ 803+) … () `off sth. (58) … sb. || … () `in sb. (114)
… (up)on sb. to do sth. (298,491) … attention to sth. (305) to feel …ed (up)on to do sth. (753)
sth. … for sth. (597) … at a place (ship:659) a hastily …ed meeting (827) … () to mind sth. (977)
the army … () `up sb. (1086) to be …ed to the Bar (E) (1127) … sb. over to a place (1238)
calling (C) a … card (A) (984)
callous (adj.) a … person (546) a … treatment (577) a … conscience (943)
a … disregard for sb’s feelings (956)
`call-up (U,C) … papers (E) (1086)
calm (sg.,U) the … of a place (227) an air of … about sb. (267)
calm (vi&t) … sb. || … () down (267)
calm (adj:107) … day (no wind:435) … sea (661)
calmly (adv.) take it … (994)
calves (pl. of calf:499)
calorie (C:442)
Calvinism (U:931)
Cambridge (1)
camera (C:26) …-shy (49) a … man (50)
camisole (C:760)
camouflage (vt:504) to be well …d (1132)
camp (C,U) in a … (204) to set up / pitch / make … (205) to breake / strike * … (206, *&792)
an army … (207) a … hospital (1089)
camp (v:205) to go …ing (291) campfire (501)
campaign [ kam`pein ] (vi) … against / for sth. / to do sth. (316)
campaign (C) a … against sth. (9) a road safety … (301) an election … (309)
(a) … manager / team / funds / money / finances (310)
to launch / mount / run a … ( for sth.// against sth. / to do sth.) (310 // 316)
a presidential … (807) a plan of … (919) a press … (1057)
campaigner (310) a … against / for sth. (316)
campground A/E <site (C:205, 291)
camping (U) going … (291) … gear (582)
campsite E/A <ground (C:205, 291)
can (v: 2)
can (C) a garbage / trash … (A) (29)
ca`nal (C:18) canard (60)
cancel (vi&t) … sth. (for lack of sth.) (62,68) cancer (293)
candelabra / <brum (C:443)
candidacy (98)
candidate [ `kandidêt ] (C) a likely … for a job (56) to stand as a … for a post (99)
to be a … for a disease (617) a … for election (802) a … for confirmation (755)
to stand as a presidential … ( 804)
candidature (U,C:98)
candidia (U:1258)
candle (C:427) candlestick (C:443) candlelight (U:443)
candour (U:197)
candy (U,C) (a) … (772)
cane (C,U) … sugar (571)
Canis (C) … Major (995)
canister (C) a coffee / tea … (453)
cannabis (U:605)
canned (adj.) … food (1223)
cannot (2) … but (36)
cannon (C:499)
canon (C:49)
canopy (C) to stand under a … (363) a … of trees ( 866) a … of a pram E/A baby carriage (1230)
cantankerous (adj.) a … person (960)
canter (vi&t) a horse … (719)
Canterbury (N) The … Tales (172)
cantor (C:744)
Canute (N:342)
canvas (U,C) ( to consider sth.) under a broader / wider / larger … (407) a … by some artist (442)
made of … (498) to spend the night under … (E) (501)
cap (C) a … ( with a peak ) (39) an ice … (647) a fool’s / dunce’s … (1234)
capability (C,U:203)
capable (144) … of bearing `arms (509)
capacious (adj:659)
capacity (C,U) an advisory … || to rely on one’s own … (136) a … to do sth. (165)
to do sth. in one’s official … (713)
seating … (904) to the limit of one’s … (953) financial … (996)
to be filled to … || a … crowd (of xxx ) (1057) the … of one’s stomac (1251)
cape (C) C… Canavaral / Kennedy (671) caper (C:794)
capital (adj.) a … offence / crime (194) … punishment (202) a … letter (642)
capital ( town:23, money:292, column:357)
to write in ...s (642) block `…s (656) Das C… (1198)
`capitalist (& capita`listic ) (adj.) a … society (168) a … system (933)
capitalize (vt) … on sb’s weak will (97)
caprice [ kê`pri~s ] (C,U) the … of fortune (290) the …s of a person (334)
capricious (adj.) a … person (336) a … storm (437)
capsize [ kap`zais E/A `kap - ] (vi&t) …  a ship (662)
capsule (C:648) captain (C:191)
captivate (vt) sbth. … sb. (1066)
captivating (adj.) a … account (922)
captive (C:231)
captive (adj.) to be taken … (511)
capture (U) to evade … (110) the … of an electron (569)
capture (vt) … sb’s attention / interest (80 / 588) … a person / soldier (110 / 511)
an atom … an electron (569) … an animal ( in a trap ) (676) … a colour (871)
car (C) to drive a … (31) an estate … (129) a … park (325)
to get in / out (of a …) || to ride in / travel in a … || to go by / travel by … || to go in the … (585)
a dining / E& restaurant / sleeping … || a ( rail> / box> / freight ) … (A) (630) a cable … (1157)
carb = carbohydrate (U,C) fats and …s (416)
car`bamide (U:938)
carbohydrate [ ka~bêu`haidreit ] (U,C) fats and …s (416) ( the formula for ) … (571)
carbon (U,C) a … content (443) ( the element ) … (568) … mon`oxide / di`oxide (570)
carbonate (U) calcium … (213)
car`bonic ``acid (U:570)
card (C,U) a … game || a playing … || to play …s || a set / suit / pack E/A deck of …s (9)
to be made of … (E) (17) to hold a trump … || to play one’s trump … (& fig.) (100)
to show the yellow / red … to sb. || sb. is shown the yellow / red … (400)
a ( visiting /A& calling ) … (984) a … ( for carding wool etc.) (1128)
card (vt) … wool (1128)
cardboard (U:17)
cardinal (C) a … ( number ) (1220)
cardinal (adj.) a … number (1220) the four … humours / temperaments (1239)
care (vi) … about sb. (6) … to do sth. (102)
care (U,C) exercise great … (6) with little … for sth. (15) the …s of office (23)
to take … (that) - / to do sth. (25 / 305) not have a … in the world (31)
throw … to the wind (46) residential `… (69) to take (good) … of sth. (228) with meticulous … (340)
intensive … ( unit ) ( ICU ) (419) hospital … (1110)
career [ kê`riê [ (C) …s adviser / officer (E) || … counselor (A) || … guidance (3)
careerist (C:537)
careerist (adj.) a … person (537) carefree (429)
careful (adj.) … in one’s choice (3) … with one’s work (340) … with money (619) carefully (adv:5)
careless (adj.) a … person (49) … of safety (622) carelessly (adv:42)
caretaker (E) (C:792)
cargo (C) a … ship (659)
caricature [ `karikêt$uê ] (U,C:27)
caricaturist (C:1234)
carillion (C) a … chimes (1159)
caring (adj.) a … behaviour / person (280)
carnage [ ka~nid§ ] (U:1204)
carnal (adj.) a … desire (228) carnival (A) (578) Carolingian (171)
carousal [ kê`rauzêl ] (C,U) to indulge in … || to participate in a …(1098+)
carouse [ kê`rauz ] (v) sb. … (with sb.) (1099,1101)
carousel [ karê`sel ] (C) a ride on a … (eA) (992)
carpenter (C:138) carpentry (574)
carpet (vt) snow … the ground || the street is …ed in / with snow ||
sth. is …ed throughout / in a colour (782) … sb. for sth. (784)
carpet (C,U) a … beater (297) to sweep / brush a problem etc. under the … (760) a … of snow (782)
a wall-to-wall / (E&) fitted … || a … fitter / shop / dealer (782) (hard-wearing) … (U:782)
be / get called on the … (A) (784) roll out the red … || give sb. the red … treatment (786)
carpeting (U,C) wall-to-`wall … (U:782) a … (E) (784)
carriage (C:442) (railway) … (E) (630)
carrier (C) a dispatch … (492) an aircraft / escort … (668) a disease … (1253)
carrot (C:723)
carry (vt) … () `out a search / threat / a task (6 / 60 / 258) … `on doing sth. (17)
… sth. to an extreme (23) sth. … an obligation (161) … on regardless (197) … sb. off (231)
… on (with sb.) (378) to let oneself be …ied away (445) a river … sth. (768)
… one’s point (815) … on trade / a business (860) … () `off sth. etc. (912)
a newspaper … a story (1054) … oneself + adv. (1094)
–carrying (adj.) a disease-… person / animal (1253)
`carry-on (C, adj.) (a) … (bag / baggage) (762)
carsick (adj.) to feel / get / be … || a … person (769)
carsickness (U:769)
cart (C) sth. upsets the apple … (206) a … track (608) a shopping … (A) (879)
to roll a food … (A) (1289)
Carthage [ `ka~#id§ ] (N:925)
Carthagenian [ kar#ê`d§iniên ] (adj.) a … peace (1205)
carton (C:9)
cartridge (C) … ( for a gun ) 1187)
cartwheel (C) to do / turn …s (279)
cartwheel (vi:279)
carve (vi&t) … () `up land (177) to … ( sth. ) ( in wood / stone ) ||
… a piece of wood / stone into a pattern / an image || … sth. on sth. (1315)
… ( a roast ) || sb. … () their business || sb’s decision is …d in stone || … a career in sth. ||
… out a place for oneself || … ( a roast ) || … sb. a / their piece of meat (1317)
carved (adj.) a richly … door || … work (1315)
carver (C:138) a ( wood ) … (1315)
carving (C,U) a ( wood * ) … (348, 1315 * ) ( wood ) … (1315) a … knife / fork (1317)
Casanova (N:10)
case (C:16) a court … (54) … law (181) a … of mis`conduct / against sb. (209)
to bring a … to court || to prove one’s … (209) in … of sth. (294) a classic … (311) a terminal … (315)
sth. extends to the … of sth. (815) a … runs (829) a cigar … (1080)
a word in the nominative / accusative / dative / genitiv … (1218)
caseload (C) to have a heavy … (657)
cash (vt) … a cheque (761)
cash (U) to convert sth. into … (16) a … card (96) … dispenser (E) (96) … machine (96)
a … point (E) (96) a … register (95)
a … reward (50) to pay (in) … || pay sth. { in … / … `down E/E&A … up `front || … payment (761)
a … casket (eA:427)
casserole (C:795)
casserole (vt) … meat, vegetables etc. (795) `cassock (C:743)
cast (C) it’s a good … (51) a leg in a ( `plaster ) … (1154)
cast (vi&t) … one’s lot with sb. (8) … sth. in sb’s teeth (38)
… (a play) || … sb. as sth. || … sb. in a part / role (52) … sb. alongside / opposite sb. (62)
… () aside / off sb. (545) … one’s eyes over sth. (826) … sth. ( in a mould ) (887)
… one’s mind to / over sth. (977)
casting (U,C:62) a … director || do (the) … (52)
castle (C:148) king’s / queen’s … (198)
casual (adj.) … style / clothes (46 / 762)
casualty (C) sth. cost …ies || to inflict heavy …ies on sb. (510) to suffer heavy …ies (511)
… (department) (U) (419)
cat (C) a forsaken … (247) to let the … out of the bag (275) to play …’s cradle (321)
to play (a game of) … and `mouse / a …-and-`mouse game with sb. || a … arches its back ||
when the …’s away, the mice will play (886) to lead a …-and-dog life (1245)
catabolism (U,C:569)
cataclysm (293)
catalogue / A& catalog (C) an index … (A) (875)
catalogue (vt) to … sb’s offences (1143)
cat-and-dog (adj.) to lead a … life (1239)
catarpillar (C) … track / tread (666)
catapult (C:395)
catastrophe (C) a natural / man-made … (293)
catcall (C) to greet sth. with …s (1203)
cater (vi&t) … for / to sbth. (1056)
catch (vi&t) to … sb. in the act (9) … fire (29) … a cold (39) … a person / soldier (110 / 511)
… sight of sth. (139) … a disease (318) … hold of / `up (with sb.) (529) … the green light (582)
… sb’s interest (588) … `up (sb.) || … up with sb. (611) … an animal ( in a trap ) (676)
sbth.… sb’s eye || sb. … sb’s eye (853 || 1088) a sob … in sb’s throat (1085)
catch (C) a C…-22 situation (607) a … in the questioning (689) the police make a good … (1137)
catcher (C) an eye … (853) catchy (275)
categorical (adj.) a … answer (836) categorically [ katê`gårikli ] (836)
categorization (C,U1215)
categorize /E& <ise (vt:1215)
category (C:1215)
cathedral [ kê`#i~drêl ] (C:347)
`catheter (C:657)
`catholic (adj:680) the Roman C… Church (163,680)
Catholic (C:680) Old …s (928) Catholicism [ kê`#ålizism ] (U:680) catholicity [ ka#ê`lisiti ] (U:680)
cattail (U,C:1128)
cattle (pl:144)
cattleman (C:1237)
caught (9) be / get … up in sth. (684)
cauliflower (C,U) a head of … (723)
causal (adj.) a … link / connection (467+)
causally (adv.) to be … connected (1224)
cause (C,U) ( to work ) in the … of peace || to have / make common … ( with / against sb.) (24)
a / the… of sth. (41, 914) sth. is the immediate / likely … of sth. (55)
( to work ) in favour of a good … (82) sth. is a … for celebration (175)
there is … for alarm (789) to die of / from natural …s || sth. is the leading … of sth. ||
sb. is the … of anxiety || doing sth. is a lost … (920) the most common … of sth. (949)
there’s … for pessimism / to be pessimistic || the root / underlying / fundamental … of sth. (950)
sb. has / there is no … for complaint / to complain (954) a possible … of sth. || give … for sth. (958)
to do sth. without … (959) to have (good) … for do/be sth. (967) a major … of sth. ||
to tackle the … of sth. (969) to do sth. with (good) … || sth. gives … for concern (970)
to investigate / discover / establish the { root / underlying / fundamental … of sth. (970)
sth. is / prepare a … for (a) judicial decision (973) the environ`mental … (976)
to champion / further the … of sth. (976)
sth. is (all) in a good … || to do sth. for a worthy … || to make common … with sb. ove sth. ||
do sth. for one’s … || sth. gives / is … for sth. (976) without … shown (1019)
to do sth. in the service of a good … (1071)
cause (vt) sth. … sth. (11, 914) sb. … trouble (22) … sth. to do sth. (71,955) sth. … (sb.) trouble (125)
… sth. for sb. (563) … sb. to do sth. (914)
sb. … problems (etc.) for sb. || sb. … sb. problems (etc.) (920)
sth. … concern / uncertainty for sb. (970) … £ x worth of damage (976)
causeway (C:658)
caustic (adj.) a … remark (388) … soda (570)
caustically (adv:388)
caution (U,C) a note / word of … (125) to advise extreme … (137)
counsel / urge … || exercise great … || do sth. with (extreme) … (140)
let sb. off / dismiss sb. with a … (714)
caution (vi&t speech, (sb.) 140) … (sb.) about sth. || … (sb.) against (doing) sth. || … sb. to do sth. ||
… (sb.) that- (140) … sb. for (doing) sth. (E) (831)
cautious (adj.) … about sth. / a … approach (77) … optimism (110)
cautionary (adj.) a … note (125)
cautiously (adv:78)
cavalry (C:330) cavalryman (C:499)
cave (C:164) a … painting (1304)
cavity (C) a nasal … (766) a … ( in a wall ) (1302)
Cd
CD ( compact disk ) (C) … player (643)
Ce
cease (v:i&t) sb’s life … (163) sb. … to attend (359) … ( doing / to do ) sth. || … fire (550)
cease (U) without … (550)
ceasefire (C) to call / decare a …(550)
ceaselessly (adv:550)
cede (vt) … land / a town (360) ceiling (C:133)
Celcius (name) zero / (E) nought etc. degrees … (888)
celebrate [ `selibreit ] (vi&t) … ( a championship ) (201)
celebration (C,U:10) an end-of-term … (580)
celebrity (U,C) a … (578) sb’s … intrudes on their private life (626)
celestial (adj.) the north … pole (566) a … body (821)
`celibacy (U:393) `celibate (C:393) celibate (adj:393)
cell (C) a … ( in a prison / monastery / battery ) (20 / 219 / 586)
a sensory nerve … || a tactile / gustatory / olfactory / visual / light / hair … (939)
cellar (C) a … ( in a building ) (442) a salt … (873)
–celled (648) one- / single-… (adj:648)
cellulose (U:571)
Celt (C:214) Celtic (adj:214) Celtic (C:1217)
censure (vt) … sb. ( for (doing) sth.) (1042)
census (C:315)
center (A) (C) … of the city / town (415)
central (adj.) the … portion of a building (13) a … station (69) a … place in tradition (165)
… heating (217)
centralization (U:149)
centre E/A center (C) a city … (64) an ad`ministrative … (148) a … of literary activity (170)
a job … (791) a com`munity … (898)
left, right and `… / right, left and … (142)
centre (vt) sb’s hopes are …d (up)on sb (116)
century (C:5) the turn of the … (237)
ceramic [ sê`ramik ] (adj.) … art (1317)
ceramics (pl., U) classes in … || a piece of … (1316)
ceramicware (U:1317)
cereal (C,U:18) to have … (77)
ceremonial [ serê `mêuniêl ] (adj.) a … sword / duty (420)
ceremonial (C,U) an occation for public … (420) a … hall (444)
ceremony [ `serêmêni E/A `serêmouni ] (C,U) without (any) further … (99) a … sth. (152)
not stand on … (E) (449) a breaking-up / concluding … (580)
certain (pron.+ of) … of the nuns / the details / the measures (238 / -82 / 308)
certain (adj.) to be near … / as … as can be (that) - || to be absolutely … (that) -(67)
to face … death (232) to know / say for … || are you … ? (243)
to one’s … knowledge || to be …( of sth.) (250) to a … degree (252)
to be / * look … to do sth. || it is … (that) - (253 / * 279) it’s far from / by no means … (that) - (260)
sb. makes … of sth. (264)
one thing is … || that’s for … || to be … about it || sb. is ( not ) … whxx || it’s not … if - (273+)
almost / fairly / practically / virtually … (309) as … as sth. is sth. (1102)
certainly (adv:313) sb. / sth. … does sth. (8 / 22) to … know sth. (232) sb. is … determined (243)
it’s … possible (270)
certainty (C:323) a near …. (68) a choice / sb’s death is a … (232) there are few …s in life (239)
to know for a / with … (250) the only … is that - || besides that there are no …s (273)
it’s a … ( that sbth. will do sth. ) || there’s all … that sbth. will do sth.||
sbth. will do sth. for a ( moral ) … || the … of ( doing ) sth. (275)
certificate (C) a … of stock (291) a birth … (298) a gift … (A) (793) a … of French proficiency (966)
cervical (adj.) the … spine || a …vertebra (1235)
cession (C,U) (a) … of sovereignty (553)
Ch
chaff (U:18)
chain (v:378,396) a …ed dog (985)
chain (C) rings joined by a … (396) … mail (402) a food … (651) a … store (763)
anti-skid / snow …s (pl.) (887) a … of hills (1115) a human … (1224)
chair (C:24) a deck … (1081)
chairman (C) … of the board (330)
chalice (C) a poisoned `… (593)
chalk (U:213,&pl.) a stick of … || …s (875) know … from cheese (909)
challenge (C,U) to throw out a … (38) to face a ( grave* ) … (133, 147*) sth. is a … to sb. (147)
challenge (vt) … sb. (14) … sb. / sb’s authority (54) … the safety of sth. (316)
… sb. ( to do ) sth. (385)
challenger (C:14)
chamber [ `t$eimbê ] (C) to sit in a … of a parliament (359)
chamberlain (C:456) the (Lord) … of the Household (455)
champagne (U,C:338)
champion (v:380)
champion (C) the defending … (201) a … of Christianity / the underprivileged (219 / 380)
C…s’ League (304) a national (383) a boxing … (632)
championship (C,U:201,380,383) a boxing … (632)
chance [ t$a~ns ] (C,U) a gamble of … (8) a … to do sth. (26) to harm sb’s … of sth. (28)
… throws sth. in one’s way (32) to leave sth. to … || to see one’s … to do sth. (38+)
to have an equal … of doing sth. (303) to have / stand a (an earthly) … (of doing sth.) (558)
there’s a bare … that - (781) to do sth. whenever sb. gets the … (833)
to jump at / grap / take the … to do sth. (984) the best possible … of sth. (998)
to do sth. by … || what … (1157)
chance (vt&link.) … one’s `arm (638)
chancellor (C) the C… of the Exchequer (812)
chandelier [ $andê`liê ] (572)
change [ t$eind§ ] (vi&t) … sth. into sth. (21) … money (29) … (one’s) direction (32) … tune (fig:35)
… practice (42) … one’s mind (59) … clothes (77)
change (C,U) a slight … in attitude (35) a (political) … || a … in policy / to a system (98+)
a time of social … (130) ( to bring ) a … of clothing (265) a … of underwear (772)
( to have * ) a … of heart (820,*836) a … of views (841)
a(n) ( abrupt * ) … of weather / in the weather (862, 1129 * ) a wholesale … (877)
a(n) ( abrupt ) … of plan (1130) … a baby || … a nappy E/A diaper (1230)
changing (U) a … table (1230)
channel (C:18, 665)
Chanson de Roland (172)
chant (C) a protest … (1057) chant (vi&t &speech) to … (sth.) (1057) chanting (U:1057)
chantry (C:1007)
chaos (U) order crumbles into … (348) a place is in … (370) the … theory (720)
sth. throws a place into … (1112)
chaotic (adj.) a … life (955)
chap (C:652)
chapel (C:735)
chaperone [ `$apêrêun ] (C:542)
chaparon(e) (vt) … sb. (542
chaplain (C:735) army … (735)
chapter (C) a … house (359) a … ( in a book ) (469)
charade (C) an act is a … (1237)
character (C,U) sb’s … (10) to act / play a … || act in … (52)
sb’s gesture(s) / gesticulation(s) is / are out of … (62) to be sth. in … (161) an inborn / inbred … (184)
a poor judge of … (257) a dodgy / questionable / shady / suspect / suspicious … (515)
to be of questionable .. (711) to show one’s true … (968)
a … quality / trait (1093)
characteristically (adv:352)
characterize (vt) warfare … medieval times (151) sth. is …d by sth. (169)
charcoal (U:1173)
charge (vi&t) … sb. with an offence (115) … around (140) …sb. with doing sth. (147)
… sb. with a lance (154) … into the water (322) … (at) sb. (384) … tax (411)
… an extortionate rate of pay || … towards / through the exit (415) … a gun (502)
… ( up )  a battery (586)
… that - (623) … an admission fee / a high price (642) … (sb.) ( £ x ) for sth. || … sth. at £ x (862)
… a furrow with ink (1312)
charge (U,C) a … nurse (44) a … account / card (95+)
wanted by the police on a … of sth. (109) to be in / take / have … of ( doing ) sth. (143)
to deny a … ( * against you ) (210, * 493) to extend a … (212) to levy a … on sth. (376)
to be on a … of treason (540) (a) stationary / negative // positive electric … (566+)
an admission … (642) to be in / under sb’s … (705) to withdraw / drop a … (708)
to confide sb. to sb’s … (742) to be sb’s … (1230)
charged (adj.) a highly … atmosphere / debate (480+) the air is … with tension (495)
negatively / positively … proton (566+)
charger (C:586)
chariot (C:215)
charisma (U) sb. has … (76)
charity (U,C) … luncheon (75) show sb. no / little / some … (117)
… (organization) / arrangement / event / concert / party (122+) … work (190) Christian … (237)
charitable (117) … work / purpose / deed (122+) charlatan (11) charlatanery (11) charlatanism (11)
Charlemagne (161)
charm (U,C:32,,,) feminine …(s) (32) `` … of`fensive (33) a lucky … (34) to be under an evil … (35)
charm (vt) be …ed by / with sb./ sth. (32) … sb. with sth.(33) … sth. out of sb. (81) … one’s way out of
/ to / into sth. (37,601)
charmed (adj.) to lead / bear a … life (27/37) ( inside / outside ) the … `circle (65)
charming (adj:32) charmer (26)
charter (C,U) to sell a … of sth. (353) a … holiday (761)
chase (vi&t) … (after) sb. (33) … metal (1061)
chase (C) take up the … (527) car … (584) ( to run ) a / the steeple … (634)
chasm (C) a … (in the ground) (865) a … between sth. and sth. (881)
chaste [ t$eist ] (adj:392,393) chasten (vt:392) chastened (adj:385)
chastening (adj:392)
chastise [ t$a`stais ] (vt:388,392) chasticement (U:393) chastity (U:393)
chat (C,U) to throw oneself at / to have a (long) … (33 / 65) enough … from sb. (34) a little … (35)
a … session (IT) (654)
chat (vi) … (away) (to / with sb.) (about sth.) || … () `up sb. (E) (33,65)
chatter (U:33) chatter (vi:32,39) … (away / on) (to sb.) (about sth.) (34)
chatterbrain (C:1046) chatterbox (C:34)
chattering (adj.) the … classes (65)
chatty (adj:32,41)
Chaucer (N) Geoffrey … (172)
chauvinism (U) male `…(38)
chauvinist (C) a male `… (42)
chauvinistic / chauvinist (adj.) a … person (42)
chauvinistically (adv:42)
cheap (adj.) sth. is … to buy (296)
cheap (adv.) to get things …er (297)
cheat (vi&t) … (sb.) (at sth.) || … on sb. || … sb. (`out) of sth. || … one’s way into sth. (9,109)
cheat (C) (eE: person: 9, fig:9,79)
cheater (eA) (C:9)
cheating (U:9)
check (C,U) to pay a … (A) (80) a … A/E cheque (96) a spell … (125) a security … ( on sb.) (306,314)
check (vi&t) … a machine (13) … () `out sb. || … () through sth. (69) … in (103)
… oneself / one’s temper // anger (129 // 276) … spl. at a battle (219)
… a shortfall (268) … ( that-) (307) … sb’s power (352)
checker (A), checkerboard (C:617)
checkered E& chequered (adj.) a … flag / history / career (633)
checkers (pl.) a game of … (617)
cheek (C) to turn the other … (237) to have the … to do sth. (261) colour flares in one’s …s (718)
a barefaced … (779)
cheeky (adj.) a … person (271) cheekily (adv:261)
cheer (C,U) to break / burst into …s (304)
cheer (vi&t) … () `on sb. (201) sb. … ( * sb.) (302,* -4)
cheerful (adj.) a … tune (121) a … person / tone (278) cheerfully (adv:278)
cheese (U,C:77) to know chalk from … (909)
cheeseburger (C:794)
chef (C) … de cuisine (447)
chemical (adj.) … element (567) chemise (C:760) chemistry (U:195)
cheque (93) … card (96) write a … for £ xxx || make a … for sb. || a … is payable to sb. ||
to cash a … (761) pay a … (780) a rubber / bad / dud / RD cheque ( referred to drawer ) (780)
chequered (E) ( = checkered )
cherish (vt) 73)
chervil [ `t$ê~vil ] (U:1156)
chess (U:198) a … player (198)
chessman (C:198)
chest (33) war … (639)
chevalier (C:370)
chew (vi&t) … the cud (649) to bite off more than you can … (1246) to … food (1251)
spl. … the fat || to … one’s lips / nails (1252)
chewing (adj.) … gum (U) (414)
chicken (C,U) … ( meat ) (447) to do sth. like headless … (685)
chickenpox (U:1258)
chickweed (U:184)
chief (adj:358) … ex`cecutive (officer) (CEO) (595)
chief (C:145, of tribe:677) … of defence (203)
chiefdom (C:214)
chiefly (adv.) :213)
chieftain (C:145)
child (C:16) … in arms (461) … welfare (188)
childbearing (U) a woman of … age (677)
childbirth (U) in / during / after … (286+)
childish (adj:430)
childhood (C,U) a memory of one’s … (35) to lose the faith of one’s … (239) childless (343)
child-rearing (adj.) … methods (461)
children (pl:2)
chill (C) attacks of …s (1258)
chilly (adj.) a … evening (422) … weather (952) chillness (939)
chime (vi&t, speech:1158) a clock … ( the hour ) || x o’clock … (1156)
sb. … in with their own opinion || sb’s views … ( in ) with sb’s opinion (1158)
the lyrics … (in) with the melody (1271)
chime (C) the …s jingle in the breeze (1159)
chimes (pl.) the ( tubular ) … { chime / jingle midday (1159)
chimney (C:139, 561) … stack (664)
chin (C:288)
chine (C:795)
chink (C) a … in sb’s armour (481)
chip (C) if / when the …s are down (854) a paint … (1302)
chirp (C:433)
chirp (vi, speech:433) a bird / cricket … (433 / 772)
chirrup (E) [ `t$irêp ] (vi, speech:433) a bird / cricket … (433 / 772)
chisel (C) a ( cold / wood ) … (1315)
chisel (vt, i+adv.) … ( sth.) &/ ( in wood / stone ) || … sth. on sth. (1315)
chivalry (U) to react to … (36) the virtues of … (152)
`chivalric / chi`- (adj.) … conduct (153)
`chivalrous (adj.) … conduct (153) a … person (391) chivalrously (adv:390)
chive(s) [ `t$aiv(z) ] (U, pl.) to garnished sth. with …s (262)
`chloride (U,C) sodium … (570)
`chlorine (U:570)
chlorophyll (U:650)
chocolate (U,C) a … cake (67) a box of …s || a … bar (1126)
choice [ t$åis ] (C,U) a … of sth. || the … of the whole world || a … lies between sth&sth. ||
a … in sth. || to have / offer / there’s a wide / narrow … of sth. ||
to have / there’s little / much … of sth. (1)
to leave sb. with / to give sb. no … (in the matter) || to do sth. of one’s … || it’s Hobson’s … ||
to make an informed … for sb. || to exercise … || to take your … (2)
… for sth. (3) the lady of sb’s … (5) the object / bride of sb’s … (67+) a … falls on sb. (205)
choice (adj.) a … selection (1) in a few … words / phrases (2)
choir [ `kweiê ] (C) a church / boys’ … || sing with a … (744) to preach to the … (742)
choirboy (C:744)
choke (vi&t) sth. … sb. || be …d to death on / in sth. (418) … back tears (1078)
choler (U:1239) to have much … in one’s complexion || to have a fit of … (1244)
cholera (U:1254)
choleric (adj.) a … person || a … temperament / temper (1244)
cholericness (U:1239)
chop (C) a veal / pork / lamb … (795)
chop (vt) … meat / vegetables / fruit // a log (262 // 887)
chopped (adj.) … meat (79)
chopping (adj.) a … board (262)
choral (adj.) …song (744)
chorus (C) a … of sth. (493) do sth. in … (499) … boy / girl || sing with a … (744)
chorus (vi&t:speech:756)
choose [ `t$u~z ] (vi&t)
there’s notning / little / much to … between sth&sth. ||… from / ( from ) among sth. (1)
… sth. for sb. || sb. can(not) … || … to do sth. || to do as you … || to pick and … (2)
choos(e)y (adj: 3)
chore (C:74)
chose (pat. of choose) (2)
chosen (pap. of choose) have … (2) the … few (90)
christen [ `krisên ] (vt) … sb. (a name) (158) … sth. (a name) (756,763)
christening (158)
Christian [ krist$ên ] (C:16)
Christian (adj.) a … missionary (16) … name (158) … charity (237)
Christianity (U:16)
Christmas (343) … `pudding (796)
chronic (adj.) … sleeplessness (429) … illness (1256)
Chronicle (C:172)
chuck (C) … (rib) (steak) (795) chuck (vi&t) … () `away / out sth. (762)
church (C,U) … and state (23) a C… Father (165) a … book (735) the C… of England (734)
a … bell / tower / service (743) to go to … (743) a national / established … || … rate (815)
churchgoer (C:743) churchman (C:734) churchwarden (C:735) churchwoman (C:734)
churchyard (C:158)
churn (vi&t) sb’s stomach … / sth. … sb’s stomach (239) … cream (262)
Ci
Cicero (N:166)
cigar (C:54)
cigarette (C) to smoke a …|| a … butt / smoker (318) a … packet E/A pack (618)
cinema (C,U) at a / go to the … (49) the … (50)
cinemagoer (C:49) cinemagoing (adj.) a … public (1072)
circle (people:42) … of friends ect. (45) the charmed `… (65) leading …s (601)
sb. goes runs round in `…s (822,829) in wider …s (1093) influential … (1247)
circuit [`sê~kit ] (C: route:634) an electrical … (566) a short `… (573)
circular (C) a trade / advertising … (26 / 1063)
circulate (vi&t) to … a rumour (87)
circulation (U,C) a … of a book (1174)
circumstance (C,U) in / under { extreme / the …s (20)
to be the victim of … || …s force sb. to do sth. (234) …s surrounding an accident (1114)
cirrhosis (U:55)
cisalpine (adj.) C… Gaul (925)
cissy (E) = sissy (C:961)
citadel (C:347)
citation (C) to issue a … (605)
cite (v) … sb. for sth. (606) citified (167)
citizen (75,383,417) rights and freedoms of …s (23) a fellow / law-abiding … (75+)
an honorary … (120)
citizenry (U:405) citizenship (405,417)
citric `acid (570)
city (6,406,409) (the) C… (410) (the) … (A) (416) (xxx) city (398) … `centre (406,415) … `council (28)
`… desk (E/A: 413) … `dweller (409) `… editor (E/A:413) … `fathers (409) … `gate (406)
a … `hall (409,410, A:416) … `people (85) … `planning (A) (416) … `slicker (406) the … limits (980)
cityscape (C:408)
city-state (C:406)
citywide (adj.) a … campaign (409)
civic (405) a … `centre (405) … guards (405)
civil (adj.) … liberty / liberties (23) … war (24) … law (202) … rights (315) … servant (217) … war (24)
civilian (C:68)
civilian (adj.) … settlement (216)
civilization (U,C:156)
civilized (adj:196)
civilizing (adj.) a … influence (1259)
Cl
clad (adj.) lightly / scantily … (442) raggedly ... (579)
claim (U,C:21) a … of compensation (55) a … on property (99)
to stake a / one’s … on / to / for sth. (370) to have / make a ( hereditary ) … to the throne (1106+)
claim (vi&t) … (that-) (84) … sbth. / be …ed to do sth. (84/73) death … sb. (1176)
claimant (C:293)
claimsman (C:295)
claire-voyant (adj:90)
clamorous (adj.) … talking (264)
clamour [ `klamê ] (vi&t &speech:386) they … to do sth. || … sb. banished (244) … for a rent rise (247)
clamour (sg.,U) the … of voices (264) the … of the crowd || their … for sth. (384)
clampdown (norm. sg.) a … on sb./ sth. (613)
clan (C:145)
clang (vi&t) a bell  … (743)
clank (sg./v:509)
clannish (adj:472)
clan`destin (adj:78) clandestenly (78)
clap (sg.) give sb. a … (E) (114) a … of thunder (436)
clap (vi&t) … (one’s hands) || … sb. on the back / shoulder (114) thunder … (436) … sb. in irons (395)
clapping (U) to do sth. with … (114)
clarify (vt) … one’s position (836)
clash (vi&t) troops … (1223) police … with spl. (1224)
responsibility to sth. … with responsibility to sth. || spl. … in a debate / on an issue ||
sb. … with sb. over sth. || sb’s stories / views … (1225) colours … ||
sb’s sweater … with their trousers || sweater and trousers … ||
a show … eE/A conflicts with a debate || two programmes … eE/A conflict ||
two teams … || sb. … the cymbals ( together ) ||
the cymbals … ( together ) (1226)
two boxers … (1227)
clash (C) a ( head-on * ) … between sb&sb. over sth. (389, 1226* ) a … of thunder (436)
a … of wills (1095) armed …es (1223) a violent … with spl. || a … breaks out (1224)
sth. puts sb. on a head-on … with sb. || a … of interests / opinions / cultures ||
a personality … with sb. || a culture … ( between spl.) || a colour … || a … of colours ||
a … in the timetable eE/A schedule || a timetabling eE/A scheduling … ||
a team’s … with another team (1226)
clashing (adj.) sb&sb. have … personalities (1226)
class (C,U) the upper `… (3) a word … || to run a … / …es in English /& on a subject (46)
a word … (46) the chattering …es (E) (65) the middle … (155) a servile … (156) a … system (183)
the ruling … (241) the humbler …es (355) the lower …es (374) a social … (410)
a … barrier / destinction (460) a … conflict / struggle (481) … war / warfare (482)
to teach a … (A) (646) to go to evening …es (966)
outside … hours (1162) a plant / an animal … (1216)
class-divided (adj.) a … society (467)
classic (C:49)
classic (adj.) (neo>) … (49)
classical (adj.) … antiquity (147) a … author (170) … language / literature / scolars (1163)
… mechanics (1170)
classification (U,C) (a) … of a society / sb’s experiences (149 / 1215)
classify (vt:1215)
clause (C) a … that - (356) a relative … (652) a main / subordinate … (1222)
claustrophobia (U:1086) claustrophobic (adj:1086)
claw (C) a sharp / pointed / curved … (865)
clay (U:677) a … court || a layer of … (1314)
clean (adj:61, not doped:639) )
clean (vi&t) … () `up (a place) (258) … ( oneself ) up (422) … ( up ) sth. (455)
… () out a stable etc. (720)
spring-`… (sth.) (981)
clean (sg.) to give sth. a (spring) … (E) (981) to … a fish (1127)
cleaning (U:455) vacuum … (297) a … fluid / powder (656) to do the spring-`… (981)
clean(-)up (sg:455)
cleanse [ klenz ] (vt) …ing agent (873)
cleanser [ `klenzê ] (C,U) (a) … (873)
clear (U) to be in the … (635)
clear (adj.) … about sth. (47) a … conscience (47) to make it ( absolutely ) … that - / whxx (56,58)
a … sign (92) a … sky (116) all is … (301) a … winner (310) it is … ( to sb.) whxx / that - (594+)
to make a road … of snow (1152) … the plaster off a wall (1302) a … picture (1306)
clear-`headed (adj:519)
clear (vi&t) the traffic … (211) … () `up ( a place ) (258) … () up a crime (274)
… the way for sth. ( to happen ) (306+) … ( *sth. through) customs (414,* 777) … (up) sth. (455)
the sky … (551) … debris (667) … the way (for) (306) … sb. of sth. (473) … a dead animal (580)
… () away dung (720) … one’s conscience (753) sth. is .. to sb. || get things … (754)
to be …ed ( of all charges ) || … one’s name (833) … () `up a point (893) … a road of snow (1151)
clearance (C,U) to get ( a ) security … (306) a person employed in snow … (1152)
clearly (adv:451)
cleave ( -ed, -ed / cleft, cleff / clove, cloven ) (vt) a scream … the air (1113)
clench (vt) … one’s fist (54) … a bar (1118)
clergy (pl.) the … (152) clergyman (68) …’s ruff (743) clergywoman (734) cleric (C:734)
clerical (adj.) … staff / worker / work (64) … land (161) … collar (743)
clerk [ kla~k E/A klê~k ] (C) booking / (office) … (64) `sales … (A) (93) desk … (A) (103) a … (o-f) (351)
… of the holy order || parish … (735)
clever (adj.) a … person (2) … with one’s hands (265)
cleverly (adv:252)
click (v:334)
client (C) …s’ request (598) clientele (579)
cliff (C) to nest on a … (331) a sheer … face (864) a … forms a bluff (1116)
a precipitous / steep / sheer … || the crest / brink / edge of a … (1117) a … top / edge (1117+)
the bottom / foot of a … (1119)
climate (U,C) arid … (18) a … of political confusion / `upset (203) a sickly / an unhealthy … (1262)
climb (vi&t) … the stairs (104) a spire … into the sky (139) … into bed (285)
… a mountain || … to the top (862) … down (fig.) (1123)
climb (C:459) a … to the mountaintop (862) a … accident (849) a steep / pricipitous … (1117)
climber (C:416,fig:537)
cling ( clung / = ) (vi+adv.) … (`on) to the hope that - (117)
clink (vi&t) … one’s glass || glasses … (961)
clink (sg.) a / the … of glasses / tableware (961)
clip (C) a `… joint (643) a Bulldog / paper … (875)
clipping (C) a press / newspaper … (507)
clique (C:472)
cliquey / cliquish (adj.) a … term (1129)
clock (v:31)
clock (C) sth. / sb. puts () back the … ( fig.) || sb. turns /A sets the … back (237)
to set an alarm … for x o’… (301) …-and-watch shop (589) a fast … (589)
to do sth.(a)round the … (458) to wind () `up a … (770)
a grandfather … || a … keeps good / bad time || a … is ( x ) fast / slow || a … gains / loses ( x ) ||
to set the … by the tv (1268)
clockwise (adv.) to turn sth. … (302)
clog (C:876)
clog (vi&t) sth. … (up) a street || be …ged (up) with traffic (1078) a pipe is …ged up with sth. (1082)
cloister (C:227)
cloistered (adj.)a … life (227)
close (vi&t) … one’s ranks ( about sb.) (192) … one’s eyes to sth. (210)
… the shudders / a door (229 / 269) … () `off sth. (328) a museum … (330)
… () `up a building (1137)
`close-up (C,U) in … (621) `close-up (adj.) a … picture (625)
close (adj.) (be/ come) … to (doing) sth. (62) … encounter (65) … friend (67) sth. draw … (68)
sth. is a … shave (321)
close (adv.) to see … `to / up (764) closed (adj:269)
close(ly)-`knit (adj.) a … family / community / team (19 / 269 / 302)
closely (adv.) a … guarded secret (1105)
closet [ `klåzet ] (C:493) a water … (564) a … queen (1280) sb. comes out of the … (1284)
closet (vt+adv.) spl … themselves away ( in a place ) || to. … sb. with sb. (493)
closing (adj.) (after) `… time (883)
closure (C,U) theaten sth. with … (335)
cloth (U,C) to slit … into strips (14) a floor … (1063)
clothes (pl.) sb’s … (14) a … basket / hamper (30) to change … (77) to wear ordinary … (244)
casual … (762) a … shop (876)
working … (1055) not wear many … (1276)
clothier (C:876)
clothing (U) food and … (16) (men’s) … department (29) an article / an item / a piece of … (265)
a … shop (876)
cloud (C,U) storm …s near (63) a dark / light / heavy … || scattered …s (422)
sb. is under a … (fig.) ( of suspicion ) (428)
( a blanket of ) ( low ) … covers the sky || the … scatters (434) a … of dust (442) (on) … nine (454)
to fly in … || low … (U) (667) the … on the horizon (fig.) || the (storm) …s gather (468)
sth. is up in the …s (469) to have one’s head up in the …s (469) … of insects (501) … cover (667)
depression settles over sb. like a heavy black … (1139)
cloud (vi&t) 428,435) the sky … over (63) sth. … sb’s eyes || sb’s eyes … with tears (439)
steam … (up) a window || a window … (up) (with steam) (447) … the issue / picture (with) (466)
… sb’s outlook / vision (472) … sb’s judgement (474) tears … sb’s face / sb’s face … (over) (480) )
… sth. (from view) (510) water  … (up) (664)
cloud-`cockoo-land (C) to be ( living ) in a … E/A cloudland / `la-la land (478)
clouded (præd:434) `cloudburst (C:436) cloudless (adj:435) cloudy (116,434) … water (665)
clover (U) be / live in … (672 / 1047) sth. keeps sb. in … (1041)
club (C) a … || the ace / the two / the jack of …s (9) a book … (26) a football … (25) to join a … (581)
join the … (642) a staff … (788) a golf … (1231) a sick … (1260)
club (vt) … together (E) ( to buy sth.) (44)
clue (C) sth. holds a … to sth. (636)
clump (C) a … of grass (1301)
clumsiness (U:448)
clumsy (adj.) sb. is … (104)
a … person || … fingers || to make a … attempt to do sth. || it’s … of stb. (448)
a piece of … diplomacy (494)
clung (pat. / par of cling)
cluster (C) a … of hovels (345) a flower … (722)
clutch (vi&t) … at a straw (38) … sb’s hand (839)
sth. … sb’s heart (885)
clutch (C) get into sb’s …es (701) to escape from sb’s …es (975)
cluttered (adj.) a … look (834)
Co
co- (prefix:488)
coach (C) a ( football ) … (201) a ( horse-drawn ) … (421) ( a railway ) … (E) (630)
coachman (C:451)
coal (U,C) to use … (1173) red hot / live …s (1235)
coalfield (C:1173)
coalition (C,U) a … government (554)
coarseness (U:678)
coast (C:213)
Coast Guard (N) the … (A) (419)
Coastguard (N) the … (E) (419)
coastguard (E) (C:419)
coastguardman (A) (C:419)
coastal (adj.) a … homeland (218) a … area (647)
coat (C) a … of arms (173,437) … of mail (402) a morning … (758) a ( fresh ) … of paint (1302)
coax (vt:29,,,) … sth.+ adv. (29) … a secret etc. out of / from sb. (43) … a smile from sb. (47)
cobalt (U) … blue (1234)
cobble(<stone) (C:678,704)
coca (U) … leaves (49)
Coccacoi (N) Giovanni … (172)
coccus (C:648)
cochlea (C:939)
cock (E) (C:fowl:578) a … of turkey || a turkey … (772) a … and `bull story (920) a …-tease (1309)
cock (vt) … a snook at (185) … one’s head ( to one side * )|| one’s head …ed * (185, 199* )
… an ear / eye a sb. || … () `up a project (186) a dog … its leg by sth. (187)
an animal … its ears || … one’s gun || … an (xxx) eyebrow at sb. (199)
cocked [ kåkt ] (adj.) to talk sb. into a … hat || sbth. knock sb. / sb’s argument into a … hat (1280)
cock`sure (adj:370)
cocktail (C,U) (a) prawn E/A shrimp … (794)
cocky (adj:740)
cocoa (U:68)
cocoaine (U:49)
coconut (C,U:38) `… shy (38) desiccated / shredded … (68)
cod (C,U:793)
code (C,U) a security … (29) a … of practice / conduct (40 / 152) a highway … (E) (74)
a dress … (758) a penal … (1181)
coersive (adj.) … government (U) (146)
coexistence (U:629)
coffee (77) … cream (453) … pot || a … filter bag || … grounds (453) Turkish … (774)
a …-bar / -shop (878)
coffin (eE) (C:427)
cognition (U) faculty / power of … (822 / 936)
coherent [ kêu`hiêrent ] (adj.) a … narrative (1221)
cohesion [ kêu`hi~§n ] (U) … of molecules (940)
coiled (adj.) spirally … (985)
coin (C,U) a … (5) the other side / the reverse of the … (fig.) (560) to flip / toss a … (703)
coin (vt) … money (151) to strike …s (215) to … a word (566)
coinage (U:1011,C)
co`incidence (C,U) by ( a fortunate / * sheer ) … (704, *1157) a … of interests between sb&sb. (1140)
what a … (1157)
coitus (U:610)
cold (U,C) heat and … (19) to catch a … (39) to get a ( bad ) … || in bed with a heavy … (457)
to have / suffer from a slight … || to have a slight attack of ( common ) … (458)
leave sb out in the … (606) a sensation of … (939) a … settles in sb’s head (1150)
cold (adj:6) to get … feet (548) to give sb. the … `shoulder (606) the … war (670)
to put sth. into … storage (fig.) (747) the C… War (1210)
cold-`blooded (adj.) a … murderer (321) cold-bloodedly (adv.) to murder sb. … (321)
coldness (U) to feel a certain … in sb’s manners (245) a sensation of … (939)
cold-`shoulder (vt) … sb. (606)
colic (U) to suffer from … (1229)
colicky (adj.) a … child (1229)
collaborate (vi) … in sth. (1197)
collage [ `kåla~§ E/A kê`la~§ ] (C:1268)
collapse (U,C) a performance is on the brink / verge of … || a … of a rehearsal (61) to suffer a … (99)
… of an empire (167) … of a roof (887)
collapse (vi&t) a performance … (61) a kingdom … (215) a roof … (887) … ( on a sofa ) (890)
a lung … (892)
prices … (895) a chair … || to … a chair (896)
collapsed (adj.) a … roof (887) a … lung (892)
collapsible (adj.) a … chair (896)
collar (C) a … of a coat (320) a clerical / dog … (743) a surgical … (1235)
colleague [ `kåli~g ] (C:653)
collect (vi&t) … oneself (59) … money for sth. (123) a crowd … (124) … tax / rent (154)
… sth. ( in person ) (298) … one’s wits (473) … intelligence (518) … one’s thoughts (520)
… one’s strength (608)
collection (C,U) a … of philosophy (43) a signature … (98)
collector (C) a ticket … (20) an avid / a keen … of sth. (463) a debt … (975)
col`lective (C:256)
col`lective (adj.) … `bargaining || a … agreement (U:791)
college (1,4) go to / be at (a) … (3)
a … of education (195) a community / junior … (899)
collide (vi) to plates … (647) a train … with a car (1113) two aims … (1120)
collision (C,U) a (head-on) … ( with sth.) (585)
colloquial (adj.) … style (46) … language (1217)
collude (vi) … with sb.(491)
collusion (U:492) … between spl. / be in … ( with sb.) (492)
collusive (adj:493)
cologne (U) (& eau de) … (1039)
colonel [ kê~nl ] (C:191)
colonize (vt) … an area (341) colony (C) a … ( of people ) (467)
colour (A: color) (C,U) a … (5) a light / bright / dark … (32 / 77 / 442)
to get … || sth. gives … ( to sb’s face) (866)
a … shop (875)
colour-`blind (adj:942)
colourman (C:875)
coloured (adj.442)
colour-fast (442)
colouring (adj.) a … book (1306)
colourful (adj.) a … turn of phrase (264)
colt (C:402)
column (C) an agony E/A advice … (137) a … of a building (357) … (in a newspaper) (625)
a … of mercury (1062)
columnist (C) an advice … (137)
coma (C,U) to go into / be in a … (638+)
comb (vt) … sb’s hair (877) … wool (1128)
combat [ `kåmbat / kêm`bat ] (U,C:350) … organization (501) … troops (499) a … vehicle (666)
aerial … (667)
combat [ `kåmbêt / kêm`bat ] (vt) … an enemy (383) … sth. bad (547) … a disease (1262)
combatant [ `kåmbêtênt E/A kêm`batnt ] (C:381) an armoured / a mounted … (154)
combative (adj.) in a … mood (384)
combination (C,U) a … of sth (334) in … (1093)
combine (vi&t) … words into sentenses (188) … sth. with sth. (344) … forces with sb. (516)
… with sb. (555) … to form sth. (chem.) (569)
combustion (U:199)
come (vi) … `up with sth. (43) sb. / sth. … to do sth. (44 / 150) sth. … to trial (58)
sb. … with sb. (69) sth. to … (72) … `off second best / as sth. (107 / 165)
… (a)`round / … to one`self (114) … `across sbth. (134) sb. … into possession of sth. (153)
a language … to sb. naturally (171) when it … to sth. (211) … (up)on sth. (247)
… struggling onward(s) (249) … `up to expectations (256) … `in a good / poor second (310)
long in / a long time …ing (457) it … out (that -) (534) … forward (with sth.) (709) … `after sb. (974)
a newspaper … ( out ) with a supplement (988) a holiday … with sth. (989)
… by / into money (1080 / 1108) sb. … out ( of the closet ) (1284) dust … off on sth. (1314)
comedian (C:48)
comedown (sg:398)
comedy (C,U) a wry … || a … successs (48) slight / thin … (49)
the … of the situation || to cut the … (54) slapstick / E& knocabout … (1266)
comely (adj:542)
comfort [ `kûmfêt ] (U,C) life holds …s (pl.) (166) to feel … (944)
sth. is one … || it’s a … knowing / to know that - (956) to find … in sth. (1278)
`comfort (vt) to … sb. (250) to … oneself (288, 1278)
comfortable [ `kûmftêbêl ] (adj.) … shoes (422) to feel … (944)
comfortableness (944) to feel … (944)
comfortably [ `kûmftêbli ] (adv.) … installed (573) to be … off (285)
comforter (C) to settle a … around sb. || to suck a … (E) (1229)
comic (adj.) darkly / delightfully … (599 / 984)
coming (sg.) the … of sb. (214)
coming (attr. adj) a … election (309) a … wedding (434)
command (vi&t) … sb. (151) … considerable wealth / power (214)
sth. … a (fine) view of sth. (no pass. / prog.t.) (857)
command (U,C) in … of sb. (192)
a deft … of technique || to have a good / excellent / poor … of French / grammar (408)
commander (C) … in cheif (191)
commanding (adj.) a … tone (114)
commandment (C) a divine … || the Ten C…s (1095)
commando (C:824) a … raid (824)
commemorate (vt) sb. … sb. (426)
commend [ kê`mend ] (vt) … sb. for bravery (1072) sth. is highly …ed (1075)
sth. has much / * little to … it (1075,* -79) … sb’s soul to God (1083)
… sb. for / on (doing) sth. || to … sb. / sth. to sb. (1084+)
commendable (adj.) a … action (1072)
commendation (C,U) to receive (a) … for bravery (1084)
commendatory (adj.) a … letter (1072)
commending (adj.) a … letter (1072)
`comment (C) make a … on sth. (39)
`comment (vi&t, speech:279) … on sth. (39)
`commentator (C:302)
commerce (U) minister / ministry of … || the Secretary / Department of … (A) (812)
commercial (adj.) a … attitude / practice (168) a … traveller (858)
comming (adj:72)
commission (vt) …ed officer (191) … sb. to do sth. (1030)
commission (C) a … ( in the armed services ) (1190)
commit (vi&t) … adultery / criminal conversation (43) … evil deeds / thoughts (159)
… sb. to prison (307)
… ( oneself ) to a religious faith (836)
commitment (C,U) to affirm / confirm one’s … (79) … to sth. (196)
committee [ kê`miti ] (C:1) to vote sb. onto a … || to sit on a … (806)
an appointing … (901)
commodity (C) a … (184) an everyday / a household … (872)
common (C) to hold sth. in … (157) to take a walk on the … (184)
( to have sth. ) in … ( with sbth.) (186) the ( House of ) C…s (189) sb. out of the … (190)
common (adj.) sth. is … (2) to have / make … cause with / against sb. (24)
sth. is … practice (42) … consent (101) it’s … for sb. to do sth. (160)
a … person (173) to have … sense || to use one’s … sense (174 || 188)
a … interest || sth. is more … among spl. || a … reason / cause || … practive (175)
lack of … courtesy / decency (179)
… law || the … people / man || … politeness || to do sth. for the … good / a … purpose||
to do sth. towards a … goal (181)
… or `garden (adj.) (183) … land (E) || a … sight (184)
a … nuisance || to look … || … manners / clothes || a … accent (185)
to have sth. / a point in … || the … character of sbth. (186)
a … cold || (the lowest) … denominator (187)
… gender || a … noun || a … room || sth. is … currency || … touch (188)
… `ground (189) a … soldier (191) … enemy (532) … salt (570) a … purpose (578)
the C… Market (670) sth. is … knowledge (901) a … name (1217)
commonage (U,C:173)
common-law (adj.) … marriage / wife / husband (181)
commonal(i)ty (U,C:173)
commoner (C:173)
commonly (adj:156)
commonly (adv.) … used (180)
commonplace (adj.) a … person (179) sth. become. … (184)
commonplace (norm. sg.) to despise the … || sth. becomes a … (184)
commons (C) a … (A) (sg:188) the C… (E) (189) ( to be ) on short … (E) (798)
`communal [ & kê`mju~nl ] (adj.) … living || a … room / kitchen (898) … ownership (933)
`communally (adv.) to own sth. … (898)
`commune (C:747)
com`mune (vi) … with God / nature // oneself (743 / 756 // 890)
communicable (adj.) … disease (745) a … message / person (755) communicant (C:745)
com`municate (vi&t) … (sth.) to sb. || … with sb. (by sth.) (127,738,746)
sth. … itself to sb. || … about sth. (740) … whxx (744) … a disease (745) a room … with a room (745)
… sth. by doing sth. (755) spl. … (760)
communicating (adj.) a …ing room / door (523 / 745) … vessels (890)
communication (U) a medium of … (117)
… skills || (a) means / way of … || non-verbal / one-way / two-way … || … with sb. / between spl. (738)
( to be in ) … by sth. (746)
communication (C) receive a … (746)
communication(s) (U, pl.) … cord (E:415) …(s) (555) a breakdown in …s (757)
( a place has ) …s with a place (761)
commu`nicative (adj.) be … || … skills (738)
communion [ kê`mju~njên ] (U,C) the Anglican … (734) … with sb. (743)
to go to / celebrate (Holy) C… (745) … wine (745) admit sb. to full … with sth. (755) a … of souls (899)
communism (U:933)
communist (C) the C…Party || a … dictatorship || the C… Manifesto (933)
com`munity (C,U) a sense of …|| village … (158) a … centre || … property / goods (898)
… spirit / a spirit of … (898) a … college (E/A) || an ethnic / a religious / Islamic … (899)
a … founded on the rule of law (1142)
compact (adj.) a … mass (821)
companion (C:20) a … in crime (78) a drinking … (1095)
companionship (U) to enjoy sb’s … || … of some people (1147)
company (U,C:military:192) a publishing … (26) to part … (with / from sb.) (on sth.) (&fig:48)
to have … (128) to be in sb’s … / in … with sb. (130) to seek sb’s … (138) in the … of sb. (206)
in merry … (523) jolly good … (1124)
comparable (adj.) sb. is … to sb. (369) a … adjective / adverb (1219)
comparative (C) the … (1219)
comparative (adj.) the … form (1219)
comparatively (adv.) … flat (213)
compare (vi&t) sb. … sth. with / to sth. || sth. ( can / can’t ) … ( with sth.) ||
sth. … (un>) favourably (with sth.) (169 / 618) sth. … to / with sth. (174)
… an adjective / adverb (1219)
comparison (U,C) to make a … with sth. || there’s no … (174) by … (176)
a source for … || … with sth. || to make / draw a … (of / between sth.) ||
by … ( with sth.) || in … ( with / to sth.) || to stand / bear (no) … ( with sth.) (182)
a … of an adjective / adverb (1219)
compartment (C) a separate … of a basket (32) a glove … (798)
a … ( of a carriage / coach E/A car ) (1152)
compass (C) radio … (673) from all points of the … (805) within the … of sth. (840)
a (magnetic) `… (862)
a … card / point || a point of … || the needle on the … (862)
compass(es) (C, pl.) a (pair of) …(es) (862)
compassion (U:250) compassionate (adj.) a … outlook (133)
compatriot (C:520)
compel (vt) to find oneself …led to do sth. (601)
compelling (adj.) sth. is … (76)
`compensate (v) … sb. for sth. (60)
compensation (C,U) a claim of … for sth. (55) to pay sth. in … for sth. (1150)
com`pensatory (adj.) … money (60)
compete [ kêm`pi~t ] (vi) … with sb. ( * for shelter / a prize ) (162, * 247 / 385) … to do sth. (341)
… in / at a competition (390) … with sb. on prices (597)
competent [ `kåmpitênt ] (adj:48)
`competence / <cy (U,C) sb’s … (207) to develop social … (855)
competing (adj.) … people (383) … claims / interets / prices / companies (597)
competition (U,C) to win a … (198) reckless … (385) to enter for a talent … (385) generous ... (579)
competitive (adj.) a … advantage / market (965)
competitor (C:360) sb’s chief … (537)
compilation (C,U) the … of a chronicle (342) compiler (C:349)
complacency (U) self-… (482)
complain (103) … that - (631)
complaint (C,U) to submit one’s … (98) to make a formal … against sb. (212)
complainant (C:212)
complement (C) a`predicate / sub`jective / ob`jective … (652)
complete (vt) … a performance / a task (61 / 258) … one’s xth (an age) (920)
complete (adj:9)
completely (adv:42)
completion (U,E&C) to be near to / nearing … (63) sth. is due for … (225)
complex (C) an inferiority … (about sth.) (792)
complex (adj.) a … discussion (260)
complexion (C) sth. puts a new / different / fresh … on sth. (58,1247)
spl. are a queer lot of …s (o-f) (1239) sb. has a reddish … (1240)
blood / phlegm / melancholy ( black bile ) predominates in sb’s … ||
to have much blood etc. in one’s … (1240, -41, -42)
the ( social ) … of a society etc. (1247)
–complexioned ( adj.) reddish-… (1240)
complexity (U, pl.) a puzzle of … || the …ies of a system (414)
complicate (vt:575)
complicity (U) … ( in a crime ) (115)
compliance (U) to enforce / secure / ensure … ( with sth.) (88)
compliant [ kêm`plaiênt ] (adj.) a … person (88) sb. is … with sb’s wishes (93)
a receiver is … with a transmitter (126)
compliment (vt) … sb. (on sth.) (774)
compliment (C) pay sb. a … (759)
comply (vi) … with sth. (88) to agree to … (89)
component [ kêm`pêunênt ] (C) a … of sth. (568)
compose (vi&t) … a document (172) … sth. (with types) (1054)
composer (C:126)
composing (U) a … room (508)
compositor (C:508) … foreman (508)
composition (U,C) to write a … about sth. (339) the … of steel / a substance (443 / 825)
the … of a page ( in printing ) (1054)
composure [ kêm`pêu§ê ] (U) to loose // recover / regain // keep / maintain one’s … (57 // 59 // 994)
to take it with … (994)
com`pound (vt) to be …ed of / from sth. (571)
`compound (C) to live in a … (144) a (chemical) … (569) a … (of words) (847)
compound (adj.) … tense / sentence verb // word (847 // 1217)
comprehend (sth. / that - / whxx) (509,537)
comprehension (508)
comprehensive (adj.) (a) … description / knowledge / range / study // views (463 // 465)
a … person / policy (472) a … exchange or words (473)
comprise (vt:222)
compromise (C,U) to elaborate a … (25) to reach a … (306) an uneasy … (835)
a … between sb&sb. || a … solution (1231)
compromising (adj:494)
compulsory (adj.) … schooling (1162)
computer (334) a desktop / laptop / notebook … (878)
con (vt) … sb. into doing sth. || … sb. out of sth. || … one’s way into sth. (701)
con (C) a … (to do sth.) (701)
concave (adj.) … mirror (663)
conceal (vt) sb’s manners … an acute mind (41) sb. … their resentment (545)
concealed (adj.) a … purpose (78) concealedly (adv:78)
concede (vi&t) … defeat (38)
conceit (U:32, C)
conceited (adj.) a … person (10) to be … of sth. (33) conceitedness (U:32)
conceive (vi&t) … a hope (122) … of sth. as sth. (166) a woman … (315) a child is …d (457)
concentrate (vi&t) sb. … ( their mind ) / on (doing) sth. (987)
concentration (C,U) to frown with … (9) the … of power (149) maxium allowable … (622)
`concept (C) sb’s …s remain powerful (163) a traditional … of gender (300) the … of force (1170)
conception (C,U) sb’s …s remain powerful (163) a pill prevents … (315)
concern (U,C) a near … (67) sb’s … for sth. (81) safety …s (305) the …s of sb. (623)
concern (vt) sth. … sth. (151)
concerned (adj.) as far as sb. is … (45) to be … about / with sth. (21, 72)
to be … about / for sth. || to be … (that -) (85)
concert [ `kånsêt ] (C,U) to act in … (1034)
concerted (adj.) to make … action (56) they make a … effort to do sth. (105)
conciliate (vt) … sb. (365)
conciliation (U) a … board (333)
conclude (speech:43) … peace (24) … an armistice (550)
… from sth. || … ( that ) - || … from sth. that - || to …, - || sb. … sth. with sth. / by doing sth. ||
sth. … with sth. (1165) sth. … || it can be / is … that - (1166)
concluding (adj.) a … remark (1165)
conclusion (C,U) a … of a peace ( pact ) (25) to draw a … ( from sth.* ) (112,1166*)
to jump / leap to …s (840) to say / write sth. in … (1041) in …, - (1165)
to jump / leap to the … that - || sth. points to / leads to / support a different … (1165)
to take the arguments to their … || to come to / reach a … ||
to come to / draw / reach the … that - || sth. leads to the … that - ||
the main … to be drawn from sth. is that - (1166) a result is a foregone … (1227)
a logical … from sb’s point of view || to carry / push a viewpoint to its logical … (1231)
it’s a foregone conclusion that - (1233)
conclusive (adj.) … findings / results / evidence / proof (1150)
conclusively (adv.) sth. proves sth. … (1150)
concomitant [ kên`kåmitênt ] (C) a … of war (313)
concomitant (adj.) … circumstances (313) a … sum of money (385)
concur [ kên`kê~ ] (vi& speech:676) … (with sb.) in sth. / that - (675) … to do sth. (677)
concurrence (U,sg.) the … of sb. || ( a xxx ) … ( of sth.) (677)
concurrent (adj.) … event || (be) … with sth. (677)
concurrently (adv.) to do sth. … with times (195) sth. changes … as sb. does sth. (677)
concuss [ kån`kûs ] (vt) be …ed (704+) concussion (E:U, A:C) with / have (a) … (704 / 705)
condemn (vt) … sth. (155) … sb. to torture (695)
… sb. to death (by hanging / beheading / decapitation / shooting / electrocusion (697+)
… a ship (719)
condemnation (C,U:237)
condemnatory (adj:739)
condescend [ kåndi`send ] (vi) … to sb. || … to do sth. (132) condescending (adj.) a … look (132)
condescendingly (adv:132) condescension (U) with undisguised … (132)
condition (U,C) a … for sth. || …s ( in sth.) are incredible (113) an indispensable … for sth. (146)
the … of society (148) to be in a … of servitude || sb’s … is hereditary (156)
sth. is based on the … that - (157) to live under primitive … (205)
optimum / optimal …s || …s are at their optimum (227)
to endure harsh …s || to live in / under …s characterized by sth. (245)
to be in a poor … (248) to live in overcrowded … || the appalling / dreadful ( living ) … of sb. (500)
to pay / terms and …s || working …s (791)
live in / sleep under appalling …s (613) …s of appointment (784)
the human … (1164) sb’s … condition (1253)
`condom (C:15)
`conduct (U) sb’s … (7) social … ||a code of … (152) blameworthy … (274)
dis`orderly … ( in the street ) (732)
conduct [ kên`dûkt ] (vi&t) … a search / negotiatios / a mission (6 / 24 / 155)
… a defence of sb’s rights (202) … one’s own … (209) … oneself + adv. (261, 843)
conductor (C:434)
`conduit (pipe / passage:563) use sth. / act as a … for sth. (577)
cone (C) a … (in the retina) (941)
confer (vi&t) … a knighthood on sb. (152) … dignity upon sb. (153) … with sb. (381)
conference (C) hold a (peace) … (24) a party … (823) to give / hold a press … (1058)
confess [ kên`fes ] (vi&t, speech:705) … (a sin) (to a priest) (159,748+)
… to (doing) sth. / that - (695+, 705) … oneself + adj. (705) … one’s faith (735)
confession (C,U) wrest a … out of sb. (14) to get / make a (full) … || to withdraw one’s … (695++)
to make a … of faith (735) to go to … || hear … (748) … of sin (749) auricular … (749)
on one’s own … (750)
confessional (adj.) … letter (746) confessional (C:749) confessor (C:748+)
confidant [ kånfidant / -`da~nt ] (C) to be sb’s … (738)
confide [ kên`faid ] (vi&t) … in sb. || … (sth.) (to sb.) || … to sb. that - (282,739)
… sbth. to sb. // to sb’s care / charge (742)
confidence (11) have (absolute / every) … in sbth. / oneself (120, 739+) (self-) … (482) … trick (702)
to exchange / share …s (738)
to lose (one’s) … in sbth. || lack of … ( in sbth.) ||
to undermine / destroy / shatter (sb’s) … ( in sbth.) (739)
to gain / win sb’s … || to have (every) … (that -) || to earn sb’s … ||
to boost / increase / restore sb’s … ( in sbth.) || to be lacking in / lack …. || sbth. inspires … in sb. ||
to gain (in) …|| one’s … grows || to abuse sb’s … || to shake / damage sb’s … in sb. (740+)
to do sth. with … (742) to be full of / have … (743) to give sb. the … to do sth. (744)
to treat sth. in strict / the strictest … (748)
(a) breach of … || to receive a … || betray a … || to tell sth. in … (749) to take sb. into one’s … (751)
to put / place (all one’s) … in sb. (753) to have blind / implicit … in sb. (753)
a vote of … (in sb.) || to be in sb’s … || to enjoy sb’s … (754) to show (sb.) / abuse sb’s … (759)
a … trickster / trick (701+)
`confident (adj.) to be … ( that -) (35,739) a … look (133) to be … (743)
to be / feel … of (doing) sth. (739) to be / feel … about sth. / oneself (739)
a … manner / smile || to be / feel … as to / about the future (754)
confidential (adj.) strictly … information (748) to keep sth. … || in a … way (750)
confidentiality (U) bound to … (306) based on … || (a) breach of … (750)
confidentially (adv:751)
confidently (adv:343)
confiding (adj.) in a … tone (750) confidingly (adv:751)
configuration (U,C) spatial … (571)
confine (vt) an occupation is …d to a place (216) English …d to the peasants (363)
… sb. to || sb. is …d in their room (846) to be …d to one’s bed / a wheelchair (1263)
confines (pl:158)
confinement (U,C) to place sb. in separate / solitary … (20) the day of … || the … is over (286+)
to keep sb. in close … (1011) a hospital … (1228) … to the barracks (1284)
confirm (vt) … one’s commitment || … (that) - (79, 550) … an ordinance (358) … one’s suspicion (398)
… sb. in sth. (755) … sb. (756) a newly …ed person (756)
confirmation (C:356,U:745) to hold … (755) a candidate for … (755)
to go to … classes || to be prepared for … || preparation / instruction for … (755)
`confiscate (vt:897)
conflagration (C) a … is roaring (235) :667)
conflict [ `kånflikt ] (C,U) to be prepared for (a) … (54) sb’s … with sb. (238) to resolve a … (472)
a industrial / labor (E/A) … (791)
conflict [ kên`flikt ] (vi) sb’s account … with sth. (207) …ing statements (212) …ing emotions (1084)
confront (vt) a challenge … sb. (165) … sb. with sb. (212)
to be …ed with the fact that - / sth. (831 / 1154)
confrontation (U,C:642)
confuse (vt) … sth. and / with sth. (197)
confused (adj.) to be … (125) a … battle (511)
confusion (C,U) to throw sb. into … (37) political … (203)
congenial (adj.) ( sth. is … to sth. (807)
a … collegue / atmosphere || an atmosphere is … to sb. || an occation is … to sth. (1250)
congeniality (U) spl’s … || the … of the season (1250)
congenital [ kên`d§enitl ] (adj.) sb’s … inability to do sth. || a … liar (908) a … abnormality (1091)
congratulate (vt) … sb. on sth. (99)
`congregate (vi:140)
congregation (C:219)
congress (C) the C… (804) a … hall (805)
conjugate (vi&t) a verb  … ( * in mood / tense ) (188, * 1218 )
conjunction (C) a … ( in a sentence ) (652) a happy … of events (987)
the … of pollution and illness (993)
sb. works in … with sb. || used in … with sth. (994 || 998) socioeconomic …s (997)
a canal in … with a river (1173)
conjure (vi&t) … ( * a rabbit out of a hat ) || … () up the soul of a dead person (71, 100* )
…() up a re-creation of the past (1275)
conjurer /<ror (C:71) conjuring (U) a … trick (71)
conman (C:701)
connect (vi&t:213,440,,,) … A and / with / to B (467,561,575,636,654) A and B … (574)
events … (537) … (eA) (with sb.) (632)
connect () sth. `up (with sth.) (575,654) … to sth. (654)
connected (adj.) … by marriage || to be (well) … (471)
connecting (adj.) … doors (444)
connection (C,U communications: 562, pipe, tube: 575) a business … (78)
a … between church and state (161) to make a … between sth. and sth. (465,635)
establish (a) (causal) … (467) join a … (513) in … with sth. (fig:553) in this / that … (553)
to have a … with sb. / sth. (636) miss a … (562) a road / bus / rail / train / flight … (563)
a bicycle pump … (589)
connections (people:471, family:471) to make … to sb. (472)
connective (C:652)
connective (adj.) … facts (534) … tissue (657)
connector (572) cord … (572)
connive (vi) … at / in sb’s offensiveness || … with sb. to do sth. (206)
connotation (C) a … of a word (1061) connotational (adj.) a … meaning / sense (1061)
conquer (214,370,384,385,392,415,+) will can … habit (1094)
conquering (adj.) a … aristocracy (214) a … hero (397)
conqueror (C) William the C… (149)
`conquest (U,sg,C) … by spl. (218) a French … (362) sb. is sb’s … (407) … of inflation (415)
conscience (C,U) to search one’s … (6) to be at peace with one’s … (12)
to wrestle / struggle with one’s … (15) liberty of … (23) sb’s clear … (47)
to do sth. with a clear … (120) to have a bad / guilty … (487) by light of … (548)
a pang / prick / twinge of … (706) pangs of … (707) to clear one’s … || ease sb’s … (753)
sth. is a point of … with sb. (832) a sensitive / an insensitive / callous … (943)
at the bar of one’s … (1139) sth. stabs sb’s … (1307)
conscientious [ kån§i`en§ês ] (adj.) a … parent (2)
‘conscientious ob`jector (C:196)
conscientiousness (U) social … (146)
conscientiously (adv:3)
conscious (adj.) to be … of ( doing* ) sth. / that - (10, 42* ) acutely … (418) self–… (33)
a … thought (1172)
consciousness (U,C) a political … (7)
to bring sb. to … (387) to lose // recover / regain … (638+)
conscript [ kên`skript ] (vt) … sb. ( into the army ) (194,375)
`conscript (C:194)
`conscript (adj.) a … soldier / army (194,375) conscription (U:194)
consent (U) ( verbal / written / informed / tacit ) … (82) with / without (prior) … (90)
to give / grant (sb.) (one’s) … ( to sth. ) (91) obtain (sb’s) … (97) by common / general … (101)
sth. in … (118)
consent (vi) … ( to (do) sth.) (84,94)
consequence (C,U) of near … to sb. (55) a ( quite / very / most ) likely / probable … of sth. (176)
the … of (doing ) sth. (487) in … ( * of sth. ) (627 / * 790)
with a xxx … || to face / take / suffer the …s of sth. || as a ( direct ) … of sth. ||
sth. has a ( serious ) … ( for sbth.) (789+)
consequent (adj.) (sth. and) (a / the) … sth. || sth. … (up)on sth. (790)
consequential (adj.) a … matter / (sth. and) (a / the) … reduction etc. (790)
consequently (adv:150)
conservation (U:78) a … area (316)
conservative (adj.) a … outlook (185) the C… Party (1171)
conservative (C) & C… (1171)
consider (vi&t) … sb./ oneself / sth. (as / to be) sth. (1,59) … sth. (to be) + adj. (28)
… sbth. ( with an expert eye * ) (32, 134* ) … the topicality of sth. (46) … the fact that - (59)
… (doing) sth. || … the possibility of doing sth. (79) … one’s position (98) … a plan (101)
to have got no … for sb. (133) to be advised to … (136) … (that) - (174)
… whxx - (177) … oneself ( to rank ) above sb. (179) … it important / necessary to do sth. (180)
… sb. / sb’s feelings (183) … sth. on its (own) merits (258) all things …ed (284)
sb. is …ed if - (592)
considerable (adj.) sth. of … interest (44) to show … talent (125) … prestige (154)
… wealth / power (214) a … amount of money / sum (292)
considerate (adj.) to be … towards sb. (69) a kind and … person || it is … of sb. ( to do sth. ) (5)
considerateness (U:1086)
consideration (U,C) to take sth. under (active) … (11) a plan receives … (101)
to take sth. into … (102)
after some / due / proper / serious // careful / mature … || on (further) … (134+ // 407)
to do sth. with careful … (197) to give full / serious etc. … to (doing) sth. (242 / 260)
to put sth. forward for … (258) economical / practical …s (pl.) (259)
to give sth. serious … || sth. deserves / merits ( further ) … (260)
to hold sb. in great … || to treat sb. with … || to do sth. out of … for sb. (280)
to show (no) … for sbth. (282) to do sth. in … of a payment (294)
a payment in … for a service || to do sth. in … for a (small) … (301) a … of (the) judgement (693)
considered (adj.) a … response (135) to form a … opinion (258)
-considered (adj.) an ill-… remark (1244)
considering ( adv., prep.) to do bad / well, … ( sth. / that - / whxx ) (188)
consist (vi) a group … of pacefists (12) breakfast … of sth. (77) chivalry … of some qualifications (152)
consistency (U,C) to do sth. with … (161)
consolation (U,C) sth. is one … || it’s a … knowing / to know that - (956)
consolatory [ kên`sålêtêri ] (adj.) it is … that - (1204)
console (vt:737)
consolidate [ kên`sålideit ] (vi&t) … one’s supremacy (144) a …d holding (1172)
consolidation (U,C) a century of … (220)
consonant (C:1218)
consort [ kên`så~t ] (vi) … with sb. (428,487)
consort [ `kånså~t ] (C:person:445, ship:666) the prince etc. … (445)
conspicuous [ kên`spikjuês ] (adj.) to be … (72) … blond hair (114)
a … place || to be … by one’s absence / sth. (517 / -20) … con`sumption || to make oneself … (598)
to play a … part / role (553)
conspicuousness (598)
conspiracy [ kên`spirêsi ] (C,U) charged with … to defraud (115)
spl. form a … ( against sb. / to do sth.) (486)
to detect /disclose / uncover a … || a … of silence surrounding sth.(487) … ( to sth.) (540)
conspiratotial [ kênspirê`tå~riêl ] (adj.) a … opposition / voice (486) conspiratorially (adv:486)
conspirator [ kên`spirêtê ] (C:313,486) conspiratress (C:487)
conspire [ kên`spaiê ] (vi) sth. / spl. … against sb. / to do sth. (486)
constable (C) a police // sergeant / chief … (891 // 1135)
constant (adj:35) constantly (adv:44)
`Constanti`nople (N:147)
constellation (C) a … of stars (995)
con`stituency (C:801) for one’s … (309)
con`stituent [ kên`stit$juênt ] (person:801) a … of a tissue (649)
`constitute (vt) five books … the Torah (70)
constituted ( adj.) a … form of government (146)
constitution (C:196) the right to do sth. under the … || rights and freedoms guaranteed by the …. (625)
sth. dominate sb’s physical / psychical … (1240)
constitutional (315) … formula (569) … rights (625)
construction (7) … firm (328)
constructive (adj.) … criticism (1164)
consul (C) a … ( in ancient Rome ) (924)
consult (vi&t) … sb. (about sth.) (40) … (with) sb. about / on sth. (45,798)
… a manual / map / a watch / one’s pocket / (A) pocketbook (798)
consultancy (U,C) to provide … || a … firm (798)
consultant (C) act as … for sb. (44) a … (E: at a hospital) (728) an IT … ||
a … on financial affairs (798)
consultation (C,U) to arrange / have a … || (a) … between sb. || to act / work in ( close ) … with sb. ||
to be in … over sth. (44)
… exercise / paper / document / process / period (69) in need of … (798)
consultative (adj.) a … referendum / body (553 / 798)
consulting (U) … advice / a … firm (798)
consumer (C) … society (189) … demand (594) … goods (pl.) || … `durables (pl. E) (874)
consummate [ `kånsêmeit ] (vt) … a career (450) … a marriage (454)
consummate [ kên`sûmit / `kånsêmit ] (adj.) a … performer / skill (450) … tact (454) a … taste (505)
consummately (adv:450)
consummation (U) the … of one’s life’s work (450) the … of a marriage (457)
con`sumption (U) the … of wine (449) … ( of electricity ) (574) power … (576) telephone … (576)
conspicuous `… (598) private … (787) unfit for human … (1223)
`contact (U,C) … with sb. (35) face-to-face … with sb. (49) to make … to sb. (472)
to wear … lens(es) (764) to make eye … with sb. (905)
`contact (vt) … sb. (35)
contagion (U,C) a … of high spirits sweeps through the party (1252)
a … of worry spreads || the danger of … || by … || to transmit … (1254)
contagious (adj.) a … laughter (1252) sb. is … || a … disease (1254)
contain (vt) a book … sth. (27) a phrase … a verb (46) concrete … sth. (204)
… an enemy in a place (1035)
container (C) a … with litter (29) a … ship (664)
contaminate [ kên`tamineit ] (vt) … water (1255) sewage … water (1256)
… sth. with clashing colours (1267)
contaminated [ kên`tamineitid ] (adj.) … food / water (1254) water … with sth. (1256)
contamination (U:1255)
contemplate (vi&t) … revenge (388)
contemplation (U) in … (532)
contemporary (adj.) a … account (70)
contemporary (C) a … of sb. (1180)
contempt (U,sg.) to glare at sb with / in … (129)
to hold sb. in … ( for doing sth. ) || to be guilty of … of court || to jail sb. for … (473)
to look at / treat sb. with … || to feel / show { deep / utter / undisguised … for sb. (474)
to show a … for sbth. (478) beneath … (480) to expose sb. to public … (840)
contemptible (adj.) a … person (428)
contemptuous [ kên`tempt$uês ] (adj.) a … look (132, 474) … of sb./ sth. (183, 474) a … tone (211)
con`tend (vi) … that - (581)
con`tent (vt) … oneself with (doing) sth. (581)
con`tent (pred.adj.) to be … ( with sth.* ) (101, 246* )
con`tent(ment) (U:101)
`content (C) the … of a chapter (125) the …s of a house (294) a carbon … (443) a …s bill (826)
a table of …s (849)
contented (adj.) to be … || a … nod (101)
contention (C,U) political … (1018)
`contest (C) a close …(62) an even … (303)
contestant (C) a … ( in a casting ) (52)
context (C,U) sth. appears from a historical … (166)
continent (C) the C… (68)
continental (adj.) C… breakfast (75)
contingency [ kê`tind§ênsi ] (C) to consider all …ies (294) a … causing loss and harm || a … fund (295)
a … arises || a … plan (307)
continual (adj.) … alert / fights (511) continually (adv:78)
continuation (C,U) a … of a trail (891)
continue (vi&t) … an argument (87) feudalism … (149) sb. … to do sth. (160)
continued / continuing (adj:511)
continuous (adj.) a … series (431) … alert / fights (511) … with sth. (734)
continuity (U:158)
contraband (U:1136)
contraband (adj.) … goods (1136)
contraception (U:315)
contraceptive (315) a … pill (315)
contract (C) to sign a ( binding ) … (93) under the terms of a … (293)
a … with sb. / for sb. / for sth. (303)
to bid for /A& on // to tender for a … (564)
to award sb. / to win a … || a … is undecided / unsettled / ( up ) in the air (1127)
to invite bids for /A& on // tenders for a … || to submit a bid for /A& on // a tender for a … (1147)
a … to do sth. || to enter into / make / agree a … ( with sb.) ||
to sign / break / fulfil / end / terminate a … || sb. is in breach of … (1147)
contract (vi&t) … a marriage with sb. (178) … () in sb. / … () out sth. (560) sth. … into sth. (821)
… a disease (1254)
contraction (U) … of a disease (1255)
contractor (C) a building / sewer … (560 / 564) a firm of …s (1150)
contradict [ kåntrê`dikt ] (vi&t,& speech:241) … sb. / sth. (86, 694)
contradiction (U,C) entancle sb. in …s (689)
contradictory (adj.) … account (59) … statements (212)
contrary (adj.) … to public belief etc.) (85)
contrary (sg.) on / quite the … (43) to suppose the … (1073)
contrast (C,U) in … to sb. (264) sth. forms a glaring … to sth. (279)
in stark / marked / sharp / glaring … to sth. (1084)
contribution (C,U) a … of sth. (170) a … to a debate (820)
`contrite [ -ai ] (adj:540) … apology (549) contritely (adv:549)
contrition (U:540)
control (U,C) to have … of sth. (21) to take / gain … of a town / sb’s mind (105 / 1066)
to exercise … over a state (145) damage … (976)
control (vt) … sb. (86) … a university / a military operation (172 / 192)
controller (C) an air-traffic … (673) a radio / tv programme … (1271)
controversial (adj.) a highly … opinion (1058)
`controversy (C,U) a … over sth. (161)
conundrum (C:508)
convalescence (U) sb. needs … (1262)
convalescent (adj.) a … home / hospital (1262)
convalescent (C:1263)
con`venience (C) a … (of a city) (167) a public .`.. (1062)
convenient (adj.) a … way to do sth. (175)
conveniently (adv:407)
`convent (C:222)
convention (C,U) a … on human rights (315)
conventional (adj:124)
conventual (adj:235)
conversable (40) conversance with sth. (41)
conversant (adj.) be … with sth. (41)
conversation (C,U) to enter / get into / (A: a) … (with sb.) (40) to be in … with sb. about sth. (41)
to commit criminal … (43) subject / topic of … (44) to make … (46)
a one-to-one / tête-à-tête /A one-on-one … (260) a telephone … (576)
to bring a … round to something else (1291)
conversational (adj.) a … ( talent / style / topic ) (41/46) … wisdom (463)
conversationally (adv:43)
conversationalist (C:47)
`converse (U) ( to argue ) the … (43)
`converse (adj.) … proposition (43)
con`verse (v) … (with sb.) (about / on sth.) (44,46)
conversely (adv.) …, sb. does sth. (36)
conversion (U,C) … (from sth.) (into / to sth.) (16,46) fraudulent … (971)
con`vert (vi&t) … (sth./ sb.) (from sth.) (into / to sth.) (16,44,46) to preach to the ….ed (742)
`convert (C:44)
convertible (17)
convey (vt) a title … a belief (70) … a sign / signal (74)
conveyance (U:409,C:---)
`convict (C:117)
con`vict (vt) … sb. ( on a charge ) of sth. (117)
conviction (C,U) to act from … (56) in the ( firm ) … that - (207) sb. of settled …s (1233)
convince (vt) … sb. (of sth.) (83) … sb. that - (87)
convinced (adj.) …. { of sth. / that - (93) convincing (adj:84) convincingly (92)
convoy (C) … freighter (668) to sail in … (668) convoy (vt:668)
convulse (vi&t) a contry is …d in revolution (1186)
cook (vi&t) sth. …. || … ( food / a meal ) for sb. || … sb. sth. || … sth. for a meal (258)
sth. is …ing (fig.) || … the `books || … sb’s `goose || … () `up a story etc. (260)
cook (C:258) too many … spoil the broth (448)
cooked (adj.) … breakfast / bacon (77)
cooker (C) a (gas) … (E) (564) cooking (U:68)
cool (vi&t) sb. … down (35 ) sth. … (down) (262)
cool (U) to keep one’s … (109) in the … of sth. (770)
cool (adj.) a … draught (617) to keep a … head (689)
to be …, calm and collected || sb. is be … as a cucumber || a … customer || to keep / stay … (1241)
cool-headed (adj.) a … response (276)
coolness (U) a sensation of … (937) cooly (adv.)
coop (C) to fly the … (278)
coop (v) sb. / an animal is …ed `up (242 / 278)
cooperate E& co-operate [ kêu`åpêreit ] (vi) … in (doing) sth. (144)
cooperation /E& co-operation [ kêu’åpê`rei$n ] (U:121) … ( * with sb.) in doing sth. (1139,* -40)
cooperative [ kêu`åpêrêtiv ] (adj:104) cooperative (C:169) cooperativeness (855)
cope (vi) … ( with sth.) (446,594) … with sb. (477)
copper (U,C) a … place (1312)
copula (C) a … ( verb ) (652,1121)
copy (C) a photo … (330) a back-up … (335)
copyholder (C:374)
copyright (C,U) to breach / infringe the … || to own / hold the … on sth. || a … expires (653)
coquet [ kêu`ket - / kå`- ] (vi) a woman … (36) coquetry [ `kåkêtri E/A `kou - ] (C:36)
coquette [ kêu`ket - / kå`- ] (C:36) coquettish (adj:36)
cord (C) … connector (572) extension … (572) telephone … (575) a spinal … (936)
cordon (C) a police … (778) cordon (v) the police … () off sth. (778)
core (C) the hard `… (486), hard-`… (attr.adj:486) the … of an empire (767) corkscrew (338)
corn (U,C) to thresh … (18) a … (142)
corned (adj.) … beef ( hash ) (954)
corner (C) a … of a street (6) to take a … ( kick ) (25)
to back / box /drive / force / push sb. into a … || sb. has got sb into a … || to paint oneself into a … ||
to be in a tight … || to get out of a … (100) to turn the … (249)
the … of one’s eye (432) to lift a … of the veil (of sth.) (490)
to keep within the four …s of the law (921) to cut a … (953) to cut …s (956)
Cornish (adj.) a … person (220)
coronation (363,420)
coroner (C:709) …’s court / inquest (709)
corporal (mil.) (C:191)
corporal (adj.) … punishment (202)
corporation (C) … tax (U) (411)
corps = pl. [ sg. kå~ / pl. kå~z ] (C) transportation … (204) army … (497) press … (1058)
corpse [ kå~ps ] (C:697)
corpuscle [ `kå~pûsl ] (C) a red blood … (1258)
corpuscular (adj.) a … theory (1170)
correct (v) … a fault / mistake (595)
correctness (U) political … (629)
correspondence (U,C) a … column (626)
correspond (vi) some versions … (51)
sb’s dignity … to that of sb. (153)
correspondent (C:508)
corresponding (adj.) a … organization (221)
corridor (C:128)
corrode (vi&t) … a design on sth. || copper … || acid … metal (1312)
sth. … sb’s confidence in sth. (1314)
corroded (adj:575)
corrosion (U) a sign of … || an anti-… treatment (1313)
corrosive (adj.) a … acid (1312) the … effect of moistness (1313)
sth. has a … effect on society (1314)
corrugated (adj.) a … surface (940)
corrugatedness (U:940)
corrupt (vt) … a text (237) to be …ed by sth. (604)
corrupt (adj.) a … person / practice (369,604)
corrupted (adj:604)
corruptible (adj:604)
corrupting (adj.) a … effect of sth. (604)
corruption (U:605)
cosmological [ kåzmê`lod§ikl ] (adj.) a … theory (821)
cosmopolitan (adj.) a … city (775)
cost (C,U) … of delivery (26) to work out the …s (28) sb. incur the …s of sth. (152)
to find out / learn to one’s … (303) to pay the … of sth. || to meet / bear the … (of sth.) (783)
(as) sb. knows to their … (904) on (the) grounds of …s / the … (997) the true …s of being sth. (1284)
cost (vt) sth. … sb. all chances (37) sth. … casualties (510) … an arm and a leg (590)
sth. … a fine (949)
costly (adj.) … goods (31) a … failure / mistake (61 / 110) a … car / friend (1041)
cosy (adj.) a … glow (30)
cot(<tage) (C:213) a log … (866)
Cotswolds [ kûtswêuldz / <wêldz ] (N) the … (213)
cottager (C:1172)
couch (C:645)
couch (vt) … speech / writing ( in xxx terms ) (889)
cough (C) an irritating … (766) to get a tickling / smoker’s … (773) … medicin / syrup / mixture (773)
to give a … (774) whooping … (U) (1257)
cough (vi) … || … () `up sth. ) (766) an engine … (767) coughing (U:108)
could / couldn’t / could not ( pat. of can ) (3+)
council (C) students’ representative …(3) a city … (28) a … chamber (521) a … member (521)
… tax (411) … of war (495, fig:593)
to be on the … (521) to hold a … (521) to hold … with sb. (550)
borough / district / county / town / city … (623 / 623 / 409 / 98 / 209)
councillor (C:28,521)
councilman, <woman (C:521)
counsel (U,C) … for the defendant / defence // prosecution || prosecuting / defence … (115,626)
to hear sb’s … || to give good …(s) (137) to listen to sb’s …(s) (138)
to give (a) … of des`pair / per`fection (521) to keep one’s own … (518)
spl. take … ( together ) || to take … with / from sb. || to take … of one’s pillow ||
a … of despair / perfection || saner / wiser …s prevail (521)
counsel (vt) … sb. to do sth. (137, 518) … caution (140, 518) … together (514) … an armistice (550)
counselling (U:380) counsellor (C:604)
count (C:nobleman:173) a … ( of a crime ) (686) ( to agree ) on some …s (pl.) (821)
count (vi&t) … sb. `out (15) … on ( * doing ) sth. ( * 201,281) … oneself lucky (284)
counter (C) to sell / buy sth. under the … (515) <clerk / <man / <girl (580)
countable (adj.) a … noun (1218)
counter (v:484,529) (do sth.) … (to) (484)
counter- (prefix) <act (484) <balance /<check /<claim /<poise /<work (485)
<action,<active,<actor (485) <accusation (548) <argument (196) -attack (C/v:386) <blast (548)
<blow / <stroke (C:530) <charge (548) <clockwise (302) <culture (548)
<balance,<claim,<declararion,<demonstration,<force,<manifesto,<measures,<pressure,<propagande
<proposal,<reform,<reformation,<statement,<tendency,<vail,<view,<work (485)
<check,<plot (C,v:489) <`espionage,<in`telligence (518) <feit (C/v:534) <mand (v/C:551)
<march (v/C:551) <move (C,v:489,499) <offer (C:489) <part (551) <poison (505) <proof (688)
<punch (C:530) <reply (548) <revolution (C:491) <sign (493) <signature (493) <spy (C:518)
<turn (C:499) <word (C:545) <sunk (adj:574)
countess (C:173)
countless (adj:662)
countrified (adj:379)
country [ `küntri ] (C,U) a … (2) a … resort (12) to go into the … (56)
flat // open / wooded … (U) (213 // 379) a … `bumpkin (379) sb’s native … (390)
a `… club / `seat / `house || … `dancing || to ride across … (410)
sb’s own … (413) appeal to / go to the … || take an issue to the … (804)
countryfolks (pl:379) countryman (C:349,379,390)
countryside (U) disappearance of the … (81) in the … (168) amid …(379)
countrywide (adj.) … sovereignty (372)
countrywide (adv.) sth. is spread … (374)
countrywoman (C:379,390)
countship (C,U:173)
county (C:173,344) … `council (409) … `town (409) countywide (371)
coup [ ku~ ] (C) to stage / mount a … || an attempted / abortive / a failed … || a … d’ etat / attempt (312)
sth. is a .. for sb. (331) sth. deals / gives the … de grâce to sb’s career (1277)
couple (C:5)
couplet (C:1172)
coupon (C) redeem a … || a … is redeemable (against sth.) (757)
courage [ `kûrid§ ] (U) to have the virtue of … || to keep () `up one’s … (206+)
sb’s … fails / deserts them (232)
to screw up / summon up one’s `… || to pluck up … || to pluck up / summon up / the … to do sth. ||
to have the … to do sth. (283)
to show … (401) to lose one’s … (844)
to give oneself / get up Dutch … (1281)
course (C,U) in the … of a / the year (20) to steer a middle … (21)
a participant in a … || a … in English / on a subject (46)
a two- / three- / etc. -… meal (82) sign up for a … (89)
as a matter of … (99) the … of nature (186) in the … of time (189) to set a … for home (235)
(the) … of events (427,482) ( in the natural / normal / usual ) … of events / things (494)
a water>… (504) the … of a river (768) to plot a … (661) to take the easiest … (963)
to take / go to a … in sth. (966)
to alter / change … (1133) a golf … (1231)
court (v:377,388,392,396,405)
court (C yard:382) a … card (9) a … action / case (54)
to take a matter to … || to present a matter to the … || in a … of law || the … finds sb. guilty (58)
a law … (69) to hold one’s own … of justice (151) to serve the … of sb. (154)
a decision of the High / Supreme C… || a … decides sth. (189) to bring a case to … (209)
sb’s position on ( a tennis ) … (317) the royal … (371) the life at … (379) a … of a castle (382)
a … official (384) … circles (383) to pay … to sb. (389) to hold … ( with sb.) (391)
a summary court (1104) a … jester (1106) a clay … (1314)
courteous (adj:389) courteously (adv:390) courtesan (C:378) courtesies (pl:389)
courtesy (U,C:390,404) to react to … (36) chivalry includes … (152)
a lack of common … || to have the … to do sth. (179)
to do sb. the … of doing sth. (378) sth. does sth. (by) … of sth. (389)
courtier (C:384) courtship (C,U:393,403)
courtyard (C:139)
cousin (C:440)
covalent [ kou`valênt ] (adj.) a … bond (569)
cove [ kêuv ] (C:658)
covenant (C) to make a … with sb. (1029)
cover (vt) a book … a topic (44) an income … the expenditure (60) … one’s tracks (117,491)
some insurance … accidents (138) … () up one’s impudence (185) a history play … a period (364)
a carpet … the floor (441) … () up food (448) sb. … a bed with sth. (456) … a conference (1058)
… () in a terrace || … () over a hole with sth. || … a cushion with sth. || a river … a village ||
snow … the ground || sb. … ( themselves ) up || sb. … () up their body etc. ( with sth.) (1266)
sth. … () over the remains (1267) the radio / tv … an event (1270)
sb. … a subject || sb. … a music number || … oneself against a claim (1271)
a lid … a casserole || … the bread with butter || … sth. with water / dust ||
a shoe is …ed in mud (1272)
a story … a lot of ground (1274) sb. … a good deal of ground / x miles (1276)
forest … a place || the police … an exit / a person (1282)
… a coffin with / in flowers || … in a grave (1283) … () up a crime etc. (1285)
… ons’s nervousness || sb. … for sb. (1292)
cover (C,U) insurance … (136) to have ( adequate ) insurance … (138) the …s (456)
cloud … (U) (667) under (the) … of darkness (504) to run for … (1088) snow … (1266)
a book / dust … || … paper || to read a book / paper from … to … (1269) medical health … (1270)
a … version of a music number (1271) to take / break … || to get / stay under … (1272)
a … girl on the … of a magazine || a … story (1276, -79) to work under … || a … name (1279)
forest … (U) || under (the) … of darkness / night || under … of the darkness / night (1282)
to have air … (1287) a dust … || a … slip / glass (1288) to provide emergency … (1289)
sth. is a … for sb’s fraud (1292) to blow sb’s … (1293)
to send sth. under separate / plain …(1294)
coverage (U) insurance … (138) a magazine has extensive … of sth. (1269)
under … of official matters etc. (1284)
immunizaton … against a disease || medical health … || to receive inadquate … in the press ||
to obtain press … for the event || tonight’s live … of sth. (1270)
coveralls (A) (727)
covered (adj.) … in breadcrumbs / rash (79 / 380) … with clouds (435) sb. is … in bruises (625)
a … tower (887) a … terrace (982) … in snow (1152)
a … area || a tree is … with blossom / fruit / greenfly || a wall … with pictures (1267)
sb. is well-… (1272) … with fur / hair (1282) to be … with / in flowers (1283)
covering (sg., pl,) a thick … of snow on sth. (1266) floor / wall …s (1267) a leafy … (1272)
to pull the … off sth. (1279) a … force || … troops (1286)
covering (adj.) a paint has good … power (1268) a … letter (1294)
covert (C) an animal hide in its … (1282)
covert [ kûvêt / `kêuvê~t ] (adj.) to cast a … glance at sb. || a … purpose (78) … surveilance (1280)
a … threat (1281)
covertly (adv:78)
coverture = covert
`cover-up (C) sth. is a … ( hiding sth.) (427)
covet (vt) … sth. / sb. (371 / 750) … the chance to do sth. (379)
coveted (adj.) (a) … chance / trophy / glory (379,385)
covetous (adj.) cast … eyes on sth. (371) … person || be … of sth. (376) covetousness (U:375)
cow (C:18) …’s milk (993)
cowhand (:1237)
coward (C:89) cowardice / cowardliness (U) … in the face of danger (89)
cowardly (adj.) … submission (89) cowboy (558)
cowhand (C:1237)
cowshed (720)
coxcomb (C:10)
coxcombic, <al (adj:10)
coxwain (C:45)
cozen (vt) … sb. (1067)
Cr
crabby (adj:776)
crack (vi&t) … a joke (35) a marriage … under pressure (176) thunder … (436) sb. … a crackling (796)
… down ( hard ) on sth. (1278)
crack (C&U:49) a … of thunder (436) a … in the ice (677) a ( smart ) … on the head (1279)
crackdown (C) … on sb. / sth. (613)
crackle (vi) firewood … (30)
crackle (U,C) the … of crackling(s) (796)
crackling (sg,U,pl.) a piece of … (E) || …s (A) || the … of …(s) (796) crackly (adj.) … rind (796)
cradle (v:299,338) to … sb. in one’s arrms (287)
cradle (C:315,321,328) to do sth. from the … (fig.) (283) to prepare a … for sb. (287)
telephone … (299) …–robber / –snatcher (282)
craft (U,C) arts and …s (138) the … of carpenters || sb’s … || wood-… (138)
a lot of … || to have a … (139) to be full of … || to get sth. by … (180)
craftiness (U:180) craftless (adj.) a … person (180)
craftsman (C) a (skilled) … (138) a master … (781) craftsmanship (U:138) craftsperson (C:138)
craftswoman (C) a (skilled) …(138) craftwork (U:138)
craftsmanlike (adj.) … work (781)
crafty (adj.) … as a fox (180)
crakow (C:1234)
crane (C: bird:1126) a … loads a ship (664)
crank (C) to dismiss sb. as a … (86) a starting … (332)
crap (U) to talk a load of … (479)
craps (U) to shoot … (1140)
crash (v) thunder … (436) a computer … (653)
crash (C) a plane … (64) a … victim (293) a deafening … (418) a … of thunder (436) a … helmit (578)
a head-on … (585)
crash-land (vi&t:667) crash (-) `landing (C) to make a … 667)
crater (C) a volcano … (418) a bomb … (1088)
cravat (C:1101)
crave (vi&t) … (for) enjoyment || … to do sth. (1050)
craving (C) to feel a … for / to do sth. (944)
craw (C) sth. sticks in sb’s … (A) (fig.) (1085)
crawl (vi, traffic:441) sb. … along (504) … on one’s belly / stomach (1188)
crawler (C) a court … (542)
crayfish (650) crayon (C:875)
crazed (adj.) … with pain (884)
crazy (adj.) it would be … to do sth. (259) … humour (1247)
crazily (adv.) a … humorous moment (1240)
creak (vi) a floorboard … (781)
cream (U:18&C) heavy / double … (447) … sherry (448) light / single / coffee … (453)
(a) … of fish (793)
crease (C) to iron () out a … (452)
crease (vi&t) sb’s brow … (41)
create (vt) … a market (26) … the universe (70) … a demand (127) … sb. a knight / a peer (152)
… a realm of … a scandal (836) … a festive occation (1248)
creative [ kri´eitiv ] (adj.) … endeavours (259) … expression (731) the … itch (785)
creativity [ kri~ei`tiviti ] (U:787)
creature (C) a shy … (32) … of habit (336) a living … (825)
cred (U:77)
credence (U) lend … to sth. (84) to gain … (107)
credential (A) (vt) … sb. (92)
credentials (pl.) (91)
credibility (U:87) … gap (106) to lose … || to undermine sb’s … (107)
credible (adj.) a … account / alternative (84,89) it is … that - (105)
credibly (adv:102)
`credit (vt:113,115,119) … sb. as sth. (85) … an account with sth. (97)
to be …ed with sth. || sth. is …ed to sb. (120)
`credit (U,C:112,119) to give sb. … (fig:84) no … (92) to buy sth. on … || …account / note (95)
… arrangement / card / facility / limit / rating / risk / terms || on the … side (fig.) (96)
to receive … to pay sb. by direct … into a bank || an account is in … … transfer (E) (97)
(sth.) to sb’s … (fig:107)
the … goes to sb. || sbth. gets (all) the … || sth. does sb. … || sb. takes the … (for sth.) (120)
… rating agency / … institute (780)
`creditable (adj:112) creditably (adv:106,112)
creditor (C:95)
creditworthy (adj:96) creditworthiness (U:96)
credo [ `kri~ / `kreidêu ] (C:71)
credulous [ `kredjulês ] (adj.) a … person (112)
credulity [ kri`dju~liti ] (U:112,118) to practice on sb’s … (43)
creed (C) to speek the C… (159)
creep (vi+ adv.) a cold light … under a curtain (438) sb. … away (206) fog comes …ing in (1113)
the effect of a shock comes …ing up on sb. (1115) sb. … up to sth. (1137)
creep (C,U) a court … (484)
creepy-crawly (C:526)
cremate (vt:757)
crenel (C:370) crenelated (adj:370)
crescendo (C) a … in the music (783)
crest (C) the … of a wave (225)
to be on / ride the … of a wave || to ride the … of innovation etc. (271)
the … of a hill / cliff (1115 / 1117)
crestfallen (adj.) to look … (1133)
cresting (C:370)
crevice (C:677)
crew (50,323) … member (323) a motley ... (579) a `… cut (877)
cricket (U:633, C) a … chirps /E& chirrups (772)
crier (C) a ( town ) … (277)
crime (U,C:60) to clear () up / unravel / disclose / uncover / solve a … (274) the scene of the … (709)
economic / financial …s (786) a … novel (1082)
senseless … (975)
Crimea (N) the … (1187)
criminal (C:49) a small … (844)
criminal (adj.) to commit … conversation (43) … code / law (202) … inclinations (844)
crimson (adj:1234)
cripple (vt) sb. is …d (o-f) (286) a league is …d (1205)
crippling (adj.) a … taxation (361)
crisis (pl:crises) (C,U) in times of … (19) to be / live through a … (89) a … situation (110)
crisp (adj.) … rind (796)
criss(-)cross (C) in a … (468) criss(-)cross (adj.) a … pattern (468)
critic (C) a … critiques / reviews a film (50) not lack for …s (56) to be sb’s … (165)
to defend sb. against a … (202) a social … (1223)
critical (adj.) a … attitude (45) a … situation (119) to be … of sth. (171) in … times (260)
at the … moment (1089)
criticism (C,U) to mean sth. as a … (42) to partake in social … (45) not lack for … (56)
to defend sb. against … (202) to be outspoken in one’s… (238)
to express devastating … of sth. || to direct / level { harsh / severe / strong … against sth. / at sb. (279)
the … of sth. (327) to ward () off … (377) constructive … (1164)
criticize (vi&t) to outspokenly … sth. (239) … ng. ( for ngt.) (327)
critique (C,U) to read a … of a film (50) … of a book / a set of ideas (163)
critique (vt) … a film (50)
crochet [ `krêu$ei ] (vi&t:266)
crochet (U:265) a … hook || … work (266)
crock (C:1218) a … of gold (1321)
crocodile (C) to shed / weep … tears (1084)
crocus (C:403)
crop (C) to irrigate a … (18) to cultivate / raise a … (144) a ripe … (223)
crop (vi&t) … sb’s hair || ( closely ) …ed hair (877)
cross (vi&t) a ball … a line (400) … one’s arms (464) … against the red (582)
cross (C:221) to have a ( heavy ) … to bear (488) … and bolts (381) to put a … against a name (808)
cross (adj.) to get … (642)
crossbar (C) a … ( of a goal ) (302)
crossbow (C:381)
cross-country (adj.) … riding / skiing (410 / 1159)
cross-country (adv.) to ride / ski … (410 / 1159)
cross-examin`ation (212) to be under … (711)
cross-ex`amine (vt:711)
crossing (C) a level / railway … (E) || a grade … (A) || an unguarded … (1111)
cross-road(s) (C:19)
cross-walk (A) (582)
crossway (C:19)
crossword ( puzzle ) (C) to do / solve a … || a solution to a … (410)
crow [ krêu ] (C) as a … flies (66) to eat `… (A) (79) a …’s nest ( fig.) (140)
crow (vi &speech:377) … ( about / over sth. // that - ) (375)
crowbar (C:1137)
crowd (C) sb. mingles with a … of spl. (10) a dense … (11) to part / disperse a … (22)
the usual … (45) a … assembles / gathers / collects (124) taxation presses on the … (1040)
to follow the … (1043, - 58) a society … || the underprivileged … (1056)
a … (of spl.) gather(s) / collect(s) || a … is gathered || … control / trouble (1057)
the same old … || to stand out from / go against / be one of the … (1058) a … of cars (1060)
spl. are a nice … (1068)
crowd (vt&vi+adv.) … the streets (22) thoughts / ideas … sb’s mind / memory (1047)
fear / thoughts / memories … in on sb. / into sb’s mind || memories … sb’s mind (1052)
… sth. in(to) / onto a place || sth. / sb. … a place (1054, - 57)
sb. … in || … () `out sb. || sb. … (sb.) into a place || spl. are …ed together (1057) sb. … around (1058)
spl. … through sth. || spl. … (a)round sb. || … sb. with questions || sb. … sb. (1059)
to … speed (1060) spl. … (at) the bus stop (1062) the one (sth.) … the other (1063)
a reader’s letter is … out (1072) … sb. for payment (1076)
crowded (adj.) a … house (138) a … schedule || a place … with sth. / spl. (1054, - 58)
a … hall / district (1059+) … passengers (1062)
a … event / week || sb’s mind is … with thoughts (1063) to play to … houses || a … programme (1070)
crown (C coin:579) a … prince (178) sbth. is the jewel in the … of sth. ( fig.) (263, -89)
loyalty to the … (350) to claim the French … (359) the C… (420, 431) … `jewel(s) (420,442)
the … of sb’s head (423) to retain one’s / win the (xxx) … (632+) to put a … on a tooth (646)
crown (vt) to … the achievement (39) … sb. (343) the …ing of sb. (366) to … it all (430)
… sth. ( with sth.) (& fig:433) … sb. with a blow (461) … a tooth (646)
crowned ( adj.) the … heads (420)
crowning (adj:420) … achievement (433) … glory (420,442)
crucial (adj.) a … discussion (19) … memories (212)
crucify (vt) … sb. (1096)
crude (adj.) … language / jokes (205) … oil (664)
cruel (adj.) in a … way (145)
cruelty (U:39)
crumb (C:67,79)
crumble (U,C) apple … (67)
crumble (vi&t) a building … (330) order … into chaos (348) the support under sb. … (1118)
…ing plaster (1302)
crumpled (adj:614)
crunch (C) if / when it comes to the … (854)
crusade (C) the time of the C…s (153) to engage in / go on / take part in a … (155)
crusade (vi:155) … against sb. (351)
crush (vt) … sb. (fig.) (343) to be …ed to death (1114) … sth. into (a) powder (1154)
crust (C,U) the upper `… (fig.) (178) the earth’s … (647)
crustacean (pl: crustaceans / crustacea ) (C:526)
crutch (C:105)
crux (C) (extract) the … of sth. (819)
cry (vi&t, &speech:87) to be about to … (39) … ( `out ) for help (87)
crying (U:433)
crypt (C:746)
Cu
cube (C:8) cube (vt) … sth. / a number (8)
cubism (U:1268)
cuckold (C) to make sb. a … (1144)
cuckold (vt) to … sb. (1144)
cucumber (C,U:79) sb. is cool as a … (1241)
cud (U) to chew the … (649)
cue (C) to use a … to make a shot in billiards / pool (1123)
cuff (vt:271) cuff (C:265,271) cufflink (C:758)
cuisine (U,C) chef de … (447)
culprit (C:275)
cult (C,U) a sun … (213) Roman and Celtic …(s) 217)
cultivate (vt) … land / a crop (144) … an air of sth. / people / one’s relations with sb. (146)
cultivation (U) (soil) … (18)
cultural (adj.) … peculiarity (72)
culture (C,U) the dominant / medieval … (144 / 151)
cultured (adj.) a … individual (170)
cunning (adj.) … trickery (71) a … move / grin / smile / look (78 / 81)
cunning (U) sth. takes … (71) to use low … (100) conningly (77)
cup (C) a dice… (8) a throwaway … (9) sb’s defence of the … (201) a … of milk (246)
sbth. in not sb’s … of tea (1056)
cupboard [ `kûbêd ] (C) to search a … (4) a meter … (574)
to have a skeleton in the … || to have skeletons in the …s (742) the … is bare (773)
`curate (C:735)
curative (adj.) … herbs / properties (722) a … treatment (1260)
curative (C:722)
curb (vt) … one’s temper / indignation (129 / 276) … the brutality (152) … a shortfall (268)
… the exploitation of sb. (401) … one’s boldness (1157)
curb (C) to put a … on one’s snobbery (184) to keep a … on anarchy (401)
to bump against / mount the … (A) (991)
cure (C) (find) a … for sth (a disease) || ( hope of) a … (113+)
cure (vt) … sb. ( of a disease * ) (318, 722*) … food (795) Curia Regis (345)
curious (adj.) to be … { about sth. / as to whxx / to do sth. || it’s … that - (395) a … mind (724)
a … sensation (945)
curiosity (U,sg.,C) to arouse sb’s … || driven by … || satisfy sb’s … (about sth.) (395+ / 625)
a ( historical ) … (403)
curiously (adv:619)
currency (C,U) in foreign / local … (64) sth. has / is / enjoys / receives / gains ( common ) … (188)
current (C:of air:18, of water:677) electric … (566)
current (adj.) the … attitude / mood (120) … usage / spelling (125) … electricity (566) … affair(s) (619)
currently (adv:51)
curry (C,U) … powder (656)
curry (vt) … favour ( with sb.) (602)
currycomb (C:1237)
currycomb (vt) … an animal (1237)
curriculum (C) to plan a … || sb’s … vitae (CV) (1162)
curse (C/vi&t:536,540) … sb. for sth. (531) (the) … (o-f:542) under a … (536)
sth. is the … of sth. (618)
cursed (adj:536,fig:539)
cursor (C:334)
curt (adj.) a … behaviour (844) a … refusal (850) a … tone (1129)
curtly (adv.) … refuse (846)
curtain (C:17)
curve (C) to overtake on a … (584) …s (of a woman) (442) to take a … in a road (1119)
curved (adj.) a … claw (865) a … surface (940) curvedness (U:940) curvi`linear (adj:215)
cushion (C) to put a … swh. (438) a … of a billiard / pool table (1123) a scatter … (1267)
cuss (vi&t) … sb. for sth. (531) … loudly (540)
cuss (C) to load …es on sb. (531) a dastardly … (532) to mutter a … || to utter a … word (540)
custard (U,C) … ( `sauce) (67)
custody (U) to remand sb. in … (E) (208) to detain sb. in … (308) joint … (605)
custom (C,U) an aboriginal … (16) to depart from a … (47) a … of doing sth. (213)
customary (adj.) sth. is … in a place (150)
customer (C:252) …s’ demands (598) a queer … (711) a regular … (874)
… service || …-friendly / -minded (877) a cool … (1241)
customs (pl.) a … officer at the … (69)
cut (C) …s in spending (203) …s and bruises (625) a … (of meat) (794) a `crew … (877)
( to take ) a short `… / `short … || there are (no) short …s to sth. (fig.) (953)
a steep … in benefits (1134)
cut (vi&t) … a pie into sth. (5) … () up sth. (18) to be … for a part (62) … sb. `off from doing sth. (150)
… through the defence (201) … () `out a dress ( of sth. ) / a piece of cloth ( from sth.) (265)
a … throat razor (299) … () sth. down (594) … `down on sth. (596)
… `off the branch you’re sitting on (606) … one’s coat according to one’s cloth (726)
… a corner (953) … corners (956) … sb. off from (doing) sth. (1041) … sth. on sth. (1315)
cut (adj.) a … flower (1317)
cute (adj.) a … doll (A) (847)
cutlet (C) a veal // pork / lamb … (79 // 795)
cutter (C:265) a ( stone ) … (1315)
cutting (U,C: of trees:316, in dressmaking:265) a press / newspaper … (507) a … board (262)
a telephone … off (576) (a) stone … (1315)
Cv
CV (C) curriculum vitae (1162)
Cy
cycle (eE) (v:297)
cycle (C:297) … lane (E) (297) to complete a … (821)
cyclist (C:589)
cycling (U:297)
cyclone (C:627)
cylinder (C:561)
cymbal (C) sb. clash the …s || the …s clash (1226)
Cymbeline (215)
`cynic (C:185) cynical (adj.) … manners / people (185) cynicism (U:185) cynically
Czar = Tsar (1177)
Dd
Da
[ `sinikli ]
(adv:894)
dab (C) a … of cream / butter (977 / 981) a … of a handkerchief (977) a … at sth. (977, 981)
dab (vi&t) … sth. & adv. (977) … (at) sth. ( with sth.) (977, 981)
sb. is a … `hand at doing / with sth. (981)
dabble (vi) … at / in / with sth. (986) … one’s feet in the water (991)
daffodil (C:403)
dagger (C:129)
daily (adj.) … help (75) the … round (1229)
dairy [ deêri ] (C:18,874)
dairy (adj.) … cattle / cow // herd (18 // 721)
dairyman / <woman (C:874)
daffodil (C:403)
dalliance (U:545)
dally over / with (542) … along the way / line (544) … with sb’s affections (546) … with danger (548)
dam (animal:402)
damage (vt:31)
damage (U, pl.) severe / serious … (31) to bring action for …s (pl.) (60)
to repair / put right /E& mend the … that a remark has done (261)
to suffer / sustain { minor / slight … (293) extensive … (627) … limitation || to impose … control (976)
… by water (997)
to sue sb. for / to pay …s || to pay for material … (1150)
damn it / dammit (interj:64)
damnation (739)
damned (adj.) the … (pl:696)
damning (adj.) … evidence (1292)
damp (vt) … one’s hair (1159)
damp (E) (U) sth. smells of … || a mark of … (1158)
damp (adj.) a … surface (940) sth. smells … || … clothes (1158) … weather (1313)
dampen (vt) sth. … sb’s enthusiasm / spirits // boldness (1154,-57) … () `down a fire (1158)
… one’s hair (1159)
dampener (C) sth. puts a … on sb’s boldness (E) (1157)
damper (C) sth. puts a … on one’s boldness (1157)
damply (adv.) sth. clings … to sth. (1158)
dampness (U:940)
dance (vi&t) … to sb’s pipe (278)
dance (C,U:451) dancer (C451) dandy (C:10)
Danelaw (341)
danger (C,U) to be aware / conscious of the …(s) of sth. (10) ( to put sb.) in … (of sth.) (42)
a … sign / signal (74) to look the … in the face (133) a latent / lurking … (141) impending … (623)
in mortal … (624) a public … (577) pressing … (1046) to get … money E/A pay (1149)
dangerous (adj:13) … to society (577)
dangle (vi&t) … in sth. (746) a strand of hair … down sb’s brow (1110)
Danish (adj:49)
Danish (C) a … (pastry) (796) Dante (172)
(the) Danube (River) (167)
dare (v) … to do sth. / … do sth. (54)
`daredevil (C:582)
daredevil (adj.) a … person (582)
daring (U) sb’s … (1157)
daring (adj.) a … liberation (24) a … exploit (155) a … object (610) a … lady (758)
dark (U) sb’s eyes grow accustomed to the … (269) to wander about in the … (&fig:422)
in the … (427) to keep sth. … (E) || sb. is in the … || keep sb. in the … (about sth.) (428)
after … (582) a shot / stab in the … (636) a leap in the … (637)
dark (adj.) a … corner (6) the D… Ages (172, fig:480) a … person || … hair / eyes / skin (421)
it gets …(er) || a … cloud (422) … day (424) (a) … deed / humor / side / vision (427)
keep sth. … || a … secret (428) … depression (429) … forces (430) … country (466) to go … (573)
pitch … (444) (a) … `suit / `glasses (603) a … `horse (632)
dark-coloured (adj:430)
darken (vi&t) the sky / night … || sth. … a room (422) sb’s face … (428)
a tragedy … sb’s youth || sb’s mood … (429) never … my door again (480)
darkened (adj:430) a … house / street (517)
darker (adj.) a … side to sb’s character / nature (427) the sky grows … (435)
darkest (adj.) one’s … fears (427) … days (429) D… Africa (629)
darkly (adv.) … handsome (421) … sinister (430) sb’s eyes burn … (477)
… comic / funny / humorous (599)
darkness (353,422,504) … falls (421) the forces / powers of … (430) heart of … (465) pitch … (444)
during hours of … (582)
dark(e)y / darkie (C:629) darkroom (588)
darling (C) mother’s … (961)
darn (vi&t) … ( a sock ) (771)
dart (vi+adv.) sb. … out of the door (1285)
dart (C) sb. makes a … for the door (1285)
darts (U) to play … (?)
Darwin (N) Charles … (1197)
dash (C) to make a … for it (108) in a ( mad ) … for escape (624)
to make a … for shelter / freedom (1272 / -82)
to add a … of viagar / salt / peper (890)
there’s a … to do sth. (1077) to make a … for a taxi / the bathroom (1078 / -82)
sth. adds a … of colour to sth. (1267) to tinge the paint with a … of red (1268)
a … ( in writing / the Morse alphabet ) (1269) there is a mad … for chairs (1270)
to cuts quite a … in one’s uniform || to be known for one’s … || to march with spirit and … ||
the 100-metre … (1276)
to cut a … with sb. (1277) to make a … to do sth. || to do sth. at a / one … ||
sb. has to / must … (E) (1279) a dog makes a … at sb. (1282) the … of an oar / a wave (1286+)
to make a … at the enemy (1287) a … of water in sb’s face (1293)
dash (vi&t) … `off ( to do sth.* ) (108,1279* )
sth. … sb’s hopes (119) sb. … aside || … mud on sb. || …ed with mud / blood (1272 / 1285)
sb. … along the road / aside || a car … mud on sb. (1272) … tea with rum (1273)
… () off episodes ( in writing ) || .. () down a line / a drawing (1274) … in one’s uniform (1277)
… down a thing (1278) … in / out of a room ||… off a drink || sth. … sb. (fig.) / sb’s spirit (fig) (1280)
a glass … to pieces || sb. … a glass (in)to smithereens || … to the door || … a door open ||
… one’s head against sth. (1281) … through the undergrowth (1282) … away a tear (1283)
a wave … over a boat (1286)
a wave … a boat against a rock / to pieces || a wave … against / the rocks (1287) … about (1289)
… water in sb’s face (1283)
dashing (adj.) a … person (1276)
dastard (C:532) dastard (adj.) … person (532) dastardly (adj.) a … person / plan (532)
data (pl:522)
date (C,U: time:25, meeting:29) to keep sth. up to … (255) to decide (up)on / set a … for sth. (284)
date (vi&t) sth. … from / back to a time (237)
dativ (C) a word in the … (1218)
dativ (adj.) a word in the … case (1218)
datum (C:522)
daub (vi&t) … a wall with plaster / * grafitti || … plaster onto a wall (1302, * -08)
… paint on a canvas || … a canvas with paint (1305) sb. … || … one’s smock (1306)
daub (U,C) to daub sth. with … (1303) to produce a … (1306)
dauber (C:1306)
daughter (C:36)
daunt (vt) nothing …ed (472)
daunting (adj:256)
dawn (U,C) the dim light of … (6) at … (192) just after …(394) the first gleam / glimmer of … (498)
dawn (vi) ( day / morning ) … (398) it … on sb. that - (398) the light … on sb. (466)
day (C,U) the next … (5) one … (26) … and night (27) on a near … (66) … of parting (69)
in those …s (175) (the) …’s work (426) the big … (433) to the present … (465)
at the end of the … (694) a boiling / scorching / sizzling / sweltering /A broiling (hot) … (884)
daybreak (U) at … (438)
daylight (U) to beat / knock the ( living ) … out of sb. (975) daytime (11)
day-to-day (adj.) the … business / running // work (143 // 426)
dazzle (vi&t) sb. … sb. with sth. (107) the light … sb. (443)
dazzle (U,sg.) a play is a … (280) to be blinded by the … (443) a brightly lit castle is a … (444)
dazzling (adj.) a … performance (279) a … array of daffodils (403) … light (436)
Dd
DD (Doctor of Divinity) (172)
D-day (U:668)
De
deacon (C:735)
deactivate [ di`aktiveit ] (vt) … an alarm (29)
dead ( people:pl.) the … (pl:213)
dead (state:sg.) … march (193) in the … of night / E& at dead of … (1282)
dead (adj.) a … soldier (13) near … with fright (62) (battery etc.) go / be … (586)
half … with sth. (863) (as) … as a doornail || stone … (891) a thing is a … `duck (950)
to be apparently … (1066)
dead (adv.) … drunk (951)
deadline (C) the … for sth. || before … (101) to meet the … (1054)
deadlock (sg.,U) reach (a) … || break the … (889)
deadlocked (pred. adj.) negotiations are … (889)
deadly (adj.) … disease (657) (seven) … sins (749)
deadpan (adj.) … humour (1247)
deaf (adj.) a … person (127) to turn a … ear to sb. / sth. (206) the be … to a prayer for sth. (234)
to speak for … ears (829)
to go / become … || to be born … || … in one ear || stone … || … as a post / the dead ||
to be … mute || … and dumb (1271)
deaf (pl.) the … (127)
deafen (vt) sth. … sb. (418)
deafening (adj.) a … crash (418) a … silence (1283)
deafeningly (adv:772)
deafness (U:127) acquired / adventitious … (1271)
deal (C) to sing a … (93) a good … of money (281)
to secure / get a ( fair / good ) … with sb. // on sth. // for sb. / sth. (286)
to do E/A make a ... (579) a package … (674)
to give / get a { raw / rough / bum (E) … (612) to strike a … || a … falls through || a pay … (791)
a good … older (954)
deal (vi&t) sth. … with sth. (27) … with a topic (280) sb. … with sb. (137)
… (sb.) a blow ( to sb.) (531) … firmly with sb. (598) … with a demonstration / heresy (624 / -81)
dealer (C, cards: 9) … in sth. || a car … (31)
dealings (pl:98) `underhand / under`handed … (971)
dealt ( pat. / pap. of deal) (66)
dean (C:734) a rural `… (E) (734)
death (U,C) to cheat …(9) a peacefull … (12) to dice with … (13) an early … (55)
a … threat || threat of …(60+) near (to) … (61) after one’s … (81) a life after … (84)
to be punished by … (194) to put sb. to … (228) to look … in the face (232) ( the ) … penalty (540)
to be given / receive the … sentence || send sb. to their … || punishment by … (697)
… by hanging / beheading / decapitation / shooting / electrocusion (698)
to ring / sound / strike / toll the … knell for / of sth. (925)
to feel / look like … warmed `up E/A over (951) to meet / suffer … || to die a terrible … (1065)
on sb’s … (1108) … claims sb. (1176) sth. deals a … blow to sb’s career (1277)
deathbed (C) on one’s … (1259)
deathly (adj.) to go / turn … pale / white (233) a … silence (1113)
debasement (C,U) (a) … of sb. (399) … of currency (1007)
debate [ di`beit ] (C) in a … (86) sth. is under … (203) a lively / fruitful … (466)
a heated / highly charged … (481)
debate (vi&t) … what - (86) to be hotly …d (815) … with one’self (827)
debater (C:463)
debauched [ di`bå~t$t ] (adj.) a … person (1094) debauchery (U) sb’s … (1099)
debilitate (vt) a … disease || a …d person || a crisis … the resourses (1263)
debit (C) `… card (96)
debit (vt:96)
debrief [ di~`bri~f ] (506) … sb. on sth. (520) debriefing (U,C:506)
debris [ `de(i)bri~ E/A dê`bri~ ] (627,667)
debt [ det ] (C,U) to get / run into … / to get out of …|| to be (heavily) in … ||
to run up / amass …s / pay (`off ) / repay a … (109)
a … burden (109) to be in sb’s … || to owe a … of gratitude ( to sb.) (111) repayment of … (780)
debtor [`detê ] (C:95)
debut [ `dei / `debju~ E/A dei / di`bju~ ] (C) to make a successful / one’s … (126)
decade [ `dekeid / di`keid ] (C) a violent … (1007)
Decameron (N:172)
decapitate (vt) … sb. (675,698) a …d body (697) decapitation (C,U) (698)
decathlon (U:634)
decay [ di`kei ] (U) the … of learning (342) physical / moral … (615) fall into … (665)
decay (vi&t) sb’s work is …ing (221) an area … (665) a plant … (1128)
deceased (adj.) a … being (83)
deceased (sg. = pl.) the … (426)
deceit (C,U:59,86)
deceitful (adj:59) deceitfulness (U:118)
deceive (vi&t:59,84,118)
… sb. / yourself (into doing sth.) || sb’s eyes … them (84)
deceived (adj:118)
deceiver (C:59)
decency (U, pl.)
a lack of common … || to have the … to do sth. || the basic …ies of civilized society (179)
decent [ `di~sênt ] (adj.) a … living (11)
deception (U,C:109) deceptive (adj:77)
decide (vi&t) … between sbth. (1) sb. … whxx (5) sb. … to do sth. (19) sth. … sth. (24)
sb. … a process / period (69) what a lower court … (189)
… sb. to do sth. || sth. … whxx || sth. … sb. || … among themselves || … for oneself (201)
sb. … in favour of / against (doing) sth. || sb. … (up)on sth. (203) it is …d that - (235)
sb. … ( definitely / definitively ) (that) - (242) sb. … (243) to … (up)on a date (284)
sb. … a match (303) a court … against / in favour of sb. (398) … one’s attitude (474)
decided (adj.) a … advantage / change (201)
deciding (adj.) a … factor (201)
decimal (C:848)
decimal (adj.) … `fraction / point / place (848)
decision (C;U) to make / take a … ( * on / about / as to whxx) (2,* 206) to set aside a … / verdict (69)
to reach a ( judicial ) … (118) a premature / precipitate / rash / hasty / snap … (137)
to do sth. with … (227) the … (U) of an action (241) a big / major / difficult / hard / tough / firm … (242)
to abide by one’s … (242)
a quick / speedy / swift … (495) to overrule / reverse a … (398)
decision-maker (C:601)
decision-making (U:601)
decisive (adj.) a … defeat (39) a … factor (201) a … influence / effect (220)
a … defence / victory / defeat / action / step / role / person (241++)
decisively (adv.) act … (241) decisiveness (U) to do sth. with … (227) the … of an action (241)
deck (C) a … of cards (A) (9) … ( on a ship ) (662) … officer || <hand (664) a … chair (1081)
deck (vt) … sb. /sth. (out) ( in / with sth.) (676)
declarative (adj.) a … sentence (1221)
declare (vt, speech:241) … that - (276) … sth. unsafe (307) … sb. to be sth. (373)
… a state of emergency (318) … war (497)
decline (vi&t) sb’s credibility … (107) feudalism … (150) … an offer / to do sth. (245) returns … (252)
a slope … steeply (1116)
decline (U, sg.) to be in …(107) ( to halt a steep * ) economic … (203, * 1134) the … of morals (1142)
decompose [ di~kêm`pêus ] (vi&t) … sth. (649)
decorate sth. with sth. (676) decorated (adj:370) decorative (416)
decorous [ dekêrês ] (390) decorum [ de`kårêm ] (390)
decrease [ `di~kri~s ] (C,U) a … in sb’s expenditure (255) steep …s in orders (1134)
decrease [ di`kri~s ] (vi&t) … sb’s spending || sb’s expenses … (255)
decree (vt) … ( that ) - (551)
decree (C) to pronounce a … (118) to issue a … doing sth. (551)
dedicate (vt) … oneself to sbth. (155)
dedicated (adj.) sb. is … to (doing) sth. (162)
dedramatize (vt) … sth. (1248)
deduce (vt) sb. … sth. from sth. (1197) sb. … ( from sth.) that - (1224+)
deduction ( C,U) sb. makes …s about sth. (1224)
deductive (adj.) a … conclusion (1197) … argument (1214)
deed (C) to convert an idea into a … (45) to do a good / charitable … (122)
a brave / heroic … || a … of valour (155) to commit an evil … (159) to sign a … of abdication (362)
to put the will before the … || to take the will for the … (1094) in ( word and ) … (1096)
a … of a property (1109)
deep (sg.) the … (662)
deep (adj.) … conversation / faith (44 / 71) … sleep / sleeper (424) a … `feeze E/A freezer (874)
deep (adv.) … in thought (464) to know sth. … down (949)
deepen (vi&t) sth. … sb’s gloom || sb’s gloom … (429)
deep-`rooted (adj.) a … sense of sth. (133) a … tradition (817)
deep-seated (adj.) … tradition (817)
deer ( = pl. ) (C:199)
defamation (U) … (of character) (833) defamatory (adj.) a … accusation (833)
defame (vt) … sb. (833)
default (U,C) owing to … of guns (23 owing to … of knowledge || in … of tact (42)
to do sth. by ( sheer ) … (48) to be in … on a debt (143)
to win a game / match / competition by … (198)
default (vi) … on a loan (143)
defeat (vt.) sb. is …ed (89) … a team (201) … an enemy in battle (221)
a motion is …ed by x to y (814)
defeat (C,U) suffer / sustain { a humiliating / ignominious … (37) to admit / accept / concede … (38)
to inflict a resounding … on sb. (38+)
a heavy / crushing / resounding … || … in war (497) a heavy … (512) to suffer a … (551)
`defecate (vi:937) defecation (U:938)
defect [ di`fekt / `di~fekt ] (C) a speech … (914) defective (adj:630)
defence (A:defense) (U,C) with little care for … (14) to put sb’s … out of action (24)
to do sth. in … (38) a weapon of … || humour is an effective …(196) verbal self-… (202)
… minister (203) … works (204) a … mechanism || a … against disease (205,209)
a lawyer to sb’s … || to conduct one’s own … (209)
to have a good … || the … counsel || the counsef for the … || a … lawyer (210)
to drop one’s … (212)
minister / ministry of …, the D… Secretary (E), the Secretary / Department of D… (A) (812)
defenceless (adj:205)
defend (vi&t) … one’s liberty (23) … oneself against an attacker // criticism / a critic (144 // 202)
… one’s view / right / interests (196) … a title || … well (201) … a minority (202)
… one’s territory / independence (203) sb. … ( sbth.) against an attack (204+)
sth. … the body against / from sth. || … oneself from the cold || sth. … sb. from the cold ||
sb. … sbth. from a danger (205) …an attack || … sb’s behaviour (208) a lawyer to … (209)
… the indefensible (212)
defendant (C:115)
defender (C) a … ( in sports / war ) (201 / 512) a … of human rights (202)
defensible (adj:196)
defensive (adj.) a … weapon / war (196) in a … manner (209) to sound … (209) a … wound (210)
defensive (U) to force the enemy onto the … (204) sth. puts sb. on the … (207)
defensively (adv:209)
defensiveness (U:209)
deference (U) out of / in / show … to sth. (676)
deferential (adj.) … treatment (676) deferentially (adv:676)
defiance [ di`faiêns ] (U) to bid … to sb. (1095) to act in … of sb’s will (1096)
to do sth. in ( an act / a gesture of ) … || in … of sth. (1101)
defiant [ di`faiênt ] (adj.) a … person (957)
deficiency (C,U) … disease (21) ( deep ) … in a system || to remedy a … (594) … of a vitamin (1262)
deficient (adj.) … service (608) … in sth. (613)
deficit (C:254,593) to make up a (widening) … (593) … in / of (some size) (594) to be in … (628)
to have a (big) (food / trade) … || to have (a) (big) …(s) in sth. (628)
define (vt) 307) … what - (241) … sb’s needs (252) … sth. as sth. (255)
a treetop is ( sharply ) … against the sky (283)
definable (adj:252)
defined (adj:326) an ill-… idea (1246)
`definite (adj.) 311,339) a … sign of ( doing * ) sth. (121, 248 * ) a … form (148)
a … conclusion / decision (242) to be … about ( doing ) sth. || that’s … || it’s … that - (243)
a … offer of sth. (245) a … sign / feeling that - (251) to find out for … if - (254)
to hear a rumour, but nothing … (270) a …date (306)
a … statement (309)
the … article / form (1218)
definite (sg.) sth. / sb. is a … (243)
definitely (adv:301,337) sth. …does sth. (37) sb. … decides (that) - (242)
definition (C,U:334,336,339) sb’s … of the meaning of life (83) a high … TV (1306)
de`finitive (adj.) … conclusion / decision // answer (242 // 284) a … performance (279)
a … agreement (307) a … statement (309)
definitively (adv.) sb. … decide (that) - (242+)
deflect (vi&t) … a blow || sth. … off sth. (386)
deform (vt) sb. is …ed (1091)
deformity (C,U) sth. stores up … / <ties for an unborn child (897)
defraud (vt) … sb. of sth. (109)
defrauded (adj.) … person (109)
deft (adj:81,382,387) sb’s … leadership (401) deftly (adv:86,386)
deftness (U:382,387)
defuse (vt) … a sarcastic remark (1248)
defy (vt) … sb. / sb’s authority (54)
degenerative (adj.) a … disease (1255)
degrade (vt) to feel …d (591)
degrading (adj.) a … occupation || sth. is … to sb. (186) a … wisecrack (591)
degree (C,U) to a ( high / certain ) … (20 / 252) a … of liberty (168) zero / (E) nought … Celcius (888)
dehydration [ di~hai`drei$n ] (U) sth. leads to … (1256)
dehypnotize (vt:117)
deign (v) … to do sth. (107)
dejected (adj.) to be … (843) to feel / look … || a … person (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
dejection (U) a mood of … (953)
delay [ di`lei ] (C,U) to do sth without … (11) an unforeseen … (116) a … in ( doing ) sth. (268)
a … of half an hour || a half-an-hour … (563)
delay (vi&t) sb. is …ed (116) sbth. … a train / a departure (563) … a programme / bedtime (1226+)
delayed (adj.) a … decision (1277)
delegate (v:344)
delete (vt) … a paragraph ( from sth.) (202)
deleterious (adj:607) deletion (U,C:202)
delineate (vt) … sth. (as sth.) (609)
deliberate (adj.) … offensiveness (208)
deliberately (adv:87)
deliberation (U,C:407)
delicacy (U,C) a local … (5) lack of … (36)
delicate (adj.) … case // matter / question (57// 715)
delicately (41)
delicious (adj.) sth. is / tastes … || a … dinner (83)
delight (U,C) to be in transports of … (251) sb’s chief … (358) to sb’s … || to the … of sb. (958)
to take ( great ) … in (doing) sth. (959) sth. gives / is cause for … (976)
a gasp / squeal / cry of … || to smile with … || a feeling of sheer / pure … ||
to sample the …s of sth. (977)
it’s a … (for sb.) to do sth. (978)
delight (vt &vi+in) … in sb’s society / misfortune (368 / 959) sth. … the senses (942) sth. … sb. (976)
sb. … sb. with sth. (983)
delighted (adj.) be … to do sth. (960) (absolutely) … by / with sth. (967) be … at sth. / that - (977)
… laughter (984)
delightedly (adv.) to laugh … (984)
delightful (adj.) a … cafe / smell / book (982) delightfully (adv.) … comic (984)
delirium (U) fits of … (707)
delineate [ di`linieit ] (vt) … a character (609)
deliver (vi&t) … a speech (25) … (goods) (95) a midwife … a baby (286)
… a letter wrongly (298) a jury … their verdict (307)
delivery (C,U) cost of … (26)
to have an easy / a difficult … || … preparations (286) to pay on … || a … man (778)
to attend a … (1228)
delta (678)
delude (vt) … sb. ( into doing sth.) (28) … oneself that - / if - (36 / 47)
deluded (adj.) a … person (42)
deluge [ `delju~d§ ] (vt) to be …d by the tide (527) to be …d by / with calls (528)
deluge (C) a … stops (505) a … of calls / letters (528, 534)
delusion (C,U) warning against …(s) (33) to get …s of grandeur (47)
a world of …(s) || under the … that - (978)
deluge (C) … of sth. (fig:690)
dema`gogic (adj:106)
`demagogue (C:106)
`demagogy (U:107)
demand (vt) practical problems … practical help (40) sb. … sth. (247)
demand (C,U,sg.) to assent to a … (84) to create / generate a … for sth. (127)
to make ( fewer ) …s on sb. (168) consumer … (U) (594)
a small / great / strong / huge … || customers’ …s (598)
demanding (adj.) a … task (382)
demesne [ di`mein ] (C:150)
demise [ di`maiz ] (sg.) the … of a system (1198)
demobilization (U:1091)
demobilize [ di`mêubilaiz ] (vt) … soldiers (1091)
democracy (U,C) (parlia`mentary) … (7) direct / indirect / elective … (801)
democratic (adj.) … country / government (7) democratize (470)
demolish (vt) … a building (349) demolision (C,U:642)
demon [ `di~mon ] (C:97)
demonic (adj.) a … person (1242)
`demonstrate (vi&t) … against (211) as …d by sb. (622)
demonstration (C) a clear … of sth. (116) a ( protest ) … (211)
demonstrative (adj.) a … greeting (1092) sb. is … (1099) a … pronoun (1220)
demonstratively (adv:1099)
`demonstrator (C:211)
demur [ de`mê~ ] (vi:542,speech:546)
demur (U) without … (542)
demure [di`mjuê] (adj.) … woman / dress / smile (542)
den (C) a gambling / drug … (8 / 612) to retire to one’s … || to seek refugee in one’s … (429)
a drinking … (559) a … of gangsters / whores / iniquity / vice (612) to beard the lion in his … (827)
denial (C,U:493) to be in … (477)
denigrate (vt) … sbth. (541) denigrating (adj.) a … word (540) denigration (U:541)
denominator (C) a common … (188)
denotation (C) a … of a word (1061) denotational (adj.) a … meaning / sense (1061)
denote (vt) a term … sth. (151)
denounce (vt) … sb. / sth. (361) … sb. to the police (491) … sth. as sth. (591)
dense (adj.) … smoke || a … wood / drink / person (fig.) (10) a … crowd (11) a … population (16)
densly (adv.) … wooded (10) … populated (16)
density (10,568)
dent (C) a … in sth. (389)
dental (adj.) to have … treatment / care (645) a … nurse / hygienist || a … appointment (646)
dentist (C) to go to the …’s || a …’s drill || to have (a) fear of …s (645) a …’s appointment (646)
dentures (pl.) sb’s … (1293)
denunciation (C,U) … of abuses (364) sb’s angry / bitter … of sb. (399)
deny (vt:475+,492+) … a rumour (17) … a charge (210) … God (240)
… an accusation / allegation // a suggestion (476 / 685)
… {that - / doing sth.} { … sb. sth. / sth. to sb.} {oneself sth.} (476) ( it can’t be ) …ied that - (477)
( there’s no ) …ing sth. / ( the fact ) that - (477) … emotions (480) … the truth (493)
… responsibility (594)
deodorant [ di~`êudêrênt ] (U,C) (an) armpit / E& underarm … (639)
depart (v:69) … from one’s biased attitude / usual practice (44+) sb./sth. … from the truth (59)
… ( this life ) (61) sb. … || a train … for / ( from ) a place (69)
departed (adj.) … glories (69) a … wife (381)
departed (sg.) the … (426)
departing (adj.) a … guest (69)
department (1) sth. is sb’s … (47) … of defense (A) (203)
department (1) … store (29) `Home … (E) || D… of the Interior (A) || the D… of State (A) ||
the State D… (A) || … of Justice (A) (811)
departure (C,U) … from usual practice || a point of …(fig.) (45)
a … for swh. || to take one’s … || a list of …s (68) to do sth. on … (103) a …s monitor (776)
a … point / a point of … for a tour (862) a … from a job (1112)
depend (vi) sb’s status … on sth. (154) sth. … on sth. || sb. … on sbth. doing / to do sth. (223)
dependence (U) alcohol / drug … (55) sb’s … (up)on sth. (514)
dependency (C) alcohol / drug … (55) a … of a city state (493)
dependent (adj.) a … state (145) sb. is … on sb’s loyalty (222) heavily … (514)
depict (vt) … sth. ( in speech ) (84) … sth. ( on sth. ) (330) … sth. ( in a film ) (609)
… sbth. as sbth. (417)
depiction (C) to give a … of sb’s life (608)
deplete (vt) the ozon layer is severely …d (627) a …d parliament (1003) a …d forest area (1173)
depletion [ di`pli~$ên ] (U) the … of the ozon layer (627)
deplore (vt) … an excess (1032) … a law (1065)
deplorable (adj.) a … law / conduct (1065) … conditions (1084) a … person (1181)
deploy (vt) …one’s talent / an argument (463) … troops / arms (497)
deployment (U) … of talent / arguments (463)
depose (vt) sb. … sb. (363) deposition (U,C:678)
deposit [ di`påzit ] (vt) … sediments (678) … money in an account (780)
deposit (C) to pay a … (256) a … of sediments 678) a `safe(ty)-… box (292) to make a … (780)
depository [ di`påzitri ] (C:444)
depot [ `depêu ] (C) an arms … (498)
deprave [ di`peiv ] (vt) sth. … sb. (1099)
depraved (adj.) a … mind (1099)
depravity [ di`praviti ] (U) to lead a life of … (1099)
`deprecate (vt) … a title (1032)
depreciate (vi&t) an investment … (291)
depreciation (U) a loss due to … (291)
depressed (adj.) in a … state of mind (269) a … area (311) … prices (596)
to feel … about sth. || to feel / look … (1242) to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
depression (C,U) dark / deep … (110 / 429) post-natal … (288)
deprive (vt) … sb. of sth. (398)
depth [ dep# ] (C,U) … of focus / (a) recession (588 / 732)
depute [ di`pju~t ] (vt) … sb. to do sth. (735) sb. … their authority to sb. (928)
deputy [ `depjuti ] (C:735)
derail [ di`reil ] (vi&t) sth. … a train || a train … (630) de`railment (C,U:630)
derelict (adj.) … land (665) dereliction (U) … of duty (212)
derision (U) a howl of … (37)
derisive (adj.) a … remark (388)
derivation (C,U) to be of foreign … || a word is a … another word (49)
derivative [ di`rivêtiv ] (C) morphine is a … of opium (49) a word is a … of another word (49)
derivative (adj.) some comedy is … (49) a … design / style (139) a … adjective / adverb (1219)
derive (vt) to … joy / benefit / a principle etc. from sbth. (48) … heroin from opium (49)
… energy from wind power (49) a word is …d from a language (49)
derogative (adj.) a … name (558)
derogatory (adj.) a … name (558)
descend (vi&t) land … to sb. (150) sb. … to a place (671)
a title / manor … through generations / to sb. (1107) sb. … from sb. (1109)
a path … ( precipitously / steeply ) to sth. (1119)
descendant (C) a … of sb. (366)
descent [ di`sent ] (U,C) of noble … (181) line of … (539) a … from a mountain (863)
a ( steep / precipitous ) … to a place (1119) the … of man (1172)
describe (vt) … sth. in a book (70) … sth. ( as sth.) (102)
description (C,U:113)
`desert (C,U) to reclaim farmland from … / a … || a … area (18) a cultural … (277)
desert [ di`sê~t ] (vi&t) sb’s courage … them (232) sb. … sb. (238) … ( a place ) (242) 317)
deserted (adj.) a … person / animal ( 238 / 247) a … building / street ( 247+) a … stretch of sth. (526)
desertedness (U:238)
deserting (adj.) a … person (244)
desertion (U,C) an offence like … (194) God’s … (238) sb’s … ( from a place ) (244+)
a father’s … (283)
deserts (pl.) to get / receive one’s (just) … (109)
deserve (vt) … sth. (good) (45) … a punishment (698)
desiccated (adj.) … coconut (68)
design (vt) … a proposal / plan to do sth. (24 / 399) … a website (335) … sth. for sth. (633)
design (U,C) to stamp a … on sth. || to do sth. according to a given … (20) a sinister …(114)
to do sth. by … (702)
`designate (vt) … sb. (as) sth. (402) … sb. to do sth. || … a date (806)
-designed (adj.) an ill-… idea (1246)
desire (vt, no prog.) … sb. (752) desirable (355)
desire (C,U) feel a (an overpowering) … to do sth. (27) to gratify one’s … for sth. (154)
( to achieve ) one’s heart’s … (434) to fulfil a … (to do sth.) (715)
on object of one’s … || an insatiable … for sth. (853)
to satisfy / slake a … (937)
desk (C) (…) clerk (A) (103)
desktop (C) a … ( computer ) (878)
desmesne [ di`mein ] (C) a lord’s … (150)
despair (U) to do sth. in … (87) … over sth. (171) a cry of … (228) a deep sense of … (230)
the depths of … || sth. is the … of sb. (248) to drive sb. to … (249)
despair (vi) … of sb. / of (doing) sth. (228)
despairing (adj.) a … look (228) become … (248)
despairingly (adv:87)
desperate (adj.) a … person (228) a … situation (248) … undertaking (525) desperately (adv:228)
desperation (U) to do sth. in … (206)
despicable [ di`spikêbêl / `despi - ] (adj.) a … assasination (428) a … person (1232)
despise [ di`spaiz ] (vt) … the commonplace (184) … oneself for ( doing ) sth. (209)
despite (prep.) … sth. / oneself / the fact that - (107)
despondency (U) a mood of … (953)
despondent (adj.) … about /eA over sth. (87) to feel / look … || a … person (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
despondently (adv:87)
`despot (C:145) an enlightened … (146)
despotic [ despåtik ] (adj.) a … ruler || … power (146)
`despotism (U:146) enlightened … (146)
dessert [ di`zê~t ] (C,U) a … (5) sth. for … (67) a heavy / light / refreshing … (447)
destination (C) arrive at / get to / reach one’s … (557) destinction (460)
destined (adj.) … to do sth. (223)
destiny (C,U) sb’s … (72) to escape one’s … (752)
destitude (adj.) to be left ( completely ) … (247)
destitution (U) to face … (247)
destitude (pl.) the … (247)
destroy (vt) … a building (13) sth. … a classification (149) … sb’s mind (629) … an animal (656)
destroyer (C:668) destruction (55, killing:656) `desultory (adj.) a … affair (1013)
detail (C,U) go into … about sth.|| give …s about sth. (282)
detain (vt) … sb. ( in custody ) (308)
detainee (C:308)
detect (vt) … a signal (126) a conspiracy (487) … a crime (893)
detective (C) a … film / novel (778 / 1082)
deter (vi&t) sth. … (sb.) (697)
determination (U,C) sb’s … (50) to be driven by ferocious … (536) to bargain over pay … (791)
a blood group /eA type … (1093)
determine [ di`tê~min ] (vi&t) … a date (for sth.) (101)
determined (adj.) ( to be ) … to do sth. (28, 469) sb. is … (243)
determiner (C:1217, -20)
deterrent (adj.) a … effect (697) deterrent (C) a … to sb. (697)
detestable (adj.) a … person (351)
detestation (U,C) a / sb’s … of sth. (1186+)
detour (C) to make / take a … (798, A:1311)
detour (vi&t) … (to) a place (798)
detriment (547) (to the) … of sb. / to sb’s … (547) without … (549)
detrimental (adj.) … to sth. (547)
deuterium (U:568)
devastate [ `devêsteit ] (vt) … a place / person (326+)
devastating (adj.) a … attack on sb’s efforts (327) a … fire (237) … criticism (279)
the … effect of sth. (311) … news (317) a … smile / remark / performance (388)
a … blow to sb’s confidence (950)
devastatingly (adv.) to criticize sb. … (279) … handsome (421)
devastation (U:326)
develop (vi&t) … a political consciousness / a skill (7 / 47) common law … from sth. (181)
sb. … an art (215 ) … sth. further (476) … film (588)
developed (adj.) … country (311)
developer (C) property … (560)
developing (U) … of a film (675)
developing (adj.) a … country (311) a property … company (560)
development (U,C) a throwback of sb’s mental … (43)
the … of the castle as an administrative centre (148) to keep abreast of the …(s) (637)
… of a film (675)
deviance (U) ( sexual ) … (1278)
deviant (adj.) … behaviour (1278)
deviant (C) a ( sexual ) … (1278)
deviate (v) … from sth. (714)
deviation (C,U) … from sth. (fig:682)
device [ di`vais ] (C:297) leave sb. to their own … (922) a … says - (953)
devil (C:7)
devilish (adj.) …-looking (128)
devise (vt) … a plan (919)
devote (vt) … oneself to sth. (326) devo`tee (C:22)
devoted (adj.) sb. is … (82)
devotion (U,C) sb’s ( blind ) … (89) … to duty / sb. (738) to perform the …s (743)
devout (adj:365)
dew (U) the … falls (451) to vanish like … before the sun (839) wet with … (451)
dewdrop (C) a … glints / sparkles in the sunlight (451)
dewy (adj.) a … landscape (451)
dexterity (U) … in using arms (152) mental / verbal … (385)
dext(e)rous (adj.) a … person / blow (387)
Di
dial (C:telephone:576) dial (v:576)
dialect (C,U) speak (in) (a) … (914)
dialectical (adj.) … materialism (1198)
dialogue (C) the …s of Plato (1214)
diameter (C:567)
diamond (C) a … || the ace / the two / the jack etc. of … (9)
diaper (A) (C) a soiled … (460)
diaphragm (C) an iris … (588)
diary [ `daiêry ] (C) to keep a … (407)
dice (vi&t) … sth. (8) … with death (13)
dice (C: pl. / sg. & die) to throw / roll / shake the … (8) in a throw of the … (8)
to play … || a … box / cup || ‘ no … ! ‘ (8) to play with loaded … (9)
dictate [ `dikteit ] (C) to follow the …s of crime / fashion (845 / 867)) do a … (848)
dictate [ dik`teit ] (vi&t) … terms of peace (365) … (a letter) (to sb.) (830) … that - (834)
… to sb. || … terms (to sb.) || … whxx (835) a teacher … (848) the weather … (whxx) (that - ) (859)
dictation (U,C) take … (839)
dictator (C:146) a real little … (835)
dictatorial a … ruler || … power (145)
dictatorship (U:145)
dictionary (C:142)
die (pl:dice) (C:8)
die (vi) … laughing (35) … for one’s sacred faith (238)
… of / from sth. || to be dying of sth. (627) … a terrible death (1065)
died (pat. of die:131)
diesel (U:319)
diet (v:460)
diet (C) to have a varied / liberal … (10) a meager … (157) a heavy / light … (460)
to eat a sensible / healthy, balanced … (981) to exist on a poor / an un balanced … (1262)
differ (vi) spl. agree to … (195) ‘ I beg to …,’ (237)
difference (C,U) no … between sths. (1) ( a* ) … of opinion (22, 258* ) national …s (149)
… in sth. (280)
( not make ) a scrap of … (318)
different (adj:1) … from / to / (eA) than sth. (813) to become a … man (980)
differentiate [ difê`ren$ieit ] (vi&t) … sth. from sth / between sth. and sth. (197)
differentiation (U:197)
difficult (adj.) a … choice (1) … temperament (1244)
difficulty (U,C) practical …ies (40) to have (great) … (in) doing sth. || the … of doing sth. (66)
to have one’s …ies (174)
dig (dug,dug) (vi&t) … sth. fast in(to) the ground (660) … a grave (757)
digestion (U,C) (a) sluggish … (11)
di`gestive (adj.) … system / enzym (649) … tract (657)
digger (C:757)
dignitary (C:161)
dignity (U) nonhereditary …(153) it’s beneath sb’s … ( to do sth.) (186)
dike = dyke (C:221)
di`lapitated (adj.) a … building (526)
dilemma [ di`- / dai`lema ] (C) to be in a ( terrible ) … (86) to be faced with / placed in a … (100)
diligence (U) a prize for … (340)
diligent (adj.) a … student || … in one’s work (340)
diligently (adv:340)
dim (vi&t:light:599)
dim (adj.) … light (6) memories grow … (220)
dimly (adv:539)
diminished (adj:330)
diminutive (adj.) a … form (1238)
din (C) to make an awful … (1148)
dining (U) a … room (139) a … car (E) (630)
dinner (C,U) have … || … plate (5) … party (10) to have sth. for … (78)
to take sb. into … || to sit next to sb. at … || a neighbour at … || a … partner (449)
diocese (C:221)
di`oxide (U:570)
dip (vt&i+adv) … into a book (142) … the headlights / beams (586)
diphtheria [ dif`#iêriê ] (U:1257)
dire (adj.) … poverty || in … need of sth. (16) a … warning || … consequences (71)
in … distress || out of … necessity (89) a situation looks … (102) to be in … straits (112)
direct [ di`rekt / dai`rekt ] (vi&t) … a throw at sth. (38) … a picture (50) … actors / servants (53 / 143)
… one’s energy to sth. (168) … criticism against sth. (279) … that - || … sb. to do sth. (192) … (
governmental ) policy (802)
direct [ di`rekt / dai`rekt ] (adj.) …credit (97) … speech (513) a … hit (667) a … `object (847)
direction [ di / dai`rek$n ] (32,49) in all …s (768) the … of travel (<ling ) (1151)
director [ di / dai`rektê ] (C, guide:44) sb. is sb’s … (44) a film / movie … (50) a managing … (eE) (593)
directorship (U:595)
directory (C) a telephone … (4)
dirt (U:579) … `poor (244) ... track (526) dog … (614)
dirty (adj.) … joke (42) … dishes (455) to give sb. a dirty … look (833)
disability (C,U) hearing … (227) a mental / physical … (382)
disabled (adj.) a … person / soldier (75 / 1091)
disabled (pl.) the … (75) disablement (U:294) disabling (adj:632)
disa`buse (vt) … sb. ( of sth.) (41)
di`saccharide (571)
disadvantaged [ disêd`va~td§d ] (adj.) to be from a … background (845) educationally … (847)
disadvantageous [ disadvan`teid§ês ] (adj.) sth. is … to / for sb. (1243)
disa`gree (316) disagreement (189)
disallow [ disê`lau ] (vt) … a goal (400)
disappear (vi) sb. / a problem … || sth. … ( at an alarming rate ) (81) … behind / from etc. sbth. (108)
… without a trace / from off the face of the earth (117)
disappearance (U) the … of the countryside / a species (82) sb’s … (270)
disappoint (vi&t) sth. … sb’s hopes (117) disappointed (adj.) be … (111)
disappointment (11) to sb’s … (40)
disa`pproval (U:9)
disa`pprove (vi&t) … (of) a project (28)
dissaprovingly (
disarm (vi&t) … sb. (15) a group … (24) sb’s charm … sb. (100)
disarming (adj.) a … smile (37) … humour (1248)
disarmament (U) … negotiations (670)
disarray (U:371,392)
disaster [ di`za~stê ] (C,U) to avert ( a total ) … (232) a natural / man-made … (293)
a .`.. (-affected ) area (628)
disastrous (adj:360)
disavow [ disê`vau ] (vt) … cruel punishment (461)
disband (vi&t) … an army (1021)
disbelief (U) do sth. in / with … (84) disbelieve [ disbil`i~v ] (vi&t) … (in God) (82) disbeliever (C:70)
discard (vi&t) … a book (105) … an artificial diction (1179)
discern [ di`sê~n ] (vt) … a trace of sth. (539)
discernible (adj.) barely … (771)
discernment (U:379)
discharge [ dis`t$a~d§ ] (vt) … water / a missile (333 / 370) … one’s duties (735) … soldiers (1091)
… sb. ( from (A:the) hospital ) (1092) … waste / fumes into sth. (1225)
`discharge (C,U) … water (664)
disciple [ di`saipl ] (C:745) discipline [ disêplin ] (U,C) a penitential … (679) a … of philosophy (934)
disciplinary [ `disêplinêri / E&: disê`plinêri ] (adj.) (a) … punishment (846)
discipline (vt) … sb. (1096) … oneself to do sth. (1099)
disciplined (adj:348)
disclaim (v) … responsibility (120)
disclose (vt) … a credibility gab (106) … a story behind sth. (199) … a crime (487)
disclosure (C,U:535)
discoloured (adj.) a … patch. (1257)
discomfit (vt) … sb. (1039)
discomfiture [ dis`kûmfit$ê ] (U:1030)
discomfort (U) cold / heat … (937)
disconnect [ diskê`nekt ] (vi&t) … sth. (from sth.) (575) sb. … from sb. / sth. / one’s feelings || be …ed
from sb. (605) disconnected (adj.) … images / thoughts (607) sth. … (from sth.) (630)
disconnection (C,U:575) … between sb. (623)
discon`tent(ment) (U:101)
discontinue [ diskên`tinju~ ] (vt) … an action (59)
`discord (C,U) a century of … (357) to resolve a … (368) to perceive a … (942) … in religion (1007)
discount (C,U) … goods
discourage [ dis`kûrid§ ] (vt) sb. … sb. ( * from doing sth.) (131,*136) sth. … sb. from doing sth. (100)
discouragement (U,C) no amount of … (131)
discourse [ dis`kê~s ] (vi) … (up)on sth. (466)
discourse [ `diskê~s ] (C,U) a / some … on sth. (466) rational … (1214)
discourteous (adj:389) discourteously (adv:390)
discover [ di`skûvê ] (vt) … human reason (165) … an ancient text (171) … truth (275) … sb. (338)
discovery (C,U) the … of America (147)
discredit [ dis`kredit ] (vt) … sth. / sb. (84 / 98)
discredit (U) to sb’s … || bring … (up)on / to sb. (98)
discreditable (adj:98)
discreet [ di`skri~t ] (adj.) a … inquiry (971)
discreetly (adv.) investigate (sth.) … (971)
discrete [ di`skri~t ] (adj.) in … steps / amounts (971 / 1169)
discretion [ di`skre$n ] (U) sb. has … over / as to sth. || treat sb. with … (965)
… is the better part of valour (971)
to use one’s … || to rely on sb’s … || sth. is done at sb’s … || sth. is left to sb’s (absolute) … (972)
to exercise / use one’s … (rightly) to do sth. (975)
di`scriminate (vi&t) … sth. || … between sbth. and sbth. || sth. … sth. from sth. (196+)
… (against / in favour of sth.) (on grounds of sth.) (202)
dis`criminating (adj.) a … person (197)
discrimination (U,C) sexual … (47) … ( against / in favour of sth.) ( on grounds of sth.) ||
racial / sex(ual) / religious … (202) positive … (629)
discriminatory [ di`skriminêtêri ] (adj.) a … law / practice // behaviour / remarks (202 // 205)
discuss (v) … a question (21)
discussion (C,U) to have a ( crusial ) … (19) years of … on sth. (165)
to give rise (E/A) raise to a … (38) a wide-`ranging … (281) a … article (1051)
disdain (vt) … sb. / sth. (184) … to do sth. (183, 478)
disdain (U/sing.) to do sth. with … (132) to show a … (478) haughty … (475)
disdainful (adj. ) a … look (132) … of sb. / sth. (183) a … behaviour / tone (206 / -11)
disdainfully (adv:479)
disease (U,C) deficiency … (21) a … spreads (159) to catch / contract a … (318 / 1254)
organic ( heart ) … (638) a deadly … (657) a communicable / an infectious … (745)
a(n) inherited / hereditary / inheritable / genetic … (1093)
to battle with / against a … ||
to win the battle against / get the better of / overcome / surmount a … (1262)
diseased (adj.) a … person / stomach (1253) … in body / mind (1256) a … plant (1265)
disembark (vi) a lot of passengers …(s) || … from sth. (658)
disen`tangle (vt) … oneself from sth. (88)
dise`stablish (vt) … a religion (767)
disfavour [ dis`feivê ] (U) to fall into … with sb. (1162)
disfigure (vt) sth. … sb. (748)
disfigurement (C,U) sth. results in … (1257)
disgrace (U) to be dismissed in … (194) to fall into … with sb. (1162)
disgraceful (adj.) a … offence || it is … that - (840)
disgracefully (adv:840)
disguise [ dis`gaiz ] (C,U) to throw off the … (38) in … (394)
disguise (vt) to be … as sth. (394)
disgust (vt) sth. … sb. (290)
disgusting (adj:614)
dish (vi&t) … () up a proposition (43) … () `up ( a generous helping ) (82)
dish (C) a … ( on a menu ) || ( food ) from a … (5) to do / wash the …s (268)
to do justice to the …es (446) to help oneself / fall to the …es (447)
a main / meat / vegetarian … (793+)
dishearten (vt) sth. … sb. from doing sth. (100)
dis`honest (adj.) a … person (9) dishonesty (U:43)
dishwasher (C:297)
disinherit [ disin`herit ] (vt) … sb. ( esp. a daughter / son ) (1106)
dis`integrate (vi:236)
disintegration (U) the … of Roman institutions (148) dis`jointed (remarks / thoughts) (479)
dislike [ dis`laik ] (vt, no prgt.) … sb. (86) much as sb. … sth., they - || sb. … it when - (417)
… (doing) sth. (690)
dislike [ dis`laik / `dislaik ] (C,U) ( to have a ) … for / of sb. (86) to take a ( an instant ) … to sb. (86,689)
to regard sbth. with intense / a`cute / violent … || to have a strong … of / for sbth. (417)
dislocate (vt) … the old way of life (1173)
dislodge (vt) … an idea from the mind set (158)
disloyal (adj:487)
dismal (adj.) … news || a … room || the future looks … (1103)
dismay (U) to fill sb. with … || to do sth. in … || to sb’s … (1103)
dismayed (adj.) to be … at / by sth. || to be … to learn sth. (1103)
dismiss (v) … sb. ( from their job ) (without compensation ) (59) … a case (60) … sb. as sth. (86)
… sb. from one’s mind (114) … a class (198) … one’s fears (207)
to … a(n) idea / opinion / suggestion out of hand (259) … an opinion poll as unreliable (309)
… sb’s objections || … an idea as unrealistic (417)
… sb. with a caution (714) … sb. for cause (975)
dismissal (C,U) ( unfair ) … (54+ )
dismissive (adj.) a … look / tone (132 / 211) … of sb. / sth. (183) to be … of an idea (1146)
disobedient (adj.) a … person (307) disobedience (239)
disorder [ dis`å~dê ] (C,U) a nervous … (99) social … (146)
disordered (adj.) a … stomach (1253)
disorderly (adj.) a … place (216) to be … || … behaviour / conduct ( in the street ) (732)
dis`orientated / disoriented (adj:526)
disown [ dis`êun ] (vt:378,380)
disparity (C,U:460)
dispatch (vt) … ( a person ( summarily * ) / an animal ) (199,*1103 ) … sth. (255)
… sb. ( to a place) (494)
dispatch (U,C:494) … carrier (494) to do sth. with ( summary * ) … (494,*1089,1104 )
a summary … (1104)
dispense (367) dispenser (C) a tape … (875)
disperse [ di`spê~s ] (vi&t) …  a crowd (22)
dispireted [ di`spiritid ] (adj.) to be // feel / looking … (843 // 1242) a … person (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
display [ di`splei ] (vi&t) … one’s obedience (77) … the virtues of chivalry (152) … a light (663)
… emotion (1078)
display [ di`splei ] (C,U) a … of food / anger (591/1080) sth. on … (610)
displeasure [ dis`ple§ê ] (U:37)
disposable [ di`spêuzêbl ] (adj.) … lighter (616)
disposal [ di`spêuzl ] (U) to have sth. at one’s … (167) waste … (782)
disposed [ di`spêuzd ] (pred.) to be favourably (etc.) … to sbth. (82) to be … to sanguiness (1241)
dispose [ di`spêuz ] (vt:362, vi+of sbth.)
dispossess [ dispê`zes ] (vt:344)
disposition (C) to have a peaceable // sanguine / phlegmatic / melancholid / choleric … (22 / 1240+++)
to have a … to(wards) sth. (1281)
disprove [ dis`pru~v ] (vt:910)
dispute [ di`spju~t ] (vi&t) … a question (17)
dispute [ di`spju~t / `dispju~t ] (C,U) the parties to a … (17) a … between spl. (148)
to be in … with sb. ||to settle a … || sth. is in … (195) both sides in a … (306)
an industrial E/A a labor … (791)
to get heated with … (1168)
disputed [ dis`pju~tid ] (adj.) … land (17)
disquieting [ dis`kwaiêting ] (adj.) a … sign (97) a … development (482)
disputant / disputer (C:910)
disregard [ disri`ga~d ] (vt) … one’s obligation(s) (183) … sb’s character (186) … advice (249)
… sb’s feelings (956)
disregard [ disri`ga~d ] (U,sg.) in …for / of sth. (183) to show a reckless … for one’s own safety (384)
to show a total / reckless / complete / flagrant / callous etc. … for sth. (956)
disreputable (adj:544)
disrepute [ disri`pju~t ] (U) to bring sth. into … (924)
disrespect [ disri`spekt ] (vt:36)
disrespect [ disri`spekt ] (U,sg.) treat sb. with … (7) to meet / be met with …(36) no … intended (41)
(mean) no … to sb. (65) to have a healthy … for sth. (46) to show ( an outrageous ) … for sbth. (68)
disrespectful (adj.) a … interpretation (7) a … look (36)
disrupt [ dis`rûpt ] (vt) … sb’s DNA (648) … the economy (1206)
disruption (C,U) sth. causes … (148)
disruptive (adj.) a … force (149)
dissatisfaction [ ‘dis’satis`faktion ](U) to look one’s … (129) feel … (944)
dissatisfied [ dis`satisfaid / di`sa - ] (adj.) … with sth. (171) feel … (944)
disseminate [ di`semineit ] (vt) … an idea (931)
dissent [ di`sent ] (U:84) dissent (vi) sb. … (from sth.) (85) dissenter (C:85)
dissenting (adj.) a … voice (fig:789) dissension (C,U) to sow … among spl. (1021)
dissident (C:1223)
dissident (adj.) a … writer (1223)
dissidence (U:1223)
dissipate [ `disipeit ] (vi&t) to … an oil spill || an oil spill … (664) sth. … smoke || the smoke … (1089)
sth. … sb’s respect (1099) … money / time / enery (1099) sb’s love … (1099)
dissipated [ `disipeitid ] (adj.) … person (1098) to lead a … life (1098)
dissipation (U) a life of … (1099)
dissociate (vt) … oneself from sth. || to lead a … life (461)
dissolute [ `disêlu~t ] (adj.) to lead a … life (27) a … person (1098)
dissolve (vi&t) … the parliament (803) sth. … || … sth. in sth. (1132)
dissolution (U) … of a substance in a liquid (1132)
distance (C,U) in the (near) … (17,53) to keep { one’s … / sb. at a … (263) within walking … (866)
distance (vt) … oneself from sb. / sth. (184 / 196)
distant (adj.) from a … `outlook (139) a … place || to have a … look in one’s eyes (761)
distaste [ dis`teist ] (U, sg.) a … for sth. (167)
distil(l) [ di`stil ] (vt) … a solution (1132)
distillate [ `distêlit / -leit / dis`stilit ] (C:1132)
distillation (C,U) (a) … of a solution (1132)
distinction (C,U) to make / draw a … between sth. and sth. (197)
distinctive (adj.) a … feature (1234)
distinctly (adv:604)
distinguish [ di`stingwi$ ] (vi&t) … between sbth. and sbth. (89) … sbth. from sbth. (173,196+)
… sth. (196)
distort [ di`stå~t ] (vt) … the truth (105)
distorted (adj.) a … figure (1268)
distract [ di`strakt ] (vt) to be … by sth. (365)
distraction (U,C) do sth. as a … from sth. (951)
distress (vt) a decision … sb. (203)
di`stress (U) to do sth. in ( dire * ) … (86, 89 * ) sb. in … (227, 628) … flare / rocket (661)
to hoist a (rescue) … signal (661)
di`stribute (vt) … sth. to / among spl. (57) … the work (257)
a pipe system … sth. (564) distribution (385)
district (C) a … oh a place (218) … council (623)
distrust [ dis`trûst ] (U) do sth. with … || sb’s … of sbth. (273)
distrust (vt:273)
disturb (vt) sb. … the peace / sb. (23 / 42) a nightmare … sb. (429) sb. … the gifts (445)
disturbance (C,U) any … may hold () up sbth. (268) to sleep through all kinds of …(s) (453)
disturbing (adj.) a … feeling (433) a … development (482)
ditch (vi&t) … sb. (545) … a plan (621) (a plane) … (a plane) (667) … school (623)
ditch (C:213) to land in the … (606) on the edge of a … (1117)
diurnal [ dai`ê~nl ] (adj.) a … animal (1282)
dive (pub:519)
dive (v) … into the water (704) nose>… (667)
diverge (v) … from sth. (714) divergence (C,U) … from sth. (714)
diversify (vi&t) … a society (166)
diversion (C,U) to take a … (E) (798)
divert (vt) … sb. to sth. (341) … sth. from sth. to sth. (350) … suspicion away from / to sb. (711)
… one’s thoughts / sb’s attention (1070)
divest (vi&t) sb. of sth. (398)
divide (13) … sth. up (into sth. ) || … into / x divides into y z times || x …d by y is z (28)
dividend (781) sth. pays … (in the end) (781)
divine [ di`vain ] (adj.) John the … (70) the D… Comedy (172) a … order / society (372)
diving (U) a … board (1081)
divinity [ di`viniti ] (U,C) maintain … (173)
divisible (adj.) be … by x (804)
division (C,U) a … of a book into fractions || to do sth. by … (28)
divorce (U,C:19)
divorce (vi&t) to be …ed (604)
dizzy (adj.) to suffer from … spells (113) to feel … (769)
dizziness (U) a feeling / wave of … comes over sb. (769)
Dn
DNA (U:648) to undergo … testing / profiling / fingerprinting || a … profile || … evidence (1093)
Do
do (vi&t) … not (1) … badly / well (188) to … up a dress (265) … up the / one’s buttons (300)
to … the dishes (268) … ( a few little ) things (288)
sb. can … without sth. (541) … () `up sth. (582) … sport (E) / aerobics etc. (631)
… well (with sth.) (633) sth. … `up (657)
… a sum (687)
dock (C:in port:658) be in the … ( in a court ) (706)
dockworker, docker (E) (C:659)
doctor (C) to see a … (40) a witch … (71) Philosophiae D… / D… of Philosophy (172)
doctrinaire (C:1007)
doctrine [ `dåktrin ] (C,U) a … urges sth. (146)
document (C:25)
document (vt) … whxx - || it’s well …ed that - (119) sth. not …ed (909)
dodge (C:604) tax … (413)
dodge (vt&vi+adv.) … narrowly / behind sth. / a blow / getting into fighting (530)
… (through) the traffic (582) … paying tax (604) … a question / an issue (605)
dodgem (E) (C) to go on the …s || a … (car) (992)
dodger (C) draft … (196) a tax … (413) fare … (613)
dodgy (adj.) a … character (515) … business (603) a … situation (613) … (part of the body) (657)
doe (C,U) to hunt … || to shoot a … (199)
doer (C) a …, not a talker (919)
dog (C:6) a hunting / sporting … (199) to go to the …s (243) … shit / mess / dirt (614) a … turd (616)
the D… Star (995) the tail that wags the … (1066)
to drive a … sledge E/A sled pulled by a … team (1153)
dog (vt) … sb. / sb’s ( foot>) steps (527)
dogma (C) a religious ... (84) a … that - (174)
dogmatism (U:279)
dogmatic (adj:279) a … church || a … approach to sth. (279)
doing (U,pl.) …s (74) sth. takes some / a lot of … (710)
doleful (adj.) a … ( expression / look on sb’s ) face || a … look in sb’s eyes || a … tune ||
sb. feels / looks … || a … person (1242) to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
doll (C) a sweet (E) / (A) cute … (847)
dollar (C:97) look / feel like a million `…s (988)
dolphin (C:651)
domain (C) to work on sb’s … (345) ( to be ) in the public `… (1056)
within one’s ( own ) … / their respective …s (1271)
domestic (C:455)
domestic (adj.) … affairs (21) a … animal (224) … appliance (297)
(a) … `help (C,U) || a … `servant || … `service / work (446)
domestication (U:214)
dominance (U:929)
dominant (adj.) a … culture (144) a … parent (377)
dominate (vi&t) Roman institutions … an area (149) sth. … sb’s constitution (1240)
Dominican (162) dominion (221)
Don (N) … Juan (26)
donate (vt:123) donation (U,C:123)
done (pst.p. of do) easier said than … (4)
done (pred. adj.) a loaf is … (262) a rare- / well-`… steak (796) be hard `… by (979)
donkey (C:499) don’t (1)
doom (U:72) it’s not all gloom and … (957) doom (vt) be …ed to (do) sth. (88, 698)
door (C) a … mat (26) front `… (29) sth. opens …s for sth. / to (do) sth. (155) a … chain (246)
connecting …s (444) to darken sb's … (480) a … frame (720) to do sth. out of …s (748)
doorcase (C:1281)
doorframe (C:1281)
doornail (C) (as) dead as a … (891)
doorway (90) a sill of a … (720)
dope (U) a … test (635) doping (U) a … test (635)
dormancy (U) a stale of … (888)
dormant (adj.) a … condition (888)
dormitory (C:3)
dosage (C) an allowable … (896)
dose (C) a … of radiation (621) a fatal … of sth. (1290)
dot (vt)
dot (C:565)
dotted (adj.) … line (93)
double (vi&t) … a cape (1001)
double (C,U) the … (304) ( to play ) … or quits (702) sth. costs … (878)
double (adj. / det. pron.) … cream (443) … `life (605)
to practice / apply … standard ( of morality ) (546)
sth. does … what sth. does || … price (878)
double-acting (adj:40)
double-cross (vt:489) double-cross (C:489) double-crosser (C:489)
double-`dealer (C:489,535) double-`dealing (U:489)
double-entry (adj.) … bookkeeping (168)
double-faced (adj:186)
double-tongued (adj:186)
doubt (vt) … a proposal / sb. (28 / 138) sb. … it (238,1270)
… sb’s word || … ( the truth of ) sb’s story || … the efficiency of sth. (1295)
… if / whether / (that) - || no reason to … sth. || … of sth. || … doing sth. (1296)
doubt (U,C) to be assailed by …s (16) to have (one’s) / harbour …s about sth. (28)
there can be no … (that) - (164) sb’s … about sth. (207) to quit all … (242) no … sbth. does sth. (271)
sth. casts / throws … on sth. (489) to have a secret … (548) sth. settles sb’s … (1233)
to have a gnawing … about sth. || self-… (1259)
sth. is in … || sth. shows beyond / past (any) … that - (1261)
to be in … as to whether - (1264) there’s no … about it || sth. is, without …, sth. (1267)
to be in … about sth. (1269) to have a feeling of … (1274) sth. raises … about sth. (1284)
there’s no room for … (1289) to be in …(about) what - (1291)
without any shadow of … || to have serious …s as to whether - (1292)
to have no …s as to whether - (1295)
to have no … of sth. || to have no …s at all about sth. || to have no …s as to whether - ||
to have no doubt that - || to have some …s about sth. (1296)
sth is open to ( grave ) … || it’s a matter of … whether - || to give sb. the benefit of the … (1297)
doubtful (adj.) a … story (27) to be … about sth. (28) sb. of … character (48)
the nobility of sth. is … (153) it is ( very / highly * ) … if - / whether - (1268, * -97)
to be … for a game || it is … if / whether / that - (1270) a … pleasure (1271)
the weather looks … (1272) the old ways look … (1295)
to be / feel … ( as to ) what - || sb. is … of sth. / if - / (that) - (1296)
douche (C:460)
dough [ dêu ] (sg.,U) to knead the … || (a) … proves / rises (262)
dove (C:660)
dovetail (C) a … ( joint ) (574)
dovetail (vi&t) … boards together (574) sth. … with sth. (547)
dowager (C:533)
down (adv:13) deep … (fig.) (284) …-at-heel (adj:36) to know sth. deep `… (949)
down (adj.) a … `payment (of £ x) (783) a … trip || a trip … (863)
down (U,C) to have one’s ups and `…s (955)
down (vt) spl. … tools (E) (57)
downcast (adj.) to feel / look … || a … person (1242) to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
eyes … (1252)
downfall (sg.) sth. is sb’s … (1004)
downhearted [ daun`ha~tid ] (pred.adj.) be … (843)
downhill [ daun`hil ] (adv.) to ride … || a road / it goes … (768) trade goes … (784)
sb. / sb’s marriage goes … ( fig.) ( rapidly ) || it’s ( all ) … / … all the way for sth. ||
it’s ( all ) … / … all the way ( from now on / then ) (797)
downhill (adj.) … skiing (1157)
download [ daun`lêud ] (vt:654)
downright [ `daunrait ] (adj.) a … snob / joke (184 / 197)
downright (adv.) to be … funny (197)
downriver [ daun`rivê ] (adv.) to navigate … (235)
downstairs (436) down-to-earth (adj:280) downtown (adj./adv:415)
downturn (C) a … in business (252)
doze (C:432) doze (vi) sb. … off (432) sb. … (457)
dozen [ `dûzên ] (num.) …s of people (277) half a … (867)
Dr
drab (U) dressed in … (1303)
drab (adj.) a … colour (1302)
draft [ draft E/A draft ] (vi&t) … sb. ( into the army ) (194) … a plan (615) … () in sb. (624)
… sb. into sth. (624)
draft (C) the … || a … board (A:194) a ( first / final / rough ) … (615) `… (A) dodger (196)
a (cool) … (E:draught) (of air) || to take a … (E:draught) ( of sth. ) (617)
draft (adj.) … plan (615) … beer (617)
draftee (A) (C:194)
drafter (E/A) (C:615)
draftsman (A) (C:615+)
drag (C) be a … for sth. (65)
drag (vi&t) sth. … (on) / … () `out sth. (258) … sb. to court (377)
drain (vi&t) … sb. of sth. (87) … a bank account (111) … a swamp (167) to feel …ed (fig:753)
… substance (1132)
drain (C:333) to go down the … (85) … service (564)
drake (C:254)
drama (C,U) a … performed by sb. (364) a powerful human … unfolds (1223)
dramatist (C:1023) dramatic (adj:48) draper (C:355)
drap (adj.) a … room (1303)
draught [ draft ] (eE) (vi&t = draft) … sb. ( into the army ) (194)
draught (E) (C: = draft, piece:617) beer on … || a … (E) of air || ( a game of ) …s (pl.) (617)
… excluder (E) (C,U:617)
draught (adj.) … beer (617)
draughtboard (C:617)
draughtsman (C:616)
draw (vi&t) … () `up a list / a budget / will (24 / 255 / 1102) … () (aside) the curtain(s) (30)
sth. … near / close (61 / 68) sth. … a xxx audience (63) to … money out of the bank (96)
… upon sb. (155) … up forces in an offensive position (204) … sb. aside (228)
to … with / against an opponent (304) … a blank / a ( tombola ) ticket (992) … a knife (1103)
… ( well ) || … a picture / a landscape etc. (1304)
draw (C) a match ends in a … (303) to hold the opponent to a (xx) … (304) quick on the `… (475,499)
a nude scene / a film is a … (764) to take a ( long ) … ( on a cigarette ) (893) a ( prize ) … (991)
to settle for a … (1167)
drawbridge (C:394)
drawer (C:4)
drawing (U,C) … pin (E) (875) a (prize) … (eA) (991) to do / make a … (1304)
dread (sg.,U) … of plunder (326) to feel … (944) to be struck with … (1066)
to feel a pang of … of sth. || a pathalogical … of heights (1118) to do sth. / be filled with … (1118)
to live in … of (doing ) sth. (1121)
dread (vt) … ( that ) - / to think whxx - (395,1113) … the thought of whxx - (1113)
… ( sb.) doing sth. (1114) … sth. ( death / heights ) (1114 / -18)
… the thought / prospect of ( doing ) sth. (1118) … ( doing / to do ) sth. || … sb./sth. doing sth. (1142)
dread(ed) (att. adj.) a … reprisal (1143)
dreadful (adj.) … weather (69) the … conditions of sb. (500)
to feel … (944) a … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
sb. is … to sb. (1066) a … reprisal (1143)
dreadfully (adv.) sth. goes … wrong (1066)
dreadlocks (pl.:877)
dream (vi&t) … of / about (doing) sth. / (that) - (50,67)
dream (C) the woman / (bride>) groom of one’s …s (67+) (have a) … of (doing) sth. (94)
a bad … (885) sth. is an impossible … (977) to live in a … world (994)
dreamer (C) a visionary … (868)
dreamland (U) (be far away) in … (645) dreamless (adj.) a … sleep (432)
dreamlike (adj.) a … state (428)
dregs (pl.) coffee … (774) to be the … of society / humanity (791 / 849) to drink to the … (1098)
drench (vt) sb’s face is … with sweat || rain … sb. / sth. || … sb. to the skin || rain-…ed (317)
sb. / sth. is …ed in / with blood (419) … oneself in perfume (445)
dress (vi&t) … a wound (14) ( to be ) beautifully …d (77) … in fine clothes (169) to get …ed (271)
… up || … () up sb. (285) … sb. up as sbth. (855) … a stone (1315)
dress (C,U) to wear a … (5) a … rehearsal (61) to …-rehearse (63) a wedding morning … (758)
a low-`cut … (1059)
dressing (U,C) to mix sth. with a … (890) a ( baby ) … table (1230)
dressing-`down (C:141)
dressmaker (C:438)
drew (v,pat:350)
dribble (vi&t) … (a ball) (589+)
dribble (C) to make a … (589)
drift (v:of ship:662) … into a dreamless sleep (432) … off to sleep (457) the snow … (1151)
drill (C,U) a … || a … bit (574) a … ground (1086)
drill (vi&t) … a hole (574) to … for oil (664) … a soldier || … sb. in sth. || … sb. to do sth. (1086)
drink (vi&t) … sth. from sth. (9) … in sth. (fig:665) … oneself senseless (951)
drink (C,U) a potent… (10) food and … (25) to take to … (60) a … of sth. (645)
to be the worse for … (765) a refreshing / soft … (853) a stiff … (1311)
drink-`driver (C:584)
dring-`driving (U:584)
drinker (C:61)
drinking (U:443) … water (563) a … companion (1101)
drive (drove, driven) (vi&t) … a car (31) … an enemy behind sth. (221) … sb. to do sth. (229)
… quickly / fast / flat `out (A) ||
… at low / slow / high / (a) great / full / top / excessive / lightning / breakneck speed (583)
… on a bend / curve (584) … to work (585) … sb. / a crowd etc. + adv. (721)
… sb. half out of their mind (844)
drive (C,U) going for a … (31) an i`nnate … (935)
driver (C:301) to pass one’s …’s test || to get / obtain a …’s license (A) (74) drink- / drunk `… (584)
… ( of a carriage ) (719)
driveway (139)
driving (U) to have / take … lessons || a … school (74, 998) to pass / fail one’s … test (74 / 998)
to get / obtain a … licence (E) (74) a … offence (211)
drink- / drunken / drunk (eA) `… || reckless … || to be banned / disqualified from … (584)
drool (vi) … over sth. (764)
drop (C) a … of rain (435) not touch a … of sth. (897) a steep … in orders (1134) an acid … (1228)
drop (vi&t) sb. … `out (6) … litter (29) the temperature … from sth to sth. (63) … `into sth. (124)
… one’s defence (212) ... dead (236) … a subject || to let a subject / it … (407) … `off to sleep (457)
wind(s) … (662) … a charge against sb. (708)
droplet (C:1258)
dropping (adj.) a … peak (1234)
droppings (pl.) horse … (501)
`dropout (C:51)
drought [ draut ] (U,C:224)
drown (vi&t) to save sb. from …ing (322) … the ignition (331)
sth. / a sound / noise … ( out ) sth. etc. (395)
drowned (adj.) … sailor 662)
drowning (U,C) a … accident (888)
drowse (vi) sb. … (457) drowsily (adv:449) drowsy (adj.) feel … (432) a … afternoon (458)
drug (6) … addict (607) … dealer (6) to be heavily (E) / heavy into …s (605)
a … officer / … den (849) to do …s (1084) a … lord / baron / trafficker / pedlar E/A peddler (1132)
Druid, <ic (214)
drum (v) `… sth. into sbs. head (682) have it …med into one’s head that (682)
drum (C) … `major (193)
drunk (pred. adj:10) … `driver / `driving (eA) (584) … as a lord || blind / dead … (704)
… with joy (765)
drunk (C:261) drunkard (C:261)
drunken (attr. adj.) a … life (171) a … brawl (300) … `driving (584) a … party / orgy (602)
in a … stupor (704)
drunkenly (adv:704)
dry (vi&t) … one’s eyes / teares (439) a river … `up (678) a market … up (787) …  hair (877)
dry (adj.) the … wastes (17) … amusement (33) … land (225) … weather (323) … humour (1247)
dryer (C) blow-… / (E) hair>… (877)
dry-eyed (adj.) to look … at sth. (1084)
dryness (U:940)
Du
dual (adj.) … citizenship / nationality (417)
dub (vt) … a film into English (127) … (sb.) a knight (152)
dubious (adj.) a … career (51) the nobility of sth. is … (153)
duchy (C:173) duchess (C:173)
duck (C,U) a … (254) sth. is like water off a …’s `back (920) a plan is a dead `… (950)
take to sth. like a … to water (964) to take to water like a … (1276)
duckling (C:254)
due (adj.) sth. … to sth. (41) sth. is … for completion (225) sbth. is … to do sth. (658)
due (U, pl.) revenue(s) from …s (pl.) (359)
due (adj.) … to sth. (10) duke, <dom (173)
dull (adj.) a … person / house (77 / 158) a … colour (1302)
dull (vi&t) sth. … the pain (1107)
duly (adv.) … elected (1003)
dumb (adj.) not that … (76) the ‘ D.. Ox ‘ of Roccasecca (165) a … `waiter (444)
to be struck … ( * with grief ) (509,* 1283) to be ( deaf and ) … (1271) in … silence (1283)
sth. is a pretty … thing to do (1284)
dumb down (phr.v) to … () … a programme (1271)
dumbfounded / <struck (adj.) be … (239)
dumbing down (U:1271)
dummy (C) an inflatable … (610) to suck a … (E) (1220) a … bird (1234)
dump (C) refuse / rubbish / waste … (782) dumping (U:333)
dunce (C) a …’s cap (1234)
dunderhead (C:1234)
dung (U:720)
dungarees (E) (pl:329)
dungeon (C:397)
dupe (vt) … sb. (into doing sth.) (394)
dupe (C) to make sb. a … (1066)
durable (adj.) … goods (pl. A) (874)
durables (E) (pl.) consumer … (874)
during (prep:79)
dusk (U) … falls (995) at / by … (1133)
dust (U) a … bin (E) (29) a particle of … (38) dirt and … (297)
sth. raises ( the ) … || ( the ) … settles (1148) paint … (1303)
dust (vi&t) … sth. with sth. (772)
dusty (adj.) … work (1148)
Dutch (adj.) to give oneself / get up … courage (1281) a … door (A) (1298)
duteous (adj:736)
dutiful (adj.) a … student / servant (335 / 736) dutifully (adv:739)
duty (C,U, money:356) to do one’s … ( as sth. / for sb.) (2,736) to relax sb’s … (160)
sb’s sole … is sth. (162) to have a … to do sth. (180) to sleep on … (206) dereliction of … (212)
to have a political / ceremonial … (420) to report for … (508) ( to report ) fit for … (518)
to have a ( legal / moral ) … to sb. / to do sth. ||
it’s sb’s ( legal / moral / official / heavy / sad ) … to do sth. || fail in / to do one’s … ||
to have a (strong) sense of … || … calls || make a … call || a / sb’s bounden `… (735+)
devotion to … || take `up …(738) a … call (740)
neglect of … || to neglect one’s … || to fail in ones’ … to sb. || in the line of … (746)
sth. does … as sth. (751) to go / be { on / off … (777) impose / levy / place / put a … on sth. ||
levy / collect (an) excise … / (a) customs … / an import … (776) to be on `point … (E) (882)
it’s sb’s public `… to do sth. (1051) to have a public … to do sth. || to fulfil a public … (1079)
to assume a … (1091)
duties (pl.) to enter upon / carry out / do / discharge / perform one’s ( legal / moral (in)formal /
(un)official / light) … (735+) to neglect one’s … (745)
duty-bound (adj.) be … to do sth. (737)
duty-`free (adj.) … goods / shop / shopping (776)
duty-`free (C:776)
duty-free (adv.) to buy … (776)
Dw
dwarf (vt) to be …ed by sbth. (1212)
dwell (v) … in / at swh. || … (up)on an issue (17)
dweller (C:16)
dwelling (C:16)
Dy
dye (vt) … hair etc. (877)
dye (C,U:531)
of the deapest … (531)
dying (attr. adj.) a … fire (30) dying (pl.) the … (745)
dyke (C:221)
dynamic (adj:565)
dysfunctional (adj.) a … family (2133)
Ee
Ea
each (det., pron.) … university (1) spl. / things, … doing sth. (1) spl. love … other (5)
eager (adj.) … for / to do sth. (469) in … expectation (266) eagerness (464)
eagle (C) a golden … || a white tailed … (865)
ealderman (C:222)
ear (118, bot;18) the howling assaults sb’s …s (31) sb. can’t believe their …s (119)
to cock an … at sb. (186) an animal cocks its …s (199) to turn a deaf … to sb. / sth. (206)
to let sth. go out (through / at) one … and out (of / at) the other (454)
to be up to one’s …s in trouble (696) sth. is ringing in one’s …s (696)
not for tender / polite …s (796 / 919) to speak for deaf …s (829) to listen with half an … (847)
the external / internal … (939) sth. comes to / reaches sb’s …s (958) a sensitive … (986)
to lend sb. a willing … (1094)
eardrum (C:939)
earl (C:173) earldom (C:173)
early (adj:28) in the `… hours (227)
early (adv.) to be up … (301) to do sth. … `on (528) … enough (622)
earlier (adj.) in … times (16) earliest (28) at the … opportunity (28)
earmarked (adj.) an … sum (903)
earn (vi&t) … a living (18) … as much as sb. (60) … knighthood through sth. (152) … a profit (257)
… the trust of sb. (267)
… well // good money // a good wage / salary // a fortune (785)
earner (C) wage / salary // average … (411 // 792) a high … (785)
earnings (pl.) low … (255)
earnest (adj.) in `… (430) earphones (728) earring (411)
earshot (U) be out of / within … (796)
earth (U,sg.) a lump of … (38) peace on … (227) Planet / the planet E… (995)
to feel like nothing on … (1065)
earthen (adj.) an … pot (1317)
earthenware (U:453)
earthenware (adj.) … pottery / art (1317)
earthquake (C:293)
earthly (adj.) in one’s … garden (fig.) (163)
ease (U) to feel at … ( with sb. * ) (251*, 253) || ill at … ( at sth.* ) (253, -60 * )
by the … with which - (569)
to put / set sb’s mind at … || to put / set sb. at ( their ) … (1063)
… ( and lightness ) of movement (1241)
ease (vi&t) sb’s breathing … (458) … sb’s pain (645) … sb’s conscience (753) … sb’s mind (1063)
easel (C) to put a canvas on an … (1304)
easily (adv:4)
east (U,sg.) in the … ( East ) || to the … (of sth.) (139 / 717)
east (adj.) … bank / … wind (718+)
east (adv.) … of sth. || sth. looks / faces … (139 / 717) Easter (674)
easterly (attr.adj.) … direction / wind (718+)
eastermost (adj.) the … part of the country etc. (138 / 717)
eastern (adj.) E… Europe (148) … sky (438) … district etc. / ( part of a ) country / slope (717)
the E… Roman Empire (926)
eastward (adj.) … direction (718)
eastward(s) (adv.) to extend … (149) turn / sail … (718)
easily (adv.) to do sth. quickly and … (603)
easy (adj:35) … to do sth. (83) … game / pray (114) to rest … ( on that head ) (702)
easy (adv.) an … going person (1261)
eat (vi&t) 5) … with a fork and knife (591) … () away sth. (677)
sb. could … a horse || to … greedily / voraciously (1251)
eatable (adj.) … waste(s) (6)
eater (C) a greedy / hearty / voracious … (1251)
Ec
EC (N) the European Community (670)
eccentric (C:867)
eccentric (adj.) … behaviour (867)
ecclesi`astic (C:684) ecclesi`astic(al) (adj:161)
echinodermata (pl:651)
economic, <al (adj.) an … question (136) … power (144)
economics (pl:151)
economically (adv.) … supported (2)
economist (C:965)
economy (C,U:19) the health of the … (1263)
ECSC ( the European Coal and Steel Community ) (670)
Ed
eddy (C:664)
edge (C,U) the … of a town (16) the … of road (331)
to be on the … of sth. / an abyss / a precipice (fig:784) on the … of a ditch || the … of a cliff (1117)
to be teetering on the … of sth. ( fig.) (1134)
edge (vi&t) to be …d by / sth. with sth. (438) sharp-…d (adj.) (698)
edgebone (C) … ( steak ) (795)
edible [ `edibêl ] (adj.) … waste(s) (6)
edibles (pl:6)
edict (C) the E… of Milan (926)
`edifice (C:1031)
Edison (N) Thomal Alva … (572)
edition (C) an / the first … of a book (100 / 164) to be published in an … of x copies (1075)
editor (413) letter to the … (626) …-in-chief (1054)
editorial (adj.) … staff / meeting (625) the main … office (1059)
educate (vt) … sb. (4) … sb. to do sth. (199) … sb. in sth. (403)
educated (adj.) an … elite (162) a poorly … person (309)
education (U,sg.) … matters / a choice of … / choose an … (2)
to get a university / vocational / liberal / higher / professional … (3+) to get / receive an … (4)
road (and safety) … (74) physical … (681) a minister / ministry of … (812)
a person of little … || with(out) an all-round / a general / liberal / basic … || adult … (class) ||
primary / elementary … (846+)
educational (adj.) … guidance (3) an … programme (844)
educationally (adv.) … disadvantaged (847)
`educative (adj.) an … course (847)
Ee
EEC (the European Economic Community) (N:670)
eerie (adj.) an … look (746)
Ef
efface [ i`feis ] (vt:491,519,539,552)
effacement (552) (self-) e`ffacing (519)
effect (C) an … ( of sth.) ( on sbth.) (55) a ( quite / very / most ) likely / probable … of sth. (176)
a harmful adverse side … (607) words etc. to the … that - (695)
sth. takes … (1260)
effective (adj:39)
effete (adj.) an … man (1098) an … tradition (1179)
efficiency (U) act with speed and … (597)
efficient (adj.) … land (162) an … army (222)
effort (U,C) by strenous / supreme…(s) (17 / 145) to put ( a lot of ) … into sth. (18)
to make peace …s (24) an … to do sth. (45) to make { an / every // the… to do sth. (74 // 186)
spl. make a concerted … to do sth. 105) a lot of … goes into doing sth. (121)
doing sth. is quite an … (187) sth. is a poor … || for all one’s …s (386)
with an … of will || (E) with ( an ) … (389) by joint …s (441) by increased / intensified …s (849)
sth. is well worth the … (862) to do sth with renewed …s (869) a rescue … (1114)
effortless (adj.) to do sth. with … artistry (450)
Eg
eg. (17)
egalitarian ,<ism (45)
egg (C:77) to break an … (448)
ego (C) a bruised … (633) the … (1199)
egocentric (adj.) a … person (289)
egoism (U:69)
egoistic (adj.) a … person (957)
egomaniac (C:289)
Ei
eight (num:5) eighty (num:214)
Einstein (N) Albert … (1169)
either (det., pron.) … side (24) … of them does sth. (48)
either (adv.) … (do) sth. or (do) sth. (2)
Ej
ejaculate (vi:937& speech)
ejaculation (U,C:937)
Ek
eke (vt) … () `out one’s income / knowledge (137) … a living / an existence (245)
… () out the food (246)
El
elaborate (vi&t) … a compromise (25) … on a subject (476)
elaborate (adj.) an … castle (169)
elated (adj.) sb. is … (1030)
elbow (C) an … joint (624)
elder (adj.) an … brother (143) elders (pl:542) eldest (adj.) sb’s … son (eE) (355)
elderly (adj.) an … person (130)
elect (vt:7, vt-t) … sb. by acclamation (145) … sb. (146) to be …ed (as) sth. (599)
… sb. ( to (do) sth.) (801) … to do sth. (807) to be …ed by / with a majority (808)
elect (adj.) sb. … (809)
elect (pl.) the … (1094)
elected (adj.) an … assembly / leader (801 / 804)
election (U,C) an … promise / pledge (98 / 601) … returns (309) sb’s. … to sth. / as sth. (309, 805)
stand (E) / run (A) for … (725) hold / have (a democratic / general ) an … / …s (801 / 806)
an … period (801) to put () forward / suggest sb. for … || participate in an … (802)
call an … (on an issue) (803+) a parliamentary … || E… Day (804) … day / the day of … (A) (806)
… manifesto / campaign / address / speech / pledge / promise || … committee (807)
… fraud / rigging (808) … board / board of ….s (A) (809) winner of the … || … victory / defeat (809)
electio`neering (U:807)
elective (adj.) an … democacy || an … officer (801) elector (366,808) the electorate (553)
electoral (adj.) an … system (470) … age (801) ( to hold ) an … office (804)
an … pact (with sb.) || an … promise / bribe (807) an … register (808) … fraud (808)
the E… College (809) … franchise (1181)
electorally (adv.) … effective (807) electorate (sg:809)
electric (U) pay the … (576)
electric (adj.) … sign (106) … power (565) … charge (566)
an … generator (566) … motor (566) face death by / send sb. to / get the … chair (698)
electrical (adj.) an … circuit (566) electrician (C:565)
electricity (297) … consumption (565) current / static … (566) … meter (574) electrification (663)
e`lectrocute (vt) … a criminal (698) electrocution (U) sentence to death by … 698)
electromagnetic (adj.) … induction / wave / radiation (566 / 620 / 1169) the … spectrum (1171)
electromagnetism (U:566)
electromotor (C:199)
electron (C) a negatively charged … (566)
electronic (adj.) … equipment (586) electronically (adj:588) electronics (U,pl:586)
elegance (U:217)
element (C) an … of a belief (71) an … of feudalism (149) criminal …s (pl.) (210) a chemical … (567)
a trace … (568, biochem:650) to be in one’s … (1188)
elementary (adj.) … education (844)
elephant (C:326)
elevate (vt) … sb. to honourable rank (153)
elevated (adj.) … land (1115)
elf (pl:elves) an … hill / king || the king of …ves (1238) an … maid (1250)
eligible [ `elid§êbl ] (adj.) sb. is … for sth. / … to do vote (790 / 801) an … young woman (806)
an … voter (808)
elite [ ei`li~t / i`li~t ] (C:162)
elitist (adj.) an … term (1129)
Ellis Island (N:559)
elongated (adj.) an … peak (1234)
eloquent [ `elêkwênt ] (adj.) sth. is an … testimomy to sth. (732)
eloquence (U:1167)
elsewhere (adv.) to look … (133)
elucidate (vi&t) sb. … a problem / what - (40) sb. … a theory (566)
elude (vt) … the press (1138) a detail … sb. || sth. … sb’s vigilance || sleep … sb. (1139)
sb’s willpower … them (1140) success … sb. || sb. … the police / a pursuer (1141)
to … one’s obligations (1149)
elusive (adj.) an … person (1138) an … pleasure (1140) an … answer (1143)
a solution is … (1144) an animal is too … to hit (1146)
elusively (adv.) to answer … (1143)
elves ( pl. of elf ) the king / hill of … (1238)
Em
emancipate (vt:8) emancipated (adj:42)
emancipation (U:42) women’s … (47)
embankment (C) a railway … (1111)
embargo (C) to impose / enforce / lift an (arms etc.) … against / on a country (671)
embark (vi&t) … on doing sth. (225) … (up)on a subject (280) a passenger … (658)
… on a course of sth. (1174)
embarrass [ im`barês ] (vt) sb. … sb. (39) sbth. … sb. / an organization (685)
embarrassed (adj.) to be very / deeply / highly / acutely … ( at / about sth.) (685)
embarrassing (adj.) an … situation (645)
embarrassment (U,C) to suffer acute / excruciating … (685)
embattle (vt:502) embattlement (C,U:370)
embellish (vt) … a cushion / the truth (1266)
embellishment (U,C) to tell sth. ect. with(out) …s (807)
ember (C) glowing …s (1235)
embezzle [ im`bezl ] (vi&t) … ( £ x ) (971) embezzlement (U:971) embezzler (C:971)
`emblem (C:928)
embody (vt) a soul is … in a new shape (83) sth. is …ied in an act (1184)
embrace (vt) simplicity … by medieval society (158) sb. … sb. || sb&sb. … (285)
embrasure (C:370)
embroider (vi&t) … sth. on sth. (441) … ( sth. ( with sth.) ) || … the truth (1266)
embroidery (U,C:1266)
embroidered (adj:330)
emerge (vi:377,385,395,414,415,416) feudalism … from the condition of society (148)
a kingdom … (229) (it) …s that - (398) … as (401)
emergence (398,406,414) the … of a class (149)
emergencies (pl:416)
emergency (C,U) … aid (314) an … brake A/A … cord (415)
a(n) … action / … meeting (418) a state of … || … powers / measures (418)
… equipment / supplies / services (E) || in an … || to deal with an … || an … room (A) ||
( in the ) accident and … (A&E) ( department ) (E) || on the … ward || to make an … landing (419)
an … central || to make an … call (576) an … exit (855)
… treatment (1149) to provide … cover (1289)
emergent (406,415)
emerging (adj:405)
emigrant (C:557) emigrate (vi:557) emigration (U:557)
eminent (adj.) … skill (450)
`emissary (C) send an … (713)
emission (U,C) toxic …(s) (622)
emit (vt) … a signal (126) … light / sound (941+)
emote (vi) … over secular themes (171)
emotion (C,U) extreme …s (20) to be overcome with …(s) || …s run high || to overflow with …s ||
sb’s voice is full of … || to sniffle with … || to display / show no sigh of … || hide one’s …s (1078)
mixed / conflicting …s (1084)
emotional (adj.) 251) … arousal (612) … problems (943) an … need (944)
to become / get … || an … outburst (1078) an … experience / issue (1083+) … problems (1084)
an … reaction / response with sb. || … support (1085)
emotionally (adv.) speak … (978) an … demanding task (1084)
emotive (adj.) an … experience / issue (1083+)
empathy [ `empê#i(U) lack of … (37) to be gifted with … || to have … for / with sbth. ||
… between spl. (1098)
empathetic [ empê`#etik ] (adj.) an … person (1098)
empathic [ em`pa#ik ] (adj.) an … person (1098)
empathize (vi) … with sb. /& sth. (599 / 1098)
emperial (adj:217)
emperor (C:173)
emphasis (pl:emphases) (C:734&U)
emphasize (vt, speech:107)
empire (C:156)
empirical (adj:164)
empirically (adv.) …-minded (1216)
empirist (C:164) empiricism (U:165)
employ (vt) … sb. ( * in a xxx role ) (75,* 136) … a name (929)
employee (C:93)
employer (C:16) …s’ association / organisation (791)
employment (U) (be) in part-`time / paid … (60 / 792) … exchange / service || (791)
empower (vt) … sb. to do sth. (749)
empties (pl.) returned … (421)
empty (adj.) an … promise (7) an account is … (28) … rhetoric (1167)
empty (vi&t) … a box (228) … the bowels (524)
emulate (vt) … sb’s elegance / policy (217 / 1175)
emulation (U,C:679)
En
enable (vt) … sth. / sb. to do sth. (311 / 662)
enact (vt) sth. is …ed (34) … a part ( in a play ) (48) … a statute (150) a government … that - (194)
enamel (C:743)
enchant (vt) … sbth. (with sth.) (76)
enchanted (adj:278) enchanter (C:71)
enchanting (adj.) … smile (82) enchantment (U,C:88) enchantress (C:71)
enclose (vt:559)
enclosed (adj:298)
enclosure (C) spectators’ … (25) an … ( for animals ) (578)
encore (C) to play an … (580)
encounter (C) a close … (65)
encourage (vt) … sb. to do sth. (2) … sth. (652)
encouragement (U,C) … of a strike (481)
encouraging (551) encouragingly (430)
encroach (vi+ adv.) the …ing tide (227) … ( south ) ( into sth.) (312) … (up)on sb’s rights (313)
encroachment (U,C) … (up)on sth. (313)
encumber (vt:454)
encyclo`pedist (C:932)
end (vi&t, &speech 56) … up + adj. (8) … in sth. / failure (18 / 88) … `up in sth. (29)
… `up as sth. (49) … `up doing sth. (87) a match … even / in a draw (303)
end (C) in the … (19) to make (both) …s meet (60) … of a period (149) an … result (165)
doing sth. comes to an … (170) to have an … to sth. (230) sb’s patience comes to an … (641)
the tail `… (684) to keep one’s … up (E) (833) sb’s life comes to an abrupt …(1115)
from … to … || from one … to the other (1154)
endanger (vt) .. one’s life (23) … sb. / sb’s pride (42) endangered (adj:316)
endeavour (vi) … to do sth. (138)
endeavour (C,U) to make every … to do sth. (258)
despite sb’s best …s || to use all one’s (creative) …s to do sth. (259)
ending (C) an obvious … (127) a sad / tearfull … ( of a book ) (1270)
endow [ in`dau ] (vt) to be …ed with talent (174)
sb. … sb. with a responsibility / a quality || to be well-…ed (179)
… an institution etc. (190)
endowment (C,U) sb’s natural …s (174) ( an ) … of an institution (190)
endure [ en`d§uê ] (vi&t) … suffering(s) (237) sth. … || sb. … doing / to do sth. (249) … taunts (261)
endurable (adj.) to be … (746)
enema (C:1260)
enemy (C:12,469,502) the … (24) … territory (502) (be an) (sth. is an) … to sth. (fig:537)
a chief … (538) a common … (532) a public … (534)
energetical (adj:41)
energy (U, pl.) renewable … (49) it takes … to survive (121) to direct all one’s … / …ies to sth. (168)
to put (a lot of ) … into / to a plan || to apply / channel / devote / put (all ) one’s …ies into / to sth. (190)
nuclear … (567)
`enervated (pred. adj:627)
enervating (adj.) an … journey (155)
enforce (vt) … feudalism (345) … a provision (1183)
enfranchise (vt) … women (767)
engage (vi&t) … in sport(s) / politics ) (14 / 45) … in doing sth. (45) … sb. ( as sth.) / ( to do sth.) (51)
… an army in (a) war (148) to get …d in fighting (236)
engaged (adj.) an … tone / signal (93) to be … on a book (119) to be … in an act of holiness (163)
to get … in fighting (236) sb. is … to sb. || sb. and sb. are … to be married || an … couple (403)
to be … in a battle (469)
engagement (before marriage:545)
Engels (N) Friederich … (933)
engine (C199) a railway E/A railroad … (561) … driver (E) (727)
engineer (C) a telephone … (575) a locomotive / an … (A) (727)
engineering (U:4)
England (N:1) English (adj.) an … university (1) English (U) a course in … (46) the … (pl.) (219)
engrave (vt) … sth. on sth. || … sth. with sth. || an …ed design (1312)
sth. is …d in / on sb’s memory / mind / heart (1314)
engraver (C:1312)
engraving (U,C:1312)
engross (vt) … sb. / oneself (464)
engrossed (adj.) to be ( deeply ) … ( in / with sth.) (464)
engrossing (adj.) an … problem (464)
enhance (vt) … one’s prestige through doing sth. || … a castle (154)
enigma [ i`nigmê ] (C:508)
enigmatic [ enig`matik ] (adj.) an … smile (514) enigmatically (adv:514)
enjoy (vt) … sb’s chatter (32) … oneself (79) … doing sth. (130) … a gracious living (174)
enjoyment (U,C) to do sth. with ( evident / obvious ) … (338) sensual / sensuous … (1050)
… of life (1247)
enlarge (vi&t) … a university (1) … one’s vocabulary (46) … on a subject (476)
enlighten (vt) sbth. … sb. as to / on / about sth. (44)
enlightening (adj.) an … book (44)
enlightened (adj.) an … person (84) the … despots (932)
enlightenment (U:65) the (age of) E… (932)
enlist (vt) … sb. as / to do sth. (144)
enmity (508) … towards (532) (be at) … with (538)
ennoble (vt) a king / queen … sb. (190)
ennoblement (U) to be due for … (190)
enormous (adj:567)
enough (adv.) prudent … to do sth. (4) to have … and to spare (246) sb. has had … of sb. (1098)
enough (det., pron.) … for sth. (5) … chat (34) nearly strong … || … time (66)
to have had … of (doing) sth. / sb. (1101 / -04)
enquire (eE/A inquire) (vi&t, speech:104) … (about / into / as to) sth. / … whxx (104, 701,709+)
enquirer (C:725)
enquiring (adj.) … letter (494) raise an … eyebrow (714) … mind (724)
enquiringly (adv.) look … at sb. (714)
enquiry (eE/A inquiry) (C,U:113) to help the police with their …ies (709) on (further) … (710 / 726)
to get / make an … about sth. (715 / 726)
to order / launch / hold an … into sth. (713)
enrich (vt) … a church with carvings (348) … a language with sth. (363) revenues … the crown (367)
enslave (vt) sb. … sb. (218) delusions / drunkeness … sb. (241 / 261) poverty … sb. to crime (289)
ensuing (adj.) an … war (1179)
ensure (vt) … a good harvest (224) … a success || … (that) - (257)
a rule / result … sb. sth. (258 / 303)
entail (vt) sth. … cooperation (159)
entangle (vt) … sb. in contradictions (689) be …d in bedclothes / weeds (707 / 723) … in / with sth. ||
be(come) / get … in / with sth. (fig:716) get … with sb. (emotionally) (721)
entanglement (C,U) extricate oneself from …s (689) political / religious … (716)
get into emotional … (721) die from … (723) …s (pl:732)
enter (vi&t:334) … into conversation etc. (with sb.) (40)
… into one’s part || … into the spirit of it / things (52) … into / (up)on a subject (280)
… ( a place ) (276) ... for an event (579) … sth. in(to) a programme (823)
enter (key) (C:334)
enterprise (C,U) sb’s … is to the common advantage (181) to put fetters (up)on sb’s … (378)
free / private / state / public … (U,C) (560) a person of … (577)
enterprising (adj.) an … government (560)
entertain (vi&t) … sb. with sth. (48) sb. … (sb.) (82)
… friendly / hostile { feelings / sentiments towards sb. (990 / 993) entertainment (C,U:48)
enthusiasm (U:52) enthusiast (C:25)
enthusiastic (adj:113)
entice [ en`tais ] (vt) … sb. ( into doing / to do sth.) || … away ( from ) sth. (81+) … sb. to sth. (82)
enticement (C,U:93)
enticingly (adv:82)
entire (159) entirely (150)
entitle (vt) to be … to a coat of arms (173) sb. is …d to inherit / vote (412 / 801)
entity (C) an abstract univesal … (1216)
entourage (C:371)
entrance (U,C) entry by a separate … (23) … to sth. (128) … hall (444)
to gain / be refused … (to sth) (642+)
entrap (vt) … sb. (into doing sth.) (689)
entreat (vt, speech:105) … sb. (to do sth.) (231)
entrecote (U,C:795)
entrench (161)
entrepre`neur (C:555) entrepreneurial (adj:169) entrepreneurship (U:555)
entrust (vt) … their means / a task to sb. || … sb. with their means / a task (98 / 253)
entry (U,C) to gain … into a place (6) to force an .. (23) … into knighthood / a country (403 / 557)
to gain / be refused … ( to sth.) (642+) a point of … ( to sth.) (857)
envelope (C:26)
enviable [ `enviêbl ] (adj:1201)
envious (adj.) an … person
environment [ in`vairênmênt ] (C,U) an … (71) the … (81)
a wholesome ( physical / psychical ) … || sb’s home … (1263)
environmental [ invairên`mentl ] (adj.) an … group (17) … preservation (81) an … stimulus (935)
environmental-`friendly (adj:316)
environmentalist [ invairon`mentêlist [ (C:622) an … organization (622)
environmentally (adv.) … friendly (316)
envoy (C) to send an … (713)
envy (U) greed helps … (97) to be sick with … (132)
envy (vt) … sb. (97) (132)
enzym (C:649)
Ep
epicentre (C:647)
epidemic (C) an … victim (293) an infection creates an … (1255) an … of a disease (1256)
epidemic (adj.) an … disease (293)
epigram (C:47)
e`piscopacy (C:734) e`piscopal (adj:734) episco`palian (C:734)
epistle (C) the E… ( to the Hebrews * ) (70, 819* )
epistemological (adj:163) epistemology (U:934)
epithet (C:540)
`epoch (C) the beginning of a new … (76)
epoch-making (adj.) … crisis (89)
Eq
equable (adj.) … temperament / weather (1241 / -50)
equal (C) a social … (899)
equal (vt:8)
equal (adj.) be … (43) ... to sth. (579) … in status (554) other things being … (596)
to be … to a job (970)
equality (41) gender / sexual … (549)
equalize (vi) … ( in football ) (303)
equalizer (C:303)
equally (adv.) …, sbth. does sth. (260)
equation (C,U) a simple / quadratic … (1060)
equational (adj.) … verb (652)
equinox (C) the spring / autumn … (223)
equip (vt) … sb. with sth. (fig:466) … a studio (1304)
equipment (U,sg:151)
Er
era (C) the end of an … (76)
erase (vt) … writing (875)
eraser (C:875)
Erasmus (N) Desiderius … (930.1164)
erect (vt) … a monument / a tent (25 / 501) … a trade barrier (670)
eremite [ `erimait ] (C:219)
erode (vi&t) … ( substance, nerves, confidence, freedom, payment ) (away) (677+ )
erosion (677+) soil … (730)
err (o-f) (vi) to … is human (1233) to … on the side of caution (1236)
errand () to go on / do an … (543) to run …s (592)
error (C,U) to see the … of one’s ways (120) to be the result of / due to human … (1149)
erupt (vi&t &speech:418) a volcano … || ash … from the crater || lava is …ed from the volcano ||
people … in(to) (a) panic || panic … || sb’s skin … in spots || a rash … (418) a tooth … (459)
fighting … (535) sb. … slanderous words (540) a conversation … into sth. (604)
eruption (C,U) volcanic … (293) an … (418) an … of blatant behaviour (538)
Es
escalate [ `eskêleit ] (vi&t) … a war (522)
escalation (C,U) an … in prices (515) an / further … of a conflict (525)
escapade [ `eskê`peid ] (C) sb’s nightly … (920)
escape [ i `skeip ] (vi&t) sb. … (6) to ( narrowly ) … being killed || to … with one’s life (321)
sth. … (a) conquest (370) sb. narrowly … shipwreck (662) … with sth. (fig:639) … one’s destiny (752)
… the clutches of moodiness / into an absorbing story / from one’s moodiness (951)
a fact … sb. (1143)
escape (C) have a narrow / near … (61) an … of material (621)
escaped (adj.) an … prisoner (1495)
escapee [ eskei `pi~ / i `skeipi~ ] (C:308)
escort (C) … carrier (668)
escutcheon (C) a blot on one’s … (441)
esophagus (A) / (E) oes- (C:938) especially (16)
essay [ `esei ] (C) an … on / about sth. (338) an … on sth. || an …at (doing) sth. (1052) an … in sth.
essay [ e`sei ] (vt) … a description / ( to do ) sth. (1052)
`essayist (C:1052)
essential (adj.) preparation is … (225) an … nutrient (340) the … services (419) sth. … for sth. (480)
essential (C) the bare …s (763)
essentially (adv.) sb. is … sth. (151)
establish (vt) … an autonomy (21) sb. … a relationship (34) … oneself as an aristocracy (214)
a book … evidence / a connection (460)
… one’s credentials (91) … an organization (122) … oneself as sth. (214) research … that - (467)
the police… sb’s identity (1115)
established (adj.) … order (364) … church / religion (815 / 821)
establishment (C,U) an honorary … (153) the … of the Protstant churches (163)
e`state (C,U) … car (E) (129) `real … (U) || a housing / industrial // landed … (135 // 150)
an … agent (135 / E& 143) to buy an … (136) to inherit sb’s … (141)
the three …s (of society) || the first etc … (147) … tax (412)
estimate (vt) sth. is …d at x (418)
estimated (adj.) … arrival time (777)
Estonian (adj:562)
estimate [ `estimêt ] (C) a(n) approximate / ballpark / qualified / rough … (576)
to get an … for some work (1147)
estimate [ `estimêit ] (vt:226)
estuary [ `est$uêri ] (C:225)
Et
etch (vi&t) … ( a design on / (in)to a plate) || … a plate with a design (1312)
sth. is …ed against the sky (1313)
tiredness is …ed on sb’s face || sb’s face is …ed with tiredness ||
a memory is ( deeply ) …ed into sb. || sth. is …ed on sb’s memory / mind / heart (1314)
etching (C,U) to print an … (1072) … is a method (1312)
eternal (adj.) … perdition / life (89/94) an … truth / verity (1274) eternally (adv:236)
`ethane, ethanol (570)
ethically (adv:196)
ethics (934)
etiquette (U) to offend against … (195)
Eu
EUATOM ( the European Atomic Energy Community ) (670)
Eucharist (C) to receive the sacrament of the … (159) celebrate / receive the … (745)
Europe [ juêrêp ] (N) Eastern … (148)
European [ juêrê`pi~ên ] (adj.) … history (147) … Cup (304)
Ev
evade (vt) … capture (112)
evaluation (C,U) an … (1165)
evanescent [ evê`nesênt ] (adj.) the spoken word is … (738)
evangelical [ i~van`d§elikêl ] (adj.) an … movement (1174)
evangelist [ i~`vand§êlist ] (C) an E… (70)
evasion (C,U) tax … (413) ( a reply ) full of …s (893)
evasive (adj:544) evasively (adv.279)
eve (C) the … of the Great War (151)
even (adv.) … if / though (8 / 16) … on an afternoon (11) … so (107) … as (421)
even (adj.) … worthiness (47)
an …`contest || two teams are … || a match / score is … || a match ends … (303)
an … number (647) an … surface (940)
evening (C,U) the next … || one … (5) in the … (63) the … sun (116) an … gown (441)
an … meal (82) the … star (995) to have a splendid … (1124)
evenness (U:940)
event (59,420,578) in the (unlikely) … of / that (66,427) the (social) … of the year (441)
a happy … (457) a major / terrible / tragic … (428,429) in the / in any … (484)
wise after the … (549) to enter for an … (579) a track / field … (634)
events (pl.) at all … (484) (the) … are beginning to march (523) the march / progress of … (482)
course / sequence of … (428) a chain of … (486) in the natural course of … (492)
eventful (adj:454) eventual (adj:484) eventually (9,484) every (det:13)
everybody (pron:7)
everyday (sg.) the … (184)
everyday (adj.) an … matter (44) … hopes / life etc (73+) … occurrence (627) … language (740)
… communication / speech / writing (1217)
everything (pron:8) absolutely … (119) everywhere (4)
evidence (vt) … sth. with / by doing sth (691 / 708) sth. as …d by sth. (709)
evidence (U) sb. / sth. { renders / gives … (84) there’s no … of sth. (169)
the balance of … suggests ect. that - || on the balance of …, - (177)
ample … for sth. (618) convincing … (636) tangible … (that -) / of sth. (688) sth. bears … of sth. (709)
there’s … for sth. || to give … (in a court) || to produce ( highly ) questionable / suspect … (710)
to find / have // there is (no) … to do / for sth. || turn King’s / Queens / State’s … (711)
( not a scrap / shred of ) … that - (712) on the … of sth. (731) to be ( much ) in … (732)
evident (adj.) … enjoyment (338) it becomes … ( to sb.) ( that - ) ||
sth. is ( clearly ) … in / from sth. (340)
evidental (adj.) an … basis for sth. (340)
evidently (adv:340)
evil (adj.) … charm (35) … spirit (71) an … manner (537)
evil (C) a necessary … (93) a social … (577) …s of sth. (481) to choose the lesser of two …s (975)
evoke (vt) … awe (223)
evolution (U) the … of democracy (189) Darvin’s theory of … (1196)
evolve (vi&t) sth. … (651)
Ex
exacerbate (vt) sth. … sb’s symptoms || sth. … a quarral / situation (1260)
exacerbation (U,C) a brief … of sb’s symptions || the … of a situation / conflict (1260+)
exactitude (25)
exact (vt) … a fee etc (150)
exacting (adj:62) exactly (36)
exalt (vt) … sb. / an idol / a feeling / a line of action || … emotion / intuition above reason (190)
… sb. to ( the rank of ) corporal (194)
exaltation (U) self-… (179) a candidate for … || a moment of joy and … (190)
exalted (adj.) to move in very … circles || to raise sb. to an … rank / position (190)
exam (<ination) (C) to pass / fail {a strenous / one’s … (47) to take / do sit an / one’s … (652)
to invent / set … questions || mark (E) / grade (A) an … (725)
( to do well / badly) in E/A on one’s … ( in sth.) || to get a mark in E/A a grade onone’s … (725)
a school leaving … (1162)
examination (C,U) to pass a health … (557) to put sb. through an ( inquisitorial / gruelling ) … (686)
self-… (747) to undergo a medical … (1260)
examine (vt) … a role / a cake (52 / 67) … sb. (113) … sb. in their homework / on a subject (200)
examiner (C) an external … (725)
example (C) an … of sth. (27) to follow sb’s … (45) sb. is sb’s great … (472) an ill … of sth. (1249)
exasperate [ ig`za~spêreit ] (vt) sth. … sb. (960)
exasperated (adj.) to be(come) … with sb. || an … voice (960)
exasperating (adj.) an … attitude / person (960+)
exasperation (U) do sth. in … (960) a look / sigh / groan of … (960)
excavate [ `ekskêveit ] (vi&t) … for a road (1311)
exceed (vt) … a speed limit / one’s authority (74)
… an amount / one’s wildest hopes / (one’s) expectations (123)
excel (vi, vi+ oneself) … at / in (doing) sth. || … as sth. || … oneself (E) (610)
excellent (adj.) … acting (52) an … mood (958)
excellence (U) … of manners (152)
except (prep.) … (for) sth. (61) except (that) - (conj:61) … to do sth. (100)
exception (C,U) the rule rather that the … (184) as a rare … (479) to take ( vigorous ) … to sth. (461)
exceptional (adj.) … cases aside (57)
exceptionally (adv.) to … do sth. (480)
excess (C,U) to do sth. in … of sth. (356) to do sth. to … (445)
…es (609) to preach a sermon against …(es) (756)
manly …es (1098)
to curb sb’s …es (1094)
excessive (adj.) … force (625) an … lifestyle (756) to cover the bread with … butter (1272)
exchange (vt) spl. … blows (15) … sth. for sth. (78) spl. … courtesies (389)
exchange (C,U) in … for sth. (150) a telephone … (576)
ex`chequer (sg.) the Court of E… (348) the Chancellor of the E… (812)
excise (C,U) … duty (776)
ex`citable (692) excitability (690) excite (vt) … sb. (32)
excited (adj.) … behaviour (732)
excitement (U) be filled with …at sth. (33) do sth. with / in … (287 / 386) cause / create … (747)
exciting (adj.) an … thought / game (33 / 198)
exclaim (vi&t, speech:249) sb. … || sb. … that - (272)
exclamation (C) an … ( mark / point ) (1221)
exclude (vt) … sb. ( from sth. ) / a possibility (54)
exclusion (54) to do sth. to the … of sth. (56)
exclusive (adj.) … style (56) … in sth. (53) … of sth. || two things mutually … (60)
exclusively (adv:100)
excom`municate (vt) … sb. (for sth.) (747) excommunicated (adj. / C:747)
excretion [ ik`skri$ên ] (U,C) … of secretions / waste matter (936) excrement (U:938)
excruciate (vt) sb. … sb. (696) sth. … sb. (fig:697)
excruciating (adj.) … pain / embarrasment // torture (685 // 696) excruciation (696)
excruciatingly (adv.) … embarrasing / boring (685 / 692)
excuse (vt) sb. … himself (183)
excuse (C) an … to do sth. (128) to make …s on the plea that - (183) to think `up an … (245)
to come up with a lame / feeble / pathetic … || sbth. is a poor / rotten etc. … for sbth. (310+)
to plead to one’s … (618) to allege sth. as an … (917) an … ( from a doctor / parent ) (A) (1277)
execute [ `eksikju~t ] (vt) … a handicraft (138) … sb. (356) … a punishment || … sb. for a crime (697)
… sb. by hanging / beheading / decapitation / shooting / electrocusion (698)
to … sb. summarily (1103) … a decision (1314)
execution (U,C) the … of sb. (362) a summary … (1104) the … of a plan (1161)
executioner (C697)
executiv [ ig`zekjêtiv ] (C) the … (+ sg. / pl.) (189)
executive (attr. adj.) the … power (189) an … manager (1314)
exempt (v:380/adj:382) exemption (382)
exercise (vi&t) … choice / care / skill (2 / 6 / 14) … caution (140) … a privilege (150)
exercise (C,U) to take / do ( strenous / vigorous // gentle / wholesome ) …(s) (9,14 // 1264)
an … book (46) the object of the … (855) to do morning …s (1069)
exert (vt) … pressure on sb. (190) … oneself ( to do sth.) (192) … one’s strenght (278)
exhalation (C,U:888)
exhale (vi&t) … (air etc.) (888)
exhaust (vt) … oneself doing sth. || sth. … sb. (320) … a subject (329) … all possibilities (339)
exhaust (U,C) … fume (211) an … ( pipe ) (E) (319)
exhausted (287)
exhaustion [ ig`zå~st$ên ] (U) to fall over from … (497) to chase sb. to … (1110)
exhibit [ ig`zibit ] (vi&t) … a servile conduct (156) … a copy (330)
exhibition (C,U) an … of art (858) to have sth. in (an) … || to do sth. at an … (869)
exile (vt) … sb. (362)
exile (U,C) the … of sb. (362)
exist (vi) God / incarnation … (82 / 84) … on a poor diet (1262)
existence (U,sg.) sb. leads an … (21) sth. then in … (149)
exit C) an …( on a motorway ) ( for a place ) (324) an emergency … (855) an … poll (808)
exit (v) … a motorway (324) … on option on a computer (234)
exodus (sg.) … of taxpayers (414)
exorbitant (adl:96)
exorcism (U:107) exorcist (C:107)
exorcize (vt) … an evil spirit (107) … a memory from one’s mind (124)
exotic (adj:665)
expand (vi&t) sth. … (677)
expansionist (adj.) … nationalism (1193)
expect (vt) … (to do) sth. (34) … sb. to do sth. (135) it is …ed that - (404)
… ( to get ) sth. (592) to be …ing ( a baby / child ) (457)
expectant (adj.) an … body (454) … mother / father / parents (457)
expectation (C,U) to live up to …s / sb’s … (256) in eager / intent // thrilling … (266 // 1104)
to have …s from sb. (1108)
expectancy (357) expectantly (640)
expediency / <dience (C,U) to act out of … || to be involved in an … ||
politics of private / political …. (1105) to act from … ( rather than principle ) (1106)
expedient (C) by the simple … of doing sth. (1106)
sth. is a useful … for doing sth. (1107)
to use all …s to do sth. (1105)
expedient (adj.) it is / to find it … ( to do sth. / that - ) (1104+)
expediently (adv.1106)
expedition (C) Caesar’s summer … (215)
expel (vt) … sb. ( from school ) (335) … sb. from a town (924) … faeces from the bowels (938)
expence (C,U) at sb’s … (37) living …s (60) no … ( is ) spared (285)
… ( to sb.) ( for sth.) (296) at the … of sb. (371)
expenditure (C,U) … on sth.(60) an … of £ x || much … of emotion (203)
a huge … of energy / time and effort (204)
expensive (adj.) an … buy (96) an … mistake (110)
experience (vt) … sth. (19+) … the fact that - (88)
experience (U,C) to have ( absolutely ) no … of sth. (8) to learn from …(s) (44) to gain … (46)
a past … (288) taught by bitter … (850) to learn from bitter … that - (1248)
experienced (adj:8)
experiment (C,U) a method of … (353) an … on / with sth. (408)
experiment (vi) … on / with sth. (408)
experimental (adj.) an … animal (408)
expert (C) an … at / in / on (doing) sth. (107)
expertise (U) to offer sb. one’s … (604)
explain (vi&t, & speech 65) … sth. (70) … that - (133) … sth. through sth. (166) … () `away sth. (182)
… sth. to sb. (261) … ( to sb.) whxx (916)
explanation (C,U) to give / offer an … for sth. (55)
explode (vi&t) … with anger etc. (42)
explosive (adj.) an … temper (129)
exploit (vt:374,395,399) … sb’s credulity (118) … sb. (183)
exploit (C) to earn sth. through some …s (152) a heroic / daring … (155) to praise sb’s …(s) (401)
exploitable (adj:374) exploitation (U:374,393,401,414) exploitative (adj:374) exploiter (C:374)
exploitive (adj:374)
explore (vi&t:296)
explorer (C) a lost … (140)
explosion (C,U) an … of anger etc. (42) explosive (adj.) sb. is … (129)
export (v:215)
expose (vt) … sth. to sth. (38) … a crime || … sb. as sth. (274)
exposed (adj.) to be in an …position (206) … film (588)
expostulate (489) <tion (489)
exposure (U,C) the … of a conspiracy (535) (heavy / light) … to sth. (621) public … (834) self-… (822)
expound (vt, vi + on) … sth. ( to sb.) || … on sth. (469)
ex`press (vt) sb. … an opinion / one’s sentiments (7 / 1047) sth. … a sentiment / sb’s joy (1050+)
… oneself + adj. || words cannot … what - || sb. cannot … how - (1051)
… oneself (in sth.) / (strongly) on sth. (1052+) … a newspaper (1055)
… the juice from sth. (1063) to … one’s thanks (1067)
express (adj.) to be an … image of sb. (1049) an … request / wish // purpose (1050+)
an … company / delivery / letter / train / wagon || by … messenger (1055)
express (adv.) to send sth. … (1055)
express (C,U) to send sth. by … (1055)
expressly (adv.) to … request sb. (1051) … composed to do sth. (1053)
expressible (adj.) sth. is not … ( in words ) (1051)
expression (U,C) freedom / liberty of … (23) to throw a lot of … into sth. (47) sb’s facial … (87)
to have a smug … on one’s face / in ones’s eyes (102)
sb’s feeling finds … in a smile || sb. gives … to his joy by sth. || a smile give … to sb’s joy (1051)
an … of opinoin / sympathy || sth. is beyond / past … || do sth. with … (1052)
an … of sth. on one’s face || a rude / slang / clear … (1053)
to have a melancholy / melancholig / sad / doleful / gloomy / glum / mournful / sorrowful / sombre >
… on one’s face (1242)
expressive (adj.) an … form (171) sth. is … of despair etc. (1052) … words (1053)
expressless (adj.) an … face / voice (1051)
expropriation (556)
expulsion (C,U) … of sb. (355)
extend (vi&t) … one’s liberty (23) feudalism is ed… into / to a place (149) … a charge (212)
sth. … to the case of sth. (815)
extension (U,C) an … cord (572) give / grant an … (of sth.) (797)
ex`tensive (adj.) an … landscape (140) an … revolt (491) … local government (553)
to give sb. … powers (625) an … agreement (986)
extent (C) the full … of the fraudulence (109) to a certain … (252)
extention (C) an … to a building (E) (858)
extenuating (adj.) … circumstances / factors (693) extenuation (C,U) (684)
external (adj.) … apperance (72) … pressure (146) … examiner (725) the … world / ear (939)
extinction (55)
extinguish (vt) … a fire / light (599) … hope (607) extinguisher (C) ( a fire ) … (599)
extol (vt) … sb. ( as sth. ) (1261) … the virtues of sth. || … sth. as sth. (1264)
extort (351,398) … admiration (401) extortion (356) extortionate (415)
extra (adj.) an … source (137)
extra (C:person:51)
extract (C) a herbal … (263)
extract (vt) … information // (an) agreement etc. from / out of sb. (1059 // -67)
… money from / out of sb. (1076)
extraordinary (adj:161)
extraordinarily (adv:239)
ex`travagant (adj:96)
extreme (adj.) … youth / old age || sb’s … hope / pain || at the … point of vision (12)
in the … right of a picture (14) in an … position (17)
in … cases || under … circumstances || the … penalty of the law (20)
… patience / points of view || an … politician (21)
… anointing / unction (745) … `sports (pl.) (1156)
extreme (C) war and peace are …s (12) to be oppresses in the … (16)
the …(s) of poverty || the …s of heat and cold (19) to carry / push / taking it to …s (20)
to go to …s || to go to the opposite / other … || sth. is an … (21)
to carry sth. to an … (23) with … exactitude (25) the …s (64) … sports / skiing || an … skier (1156)
extremity (C,U) to the last … || to be in …ies (12) an … ( of the body ) (13) the …ies of poverty (19)
in one’s … of joy || to go to …ies / an … || the lover / upper …ies (20)
an … of poverty || in this … (21)
extricate (vt) … oneself (from entanglements / a tangle of sth.) (689 / 707) … sth. from weeds (723)
exotic (adj:416)
exude [ ig`zju~d ] (vi&t) (confidence) … from sb. || … (confidence) (602)
… sweat etc. || sweat etc. … from sb. / sth. (614,651)
exult [ ig`zûlt ] (vi & speech 388) … (at / in / over / that - ) (388)
exultant [ ig`zûlênt ] (adj.) … (at) (388)
exultation [ egzûl`tei$ên ] (U:388)
Ey
eye (vt:748)
eye (C) to keep an … on sth. (13) to get sth. in one’s …(s) (38) sbth. opens sb’s …s ( to sth.) (44)
a practised … (47) sth. is pleasing to the … (78) to have a gloomy look in one’s …s (128)
to look sb. (straight) in the …(s) (133) in sb’s …s (179)
to turn a blind … (to sth.) (206) to close / shut one’s …s to sth. (210)
before / in front of sb’s (very) …s (232)
to be all …s || all …s are on sb. || avert one’s …s ( from sth.) (233)
to keep one’s …s peeled / skinned ( for sbth.) (261) sb’s ..s fall ( on sth. ) (266)
to be the apple of sb’s … (268)
to have sad …s || sb’s …s sparkle / twinkle with joy etc. (278 / 987) before sb’s very …s (396)
to dry one’s …s (439)
to keep a watchful … on (489) to see / picture sth. in one’s mind’s … (521) hook and … (581)
in the public `… (606) to be ( barely ) visible to / with the naked … (763)
to cast / run one`s …s over sth. (826) sb. can’t believe one’s own …s (838)
tears blur sb’s …s || sb’s …s blur (839) to have / keep half an … in / on sth. (847+)
sth. catches sb’s … || sb. … sb’s … (853) || 1088) an … catcher (853)
sb’s …s travel / wander + adv. (863) sth. is a sight for sore …s (867) only have …s for sb. (870)
to make … contact with sb. (905) to feel one’s …s burning (949) sb’s …s are wild with terror (1065)
to open one’s …s wide (1110) as far as the … can see (1117) the human … (1170)
sb’s …s pop out of his / her head (1245) sb’s …s give him / her the lie (1292)
eyebrow (C:10)
eye-catching (adj.) an … advertisement / device (853)
eyesight (286) get an … test (865) a poor … (868)
eyewitness (C) an … report // account / testimony (513 // 711)
eyre (o-f) [ eê ] (C,U) justices in … (350)
Ff
Fa
fabled [ feibld ] (adj.) a … place (427)
fabric (C,U) the … (sg.) of a society (55)
fabricate (v) … a story (fig:635) fabrication (C,U) it’s all (a) pure … (829)
facade [ fê`sa~d ] (C) to maintain a … of charm || behind sb’s … of sth. (536)
face (C) a frown on sb’s … (9) to have / wear a frown / smile on one’s … (9 / 32)
to punch sb. in the … || to land a punch in sb’s … (14) to say / tell sth. to sb’s … (38)
…-to-… contact with sb. (49) with a xxx … (85) to disappear / vanish off the … of the earth (117)
to look the danger in the … (133) ( to do sth. ) … to … ( with sb.) (185, 740)
to look death in the … (232) to lose / safe … (306) in … of sth. (385) to have the … to do sth. (479)
to make / pull a long … (691) sb’s … wears a smile / an air of sth (763, 765) a rock … (677)
( to take sth.) at … `value (782) to put a good … to it (854) a … of mountain || a ( sheer ) cliff … (864)
to look sb. full in the … (1144) sth. puts a human … on sth. || sth. gives sth. a human … (1168)
sth. with a human … (1223)
face (vi&t) … a choice || to be …d with a choice (1) … the fact that - (16) … facts (35)
some land … sth. (213) to … certain death (232) sbth. … sbth. // this / that way (264)
… ( `up to) the fact that - (292) … the direction of travel (<ling ) (1151)
face-saving (adj:306)
facetious [ fê`si~$ês ] (adj.) … remark / be … (591) facetiously (591)
facial (adj.) a … expression (87)
faciliate (vt) sth. … sth. (149)
facility (C) a … for sb. (202)
fact (C,U) in … (4) a … about sth. (15) the … (of the matter) is that - || owing to the fact that - (36)
in point of … (807) brute …s (387) an accessory before / after the … (1144)
factor (C) an economic … (168) an uncertain … (255) a risk … (618)
factory (C) a … worker (577)
factual (adj:576)
faculty (C) be in possession of great mental …ies || the … of theology / law / arts / science / medicine
|| … of feeling / taste / smell / hearing / sight / speech || … of / for (doing) sth. (1+) … of cognition (822)
to be in possession of one’s …ies (1047) a preter`natural … (1067)
fade (vi&t) hopes are …ing (109)
faeces [ `fi~si~z ] (U:936)
fail (vi&t) … to do sth. (7) … sb. (43) … a test (142) sb. … (188) diplomacy … (203)
a practice … (260) sb’s health is …ing (1255)
failed (adj.) … charmer (26) … coup (312)
failing (C) a human … (1223)
failing (adj.) to be in … health (1255)
failure (U,C) a … to do sth. (40) likelihood of …. || a costly … (61) to end in … (88)
sb. ranks among the …s (194) heart … (638)
faint (adj.) a … smile (32) feel … with hunger (627)
faint (vi:387)
faint (sg.) in a ( dead ) … (387)
faint-hearted (adj.) a … person (1281)
faintly (adj:32)
fair (C:578)
fair (adj.) a … chance (229) … `play (240) a … referee || sb. is … to sb. || sth. is not … on sb. (400)
… hair / skin (421)
fair (adv.) sth. is set … for sth. / to do sth. (E) (1185)
fairground (C) to visit a … (992)
fairly (adv.) … loudly (286) … certain (309) … big / large (856)
fairness (U) in … it must be said that – (1295)
fairway (naut:665)
fairy (C) a good / wicked // evil … (587 // 1238) a … ( = homosexual man ) (610)
to tell a … tale / story (1237) a … godmother (1256)
fairyland (U,sg.) sth. is a … for children / naturalists (587 / 658) as if … existed (1237)
faith (U,C) to have a religious … (70) to have ( blind / implicit ) … in sb. (70, 81)
Hindu / Buddist … (83) to lose … in sb. (107) to pin one’s … on sb. (115) F…, Hope, and Charity (122)
sb’s … in sb. is shattered || to die for one’s sacred … (238) to lose the … of one’s childhood (239) to
abandon … (242)
an article of … (681) to make a confession of … (696) sb’s … in humanity (740)
… healing || a … cure / healer (1261) the F… || to break … with a principle (1275)
to do sth. in bad / good … (1292 / -95) lapsed … (1294) to take a statement on … (1297)
to pledge one’s … to do sth. || sth. is a total act of … (1295)
sth. shakes sb’s … ( in sb.) || to keep / break … ( with sb.) (1297)
faithful (adj.) a … follower (91) … to sb. (105) a … account / picture of sth. (1284)
faithful (pl.) the … (1275)
faithlessness (U:239)
fake (adj.) a … performance (381)
fake (vi&t) … a foor form (391)
fake (C:763)
falcon (C:1234) falconer (C:1234) falconry (U:1234)
fall (C) the … of a city to sb. (147) sb’s … (250) a … in turnover (259) in the … (eA) (72) `… guy (689)
fall (vi) sbth. … by the `wayside (6) sth. … into x parts (27) … `through (85) a choice … on sb.(205)
sb’s eyes / gaze / glance …(s) on sth. (266) … asleep (424) … for sth. / sb. (545+) wind … light (661)
… out (with) (E:538) … over (497) to let `… a remark etc. (695) … down the stairs (704)
… `in with sth. (E) (909) darkness // dusk / night … (421 // 995)
a slope … away ( gently / steeply / sharply ) to a place (1117)
fallacy (C,U) it’s a … that - (888)
fallen (adj.) a … idol (303) newly … snow (782) … leaves (783)
false (adj.) a … story (27) a … idea / theory (42 / 45) in a … light (59) a … threat (60) … alarm (73)
a … belief / rumour (86+) … document (95) by / under / on … pretences (95) … hope (116)
a … accusation (206) the … ribs (795) two words are … friends (1269) … imprisonment (1286)
an explanation rings / sounds … to sb. || true or … (1292)
( a set of ) … `teeth || … hair || a … move (1293) … information (1297)
falsehood (U,C) truth and … (19) sb’s … || tell a … || a tissue / web of …s (789)
the … of a claim (1292)
falsification (U,C) a … || the … of the records of sth. (1293)
falsify (vt) … a figure / signature (1293) …fied information (1297)
falsity (U,C) to uncover a … || the … of sb. / sb’s claim (1293)
falsly (adv:27)
falter (vi&t) the letters on a stone … (220)
fame (U) sb’s … (626) a house of ill … (1239)
familiar (adj:94) to be … with sth. (126)
family (17) close / near(est) / immediate … (67) a loving … ( life ) (289)
to get in the … way (457) start a … (998) to be one of a … of x (824) a plant / an animal … (1216)
famine (C,U:167)
famous (adj.) a … legend (26)
fan (appliance:617) a … ( of a person / sport ) (126) a … ( of a team ) (A) (201)
fanatic (C: 364)
fanatical (adj.) a … supporter (305) … views (708)
fancy (vt) … (doing) sth. (E) (138) … that - (641)
fancy (C,U) the realm of … (174) sth. catches / takes / tickles sb’s … ( 763, -65)
fancy (adj:643)
fanfare (C:383)
fantastic (adj.) a … story (907)
fantasy (C,U) the realm of … (174)
far (adv.) to be … from ( being ) sth. (56+) from … and near (67) sth. … off (182)
go `… (fig:601) so … (28) to see … (764) a place … away (761)
… and wide (1162)
faraway (att. adj.) a … place || to have a … expression on one’s face ||
sb’s eyes have a distant … look (761)
farewell (C,U) to say one’s …s (1051) far-reaching (adj:663) far-seeing (472)
far-`sighted (adj.) a … (fig.) pioner (472) to be … || a … person (A: 870)
fare (C,U) to serve traditional … (260) to save on …s (297) Lenten … (679)
fare (vi) … poorly // ill / very badly (310 // 1256)
farewell (C,U) a … letter (108) a … party (653)
farm (C) to work a … (17) to live / work on a … (144) a … worker / hand (143)
to run a fish … (1125) a … building / yard (1146)
farm (vi&t) to cooperate in …ing || … land / crops / livestock (144) … fish (1125)
farmed (adj.) … fish (1126)
farmer (C:17) a fish … (1125) farmhouse (C:720)
farming (U:17) to work at fish … (1125)
farmland (U:17)
farmhand (C:1298)
fascinate (vi&t) to be …d to do sth. ||
fascinating (adj.) in a … way (76) it is … to do sth. (1236)
fascination (U,sg.) sth. holds a … to sb. || to look in …. || sb’s … of sth. ||
sb’s ( eerie / uncanny ) … for / with sbth. (1236)
fashion (U,C) to do sth. in such (a) / this … (132) in which … || to do sth. after the … of sbth.(138)
sth. in the … of sb. || in … (139) sbth. does sth. in dramatic … (143) transient …s || a … victim (321)
fashionable (adj.) a … slogan (1167)
fashioned (adj.) old-… philosophy (43)
fast (v:657)
fast (C) to go on / break / end a … (657)
fast (C) a head / stern … (660)
fast (adj.) … `food (9) a … ship (226) a … turnover (262) at a … pace (458)
a … reader / learner (464) a … `thinker (475) … friends || to lay a … hold on sb.(489)
… in sth. || to be … on the draw (499) an attack is … and `furious (510)
sth. is a `… track ( …-track route) to sth. (542) a … woman (545) a … road (562)
a … car (583) the `… lane (584) to make … work || to take (a) … hold of sth. (660)
life in the `… lane || to be on the `… track to sth. (602) a … ` talker / `worker (603)
to make a … buck || to pull a `… one (on sb.) (603,606)
to lead a … life || to play … and `loose ( with sb. /sth.) (605+)
a … ground / field / pitch || a … thrower (633) no hard and `… rules ( about sth.) (637)
to make a ship … (666) … trip (673) a clock is ( x ) … (1268=
`fast-track (adj.) … (politician) (602) sth. is a … route to / procedure for sth. (542 / 623)
fast (adv.) sth. changes … (169) … appearing (515) … approaching / disappearing (510)
it all happens so … || as … / quick as - (662)
to be … becoming sth. (653) drive … (583) rain … (660) speak … (632) work … (660)
… by a place (501) … asleep (424) stick … (470) hold `… to / stand `… (against / on sth.) (476,660)
colour-… / lightfast (442)
fasten [ fa~sn ] (vi&t:421,438,452,492) to … (up) a dress (265)
sth. … ( `up ) ( at the front * / * back ) (300 *, 657, * 660)
… ( one’s attention / eyes ) on sth. (421,474) … on to / onto sth. (472,474) … an envelope (494)
… onto sb. (fig:614) … sth. on sbth. ( fig. ) (531)
… ( sth.) ( together ) with sth. || … sth. off || … () ( `up) sth. (581)
fastener / fastening (C452,574) a ski … (155)
faster (adv.) sb’s heart beats … (421)
fastness (firmness:574, rapidness:666 place:510,526)
fat (U,C) the … around sb’s waist (319) …s and carbohydrates (416) lard or other … (793)
spl. chew the … (1252)
fat (adj.) … people (311) a … pay E/A wage packet (779) … meat (794)
meat that has suitably low … on it (796) a … lot (908)
fatness (U:311)
fatal (adj.) to be … (55) a … accident / day (64) sth. is … to sb’s health || a … disease (1261)
it would be … to do sth. || sth. proves … (1289)
sth. is potentially … || a … mistake / error / dose (1290)
fatality (C,U) the number of …s || a … rate || the … of a disease (1270)
fatally (adv.) … wounded / injured (1089 / 1289)
fate (C,U) … throws spl. together (64) to fore`see sb’s … (72)
to deliver / leave // place one’s … in the hands of sb. (91// 289) …s have broken the city (221)
they let their … (s) turn on sth. (229) their ill …(s) (234) to abandon / leave sb. to their … (256)
to be heading for an uncertain … ||
to suffer a(n) adverse / inexorable / unkind / cruel / hard / sad / sorry … (289+)
… is merciful / kind to sb. (290)
to tempt `… (604) to deserve a better … (752) … wills that - (1098)
fateful (adj.) a … day (282)
father (C:51) sb’s …s (1250)
fatherland (C:559)
fatigue [ fê`ti~g ] (U) to do sth. with … (451) eyes heavy with … (457)
fatty (C:657) fatty (adj.) … acid / substance (571)
faucet (A:325)
fault (C,U) sth. is sb’s … (54) … ( in the earth’s crust ) (647)
sth. developes a … || a … developes (595)
faulty (adj:334)
fauna (C,U:1126)
favour (C,U) in … of sth. (12) to do sb. a … (186) to be in … with sb. (267) to be restored to … (279)
to load sb. with …s || to lavish …s on sb. (384) to curry … ( with sb.) (602)
favour (vt) … sb. (543) … sb. over sb. (1099) favourable (96)
-favoured (adj.) an ill-… person (1246)
favourite (C:person:354)
fawn (vi) … ( on / over sb. ) (1106)
fawning (adj.) a … person (1105)
fay (C:1238)
Fe
fealty (U) to render … (148)
fear (C,U) assailed by …s (16) to be / live in … of ( doing ) sth. (20)
for … of ( * doing ) sth. (54, * 1143)
to live in … of ( * doing ) sth. (71, * 1121) the … in sb’s eyes (233) to have one’s …s (248)
to be paralysed / struck with … (1065+)
to look at sb. with … || to do sth. in … ( of sth. ) || sth. fills sb. with … ||
sb’s worst …s are confirmed / become a reality || to be in … of / for one’s life ||
to tremble / shiver / shake with … || sb’s eyes are full of … (1113)
there are …s ( that ) - (1114) sb’s …s for the future || the … that - (1120)
to put the … of God into sb. (1142)
to be in … of ( doing ) sth. || to do sth. for … ( that ) - || without … || sb’s …s for sb's safety (1143)
fear (vt&i) … sb. / sth. // death (53 // 1114) … ( that -) (110,1113) it is …ed ( that -) (626,1114)
… doing / to do sth. (828, 1114,-43) to be …ed to have / be sth. (892, 1114)
to be …ed + adj. || I … (so / not ) (1114) … for sb. / sb’s life // sb’s safety (1121 // 1143)
… the worst (1143)
fearful (adj.) a … catastrophe (o-f) (360) to be … ( for sb. ) / of ( doing ) sth. (1126 / 1143)
to be … that - (1143)
fearfully (adv:1143)
fearfulness (U) sb’s … (1143)
fearless (adj.) a … dog / person (1136 / -43)
fearlessly (adv:704)
fearlessness (U) sb’s … (1143)
feasible (adj.) it is … to do sth. (18) a … idea / plan (30)
feast (C) to hold a … (158) at a sacred / sacrificial … (223)
feast (vi&t) sb. … (236) … (up)on sth. || … one’s eyes on sth. (676)
feather (C) a … duster (456)
feathery (adj.) a … feel (1046)
feature (C) the …s of feudalism (149) a … of a car (296) sb’s (*heavy) …s (428,*477)
a … (article) on sth. (1056)
feces (U:936)
fecund [ `fi~ / `fekênd ] (adj.) … soil / crops / animals (224)
fecundity [ fi`kûnditi ] (U) a goddess of … || the … of the soil / crops / animals (223)
fed (167) federation (1)
fee (U,C) to pay a …(46) to hold a … || to hold land in …(148) … simple / tail (160)
(to pay a) (admission / entrance / entry // membership) … (642 // 764)
feeble (adj.) a … excuse (310) a … joke (425) a … attempt of sth. (1248)
feed (vi&t) sb. … sb. (20) to bottle … (sb.) (1230)
feed (C,U) livestock … (263)
feeding (U:720) forcible … (802) bottle … || a baby / animal sucks milk from a … bottle (E) (1230)
feel (sg.,U) to do sth. by … (915) a story has a modern … (951) sth. gives sb. a … for sth. (964)
have a (real) … for sth. (966) a place has a comfortable / relaxed … about / to it (982)
a material { has a … of sth. / a xxx … // is xxx to the feel || to tell sth. by … / the … (988)
feel ( felt, felt ) (vi&t) …cheated etc. (9) … sorry etc. (13) … sth. / (that -) (33) … like sth. (38)
sb. … like (doing) sth. (674) … a sense of sth. (102) … sbth. do(ing) sth. (543)
… honour bound to do sth. (708) … certain / sure (that -) (905) … `small (915)
… (about / around) (in sth.) (for sth.) || … one’s way (915)
… ill (eE) / (eA) sick || … thirsty || sb’s mouth … dry (917) … a (strong) need for / to do sth. (920)
… pain (942) … rotten / under the weather (944) … one’s ears burning (949)
not … oneself || … funny / strange / out of form / out of sorts (E) (950)
… better || (not) … `up to (doing) sth. || (not) … in the mood for sth. (951)
sb. … it necessary etc. ( to do sth.) (957) … oneself do / doing sth. (958)
sb. … strange / happy doing sth. || sb. … it strange / wonderful etc. (to do/be sth.) ||
it … strange / wonderful (to do/be sth.) || sb. … it (to be) a relief etc.|| it … a relief (959)
how sb. … about (*doing) sth. (962,*996) … one’s way (fig.) ( * towards sth.) (964,*966)
… in one’s bones that - || … it in one’s bones (968) … sth. deeply || … a stranger to sb. (979)
it makes sb. … good to do sth. || … free ( to do sth.) || do what you … like || when you … like it ||
if you … like that (980)
sb’s shoes … right (983) … one’s age (984)
… the beauty of sth. || sth. … good to sb. || … (strongly) about an issue ||
sth. … the effect of sth. (985)
life … unfair (to sb) || … free (to do sth.) || a room … stuffy (986) it … like rain (987)
to … sth. (with one’s fingers) (988) how does it … to do sth. (990) sb. … good to do sth. (996)
… the pinch (1040) … out of it (1043) … sb’s pulse (1044) … for / with sb. || … one’s oats (1048)
… () `out sbth. (A) || … friendly towards sb. (1049) … the force / truth of an argument (1050)
… like nothing on earth (1065) … sb. over for sth. (1080)
feeler (C) put / throw `out …s (pl.) (24) a … of a snail (985)
`feel-good (adj.) (a) … book / film / music (982)
feeling (C,U) a faculty of … (2) wounded …s (65) to have a … of sth. (133) to spare sb’s …s (282)
( the depth / strength of * ) public `… (U) (against sbth.) (540,* 1040) to hurt sb’s …s (591)
to get / have a { nasty / sneaky / sinking … ( that -) (913)
…s run `high || bad / ill `… (914) the … is mutual (919) the power of … (936) bodily / mental … (938)
have a … of a need / hunger / thurst etc. (937) have a funny … in a body part (950) have (little) … for
sb. / sb’s suffering || have a warped … for sb. (956) do sth. with … || show … for sth. ||
a … of a meeting / crowd (958+) have a (natural) … for sth. (966) sb’s gut … is that - (967)
no hard …s (969) a (growing) … of sth. (in a place) (970) have a lot of … for sb. (978)
get / have /experience a … / …s of guilt // guilty …s (978) have mixed …s about sth. ||
put one’s …s into words || bad / ill … E/A …s between spl. (979)
sth. has a / sb. experiences a / it’s strong … of history (980) to recreate the original … of a place (982)
be like sth. in its … (983) do sth. with depth of … || have a … for beauty ||
to have strong …s about sth. / on an issue (985)
to have / entertain friendly / hostile … towards sb. (990 / 993)
to arouse anti-American …(s) / strong …(s) against sbth. (993) to do sth. with … (1040)
one’s own / personal … on an issue (1042)
to appeal to sb’s (better) …s || to raise a wave of … against sth. ||
to create a … in favour of sth. (1047)
the general … on a question || a general … that - || a person of … || there’s good … between spl. ||
it’s sb’s … that - (1049)
feeling (adj.) a … look (978) to have a … heart (1049)
feelingly (adv.) speak … (978)
feet ( pl. of foot ) to be x … (33) to get / raise sb. to their … || to get / rise to one’s … (249)
to get cold … (548) in / with bare … (761+) to regain one’s … (1285)
feint (vi:589)
feint (C) to make a … ( in football) (589)
fell (pat. of fall:5) felling (U:316)
the Fellows (1) fellow (230)
fellowship (C,U:58) a … of churces (734)
felt (pat. / pp. of feel) (27) sb. makes their presence `… (958)
felt (U) a …-tip (pen) (875)
female (C:3)
female (adj.) a … person (11) a … uniform (14) a … part / role (52)
feminine (U) the … (1217)
feminine (adj.) … charms (32) …wile (75) the … gender (1217)
feminist (C:8)
fence (C) a mesh / wattle … (326 / 1318)
fence (vi&t) … ( () in ) sth. (326) to … ( with foils ) (403)
fencing (U:403)
fend (vi&t) … for oneself (242) … () `off sbth.(530)
ferment [ `fê~ment ] (U) intellectual … (353)
ferment [ fê`ment ] (vi&t:649) fermentation (U:649)
fern (C,U:1282)
ferocity [ fê`råsiti ] (U) the … of an invader / an invasion (222) a war of … (366)
ferocious [ fê`rêus$ês ] (adj.) a … invader / invasion (222) … appetite (505)
ferret (vi) … () out sth. (636) … about / around ( for sth.) 645)
ferry (C:563) a … berth (563)
fertile [ `fê~tail ] (adj.) … soil || a … animal (224)
fertilization (U:998)
fertilize (vt) a sperm ( cell ) … an egg (998)
fertility (U) a goddess of … (223) the … of the soil / crops / animals (223)
festival (C) to hold a … (154)
festive (adj.) … tradition (280) in a … mood (285) to create a … occation (1248)
festivity (U, pl.) to participate in the …ies (11) there’s an air of … in a place (127)
an occation of great … (285)
festoon (C:420)
fetch (vt) … sth. (39)
fetter (vt: 378,397) fetter(s) (C:378,397,399)
feud [ fju~d ] (C) to hold a … (148) a … betwen sb. and sb. (370) a … ( with sb.) ( over sth.) (371)
feud (vi) … (with sb.) (over sth.) (371)
feudal (adj.) a … system / estate / lord / vassal / obligations (148, 344)
feudalism [ `fju~dêlizêm ] (U:147,344) feudality (U,C:374) feudalize (vt:372)
feudally (359) feudatory (adj.) a … kingdom (372) feudatory (C:373)
fever (C,U:238) to raise war … (525)
fevered (adj.) to mop one’s … brow (707)
feverish (adj.) … cold / sleep / dream (706) a … boom (1206)
few (adj.) a … words (2) ( very * ) … people (4*, 13) …er demands (168)
few (pron.) a (select) … (3) quite a … (24)
the chosen … (pl:90)
fewer (239)
Fi
fiancé [ fi`ånsei E/A fi~a~n`sei ] (C) he is her … (403)
fiancée [ = ] (C) she is his … (403)
fiasco (C40)
fiction (U,C) a book is … (198) narrative … (465)
fiddle (C) as fit as a … (431) to play second … ( to sb.) (759) sth. is a … (sg:768)
to play on a … (768) sb. is on the … (789)
fiddle (vi&t) … (a`bout / around ) (with sth.) (768, 770+) … the { accounts / figures / lists / books (787)
fiddler (C:768) tax … (413)
fiddling (U) tax / voucher … (413 / 788)
fiddling (attr. adj.) a … job (770)
fiddly (E) (adj.) a … job (768)
fidelity (U:373)
fief (U,C) to hold land in … || to hold a … (148)
field (C) … of vision (13) a football … (25) to look through (a pair of) … glasses (139)
to command troops in the … (151) a … system (167) F… Marshal (191) … of activity (252)
a bull in a … (267) players take to / go onto the … (302) on and off the … ( in sports) (303)
in the … of sth. (fig.) (383) a … cook (499) a playing … (589) … day (A) (631)
… event (634) within sb’s … of responsibility (990) fieldwork (720)
fiend [ fi~nd ] (C:371,402)
fiendish (adj.) a … plan (370) … abuse (377) a … act (380) a … grin (386) a … problem (414)
fiendishly (adv.) … complicated (414)
fierce (adj.) a … fight (15) a … warrior / invasion (170) a …dog (211)
fiercely (adv.) fighting … (13) … proud (559)
fierceness (U) the … of an invader / invasion // a dog (222 // 229)
fiery (adj.) a … temperament / temper / person (1244) … red hair (1252)
fifth (num:27)
fifty (num.) … years (218)
fight (C,U) a fist … (15)
to have (a lot of) … left in oneself / to take the … out of sb.(511)
fight ( fought, = ) (vi&t) … for sth. (8) … fiercely (13) … to do sth. (23) … shy of (doing) sth. (33)
… under sb’s banner (153) … with a weapon (154) … an uphill / a losing battle (469)
… one’s own battles (479) … a war (495) … in a / the war (497) to go to … (499)
… one’s way out of sth. (608) … back (the) tears (1078) … () down one’s rage (1104)
… to recall sth. (1139)
fighter (15,430) a freedom … (23)
fighting (U) sb. is a … machine (170) ( heavy* ) … (220 / 236* ) street … (1224)
figurative (adj.) a word’s … sense (1061) figure (v: 27)
figure (C) economic …s (121) the … of the finances (135) a father / mother … (146) public …s (626)
to have a good / poor head for …s (684) to hear a cry from a … (1236)
file (IT:334, documents:635) a folded card(board) … || a box … (875) filet A/E fillet (793)
fill (vi&t) to be …ed with all kinds of stuff (30) (be) …ed with self-confidence / excitement (33)
… a part (52) … the role of sb. (57) to be …ed with fear (417) … a hole in a tooth (646)
… a post / vacancy (736) … () `up a car (992) sth. … sb. with composure (1088)
fillet [ `filêt ] E/A filet [ & `filei / -`lei ] (C) … of fish || plaice … (794) … of veal (795)
fillet (vt) …ed sole (794)
filling (C,U) a … ( in a tooth ) (646) a … station (319)
filly (C:402)
film (C,U) a … director || (a) sound … || to see / watch a … (49)
a taking / shooting of a … || a … star (50) a fast / photograpnic … (588)
film (vi&t) … sth. (588)
filmgoer (C:49)
filo (U) … ( pastry ) (793)
filter (C) a coffee … bag (453)
filthy (455) … with sth. (614) fin de siècle (adj:325)
final (C:384)
final (adj:101) the … sacrifice (229) a … round (632) ( to blow ) the … whistle (303)
finally (adv:4)
finance (vt:60)
finance (U,pl.) the figures of the (future) …s (135) minister / ministry of … || … minister (812)
financial (adj.) … reward (50) a … problem(136) … ability / capacity (996)
financially (adv.) … supported (2)
find (vt) … friends (2) … a drug (6) … peace (12) … oneself in / at sth. (17)
… sb. out || … `out (that -) || … () out sth. || … out (sth.) about sth. (43,520)
… it / sth. + adj. (49 / 55) … sb. guilty (59) … sth. hard to accept || … it hard to accept sth. (110)
… oneself in a condition of sth. (160) to … sb. safe and well (270) … out the truth (275)
… out what - (595) … oneself able to do sth. (783)
finding (C) …s (534)
fine (vt) to be …d for sth. (582)
fine (adj.) a … day (129) to feel … (944) … `art(s) (139)
to bring / carry sth. to a … art || to make a … art of sth. (180)
fine (C) to pay a … (198)
to impose a ( large / heavy / hefty ) … on sb. || to give sb. a … || to pay x £ in …s (211)
finery (U:383)
finger (C) sb’s …s itch to do sth. (777) to point {an accusing … / a … of blame / the … at sbth. (840)
fingerprint (C:450) a genetic … (1093)
fingerprinting (U) to undergo DNA / genetic … (1093)
fingertip (C:880)
finicky (adj.) a … job (768) to be … about sth. (834+)
finish (C,U) to cross the … line (A) (638)
finish (vi&t) … a play (61) to have nearly …ed || … doing sth. || to get a chore …ed (68)
… with sth. (580 )
finished (pred.) to be … (61)
finishing ( adj.) the … touch (1305)
finishing (U) to cross the … line (E) (638)
Finland (N:652)
Finnish (adj:652)
fiord [ fi~å~d ] (C:718)
fire (vi&t) … sb. ( from a job ) (59) … a gun (307) … point-`blank ( at sbth.) (891) … a revolt (931)
fire (C,U) to catch … || light a … (29,436) a dying … (30) to set sth. on … || to be on … (234)
a … rages / blazes || a … hose || … engine /A& truck || to return … (306)
(the) … service (418) to set `… to sth. / sth. on … || to put out a … (430) to set the world on … (465)
… extinguisher || to extinguish a … (599) an open … (663) ( to come under * ) heavy … (668, 1088 * )
to come / be under … ( fig.) (690 7 -) a …-and-brimstone preacher (742)
to open … on sb. || in sb’s line of … (1088) a log … (1092)
firearm(s) (C:512)
firefighter (C:306)
firefighting (U) a … vehicle || … equipment (1236)
firefly (C:650)
fireman (C:306) a …’s helmit (1236)
fireplace (C:30)
fireproof (adj.) a … suit (1236)
firewood (30) a … basket (887)
fireworks (580) let off (E) / set off (A) … (580)
firing (U,C) hiring and …ing (643)
firm (adj.) sb’s belief is … (71) a … believer (74) in the … conviction that - (207) a … footing (281)
… hand (461) to stand `… ( against / on sth.) (476) to be on … ground (557)
firmly (adv.) to be … believed to do sth. (94)
firmness (U:450) … (of principle) (823)
first ( ord. num., pron., det.) the … choice (3) in the … place (42) a … `night / performance (61)
… team / eleven (126) (at) … `hand (162) … lieutenant (191) to be in … place (310) … `light (424)
to give sb. … aid (1149) ( in ) the … person (1220)
first (C) at … (15) to come (in) / to be … in an election || to be an easy … (310)
first (adv.) very … (686) … and foremost (726)
`firstborn (adj.) a … child (287)
firstborn (C:287)
first(-)`hand (adj.) … knowledge (966)
first-night (adj.) … nerves (63) firth (C:718) fiscal (411)
fish (v:157) … in troubled waters (534)
fish (C,U:263) a … ball / cake || cream of … (793) a … farmer / … farming (1125)
fishery (C) to run a … (1127)
fishing (U:316) … bank (678) … rod (579) a … boat (1121)
fishmonger (C:874) a …’s (874)
fist (C:15) a … fight (15) to clench one’s … (54)
fit (C) to throw a … (39) to have a … if the giggles (389)
to have a … of choler // anger / rage / temper (1244 // -50)
fit (adj.) to look … (130) to be … for a task / job || to be … to do a task etc. (257, 970)
(as) … as a fiddle (431) to report … for duty (518) to feel … (944) the survival of the …test (1197)
fit (vi&t) to be …ted for a dress (438) … sth. as sth. (572) … in (with sb.) (843)
… into civilian life (1091) … () out / up sth. as sth. (1301)
fitful (adj.) … sleep (429) fitfully (adv:429)
fitness (U) to feel … (944)
fitted (adj.) a …kitchen (297) … with sth. (441) to be best … to sth. (1197)
fitter (C) a gas … and plumber || a pipe … (564) a telephone / carpet … (575 / 782)
fitting(s) (572) fitting (adj.) `… room (876)
five (number) … parts (26)
five (C) a … ( in dice / cards ) (8+)
fix (C) (be) in a … (975) to get out of the … (1104)
fix (vt) a barrier is …ed (180) … a chair (255) … a date (306) … a time (806)
sth. … sth. in sb’s brain / mind / memory (1047)
fixed (adj.) a … structure (663)
fixing (U, pl.) wage … || the … of the wages (791) meat with …s (A) (1308)
fixture (572)
fizzy (adj.) … water || a … drink (E) (853)
Fj
fjord [ `fjå~d ] (C:718)
Fl
flabbergasted (adj.) be / look … (837)
flabby (adj:10) flabbimess (U:10)
flaccid (adj:10) flaccidity (U:10)
flag (vi&t::319)
flag (C:322)
flagellum / flagella (C:648)
flagrant (adj.) a … disregard (183)
flail (C:18,381)
flair (U,sg.) to have a … for sth. (41) skills and … (555)
flaky (adj.) … paste / pastry (U:793)
flamable (adj.) a … material (443)
flame (C,U:437) to burst into …(s) || to extinguish / quench …s (667) to put out …s (1236)
flap (C:330)
flap (vi&t) a bird … its wings (1117)
flare (vi&t, speech:694) violence … (up) (685) sb. … (up) (692)
tempers … || anger … sb’s nostrils || sb’s eyes / nostrils … ( with anger / fright ) (694, 696)
a ligth … (up) (696) colour … in one’s cheeks (718) fire … into life (722) violence … (up) (732)
flare (C:696) distress … (661) a skirt with a … (717) …s (E:718)
flared (adj.) … trousers (718)
flash (vi&t) a …ing indicator / turn signal (324) a car … past (584) …ing lights (663)
a knife … through the air (1102) a light … on and off (1111)
flash (C,U) with a … of insight (114)
to do sth. in / like a … || … of light / lightning (394,436) as quick as a `… (108)
( news>) … (E) (655) a camera … (C,U) (827)
flashy (adj.) a … thing / colour (1080)
flask (C) hip … (642)
flat (C) a … (in a house) (E:51) a (wing) … ( on a theatre stage ) (51) the … of a sword (152)
a block of …s (E) (778)
flat (adj.) … country (213) … tyre (589) a battery goes / is … (E) (586) … broke (702)
a … surface (940) …-screen / -panel TV (1306)
flat (adv.) to lie … (1159)
flat-bottomed (adj:225)
flatly (adv.) say sth. … (830) flatness (U:940)
flatter (543) … sb. that - || sth. … sth. (543) … oneself (544)
flattered (adj.) be / feel … (at / by) (543)
flatterer (C:546)
flattering (adj.) a … dress || to find it … that - (542) flattery (U:454,542)
flaunt (vt) … one’s power (1187)
flavour / (A) flavor (U,C) ( to have* ) a … of sth. (25,*941)
flavouring (U,C) artificial …(s) (981)
flea (C:614) a … market (616)
flee ( fled, fled ) (vi&t) … from / to a place (109 / 230) … west (216)
fleet (C:191) the commander of a … || Admiral of the F… E||A F… Admiral (191)
fleet (adj.) … of foot, …-footed (503) fleeting (adj:738)
flesh (U) the … is weak (736) animal … (794) human … (1252)
flexible (adj.) english is a … medium (363)
flick (vt&i norm.+adv.) … a switch (31) … through the pages (142) … () `off an insect (1146)
flight (C,U) it’s time for … (108) a … of stairs / steps (444) to take … (525) to take sth. on a … (762)
fling ( flung / = ) (vt) to … down the `gauntlet / glove (38) … one’s arms round sb’s neck (266)
… a remark (536) sb. …, ‘ speech.’ (1143)
flint (U:366, C: tinderbox, lighter:443)
flip (vi&t) … for sth. || … a coin (703)
flip (C) the … of a coin (703)
flirt [ flê~t ] (vi) … with sth. / sb. (26 / 33)
flirt (C:27) flirtation (C,U) … with sth. / sb. (26+,33) flirtatious (adj:27,35)
float (v:422) sb. … on air (968)
flock (C,U) a priest’s … (161) a … of birds / sheep (529 / 721)
flock (vi) spl. … + adv. (808)
flood (C,U) a victim of …(s) (293) (a massive) … of letters / excuses (534, 955)
… waters || in a … of tears (1083)
flood (vi&t) to be …ed by the tide / with calls (527+) people … into sth. (551)
flooded (adj.) a … area (527)
floodlight (C:643) under … (634) floodlighting (642)
floodlit (pap.) to be … (642)
floor (vt) sth. … sb. ( fig.) (913)
floor (of a house:10) on the first / second etc. … (29)
(on) the shop `… || the shop … ( = people) (595, 889) the sea / ocean `… (664)
to be given / get / have / take the … (819) the forest … (1282)
floorboard (C:781)
flop (C:778)
flora (C,U:1126))
florid (adj.) … music (1031)
flour (U:68)
flour (vt) … a table (262)
flourish (vi&t) a plant … (267) sb. … sth. (281) business / economy … (281)
sale of arms / coruption … (672 / -80)
flourishing (adj.) a … institution (217)
flow (C,U) sb’s … of ideas (26)
flow (v:29) spl. … + adv. (808)
flower (vi) English art … (221) a crocus … (403)
flower (C:283) the … of the nobility (343) a … bed (437)
flowerpot (1318)
flowery (adj.) a … garden / dress (1146 / -67) … rhetoric (1167)
flowing (adj.) a … stroke of the brush (871) … playing (890)
flu (518) to be bedded with the … (518) to get the … (646) … virus (646)
fluctuate (vi) sb’s mood … (269) a …ing market (281)
fluctuation (C,U) …(s) in prices (281)
fluid [ `flu~id ] (C,U:887) a cleaning … (656)
fluid (adj.) a … stroke of the brush (871) a … state / situation (887 / 889) … playing (890)
fluorescent [ flå~`resnt / fluê `- / A& flu`- ] (adj.) … light / lighting || a … tube (574)
fluffy (adj.) sth. is (448)
flurry (C) a … of activity / rain / snow / phone calls || a snow … (1151)
a … of bangs / excitement (1159)
flush (vi&t) sb. … (266)
flush (adj.) to be … (798)
flutter (sg.) cause / create a … (747)
fly ( flies, flew, flown ) (vi&t) as a crow … (66) sth. … away (323)
sb. lets … ( at sb. ) ( with abuse ) (206)
fly (C) to bat a … `away (65) sbth. is a / the only … in the oinment (777)
flying (U:314)
Fm
FM (frequency modulation) (620) f-number (588)
Fo
foal (C/v:402)
foam (U) shaving … (299)
foam (vi) … at the mouth (267)
fob (vt) … () off sb. ( with sth.) (7)
focal (adj.) … length (588)
sbth. is the `… point of sbth. / for attention (fig.) (857 / 867)
focus (C,U) depth of … (588) to bring sth. into ( sharp ) … (1144)
focus ( focus(s)ed ) (vi&t) … on a problem (100) … a camera on sth. (416)
fodder (U:18)
fog (U) a blanket of … (235) a bank of … (1113)
foggy (adj.) a … night (235)
foil (U,C: a weapon:403) sth. is a … for sth. (370) alumin(i)um / silver … (414)
foil (vt) … sb. in sth. || … sb’s plan (401) … an attempt (414)
foist (vt) … sbth. (up) on sb. (378,413)
fold (C) a … ( for sheep ) (267)
fold (vi&t) … one’s arms (464) … sb. in one’s arms (423) … (up) the laundry (452)
folder (C) a cardboard / plastic … (875) foliated (357)
folk(s) (pl.) illiterate … (363) folk (adj.) a … tale (952)
follow (vi&t) … one’s own inclination (2) .. a slot (13) … a guideline (40) … sb. (92)
it … that - (165)
follower (C:22)
following (adj.) a … word (164)
folly (C,U) it’s sheer … to do sth. || sb’s … at doing sth. (196+)
fond (30) … hope (33) ... of good food (580) … of speed (583) fondly (adv:33) fondness (481)
font (C) baptismal … (158) food (5) food(s) (6) foodstuff (263)
fool (C:8) an April … (458) a …’s cap (1234)
foolhardy (adj:638)
foolish (adj:8) foolishness (39)
foot (part of body:31, base:572) to come on … (31) to put your … in it (E) / in your `mouth (196)
to set … on sth. (671) the … of a cliff (1119)
football (U,C) a … || in a … field || on a … ground /eE pitch || a … game /eE match (25) … team (
foothold (C) to find a secure … || to gain a … in the building trade / in India (328 / 1016)
footing (C) to put / place sth. on a secure / firm / sound ( financial etc.) … (fig:281)
to lose one’s … (328)
to put / place spl. on an equal / the same … ||
to put / place sb. on an equal … with sb. / on the same … as sb. (815)
footlights (pl:643)
footprint (C) a trace of a … (527) to impress a … (1063)
footstep (C) the sound of heavy …s (462) footwear (U:762)
footwork (U) deft … ( in a fight ) (387) it takes deft / fancy … to do sth. (399)
for (1) … hours etc.(4)
foraminifer [ fårê `minêfê ] (C:213)
forbear ( forbore, forborne ) (vi) … from (doing) sth. || … to do sth. (792)
forbearance (U) to lose one’s … towards sb. (276, 797)
forbearing (adj:797) for(e)bears (pl:756)
forbid (vt) … sb. to do / from doing sth. (176)
forbidden (adj.) sth. is strictly … (860)
force (C) supernatural …s || …s of black magic / evil (70) a … for sth. (98) to join …s (145)
a disuptive … (149) (the) air … (191) the armed `…s (194) the (armed) …s (E) (202)
the …s of darkness (430) the …s of the future / past (481) attractive / repulsive … (566)
all the… of good (516) all good …s (553) combine / join … with sb. (516) to use excessive … (625)
a religious / political … (681) the … of one’s personality (740) the … of an argument (1050)
the concept of … || a … acts upon sth. (1170) in instinctive … (1199)
force (vt) … sb. to do sth. (6) … sb. to do / into doing sth. || … sb. into sth. (23 || 73) … an entry (23)
… a smile etc (37) … a pace (193) … () a solution ( through ) (389) … a door (1137)
forced (adj.) … march (193)
for(e)bears (pl:756)
forcible (adj.) a … removal of a child (340) … feeding (802)
fore (sg.) to bring sbth. to the `… (925)
`forecast (v) … (that - / whxx) (72,116)
forecast (C:116)
forecaster (C) a weather … (116) an economic … (121)
forego = forgo
foregone (adj.) a result is a … conclusion (1227) it’s a … conclusion that - (1233)
foregoing (adj.) the … statement (1233)
foregoing (sg.) the … (1233)
foreground (C) to be in the … (53)
forehead (C) to hit one’s … (10)
to wrinkle (up) / pucker (up) one’s … || sb’s … pucker (up) / wrinkles (up) (274)
foreign (adj.) a … word / language (49) a … enemy (153) a … country (390) … policy (203)
… affairs / news (619)
… minister || F… `secretary (E) || minister / ministry of … affairs ||
the F… ( and Commonwealth) Office (E) (811)
sth. is … to sb. / sb’s nature (961) a … body (1055)
foreleg (C:263) foreloin (U,C:795)
foremost [ `få~mêust ] (adj.) to be the … authority (683) to be … among spl. (706)
sth. is … in sb’s mind (708) the … goose (721) one of the … scientists (730)
foremost (adv.) head … (704) to walk … (721) first and … (726)
forensic (adj.) a … pathologist / test || … evidence (1141)
forensics (U) an expert in … (1141)
forerunner (C) sb. is a … (930)
foresee [ få~`si~ ] ( foresaw, foreseen ) (vt) … sth. / whxx / (that -) (72,89) … sbth. doing sth. (89)
foreseeable (adj.) for / in the … future (73) a … risk (74)
foreshadow [ få~`$adêu ] (vt) … sth. (220)
foresight [ `få~sait ] (U) to have the … to do sth. (117)
forest (C,U) a ( tract of ) … (157) to level (a) … (167) a … of hands (754) the … floor (1282)
fore`stall (vt) … sb. / sth. (495)
foretaste (sg.) sth. is a … of sth. (427)
fore`tell (72,94) foretold (73)
forever (adv:207)
forge (C) to work in a … || live coals are in a … (1235)
forge (vt&i+adv.) … a signature (98) … strong links with sth. (597) … a signature etc. (534)
… a people into a united nation (1193) … sth. from iron (1235)
forged (adj.) … signature (95)
forger (C:534)
forgery (U,C:534)
forget (vi&t:52) … oneself (445)
forgive ( forgave, forgiven ) (vi&t) to be …n (238)
forgiven ( pap. of forgive ) (238)
forgiveness (U) to pray for / to beg (for) (sb’s) … (238) to ask … || to ask for ( sb’s ) … (264)
to seek … of a sin (748)
forgo (vt) … a fee (1233) … lunch (1237)
forgotten (adj:341)
fork (C) to use a … (448) to eat with a knife and … (591)
forlorn (adj.) a … hope / rebellion (116 / 1026)
form (vi&t) a party … || … a government (7) … an association (168) sth. … the flat country (213)
form (C, document:96, E:school :386,U) a … of government (7) an active / passive … (46)
in the … of sth. (71) to fill `in eE/eA out / complete a … (103) sth. appears in definite … (148)
( rules of ) good … (195) an order … (255) to be in ( E& on ) fine / good / great … (905)
to feel out of …(950) Plato’s theory of …s (1216) sth. assumes a definite … (1229)
formal (adj:212)
formaldehyde (U:570)
formally (adv:591) formality (C:54)
formalize (vt:49)
formation (193)
former (adj.) a … gambler (10) in … times (16)
former (C) the … (15) formerly (adv:16)
formic `acid (570)
`formidable / for`midable (adj:256)
formula (pl. <las / <lae [ få~mjulêz / -li~ ] ) (C,U) … ( milk ) (A) (1230) the … for a molecule (569)
to have a … for doing sth. (1255)
fornicate (vi:830) fornication (U) commit … (830) fornicator (C:830)
forsake (vt) … a desire (228) … a principle (249) … sb. (256) … a country (299)
forsaken (pp / adj.) a … person // animal / building (238 // -47)
forsook (pat. of forsake:256)
fort (C:216)
forte (C) sth. is sb’s … (254)
forthcoming (adj:60)
forthright (adj.) a … person / glance (196)
forthrightly (adv.) to sb. sth. … (196)
forthwith (adv.) to see … when - (196)
fortification (U,pl:204)
fortified (adj.) a … town (216)
fortify (vt) to … one’s residence (144)
fortitude (U:1275)
fortnight (C:120)
fortress (C) a hilltop … (215)
fortunate (adj.) a … moment (5) to be … in doing sth. (250) it’s … for sb.
fortunately (adv:63)
fortune (C,U) a …-teller (72) sth. spells (good) / ill … (76) to make a … (102) an acquired … (108)
a F…’s wheel (235) to have the good … to do sth. || sb’s …s (pl.) take a downward turn (237)
the caprices / freaks of … || … is blind || … favours sb. (290) a soldier of … (371)
to amass / earn a … (412) the …s of war (510) by ill / good … (542 / -49) a wheel of … (579)
times of ill … (677) a small … (1109)
forty (num.) … thousand (218)
forward (adv.) look … to doing sth. (47) to put () … a proposal (24) to go … (582)
to come … (with information) (709)
`forward-looking (adj.) a … person / business (135 / -38) fossil (213)
foster (vi&t) … ( a child ) (210) … cooperation (1205)
foster (adj.) ( to place sb. with * ) … parents (209+) a … child / family / father / mother / son (210)
fought (pat./ pap. of fight :154)
foul (vt:25)
foul (C:126)
foul (adj.) … smell (614) a … temperament / temper (1244)
found (vt) a university was …ed in xxx (1) found ( pat. of find:4 )
foundation (C,U) the … of sth. (1) sth. lays the … for absolutism (155)
a … stone || a …-stone ceremony / laying (561) a … for morals (818)
fountain (28) … pen (875)
fourth (num:27)
fowl (C,U:578) (a) guinea … (772)
fox (C) sly / cunning as a .. (81/ 109)
foxhound (C:1120)
foxy (adj.) a … liar || in a … way (910+)
Fr
fraction (27) decimal `… (848)
fracture (C) … of the skull (624)
fractured (adj.) a … skull (1102)
fragment (C:222) fragmentary (adj:524) fragmentation (U) … of authority (148)
fragrant (adj.) … oil (454)
fragrance (C,U) have a … of sth. (941)
frame (C) a bicycle … (582) a door … (720) … ( and glaze ) sth. (1070) a picture … (1306)
franc (C,U:29)
France (N:224)
franchise (vt) … a freeholding (380)
franchise (C,U) to sell a … (380) universal adult … (801) electoral … (1181)
Franciscan (162)
Frank (N) a … (927)
frank (adj.) a full and … discussion || to be … with you || to be … about sth. || a … admission (196)
Frankish (adj.) the … lands / state (148 / 927)
frankness (U:197)
frantic (adj.) a … time (1051) to get … (1064) be … with terror (1065)
a … attempt / effort // activity (1077+) frantically (adv:1078) fraternity (474)
fratricide (C,U) a … commits (a) … (1103)
fratricide (C) sb. is a … (1103)
fraud (U,C:106, person: 84) a … ring (335)
fraudster (E) (C:109)
fraudulent (adj.) a … activity / person (109 / 117) fraudulence (U:109)
fraught (adj.) (a situation) … with danger / difficulty / problems (106)
a … silence || look / sound … (108)
fray (vi&t) … a piece of cloth || the support for sb. … at / about the `edges / seams (1246)
…  sb’s nerves / temper (1249)
fray (sg. def.) the ( governmental ) … (1246)
eager for the … || to enter / join the … || in the midst of the … (1248)
frayed (adj.) a material gets … (1246) sb’s temper becomes … (1249)
freak (C) the …s of fortune (290)
free (vt) … sb. from an obligation (167)
free (adj.) sb’s thoughts are … || sb’s conduct is … (7) a … kick (25) a … will (78) a … lunch (80)
to be … this afternoon (79) interest-… credit (96) to make a serf … (160) to be … as air (278)
… time (581) to feel … ( to do sth.) (980) to work for … (1233) to be … from chemicals (1265)
freedom (U,C) rights and …s ( of citizens ) (7,23) a … fighter (23) … of movement (862)
freedom-loving (adj:7)
freehold (U,C:160) freeholder (C:160)
freeload (vi:604)
freeloader (C:604)
freely (adv:11)
freeman (C:144)
Freemason (C1316)
freemasonry (C) the F… || … of spl. (1316)
freeze ( froze, frozen ) (vi&t) a lake … solid || a lake is frozen solid (888)
freeze (C) a deep `… (E) (874)
freezer (C) a … E/A a deep `… (874)
freezing (U) the … point of water is zero degrees Celsiuc ||
the temperature goes down / falls / drops below … (point) (U) (888)
freight (U) … car / train (A/A) (630)
freighter (C:668)
French (U) … homework || a test on … (141)
French (adj.) the … look (139) the … Revolution (467) a … bean (E) (1156)
frequency (U,C) … modulation (FM) (620) relative … (583) with alarming … (594)
frequent [ `fri~kwent ] (adj.) … use of sth. (96) frequently (adv:96)
frequent [ fri`kwent ] (vt) … a joint / influential circles (514 / 1247))
freeze (vi&t:225)
French (N:49)
fresco (U,C:217)
fresh (adj.) to be … with sb. (42) … water (651) make a … start (608)
… from a good night’s sleep (614) get some / have a breath of … air (866) a … product (873)
… bread / meat / mild / fish / fruit / vegetables (874)
to put a … point to a pencil (875) a … remark (1084)
freshly (adv.) … baked bread (874) a … painted gate (1313)
fresh-made (adj.) … butter (874)
freshwater (adj:651)
fret (vi&t) … (about sbth.) (887)
Freud (N) Sigmund … (1172)
Freya (N:223)
friar (C:227)
fried (adj.) … fish (794)
friend (C) to make …s (2) to invite a … (5) a … of his (39) close / near / immediate …s (67)
an old … (606) to make …s with sb. || become / be { (great) ..s / the best of …s (854)
two words are false …s (1269)
friendly (adj.) to become / be … with sb. (854) to feel … towards sb. (1049) friendliness (U:186)
friendship (C,U) overtures of … (35)
fright (sg.,U) do sth. in / with … (39,62) stage … (62) take … || give sb. / get / have a … (322)
frighten (vt) … () `away / off sb. || … sb. away / off from (doing) sth. (321)
… the life out of sb. (322) … sb. into (doing) sth. (375)
frightened (321) more … than hurt || be… to death (321)
to be … to do sth. / of (doing) sth. || sb. is … that - (322 || 323) be … out of one’s wits (473)
frightening (adj.) … to do sth. (322) it’s … (to do sth.) (322) a … thought / example (322 / 374)
a … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
frill (C) a shirt … (1101)
fringe (C) … benefits ( norm. pl. ) (785) a … ( of hair ) (E) (877) a … ( of land ) (1002)
frisk (vi&t) … sb. for sth. (642) … (around) (645)
frisky (adj.) … (people) / (animal) (611,645/ 614,645) friskily (adv:640)
frivolity (U,C:519) frivolous (adj:519) frivolously (adv.) to treat sth. … (519) frog (651)
Froissart (N) Jean … (172)
from (prep:1)
front (C) a … door (26) in … (31) to sit in the … of a bus (33) in … of sth. (437)
to put on a brave … (833) on / in the … of a book (844)
front (adj.) the … portion of sth. (13) a … `door (29) … `page (117) a … leg (262)
a … wheel (319) … steps (444) a … light (582)
front-`bench (adj.601) front-`bencher (C:601)
front–page (adj.) … news (117)
front-rank (adj.) a … person || … importance (179)
frontier [ `frûntiê E/A frûn`tir ] (C) on the … of empire (216) to advance the …s of knowledge (1212)
frost (U,C) … on sth. (221) (a) sharp / hard / severe … (510) frosting (U:68)
frown (C) a puzzled … (on sbs. face) (9)
frozen (adj.) … food (874)
frugal (adj.) a … person (1003)
fruit (vi) a …ing body (649)
fruit (C,U) … and vegetables (5) to spread / reap the …(s) of sth. (168) ripe … (441)
to pick / pluck … (723)
fruitless (adj.) a … search (6)
`frustrated [ A frû`streitid ] (adj.) to feel … (55) frustration (53)
fry (vi&t) … bacon || bacon … (723)
frying pan (C) sth. fries in a …. (723)
frypan (C:723)
Fu
fuddled (adj.) to be … by drink (272)
fuel (U,C) a …-efficient car (296) a … pump / gauge (1062) other …s (1128)
fugitive (adj.) … person (491) fugitive (C) a …. from sb./sth. (491)
fulfil (vt) … a prophecy (72) … a want / wish (96) … an achievement / obligation (145 / -47)
… a duty (1079)
fulfilment (U) … of a prophacy (70) … of a demand (1172)
full (adj.) to be … of charm (32) … board (77) a … moon (422) a … stop (848)
a … match goes x rounds || it goes the … fifteen rounds (852) to do sth. in … (1139)
to look sb. … in the face (1144) … buttocks (1245)
full(-)dress (C,adj.441)
full-time [ … `… ] (adj. / adv.) to do sth. … (445) … employment (446)
fume (vi&speech:212) sb. … at / over / about sth. (205) a machine … (211) … with anger (267)
fumes (pl.) exhaust … (211)
fun (U) to do sth. for … || … and `games (9) to poke `… at sbth. ||
to have ( much ) … (37) to have good / clean wholesome … (1265)
function (C,U) sb’s … in society (147) sb’s motor … (1263)
function (vi:311) sth. … as refuge (256)
fund (C) public …s (pl.) (16) …s transfer (97) a trust … (787) to be out of …s (1042)
fund (v:336)
fundamental (adj.) … selfishness (359) … view(s) (836) fundamentally (adv.) … sound (364)
funding (331)
funeral (C:158) a … service (427) a … sermon || to attend / come to / go to / be at a … (757)
funfair (E) (C:578)
fungal (adj.) … disease (649)
fungus (fungi / fungusses) (649)
funnel (C:561)
funny (35) darkly … (599) feel … || have a … feeling in a body part (950)
furious (adj.) be … at / about sth. (752) … with sb. ( * for sth.) / that - (1097, * 1133)
furnish (vt) … sb. with the particulars (57) … one’s mount / equipment (151)
furnished (adj.) a … room (781)
furnishings (pl:370)
furniture (U) convertible … (17)
furrow (vi&t) sb’s brow … (41)
furrow (C) to plough a lonely / one’s own … (157) a … ( in a plate ) (1312)
further (adv.) … away (1116)
further (attr. adj.) … particulars (57) … centralization (149) … information (295)
furthermore (adv:80)
furtive (adj:78) furtively (adv:78)
furious (adj.) a … debate / argument || sb. is … at / about sth. || … at / with sb. || … (that) - (211)
an attack is fast and … (510) to drive at a … pace (584)
fury (U,C) sb’s … (37) to throw sb. into a … (38)
fuse (C) sth. blows a … || a … blows (573) fusion (568)
fuss (C) to kick up / make a … (about sth. / trifles / nothing) ||
sb. has / there is a … (about / over sth.) || do sth. without a … (834)
all the … over sth. (836) make a … of E/A over a baby (853)
( a wedding) without a …|| without all the … and feathers of a society wedding (856)
fuss (vi&t) … about / around || … about / over / with sth. || … sb. (834) ‘ I’m not …ed (about sth.) (835)
a baby …(853)
fussily (adv.) to write … (849)
fusspot (E) / fussbudget (A) (C:834)
fussy (adj.) a … eater || a … look (834) ‘ I’m not … (about sth.) || … clothes (835) … writing (849)
nothing … (880)
futile (361)
future (adj:6) a … life / existence (902) the … ( perfect ) tense (1218)
future (C:6) in the immediate / near … (54)
to have a ( great / bright / promising ) … ( ahead of sb.) (68) in a remote … (141)
in the foreseeable … (682) the … || the … perfect (1218) there’s a great … in sth. (1261)
- what the … holds (1301)
Gg
Ga
gab (vi) … (about sth.) (918)
gabby (adj.) a … person / mood (918) gabbiness (918)
gabble (vi&t) … away / on (about sth.) ( in a xxx language ) || … nonsense / xxx words (954)
gabble (C) a … of voices (954) gabbler (C:954)
Gaelic (adj:215)
gaffe [ gaf ] (C) to make a … (196)
gage (A) = (E) gauge (1062)
gaiety (U:20)
gain (C,U) the pursuit of … (169) the … of an electron (569) ill-gotten …s (1245)
a … in weight / health || a weight … (1264) great …s in public health (1270)
gain (vi&t) … access to / entry in to a place (6) sb. … notoriety / experience (27 / 46)
… ( in ) credibility (87) … control of a town (105) … absolute rule (173) an idea … currency (188)
… ( a march ) on sb. (193) … ( the best of ) mental health (210) … a victory (241)
… a foothold in a trade / a country (328 / 1016) … knowledge (335) … the crown (364)
… power (371) … weight (460) … acceptance (523) … a hearing (525)
… strength (555) an atom … an electron (569) … recognition (601) … money / an advantage (603)
… admission / admittance / entrance / entry to a place (643) … (in) confidence (741)
… x % of the vote (809) … on the swings (992)
… health (1264) a clock … ( x ) (1268) … a prize (1269) …(up)on sb. ( in front ) / a pursuer (1276)
… the mountaintop / shore (1276)
sth. … sb. recognition || sb. stands to … / sth. is …ed from ( doing ) sth. (1277)
sth. … in popularity (1280) … shelter (1282) … time (1283) … a battle / victory / war (1287)
gainsay (vt) no one … sb. (93) there’s no …ing sth. || a fact which cannot be …<said (477)
gait (sg.) to walk with a ponderous … (1077)
galaxy (C) a … of writers (1179)
gale (C:17) a … of laughter (48) strong (7) / whole (8) … (661)
Galileo (N:164)
gall (C,U) a … bladder (938) have the … to do sth. (959)
galleon (C:1012)
galley (C:1026)
gallery (C) a … ( of a castle ) (370) a … ( of a mine ) (891)
gallop (vi&t) a horse … (719)
gallop (C) at a … (394)
gallows (sg. = pl.) condemn / sentence / send sb. to the … (698)
galvanize (vt) sth. … sb. into (doing) sth. (56) laxity is …d into efficiency (347)
gamble (sg.) to take a … (on sbth.) (9,785)
it is a … ( for sb.) ( to do sth.) || the … ( on sbth.) pays off (785) a … game (1140)
gamble (vi&t:8) … () away sth. (8) … on (doing) sth. (9,fig:201) … sth. (&fig.) on sth. (789)
… at cards / on horses (788) … with sb’s future (789)
gamble-mania (U:43)
gambler (C:8)
gambling (U) a … den / house (8)
game (adj.) to be … for sth. / to do sth. (281)
game (C,U) a card … || fun and `…s (9) a ( practice / football ) … (25) to throw oneself into a … (25)
to throw `up the … (38) the … is over (43) sb. is easy … for sb. (114) to play a … (143)
to have the … all to oneself (206) … management (257) `two can play at `that … (911)
to beat /E play sb. at their own `… (910) to play an under`hand / <ed … (1066) a `… bird (1120)
a gamble … (1140)
`gamekeeper (C:257)
gammon (E) (U:795) (a) … steak (795)
gamut (C) to run the ( whole ) … ( of sth.) (20)
gander (C:578)
gang (friends:39, criminals:210) … warfare (515)
gangplank (C:659)
gangway (C) … ( of a ship / in a plane ) (659 / 763)
gaol (E) [ d§eil ] (C:20)
gaoler (C:539)
gap (C) a … between sth. and sth. (fig.) (106) a widening … between rich and poor (476)
gape (vi) … at sbth. (480)
garb (329)
garbage (eA) (U) a … can (29) (479) a … dump (782)
garden (vi) sb. is …ing (1318)
garden (C:128) a kitchen … (139) in one’s earthly … (163) everything in the … is lovely (482)
gardener (C:455) a market E/A truck … (873)
gardening (U:267)
`garden-variety (adj:183)
garish (adj.) a … ( shade of ) red || … clothes (445) (a) … colour / yellow etc. (882)
garment (C:265)
garnish (vt) … a schnitzel (79) … a dish with sth. (262)
garnish (C) a … of chives (262)
garrison (C+ sg. / pl.:216 )
garrulity ()18) garrulous (adj.) (918) a … person / mood (198) garrulousness (918)
garter (C) Order of the G… (359) … belt (760)
gas (petrol:319, town gas:332, gaseous substance: 567) … station (319) … fitter and plumber (564)
… lamp / light (563) … conduit // cooker E/A stove // ring E/A burner // oven // tap // tube (564)
step (hard) on / press (down hard on) the … (pedal) (eA) (584)
gaseous (adj.) a … form (939)
gaslit (adj:563) gasoline (319)
gasp (C) to give / with a ( little ) … ( of surprise / relief ) (839)
sb’s breath comes in short / shallow …s (839)
words come out in …s (892) sbth. is at one’s last … (892) a strangled … (961)
gasp (vi&t,speech: gasp (out): 839) …in / with surprise // in amazement / astonishment (837)
… at sth. (839) … for a cigarette / drink (845) … for air / breath || … at sth. (863) … in pain ||
… (out) a few words (892) … with rage (893)
gastric (adj.) … acid / juices (1252)
gasworks (563)
gate (airport:394) to enter a … ( in an airport ) (314) to open a … ( in a wall ) (394)
gatekeeper (C:394)
gather (vi&t) a crowd … (124) … forewood (157) spl. … together / are …ed (305) … one’s wits (473)
… speed (584)
gatherer (C) a hunter-… (144)
gathering (C,U) (a*) social … (75, 124*) … of firewood (157) a … place (169)
gaudy (adj.) a … ( shade of ) red || … clothes (445) (a) … colour / green etc. (882)
gauge [ geid§ ] E/A gage (C) a fuel / pressure … (1062)
Gaul (214) Cisalpine / Transalpine … (925)
gauntlet (C:glove:383) to throw down the … ( to sb.) || take up / pick up the … (38, 385)
to run the … of sbth. (827)
gave ( pat. of give ) (4)
gawk / gawp (vi) … at sbth. (480)
gay (adj:20)
gay (C:610)
gaze (vi+adv.) …at sth. (129) … at the view (139)
gaze (sg.) to give sb. a penetrating … (129) to avert one’s … ( from sth.) (233)
to turn one’s … towards sth. (264) sb’s … falls on sth. (266) sb’s … travels / wanders + adv. (863)
Ge
gear (C,U) throw a car in / out of … || change … (E) || change / swift / shift …s ( 31) a … box (586)
camping / riot … (582 / 624)
geese (pl:578)
gelatin(e) (U:772)
gem (C) a … ( stone ) 1089
gender (C) the common … (188) … bias (205) … equality (549)
the masculine / feminine / common / neuter … (1217)
gene [ d§i~nê ] (C:1093)
genealogic (adj.) to draw a … chart / table / tree (1092)
genealogy (U,C) to do … || to know the … of sb. || to draw a … (1092)
general (C:4) … of the army / air force (191) ( the ) … staff (194)
general (adj.) in … (35) … practice / practitioner (40) … meeting (57)
generalizaiton / E& <sation (C,U:842) have … knowledge (843)
generally (adv:150)
generate (v) … a demand (127) … ( public / popular ) outrage (622) … electricity (623)
generation (C:254)
generator (C) an electric … (566)
generosity (U:152)
generous (adj.) a … portion / helping (5) … use of sth. (262) ... competition (579)
generously (adv.) to use sth. … (262)
genetic (adj.) … modification (316) … fingerprinting || a … fingerpring || a … quality / trait (1093)
genetically (adv:316)
Geneva (N) the … convention (771)
genial (adj.) … weather / sunshine // smile / person (953+) … influence (961)
geniality (U) the … of the atmosphere (961)
genially (adv.) answer … (954)
genie ( pl: genies / genii ) (C) the … in the bottle / of the lamp (952)
genitiv (C) a word in the … (1218)
genitiv (adj.) a word in the … case (1218)
genius (C:344) a national … (908) to have a … for ( doing ) sth. (912) sth. is a stroke of … (917)
sb’s good / evil … || a poet of … (952) the … loci [ `d§iñiês `lêusai E/A genius louki ] (961)
the … of the time / company || a tachnical / linguistic … (965)
Genoa (N:168)
genome [ `d§i~nêum ] (C:1093)
gentle (adj.) … rain (63) a … tap (421) a … hill / hillside / incline / slope (1116) … humour (1247)
… as a lamb (1248)
gentleman (C:250)
gently (adv:269)
gentrification (U:410)
gentrify (vt:410)
gentry (sg.) the… (160,410)
genuine (adj.) a … belief (92)
genus [ `d§i~nês ] ( pl: genera ) (C) a plant / an animal … (1216)
geocentric (adj.) a … theory (820)
geography (U:647) physical / plant / animal / human / social / political / economic … (1216)
geological (adj:213)
geology (U:647)
geometrical (adj.) a … problem (200)
geometry (U:647)
germ (C:205) … warfare (672)
Germanic (adj.) a … basis (148)
Germanic (C:1217)
Germany (N:149) gesticulate [ d§e`stikjuleit ] (vi:62)
gesticulation (U,C) sb’s …(s) is (are) out of character (62)
gesture [ `d§est$ê ] (U,C) sb’s …(s) is (are) out of character (62)
as a … of goodwill || a goodwill … (1109)
gesture (vi: 62)
get (vt) … good grades (3) … a vocational training / an education / a second opinion (4)
… a discussion going (7) … the cube of a number (8) … peace to do sth. (12)
… sb. doing / sb. to do sth. (24) … together (76) … `away with sth. (109) … on with sb. / a job (257)
… at the truth (275) … on to a topic (280) … up / dressed (271) … back at sth. (531)
… `off lightly / with a light sentence (536) to tell sb. where to … `off (fig:618)
to … off with sb. (eE) (701) ( to itch to ) … `off (788) to do sth. to … along / on (919)
sb. … up || sth. … sb. up (1102) … doing sth. (1158) sth. … sb. sth. (1269)
getaway (C) to make a (quick) … (526)
gherkin (C:79)
ghost (C) the Holy G… (725)
ghostly (adj:441)
Gi
giant (C:221)
gibbet (vt) … sb. (1024)
gibe (vi) … at sb. (1101)
gibe (C:1101)
giddy (adj:365)
gift (C) to give sb. a (parting) … (69) to have a … for art (139) a … table (445)
to give / get sth. as / for a (wedding) … (761) a … token / voucher /A certificate (793)
gifted (adj.) a … writer (125) highly … with nobility (174) naturally … (610)
giggle (vi&speech:388) … ( at sbth.) (387)
giggle (C:387)
gilt-`edged (adj.) … securities (292)
gird (vi&t) … (oneself) for sth. (791)
girlfriend (C:4)
give (vi&t) … sb. a choice (2) … `in / up (15) … () `up sth. (88) … `in to a threat / sb’s charm (68,88)
… oneself away (275) … birth (286) … oneself to sth. (sexually) (378) … sb. away (517)
… in / it up / oneself up (531) … sb. / oneself up (to the police) (608) … `off a smell (614)
… oneself out to be sb. / sth. (687) … () `away sth. (1072) sb. … all they got (1102)
given (adj.) a … design (20)
Gl
glamour (U:55)
glance (C) to take / cast a ( covert ) … at sb. || to steal a … at sb. (78)
to give / shoot sb. an angry … (129) sb’s … falls on sth. (266)
glance (vi) … over one’s shoulder (78)
gland (C) a salivary / lymph … (763 / 1257)
glare (sg., U) to give sb. penetrating … (129)
glare (vi) … at sth. (129)
glaring (adj.) a … contrast (279) … light (1155)
glass (U,C) to live in … houses (9) a … of water (204) a magnifying … (588)
to look into a … (o-f) (1066)
glasses (pl:325) to look through (a pair of) field … (139) to wear … ( with power * ) (603,764* )
glaze (U,C) … (ice) (U) (905)
glaze (vi&t) sb’s eyes … (over) (116) ( frame and ) … sth. (1070)
glazed (adj.) ( colour- ) … pottery (1317)
gleam (vi &+adj.) sb’s eyes … with happiness (422) the moonlight … on the water (662)
sth. … with fresh paint (782) sb’s teeth … white (991)
gleam (C) a book has an occational … of humour (408) to sense a … of hope (431)
a … of lightning (436) there’s a soft / rogish … in sb’s eyes (422 / 1043) a few …s of sunlight (435)
a mischievous … (462) at the first … of dawn (498) the … of moonlight (662)
to see the … of a knife (1102)
glean (vi&t) to practice …ing (157) … additional information from sbth. (408)
glee (U) to do sth. in / with … (32) gleeful (adj:387)
glen (scot.) (C:1033)
glide (vi+adv.) a snail … along (985) a gondola … above the ground (1157)
glimmer (vi) amusement … in sb’s eyes (431) a candle … (437)
glimmer (C) a … of hope (106) to catch the … of a smile in sb’s eyes (431)
the …s of an idea come to sb. (480) the first … of dawn (498) a … of light (662)
glimmering (C) a … of hope (431) the …s of idea comes to sb. (480)
glint (vi+adv.) a light … on sth. || sth. … in the light (431)
the sun … on the dewy grass / windows || dewdrops / windows .… in the sunlight (451+)
sb’s eyes … angrily / with anger (1057)
glint (C) a humorous … in sb’s eyes || …s of the lights (431) a … of silver from the dew (451)
a mischievous … (462) the moon … on the water || the sea … in the moonlight (661)
a rogish … in sb’s eye (1043)
glisten (v:685)
glitter (vi) sb’s eyes … with joy (287)
glittering (adj.) … promises (85) … facade (612)
gloat (vi&speech:377) … about / at / over sb’s { success // fate (375 // 396)
gloating (adj:536) gloatingly (adj:540)
global (adj.) … warming (627)
globalization (595)
gloom (U,sg.) the … is gathering (422) sth. deepens sb’s … (429) the … of a room (539)
gloomily (adv.) to stare … into the air (429)
gloomy (adj.) a … situation (121)
sbth. looks … || sb. has a … look on their face / in their eyes (128)
a … atmosphere (129) a … place || in … silence (429) the future looks … || a … day (431)
… thoughts (951) a … ( expression on sb’s ) || to feel / look … (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
glope (C) a lamp … (572)
glorification (U) self-… (179)
glorify (vt) … oneself / sb. (179 / 232)
glory (U,C) departed / past …ies (69) the … of sth. (84)
glorious (adj.) a … incarnation (83)
gloss (U) a coat of … ( paint ) (1302)
glossy (adj:442)
glove (C:37) a … compartment / box (798)
glow (sg.) a / the dim … from sth. (30)
glow (vi) …ing firewood (30) to be …ing with health (1265)
glowfly (C:650)
`glucose (571)
glue (C,U) (a) strong … (574) to stick to sb. like … (580) to sniff … (1084)
glue (v) … sth. together / on(to) sth. (574) to be …<d to sth. (fig:579)
… to sb. || to be …<d to the spot (580)
glum (adj.) sb. looks … (128) sb. feels … || sb. has a … look on their face / in their eyes (128)
in … silence (429) a … ( expression on sb’s ) face || a … person (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
glumly (adv.) to stare … into the air (429)
glume (C:18)
glutton (C:774) gluttonous (adj:170) gluttony (U:236)
glycerol (U:571)
Gn
gnaw (vi&t) … at / on a steak (1251) … one’s nails (1252) a rat … a hole / through sth. (1253)
sth. … at the back of sb’s mind // away at / on sb’s confidence || guilt … at sb. ||
sth. … at sb’s conscience (1259)
gnawing (adj.) to have … doubts about sth. (1259)
gnom [ nêum ] (C:1238)
Go
go (C) it’s sb’s … (272)
go (vi, speech: 5, … on:85 ) … to university (2) … gay || sb. … (`out ) with sb. (20)
… (xxx) on foot (31) money … on sth. / to do sth. / far || … to the bottle (60) sb. … with sb. (69)
… by the board / down the drain (85) … and do sth. || … doing sth. || … to do sth. (87)
… out of one’s way (146) it … without saying that - (170) … all out for sth. / to do sth. (209)
… to sea (225)
sth. is ..ing begging / spare || things … bad || … cap in hand (246)
… back on a promise (247) … over an account (255) sb. … spare (272) … missing (276)
…ing to work / school by bike (297) to … ( out ) doing sth. (322) … to town (407)
… into details with sth. || … (more) thoroughly into sth. (476)
… about sth. (517) a bulb … (572) to do sth. as you … along (580) … forward (583)
an engine … dead (586) … over sth. (595) … `far / along (fig.) || … into politics (601)
… hungry (627) … to aerobics etc. (631) … about one’s work / duties (748) sth. … before (751)
things ... well ( with sbth.) (785) things … badly (with sbth.) || sb. … wrong / to the bad (787)
sth. … `off well || sth. … fine / well / smoothly / without a hitch (788) sth. … badly (789)
… to the country ( fig:804) sth. … well with sb. (853) to let … of sth. (886) spl. … together (954)
… about things quietly (968) sth. … with sth. (997) sth. … as printed matter (1055)
sth. … against sb. (1086) sth. gets …ing (1104) … through an unbearable time (1113)
a ship … down ( with all hands ) (1121) … through with a project (1232)
as men … (1260)
go-ahead (C) to give (sb.) / get the … (581)
going-over (C) to give sth. a … (595)
goad (vt) … () on sb. with sth. encouragement / insults (1306 / -09)
… sb. into ( doing ) sth. || … sb. beyond endurance (1309)
goal (C) to achieve one’s … (3) a … kick / keeper (25) to be a step shy of one’s … (35) a … line (25)
to do sth. towards a common … (181) to kick / score a … (302 / 304) to disallow a … (731)
a main … || to adhere to / set / pursue / accomplish / achieve / attain / meet / reach a … (816)
a … of one’s desire (831)
goalkeeper (C) to play the … (25) goalie (C:302) goalkicker (C:303)
goat (C:19)
gob (C) a … of snot / spittle / gum (766 / 774 / 776) to stuff / shut one’s … (E) (774 / 777)
…s of sth. (A) (788)
gobbet (C) a … of dessert (774)
gobble (vi&t) a turkey … (772) sb. … ( food) || … up / down sth. (774)
a company … a smaller one (784) sth. … () `up sth. (787)
gobbledegook / <dygook (E) (U:778) gobbler (C:772) goblet (C:774)
goblin (C:1238)
gobsmacked (E) (adj.) be … (786)
God (69)
god (70)
goddamn (adj.) the ‘ …s ‘ (365)
goddess (C:83)
godhead (C) one … || the G… (725)
godmother (C) a fairy … (1256)
godsend (adj:532)
goggle (vi) … at sbth. (695)
goggles (pl.) ski … (1155)
gold (U:217)
golden (341) to pay () off sb. with a … handshake (784) a … eagle (865)
Goliard (N:171)
golf (U) a … course / club / obstacle / hazard / bunker / (1231)
golfer (C1231)
gondola (C) a … ( of a cable car ) (1157)
gone ( pap. of go) a ball has … out of play (25) sth. is … (68)
good (U) it’s no … (sb’s) doing sth. (87) to do sth. for the common … (181)
all the forces of … || the … (516) to take the bad with the … (520) one’s own … (602)
good (adj.) a … grade / mark (2) to be … at ( doing * ) sth. (25,201* ) to feel … ( about oneself ) (289)
a … second etc. (310) to make … one’s escape (685) to be up to no `… (124)
a premonition holds … (1064)
goodbye (C) say … (* to sb.) (126,*128)
good-looking (adj.) a … person (33)
good-natured (adj.) a … person (1238)
goodness (U) for …’ sake (676) feel … (944)
goods (pl.) to store … (29) a dealer in costly … (31) to buy … (96)
con`sumer / household … || durable … (874)
goodwill [ gud`wil ] (U) peace and … between spl. (1095)
a gesture of … || a … gesture || to pay for the … (1109)
goody (C) to stuff oneself with …ies (1251)
goose (C:578) to cook sb’s `… (260) a mother … (721) to kill the … that lays the golden egg(s) (722)
a wild `… chase || sb. won’t say boo to a … (fig:724)
sth. gives sb. … pimples eE/eE <flesh /eA <bumps (724)
goose (vt) … sb. (725)
gooseberry (C) a … ( bush ) (723) to play … (E) (724)
gorge (C) a mountain … (864)
gorgeous [ `gå~d§ês ] (adj.) a … person (233)
gosling (721)
gospel (C) a … story ||
St Marc’s / Matthew’s / Lucas’ / John’s G… || the G… ( according to st Marc) (70)
to preach / spread the … (to sb.) (735) to take sth. as / for … truth || it is … truth (1097)
gossip (U:471) a juicy titbit E/A tidbit of … (1054)
got (v: pat. / pap. of to get) to have … an education (3) sb. gives all they … (1102)
Gotic (adj:357)
govern (vi&t) sb. … a college (1) sb’s behaviour is …ed by a practice (47)
a rule … the inheritance (150)
governor (C) a prison … (E) (24)
government (C,U) a form / system of … (7) (a) … (17) … stock (292)
governmental (adj.) … restraint (146)
gown (30) evening …(441) a wedding … (758)
Gr
grab (vt) to … (a) hold of sth. (529) to … sth. (530) … sb. by the arm (624)
grâce [ gra~s ] (U) to give sb. the coup de … || sth. deals the coup de `… to sb’s career (1277)
grace [ greis ] (U,sg., pl.) sb’s … and beauty (32) lack of social …s (40) an act of … (59)
to move with ( the ) natural … ( of a dancer ) (76) there for the … of God ( go I ) (234)
sb’s only saving … is sth. (272) the …s of Latin (363) to do sth. with (a) good / bad … (382)
to be in sb’s good …s (543) an inner ( state of ) … (745) the social …s (854) ‘’ his G…’’ (1004)
sb’s … in sb. (1009) to add new …s to a buiding (1027) in a state of … (1089) to say … (1127)
to do sth. with … and dignity || to have the ( good ) … to do sth. (1139)
( a few days’ ) … E/A … period ( to do sth.) (1140) standards of elegance, style, and … (1154)
the G…s (1267) the three Christian …s (1275) sb. with ( no* ) airs and …s (1477, -86* )
to fall from … || sb’s fall from … (1492) to do sth. by God’s … / by the … of God (1495)
grace (vt) sb. … sb. / a place with { their visit / presence (1108) a painting … a wall (1267)
graceful (adj.) a … person || sb’s … charms (32) … manners (130) … surroundings (1108)
gracefully (adv.) a spire climbs … into the sky (139) to give in … (382) to … deflect a blow (386)
to … rise to one’s feet (407)
gracefulness (U:382)
graceless (adj.) sb’s … overtures || a … person (38) a … blow ( of a weapon ) (386)
… in defeat (389) … architecture (409) sb. is … with their pack (1086)
gracelessly (adv:38, 386)
gracious (adj.) a … person / smile / building (41 / 101 / 134) to enjoy a … living (174)
your / his / her … Prince // ( Majesty the ) King / Queen (178)
a … act of God || God is … to sb. (230) … in defeat (382)
a … bow (391)
graciously (adv.) to … accept an invitation (407)
graciousness (U:382)
grade (vt) … an exam (<ination ) (eA) (725)
grade (C) get a good / poor / high / low … ( at / in school ) * in E/A on { a test / one’s exam (2, * 725)
a … in the armed forces (191)
graded (adj.) a carefully … hierarchy (147) gradually (6)
graduate (vi,eA&t) sb. … (3) graduate (C:3) graduated (adj:411)
grafitti (U) a … painter (1308)
grain (C,U) to thresh … (s) (18) (not) a … of sense / truth in sth. (59)
grammar (U:46,1217&C) a … describes the … of a language (188) a … school (1210)
English … (1220)
grammatical (adj.) … error (847)
grand (adj.) a … slam / a G… Slam ( tournament / cup ) (1307)
grandeur (U) delusions of … (47)
grandfather (C:299) a … clock (1268)
grandiloquent [ gran`dilêkwent ] (adj.) … prose (1274)
grandiose (adj:532)
grandmother (C:299)
grandparent (C:143)
grandstand (C:25)
grant (vt) … sb. a right of sth. (148)
grant (C) a life … of land / office (148) … sb. sth. in return for sth. (148)
granted (adj.) to take it for … (that) - (54) grantor (C:150)
grape (C) … sugar (571) graph (565) graphic (653)
grasp (vt,v+at) to be …ing at straws (38) … the significance (92) … the nettle (E) ( of sth.) (508)
grasp (C) to hold within one’s … the power (151)
grass (U,C) on the … (32)
grassed (adj.) a … place (1116)
grassland(s) (U/pl:18)
grassy (adj.) … place (1116)
grateful (adj.) feel … (944) gratefulness (U) feel … (944)
gratification (U) sb. wants … (153)
gratify (vt) … sb’s desire / curiosity (154 / 1314)
grating (C) to cover a window with a … (1137)
gratitude (U) there’s no … in the world (579) an expression / a sense of … to(wards) sb. for sth. ||
to owe sb. a great debt of … || to show (sb.) (one’s) … || to do sth. in … for sth. ||
to do sth. with … (1076)
grave (adj.) a … challenge (147)
grave (C) to turn in one’s … (242) from (the) cradle to (the) … (289) as silent as the … (520)
to send sb. to an early … (617) ( to find ) a watery … (662)
gravedigger (C:757)
graven (adj.) a … image (1095)
gravel (U:678)
gravestone (C:720)
gravitation (U:1169)
gravity (U) the … of a situation / a crime (483 / 541)
gravy (U:455)
gray A/E grey (adj:248)
graze (vi&t) a cow … (157) grazing (U:139)
grease (U:455)
grease (vt) … sth. with fat (1187)
greasy (adj:447,455)
great (adj.) … faculties (1) … care (6) a …er part (12) the G… War (151) sb’s … council (345)
G… Dog (995)
greatly (adv:50)
greed (U:97)
greedily (adv.) to eat … (1251)
greedy (adj.) a … person (364) a … appetite / eater (1251)
Greek (C) the …s (165)
Greek (U) in … (70)
Greek (adj:48) the … Independence War (767)
green (adj.) a … light (74) (give sb. / sth. the) … light (to sth.) (496) a … bean (A) (1156)
green (C,U) to take a walk on the … ( in a town ) (184)
greenfly ( pl: greenfly / <flies ) (C:1267)
greengrocer’s (C:5)
greenhouse (C:873) a … gas / the … effect (sg.) (729+)
Greenland (N:224)
greet (vt) … sb. with sth. (114) be …ed by sth. (531)
greeting (C,U:261)
gregarious (adj.) sb. is … (138) a … animal (140)
greenhouse (C:873) … gas / effet (729+)
grey E/A (adj.) … hair (248)
grief (U,C) from gaiety to … (20) great … (757)
grievance (C,U) to redress sb’s … (362) to have / nurse a … against sb. (695)
grieve (vi&t) … ( for / over ) sb. || …sb’s death (380, 757) sth. … sb. (1162)
grill (E)(vt:794) grill (E) (C:794)
grim (adj.) a … smile (40) a … century (348)
grimlin (C:1238)
grin (C) to give (sb.) a … (32) do sth. with a … (39)
grin (vi&t) … from ear to ear || … at sb. || … with sth. (32) … a welcome (40)
grind ( ground, = ) (vt&i+adv.) … corn /A meat (345 / 793) production … to a halt (1134)
… optic glass (1170) … rusted iron (1313)
grinder (C) a meat … (A) (793)
grinding (adj.) sth. comes to a … halt (1130) to bring sth. to a … halt (1134)
grip (C,U) loose / release / relax one’s … on sbth. (704, 849) keep a tight … on a rope (849)
lose one’s … on sth. || get / take a … ( on oneself ) (fig:842)
get / keep a (good) … on reality / a situation // a match (843 // 852)
get a … on sth. || struggle from sb’s … (849) be in the … of sth. (fig:849) get a … (fig:852)
to get a firm … on a match (852) adjust one’s … on a racket (852)
to tighten one’s … on the market (853)
come / get to …s with sb’s behaviour (854) (hair>) … (867) a … ( on the road ) (887)
grip (vt) … sb’s hand firmly / tightly (838) terrorism … the world (849)
sth. … sb. (fig.) || sth. … sb’s attention (852) … (on to) sth. || a feeling … sb. (865)
sth. … ( the road ) (887) to be …ped by despair (950)
gripe (vi) … about sth. (631)
groan (vi&t::87)
groan (C:452)
grocer (C) a …’s (shop / store) (874)
grocery (C, pl. ) … (store) (A) (656) …ies (874)
groceryman (C:874)
groom (C) a (bride>) … (68) a … ( taking care of horses ) (1237)
groom (vt) … an animal (1237)
grooming (U:1298)
groove (C) tongues and …s (574) to be ( stuck ) in a … (574) to settle down in one’s old … (1237)
grooved (adj.) a … surface (574) groovedness (940)
gross (adj.) … mis`conduct (98)
grotesque [ grêu`tesk ] (adj.) a … caricature (609)
grouch (vi) … about sth. (631)
ground (U,C) a sports …(3) to throw sb. to the … (14) barren … (17) on a football … (E) (25)
throw sth. on the … (29) the back> / fore>… (41) sth. suits sb. to the … (67) mansion …s (pl.) (149)
a … attack / … forces (204) to be back on solid … (236) to prepare the … for sth. (252)
to play on one’s own … (300) coffee …s (453) (no) …s for sth. (550) to be on firm … (557)
to touch / take the … (661) rough … (633) … fish || a fishing … (678) coffee …s (774)
there are / sb. has (strong / * reasonable) …s for (doing) sth. / to do sth. (950,* 973)
shift one’s … (957) to do sth. on legal / moral …s || on the …s that - || on (the) …s of sth. ||
sth. is …s for sth. (969) a story covers a lot of … (1274) lost … (1286)
ground (vi&t) a ship  … (661) to be …ed on a sandbank / <bar (1136)
ground (pp./adj.) … pepper (656) … beef (A) (U:793)
groundless (adj.) a … rumour (533) sb’s fear is … (1142)
group (vi&t) … spl. into age bands (52) spl. … ( themselves ) (a)round sb. (57)
unions … together (791) to … sth. under x headings (263)
group (C + sg./ pl. ) a … of veterans (12) spl. form a separate … (21) … pressure (88)
a … of buildings (222) a working …(268) an action … (615) … work (652) a … ( in a show ) (744)
a prepositional … (847) a pressure … (1059) a blood … determination (1093)
grouping (C,U) a poliical … (22) blood … (1093)
grouse (vi& speech206) … about sth. (206)
grouse (U,C: a bird:1126) to turn a deaf ear to sb’s … (206)
grovel (vi) … ( before sb.) / (around) || … ( to sb.) ( for / to get sth.) (613+)
grovel(l)ing (adj.) … life (613)
grow ( grew, grown ) (vi&t) sb’s deceit … beyond belief (98) a voice … louder (108)
secular orders … `up (153) sb’s clothes … more elegant (154) a …ing population (167)
a language … (172) memories … dim (220) sb. … `up ( dirt `poor (A) ) (244) … a beard (299)
… vegetables (405) it … darker (435) sth. … in soil (504) … a business (594)
a plant … in a head (723) … into obesity (1102)
growing (adj.) a … belief (84) quick-… (594)
growl (C:614)
growl (vi) … (at sb. / sth.) (614+)
grown (adj.) a … person (579) a half-`… kitten (886)
grown-up (C:579)
growth (U, C) the rapid … of armies (148) … retardation (185)
grub (C:larva:578,U:food:580)
grub (vi&t:serve / eat:580) … about (578) ... (about / around) for sth. (578+, fig:613)
... through sth. (579) … () `up / out sth. (578) a … axe / hoe (578)
grubber (person / tool:578) money-… (604) grubbiness (613)
grubbing (U) … mattock (578) money-… (603)
grubby (adj.) … hands (578) … affair (605) to get one’s … hands / paws / mitts { on / off sth. (605)
grubbiness (606)
grudge (U,C) to have / bear / hold / harbour / nurse a … against sb. (683, -95) to bear sb. a … (695)
gruesome (adj:282)
grumble (vi) … ( at / to sb. ) ( at / about sbth. ) || … that - (388)
grumbler (C:87)
grump (C:1244)
grumpy (adj.) a … person (424)
grunt (vi&speech) sb. …, ‘ xxx ‘ (765)
Gu
guarantee (C) to offer sth. as … for sth. (292)
guarantee (vt) 293)
guarantor (C:292)
guard (vt) … a camp / person (205 / 1135) … against sbth. (917) a closely …ed secret (1105)
guard (C,U) a prison … (E) (24) to keep sb. under armed … (511)
to be on one’s … ( against sth. ) || sth. puts sb. on their … (1140)
guarded (adj.) in a … manner (1101)
guardian (C) a … angel (83) a … of morals (829) a … of a minor (1107)
guer(r)illa (C) (a) … war / warfare (671)
Guernica (N:1268)
guess (C:728)
guess (vi&t) sb. … (62)
guesswork (U) pure … (911)
guest (C:10) … of honour (193)
guesthouse (C:772)
guidance (U) to give ( careers / study and vocational) … (3) spiritual … of sb. (162)
for the … of sb. (663)
guide (C:book:27, person:44) rumours are an unsafe … (244)
guide (vt) God … sb. (146) sentimentality … sb. (1043)
guideline (C) to follow …s for good practice (40) sth. gives sb. the …s to follow (823)
guild (C) a member of a … (138)
guillotine (C:698) guillotine (vt) … sb. (698)
guilt (U) where the … lies (58) to have feelings / a sense of … ( about sth.) (247)
to admit one’s … (260) to be racked by / with … (1139) the … for sth. lies with sb. (1150)
guilt-ridden (adj:751)
guilty (adj.) find sb. … || be the … party (59) be … of (doing) sth. (684)
to judge sb. / to be … ( on a count ( of indictment eA ) ) (694)
guinea [ `gini ] (adj.) (a) … fowl (C,U:772)
a … pig (& fig.) (408)
gulf (C) a … (in the ground) (865) a … between sth. and sth. (fig.) (881)
gull (C) a (sea>) … (865) sb. is made a … (1067)
gull (vt) … sb. (1067)
gullet (C) the … (938) sth. sticks in one’s … (E) (fig.) (1085)
gullibility (489) gullible (adj:489)
gulp (C) take a … (325) gulp (v.325) … down (514)
gum (U,C) ( chewing ) … (776) bleeding of the …s (1262)
gun (C:23) a sporting … (199) gundog (C:199) gunfire (U:510) gunner (C:510)
gunpoint (U) hold / threaten sb. at … (893)
gunpowder (U) … smoke (510)
gunrunner (C:1286) gunning (U:1286)
gunshot (C,U) a … || a … wound (891)
gustative (adj.) a … stimulus (941)
gustatory (adj.) a … cell / bud (939 / 941)
gut (C) sb’s … (891) to have the …s to do sth. (894) sb’s … feeling is that - (967)
sb’s … reaction is that - || sb’s … instinct tells them that - (971)
gutter (C) the … press (840)
guzzle (vi&t) … ( food / drink ) (261) … fuel (296)
guzzler (C) a fuel-/ gas-… (296)
guy (C) a nice … (44) a … ( rope ) (501)
Gy
gym (C:14) gymnasium (C:14) gymnastics (U) to do … (681)
Hh
Ha
haberdasher (C:876) haberdashery (C,U:876)
habhazardly (adv.) sth. grows … here and there (1116)
habit (C,U) sb’s old / bad … (45 / 69) to be in / have the ( bad ) … of doing sth. (264)
a person’s … ( dress: 329) … of thought / mind (336)
will can conquer … (1094)
`habitable (adj:329) habitat (C) a wildlife … (316)
habitation (U,C) to turn sb. out of / from their … (247) scattered …s || unfit for human … (331)
habit-forming (adj:337)
habitual [ ha`bit$uêl ] (adj.) … interruption / complaining || a … smoker (336) a … state of mind (1243)
habitually (adv:336)
hackneye [ `hakni ] (C) a … cab / carriage (C:184)
hackneyed [ `haknid ] (adj:184)
hacksaw (C:308)
had (pat. / pap. of to have:5)
hail (U,C) a shower of … (436)
hail (vi&t) … sb. as sth. (280) it … heavily (436)
hair (C,U) to part one’s … || to have / wear one’s … parted down the middle (32)
not turn a … (233) not harm / hurt / touch a … on sb’s `head (685) to tear one’s … (690)
to have / wear one’s … long / loose / taken up / in { a bun / pony tail / plait E/A braid / bunches /
pigtails / braids (758) a men’s / ladies’ … salon (877) a … cell (939)
a mane / mop / shock / thatch of … || rough / bristly / sandy … (1122) false `… (1293)
haircut (C:877)
hairdresser (C) a men’s / ladies’ … || a …’s (E) a …’s shop (for men / ladies) (877)
hairdressing (U:877) hairdryer / <ier (E) (C:877)
hairgrip (E) (867)
hairpin (C:867) a … bend /A& turn (1119)
hairstyle (C:623)
halberd [ `halbêd ] (C:398)
half (C) in the first / second … ( in football ) (302)
to be arrogant / clever by … (E) || how the other … lives (843) to cut sth. in … (846)
to reduce / cut sth. by … (849) two and a … million (853) a … (E) of beer (858)
the southern … of sth. (859)
the first / second … of a period (861) it’s sth. and a … (881)
half (det., pron., adj.) … (of) sth. || a / one … of sth. (11+) … a mile (66)
to have … a mind to do sth. (834) … as much / big (839 / 856)
sth. is … the battle (842) not know … of it (843) not … || drive sb. … out of their mind (844)
to do sth. … (of) the day || be given / get … a / the chance (845)
to be … and … || listen with … an ear || have / keep … an eye in / on sth. (847+)
an / one hour and a … || one and a … hours || … (of) (sth.) (848) … a million (853)
sth. takes … a moment / second / minute (855)
sth. is … the size of sth. || sth. is … as adj. again (as sth.) / A: be … again as adj. (as sth.) ||
to be … as adj. (as sth.) (856)
a pint / year / day and a … || one and a … pints / years / days || the top / bottom … of sth. ||
to be … sth., … sth. (858+) … (of) the price (859) … (of) the way || … the time / way || (863)
… a dozen (&fig.) || at … past / A& after x || … a bottle / an hour || a … bottle / hour (867)
sth. is … the fun (868) … (the) price (878) sth. is … the trouble (880) every … hour (883)
half (adv.) to be … there (fig:842) … expect sth. / sth. is … closed (850)
a …-naked woman (853) sth. isn’t … bad || not … as / so good as sbth. (853)
not be … as adj. (as - ) || not be … such subst. (as -) (854) … dead with sth. (863)
… (-) full / empty (864) … in / out (866) to be … dressed (866) sb. does not … talk (868)
sth. isn’t … good (881) … asleep / awake (884) to … believe sth. (1314)
half-and-`half (adj.) … land (884)
half-and-`half (adv.) … crying and laughing (839)
half-and-half (U:858)
half-`arsed E/A `half-assed (attr. adj.) a … attempt / idea (885)
half-`baked (adj.) a … idea (868)
half (-) `board (U: 77, 857)
`half-breed (C:868)
half-breed (adj.) a … person (868)
`half-brother (C:867)
half-`crazed (adj.) … with pain (884)
half-`cock (U) go off at … (E) (868)
half-`cocked (adj.) go off … (868)
half-`cut (adj.) be … (868)
half (-) `day (C) a … (off ) (884)
`half-day (attr. adj.) a … course (847)
half-`done (adj.) a … venture (955)
half-`finished (adj.) a … venture (955)
half-`hearted (adj.) a … attempt (605) half-heartedly (adv.) try … (605)
half (-)`hour ( C) a (good) … (850)
half-`hour (adj.) a … series (853) half-`hourly (E) (adv:883) half-hourly (E) (adj.) … intervals (883)
half-`lenght (adj.) a … picture (871)
`half-light (U:866)
half `moon (C:866)
`half-sister (C:867)
half-`timbered (adj.) a … wall (858)
half-timbering (U:858)
half (-) time (C) (at) … (25) the … score (302)
`half-truth (C:893)
half`way (adj.) a … `house (fig.) (sg:825) a … house (854) a … mark / point (863) a … success (868)
at / reach the … stage of sth. (880)
halfway (adv.) to meet sb. …. (fig:854) … decent (858) … to (doing*) sth. (863, 893*) … down (865)
to go / come / be … to doing sth. (868,880) do sth. … through (881) … normal || … out (of sth.) (882)
`half-wit (C) not be a … (868)
half-`witted (adj.) not be … (868)
half-`yearly (adv.) meet … (854) a … gathering (854)
hall (C) … of residence (3) town … (98) assembly / banqueting / ceremonial … (444)
a village … (E) (898)
hallmark (C) sth. is a / the … of sth. / sb. (147 / 463)
hallucinate [ hê`lu~sineit ] (vi:1261)
hallucinatory [ hê`lu~sinêtri ] (adj:1261)
hallucionation (C,U:1261)
hallucinogen [ hê`lu~sinêd§ên ] (C:1261)
hallucinogenic [ hêlu~si`d§enik ] (adj:1261)
halt (C) to get off / on at a … (1111) a vehicle comes / shudders / is brought to a … (1115+)
a car skids to a …(1117) negotiations come to a ( grinding ) … (1130)
sth. brings a operation to a(n) (abrupt ) … (1130) to bring sb. to an abrupt … (1133)
to bring production to a ( grinding ) … || productions grinds to a … ||
sth. leads to a … in production || sb. calls a … to sth. (1134)
halt (vi&t) sb. … the traffic (1115) … a decline || … work (1134)
halter (C) a … ( on a horse ) (719) sb. wears a … ( top ) (1110)
halterneck (C) to wear a … (1110)
halting (adj.) … steps (1126) a … conversation (1133)
haltingly (adv.) to go on … (1133)
halves (pl.) to go … on sth. (846) to do sth. by … (867)
ham (U,C:795)
hamburger (C,U) `… ( meat ) (A) (U:793) a … (794)
hamlet (C:1182)
hammer (C:509, sport:634) to raise the … of a gun (199) a … blow (fig.) (1176)
spl. go / are at … and tongs (1237)
hammer (vi) … ( * a nail in(to) sth.) (509, * 1268)
hamper (C) a clothes / laundry … (30) a picknik … (32) hamper (vt) sth. … sb’s walking (32)
hand (vt) … `out sth. (26) … () over sth. (228) … () in one’s resignation / notice (99 / 715)
… a film etc. for sth. (675)
hand (C,U) to catch sth. with one … (15) to throw sb. (up)on sb’s … ||
( * on the one …, ) on the other … (36, * 100 )
to throw in one’s `… (37) close / near at … (fig:51) it lies near at … to do sth. (59)
to offer / give / lend (sb.) a (helping) … ( with sth.) (103 / 186)
a farm … (143) to turn one’s … to ( doing ) sth. (237) to gain / get / have the upper … (382)
… and foot (adv.) (441) a firm … (461) a light … (454)
to do sth. out of `… (476) a situation gets out of … (477)
one cannot see a … in front of them / one’s face (573) sb. gets out of … (642)
… luggage E/A baggage (762) to do sth. with one’s bare …s (fig:763) a … of a clock (855)
to stay one’s … (996) a ship goes down / is lost with all … (1121)
hands (pl.) at / in { sb’s …s / the … of sb. (114) sb. is a safe pair of … (E) (253)
to be good / clever with one’s … (265) to place one’s fate / life in sb’s … || to be in the …s of sb. (278)
to join … (422) to clasp … (578) many / willing … make light work (448 / 1094)
to put sth. in sb’s … (fig:681) to take the power etc in one’s own `… (923) to win … `down (958)
to be a ( naive ) tool in the …s of sb. (972)
handcuff (C/vt:396)
handbill (C:26)
handbrake (eE) (C:415)
handful (C) a … of cold water (460)
handgun (C:499)
handicapped (adj.) a … person (75)
handicapped (pl.) the … (75)
handicraft (U,C) make / do / execute … (138)
handiwork (U,C) make / do / execute … (128) handkerchief (54)
handle (vt) unable to … alcoholic beverages (11) … a sacrificial animal (223)
handle (C) a … of a one-armed bandit (11) a … of a pot (453)
handshake (C) pay () off sb. with a golden … (784) to freet sb. with a warm and firm … (1110)
handsome (adj.) a … man (32) … reward (50)
handsomely (adv.) … rewarded (50)
handstand (C:681)
hand-to-hand (adj.) … fighting (530)
hang (vi&t) … `on (116) … (sth.) `up (655) … `out in a place (514) … `up (576) … one’s head (686)
… sb. (from sth. / the gallows) (698) …  meat (794) sb. … back on sth. (1056)
hangman (C:698)
`hangover (C) to sleep`off a … (432) a feeling is a … ( from sth. ) (433)
to wake up with a ( terrible ) … || to have a … (452)
a … law ( from sb. ) (472)
hap (o-f) (vi) if it so … (1161)
hap (o-f) (C,U) by (a) good … (1161)
haphazard (adj.) sth. is … (1144) in a … way // mannor / fashion (1161+)
haphazard (U) to do sth. at … (1161)
haphazardly (adv.) sth. grows … (1117)
hapless (adj.) a … victim (1144)
happen (vi) sth. … (64) what … || where / when / how sth. … (72) it so … that - (80)
sb. … to do sth. (132) sth. … to sb. (348) as it … (602) it (all) … so fast (662)
sb. … on sth. (1112) to hate that to … (1120) sth. is bound / will … (1154)
sb. … on sbth. by chance (1157)
happening (C) strange …s (515)
happening (adj.) a … place (1112)
happenstance (C,U) to do sth. by … || what a … (1157)
happily (adv:434)
happiness (U:425) feel … (944)
happy (adj.) (have) a … faculty (2) be / feel … (that) - (4 / 48)
… to do/be sth. (5) be / feel … for sb. (69) be … about / with sth. (85)
Harald II (330)
`harass [ A& hê`ras ] (vt) … the enemy (205) … sb. (208)
harassed (adj:210)
`harassment / ha`- (206) sexual … (606)
harbour (C,U) a … || a boat enters / leaves … (658)
harbour (vt) … doubts about sth. (28) … sinister designs (114) … an ambition (539)
… suspicion || … a grudge against sb. (683) … ill will against sb. (1096)
… a pathogenic organism (1253)
hard (adv.) work … (4) to strike … (14) sb. is … up (244) to be … up for work (245)
hard (adj.) it’s … to do sth. (7) a … worker (11)
to find sth. … to accept || to find it .. to accept sth. (110)
to be … of hearing / the … of hearing (127) to have a … time doing sth. (158) … `core (E) (624)
… work || a … day at / day’s work (660) no … and `fast rules (about sth.) (637) to be … `up (792)
no … feelings (969) to feel … `done by (979)
hard-`core (adj:122)
hard-boiled (adj) a … criminal (276)
harddisk (C:654)
harden (vi&t) …ed steel (308)
harder (adj:303)
hardly (adv.) sth. / sb. can … do sth. (18 / 27) it’s … surprising (174)
hardness (U:940)
hardship (U,C) sth. causes great … for sb. (245)
to bear / endure ( times of ) … || to suffer many …s || the …(s) of poverty ||
it’s a … for sb. to do sth. (248)
it’s no … to do sth. (264) to suffer … (284)
hard-`pressed (adj.) a … person (386) to be … to do sth. (1049)
hardware (U:875) a … store / dealer (875)
haricot (C) a … ( bean ) (E) || … vert (1156)
harlot (C:514)
harm (vt) sth. … sb’s chance of sth. (28) sth. … the environment (211) … sb. (230)
not lost or …ed (270)
harm (U) to intend sb. no … (42) to insure against ( sth. causing ) loss or … (294+)
bodily … (621) to do … (1164)
harmful (adj:621)
harmonize (vi&t) the lyrics … with the melody (1271)
harness (C,U) in …(498) work in … with sb. || back in … (E) (590 || 597) to die in … (653)
harness (vt) … a horse ( to a vehicle ) (498) … the power of sth. (623)
… machinery to an engine (1038)
harrow (C:157)
harrow (vt) … a field (157)
harrowing (adj.) a … time (1138) a … picture of sth. (1307)
harry (vt) … the enemy (205) … sb. / a place (777 / 1033)
harsh (adj.) the … realities (113) … punishment (117) … criticism (279)
harvest (C,U) at … ( time ) (156) a good … (224)
harvest (vi&t) … a crop (223) … vegetables (723)
has (1)
hash (U) to smoke … (605) corned beef … (954)
hasten (vi) … home (520) … to do sth. (890)
Hastings (N:330)
hasty (adj.) a … decision (137) sb. is … (379) hastily (adv:379)
hat (C) a top / silk … (758)
hatch (vi&t) … a scheme (486)
hate (U) sb’s `pet … (37) to be filled with … ( for sb. ) || sb’s eyes are full of … ( for sb.) (1120)
hate (vt) … sb. (43) … sth. (128) … doing / to do sth. (128) … sb. like poison (546)
to … it when - (1099) … that to happen (1120)
hated (adj.) a … person (365)
hateful (adj.) an idea / a sight of sth. is … to sb. || a … animal / person / hunt (1120)
a … place ( to be ) (1121)
hatred (U,C) a room is charged with … (378) sth. awakes …(s) (425)
sth. revives old …(s) ||
to feel etc. (a / an) ( deep / pure / passionate / profound / intense / inveterate ) … for / of sbth. ||
to be filled with etc. xxx … towards sb. (481)
racial … (629)
hat-trick (C) score a … (590)
haulage (U:1210)
haughtiness (U:472) haughty (adj:472) haughtily (adv:479)
haunt (vt) haunted (adj.) … building / look (221/ 707)
hauteur (U:843)
have (v) … (to do) sth. (2) … it out ( with sb.) (379) … sb. doing sth. (450)
haven (C) to create / provide / offer a safe `… for sb. (230) a place is a … of peace and safety (256)
a … for endangered species (316)
havoc (U) to cause / create / wreak … on crops || to play … with crops // sb’s routines (224)
to cause / create … for sb. (234)
to cause / create / wreak … ( on a building ) (312,326)
hay (U:18)
hayloft (C) in the … (1275)
hazard (vt&speech:1128) … money / property (1147) … sb’s life (1151) … a guess (1228)
… that - (1228)
hazard (C) the …s of smoking / gambling (1122 / 1140)
the economic … of farming || pollution is a … to the fish (1127)
to do sth. at all …s || to play … || a result is a … (1140)
to get … pay (A) || sth. poses / represents { a health / safety … to / for sb. || an occupational … (1149)
… lights (1152) sth. is full of …s || there’s an element of … in sth. (1161) a golf … (1231)
hazardous [ `hazêdês ] (adj.) sth. is … to sb’s health (1122) it’s … to do sth. (1147)
a … chemical (1149)
haze (sg.,U) a blanket of … (235) a … of smoke (430) a … of steam (890)
haze (v+over) the sky … over (226)
hazy (adj:235)
Hd
HD ( high definition ) (adj.) … TV (1306)
He
he (pron:2)
head (v:681++) to be …ing for home / a sad fate (235 / 289) … () off sth. (492,684) … a ball (589)
… a group (681) … a chapter / list / page || … a march / revolt (684) … () up sth. (681)
… a table (694) … for { disaster / a pub etc. (696 / 701) … the table ( of results ) (702)
… back home (704) … `up against the wind (719)
… the waves || to be …ed (for) swh. || … sth. (for) swh. (719)
… a tree / plant || a plant … (723) … a poll (725)
head (adj.) … inquisitor / office (681) … waiter (703) a … current / (a heavy) … swell (719)
… sea (719)
head (C,U) to punch sb. on the … (14) to be … over heals in love (68) the … of the house / -hold (236)
to put sth. out of one’s … (266) a crowned … (420) the … of a bed (438) one’s … swims (454)
a … restraint (585) the … of an arrow / a spear / axe (696+ ) to run one’s … against a brick `wall (601)
a pounding … (645) … shrinker (675) … `office (C:680,U:681) bald … (687) beer with a … (701)
…s and tails ( of a coin ) (703) a death’s … (706) bed>… (707) … of the stairs / a pier (704 / 717)
the … of a nail / a hammer (706 / 718) the …of a ship / a fiord (718) the… of a rock / river (719)
… of a grave / a doorway / a door frame / a family / a house (720) (x) … of cattle etc. (721)
a … of cream (721) a … of flowers / leaves (722)
a plant grows in / comes to a … || a boil comes to a … || a … of cabbage etc. (723)
(a price) a / per … (725) a … cook || the … of a drum / (musical) note (725)
the … of steam / water (727) a … doctor / nurse || a … lamp / mirror (728)
weak in the … || …s will roll (for sth.) || to be (the) … of a group || at the … of a group / list / page ||
to give / get / have a … `start (on / over sb.) || do sth. over sb’s … (680)
( to be ) (the) … of a group || to allow / give sb. their … || a wise … || to have one’s … in a book ||
to have a good … on one’s shoulders || be / stand … and shoulders above sb. (681)
to have a … for sth. || have an old … on young shoulders || `drum sth. into sb’s … ||
to do sth. standing on one’s … || in one’s …(682)
to have one’s … screwed on ( straight / right ) || sth. turns one’s … ||
to have one’s … turned with sth. || need (to have) one’s … examined || shake one’s … ||
on one’s (own) … be it (683)
… of a chapte || arranged under a number of …s || to get / take it into one’s … that - / to do sth. ||
to bow one’s … (684)
…s up ! || turn one’s … || not have eyes in the back of one’s … || to place a price on sb’s … ||
… money (685)
to hold one’s `… high || hold up one’s `… || not harm / hurt / touch a hair on sb’s `… ||
with one’s … erect / high || shake one’s … (at sth.) (686)
to have a (good / poor) … for figures / facts etc. || do sth. in one’s … ||
to lay / put one’s …s together (to do sth.) (687)
to cock one’s … || one’s … cocked (to one side) || nod one’s `… || to hang one’s … ||
to have a (good) … for doing sth. || to do sth. out of one’s own … (688)
to keep one’s … || to keep a calm / clear / cool … (689)
to use one’s … (to do sth.) || to have a long … || to make … in / with sth. || to knock a plan on the … ||
to put sth. out of sb’s … || to get / put sth. out of one’s …|| clutch one’s … ||
sth. comes / pops into sb’s …|| to stand / turn sth. on it’s … || do sth. on one’s … (690)
sth. goes on in sb’s … || to get one’s … round (E) sth. || sth. enters one’s … || to talk over sb’s … ||
to talk one’s … off || one’s … is turning || sth. goes (right) / is over ones’s … || t
o carry sth. in one’s … || can’t make …(s) (n)or tail(s) of sth. || to make … against sth. (691)
to make / keep … against / in / with / towards sth. || sth. goes to / turns sb’s … || to raise one’s … ||
to be a (good) … taller || have a good / fine / thick … of hair || to lose one’s … (fig.) ||
to go / be off one’s … || go / be out of one’s … || yawn one’s … off (692)
to sit at / take the … of the table || sth. comes / pops into one’s … ||
sth. is (like) banging / bashing your … against a brick `wall || a / per … ||
matters / a situation etc. comes // bring sth. { to a … (693)
to keep one’s … shut || to toss one’s … || with a toss of one’s … ||
to bang / knock spl’s …s together (694)
to go over sb’s … || done over sb’s … (695)
to drag sb. by the … and ears || sth. is ringing in one’s … (696)
to lose one’s … || to make sb. shorter by the … (697)
to have one’s … in the clouds || get a big … (about sth.) || to get in over one’s … (701)
alcohol goes to one’s … (702) spl. go … to … || scream / shout one’s … off || keep one’s … down ||
to go … to … with sb. || …s or tails (703)
to bite / snap sb’s … off || fall etc. … foremost (704)
to do sth. from … to `foot / toe || have a bad … || one’s … is throbbing (705)
hit the nail on the `… || have a thick `… || have sb’s death etc. on one’s … ||
(a place) to lay one’s … (706)
to get / put one’s … down (707) put sth. into / out of sb’s … || to put one’s … on the block for sb. (708)
to sail … to sea / wind || a ship makes … || to give a horse the / its … (719)
to keep one’s … above water || to have no place to rest one’s … (721) to incline one’s … (838)
one’s … is splitting (1065) I’ll knock your … off (1281)
headache [ `hedeik ] to have a ( bad / pounding / splitting ) … || a … pill (40) to suffer from …s (99)
sth. is sb’s ( private ) … (708) a … tablet (765)
headband (C:676,728)
headboy (E:861) headcloth (685)
headcold (C) to catch a … (705)
headcheese (725)
headcount (C:680) to do a … (681)
headdress (C, cover:684, hair:717)
–headed (adj.) cool-… (276) clear-… (706)
header (C) to make a … (731)
head`first (adv:704) to rush … into sth. (fig:706)
headgear (U) a person’s / a horse’s … (684 / 719)
headgirl (E:681)
headhunt (C:675) headhunt (vi:675) headhunter (C:675) headhunting (U:675)
heading (C) under a … (263) chapter … (684)
headlamp(s) (586)
headland (226)
headless (adj.) do sth. like … chickens (685) … body / corpse (697) to make a group … (685)
headlight (C) …s on full beam || dip the / dipped …s (586)
headline (C:413) news … (619) be in / hit the … (s) || make / grab (the) …s (715)
headline (vt) … an article (715) headliner (725)
headlong (ad.) a … escape / dive (685 / 724)
`headlong (adv.) land / be landed … (624) rush … into a discussion (694)
headman / head(s)man (677 / 697) … (on a farm) (721)
headmoney (U) offer … (685) pay … (725) headmost (adj:721)
head-on (adj.) … collision / crash (585) … confrontation (681)
head-on (adv.) deal with sth. … (681) hit sth. … (704 / 719) headphones (728)
headpiece (685) have a good … (690) headquatered (680)
headquaters (pl.) the … (is / are) (192,680) the … of a newspaper (1059) headrest (585)
headroom (U) … of a door (720) headsail (719) headscarf / <scarves (286,685) headset (728)
headship (C) (carry out / perform the) … (of sth.) (680) head(s)man (697) headspring (717)
headstall (719) headstand (681) headstone (720)
headstrong (adj.) … person / decision (694)
headwaters (pl:717)
headway (U) make … (against / in / towards / with sth.) (fig:690,692) gather / make … (719)
… of a door (720) a … of a period of time (727)
headwind (719)
headwork (U) do … (708)
heady [ `hedi ] (adj.) … days // atmosphere / scent (147 // 701) … character / conduct (707)
to feel … / a … feeling (701/ -17) … winds (719) a … scheme (725) a … pace (728)
heal (vi&t)
healing (adj.) a … ointment (773)
healer (C:552)
health (U) to put sb’s … in danger (42) to gain the best of mental … (210) to be in poor … (248)
a … officer (315) a … examination (557) … service (618) the National `H… Service (the NHS) (728)
a … visitor (E) (728) … authorities (728) minister / ministry of … (812) to enjoy good … (824)
a … visitor (1229) the … of a marriage (1245) to suffer from ill … (1249)
to drink sb’s … || here’s … ! || your ( very good ) … ! || to be in good / excellent / perfect … (1251)
to be in failing / poor / ill … || sb’s … is failing (1255)
a … resort / professional / inspector || … food || sb’s state of … (1260)
the … of the economy is poor (1263) to gain … (1264)
to be glowing with … || to have one’s … || to regain one’s … || to recover to … ||
to be fully restored to … (1265)
healthful (adj.) … food (1260)
healthily (adv.) … tired (1239)
healthy (adj.) a … personality / disrespect (28 / 45) to feel / look … (944 / 1251) to be quite … (1251)
a … climate / vegetable / plant (1260) a … mind in a … body || a … respect / complexion(1264)
healthy-`minded (adj:519)
heap (C) a … of clothes (456)
heap (vt) … praise on sb. (179) … abuse / scorn on sb. (206)
hear ( heard, heard ) (vi&t) … a wolf (17) … that - (89) not … ( anything / a word ) from sb. (117)
… sb. do / doing sth. (122) … ( a sound ) (942)
hearing (U,sg.) the faculty of … (2)
a … disability || to be … impaired / hard of … || …-impaired people ||
the …-impaired (pl.) || the hard of … (pl.) (127)
to gain a … (524) the power / sense of … (936) an organ of … (939)
an acute / a keen / good / poor (sense of) … (942)
heard (pat. / pap. of hear) (89)
heart (C) to search one’s … (4) a … || the ace / the two / jack etc. of …s (9) to win sb’s … (42)
to have sth. at … (181) sb’s … misses / skips a beat || sb’s … leaps (266) a heavy … (426)
sth. lies heavy on sb’s … (427) ( to achieve one’s ) …’s desire (434) a … of darkness (473)
in one’s secret … (548) a kind … (549) to have no … to do sth. (586) to give sb a … attack (614)
to have / suffer a … attack || … failure || organic … disease (638)
to pour `out / open one’s … (to sb.) (752) …-searching (747) a change of … (820)
one’s … is in one’s mouth (826) to have a change of … (836) to lose one’s … (844)
(a fall in) … rate (888) to learn / know sth. by … (922) in their … of … sb. knows (957)
to have a feeling … (1049) a stab ( wound ) to the … (1311)
heartbreaking (adj.) a … scream (891)
–hearted (adj.) a half-… attempt (605) a cold-… person (1089) a faint-… person (adj.)
hearth [ ha~# ] (C) in a … || on the … (1235)
heartrending (adj.) … shriek (891)
heart-to-`heart (adj.) … confession (753) have a … talk with sb. (754)
heart-to-heart (C) have a … with sb. (754) heartbeat (421) heartfelt (adj.) a … welcome (740)
hearty adj.) a … meal (76) a … welcome (445) a … eater (1251)
heat (U,C) sth. throws out … (17) boiling / scorching / sizzling / sweltering /A broiling … (884)
to take the … out of a sarcastic remark (1248)
heated (adj.) sb. become … (959) a … debate (481) a … argument (960) to get … with sth. (1168)
heathen (C) a / the … (16) heathen (adj.) … practice (16)
heating (U:297) central … (217)
heave (vi&t) … a sigh of relief (118) … sth. + adv. (778) a ship … into sight / view (857)
heaven (U,C) a sign from … || … help sb. (106) to go to … (155)
to look up towards the …s || the …s open (510)
heavenly (adj.) a … body (821) our … Father (946)
heavily (adv.) … armed (24,497) to walk … (426) to answer / sigh … (431) it rains / hails … (436)
to breathe … (437) to eat / drink … (447) (a voice) … laced with (irony) (449)
… pregnant || to snore … (457) … into sth. (E:drugs) (463, E:605) … influenced by sbth. (469)
… taxed (476) to rely … on sb./ sth. (489) …dependent (514) … provided with sth. (586)
… trafficked (562) to be … involved (637)
heaviness (U:940)
heavy (C:603)
heavy (adj.) … rain (63) a … drinker || … drinking (61) … fighting (236) a … suitcase (421)
… sleep || a … sleeper (424) with a … heart (426) a … breather || … breathing (437)
a … day / schedule / timetable (439) … cream (E) (447)
a … eater || … eating || a … meal (447) to go / be … on sth. / sb. (448 / 461)
a … `atmosphere || … `silence || sbth. is … `going || the atmosphere / conversation gets … (449)
a … cold (457) a … groan / sigh || … snoring (458) … blow (461) … `petting (462)
a … book (fig.) || a writer / subject is … `going (463)
… irony (466) a … vote (470) things get … (473) sb. gets … (with sb.) (about sth.) (475)
… responsibility (476) … features / sarcasm || (a voice) … with sarcasme (477)
the … hand of management || make … weather of sth. (483) a … `hitter (eA) (485) … soil (504)
… casualties || a … coat || … boots (510) … bombardment (511) a … defeat (512)
a … sentence (536) a … fine (584) … traffic (585) be … on fuel / gas (586)
the … brigade / mob (E/E) (603) … use (609)
a … smoker || … smoking (617) … exposure to sth. (621) suspicion lies … on sb. (638)
a … shower (639) … metal (643) … reliance (up)on sth. (652) a … caseload (657)
a … list || … seas (661) … losses (666) … fire / shelling (668) … polling || a … poll (809)
to be … with sleep (1064
heavy (adv.) despair is / hangs … in the air (426) time hangs / lies `… on one’s hand (445)
sth. lies / hangs … on sb’s heart / conscience (427,487) to be … (A) into sth. (463)
to be … (A) into drugs (605)
heavy -`duty (adj.) a … carpet (441)
heavy-`handed (adj.) be … with sth. (448) a … manner / method (483)
heavy-`set (adj.) a … person (421)
heavyweight (C) a … (of body:447) … champion / <ship (632)
a … writer || an intellectual … (463) a … paper (625)
Hebrew (adj.) the … Bible (70) Hebrew (C) the Epistle to the …s (819)
hedge (C:267) sth. is a … against sth. (281)
hedge (vt) … () sth. in || … a piece land (267) sb. … (272)
sb’s belief is …d with doubt || rules … () in sb. (280)
… sbth. ( about / around * ) with sth. (269, 280+* ) … against sth. || … one’s `bets (281)
heed (vt) … advice / a warning (760)
heed (U) to give / pay … (*no) ( to sbth. ) || take … (*no) ( of sbth. ) (760,* 770, -89)
heel (C) head over …s in love (68) down-to-… (adj:36) to take to one’s …s (108)
sb. comes to `… (133)
to be hot on sb’s …s (527) to wear high …s (758) to bring sb. to heel (1177)
heel (v) a boat … over (775)
hefty (adj.) a … fine (584)
hegemony [ hi`gemêni / `hed§imêni // A hi`d§emêni / `hed§imouni ] (U:372)
height (C,U) according to … (192) … of effectiveness (668)
to be afraid / firghtened / scared of …s (1118)
heir [ eê ] (C:160) to make sb. … to the throne || to be (the) (sole) … to the throne (420)
an … apparant / presumptive || … to a title / of sb. (1106)
heiress (C:361)
heirless (adj.) to make sb. … (1106)
heirloom [ `eêlu~m ] (C) to pass () on a … (1108)
held (65) helicopter (628) heliocentric (adj.) a …. theory (820) helium (568)
hell (U,sg.) not have a hope in … (88) sth. is sheer … (193) to … with sb ! (212)
like … (526) to raise … (685)
to knock … out of sb. || to beat / kick ( the ) … out of sb. (1279)
Hellenistic (adj.) … civilization / age (156 / 775)
helmet (C:387) crash / safety / bicylce … (778) a fireman’s … (1236)
help (vi&t:82,95) … sb. (to) do sth. (2) can’t … doing sth. / but do sth. (54,84) can’t … it (if) (89) …(sb.)
(in doing / with sth.) || … (sb.) (to) do sth.(75,119) … sb. / oneself (to sth.) (79)
can’t … oneself (97) it can’t be …ed (102) sth. … matters (104) it … (matters) doing sth. (124)
help (U, sg:75,,,) to come to (sb’s) … || to be of (any) … || offer / render / get … (doing / with sth.) ||
to be a real … (75)
it’s past … (102) with the … of sth. || sth. is (of) much … (105) domestic `… (446)
helper (C:75)
helpful (adj.) … person || (be) … (to sb.) (in doing sth.) (to do sth.) (75,77)
it is … for sb. to do sth. (124)
helpfulness (U:75)
helping (C) to have a ( small / generous / second) … (of sth.) (5)
to offer / give / lend sb. a … hand (103)
helpless (adj:87) to be … against / to do sth. (102)
helplesly (adv:86)
helplessness (U:87)
helpline (C:93) helpmate / <meet (C:75)
hem (C:265)
hem (vt) 312) poor soil … () in a farm (267) rules … () in sb. (280)
hemisphere (C) the Northern / Southern … (627)
hemp (U) … plant (605)
hen (578) … of turkey || turkey … (772) hence (adv:146) henceforward (317)
henchman (C:371)
henpeck (vt) (a wife) … a husband (835) henpecked (adj.) a … husband (835)
her (2)
`herald (vt) sth. … sth. (383,-94, 402) to be …ed as sth. (404+)
`herald (C:384) sth. is a … of sth. (403, 405)
heraldic (adj:359)
herb (C:578) curative / medicinal … (722) herbal (adj.) … extract / medicine (263 / 722)
herbarium (C:1070)
herbicide (C,U) a toxic … (622) … residues (1265)
herd (C) a … of cattle / sheep etc. // fans (721 // 731) … instinct (721) follow the … (724)
the common … (726) run with / follow the … (fig:726)
herd (v) … cattle (558) … sbth. + adv. (721,724,726)
herding (U:559)
here (adv:51)
hereafter (C) the … (902) hereafter (adv.) a life … (902)
hereditary [ hê`reditri / -têri ] (adj.) a … ruler / monarchy (145) a … feudal estate (148)
a … order of honour (173) a … peer (803)
a (non>) … disease // character / quality / trait / characteristic (1093,1109)
sb’s … enemy (1105) a … claim to sth. (1107) ( to inherit * ) a … title (1103 / -08 * )
heredity (U) a … factor || laws / a theory of … (1109)
heresy [ `herêsi ] (U:162) to commit … (681)
heretic [ `herêtik ] (C:365)
heretical [ hê`retikl ] (adj.) … sect / belief (679)
heretically (adv:689)
heritable (adj.) a … manor (1102) … characters (1109)
heritability (U:1108+)
heritage ( norm. sg.) a people’s … (1102)
hermit (C:219)
hero ( pl: <es ) [ hiêrêu E/A hi(~)rou ] (C:41) to receive a …’s welcome (1138)
he`roic (adj:206)
heroin (U:49)
heroine [ `herêuin ] (C) a … || the … in a film (127)
heroism (U:8)
heron (C:865)
herpes (U:1258)
herring (C,U:79)
herringbone (U:758)
herringbone (adj.) a … suit (758)
hertz (Hz) (520)
hesitancy (107)
hesitant (adj.) … smile (82) … to do sth. / about (doing) sth. (83) … steps (1126)
a … conversation (1133)
hesitantly (adj.) to reply … (86)
hesitate (vi&speech:104) … to do sth. (75) … about / over sth. (83)
hesitation (U) do sth. without / with … (75 / 86)
heterogen(e)ous (adj.) a … collection (1178)
heterosexual (C:610)
heterotrophic (adj.) a … bacterium (648)
heyday (C) sbth’s … (679)
Hg
HGV ( heavy goods vehicle ) (C:586)
Hi
hibernate (vi:888) hibernation (U:888)
hidden (adj.) to be … from view (826)
hide (C,U:505)
hide (vi&t:36)
hide-out (C:108)
hidebound (adj.) a … person (468)
hideous [ `hidiês ] (adj.) a … sight (520) a … crime (522) a … building (665) a … nightmare (707)
a … face (752) … abnormality (1091) a … person (1238)
hideously (1091) to be … scarred / deformed (1091)
hideousness (U:1091)
hiding (U) in … (753) … place (C:13)
hidden (pap. of hide / adj.) … drugs (6) a … a`genda (78)
hierarchy (C:147)
hierarchical [ haiê`ra~kikl ] (adj.) a … system (147)
high (C) sth’s (all-time) … (63)
high (adj.) a … grade / mark (eE) (2) …er education (4) ) … and `low (adv:4/ pl:89) H… Sheriff (397)
(in) … places (471) … treason (492) … society (545) … tension / voltage ( transmission ) line (565)
… jump (634) youthful / adolescent `… jinks (o-f) (724 / 732) ( to be in* ) … `spirits (732,* 756)
a … street (E) (732) … living || (the) … life (U, sg:787) a … point in / of sth. (852)
it’s … time (that -) (957) ( to be ) on the … road to sth. (fig.) (1011) … noon (1155)
a … definition TV (1306)
high (adv.) to do sth. … up // in / into the air (15) feelings run `… (914)
high-`born (adj:514)
highbrow [ `haibrau ](C:10)
highbrow (adj.) a … person (10)
higher (adj.) … education (4) the … powers (92)
highlight (vt:334,454)
highlight (C:442,454)
highly (adv.) … motivated (51) … predictable / doubtful (125 / 153) … gifted (174)
… likely / probable (175 / 177)
highly-sexed (adj:610)
high-security (adj:307)
high-speed (adj:562)
high-`spirited (adj:730)
highway (C:4) (the) H… Code (E) (74) `hijinks (o-f) (A) (pl:724)
hike (C:862)
hike (vi:860, A:&t) to go …ing || … the mountains (862)
hiking (U:862) … boots (762)
hilarious (adj.) a … attempt (765)
hill (C) the brow of a … (13) to be over the …s and far away (109) a rock makes a … (213)
a gentle … || the brow / crest of a … || a chain of …s || a range of ( serried ) …s || rolling …s ||
a … slopes gently (1116)
hillside (C) a gentle / steep … (1116)
hilltop (C:215)
hilly (adj.) … land (555) him (5)
hind (C,U) to hunt … / to shoot a … (199)
hind (attr.adj.) a … leg (263)
Hindu (N:83) Hinduism (U:71)
hinder (vt) … sb. from doing sth. (511) sth. … sth. (863)
hindrance (U,C:87)
hinge (C:574)
hint (C:24) … as to / about sth. (71)
hint (vi, speech:107) … (that -) (37)
hip (C) to tuck sth. around one’s …s (288) a … flask (642) a … joint (657)
a … replacement operation (657)
to sway / swing one’s …s || swaying / swinging …s || the sway / swing of sb’s … (1245)
hipbone (C:795)
hiplength (adj.) … trousers (1234)
hire (U) for … (E) (658)
hire (vt) … a lawyer (137) … sb. ( as sth.) (50, 245) … sth. (E) (658)
hiring (U) … and firing (643)
his (det, pron:2)
hiss (vi&t &speech) a cat … (886)
historian (C:182)
historical (adj.) … evidence (84) a … costume (1234)
history (C,U) in … (144) art … (195) sth. assures / secures sb. a place in … (304)
throughout … (341) sb’s previous … (705)
hit (C) a direct … (667)
hit (vt&i) … one’s forehead (10) … sb. hard (14) … a ball (15) … the pavement in search for sth. (51)
sth. … sb’s pocket (55) … sb. like a thunderbolt (481) … `out (at sb.) (530)
a place is … by poisoning / floods (622 / 1083) … the target (667) to be hard … || to be … hard (1040)
sth. … sb. six (E) (1277)
hitherto [ hidê`tu ] (adv:1144)
hitch (vi&t) … a horse ( to a post ) (769)
Hittite (C:1217)
Ho
hoard (vt:515) hoard (C:517) hoarder (C:515) hoarding (U:515)
hoax (C) a threat is a … (60) a … call (305)
hoax (vt) … sb. (60)
hoaxer (C:60,305)
hob (C) an electric … (E) (890)
hobble (C:10)
hobble (vi&t:10)
hobby (C) to do sth. as a / one’s … (1156)
Hobson’s choice (2)
hog (C:580) go the whole … (580,595) road / speed … (583)
hog (vt) … the road // the phone / the toilet (584 // 619)
hoist (C:225)
hoist (v:225,322) to be …(ed) by / with one’s own petard (275)
hold (vi&t) … an opinion (7) … a celebation (10) … a view (21) … a speech (22)
… a conference / peace talks (24) … a consultation (44) … sb. in the palm of one’s hand (55)
… () `back one’s tears / temper (62 / 129) … oneself apart (66) … a belief (74) … sb. spellbound (84)
… `out no hope (110) … sb. up to redicule (120) … land (148)
… within one’s grasp political power || … a court of justice (151) … a tournament (154)
… a service / feast (158+) sth. … `out the possibility for / of sth. (162) life … comforts (166)
sb. … a high rank (173) … sb. on remand (208) … a meeting (225) … on to sth. (228)
… sb. in thrall (231) sbth. … () `up sb. / sth. || … () back a shortfall (268)
… one’s `own against sb. (275) sb. … back / sth. … sb. ( from doing sth. ) (276) … sth. sacred (283)
… sth. as security for sth. (292)
… sb. to a draw (304) … sth. together (321) … one’s breath. (286)
… sth. vertical (384) … court with / to sb. (391)
… fast to sth. (476) … sb. in contempt (474) … one’s tongue (518) … no brief for sb. (E) (523)
… out sth. (543) sb. … `off ( (on) doing sth.) (996)
a premonition … true / good (1064) … sth. in a position (1272) - what the future … (1301)
hold (C,U) get … of some news (519) let `go (of) sb’s … (529)
a dog / sb. catches / grabs / seizes / takes / gets (a) … of sbth. (529, 531)
loosen / release one’s … of sth. (961)
holder (C) a … of a credit card (96) a … of land (148) a … of a position (151) a … of presidency (804)
a pot / kettle … (1272)
`hold-up (C) there is a … in ( doing ) sth. || to be the victim of a … (268)
hole (C:14)
holiday (vi:675)
holiday (C,U) to go on (a) … (64)
… allowance / pay / job || a ( religious / national / bank E/A public ) … || to make … ||
to go swh. for / go on / be on { (a) … // the / one’s …(s) || to take / have { a … // the / one’s …(s) ||
a foreign … || a … abroad || school / summe etc. …(s) (674)
to spend a … // the / one’s …(s) swh. (675) a charter … (761)
holidaymaker (E:322)
holiness (U:161)
hollow ( adj.) a … place (1228) an explanation rings / sounds … to sb. (1291)
holy (adj.) a … day (158) the H… office (681) the H… Writ (166) the H… Ghost / Spirit (725)
the H… Roman Empire (929)
homage [ `håmid§ ] (sg.) a pledge of … || to render … (148) to pay … to (fig:372,380)
homager (C:373)
home (C,U) one’s … (51) a residential / nursing / old people’s … (69) to be away from … (236)
to tell sb. a few … truths (274) to play at … (300)
to run away from … (1245) sb’s … environment (1263)
home (adv.) to go / get etc. … (10) on the / one’s way … (19) to return … (116)
… and abroad (619)
home (adj.) … `help (75) a … team (201) to play a … match / game (300) a … page (335)
a … town (407) the H… `Counties (410) on the … front (513) … affairs / news (619)
H… `Secretary (621) the `H… Office / Department (811)
homeland (C:218)
homeless (adj:6) the homeless (pl:6) homelessness (247 homeliness (720)
homely (adj.) a … atmosphere (720)
home`made (adj:399)
homeowner (C:16)
Homer (N) … sometimes nods (95)
home-spun (adj.) a … philosophy (43)
homestead (C:18)
homeward (adv:432)
homework (U) to set sb. ( a piece of ) … || to get ( a lot of ) … || to write () `up notes for … ||
to go over / do one’s … (141)
homicide (C,U:321)
homo (C:612)
homonym (C:1061)
homosexual (adj.) a … person (611)
homosexual (C:610)
honest (adj.) a … person (9) be … with sb. (957)
honesty (U:43)
honeymoon (C) go swh. for / on one’s … || spend one’s … swh. || be on one’s … (456)
honeymoon (v+adv:456) honeymooner (C:456)
honorary (adj.) an … citizen / establishment (120 / 153)
honour (C,U) to do sb. an … || sth. does sb. great … (120) a guest of … (193)
to feel … bound to do sth. (708)
honour (v:577)
honourable (adj.) … military rank (153) an … life (162)
honoured (adj.) be / feel … (to do sth.) (963)
hood (C) a … of a car (A) (768) a … (E) of a pram (1230)
hoodwink (vt) … sb. (into doing sth.) (394)
hoof ( hoofs / hooves) (C:509)
hook (C) a crochet … (266) to secure a rope to a … (329) to do sth. … line and sinker (417)
to get off the … (1135)
hooker (C:611)
hooky (U) to play … (A) (333)
hooligan (C:305) hooliganism (U:305)
Hoover (C) a … (E) (297)
hoover (E) (vi&t:297)
hooves (pl:509)
hope (C,U) extreme …(12) have (high) …s of (doing) sth. / that- (33,73) fond … (33)
to have …s for sbth. (73) there is … for sbth. (73) not have a … ( in hell ) of doing sth. (88)
(there / sth. is) a glimmer / ray of … (106,111) sth. is beyond … (110) a faint … (110)
live in … || live in … of sth || live in the … that -, || raise sb’s …s || get / build sb’s …s `up ||
be a beacon / symbol of … (111)
sbth. is sb’s only … …….|| be full of … || keep ( false / a forlorn / a vain ) … alive ||
do sth. in (the) … of sth. / that - || give `up / abandon … (116) give / offer … to sb. (119)
hope (vi&t) … to do sth. (14) … (that -) (14) it is …d (that -) (109) … against hope (115)
hopeful (adj.) … person / sign (74 / 121) be / feel … ( that - ) (117) … about sth. (122) hopeful (C:92)
hopefully (79) hopefulness (122) hopeless (adj.) a … case (87) hopelessly (87)
hors d’hoevre (793)
horizon (C) on the … (116) the cloud on the … (468) to sink below the … (782)
to broaden one’s … (1082)
horizontal (adj.) a … bar (1137)
horizontally (adv:468)
horn (C) to draw `in one’s …s (108)
horny (adj:615)
horrendous (adj.) a … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
horrendously (adv.) sth. does … wrong (1066)
horrible (adj.) a … feeling / person (102 / 106) a … sight (233) a … smell (1062)
a … experience / situation (1064) sb. is … to sb. (1066) a … accident || … weather (1077)
horribly (adv.) sth. goes … wrong (1066)
horrific (adj.) a … ordeal (234) a … experience / situation // accident (1064 // -77)
horrificly (adv.) … injured (1077)
horrified (adj.) be … to see / hear - etc. (1051) be … by sth. (1064)
horrify (vt) … sb. (1064)
horrifying (adj.) it’s … to discover - (1051) a … feeling / experience / situation // accident (1064 // -77)
horrifyingly (adv.) … injured (1077)
horror (U,C) in … (38) laughter turns into … (236) …-stricken (627) to sb’s … (826)
the full … of sth. || the (awful) …s of sth. || to have a … od (doing) sth. (1065) be struck with … ||
have a look of … on one’s face (1066) the … of sth. (1069) to watch in … || recoil with … at sth. (1077)
horse (C) to ride a … (16) to mount a … (383) … droppings (pl.) (501) a dark `… (632)
… riding (E) (1109) to get on / down from a … (1110) sb. could eat a … (1251)
horseback (C) sb. on … (383) a ride on … (1110)
horsback (adj.) … riding (A) (1109)
horseback (adv.) to ride … (1109)
horse-drawn (adj:442)
horseplay (o-f) (U:732)
horseshoe (C:509)
horticulturalist (C:1264)
horticulture (U:1264)
hose (C) a fire … (306)
hospital (C,U) to take // rush sb. to … (E) / (A) the … (321// 892) (the) … service (418)
a ward in a … (657)
to be admitted to (the) … || to leave (the) … || to discharge / release sb. from (the) … (896)
… treatment / care (1110) … staff / workers (1260)
host (C) a good … (252) the H… (745) a … of thoughts (1065) a … of adventurers (1195)
hostage (C:329) hostage-taker (C:329) hostage-taking (U:329)
hostel (C:3) hostile (adj:313) hostility (U:176)
hot (adj.) a … lunch (78) to be … on sb’s heels (527)
to be … on sb’s track (525) a … tail / trail (529)
a boiling … day (722) a boiling / scalding … soup (723)
things / the place get(s) too … (for sb.) || sb. is (all) … and bothered (fig:788)
boiling / scorching / sizzling / sweltering … (884) sb’s … temper (1248)
hot-`blooded (adj:53)
hotchpotch eE/A hodgepotch (454)
hotel (C) to build a … (69) to stay at / in a … (291) a mountain … (1153)
`hothead (C:53) hot-headed [ håt`hedid ] (adj:53)
hotly (adv.) to be … debated (815)
hotplate (C) an electric … (A) (890)
hot-`tempered (adj:53)
hound (C) to ride to …s || to follow the …s (1110) sb. is a lazy … (1120)
hound (vt) … sb. to death (1026) sth. … sb. out of / from their home (1040) the press … sb. (1056)
to … one’s dog at / on sb. (1136)
hour (C) to do sth. for …s (4) an …’s practice (47) at the … agreed on (66) the … of parting (69)
the witching … (71) sb’s lunch … (78) in the `small / early …s (227) working …s (pl.) (260)
in the … of need || (long) …s of sth. (505) at certain …s (586)
to do sth. out of …s || (after / before) `opening …s (E) (883) outside class …s (1162)
house (vi) a building … sb. (409)
house (C) sb’s … (6) a gambling … (8) a publishing … (26)
to play to full / packed …s // to a full / packed … (63 // 1069) breakfast peculiar to the … (77)
the H… of Commons / Lords (189, 803) to be head of the … (237) the H… of Representatives (804)
houseboat (C:658)
`house-broken A/E -trained (adj.) a … dog (187)
housecarl (C:144)
household (C) to be in the charge of the … (143) the … troops (144) to be head of the … (237)
household (adj.) a … chore (75) … appliance (297)
… goods (874)
housekeeper (C:4)
`house-trained E/A -broken (adj.) a … dog (187)
`house-warming (C:881) housework (U:75)
housewrecker (C:1122)
housing (U,C) a … estate (135) to develope … (561) a … market (784)
hovel (C:16)
hover (vi+adv.) sb. … in the background (844) a helicopter … over sth. ||
inflation / the pound … around / between sth. (849) mosquito(e)s … over sth. (857)
a bird … over sth. (865) sb. … about / around (sbth.) (881)
sb. … between (doing) sth. and (doing) sth. (fig.) (882) … between life and death (892)
how (26) however (2)
howl (C:17) … of laughter / derision (37)
howl (vi&t) wind / baby … (17) … one’s displeasure (37) howler (41)
Hu
huddle (vi&t) sb. … together ( for warmth * ) (230, 245*)
hub (C) be the … of the family (fig.) (868)
hubris = hybris
hue [ hju~] (C) a reddish … (863) to raise a … and `cry || political …s (889)
hug (vi&t) sb&sb. … || sb. … sb. (285)
huge (adj:5)
hulk (person:581:ship:666)
hulking (adj:581)
hull (C) a … ( of a ship ) (662)
hum (vi&t) … softly to oneself || … a cheerful tune (433)
human [ `hju~mên ] (C:138)
human (adj.) … nature / beings // rights (42 / 43 // 45, 202) a … life (68) … error (1149)
… dignity / values / welfare (1162) the … race || to be … (1163)
… condition / understanding etc. || to do sth. with a … face || sb. is the … face of sth. ||
sth. with a … face (1164)
to have a / the … touch || to be lacking in the … touch (1165)
it’s only … to do sth. || sth. puts a … face on sth. || sth. gives sth. a … face (1168)
the … eye (1170)
… remains || a … shield / drama || a … interest story || sb. is only … || a … failing / weakness ||
sth. with a … face || … consumption (1223)
… flesh (1252)
humane [ hju~`mein ] (adj.) a … person (61) … principles (1162) to be … (1163)
a … environment (1164)
`humanism (U:930,1162)
humanist (C:819) the H…s (1162)
huma`nistic (adj.) a … point of view (819)
humanitarian (C:1163)
humanitarian (adj.) for … reasons / purposes || on … grounds || … aid assistance / relief (1163)
humanitarianism (U:1163)
humanity [ hju~`manêti ] (U,pl.) a sense / act of … (183 / 1086) the …ies (1162+)
to treat sb. with … (1164)
humanize [ hju~mênaiz ] (vt) … a society / sb. (1162 / -64) sb. … (1164)
humankind (U:1163)
humanly (adv.) … possible (908) … speaking || it’s … certain (that) - (1164)
humanness (U:1164)
humble (adj.) a … person (56) to eat … `pie (59) in sb’s … opinion (259) the …r classes (355)
humidity (U:50)
humiliating (adj:125)
humiliation (U,C) a train of …s || to have known … (282)
humour (U,C) a sense of … (28) wry … (39) dark / black … (427) the four cardinal …s (1239)
blood / phlegm / melancholy / choler is sb’s predominating / predominant … (1240, -41, -42, -44)
to be in a good … || to be in the best of …s || sb’s good … (1240)
in a relaxed / phlegmatic … (1241)
to be in a melancholy / melancholic … (1242)
in a dispirited / downcast / dejected / despomdent / depressed / pessimistic / sad / sombre / doleful / gloomy /
glum / mournful / sorrowful … (1243)
to be in a bad / foul / filthy … (1244)
to be in the … for sth. || to be in no … to do sth. || when the … takes sb. || a story full of … ||
gentle / crazy / dry / deadpan / schoolboy … (1247)
the …s of the occation || a flash / trace / touch of … (1248)
to be in an ill … || to suffer from ill … (1249) sick … (1277)
humour (vt) … sb. / sb’s whims (1246)
humourist (C:1247)
humourless (adj.) a … person (1240)
humorous (adj.) a … signpost to sth. (125) darkly … (599)
… eyes || a … summary || a mildly / crazily / wryly … moment (1240)
a … book / drawing (1246) … person / remark (1247)
humorously (adv.) to ask … (271) … described (1240)
hump (vi&t) … sth. (778) … (sb.) (788) hump (C:751) humpback (C:person / part of body:747+)
humpbacked (adj:747)
Hun (N) a … (927)
hunch (v:299)
hunchback (C:person / part of body:747+) hunchbacked (adj:747)
hundred (num:8) the H… Years’ War (359)
Hungarian (652)
hunger (17) a ravenous … (580)
to feel faint with // suffer from … || to satisfy one’s … || to be dying of … || to die of / from … (627)
(satisfy sb’s) … for sth. (fig:625) … strike (vi:802)
hungrily (591) kiss … (641)
hung-`over (adj.) be … (645)
hungry (adj.) to be … (259) … for attention (336) power-… (371) go … (627) … work (581)
be / feel / get ( *ravenously) … (591,* 864) a … look in sb. (627) the … (628) slightly … (954)
hunt (C) a witch … (111) sb’s … for food (144) to be in the … for a first place / a title (304)
hunt (vi&t) … ( an animal * ) (157, 199* ) … () down sb. (675)
hunter (C) a …-gatherer (144)
hunting (U:170) a … party / dog (199)
hurdle (C) ( to run ) a / the (110 / 400 m) …s (pl.) || tu jump ( over ) a … (634)
the next … is doing sth. (636)
hurl (vt) … sth.+ adv. (39) … oneself into sb’s arms (462) … a term of abuse at sb. (1025)
… oneself at / against sb. (1133) … a curse (1142)
hurricane (force 12) (C:627,661)
hurry (v) … (`out) to do sth. (249,610) those who … up || those …ing up (1077)
hurry (C) to be in a (* too great ) … (129,* 252) in a … to do sth. (509)
hurt (vi&t) … sb, || sth. … (39) … sb’s feelings (591) tax … sb. most (1040)
hurt (adj. norm. pred.) to be … (fig.) (36) more frightened than … (321)
to be badly / seriously … (1138)
husband (C:75) husbandry (U:144)
hustler (A) (C prostitute:611)
hut (C) a mud … (1303)
Hy
hybris (U:1154)
`hydro`carbon (570)
`hydro`chloric ``acid (570)
hydrogen (H) [ `haidrêd§ên ] (U:567)
hy`drolisis (571)
hydrophobia (U:1276)
hy`droxide (U) sodium … (570) hy`droxyl (U) … ion (569)
hygiene [ `haid§i~n ] (U:159) … precautions (1255)
hyper`sensitive (adj.) … to criticism (978)
hypha (pl:hyphae) (C:649)
hypnosis [ hip`nêusis ] (U) under … (114) hypnotic [ hip`nåtik ] (adj:115) hypnotist [ `hipnêtist ] (115)
hypnotize [ `hipnêtaiz ] (vt:114) hypocentre (647)
hypocrasy [ hi`påkrêsi ] (U,C:185) hypocrite [ `hipêkrit ] (C:185)
hypocritical [ hipê`kritikl ] (adj:185) hypocritically [ hipê`kritikli ] (adv:185)
Hz (hertz) [ hê~ts ] (620)
Ii
Ic
ice (U,C) … prevents sth. (225) top break the … (fig.) (449) an … cap (647)
Iceland (N:224)
icing (U) … sugar (68)
icon (ikon) (IT:334, church:743)
icy (adj:225)
Id
id [ id ] (U) conflicting demands of the … (1199)
idea [ ai`diê ] (C:2) to punch holes in sb’s … (17) an / the … that - (211) an … of (doing) sth. (243)
to a(n) ( vague ) … that - (250) to have a definite … on sth. (289) at the very …of (doing) sth. (290)
ideal [ ai`diêl ] (adj.) … for (doing) sth. (31) … qualifications (152)
ideal (C) a political … (146) the … of a Christian civilization (162)
idealism (U:359)
idealist (C:113)
idea`listic (adj:113) i`deally (adv:62)
identical (adj:363)
identify (v) … oneself with a part (52) … sth. with sth. (161) … sb. as sb. (709)
identification (U) sb’s … with sb. (154)
identity (C,U) loss of … || … crisis (114) mistaken … (687) to ascertain / establish sb’s … (1115)
ideology [ aidi`ålêd§i ] (C,U) anarchism is an … (146)
idle (vi&t) sb. … ( around / the day(s) away ) (11) a car / motor … (31)
idle (adj.) an … person (11) to be thrown … (16) … chatter (35) an … threat (53) to lie … (616)
an … name (1209)
idleness (U:69) idler (C:11) idly (adv:321)
idol [ `aidl ] (C) sb’s … (115) to worship an … (223) to exalt one’s … (190) to make an … of sb. (289)
a football … || to be the … of sb. || a fallen … (303) a pop / teen … (338)
idolater (C:224)
idolatrous [ ai`dålêtrês ] (adj:223)
idolatry [ ai`dålêtri ] (U:223) sth. borders on … (289)
idolize [ `aidêlaiz ] (vt:223,338) … sb. (289)
idyll [ `idil E/A `aidl ] (sg:587) idyllic (adj:217)
If
if (conj:1) to do sth. as … sb. / sth. (31)
Ig
ignite [ ig`nait ] (vi&t) sth. … sth. (430)
ignition (C,U) to drown the … (?) (331) an … key || to turn the … on (1060)
ig`noble (adj.) an … person || … manners (186)
ignominious [ ignê`mininiês ] (adj.) an … defeat (38) ignominiously (adv:39)
`ignominy (U) suffer the … of sth. (29) sth. ends in … (39)
ignorant (adj.) … of sth. (42) … people (847)
ignorance (U) blissful … (56) … of hygiene (159) to display (an abyss of ) … || (sb’s) abysmal … (846)
ignore (vt) … sb. / a warning (8) … sb. (134) … the fact that - (244)
Ik
ikon (icon) (IT:334, church:743)
Il
ilk (norm. sg.) sb. of their … // xxx people and their … || others of that … (1090+)
ill (U,pl.) sb. does … ( to sb.) (1245) to bring … unto sb. || …s of life (1255)
ill (adj.) to be … (56) to take sth. in … part (58) an … omen (72) sth. augurs … `luck (73)
… advice || an … fortune (76) to be taken … (eE) || to become / fall / get ( acutely ) … (eE) (418)
as … luck would have it || by … fortune (542) to cause … `feeling (914)
to feel … will towards sb. (1095) sb. of … repute (1239) a house of … fame / repute (1245)
an … reputation || an … example of sth. || … breding (1246)
to bear sb. no … feeling || it’s an … wind that blows nobody any good (1248)
to be in an … humour / temper || of … fame || to suffer from … health / humour ||
an … example of sth. (1249)
… weeds grow apace (1249) to do sb. an … turn ( 1252)
to do sth. by … luck || to be … with ( a disease ) (1253)
to be … in bed (1254)
to be taken … || to be … with anxiety || … news || to be in … health ||
to be seriously / gravely / critically … (1255)
to be … off (1256)
ill (adv.) to be … paid || sb. can … afford to do sth. (1245) to be … reputed for sth. (1246)
a remark comes … from sb. || it … becomes sb. to do sth. || to speak … of sb. (1248)
to take it … || sth. does … (1249) it goes … with sb. (1255)
to be … provided with sth. || sb. fares … (1256)
ill-affected (adj.) an … person || to be … toeards sb. || an … remark (1249)
ill-advised (adj.) … manners / an … remark (132 / 141) … tomfoolery (1252)
to take … proceedings / steps (1253)
ill-assorted [ il ê`så~tid ] (adj.) an … couple (1245)
ill-being (U) sb’s … (1252)
ill-boding (adj.) an … sign (1249)
ill-being (U) to feel … (944)
ill-bred (adj.) an … child (1246)
ill-breeding (U) sb’s … (1241)
ill-chosen (adj:5)
ill-con`cealed (adj.) … envy (132)
ill-concieved (adj.) an … idea (1252)
ill-conditioned (adj.) an … remark (1249)
ill-conducted (adj.) an … campaign (1256)
ill-considered adj.) an … remark (1244) an … plan (1253)
ill-defined (adj.) an … role (1246)
ill-designed (adj.) an … idea (1242)
ill-disposed (adj.) an … person || to be … to sb. / to do sth. || an … remark (1249)
illegal [ i`li~gêl ] (adj.) an … drug || it is … to do sth. (6)
illegality [ illi`galêti ] (U,C:1224+)
illegible [ i`led§ibêl ] (adj:102)
illegitimate [ i`lê`d§itêmêt ] (adj.) an … king (378)
ill-equipped (adj:1246)
ill-fated (adj.) an … marriage / steak (1245 / -52)
ill-favoured (adj.) an … person (1246)
ill-fitting (adj.) … clothes (1246)
ill-founded (adj.) an … accusation (1249)
ill-gotten (adj.) … gains (1245)
ill-humoured (adj.) an … person (1249)
ill-informed (adj.) to be … about sth. (1254)
illiteracy (U:27)
illiterate (adj.& C:27)
ill-judged (adj.) an … remark (1244)
ill-looking (adj.) an … person (1249)
ill-mannered (adj.) … person (132)
ill-matched (adj.) an … contest (1277)
ill-natured (adj.) an … person / remark (1249)
illness (U,C) absent owing to … (56) to have a feeling of … (944) to suffer from an … (1251)
to bring … unto sb. (1255) cronic / lifelong … (1256)
to battle with / against an … ||
to win the battle against / get the better of / overcome / surmount an … (1262)
ill-omened (adj.) an … chance (115) an … tomfoolery (1252)
ill-pre`pared (adj.) … to do sth. (222) an … plan (1250)
ill-sorted (adj.) an … couple (1245)
ill-spent (adj.) … money / time (1244+)
ill-starred (adj.) an … person / marriage (1245)
ill-tempered (adj.) an … person (1244)
ill-success (U) … of a marriage (1245)
ill-timed (adj.) an … remark (1244)
ill-treat [ il`tri~t ] (vt) … sb. (340)
ill-treated (adj.) an … person (1245)
ill-treatment (U) to be submitted to … || … of sb. (1245)
illuminate [ i`lu~mineit ] (vt) … a manuscript (219) illumination (U,C:563)
illuminated (adj.) an … Gospel (221)
ill-usage (U) to be submitted to … || … of sb. (1245)
ill-use (vt) … sb. (1245)
ill-use (U) to be submitted to … || … of sb. (1245)
ill-used (adj.) an … person (1245)
illusion (C,U) sth. is an … (86) … or reality (89) sth. gives an … of sth. … || be under the … that - (89)
a world of … (978)
illusive [ i`lu~siv ] (adj.) an … sense of sth. (89)
illusory [ i`lu~sêri ] (adj.) an … sense of sth. (89)
illustrate (vt) … one’s point (817)
ill-willed (adj.) an … person (1098)
ill-wisher (C:1249)
Im
`image (C,U) a signal in the form of an … (74) an … ( ~ mental picture ) (of sth.) (147)
sb. stands outside the … of sth. (171) an ex`press … of sb. (1049)
imagery [ `imid§êri ] (U:366)
imagination (C,U) sb’s rambling … (10)
imaginative [ i`mad§inêtiv ] (adj.) an … person (555) an … vision (868) an … story (952)
imagine (vt) … (that) - (54 )
imam [ i`ma~m ] (C:734)
imbalance [ im`balêns ] (C,U) to put right / rectify / redress an / some … (412) social …(s) (469)
imbecile [ `imbesi~l ] (adj:365)
imitation (C,U) do an … of sb. (1045) `imitator (C) a Chaplin … (1045)
immaterial (adj.) it’s … (to sb.) (63)
immanent (adj:468)
immediacy (U,C) the … of sb’s need || the …ies of life (60)
immediate (adj.) the … future (54) an … superior (56) … understanding (60)
in … danger (of sth.) (61+) in the … situation (62) … family (67)
immediately (adv:56 / conj:67)
immemorial (adj.) from / since time … (1232)
immense (adj.) … importance (220) immensely (adv:361)
immigrant (C:557) immigration (U:559)
imminence (U:505)
imminent (adj:61+) … threat || in … danger of sth. || sth. is … (61)
im`mobile (adj:650)
immoral [ i`mårêl ] (adj.) sth. is … (818)
immortality (U) … of the soul (902)
immovable (adj:539)
immune (adj.) an … system (205) to be … to swindle (917) to be … to a disease (1253)
immunity (U) to be granted … from interference ( 148) to lift sb’s parliamentary … (828)
to have little … to a disease (1255)
immunization (U,C) … coverage against sth. (1270)
immunize (vt) … sb. against a disease (1270)
imp (C:462,1238)
`impact (C,U) … of sth. on sbth. (733) to explode on … (1088) a bomb … || an … of a blow (1088)
sb. makes little … in politics (1171)
impair (vt) … one’s reason / ability (1073)
impaired (adj.) to be hearing / vision / speech … (127 / 939 / 1271)
-impaired (adj.) … people || the hearing-… (pl.) (127)
impatience (U:27)
impatient (adj.) an … person (65) an … temperament / temper (1244)
impatiently (adv:580)
impeccable (adj.) … manners (967)
impecunious (adj.) an … family (1233)
impede (v:628)
im`pediment (C) sth. is an … to sth. (467) a speech … (914)
impel (vt) sth. … sb. to do sth. (21) greed … an oscillation (1007)
impending (adj.) … threat / danger (506 / 623)
impenetrable (adj:169)
imperative [ im`perêtiv ] (C) an … || in the … (1221)
imperative (norm. pred. adj.) sth. becomes … (56) the … mood (969)
imperceptibly (adv:833)
imperial (adj.) the … capital (217) the … guard (224) an … crown (420)
impersonation (C,U) do an … of sb. (1045)
im`personator (C) a Chaplin … (1045)
impetuous (adj.) an … person (1004)
impiety [ im`paiêti ] (U:241)
impious (adj.) an … act || … speech (242)
impiously (242) impiousness (U:242)
impish (adj.) an … grin / person (1238) an … remark || an … look in sb’s eyes (1249)
impishly (adv:1238)
implant (vi&t) …sth. in sb. (775)
`implement (vt) … a plan (91)
implement (C:1313)
implementation (U) … of a plan (1161)
implication (C,U) the …s of sth. (135)
implicit [ im`plisit ] (adj.) … faith / obedience / belief (81,90) … in sth. (170)
implied (adj.) an … disbelief (1225)
implore (vi&t & speech) … sb. (231) … sb. to do sth. (232)
imply (vt) democracy … liberties (7) knighthood … obligations (152) a treaty … a guarantee (1091)
a word / sentence … sth. (1223) sth. / sb. … (that) - (1224+) it is …ied that - || sth. … sth. to sb. (1225)
impolite (adj:389)
import [ im`på~t ] (vt) … sth. (215)
import [ `impå~t ] (U,C) to be dependent on … (514) (an) … duty (776)
importance (U) the … of sth. (125) sth. of utmost / great … (163 / 197) sb. of … (179) self-… (843)
important (adj.) to play a most … part (53) … people (64) sth. is more … than - (147) self-… (843)
importunate [ im`på~t$ênêt ] (adj:35,615)
importune [ impå~`tju~n ] (vt) … sb. (for sth.) / (to do sth.) (615)
impose (vi&t) … feudalism (149) … a language on sb. (215) a law … a penalty for sth. (340)
… news-blackout (up)on sth. (669)
imposed (adj:347)
imposition (U,C) … of feudalism (344)
impossibility (62) a sheer / virtual … (960)
impossible (adj.) sth. is … (* to do) (24,* 910) an … task (256) an … story / person (919)
sth. is absolutely / utterly … (947) be placed in an … situation (920)
find it … to do sth. || sth. makes sth. … || sth. proves … (951)
difficult if not … || practically / virtually … (960) sth. is an … dream (977) it’s … for sb. to do sth. (981)
impossible (U) attempt / do / ask the … (947)
impossibly (adv.) sth. can … be true (907) sb. would … do sth. (919) … bad (959) … difficult (970)
… beautiful (984)
imposter (C:86)
`impotence (U:10) `impotent (adj:10)
impoverish (144)
impracticability, impracticable (28)
impractical (28) … (for sb.) (to do sth.) (41) impracticality (28)
impregnable (adj:511)
im`press (vi&t) it … sb. that - (1042) … a mark / a print on / in sth. || sbth. … ( sb.) (deeply) (1045)
… sb. with sth. (fig.) || … () on sb. sth. || … sb. favourably (1046)
sth. … itself / sth. on sb’s brain / mind / memory || … sb. as (being) sth. || … on sb. that - (1047)
`impress (C) to bear the … of (doing) sth. || sbth. leaves an … on sb. (1047)
sth. bears the … of truth / sense (1049)
impressed (adj.) be … by / with sth. (45, 1045) be … that - (1042)
impressibility (U:1066)
impressible (adj.) an … state of mind (1066) impressibleness (U:1066)
impression (C,U) labour / * be under the… that - (95 / * &1044) to give the … of being sth. (592)
a sense … (936) an auditory / a visual … (942) get / have { the / * no … that - (1044,*+)
an … of sth. on / in sth. || to do an … / a great … of sb. ||
to make an … / a strong / big … (on sb.) (1045)
to create / convey / give { an / the … of (doing) sth. || sb’s first / initial … ||
to make a favourable / good / bad … (on sb.) || to get / have a favourable / good / bad … of sb. ||
create / convey / give / make is a misleading / false / wrong … of sbth. / on sb. ||
to have / get a misleading etc. … of sth. (1046)
sth. leaves an indelible … on sb. || sb. has a lasting … of sbth. || the / sb’s general / overall … (1047)
it’s sb’s ( * distinct / definite)… that - (1049, * -71) to receive a lot of …s (1063)
sth. leaves an indelible … on sb. (1069)
an … of an edition || a first etc. … of a first etc. edition || an … of x (1075)
impressionable (adj.) an … age / youngster (1045) be … || an … state of mind (1046)
impressionableness (U:1066)
impresssionability (1046)
impressionisme (U:871)
impressive (adj.) a bleakly … garden (128) an … scene / word (1045+)
impressively (adv.) … large (1062)
impressiveness (U:168)
imprint [ im`print ] (vt) … a mark on / in sth. (1045) sth. … sth. on sb’s brain / mind / memory (1047)
sth. is indelibly …ed on sb’s mind (1069)
imprint [ `imprint ] (C) an … of sth. on / in sth. (1045) an … of suffering on sb’s face (1047)
a publisher’s / printer’s … (1055)
imprison [ im`prizn ] (vt) … sb. (352)
imprisonment (U) sth. leads to … (194) life … (307) a term of … (608) false … (1286)
improbability (U,C) the … of (doing) sth. (177) 188)
improbable (adj:177) it is … that - || an … story / plot / character || in an … state of mind (177)
improbably (adv.) … happy end (177)
improper (adj.) … conversion of sth. (16) … bias (205) … behaviour (208) an … relationship (244)
… clothes (263) it would be … ( of sb.) to do sth. (270) … remarks / language (276)
… use of fuel (319) it is … ( of sb. ) to do sth. (965)
improperly (adv.) to dress … (263)
improve (vi&t) … on acquaintance (44) … one’s credibility (77) sb. … (141) … a castle (169)
… returns (253)
improved (adj.) … productivity (169)
improvement (U,C) to hope of … (73) a slight … (143)
improvidence (U:43)
improvident (adj:42)
improvised (adj:395)
imprudence [ im`pru~dêns ] (U:7)
imprudent [ im`pru~dênt ] (adj.) an … person / promise (7)
imprudently (adv:7)
impudence [ `impjêdêns ] (U:7) the … of sth. || to have the … to do sth. (185)
impudent [ `impjêdênt ] (adj.) an … person (7,185)
impudently (adv:7,185)
`impulse (54) … buy, <ing (96) im`pulsive (53)
In
in (prep.) founded … x (1) to let sb. … on a secret / a plan (95 / 532) … return (335)
to be … for sth. (461) to get / be … on a secret / a conspiracy (548)
in (adv.) to throw in sth. (8)
inability (U, sg.) sb’s ( congenital * ) … to do sth. (102,908*)
inaccessible (adj.) an … position (379)
inadequate (adj.) … coverage (1270)
inadequately (adv:313)
inadmissible (adj:115)
inadvisable (adj.) sth. is (an) … ( disposition ) || sb. is (an) … ( person ) ||
it would be … ( to do sth.) (136)
inadvisably (adv.) to act … (137)
inanimate [ in`animêt(adj.) an … object (825)
inappropriate [ inê`prêupriêt ] (adj.) … behaviour (208) it would be … ( for sb.) to do sth. (270)
it’s … ( for sb.) to do sth. (965)
inattentive (adj:229)
inaugural [ i`n~gjêrêl ] (adj.) an … a’ddress / speech / journey (810)
inaugural (A) (C:810)
inaugurate [ i`nå~gjêreit ] (vt) … sb. as sth. || an event … a new area / an event || … sth. (810)
inauguration (C,U) … of sth. (810)
inau`spicious (adj:73)
inavitable (adj:233)
inborn [ in`bå~n ] (adj.) an … character (184) an … sympathy / antipathy (1172)
inbred [ in`bred ] (adj.) an … character (184)
incalculable (adj.) an … risk (704) … consequences (1104)
Inc. / incorporated (adj:565)
incapable (ad.) … of doing sth. (546)
`incarnate (vt) be …d (in sth.) (83) sb. … st. (98)
in`carnate (adj.) sb. / sth. … (83,113)
incar`nation (C:82)
inceasing (adj:387) inceasingly (adv:386)
incentive (U,C) tax …s for sth. (296)
inception (sg:891)
incessant (adj.) … wheedling (88) incessantly (adv:287)
inch (C:33) a square … (1062)
incident (C:314)
incineration (U:664)
incipient (adj.) … sexuality (542) … unions (1184)
incision (C:459)
in`cisive (adj:264)
inclination (U,C) to follow one’s own …s (2)
to have an … for / to(wards) sth. || to have an … to do sth. || to be sth. by … || to show … to do sth. ||
to have no … to do sth. || not show the sligtest … to do sth. (824)
one’s natural … || there is an … to do sth. (825) ( to do sth. with ) an … of the head (837)
criminal …s (844) a gentle / steep …. (1117) sb’s sexual … (1281)
incline (C) a steep / gentle … slopes down to sth. (1117)
incline (vi&t) sb. … to the opinion / to he view that - (815) sb. … to do sth. (829)
sth. … sb. to(wards) / to do sth. (832) … one’s head (838) sth. …. ( steeply ) ( towards sth.) (864)
… sth. at an angle of x o || sth. … at an angle of x o (865)
inclined (pred.adj.) be / * feel … to do sth. (52,817 / * 824)
to be spiritually / intellectually / * naturally … (824, * 844)
inclose (v) … sth. in sth. (648)
include (vt) a religion … sth. (71)
including (prep.) … sth. (23)
income (C,U) sb’s … (60) people on low …s (123) a source of … (137)
incompetence (U:144)
incompetent (adj.) an … tyranny (352) incompetently (adv:351)
incomprehensible (adj:537)
inconceivable (adj:822) it’s … that - (821)
inconclusive (adj.) a dispute remains … (148) … findings / results / evidence (1150)
inconsiderate (adj.) to be … towards sb. || it is … (of sb.) to do sth. (956) an … person / remark (1164)
inconsiderateness (U:1164)
inconspicious (520)
inconvenience (563)
in`corporate (vt) … sth. in sth. (355) … a society (1026)
incorporated (adj:565)
incorporation (U) … of sth. into the mind (1199)
incorrect (adj.) it would be … to say that - (170)
incorrigble (adj.) an … flirt (27)
incorruptible (adj:604)
increase [ `inkri~se ] (C,U) … in communication (149) a marked … in the number of sth. (162)
to be on the … (1052)
increase [ in`kri~se ] (vi&t) … one’s power (148) … the number of sth. (154)
increased (adj.) … productivity (160) by … efforts (849)
increasing (adj.) an … number of sth. (127) increasingly (adv:150)
incredible (adj.) … beauty / explanation (77/ 85) (it’s) … that - (85,98) incredibly (76,118)
incre`dulity (88) in`credulous (85) increment (C:779)
incremantal (adj.) … costs (781)
in`criminate (398) incriminating (adj:398) incrimination (398)
incubation (U,C) the … ( period ) (1253)
incumbent (adj.) sth. is … (up)on sb. || it is … (up)on sb. to do sth. (749)
an … Prime Minister / president (309 / 804)
incumbent (C) the ( present ) … ( of sth.* ) (309 / 804* )
incur (vt) sb. … a cost (152) … sb’s displeasure / disapproval (257) … a loss (291) … sb’s wrath (282)
… a fine (338)
incurable (adj.) an … optimist (1240) an … disease (1255)
incurably (adv.) … optimistic (1247) to be … ill (1255)
incursion (C) … into an area (342) to make an … into sb’s affairs (399) indecent (179)
indebted [ in`detid ] (adj.) to be ( deeply ) … ( to sb.) ( for sth.) (111) a ( heavily ) … town (112)
inde`cisive (adj.) … person (243) an … battle (511)
inde`cision / inde`cisiveness (U:241++)
indeed (adv:76)
indefatigable (123)
indefensible (adj.) sth. is morally … (196) … defence work (204)
an … argument / mistake || to defend the … (212)
indefinable (adj.) to have that … something (267)
indefinably (adv.) sth. changes … (269)
indefinite [ in`definêt ] (333) an … expedition / strike (236 / 333) for the … future (248)
an … date || for an … time / period (of time) (308) an … number of sth. (313)
… terminology / science (339) the … article / form (1218)
indefinitely (adv.) to postpone sth. … (245)
indelible (adj.) sth. leaves an … impression on sb. (1069) an … pen (1080)
indlelibly (adv.) sth. is … imprinted on sb’s mind (1069)
indemnificaton (295)
indemnify (293)
indemnity (U,C) to take out a policy to secure … on / against sth. (294+) to pay … to sb. (295)
to pay war … (669)
independence (22) independency (23)
independent (adj:21)
independent (C) sit as an … (840) independently (101)
in-`depth (adj.) (an) … discussion / knowledge (908 / 963)
index (C) an … card || a card … (875)
Indian (C) American / Red … (558)
Indic (C:1217)
indicate (vt,E&i ) sb. … sth. (105+) sth. … (that) - (124) a price … a loss (292) all news … sth. (508)
indication (C,U) an … of sth. (76) a clear … that - (92) a sure … of sth. (286)
there is every … that - || (all) …s are that - (495)
indicative (C) the … ( mood ) (969)
indicator (C) an … ( on a car ) (E) (324)
indifference (U) in spite of gross … (1032) … to sth. (1251)
indifferent (adj.) to be … to sbth. (27)
indigenous [ in`did§ênês ] (adj.) a species … to an area (316) … people (675)
indignant [ in`dignênt ] (adj.) an … protest (493) … that - / at / about / over / with sbth. (546)
an … expression / look (547)
indignation (U) … at / about / over sth. || … that - (272) in / with … (272, 545)
to curb / restrain one’s … (276) a chorus / storm of … (493) … meeting (493)
full of ( righteous ) … (544) ( much ) ( to sb’s ) … (546)
indignity (U,C:545) subject sb. to …, to have / suffer the … of (doing) sth. (545)
the final / ultimate / crowning … (545)
indignities (pl.) sub`ject sb. to … (545)
indirect [ indi`rekt ] (adj.) an … tax (154) … `object (847) indirectly (adv:1099)
indiscreete [ indi`skri~t ] (adj.) an … person (58) indiscreetely (adv:59)
indiscretion [ indis`kre$ên ] (C,U) an … about sth. (58)
in a moment of … || a sexsual / an unforgivable … (974+) a youthful … (979)
indiscriminate (adj.) … use of sth. (625)
indispensable (adj.) an … condition (146)
indisposed (norm. pred. adj:766) indisputable (adj.) … knowledge (913)
individual (C:146) a private … (560)
individualist(ic) (adj.) … thought (1163)
individually (adv:93)
Indo-European (adj:652)
Indo-European (C:1217)
indomitable (adj.) a person of … quality (1208)
indoors (adv.) to stay … (951)
induce (vt) … sb. to do sth. (212)
indulge (vi&t) … in irony / adultery / sentimentalism (53 / 378 / 425) … sb’s every whim (88)
… in food / women etc. || … sb. / oneself (with sth.) || … one’s passion / taste for sth.(1041)
indulgence (U,C) lead a life of … (368) sale of …s (931) … in sth. || to beg sb. … ||
to show … to sb. || to have the … of doing sth. || self- … (1041)
indulgent (adj.) an … person || self-… (358)
industrial (adj.) … estate (142) the … revolution (182) an … accident (329)
an … dispute / E conflict (791) … arts || … `shop (class) (A) (899)
industrially (adv:577)
industry (U,C of person:577) to develope … (561) light / heavy … (565) the two sides of … (791)
trade and …ies (1134)
ineptness [ i`neptnês ](U:925)
inequality [ ini`kwålêti ] (C,U) … between / in / of sth. (21) sexual / gender … (549)
inert [ i`nê~t ] (adj.) an … gas (568)
inescapable /<bly (238)
inevitability (U) the … of reform (879)
inevitable [ in`evitêbl ] (adj.) to be ….(89) … jealousies (220) an … con`comitant (313)
inevitably (adv:89) inexperience (378)
inexpressible (adj.) sth. is … (in words) (1051) … misery (1052)
inextricably (461)
infallibility (U) papal … (928)
`infamous (adj:492)
infamy (U,C:492)
infancy (U) cinema was in its … (50)
infant (adj.) an … king (365) an … industry (1193)
infant (C) an … in arms (461) the I… Jesus (743)
infantry (C+ sg./ pl.:330)
`infantryman (C:668)
infect (vt) sth. … body tissue (649) to be … with heresy (688) … sb. with enthusiasm (755)
a contagious laughter … sb. (1252) sth. … a person with an infection (1254)
… sb’s mind (1255) … water / a wound (1256)
infected (adj.) an … swelling (723) … meat / water (1253+) … with bacteria (766) an … person (1255)
a wound gets … (1256)
infection (U,C) a defence against …(s) (205) bacterial / virus / viral … || an … in sth. (766)
a treatable … (773) (an) … of a disease || by … || to communicate an … || to be exposed to … (1254)
to be susceptible to the … of propaganda || an acute … of the intestines (1256)
infectious (adj.) an … disease (745) an … laughter / enthusiasm (1247) an … person (1253)
… matter (1254)
infer [ in`fê~] (vt) sb. … sth. from sth. || … that - (924) sb. … sth. (1197) sb. … from sth. that - (1224)
`inference (U:934 &C) to draw / make an … about / from sth. (934) by … (1197) a valid … (1214)
the clear … is that - (1224)
inferential (adj.) an … conclusion (1197)
inferior (adj.) an … brand (7) to feel … (to sb.) (132) an … vassal (147)
… forces || to be (greatly) … (to a group) in number / in efficency (1090)
inferior (C:132)
inferi`ority (U) to have a feeling / sense of ( moral / social ) … (132+)
to have a … feeling / complex (792)
infernal [ in`fê~nl ] (adj.) an … noise (1113)
`infidel (C:155) infidelity (C,U:378)
infiltrate (vi&t:168)
infiltration (U:214)
`infinitely (adv:350,371)
infinitive (C:1222)
infinity (U:94)
inflamed (adj.) an … gland / node (1257)
inflatable (adj.) an … dummy (619)
inflation (U:415)
inflect (vi) a word  … ( * in definition / number / case / person ) (188, 1217+)
inflection (C,U:363)
inflectional (adj.) an … word / ending (1219)
inflexible (adj.) … views (825)
inflict (vt) … a defeat on sb. (39) … sth. ( (up)on sb. / sth.) (510)
inflicted (adj.) an … abnormality (1091)
influenca (the flu) (U:518)
influence (U,C) sb’s … (89) the … of sth. remains on sth. (149) religious … (227)
under the ( genial ) … of drink (961)
to bring … to bear on sb. to do sth. (1065) to have … over sb. || to be a bad … on sb. (1246)
to exert one’s … with sb. || to use one’s … over sb. (1247)
sb. has … || to be sb. of … || the … of sb. on sb. || sth is an … on sb’s character ||
to have a civilizing … (up)on sb. || sb. is an … ( among spl.) ||
to use / excercise one’s … ( with sb.* ) ( to do sth.) (1259,-60* ) to use undue … over sb. (1260)
sth. has a painful … (up)on sb’s stomach (1260)
influence (vt) sth. / sb. is heavily ….d by sth. (150 / 469) sb. … sth. (151)
sth. … sb’s decision / outlook (469) sth. … hvxx (475) … sb. to do sth. (476,1259) … sb’s mind (1255)
influent (adj.) an … river (1260)
influent (C:1260)
influential (adj.) to be an … person ( in sth.) || to be … in ( doing ) sth. (160, 197)
… circles || to be … with sb. (1247)
inform (vt) … sb. about sth. (208) … sb. that - (426) … on sb. (488)
informant (C:489,914)
information (U) to give useful … (74) to charm … out of sb. (81) … about / on sth. (205)
further … (295)
informative (adj.) an … sign / signal (74) an … programme (1271)
informed (adj.) an … choice (2) to keep oneself … (386)
informer (C:489,914)
infrared [ infrê`red ] (adj.) … light (941)
infringe (vi&t) sth. … civil liberties. / (up)on the right to privacy (626)
infringement (U,C) … of ( constitutional ) rights (625)
infuriate [ in`fjuêrieit ] (vt) sbth. … sb. (354,914) it … sb. that - / to do sth. (914)
infuriating (adj.) an … person || it is … || it is an … that - (914)
infuriatingly (adv:914)
ingenuous [ in`d§enjuês ] (adj:378,399,415)
ingenious [ in`d§i~niês ] (adj:388,399)
ingenuity [ ind§e`nju~êti ] (U:387)
ingest (vt) … food / drink (938) ingestion (U:938) insufficient … of sth. (1262)
ingrained { in`greind ] (adj.) … sloth (11)
ingratiate (vt) … oneself with sb. (1144)
ingrating (adj.) in a ..way (1280)
ingratitude (U) … is the way of the world (579)
inhabit (vt) to … a place (162)
inhabitant (C:16)
inhabited (adj:647)
inhalation (U:888) smoke … (896)
inhale (vi&t) … (air) (888) … (deeply) (on a cigarette) (893)
inherent [ in`hierênt ] (adj.) an … quality of sb. || to have an … love of / for sth. || an … tradition ||
social feelings are … in life || entertainment is … in court life (1098)
death an … conclusion of life || mass is an … quality of matter || death is … in life (1102)
inherently (adv.) it’s … impossible (1102)
inherit [ in`herit ] (vi&t) … ( property / a quality / money ) (from sb.) (141 / 1098 / 1108)
entitled to … || … a title / the throne || … a delicat situation ( from sb. ) (1107)
inheritability (U:1109)
inheritable [ in`heritêbêl ] (adj.)
a non> / an … disease // quality / character / quality / trait / characteritic (1093,1109)
… property (1108)
inheritance (C,U) to be part owner of a national … (56) … tax (412) social … (854)
to succeed to a perilous … (1009) to receive an … of good will from sb. (1098)
to receive the throne (1106) to receive an … under a will (1107)
to acquire / sb’s estate etc by … || to leave sb. an … || to enter upon / take a share of the … ||
to accept one’s … with assets and liabilities (1108) the I… Act || rules / right of … || genetic … (1109)
inherited (adj.) a non> / an … character / quality / trait (1093+)
inheritor (C) a sole / an … (1107)
inhumane [ inhju~`mein ] (adj.) … measures (308) … treatment (577)
inhumanity (U) … to sb. (1162)
iniquity [ i `nikwêti ] (U,C) the … of social prejudice || the …ies of a justice system (474)
a den of … (612)
initial [ i `ni$l ] (C) sb’s …s (679)
initial (vt) … one’s belongings (679)
initial ( attr. adj.) an … meeting (64) in the … stage(s) of sth. (418) an … payment (783)
initially [ i `ni$êli ] (adv:119)
initiate [ i `ni$iêt ] (C:679)
initiate [ i `ni$ieit ] (vt) … ( legal ) proceedings (58) … a plan (91) … a programme of sth. (414)
to be …d into drug abuse (612) … sb. into a sect / a ritual (679)
initiation (C,U) an … ceremony / rite / ritual (679)
initiative (C,U) to do sth. on one’s own … (19) to seize the … ( with both hands ) ( from sb.) (107)
an … to do / for sth. || take the … ( in doing sth.) (121) on the … of sb. (483)
initiator (C) an … of sth. (483,679)
initiatory [ i `ni$iêtêri ](adj.) an … rite (755)
injunction (U,C:715)
injure (vt:13) … sb’s reputation (534) to be badly / seriously / critically …d (1138)
injured (adj.) a seriously … person (419)
injurous (adj.) … to sb’s health (577)
injury (C,U) to suffer / sustain ( serious ) …(s) (64) a devastating … (299)
injustice (C,U) sb’s … (345)
ink (U:494) … pot / well (494) printing … (U:1055)
inland [ `inland ] (adj.) an … port (216) …ice (647) I… Revenue (E) (411)
inland [ in`land ] (adv.) a sail … (226)
`in-laws (pl.) sb’s … (434)
inlet (C) an … ( along a coast ) (658)
inn (C) a roadside … (250) I…s of Court (353)
innate [ i`neit ] (adj.) an … idea (164) an … drive (935)
inner (adj.) an … pocket (265) the … `city (409)
innocence (U) to allege / assert / protest one’s … (208)
innocent (adj.) an … civilian (68) to look … (128)
innkeeper (C:259) innkeeping (U:252)
innovate (vi&t) … (sth.) (50) innovation (C,U) … in sth. (50)
innovative / innovatory (adj.) … direction (50) an … approach to sth. / company / idea (965)
innovator (C:50)
innumerable (adj:361)
inocculate [ i`nåkjuleit ] (vt) … sb. against a disease (1270)
inoculation (C,U:1258) to perform an … against a disease (1269)
inoffensive (adj.) an … person (202)
inopportune [ in`åpêtju~n E/A inå~pêr`tu~n ] (adj.) an … remark // moment / time / visit (629 // 674)
`inquest (C) a coroner’s … || hold an … into sb’s death (709) to hold an … on / into sth. (713)
inquire (eA/E&:enquire) (104)
inquiry (eA/E&:enquiry) (113)
inquisition (C) the I… (681) a long … (695)
inquisitive (adj.) an … person / mind (688 / 724) inquisitively (adv:720)
inquisitor (C:681)
inquisitorial (adj.) … office (681) … examination / interrogation (686)
inroad (C) a Germanic … (148)
insane (adj:396)
insatiable (adj.) … rapacity / desire (229 / 853)
inscription (C:552)
inscrutable (adj:508)
insect (C:20) insecticide (U:622)
insecure [ insi`kjuê ] (adj.) to feel … ( * about sth.) (230, * -32) an … investment / job (291 / -93)
to be financially … (293) an … building (305) an … door / window (308)
insecurely (adv:237,337) insecureness (U) to feel … (944)
insecurity (C,U) to have one’s …ies (248) a feeling / sense of … (282) financial … (293)
the …ies of old age (296)
insensible (adj.) to be … of a situation (955) to be … of a risk || (not) to be … of the fact that - (994)
insensitive (adj.) an … conscience (943) an … person || (be) … ( to sb’s needs / feelings ) (956)
insensitivity (U) show … ( to sb’s feelings / needs ) (956)
inside (prep.) … one’s field of vision (13) … one’s head / mind / (A& of) sb. (205)
inside (adv.) to find sth. … (26) to fume at / over sth. etc. … (205)
inside (C) on the … (415) from the … of sth. (936)
inside (adj.) an … term (1129)
`insight (U,C) lack of … (100) with a flash of … (114) sth. gives sb. … into sth. (118)
revelatory … (946) to have (an) … into sth. (987)
insincerity (43)
insinuate [ in`sinjueit ] (vt) … that - (36) … one’s way into sb’s affections (42)
… oneself into sb’s confidence (80) … oneself out of a place (269)
a sheep … itself out of the pen / fold (267) … one’s arms around sb. (285)
insinuating (adj.) an … remark (1101)
insinuation (U,C:38)
insist (vi&speech:85) … (up)on (doing) sth. || … on sb / sb’s doing sth. || … that - (773)
insistence (U) … ( on (doing) sth. / that - ) (773)
insistent ( adj.) be … ( on (doing) sth. / that - ) (773) … demand / sound etc. (774+)
in an … tone (1059)
insistently (adv.) demand / sth. sounds etc. … (774+)
insolence (U:184)
insolvency (C,U) at / on the point of … (895) insolvent (adj.) declare sb. … (895)
insomnia (U:429)
inspect (vt) … a room (1086)
inspection (C,U) to carry out an … (1086)
inspector (C) a health … (1260)
inspiration (C,U:115) sth. is a source of plentiful … (279)
inspire (341) … sb. with sth. (513) … confidence in sb. (741)
… sb. to (do) sth. (1069) inspired, <ring (277)
install (334,572+) … oneself (573) installation (202)
instalment E/eA installment (C) to sell by / in ….s || payment in …s (31) to buy by …s (404)
… on account (576) to pay by / in …s (783)
instance (C) for … (159)
instant (C) the … that - (497) at the (very) … || in an … (993)
instant (adj.) … reaction (90) … coffee (1319)
instantly (adv:90) instantaneous (adj) instantaneously (91)
instead (11)
interaction (C,U) (an) … between sth. (938)
`instigate (vt) … (a) revolt (684) instigator (684)
instinct [ `instingt ] (C,U) sb’s ( *gut ) … tells them that - (60,* 971) to arouse sb’s maternal …s (1085)
instinctive [ in`stingktiv ] (adj.) sb’s … reaction ( is - ) (971) instinctively (adv:589)
institute (vt) … a search (6) … supremacy (380)
institution (C,U) an … of government (146) a Roman … (148) a young offender … (210)
institutional (adj.) sth’s … basis (148)
instruct (vt& speech:93) … sb. in sth. || to do as …ed (90) ‘ speech ‘ sb. … (sb.) (93)
… that - || … sb. to do sth. || … whxx - (192) … sb. (199)
instruction (C,U) to act against sb’s …s (53) an … says - (334) religious … (U) (756) … book (997)
to give … on how to do sth. (997) to give … in road safety || do sth. under the … of sb. (998)
instructional (norm attr. adj.) an … programme (1271)
instructive (adj.) an … programme (1271)
instructor (C) a driving / ski… (998 / 1155)
instrument (C) a ( sensitive* ) measuring … (875, *1062)
instrumental (adj.) … music (47) sb. is … in (doing) sth. (1104)
insu`bordinate (adj.) … person (393) insubordination (239)
insufficient (adj.) …evidence (746) … ingestion of sth. (1262)
insular (adj:369)
insult [ `insûlt ] (C:37)
insult [ in`sûlt ] (vt:224)
insuperable (adj:278)
insurance (U,sg.:293)
to have ( adequate ) … cover || to take out ( proper ) … ( against sth.) (138)
a door chain is an added … against intruders (246)
a lot of sth. is an … against a loss (288)
an … agent / broker || … cover /A coverage || to take out (an) … || an … industry ||
to have / pay … on sth. (294)
to write life / health / household / fire / car / travel … || to write … against theft ||
an … adjuster || an … policy || an … premium (295)
insure (vi&t) … a good harvest (224) … oneself against ulterior motives / being misled (249)
sth. … a success (257) … oneself against loneliness (288)
… life, one’s person and property etc. against loss and harm (294)
insured ( pred. adj.) things … (295)
insured (C) the … (293)
insurer (C:295)
insurrection (C,U:377)
intact (adj:13)
intake (C) an … of medicin (896)
intangibility (U:729)
intangible (adj.) … aim // quality / properties (716 // 720) the … world (729)
intangibles (pl:731) intangibly (adv:720, 729)
integer (C:848)
integration (U:629)
intellectual (adj:7)
intellectual (C:472)
intelligence (U) an … service || (to have the) … to do sth. || to collect … (518) an … report (1087)
intelligent (adj.) to be … (76)
intend (v) … to do sth. || …(eE) doing sth. (7) … sth. (32) no disrespect …ed (41)
sb. … sth. as sth. || sb. … that - || it is …ed that - (55)
intended (adj.) to be … for sth. / sb. (68) be … to do/be sth. (293) an … action (488)
intense (adj.) … activity (170)
intensify (vi&t) sth. … sb’s anger || sb’s anger … (1103)
intensified (adj.) by … efforts (849)
intensive [ in`tensiv ] (adj.) … care || … care ( unit ) (ICU) (419)
intensively (adv:539)
intent [ in`tent ] (U) to E/A for all …s and `purposes (496) with … to do sth. (78)
to do sth. with good … (618) a declaration / statement of … (810)
intent [ in`tent ] (adj.) (be) … (up)on (doing) sth. (99,232,469) sb’s eyes are … || an … look (233)
in … expectation (266)
intently to look … at sb. (233)
intention (C,U) bad … (7) have good …s (46) with the … of doing sth. (78)
have every … of doing sth. || it’s sb’s … to do sth. (372)
original … || full of good …s || to do sth. with the best (of) …s (601)
to do sth. with the … of doing sth. (608)
intentional (adj.) sth. is … (484) intentionally (adv:484) … vague (601)
interact (vi) elements … (821)
interaction (C,U) … between things (1109)
intercede [ intê`si~d ] (vi) … with sb. for / on behalf of sb. (1103)
intercept (vt) … a conversation (524) … a messenger / message (534) … a pass ( in football ) (590)
intercession (U,C) sb’s … to do sth. (1103)
intercourse (U) to have (sexual) … (610)
interest [ `intrêst ] (vt) … sb. (56)
interest [ `intrêst ] (C,U) to take an ( avid* ) … in sth. (11, 464* ) sth. of (topical etc.) … (44) … free (96)
a burning … (98) an … burden (135) a lively … (170) to share a common … in sth. (175)
an …rate || to repay a loan with … (291+)
the landed … (556) accruing / accrued … (780) a vested … in doing sth. (1005)
in the best … of sbth. || it’s in public … that - || in one’s own … (1050) the vested …s (1190)
a human … story (1223) an unhealthy / unwholesome … in sth. (1265)
interesting (adj:69)
interference (U) … on the part of sb. (57) … of waves (1171)
interior (C) minister of the … / Secretary / Department of the I… (A) (621/ 811) ministry of the … (811)
interjection (C,U) an … ( in language ) (1221)
interlocutor [ intê`låkjutê ] (C:525)
`interlude (C) a tragic …(1023)
intermarry (vi:176) intermarriage (C,U:176) intermarried (adj:468)
intermittent (adj.) … showers (435) malaria is usually … (1258)
intermittently (adv.) it rains … (435)
internal (adj.) … pressure (146) I… Revenue (A) (411) an … organ (936) the … ear (939)
internalize [ in`tênêlaiz ] (vt) … sb’s manners (1099)
internet (sg.) the … (334)
internicine [ intê`ni~sain ] (adj.) … warfare (482) … trade war (670)
interpenetration (C,U:346)
interpret [ in`tê~prit ] (vi&t) … sth. (7) … sth. as sth. (72) interpretation (C,U) susceptible to …(s) (1060)
interrogate [ in`terêgeit ] (vi&t:504,686)
interrogation (C,U) put sb. through an ( inquisitorial / a gruelling ) … || under … (686)
interrogator (686)
interrupt (vi&t) sb. … (42)
interruption (C,U:336)
interrogative (C:1220)
interrogative (adj.) an … pronoun / adverb // sentence (1220 // -22)
intersect (vi&t) lines … (565) treches … the land || the land is … with / by sth. (1126)
intersection (C) a street … (582) highway … (587)
interval (C) at rare …s (271)
intervene (vi & speech:693) … ( in a problem ) (180) … with sb. in their affairs (1238)
intervention (C,U) without sb’s … (133) divine … (180)
interview (vi&t) … sb. about sth. (840) the police … sb. (1310)
interview (C,U) to give an … to sb. || to conduct / have / make an … (with sb.) (about sth.) (840)
a job … (968) to call / invite sb. for ( a job ) … || to go for (an) … || at … (1165) a police … (1310)
interviewee / interviewer (C:840)
intestine (C) the small / large … (938)
intimate (v:391/adj:472)
into (prep:5)
intonation (U,C:1221)
intoxicated (adj.) … by / with { wine / joy // success (765 // 784)
intoxication (U:275)
intractable (adj:595)
intravenous (adj.) an … injection (1256)
intrepid [ in`trepid ] (adj.) an … scout / smoker (502 / 617) intrepidly (502 / 617)
intrigue (U,C) an … (471)
intrinsic (adj.) a form is … to an object (1216)
introduce (vt:a new method:162) … reforms / democracy (466 / -69)
introduction (C,U) in the … to ( a publication ) (164) by way of … (1142)
introductory (adj:383)
introvert (adj:33)
intrude (vi) sb. … ( into / (up)on sb. / sth.) (7,42) fame … on their private life (626)
sth. … into sb’s dream (707)
intruder (C:246)
intrusion (U,C) to apologize for the … (246) an … into / (up)on sb’s private life (626)
intrusive (adj.) an … person (913)
intuition (U,C) … tells sb. (that) - || to have an … (that) - || trust / follow one’s … (60)
intuitionism (U:935)
`inundate (vt) the sea … a marsh (128) to be …d by the tide (527) sb. is …d by / with calls (528)
invade (vi&t) … a country (216)
invader (C) an … from swh. (214)
invalid [ in`valid ] (adj.) to declare sb’s ordinance … (358)
invalidity [ inva`lidêti ] (U) the … of a marriage (1004)
Ivan (N) … the Terrible (1064)
invasion (U,C) an … batters a place (149) sth. invites … (213) (an) … of privacy (626)
inveigle (vt) … sb. / yourself ( into (doing) sth.) (543)
invent (vt) … dealings (98) … a drug (459)
… exam(ination) test questions (725)
inventive (adj:555) inventor (C:965)
invertebrate [ in`vê~tibret ] (650)
invest (vi&t) … (safely) (291) … sb. with sth. (736)
investment (C,U:291)
investigate (vi&t) … sth. (109) … sb. ( for sth.) || … whxx - (210) to … (704)
investigation (272) launch an … into sth. (709)
investiture (U,C) lay … (161) a ,373)
inveterate (adj.) an … gambler (8) an … liar (109) … passion (481) an … opponent (482)
invigorate (10)
invisible (adj.) … to / with the naked eye (763)
invitation (C,U) refuse / turn () down / decline an … (to do sth.) (250) an open / a standing … (310)
invite (vt) … sb. (5) … sb. to (do) sth. (81+) sth. … invasion (213) … sb. (out) ( for sth.) (774)
… a question from sb. (1314)
inviting (adj.) an … charm (81) an … body (233) the water looks … (322)
invitingly (adv.) to say … (134)
`invoice (C) an … for sth. (1148)
invoke (vt) … God etc. (71) … a divine right (173) … awe (223) … legitimacy (1094)
involve (vt) sth. … sth. (55)
involved (adj.) sb. / sth. … (57, 294) sb. is … in warfare (153) … speech etc. (691)
to be …in / with sth. (786) involvment (466)
inward (adj.) … parts (55) an … urge (937)
inwardly (adv:179,284)
Io
ion [ `aiên / `aiån ] (C:569)
ionic [ai`ånik ] (adj.) an … bond (569)
Iona (N:163)
Ir
irascible (adj.) an … person (1244)
Ireland (N:214)
iris (C) … diaphragm (588)
iron (vi&t) to … ( the laundry ) || … () out a crease (452)
iron (U,C) the I… Age (214) to clap sb. in …s (395) … ore || an … vein (405) pig / wrought … (443)
an … (452) red hot … (1235)
ironic (<al) (adj.) an … smile (103) it’s … that - (104)
ironically (adv:104)
ironing (U) to do the … || a pile of … (452)
ironmonger (C:875) an …’s (875) ironmongery (U)
irony (C,U) to lay aside one’s … (53)
irregular (adj:23) irrelevant (adj:63) irreparable (adj:532) irrepressible (adj:458)
irresistible (adj:88)
irrespective (adj.) … of (prep.) sth. (187)
irresponsible (adj.) sth. is … (56) … disposal (622) irresponsibility (476) irresponsibly (adv:845)
irretrievably (549) irrigate (18)
irritability (65) irritable (adj:776) irritably (777) irritant (C) sbth. is an … (777)
irritant (adj.) an … substance (764)
irritate (vt) sth. … the skin / stomach lining (764+)
irritated (adj.) sth. gets / is … || an … throat (766) sb. gets … about / at / with / by sth. (776)
irritating (adj.) find sbth. … (777) an … habit / person (336 / 777) an … cough (766)
irritatingly (adv:777)
irritation (U,C) a feeling of … (449) sth. causes … to sth. || sth. is an … ( for sb. ) (764)
sb’s … at / with (doing) sth. (776)
Is
is (v:1)
Islam (N:70)
isle (C) the British I…s (213)
islet (C:29)
isolated (adj.) an … manor (149) isolation (430) isotope (567)
issue (v) … a book (26) … a passport (298) … sb. with sth. (624) … a threat (1064)
issue (C) to dwell on an … (17) the … of a passport (298) sth. is an … for sb. (643)
It
Italy (N:64) Italian (adj:131)
itch (C) to have (got) an … (783) to have the creative … || to have an … to do sth. (785)
to have an … in one’s feet (fig.) (1292)
itch (vi&t) one’s eyes // skin / leg … || sth. … the eyes // one’s leg / (sb.) (764 // 783)
sbs. fingers … to do sth. (777) sb. … for sth. / to do sth. (785) to be …ing to get off (788)
itchy (adj.) sth. looks … || an … rash // … skin / an … sweater / feel … (416 // 873)
to get … || to get / have … feet (792)
item (C) to produce a wealth of …s (20) an … of an account (255) an … of clothing (265)
a sex … (610) a sports … (in a broadcast) (632) itself (34) in … (535)
Iv
ivy (C,U) poison `… (U) (650)
Jj
Ja
jab (C) to take a sharp … at sbth. (fig.) (1301) a … with a finger || sb. has a good left … (1306+)
jab (vi&t) … at sth. with a finger / stick (1303)
… sb. in their chest with one’s finger || … at sb. (1306+)
… the air (with sth.) || … sb. ( in the ribs / side ) with one’s elbow ||
… one’s elbow in sb’s ribs / side || … a finger at sb. || … at sb. with a finger ||
… sb. in the chest with a finger || … one’s finger in sb’s chest (1309)
… sb. ( in the chest ) with a knife || … a knife into sth. || … sb. to death (1310)
jack (C) to play / throw the … of clubs (9)
jackdaw (C:919)
jacket (C:14, A:338)
jagged (adj.) a … surface (940) jaggedness (U:940)
jail (U,C) to put / throw sb. in … (20) to be sentenced to … ( for lifetime * ) (117, 212 * )
jailer (C:539)
jam (C,U) a traffic … (211) strawberry … || a … jar (453)
jam (vi&t) … on the brakes (331) to be …med between sth. (1113)
jammed (pred.adj.) to be … with cars (728)
jam-packed (pred. adj.) to be … with cars (728)
janitor (A) (C:792)
jar (C) a jam / tea / coffee … (453) sth. gives a … (1316) a water … (1317)
jar (vi&t) sth. … against sth. || it … on the ear || sth. … on the hinges / in the frame (1316)
a spade … on sth. (1318)
jargon (U:1121)
jaunt (C) to go on a … ( to a place ) (1116)
jaunt (vi) … ( to a place ) (1116)
jauntily (adv:1110)
jauntiness (1110)
jaunty [ `d§å~nti ] (adj.) to set one’s hat at a … angle || a … smile / person || to have a … walk
with a … air (1110) a … tune (1124)
jaw (C) to punch sb. on the … (14)
jay(bird) (C) naked as a …bird (A) (764)
jam (U,C:77)
jam (vi&t:331)
Jd
JD (Jurum Doctor / Doctor of Law) (172)
Je
jealous (adj.) a … person (132)
jealousy (U,C) sick with … (132) inevitable …ies (220) jealously (adv.) (219)
jeans (pl.) wear … (763)
jeer (C) to be greeted with …s (531)
jeer (vi&t,&speech:261) … sb. (261) … ( sb. / at sb. ) (531)
Jehovah [ d§i`hêuvê ] (N:1094)
jelly (C,U) one’s legs / knees { feel like / turn … (1044) Jerome (166)
jest (speech:69)
jester (C) a ( *court ) … ( * 1106, 1234)
jesting (U) … apart (69)
Jesus Christ (70)
jetty (323) bathing … (658)
Jew (C) an orthodox … (70)
jewel (C) The Old Oak is a … of an inn (271) sbth. is the … in the crown of sth. (263, -89)
a … box (289)
jewellery E/A jewelry [`d§u~êlri ] (U) ladies’ … (444) to wear ( a piece of ) … (764)
Jewish (adj:70)
Ji
jibe (vi) two stories ( don’t ) … (1225)
jilt (vt:545) jilted (adj:545)
jingle (vi&t) …  the bells (1158) … some coins / a bunch of keys (1159)
jingle (sg.,C) the … of the bells (1158) a … advertises a programme (1160)
jingoism (U:1187)
jinks (pl.) high `… (724)
Jo
job (3) to do)odd `…s (pl.13) to finish a(n) (urgent ) … (259) to work in an low-paid insecure … (293)
… insecurity / security / training (311) … application (592) a permanent / steady … (771)
… placement service || … centre (791) to make the best of a bad … (854)
jobber (C) a stock … (292)
jobless (adj:8)
jockey (vi) … for position (1034)
jogging (U) … suit (634)
John (N) (St) …’s Gospel (70)
join (vi&t) sb. … a group (24) spl. … forces (145) a question is …ed by another (163)
sb. … sb. ( * together in holy matrimony || be …ed in marriage / holy `matrimony ) (69, *439)
… sb. ( for sth.) || … hands (422) … `in … (doing) sth. || … with sb. / sth. (466)
… (with) sb. { to do / in doing sth.} (466,516,560)
… hands with sb. (481) … a strike (482) … together (to do sth) (469)
… battle (with sb.) (469,525) land(s) … (land) || … a road (E) (501) (water(s) … (water) (504)
… a connection || … `up … with sb. (513,555)
… forces with sb. (516) … a band (548) to be …ed by sb. (551)
… in battle (552) … sth. / A and B ( together) || … A to / with B (560,574) … a train (E) (562)
… well (574)
… a class / club || … the ranks of sb. (581) … a company / a pension scheme (592)
… a queue E/eA line (619) … the club (642) … a plane (E) (673)
join (C:574)
joined-`up ( adj.) … thinking etc. (553)
joiner (C:574)
joinery (U:574) … joint (574)
joint (vt) … meat (447) ... meat (580)
joint (adj.) … action (58) … ownership (181) during their … lives (439) (by) … efforts (441)
… owners / enterprise / venture (555) … interest / responsibility (565) sth. is a ... effort (578)
… custody (605) ( to finish in ) a … first etc. place (635) a … account || in … names (656)
joint-stock (adj.) a … company (565)
joint-`up (adj.) … writing (656)
jointly (adv:441) ... arranged / responsible (578)
joint (C: brickwork:441, body: 457, pub:514, boards: 574, pipe, tube: 575, cigarette:605)
a … of beef (E) (447) the time is out of … / something is out of … (in the society) (463)
sb’s behaviour is out of … with sth. (538) to put one’s knee out of ... (579)
to put sb’s nose out of … (599) to push / wrench sb’s arm out of … (624)
jointed (adj.) … puppet / arm / rod (579)
joke (C:28) to crack a … (35) make / tell a … ( about / of sth.) (35) sth. gets beyoud / past a … (37)
to see the … (of it) (37) ( to take ) a … at one’s expence (37) dirty … (42)
a feeble / poor / weak … (425) a pointed / vulgar … (844) a sick … (1265)
joke (vi:33) … that || … about sth. (35) … it off (36)
jokebook (C:26)
joking (U) … apart (69) jokingly (adv:5)
joker (C:9+)
jollity (U) to be infected with … (1247)
jolly (adj.) a … atmospherer (285)
jolly (adv.) … good company (1124)
journalism (U) the ethics of … (840) yellow … (1051)
journalist (C:413)
journalistic (adj.) … ethics (840)
journey (C:68,673) to wish sb. a safe …(E) (299) a train … (810)
journey (v:715)
journeyman (C:781)
joust [ d§aust ] (C:154,383,413) joust (vi:383,413) jouster (383) jousting (U:154)
joy (U) to partake in sb’s … (11) the …s and sorrows of sth. (290)
joyful (adj.) a … child (422) joyous (adj:171)
Ju
Juan (N) Don … (26)
Judaism (N:70)
judge (vi&t) … partially (30) x as near as sb. can … (63) … sb. (sth.) || … a case (686)
judge (C:115) presiding … (118) a … advocate (208) a poor … of character (257)
–judged (adj.) an ill-… remark (1244)
judg(e)ment (C,U:694) a … near to the mark (63) (a court) … (693) a sober … (969)
judicial (adj.) … separation (19) a … decision (118) the … power (189)
judiciary (C+ sg./pl.) the … (189)
jug (E/A) (C:770)
juice (C,U) juicer (C) a … (E/A) (1063)
juicy (adj.) a … titbit E/A tidbit of gossip (1054)
jumble (sg:454)
jump (C) the long / triple / high … (634) to slide down a ski … || to make a ski … (1159)
a … of an electron (1169)
jump (vi&t) … into a river (6) … on /A& at sb. ( fig.) (205) … the lights (582)
… the `rails E/A tracks (630) to run and … a 110 m || … ( over ) a hurdle (634) … to conclusions (840)
… at the chance (984) …down the throat of sb. (1085) … down from sth. (1113)
… to the conclusion that - (1165) an electron … into another orbit (1169)
jumper (C) a ski … (1159)
jumping (U) a …-`off point (862) a ski … contest (1159)
junction (574) (motorway) … (eE) (587)
juncture (C) at this … (1016)
junior (C) office … (597)
junior (adj.) … to sb. || … officer (597)
junk (U) … and antiques (587)
junkyard (C:1234)
junta [d§ûnta / hun- ] (C:491)
Jupiter (N) the planet … (995)
jurisdiction (U) sb’s … over sb. / sth. (154)
jury (C:50) a … delivers / returns a verdict (307)
just (adv:2)
just (adj.) to get / receice one’s … deserts (109) a … person (141) it’s … to do sth. (591)
justice (U,C) rights of private … (148) administration of … (202) temper … with mercy (260)
to do sth. with … (276) to do … to the dishes (446) …s in eyre (350) J… of the Peace (115)
`justifiable (adj:747)
justify (vt) sb. … sth. (238)
Jute (C:218)
juxtaposition (U,C:871)
Kk
Ka
Kaiserchronic (172) kale (C,U:723)
Ke
keen (adj.) … sword (229) a … collector (463) … to do / on doing sth. (469) a … blade (875)
a … ( sense of ) sight / hearing || a … sense of smell (942) … senses || a … perception (986)
keen-sighted (adj:579)
keenly (adv.) … exercise sth. (14)
keep (v) … a promise (7) … an eye on sth. (13) … doing sth. (15) … sb. separate from sb. (22)
… sb. apart (22) … one’s peace (o-f) (22) … sb. from doing sth. (22) … () `up one’s part (52)
… () `up appearances (112)
… `up ( with progress / the times ) || … up to date (185)
… () up one’s courage (207) … sth. to oneself (231) … ( oneself ) to oneself (269)
… up with repayments (784)
… () `up morale // one’s spirits / strength (502 // 844) … oneself to oneself (748)
keeper (C) a (goal>) … (29)
keeping (U) careless … (1313)
kept (pat. / pap. of keep )(25)
kerb (E) (C) bump against / mount the … (991)
kerosin (U) … lamp (663)
kestrel (C:1077)
`ketone (570)
kettle (C) to put the … on (E) (722) sth. is a different … of fish (724) a … holder (1272)
key (vt) … (in) sth. ( on a computer ) (334)
key (C) a lost / missing … (6) … signature (126) … player (201)
to press / punch / push a … on a keyboard (334) … figure (401) to find a solution in a … (410)
keyboard (C) to punch () `up a code on a … (29) to press / punch / push a key on a … (334)
Ki
kick (vi&t) … sb. in sth. (38) … a goal (302) … over the `traces (523) … () `up a racket (1132)
… (the) hell out of sb. (1279)
kick (C) a corner / free / penalty … (25) with a perfect … (302) a short … (590)
kid (C) a bratty / spoiled / spoilt … (131)
kidney (C,U:795) a … bean (1156)
Kievan (N:224)
kill (C) a dog retrieves a … (199)
kill (vi&t) to be …ed in war / action (13 / 24) … time (1304)
killer (C) sb. knew their … (321)
killing (C:228, out of pity:656)
kiln (C) to bake pottery in a … (1216)
kilometer (eA) [ `kilêmi~tê / ki`lå~mitê ] (C:583)
kilometre (E) [ `kilêmi~tê(r) / ki`låmitê(r) ] (C.583)
kind (C) all …s of sth. (30) do sth. in … (54) sth. of one … / sort or another (960)
kind (adj:41)
kindergarten (C:873) a … teacher (873)
kindling [ kindling ] (U:887) kindness (43) kind-hearted (adj:380) kind-heartedness (U: 380)
kindle (356)
kindness (U,C) to do sth. with … (86) to do sb. a … (1096)
kindred (adj.) a … spirit (469) … soul (472)
king (C:9) K… Arthur (219) K… Court (345) K…’s Bench (350)
kingdom (C:145) … fungi (649) plant / vegetable / animal … (650,1216)
kingmaker (C:367)
kingpin (C) a crime … (639) to knock over the … ( in billiards ) (1123)
kinsman (C) a … of sb. (217)
kiss (C:69)
kiss (vi&t:285)
kit (C) a marching … (193)
kit (E) (vt) to be …ted out / up { in / with sth. (1155)
kitchen (C) a … garden (139) … range (455) to go into the … (1063) kitten (C:886)
kitty (C) there’s nothing in the … (1042)
Kl
Kleenex (U,C:759)
Kn
knave (C:9)
knead (vt) … (a / the) dough (262)
knee [ ni~] (C) put one’s … out of joint (581) one’s …s feel like / turn jelly (1044)
one’s …s are knocking (together) (1065) to do … bends (1070) to have knock …s (1266)
kneel ( knelt, = ) (vi) … ( down / on the floor ) (90+)
knell (C) to ring / sound / strike / toll the (death) … for / of sth. (925)
knew [ nju~ ] (pat. of know:5) sb. never … sth. (955)
knickers (E) (pl:760)
knick-knack (C:782) knew (pat.)
knife (C:15) to eat with a … and fork (591)
to put / stick the `… into sb. || to put / stick the `… in || to have one’s `… in sb. ||
to turn / twist the `… (in the wound) (695)
to pull / draw a … (1102+)
knifepoint (C) be robbed at … (849)
knight (vt) … a man (152)
knight (C) ( to make / dub / create sb.) a … (151+) to dub a … (152) ( a kings / queens ) … (198)
… bachelor / banneret (153,372) … `errant (390) a … in shining armour (394)
knigthood (U,C) the institution of … (151) to earn … || to receive / accomplish … ||
to confer a … on sb. with the accolade / with a blow with the flat of a sword (152)
knightly (adj:402)
knit (vi&t:10,265,321) to … ( knitwear / a sock / a row ) (265+) to … one’s brow(s)
knit (pap.) (269,339) knit(s) (C:265) knitted (adj:266)
knitting (U,C:265) … needle (266) knitter (C:266)
knitwear (U:266)
knob (C) to turn the … of a radio (302)
knock [ nåk ] (C) a … at / on the door (426) to get a … on the head (704) to have … `knees (1266)
sth. is a … out for sb. (1270) to take / get a ( hard / nasty ) … (1276)
the … from an engine / pump (1286) a boat takes a nasty … (1287)
knock (vi&t) sb. … ()`out sb. ( of a tournament * ) (15, 530,1307 * ) … sb. off sth. (384)
… at / on a door (426) to … before you enter (453) … a plan on the head (690)
… some sense into sb. (693) … spl’s heads together (694)
… hell / the ( living ) daylight out of sb. (975) sb’s knees are …ing ( together ) (1065)
sth. / sb. … () sb. over (1088 / 1276) the drinks … () out sb. (1251)
… one’s head on sth. || … one’s hand against sth. (1277)
sb. … around /E& about ( a place ) || sb. …around with sb. || spl. … around together (1246)
sb. … naturopathy (1261) … sb. back (1266)
… () down a building || … sb. back sth. || … a ball around || … () together a playhouse ||
… out a potted plant || … two rooms into one (1267) … () in a nail || … on sth. (1268)
… it off ! (1269)
a player / team … () out an opponent || sb. … sb. out of a tournament || a film … () out sb. (1270)
… () out lyrics / a tune || sb. … it on the head || … () up sb. (1271)
…() up a meal || … () together a table || … () sth. for a table (1272)
a day out … () out sb. || … off for lunch || … off ( work ) || … () off £ x ||
… () down sb. / the price ( from £ x ) to £ y || … () off a shop / a guitar || … a lesson into sb. (1273)
… sb’s socks off || sth. … sb. six (E) (1276)
… the ash off a cigarette || sb’s heart … || sb’s knees … ( together ) || … sb. ( dead ) (fig.) ||
you could have …ed sb. down with a feather || sbth. … sb. / sb’s agument into a cocked hat ||
… sb. sideways || … the stuffing out of sb. || … spots off sb. / sb’s eloquence (1280)
… back a glass of wine || I’ll … your head / block off || to … sb. off their pedestal / perch ||
sb’s hand … against / on a glas ||… one’s drink over / flying || … out one’s pipe ||
… one’s hat into shape (1281)
… () down a door || … a hole in sth. (1282) an engine / pump … (1286)
… sb. on the head || … sb. flat / senseless / unconscious || … () off sb. (1285)
a wave … a boat around (1287) sth. … () down / over sb. (1289) … a tooth out (1290)
… the information etc. into shape (1291) a man …() up a woman (1298)
… () around an idea / a plan (1301) … sb. around / E& about || … through a wall (1302)
… up ( before a game ) (1307) … () off sb. (1311)
`knockback (C) to receive a … (1266)
knock-down (attr.adj.) a … price (1273) … blow (1276)
knock-down (C:1276)
knockers (pl.) sb’s full … (1266)
knockabout (adj.) … comedy
knocking (U) a … shop (E) (1245)
knock-kneed [ nåk-`ni~d ] (adj.) to be … (1266)
`knockout (C) a … punch (15, 530) ( technical ) … (KO, TKO) (632) sth. / sb. is a … (1290, -98)
a … tournament (1307)
`knock-up (C:1307)
knot (C) to tie a … (31)
know (C) to be in the … (911)
know (vi&t) … ( absolutely ) nothing about sth. (8) … ( for sure*) (that -) (36,905*)
… how to do sth. (50) to get to … sb. (66) … to do sth. (86) … one’s lesson(s) (142)
… with certainty / for a certainty (250) … for sure / certain (273)
… perfectly well / full well / only too well (697) … a thing or two (about sth.) (702)
not … { anything / the first thing about sbth. / sb. from Adam || … sb. || … sb. by sight || … of sb. ||
… sb. again || … about / of sbth. (901)
… the / one’s way || one’s way around ( the town ) || (as) sb. … to their cost (904)
… the / one’s way in (905) … sth. from sth. (908)
… one from the other || … chalk from cheese || not that sb. … of || … how - || not if sb. … it (909)
to let sb. … one’s mind || … better than to do sth. || … all about sth. (910) the first thing sb. … (911)
… what is what / one’s business / a thing or two (912) … who is who (913)
you never … (whxx) || there’s no …ing (whxx) (914) … better || not … what hit you ||
not … where to look (915) … sth. to be sth. (915) … for a fact / certain that - (916)
… of a place (917) sb. doesn’t … that - (917) … sb. from a place / a time || … what o’clock it is (918)
if I know sb., they - || … best || … one’s place (919) not … one’s limits || … nothing of sth. (920)
don’t I … || how am I to … ? || sb wouldn’t … || … right from wrong (921) … sth. by heart (922)
…ing one’s luck, - || … sth. deep `down || … different / otherwise (949) not … one’s mind (950)
little does sb. … that - (954) … what it’s like being / to be sth. (955)
… on which side your bread is buttered (956) … perfectly / full / only too well ||
in their heart of heart sb. … || sb. … deep down that - (957)
sb. doesn’t … whether they are coming or going || … the score (963) sth. … no bounds (964)
… one’s own mind || clearly … whxx (966)
… the ropes || … sth. inside `out / like the back of one’s `hand ||
… one’s job / subject / stuff (E& backwards) (967) … one’s way around a subject || … for sure ||
… sth. backwards (E) and forwards (A) || sb. … what they are up to (971)
( if ) sb. … what is good for them || … not to do sth. || … nothing of whxx (972)
little sb. … of sbth. || sth. that sb. doesn’t want to … || sb. doesn’t … they are born (E) (978)
… one’s own mind (979) wouldn’t you … (it) (980)
… one’s place || let sb. … || sb. ought to … || if sb. … sb., sb. does sth. (981)
not know about you, but I - (982) (do) you … what / something ? (987)
knowable (adj.) sth. is … (948)
`know-all (E) (C) sb. is a … || a … attitude (919)
`know-how (U) have practical / technical … ( on sth.* ) (899,901*) have the … to do sth. (970)
knowing (adj.) a … smile / look (39,911) a … person (901)
knowingly (71,908)
know-it-all (C) sb. is a … || a … attitude (919)
knowledge (U,sg.) lack of … of sth. (28) to have a thorough … (40) to have … of human nature (42)
secure / safe in the … that - (230 / 269) to acquire / gain … ( * of / about sth.) (335, * 901)
religious … (756) to have (little) general … || basic / personal …(846) educational … (847)
practical / tecnical … (899) it’s common … (that) - (901) speak with … (907) not to sb’s … (909)
advance // previous / prior … (912+) in the … that - (913) it’s within everybody’s … (that -) (917)
with sb’s full … (919)
to the best of one’s … (and belief) || to sb’s certain … || to have no … of sth. (920)
it comes to sb’s … that - (921)
sth. is public … || (the) … to do sth. || add to / extend one’s … || basic … || … of sth. spreads ||
to spread … of sth. (922)
gain first-`hand … through practice (966) eat of the Tree of K… (968)
detailed / specialist / background … (970) to deny (all) … of sth. || to act with sb’s (full) … (972)
knowledgeable (adj.) a … person || … circles || be … about sth. (901)
known (pp. / adj.) (to be) … as / for (doing) / to do sth. (14/27/33,901) it becomes / is … that - (286)
to be … to sb. (901) a … person (902) to let / make it be … that - || sth. has … better days (904)
to make oneself … to sb. (905) for reasons best … to themselves (919)
to have … poverty etc. || to have … about sth. || to have … what it’s like doing / to do sth. (955)
to have … sth. (to) do sth. (970) if sb. had … (978)
not be … to do/be sth. || sb. has (never) … sbth. to do/be sth. ||
sbth. has ( never ) been … to do/be sth. (983)
know-nothing (918)
knuckle (C) sb’s …s are white (54)
to give sb. / get a rap {on / over / across the …s ( for sth.) || to rap sb. on / over the …s ||
to rap sb.’s …s (461,594)
Koran [ kê`ra~n ] (N) the … (70)
kph ( kilometres / kilometers per hour) (583)
Ll
La
Label (vt:165) label (C:610)
laborious [ lê`bå~riês ] (adj.) … business (U) || a … task (255+) a … life (613)
labour (vi) … under a delusion etc./ the delusion / (mistaken) belief etc. that - //
a sense of wrong (94+ // 1041) … to do sth. (1209)
labour / A: labor (U:287) the … market (123) a … obligation (160) manual … (132)
sb. is cheap … (183) slave `… (231)
to offer one’s … || to offer one’s … to sb. || poorly paid slave … (245)
to go into … || to be in … || … pains (286) a … union (A) (791)
the Secretary / Department of L… (A) (812) a … ward || to have an easy … (1228)
laboured (adj.) … breathing (458) a … text (464)
labourer (C:360)
lace (C,U) a ( shoe>) … (423) a … fastener / fastening (423) … underwear (760)
lace (up) (vi&t:423,438) … one’s fingers together (449)
laced (adj.) 423) a voice ( heavily ) … with irony || coffee … with brandy (449)
a speech … with witty asides (450)
lace-up (adj.) … shoes (423) lace-up (C) a pair of …s (eE) (423)
lack (vt) sb. / sth. … sb. / sth. (50+) sbth. doesn’t … for sbth. (56) … (for) nothing (69)
lack (U,sing.) … of rain (17) a … of guns (23) sb’s … social graces (40)
there is no … of sth. || there is / have a … in / of sth. (50)
to do sth. for … of sth. (68) sb. / sth. suffer from … of sth. (18,42,68) an apparant … of insight (100)
a relative … of sth. (632)
lacking (adj.) to be (sadly) … in sth. (33,41) to be found … (50)
lackadaisical (adj.) a … person / approach (59)
lackey (C:59)
lactic (adj.) … `acid (570)
lactose (U:571)
lacy (adj.) … underwear (760)
lad (E) (C:581)
laddish (adj:589)
ladder (C:71) on the end of the social … (174) to move up / get a step up the social … (187 / 89)
a … truck || a telescopic … (1236)
laden (adj.) ( fully / hevily / lightly ) … ( with sth.) (659, fig:660) bomb- / snow- … (667 / 782)
lady (C) the … of his choice || a young … (5) the leading `… (52) the … of the house / manor (130)
…’s maid || lady-in-`waiting (456)
lady-like (adj.) in a … manner (130) laid (45) (the) laity (734)
lake (C:139) `la-la land (A) (478)
lamb (C,U) … chop / cutlet || leg of … (795) God tempers the wind to the shorn … (1245)
gentle as a … (1248)
lame (adj.) a … excuse (310)
lament [ lê`ment ] (vt&speech:289) … sth. (222,289) … that - (289)
lamp (C:443) to hand / pass the … of freedom || a book smells of the … (553)
a … post || a gas / street … (563) a … socket / holder / globe / shade || a bracket … (572)
lamplight (U:443)
lamplighter (C:563)
lam`poon (C:27)
lance (C:154)
land (U,C) wooded … / wood>… (10) arable … || waste>… (17) the Frankish …s (148)
clerical / lay … (161) common … (E) (184) home>… (218) a … of plenty (224) wet>… (331)
open … (379) native … || mother>… (390) the lie / lay (A) of the `… (502, 663) … reform (555)
a … agent (eE) || agricultural / arid / private / swampy / marshy / stony … || title of … ||
to go onto / be on / get off sb’s … || farm>… (556)
… registry (E/A) office || by … || grazing / hilly / undulated … || the promised … ||
to live off / farm / work the … || the … of milk and honey || be back on (dry) … ||
the … strech out / slope down || dream>… (557)
virgin … (558) father>… (559) a … animal / plant (651) (be back) in the … of the living (657)
… price || derelict / housing / public … || to bring sth. on to the … || to lay out … as sth. (665)
land (vi&t:14,213,528) … in the ditch (606) … on one’s feet (549) … sb. (641)
… a `blow / `punc etc (14, 530) … sb. with sb. / sth. (544) … sb. in a feeling (546)
… sb./ oneself in troule / court etc (547) … a contract (with sb.) (590) …oneself sth. (590)
… (a plane) (roughly) (667) vehicle / plane … sb. / sth. swh. (642)
… / to be …ed { headlong / with the head first (624) crash-… (667)
land `up (585) … with sth. (625)
landed (adj:) a … estate (150) (be nicely) … (549) (the) … gentry (410) the … interest (556)
------land-based (adj:651)
landfall (U,C) make (a) … (557) landfill (material, area, action:664)
landholder (C) a great … (148) landholding (U:555)
landing (C) the … of Caesar and his legions (215)
landlady (C:244)
landless (adj.153) a … knight (153)
landlord (C:16)
landlubber (C:665)
landmark (adj.) … crises (89) … passage (555) … case / decision / ruling (556)
landmass (C:647) landmine (C:668)
landowner (C:144) landownership / landowning (U:555)
landslip (C:628)
landscape (C) a bleak … (128) a(n) extensive / wide-ranging … (140)
a … `architect / architecture / gardener || … gardening (665)
a rural / urban / industrial … (408) a political … (669)
landscape (vt) … a garden (139)
landslide (628) … (election) victory || win by a … (669)
landward (adj:663) landwards (adv:661)
--------landing (C,U: of soldiers etc.;668) … stage (E) (658) … gear / strip (667) … craft
a crash `… (667) to make an emergency / a forced … (667) a soft … (671)
landau (C:554)
(sg.= pl.)
(668)
lane (379) `fast / slow … (584) life in the `fast … (602) change …s (584)
Langland (N) William …(172)
language (C,U) parliamentary … (U:7) a foreign … (49) spoken / written … (172 / 1217)
to share a common … (174) to teach (sb.) (a) … (195) crude … (205)
to do sth. in one’s own … || to do sth. in pompous / literary / … ||
to talk everyday / ordinary / colloquial … (740)
to use plain … (766) strong … (1053)
lap (C) to do a … of honour // a victory … (634)
lapdog (C:759)
lapel (C:758)
lapse (C) a … into anarchy (349) there’s a … of time (1272) in the … of time (1274)
sb’s … || to have a … from true belief || a … of the custom (1275) a … of some time (1276)
to have a … of concentration (1277) a … of justice / principle || a … in sb’s attention (1283)
the … of an insurance (1291) a … of memory / the pen (1291) a moral … (1294)
lapse (vi) sb. … into prose (1274)
sb. … || … from paganism // into the Christian faith / former customs || a custom … (1275)
sb’s contration … (1277) an offer … (1281) a privilege / right … (1283) an insurance policy … (1291)
… into an(a)esthesia / unconsciousness (1290)
… from virtue / into vice || … back into one’s old ways (1294)
lapsed (adj.) a … Christian (1275) … faith (1294)
laptop (C) a … ( computer ) (878)
lard (U:793)
larder (eE) (C:1253)
large (adj:1) a … farmer (144) by and … (183) sb. is at … (1142)
largely (adv.) sth. is … discredited (84) very … (183) largeness (U:940)
lascivious [ lê`siviês ] (adj.) a … person (610)
last (vi&t) sth. will … (285) a system … (sb.) much longer (1296)
last (adj:12) sth. / sb. is on its / their … legs (586 / 656, fig:1139) during the … time before sth. (979)
last (C) the … (310)
lasting (adj.) to have a … love for sb. (142) a … relatioship (641) lastly (155)
latch (vi&t) … `on (to sb.) || … `onto sb. (614)
late (adj./adv.) … at night (27) to arrive … for work (596) to be … (585)
later (adv.) years … (578)
later (adj.) … on (28) in … life (130)
lathe (C) a turning … (325)
lather (U, sg.) to make … (299) to work up / get into a … || in a … (305)
lather (vi&t) soap … || … one’s face (299)
Latin (C:49)
Latin (adj.) a … classic (170)
latter (C) the … (15)
latitude (C,U) to determine … and longitude (663)
laudatory (adj.) … publicity (1072)
launch (vt) … a diplomatic / military offensive (203) … a ship (225) … an attack (209)
laugh (C:387)
laugh (vi&t & speech) sb. … (34) to die …ing (35) … behind sb’s back || … at sbth. (39)
to … all the way to the bank (1125) sth. is no …ing matter (1136)
laughter (U) to burst into ( peals of ) … || to peal with … (39) a gale of … (48) helpless with … (87)
a contagious … (1252)
launch (vt) … a search (6) … an offensive / attack (203 / -9) … a campaign (301) … a spacecraft (671)
launder (vt) … money (112) … clothes (452)
launderer (C:452)
laundress (C:452)
laundry (U,C) a … basket / hamper (30) a … room || to do the … (452)
lavish (vt) … sb. with favours || … one’s favours (up)on sb. (384)
lavish (adj.) … living (154)
lavishly (adv:81)
law (C,U) the faculty of … (1) to break the … (15) a … against sth. (47) to go to … (58) a … court (69)
a civil / criminal / military … || a … applies to a place (212) the … (276) the ( long ) arm of the … (406)
the L… (of Moses) (819) (a) public `… (C,U) (1050) a community founded on the rule of … (1142)
to be above the … || to be a … onto one`self (1143)
law-abiding (adj.) a … citizen (76)
lawful (adj:29)
lawn (C:29)
lawyer (C:115)
lax (adj.) … security / discipline 307)
laxity (U:347)
lay [ lei ] (pat. of lie) what … ahead (94)
lay ( laid, laid ) (vi&t) … down one’s arms (24) … down sth. (in a law) (47)
… () `aside a friend / one’s irony / sth. / money (48 / 54 / 57 / 69) to … down that - (181)
… `about one(self) / sb. with sth. (529+)
… () on electricity / gas / water (564) … () `off sb. (790) … down one’s `life (1084)
… () out a golf course (1231)
lay (C) the … A/E lie of the `land (502+,663)
lay (adj.) … land / seignior (161) layer (C:213)
layer (vt) …ed hair (877)
layman (C:351)
lay-off (C) to face a … || sth. results in …s (790) laypeople, layperson(s), laywoman (684)
laze (v+adv.) … all day || `… () away half one’s life (11) … about / around (19)
lazy (adj.) a … person (11) a … afternoon (458) sb. is a … hound (1120)
lazy-bone (C:11) lb ( pl:lb(s) = pounds ) x …(s) to the square inch. (1062)
Le
lead (C) to play the … || to have a … over sb. (62) (be) in the … (310)
lead (vi&t) … a ( solitary ) life (20) a chance … to sth. (116) … an attack (192)
prosecution … to sth. (194) a road … to swh. (216) … an election (310) … off || … () off sth.(450)
… (sb.) by sth. (808)
lead [ led ] (U,C) (metal) … (U) (217) (a) … (U,C) (875)
leader (3) … (E) (in newspaper) (625) leadership (91)
leading (adj.) … `man / lady (52) … (male / female) part / role (52) play a / the … part / role (56,62)
a … Christian (237) a … light (440) … article (E) (625) … question (687)
leaf ( pl: leaves ) (C) a parted … (48) to turn over a new … (fig.) (242)
leaf (vi + through) `… through a book (142)
leaflet (C:57)
leafy (adj.) a … covering (1272)
league (C:304)
leak (C) through a … (529) a … of gas / radioactivity (563 / 621) to spring a … (662)
leak (vi&t) a boat … ( water ) || water … into sth. (529) a conduit … (563) sth. … out (fig.) (788)
lean (vi&t) … back (464) … (sth.) against / on sth. (707)
lean (adj.) … meat (794) a … animal (1256)
leap (vi) look before you … (131)
sth. … out at sb. || the sight of sth. … to sb’s eyes || one’s heart … (266) … to conclusions (840)
… up (1101) … to the conclusion that - (1165)… out of bed (1284)
leap (C) a … in the dark (637) a balletic … (765)
learn (vi&t) … (how) to do sth. (13) … from sb. / experience (44) … a subject / a skill (46)
… what - (77) … (that -) / one’s lesson / sth. the hard way (89) … sth. by heart (922)
learned / learnt (pat:13)
learned [ lê~ñd ] (adj.) a … response (1172)
learned [ `lê~nid ] (adj.) a … person (41)
learner (C:47) a … ( `driver ) (74) a fast / quick … (464)
learning (U) a faculty for … (2) sb’s great … (41) a person of great … (189)
to find … at a university (172)
lease (C) according to a … (160)
lease (vt) … sth. ( from sb.) || … ( out ) sth. ( to sb.) (160)
leasehold (U) to ontain / own the … of sth. (160)
leasehold (adj.) … land (160)
leaseholder (eE) (C:160)
least (det., pron.) the … part (13) at … (170) not … (538) not (in) the … || not the … bit (540)
to say the … (541)
least (adv.) … likely (55) at … pretty near (63)
leather (U,C) a … strap (719)
leave (vi&t) … sb. with sth. (2) … () `aside sth. (57)
sth. … sb. in a adj. position || … it to look after itself (133) … sb. out of account (134)
… things as the were (236) whether to … or stay (242)
… a task to sb. || … it (up) to sb. / E& … sb. to do sth. (253)
… (one’s job) (594) … sb. for sb. (956) … x family member(s) (1107)
… sb. one’s estate / property etc. || … one’s estate etc. to sb. || … sb. an inheritance (1108)
sth. … sb. a nervous wreck (1115)
leave (U:246) to beg `… (246) on … (514)
to apply for / ask for / seek / give / grant / get / obtain … ( to do sth.) / … of absence ( to do sth.) (856)
to take … of one’ senses (858) take one’s … || to take … of sb. (871)
… sb. in the lurch / high and dry (238)
leaves (pl:49) tea … (453)
`leave-taking (U,C:44)
lecher [ `let$ê ] (C:179) lecherous (adj:179) lecherousness (U:938) lechery [ `let$êri ] (U:938)
lecture (C) a … at a faculty (1) to throw a … in shape (37) to give / deliver a … on / about sth. (922)
lecture (v&t) … sb. about (doing) / on sth. (705+)
led ( pat. of lead) (v:27)
lee (U) in the … of sth. (719, -21)
leek (C:723)
leeward (adj.) on the … side of sth. (719. -21)
left ( pap. of leave ) (19)
left (adj.) a … wing belief (74)
left (adv.) …, right and `centre / right, … and centre (1142)
leftover [ `leftêuvê ] (adj.) … valuables (237) … meat (262)
leftover (C) …s (78) sth. is a … from feudalism (149) sb. is … from a former gang (371)
leg (C,U) a front / hind … (259) sth. / sb. is on their last …s (586 / 656, fig:1139) with bare …s (763)
(a) … of pork / lamb (C,U:795) one’s …s feel like / turn jelly (1044) to have bow …s (1266)
to regain one’s …s (1285)
legacy (C) sth. is a … of imperial Rome (247) to receive a … (1107)
legal (40) to bring / take … action (against) (58) … battle (for sth.) (605) a … practitioner (40)
legend (C,U) the … of sb. (26) … (U) has it that - (27)
legendary (adj:27)
legion (C:215)
legislate (vi:801)
legislation (U:101)
`legislative (adj.) a … body / assembly (1/ 7) a … bill (99)
legislature [ `led§isleit$ê ] (C) the supreme … (803)
legitimacy [ li`d§itimêsi ] (U) to invoke … (1094)
legitimate [ li`d§itimêt ] (adj.) a … son (348) to regard sth. as … (1247)
leisure (U) to do sth. at (one’s) … (11) to wear sth. for … ( time ) (14) to do sth. at one’s … (27)
… wear (762) to go to a … activity (919)
leisurely (adj.) in a … way (1086)
lemon (C,U) … sole (C,U:793) a …-squeezer (E) (1063)
lend (vi&t) … credence to sth. (84) … sb. money on their looks (128)
… (sb.) a (helping) hand (with sth.) (103 / 186) … (out) sth. (to sb.) || … sb. sth. (292)
lender (C) a ( money>) … (16)
lenght (C,U) at ( great / long ) … (544)
lengthy (adj.) a … rehearsal (87)
lenient [ `li~niênt ] (adj.) a … punishment / sentense (117)
lens (C:588) to wear contact …es (764)
Lent (U:679)
Lenten (adj.) … fast / fare (679)
leper (C:1256)
leprechaun (C:1238)
leprosy (U) a … epidemic (1253) lepromatous / tuberculoid … (1257)
leprous (adj.) a … person (1256)
lesbian (C:610)
less (adj. / adv./ prep.) a pound … || … pretty (30) to ache … (40)
lessee (C:160,1146)
lesser (att. adj.) a … freeholder (160)
lessen (vi&t:470)
lesson (C) a lesson in / on sth. || piano …s (46) to learn one’s … (89)
a … ( in a book ) (141) to teach sb. a … (489) to teach a … (E) (646)
lessor (C:160,1146)
let (v) … () sb. down (43) … sb. `off lightly / with a light sentence // with a caution (536 // 714)
… (`out) sth. to sb. (614) … `fall a remark etc. (695) … go of sth. (886)
lethal (adj.) a disease is … (1258)
lethargy (U) wasting … (1258)
letter (C) a …|| a … box (26, 300) a threatening … (60) a … to the editor || a reader’s … (626)
( to write in ) capital / small / upper-`case / lower-`case …(s) (642) block `…s (656)
… to sb’s letter ( by return of post ) (842)
letter-`perfect (adj:52)
letters (pl.) arts and … (170) a man of …s (420)
lettuce [ `letis ] (C,U) ( a head of ) … (723)
level (vi&t) … a forest (167)
level (C) sbth. is on the … || to do sth. on a … `playing field with sb. (702)
a pay / wage(s) / salary … || … of xxx (791) at eye … (807)
level (adj.) a … surface (940)
level-`headed (adj:907)
levelness (U:940)
levy (vt) … a tax ( on sth.) (356, -76)
levy (C) to impose a … on sth. (376)
Li
liability (U,pl.) to accept one’s inheritance with assets and …ies (1108)
liable (adj.) sb. is … to do sth. (241)
liar (C:81) an inveterate … (109) a congenital … (908) a patho`logical … (910)
libber (C) a women’s … (8)
libel (vt) … sb. (537)
libel [ `laibêl ] (C,U) to bring a .. action // case / trial against sb. (60 // 537)
to have a … printed against sb. || to sue sb. for … (537)
libellous (adj.) a … statement
liberal (adj:4) liberalist (C:7) liberalism (U:7) liberality (U:7) liberalization (U:42) liberalize (vt:7)
liberalized (adj:42) liberally (adv:8)
liberate (vt) … sb. (from sth.) (7,8,24) `liberated (adj.) … slave / prisoner / girl (16 / 24 / 42)
liberation (U:8) liberator (C:24) libertarian (C:7) libertine (C:7) libertism (U:7)
liberty (U,C) take the … of doing sth. || to take …ies with sb. (7)
to be at … to do sth. || have the … of sth. (10) to be at … (22)
civil …(s) || individual / personal / political / religious / press … (23)
libido [ li`bi~dêu ] (C,U) to be governed by … (1172)
library [ `librêri / E& `libri ] (C:105)
to go to a … || in a … || to take out / borrow a book from a … || a … book (198)
librarian (C:105)
licence E/A license (C,U, sg.) have one’s driving …. E / A driver’s … suspended (584)
a … to do sth. (860)
lick (vi&t) … ones’ wounds (fig:809) … the information etc. into shape (1291)
lick (C) give it a … and a promise (754)
lie (C) the … E/A lay of the `land (502,663)
lie ( lay, lain ) … in wait (for) (534) responsibility … with (482) find out / see how the land … (502)
suspicion … heavy on sb. (638) sth. … behind a question (689)
… ( down ) ( flat ) ( on the ground / on one’s front / on one’s stomach ) (1088)
lie (C:43) a tissue / web of …s (789) a pack of …s (908) sb’s eyes give him / her the … (1292)
lie ( lying, lied ) (v:81)
Liebniz (N:1214)
lieutenant (C) a … ( colonel / commander / general ) (191)
life (C,U) to laze () away one’s … (11) sth. sustains … (18)
to lead / live a ( miserable ) … ( in misery ) (21) in sb’s … (35)
in later … (130) to tell sb’s `… story (134) for … (160) to live the … of a prince (162)
to live a … of luxury || sb’s … ceases (163) a loving family … (289) … insurance / assurance (E) (296)
… imprisonment (307) … of the community (314) sb’s … work (396) a … prisoner (539) a fast … (605)
a loss of … (666) to place one’s … in sb’s hands (753) anything for a quiet … (833) outdoor … (844)
… hereafter (902) a future / another … (902)
to owe one’s … to sb. || to get through sth. with one’s … (1090)
sb’s … comes to an ( abrupt ) … (1114)
life-and-death (adj.) … struggle (709)
lifeboat (C:662)
life-giving (adj:221)
lifeguard (C:322)
lifeless (adj:705)
lifelike (adj:298)
lifeline (C) a … for sb. / to a place (fig.) (379)
lifelong (adj:539)
lifer (C:539)
lifesaver (C) an airbag is a big … (296) a … ( = lifeguard ) (322)
life(-)saving (adj.) a … device (296)
life(-)saving (U:322)
lifestyle (C:44)
life-support (U) put sb. on a … machine / system (639)
lifetime (C) to be sentenced to jail for … (212)
lift (v:104) … sb’s parliamentary immunity (828)
lift (C) to beg a … (319) a … pass (1157)
ligate (vt) … the umbilical cord (1228)
ligature (C) to bind sth. with a … (1228)
ligature (vt) … the umbilical cord (1228)
-------light (adj.) … red sth. (18) … refreshments (25) a … colour (32) … rain (63)
a … breakfast / meal (77 / 447)
a … punishment / sentence (117 / gram:513, law:536)
to make … of sth. (420,458) … sleep || a … sleeper (424) a … breeze (435) a … day / … heart (439)
… eater / eating || a … drinker || … drinking (447) ( many hands ) make … work (448)
the …(er) moments / sides of life |´… (in) tone (450) … cream (453) … hand (454) … relief (458)
… as a feather (459) … of foot (461) … reading (465) a … vote (470)
to be … on one’s feet || to travel … (503) … soil (504) a … noise / sound (505)
a … attack (518) … conduct || a … person (519) … fingers (534)
… come … go (538) (no) … matter (545) a … error / sin (549) to make … work of sth. (575)
… traffic (585) … on battery (power) / fuel (586) to do sth. with a … touch (fig:609)
a … smoker || … smoking || … beer (617) … exposure to sth. (621) … shower (639)
… airs (force 1) || wind falls … (661) … metal (673)
light-draught (-draft) (adj.) a … boat (526)
lighter (adj.) on a … note / vein (629)
lightest (adj.) sb’s … wish (454)
lightface (type / print) (513) light-`fingered (adj:515) light-`fluid (adj:616)
light-`footed (adj:461) light-`handed (adj:519) …-`headed (adj:432) light-headedness (432)
light-`hearted (adj.) feel … (425) a … speech (450) ligh-heartedly (adv:426)
light-`minded (adj:542)
light-o(f)-love (C:545)
lightness (U:432) lightsome (adj:427)
lightly (152,426,525) … come … go // … won … held (537) it rains … (435) … clad (442)
… loaded (498) spend … (445) approach / take / treat … (469) to bear sth. …(546)
lightweight (C:body / mind:478, boxing:632) … champion / <ship (632)
lightweight (adj:478) … jacket (422)
------light (U,C:420,,, window442) to appear / come // put / place / see etc.sb./ sth. in a different / good etc./
bad etc. / proper / (un>) favourable / unpleasant / false … (58,428,469+, 533++)
a … signal (74) … at the end of the tunnel (111) a place is a centre of … ( fig.) (218) poor … (266)
at first `… || be all sweetness and … (424+) sth. / sb. see the … (of day) (428 / 462)
to set `… to sth. (A) (430) a flash of … (434) to go out like a … || shine a … (437)
a beam / ray / shaft of … (433) a leaded … (442)
the … goes out || … fails || artificial … || strike a … (443) …s are on (445)
with (delicate) … and shade (fig.) (450) stand in sb’s … (451,481) to put () out the … (452)
the … of day (456) the … of sb’s eyes / sb’s life || sb. / sth. sees the … ( of day ) (462+)
the natural … of day || a leading … (of debaters / in debate) ||
in the … of royal power || … travels (463) by the … of || come to … (465)
(the) … dawns (on sb.) || in the cold … of day || shed / throw … on sth. (466) to see the … (466,513)
in the … of sth. E/A in … of the book (466) cast new … on sth. || bring sth. to … (469)
according to sb’s own …s (482) by the … of nature (508) (the) L… of the World (513)
appear in the … of sbth. (532) look upon sth. in the … of a sweetheart / toy (538,545)
… in sb’s eyes die out (544) by … of conscience (548)
in the … of recent times / years // the (recent) past (553) (the) … and power company (565)
a … bulb || to put / turn / switch the … on / off (572+) a … switch (572)
… is / comes / goes { on / off (573+) a … burns (574)
to catch the green `… || go through a red `… || (a) front … / rear … || traffic / (A) stop …(s) ||
to jump the …s (582)
a … works || (a) brake / tail … (586) the bright `…s (602)
to have one’s name in …s (609) to get a … (616) a … source / … buoy / … wave (663)
…-demanding (529) x-… window (442) a … cell (939) sth. would not bear the … of day (1294)
light ( lighted / lit, = ) (vi&t) … / lit a fire (29,436) sb. / sb’s eyes … (up)on sth. (421)
sb’s presence … () up the room (431) sth. … () up the afternoon / the sky (435+) the sky … up (436)
… a candle || a candle … (443) … the / one’s way (437) a bird … (on sth.) (529)
one’s face … `up || (sth.) … up one’s features (542) … `up ( a cigarette ) (610)
lighted (adj:443) … candle (443) … room / window (445) … match (573)
lighten (vi&t:make brighter:434,438,442) colour / expression / sky / eyes / face / gleam
lighten (vt:less weight:499,659)
lighten (sth.) (up) (vi&t:430,435,449,487) atmosphere / burden / cares / conscience (487) / conversation / duties /
mood / spirits / workload / worries … up ! (425)
lighten (of lightning:436, o-f 442)
lightfast (adj:442)
lighthouse (C:663) … authority / service / keeper (663)
lightness (U) … of movement (1241)
lightproof (adj:505)
lightship (C:663)
lightyear (C) a … || …s ahead of / better than sb. (463)
lighter (C:vessel:659) (disposable / throwaway / gas) … (616) lighterman (659)
lighter (vt:659)
lighting (U:310) … engeneer / effect (643) … fitting (663) … rig (643)
artificial … (443) dim / soft / subdued … (505) street … (582)
lightning (U:293) a flash / gleam of … || a … stroke || struck by … (436)
a … conductor E/A rod || sb. is a … rod for sth. (A fig.) (437) like ( greased ) … (108,503)
a … bug (A) (650)
lightning (adj.) … speed (108) … artist (451) a … strike (481) … attack / war (497) a … stroke (499)
lighting-up (adj.) … time (443,562)
like (vt) … sth. (2) … doing / to do sth. (19)
like (prep:4) to do sth. … sbth. does / did sth. (eA) (90) just … that (99)
like (adj.) … atoms (569)
like (C) or the … (294)
likeable (adj:77)
likeliest (adj.) the … reason for sth. (175)
likelihood (U,sg.) the … ( is ) that - || there’s great / little / low * … of sth. || in all … (61, 64*, 178)
to reduce the … of sth. (64) there’s less / the greatest / highest / lowest … of sth. (178)
likely (adj.) a … choice || sbth. is ( very / more / most ) … to do sth. || it’s more than … that - (52, 176)
a … candidate for sth. (56) hardly … (63) a … place ( to do / for sth.) (66)
a ( quite etc.) … consequence / effect / outcome / result (176)
likely (adv.) ( norm. very / more / most ) … || as … as not (52,59,66,176) not ( bloody ) … (177)
likewise (adv:422)
liking (sg.) to have a temperamental … for sth. (1247) to take a … to sb. (1250)
to have a … for sb. (1281)
lily [ `lili ] (C:420)
limb (C) to go out on a … ( to do sth. ) (426) to be ( left ) out on a … (429) a … ( of the body ) (438)
limelight (U) to be brought / pushed / thrust into the … || come / get into // appear / be in the … // stay
out of the … (602,-6,-8) take / steal / hog the … (618)
limestone (U:213)
limit (vt) sth. is …ed to sb. (153) … one’s expenditure ( to sth.) || sth. … sb’s choice (903)
… oneself to sth. (907) … sb. to do sth. (908) time is / possibilities are …ed (909)
sb. is …ed to sth. (981)
limit (C) the …s (pl.) of a place (17) within the time … (101) to exceed the time … (198)
to stretch credulity etc. to / beyond the … (119) ( to exceed / break ) a speed … (74 / 583)
… value (622) the sky is the … (602) `permit … (622)
to push / stretch the economy to the … || sth. is off … (to sb.) ||
sth. sets / imposes a (strict) … on sth. || sbth. exceeds the … ||
there is a … / are …s to sth. / on whxx / to whxx || to know one’s …s (pl.) ||
the …(s) of sth. || ( to keep sth.) within …s || an upper / lower … to sth. (903)
sb. sets / imposes an age … || sbth. knows no …s || sth. is without … || there’s a … ||
beyond / within a x km … (904)
to keep within …s (907) to set a … to sth. || to reach the … of sth. (909)
a place is off …s to sb. || not know one’s …s (920)
sth. is (far) above / below the (legal / speed) … || sb. is over the … (949)
push / test sb. to the … || perform to the … of one’s capacity (953) push / test sb. to the … (966)
a … on the time (968) push / stretch sb. beyond the … (969) outside / within the city …s (980)
limitation (U,C) sb’s only … (151) without … to sb. (160)
… of sb’s power || to know one’s … || to put / place / impose a … on sbth. (903)
sth. has its …s (904) a physical … (983)
limited (adj.) … means (188) sth. is severely … (484) private (…) company, Ltd. (565)
to be of … means || … resources (903) a … number of sth. (904) … scepticism (909)
in a … sense (910) a … success / period (986)
limiting (adj.) a … factor (986)
limp (sg.) walk with a … (748) limp (vi) sb. … (748)
line (vt) ppl. … up waiting to do sth. (1153)
line (C,U) a goal … (25) an actor’s … || know one’s …s (52) a development follows a … (156)
the bottom … is that - (167) to rank / march in … || … of action (190) to toe the … (194)
a … of defence (207) to do sth. hook, …, and sinker (407) … of march (503) in … with sth. (542)
a power … (565) a telephone … (576) enemy …s (503) to join a … (eA) (619) a straight … (647)
to follow / try a … of enquiry etc (710,714) in sb’s … of fire (1088) the …s of sb’s ancestors (1092)
lined (adj.) … paper (875)
linen [ lenên ] (U:330) to wash one’s dirty … in public (1056)
linesman (C) a … ( in football ) (400)
linger (vi) a smell … in the room || sb’s eyes … at sbth. || sb. … to do sth. (1059)
… (on) (at a place / in an area) || sb. … on sth. (1062) … over a snack (1063)
… out a wretched life (1174)
lining (C,U) every cloud has a silver …(431) the stomach … / … of the stomach (765)
lingo (sg.:1121)
linguist (C:965) linguistic (adj.) a … genius (965)
link (vt:348,422,,,465) … `in with sth. (eE:473) … A to B (461,467,575,636)
… A and / with B (467) … sth. together (471) sth. is …ed with sth. (555)
… sb. with / to { sb. / sth. (fig:606)
linked (pp) inextricably … (461) … by marriage (471) … traffic lights (582)
link `up (vi:620) … with sth. (513) … (with. sb.) for sth. (578)
link () `up sth. (vt) … ( to / with sth.) (654)
`linkup (C) a … with sbth. (565)
link (C:460) (establish a) (causal) … (between ths.) (467,636) forge a strong … with sth. (597)
a close … (597) a computer … (598) a missing … (487) to provide a (vital)
… with sth. / between ths. (471 / 620) telephone … (576) trade … with sth. (598)
to be the weak(est) … ( in sth.) (596)
a chain is no stronger than its weakest … || chain’s weakest … is the measure of its strength (596)
…s between sth. / spl. (637)
linkage (C,U) a … (between two objects) (630, fig:467)
linking (adj.) … verb (652)
linocut [ lainêukût ] (C,U) a … (1072)
lion (124) to beard the … in his `den (827)
lip (C,U) sb’s …s sets in a pout (264) to give / pay … service to sb. (791)
( a retort ) spring to sb’s …s (792) a … for pouring sth. (1316)
lipid (C:571)
lipstick (C,U:445)
liquid (adj.) … refreshment (25)
liquidity [ li`kwidêti ] (U) a … crisis (784)
liquor (30)
Lisbon (N:168)
list (C) a … of wants (19) to draw () up / make a … of sth. (24)
a sluggish / an active … of members (26) to be on the sick … (56) … of departures (68)
to take a … || to have a ( heavy ) … (661)
list (vt) … sth. in a guide (587) … sb’s offences (1143)
listen (vi) … ( to sbth.) (34,45) … to the radio (126) … with half an ear (847)
listener (C:576)
lists (pl:383)
lit (pp. / adj.) a bleakly … corridor (128) sb’s way is … by sth. (422) a brightly … room / castle (443+)
… (up)on (439) ( to be ) badly / poorly / well … (582) …-up (573)
literacy (U:221)
literally (adj.) to take sth. … (821)
literary (adj.) … activity (170) a … man (420) a word’s … sense (1061)
literature (U:26)
lithium (Li) (U:568)
lithograph (C:1072)
litre E/A liter (C:29)
litter (v:18,29)
litter (U,C) to use … as bedding (18)
to end up in … || a … of rubbish eE/eA garbage || a … basket / bin (E) || a … lout (E) (29)
litterbug (C:29)
little ( det. / pron.) there’s … to choose between || to have … choice (1) to give sb. a … peace (12)
to walk a … of the way (31) after a … (32) a … rain (63)
little (adj.) a … pig (18) to walk a … way || a … while (31) sb’s … sister (67) … by … (83)
a … bit of time (201)
little (adv.) to be … more (1) … did sb. know (26) it’s raining a … ( bit ) (63) it signifies … (859)
little (sg.) every … helps (121)
live [ liv ] (vi&t) … in a hostel (3) … a ( miserable ) life ( in misery ) (21) … apart (69) … `on (85)
… to do sth. / regret (89 / 495) … through sth. (89) sb’s memory … on (289) … off the land (555)
… `rough (613) … `up to one’s reputation / name // sb’s expectations (256)
live [ laiv ] (adj.) … programme (632)
live (adv.) to transmit // broadcast / show sth. … (126 // 632)
lively (adj.) a … conversation (41) a … interest (170) a … debate (466) a … behaviour (732)
liven [ laivn ] (vt) sth. … () `up sb. || sb. … (11) sth. … () up sth. (77) sth. … up (199)
liver (C,U) cirrhosis of the … (55) lives (pl:163)
livestock (U) to raise … (144)
living (sg.) to take part in a decent … (11) to scrape / scratsh a … from sth. (16) a … room (17)
to earn / make a … from doing sth. || to wrest a … out of sth. || a … room (17)
to make a … as sth. (144) the … (pl.) (657) a … wage (792)
living (adj.) in… memory (136) a … thing / organism / creature (825)
lizard (C) a (lounge) … (1084)
Ll
llama (C:651)
Lo
load (C:237,427,497+) … of nonsense / bull(<shit ) / crap / garbage / rubbish (479)
… of laundry / washing (655) take / be a … off sb’s mind (430) a … / (E&) …s of sth. (481)
…s to do / see / hear (587) (carry a heavy) … of responsibility (497) get a … of sth ! (587)
to pull a heavy … (497) put an additional / extra … on sth. (fig:644) shed its … (E) (498)
a bus … / busload (A) (of sth.) (587) …s of time (646) do sth. with a full … (of sth.) (667)
load (vi&t, IT: 654) … empties / a carriage (421) … sb. (down) (with sth.) (fig:429,462,531)
… (up) (sth.) (497+) … sth. onto / into sth. (498) … up on sth. (515) … sth. on sb. (531)
… a machine (with sth.) (587) … sth. into a machine (film:588, CD:643)
loaded (drunk:432, rich:618) to play with … dice (9) (to be / feel) … down (with sth.) (fig:429,456)
… with significance (442) … with calories (447) … `silence (449) sb’s mind is … with memories (454)
… against / in favour of (459) … statements / words (473) (heavily / lightly) … vehicle etc. (498)
a … gun (499) a … camera (588)
loading (U,C) a … bay / dock (656)
loaf ( pl:loaves ) (C) a … ( of bread ) (262)
loaf (vi) … around (11)
loafer (C:11)
loan (C,U) a … shark (16) to subscribe a … (26) to take out / secure / repay a … (292)
to give sb. the … of sth. || to have sth. on … ( from sb.) (293)
to apply for a … || to grant sb. a … || to grant a … to sb. || to get a … || a mortgage / house `… (780)
on the … market (997)
loan (vt) … sth. (out) (to sb.) || … sb. sth. (292+)
loanword (C:1217)
lobscou(r)se (U:954)
local (adj.) a … delicacy (5) localized (adj:627) (the) locals (315)
locate (vt, vi+adv.) … a bourgeois mentality (169)
located (adj:528)
location (C,U) a sign for a … (92) to lose one’s sense of … (270)
loci (C) genius … [ d§iñiês `lêusai (E) / (A) genius louki ] (961)
lock (v) … one’s arms (a)round sb. (15) … () `away / up / in sb. (23)
lock (C,U, for key:29,287) a bar … (1137)
Locke, John (164)
locket (C:1131)
`lock-up (C:1139)
loco`motive (C:561)
locomotive (adj.) a … organ (942)
lodge (C) spl. form a … (1184) a temperance … (1247)
lodger (C:255) lodging (251) loft (eE) (C:524)
lofty (adj.) … sentiments (1047)
log (C) sleep like a … (432) a … cottage (866) a … (for a fire) (887)
logic (U:934 &sg.) mathematical … (1215)
logical (adj.) a … explanation (252) a … conclusion (1231)
logician (C:1214)
loin (C,U) … (steak) || … with the kidneys || … of pork (795) to gird (up) one’s …s ( to do sth.) (797)
lone (adj.) a … parent / mother (35+)
lonely (adj.) to feel … (117) a … manor (149)
loneliness (U) the pain of … (284) to feel … (944)
lonesome (adj.) to feel … (117)
long (v:327)
long (adj:3) in the … run (8) … jump (634) be a … time coming || be … in coming (451) at … last (544)
… voyage (224) … johns (pl:760) a … shot (302)
long-range (adj:302)
long-`sighted (E) (adj.) to be … || a … person (870) long-sleeved (285) long-term (291)
longboat (C:224) longbowman (C:360)
longer (adj.) no … (28)
longitude (C,U:663)
longship (C:225)
longshoreman (A) (C:659)
long-standing (adj.) a … disease (1257)
look (C) a searching … (5) throw sb. an angry … || to throw an angry … at sb. (36)
…s can be deceptive (77) a sly … appears on sb’s face (81) do sth. with a significant … (82)
with a … of surprise (88) sb’s …s are against them (98)
sbth. has a gloomy / sinister … || to have a stern / gloomy … on one’s face / in one’s eyes ||
to have a … of bitterness on one’s face / in one’s eyes || sth. gives sb. a … of sth. ||
to cast / throw a … at sb. || to like the … of sbth. || to lend sb.sth. on their …s (128)
with a look as if / though - || to give / shoot sb. ( a black / hard / dirty / piercing / penetrating ) … (129)
to take / get / have a ( * good / close / fresh / brief / quick ) … ( at sth. ) ||
to lose one’s …s (130,* -33+ )
to be in good …s || to have (good) …s || a … passes between spl. (131)
to make sb. … silly / a fool || there are angry …s from sb. || if …s could kill (132)
to give sth. a new … || the French … (139)
to take a serious … at sth. (713)
look (vi, & link, &t+ adv. / whxx) … () `up a number (4) … happy (5) … high and `low (6)
… `through sth. / sb. (8) … at sbth. || sb. … `up (9) sb. … as if / though they do sth. (31)
sb. … priceless (38) … for sbth. / results (42 / 133) … `forward to ( doing ) sth. (47) … like sb. (67)
sth. … promising (76) … `on (helplessly) (104) … forward (110) things … `up (121)
to be …ing to do sth. || … for sth. || sb. … (a)`round ( an area / for sth. ) || … (carefully) ||
that / it / sth. … (to sb.) like sth. || sb. … as if / as though / (eA) like they do / did sth. ||
… for an excuse (128)
it … ( to sb.) as if / as though sbth. { does sth. / was / were (doing) sth. || … one’s dissatisfaction etc. ||
… (like) sbth. || … `daggers at sb. || `… at sbth. in / with {a feeling || … (up)on sbth. with {a feeling ||
… sb. in the face || sb. … but sees nothing || … oneself || the devil … after his own ||
by the … of it (129)
… whxx || … and see || … (a)`round a building || to at sbth., - ||
… one’s age / x / it || … good / well / fit || … one’s thanks || … back ( to / on one’s youth ) (130)
… ( (a)`round / `out ) for a job etc. || … `after sb. / oneself / one’s own interests ||
… out for sb. / oneself || … higher || … a`head (to sth.) || … before you leap ||
… `out for / after number `one (131)
`… (up)on sbth. as subst. / adj. || … `down (up)on sbth. || … `up to sb. || … the other way ||
… sb. up and `down || sth. doesn’t … good || it … bad doing sth. (132)
… down one’s `nose at sbth. || to simply … `on || to leave it to … `after itself ||
… (straight / right) `through sb. || … sb. / the danger in the face || … sb. `down ||
… sb. straight in the eye(s) || … `out for sb. / oneself || … elsewhere / nearer home ||
… to one’s own affairs || not be much to … at (133)
…`away ( from sbth.) || … (well) (a)´round / about (you) || … like doing sth. ||
to be good / bad / not much to … at || … () `over a place || … in(to) a room ||
… up and down sbth. (134)
… `in (on sb.) (for sth.) || … at the implications || `… through a calculation ||
… to sb. for sth. / to do sth. || … () `out sth. (for sth.) || … `out for miscalculations (135)
… () `over papers || … up a subject (137)
( part of ) a building … (to the) east / on (to) etc. sth. (139) … to see if - (140)
… `on …|| … to a way of doing sth. || … `into / `… in a book || … () `out a fact || … `up a word
… to it that - || … to one’s manners || … `after sth. (141)
… `up (from sth.) || … () `up sb. (142)
sb. … lively with sth. || business … `down / up || … at sth. from xxx point of view
things / business / figures / the future … good / bad (for sb.) || conditions … towards bankruptcy ||
… to ways of doing sth. || … to the day when - || sb. doesn’t / never … behind them / back ||
things / prices … `up (143)
… sure / certain to do sth. (279)… upon sth. in the light of a sweetheart / toy (538,545)
to … sb. full in the face (1144)
lookalike (C) a Dracula … (128)
looker (C) a ( real / good) … || … (130, 142)
looker(s)-on (C:142)
look-`in (C) to get / have a … (E) (134,142)
looking (adj.) … glass (71) `forward-… (135)
`lookout (C) sth. is one’s own / sb’s … (133) a … ( tower ) || a … over sth. (139)
a …(<man) || to place / put sb. on the … || to keep a good / sharp … ( for sbth.) (140)
loom (C) a hand / power … (1172+)
loophole (C:370,413)
loose (adj.) sb. lets () … ( sth.) (fig:206) to turn a dog … (229) a … stitch (265)
to be at … / on the … (1141)
loosen (vt) … sth. from sth. (567) … one’s reason (1073) loosely (adv:153)
loot (U:224/v:226) looter (C:237)
lord (C) a … || a … of a manor (130) the L…s Spiritual / Temporal (189) (the) L…’s Prayer (228)
the L… of the Bedchamber || the L…-in-`waiting (456) drunk as a … (704) the L…’s Supper (745)
lordship (C:150) a feudal … (150) lorry (E) (C:565)
lose (vi&t) sth. … sb. all chances (37) … one’s life (42) … one’s way (206) … face (306)
… one’s head (394) … weight (460) … one’s composure (475) … sleep over sth. (480)
… no time in doing sth. (530) … one’s courage / heart (843) … one’s reason (951) to … sb. (1121)
a clock … ( x ) (1268)
loser (C:387) a bad … (959)
losing (adj.) fight a … battle (469)
loss (C,U) to suffer a … (18) … of money (60) to be at a … { what to do / to do sth. (114 / 497)
the … of a player (201) (a) … of memory || (a) memory … (209) to run (a business) to a … (252)
to make / suffer a … (due to depreciation ) (291) a … adjuster (295) … of life (666)
to suffer heavy …es (666) … of appetite (1258) a sickening … (1259)
lost (adj.) a … key (6) sth. is … on sb. (11) a … person (140) to get … (269) not … or harmed (270)
… in thought (464) to be … for words (838) sb. is … at sea || a ship is … ( with all hands ) (1121)
… ground (1286)
lot (pron.) a … of sth. (4) an awful … of sth. (47)
lot (C: land:325) to cast / throw in one’s … with sb. (8,58) to have neither part nor … in sth (53)
a `whole … (91) sb’s … is hard (289) a vacant … (616) (all) the …(s) of sth. (582)
a queer … of complexions (o-f) (1240)
lottery (C) the first prize in a … (188) a … ticket (991)
loud ( adj.) a … clap (114) a … ( shade of ) red (445)
loud (adv.) action speaks …er than words (57) loudly (286)
loudspeaker [ laud`spi~kê ] (C) over the … (303) a … ( as part of an apparatus = a speaker ) (334)
a voice from / over / through a … (884)
lounge (vi+adv.) … around / (E) about || … in bed (885) … away one’s holiday (1083)
lounge (C) a … (E) (17) VIP … (64) a departure … (776) a … suit (1079) a … `bar (1081)
a sun `… (E) (1081) a … lizard (1084)
lounger (C) a sun … (1081)
lounging (adj.) to live a … life (1084)
lout (C) a litter … (29)
love (vt) … sb. (5) a ...d one who has died (289)
love (U,C) to fall in … with sb. (5) to make … (69) to be hopelessly in … ( with sb.) (116)
to have an abiding / a lasting … for sb. (142) a … affair (174) …-making (542) sb’s … life (542)
it’s … at first sight (870) … of pleasure (1048) to have a … of / for sth. (1098)
loveless (adj.) a … marriage (831)
lover (C) rejected … (58) nature-… (658) …s’ meeting (29)
loving (adj.) a … family ( life ) (289)
-loving (adj.) freedom-… people (9) truth-… (1274)
lovingly (adv:219)
low (adj.) a … grade / mark (eE) (2) … shot (302) high and … (adv:87 / ppl:89)
at a … position in society (245)
a … point of / in sth. (852) the L… Countries (931)
lowbrow [ `lêubrau ] (adj.) a … person (10) lowbrow (C:10)
low-`cut (adj.) a … dress (1059)
lower (vi&t) … the sail || the sail … (226) … oneself to do sth. (245) … one’s voice (264)
lower (adj.) the … extremities (20) the … classes (174) … likelihood (178) the L… House (189)
to rank … (195) (to write in) … case || …-case `letter(s) (642)
lowermost (adj:245) at the … position in society (245)
lowest (adj.) at the … position in society || one’s income at … (245)
lowly [ `lêuli ] (adj.) … folk (363)
loyal (adj.) to be … to sb. (312)
loyalist (C:1171)
loyalty (U:148)
Lp
L-plate (C:73)
Lu
lucid (adj.) … writing (1031)
luck (U) to be in … || to have a run of good … (8) worse `… (27) … smiles on sb. (33) worse … ! (41)
sth. is a hint to … / a hint about good … / a warning of bad … / brings bad … (71) to foresee … (72)
sth. augurs good / ill … (73) as ill / good … would have it (542 /-49)
knowing one’s … || … is with sb. (949) to push one’s … (955) to do sth. by ill … (1253)
lucky (adj.) to be … to do sth. (8) a … charm (34) sth. is … (71) to count oneself … (284)
a … wheel (579) a … number (1234)
luckily (adv:63)
lucrative (adj.) … conditions / market (784 / 789)
ludicrous [ `lu~dikrês ] (adj.) a … parody (609)
luggage (U) … (eE) (69) a … rack (E&A) (1152)
Luka (N) St …’s Gospel (70)
lukewarm [ lu~k`wå~m ] (adj.) … soup (723) … water (1230)
lull (C) a … in the fighting (387) a … in a conversation / bombardment (480 / 511)
the … before the storm (482) a … in a storm (662)
lull (vi&t) … sb. to sleep (424) … into sth. (a false sense of security) / doing sth. (239,482)
to be …ed by (482) … sb’s bad feeling (638) the wind … (662)
lullaby (C:424)
lumber (U) … room (E) (782)
lumber (vi+adv.) a …ing ship (1012)
luminous (adj:855,1170)
lump (C) a … of earth (38) a … on one’s head (949) to have a … in one’s throat (1078)
a … appears on sb’s skin (1257)
lumpiness (U:940)
lumpy (adj.) a … surface (940)
lunar (adj.) a … module (671)
lunch (vi) … with sb.|| … on sth. (78)
lunch (C,U) to partake of a good …(11) to go to … || to have / eat (sth. for) (one’s) … ||
to serve hot and cold …es || to break / go out for … || during sb’s … hour || a packed E/A a bag `… ||
a … box (78) a … basket (323)
luncheon (C,U) a charity … (75) … meat || a … voucher (E) (78)
lunchtime (U,C) packed at …(s) (78)
lurch (C) to leave sb. in the … (238)
lure (vt) …sb. into (doing) sth. (43)
lure (norm. sg.) the … of sth. (102)
lurk (vi) bad motives … below consciousness || bad intentions … behind parliamentary language (7)
lurking (adj.) … danger (140)
lushness (U:767)
lust (C,U) to be in thrall of … (232) to be obsessed by (a) … for power (377)
lustful (adj:234)
Luther (N) Martin … (931)
Lutheran (adj.) a … philosopher (165) the … Church (749)
luxuriance (U:676)
luxurious [ lûg`§uêriës ] (adj.) … furnishings (370) … cars / living (603 / 1041)
luxuriously (adv:1041)
luxury (C,U) to buy …ies (95) to live a life of … (163)
to afford / have / enjoy the … of (doing) sth. || to lead a life of … || sth. is pure … ||
to have the … of doing sth. || life’s little …ies (1041)
Ly
lying (U:81)
lymph (U) … gland / note (1257)
lyric (C) a … (357) the …s (1271)
lyrical (adj.) a … form (171)
lyricist (C:1271)
Mm
Ma
MA ( Magister Artium / Master of Arts ) (172)
macaroni (U:794)
mace (C,U) a spiked … (381) reed … (1128)
Macedonia (N:775)
machine (C) a gambling … (11) sb. is a fighting … (170)
machinery (134) … of power (376)
mad (adj.) theatre-… || … about / on theatre (E) (51) to be / get … at / with sb. (eA) (65)
to make sb. … (eA) (66) a … dash / rush for sth. (624)
madcap (C/adj:584)
Madeira (N) … cake (68)
made (pp.) be … `up of sth. (1048)
`made-up (adj.) … crime etc. (696)
madhouse (fig:102)
madness (U:396)
maelstrom [ `meilstråm ] (C:1204) to be drawn into the … (1204)
magazine (C:137)
magic (U) black `… (71) to weave one’s … (80) to use … on sbth. (92)
magic (adj.) … powers (72) … wand (113)
magician (C:71)
magistrate (115) …’s court (115) a ( chief ) … ( in ancient Rome ) (924)
magnet (C:566)
magnetic (adj.) a …needle (566) a … `compass (862) magnetism (566)
magnificent (adj.) a … sight (857)
magnifying (adj.) a … glass (588)
magnitude (U,C) of equal … (1170)
magpie (C:919)
maid (C:278)
maiden (C:278) on its … voyage (663)
mail (U) a … slot (A) (26) `black>… (60) to open / read one’s … (A) (130)
a ( coat of ) / ( chain ) … (402)
the secrecy of the …s (463) (by) … order (879)
mailman (A) (C:26)
mail-order (adj.) … company / catalogue (879)
main (C) electricity / gas / sewer / water … (564) in the … (563) the …s (E) (564)
main (adj.) … `office (681) … `road (562) … staircase / stairs (444) … station (69) … topic (46)
… town (409) a … street (A) (732) a … dish (793) a … verb (843) a … clause (1222)
mainland (sg.) the … (658)
mainly (adv:70)
maintain [ mein`tein ] (vt&speech:85) … (that) - (59) … sb. (154) … a sense of sth. (158)
… divinity (173) … a class barrier (180) … sb’s interest (285) … a car poorly (296) … morale (502)
`maintenance (U) poor … of a car (296) to pay … to sb. (841)
maintained (adj.) a … attack (201)
maize (U:18)
major (C) a … (general) (191)
major (adj.) a … part (12 ) to play a … character (52) a … threat (55) … event (429)
majority (23) a clear … (814)
make (C) a … of car (296) sth. of best … (853) to be on the … (701)
make (vt) … a choice (2) … money (6) … sb. do sth. (10, 24)
… one’s way to sth. || … one’s peace with sb. (11) … it through sth. (15) … a living from sth. (17)
… sb. sad || … (it) `up (with sb.) (19) spl. … up an order (173) … for home (235) … do with sth. (246)
… certain / sure (249) … sth. come true (578) … good one’s escape (684)
… a (wrong) calculation || … it sth. (a number) (686) … () `out sth. ( perceive:541, a bill:576)
… () `up sth. (577) … up to sb. (701) … an actor (855) sb. … sth. of sth. (1174)
make-believe (U) a world of … (94)
`make-up (U) to wear ( heavy / light ) … (445) sb’s intellectual … (478)
making (U) the … of sth. (50)
maladjustment (156)
malaria (U:1258)
male (C)
male (adj.) … oppression (8) a … chauvinist || … chauvinism (42) a … part / role (52) a … guest (78)
malevolence [ mê`levêlêns ] ( (U:473)
malevolent [ mê`levêlênt ] (adj.) a … person // rumour / stare / grin (472+)
malformation (C,U:897)
malice (U) to do sth. out of sheer / pure … (394) to do sth. with … (396) not do sth. out of … (618)
malicious (adj.) … laughter / pleasure (387 / 960) a … person || … gossip (471)
malign [ mê`lain ] (vt) … sb. (485) to be much …ed by sb. (522)
malign (adj.) a … influence (486)
malnutrition (U) sb’s health is ravaged by … (248)
maltreat [ mal`tri~t ] (vt) … sb. (340)
mammal (C:651)
man (vt) to … a barge (659) … oneself for doing sth. (1086) … an installation (1087)
man (C,U) a young … (4) an animal or a … (13) a leading `… (52) a …-of-war (140)
a … and his wife (244) a …-at-arms (395,499) to become a different / new … (980)
sth. makes a … out of sb. || sb. is only half a … || sb. is not the … he was || to be one’s own … ||
not the … to take offence etc. || a / one … to another (1089)
… for … (1091)
`manackle (C) …s (396)
manacle (vt) … sb. (396) manackled (adj:396)
manage (vi&t) … to do sth. (15) … a manor (143)
manageable (adj.) a … section (143)
management (U,sg.) land … (162) game … (257)
authoritarian / high-`handed / top-`down … (style) (601)
manager (C:252) person`nel E/A `personnel … (592) a publicity … (1057)
a(n) executive / middle … (1314)
managerial (adj.) … skill(s) / experience (595) authoritarian / high-`handed / top-`down … style (601)
managing (adj.) … di`rector (eE) (593)
mandatory (adj.) … sign / signal (74)
mane (C) a … of hair (1122)
maneuverable A/E manoeuvrable (adj:226)
manful (adj.) a … person (1089)
mangetout (U:1156)
mangonel (C:395)
manhole (C:1086)
mania (C.U) gamble … (9)
manhood (U) a nation’s … (1088) sb’s test of … || sb. reaches … || in sb’s … (1089)
manifest (v:308)
manifesto (pl.<s) (472) election / party … (807)
manipulate [ ma`nipjuleit ] (vt) … a tool (138) … sb. ( into (doing) sth.) (180+)
manipulative (adj.) … skills (138) a … person (180)
manipulation (180) ma`nipulator (181)
mankind (U:280)
manliness (U) lack of … (1101)
manly (adj.) a … virtue (206) … excesses (1098)
man-made (adj.) a … catastrophe / disaster (293)
manner (C) sb’s …(s) (11) have an ackward / a stiff … (128) do sth. in a lady-like … (130)
what … of sth. ? (132) to look `after all … of things || in all … of ways || to do sth. after / in this … (135)
all … of papers (137) in the … of which - || in a … of speaking ||
to do sth. after the… of sbth. / our kind || to do sth. in the … of sbth. / our kind ||
by no … of means || in no uncertain … || to be to the … born (138) sth. in the … of sb. (139)
as (if) to the … born (180)
manners (pl.) to have ackward / stiff // sinister …(s) (128+) to have ( noble / graceful ) … (130)
to have bad … || it’s bad … to do sth || to have no … || to teach sb. … || to learn some … (132)
smooth …s (473) blatant / revolting …s || evil …s (537)
mannered (adj.) mild- // rough- / ill-… (130 // -32) well-…. (131) to be better … (180) a … style (183)
mannerism (U:183)
manoeuvrable E/A maneurable [ mê`nu~vêrêbêl ] (adj.) a … ship (226)
manoeuvre E/A maneuver [ mê`nu~vê ] (vi&t) … one’s way to the top (716)
manor (C:128) manorial (adj.) a … system (150)
`manpower (U) a … shortage || (un)skilled / (un)trained … (1121)
mansion (C:128)
mantelshelf E/A mantel (<piece) (C:887)
manual (C) a user … (798)
manual (adj.) … labour / work (132 / -80) a … labourer (1311)
manufacture (U:214) manufacture (v:577) … a story (fig:635)
manufacturer (C:577) …’s instructions (654) manufactures (pl.:577) manufacturing (U:577)
manuscript (C) a … of the Gospel / sb’s sermon (219 / 742)
many (2)
Mao (N) … Tsetung (933)
map (C:92) a geological / physical … of a place (213) to read a ( road ) … (324)
a road / street / route … (798)
marathon (C) ( to run ) a / the … (634)
Marc (N) St …’s Gospel (70)
March (N:420)
march (vi&t+adv.) … off || … in line || time … on (192) … in step (193)
… off with sth. || … sb. out of a place (198) … on a place (211 / 501) a principle … with sb. (492)
sb. … on somewhere (496) some land … upon / with some land (501) … sb. + adv. / prep. (517)
the events are beginning to … (523)
march (C) a … (along a border) (149) (in the) … of time (182,482) on the `… (192)
a … past || to play in … time (193) to go on a … (211) (the) … of civilization (492)
(the) … of events (482) to steal a … from sb. (490)
march (=land) (U:149) the …es (218)
marcher (C:211)
marching (U) a … column || music in … step (193) (give sb. / get one’s) … orders (192, fig:642)
( full ) …equipment (497)
marching-off (sg:192)
marchioness [ ma~$ê`nes E/A `ma~ ] (173)
mare (C:402) a …’s nest (408)
margin (C) constructive / destructive plate … (647) win by a wide … (958) marginalize (485)
marigold (C) a marsh … (1128)
marihuanna (U:605)
marine (attr. adj.) a … algea (651)
marine (C) the merchant `… (A) (1121)
mariner (C:663)
marital (19) … fidelity (378)
mark (vt, celebrate:578) … sbth. with sth. (92) … the time (in music) (193) sb. is …ed by sth. (fig:607)
… an exam(ination) (725)
mark (C) get / have a good / poor / high / low … (eE) * in a test (2,* 725) a plus / subtraction … (125)
a judgement near to the … (63) to toe the … (A) (194) (first / second / quick / slow off the) `… (475)
( to leave its ) … on sth. (510) to be up to the … (E, o-f) (953)
to press a … onto sth.|| to impress / print a … on sth. (1045)
marked (adj.) a … increase (162)
market (C) throw sth. into the … || an active / a sluggish … (26) the labour … (123)
hold a … || sell sth. at a … place || at a `…<place / `square || a … trader / stall (266)
trade on the `stock … (291) on the black `… (515) a flea … (616) housing / property … (784)
a competitive … (965) the loan … || … price (997) … `forces (1144)
marketable (adj.) a … house (1134)
marketplace (C:266)
marking (C,U:326)
marksman (C:14)
marquess, marquis, <ate, marquise (C:173)
marriage (C,U) sb’s … (131) … of convenience (175) … guidance counselling / counsellor (604)
connected / linked by … (471) to make / take one’s … vows (439)
to have a civil / E& registry-office … (1161)
marriageable (adj.) a … person (133)
married (adj.) get / be … ( to sb.) (44 / 131) a (newly) … couple (453)
marry (vi&t) … sb. (44)
Mars (N) the planet … (995)
marsh (C,U) the …es (139) a … dweller (1120) a … marigold (1128)
marshy (adj.) … ground / land (134 / 555)
martial (adj.) a … sport (154) … law / spirit / virtue (513) martyr [ `matê ] (217) martyrdom (217)
Marx (N) Karl … (933)
mascara (U:453)
masculine (adj.) the … gender (1217)
masculine (U) the … (1217)
mashed (adj.) … potatoes (795)
mask (C) throwing off the … (38) an oxygen … (1080)
mason (C:880) a monumental … (1315) the Free and Accepted M…s (1316)
masonry (U:420) to build up … || knowledge of … (1315)
mass (C,U) a … ( in Latin ) (159) … suggestion (100) the underprivileged …es (374)
a … of scribble(s) (508) atomic … (568) a … of tangles (692) …-produced (763)
massacre (C,U) the misfortune of … (232)
massacre (vt) … spl. (861)
massage (C,U) have a … (775)
massive (adj.) (a) … flood of sth. (534) … opposition (626) … unimployment (1134)
mast (C) a ship’s … (140)
master (C) M… of Arts (172) sb’s … (231) M… of Ceremonies (441) a … craftsman (781)
a … plan (822) a question … || a quiz>… (958) … of the land (1177)
master (vt:446) masterful (107) mastermind (639)
masterpiece (C) a true … (1267)
masterwork (C:1267)
mastitis (U:1269)
mat (C) a door … (26) a prayer … (227)
mat (A) (adj.) … paint (1302)
match (C) a ( practice / football … (eE) (25) light / strike a … || a box of …es (617)
a full … goes x rounds (852) a prudent … (1003)
matchbox (C:617)
matching (att. adj.) … cushions (1267)
material (C,U) to punch a … (20) raw …(s) (68)
materialism [ mê`tiêriêlizm ] (U:359) dialectical … (1198)
maternal (adj.) sb’s … instinct(s) (1085)
maternity (U) … clothes / pay / benefit || to go on … leave || a … ward (1228)
mathematical (adj.) a … sign (125) a … problem (200) … logic (1215)
mathematician (C:1169)
mathematics / maths E/A math (U:647)
`matrimony (439) joined in the bonds of … / in holy … (439) matrix (158) (St) Matthew’s Gospel (70)
matt (E) (adj.) … paint (1302)
matte (adj.) … paint (1302)
matter (v) … (to sb) (2) it doesn’t … (63)
matter (C,U) a choice in the … (2) to be a … of sth. (42) an everyday … (44) (as) a … of course (99)
what’s the … with sb. (133) no matter what / that - (256, -59) to make …s worse (627)
sth. is an easy … (642) to send the … to press (1054)
to correct the … || to pass the … to press || the finished … goes to press || printed … (1055)
a public … (1079) as …s stand (1150) reading … (1154)
matter-of-fact (adj.) a … description (907)
ma`ture (adj.) … woman || sb. of … years (752) mature (vi&t) meat  … (794)
maxim (C ) it’s a … that - (152)
maximum (adj.) … allowable (concentration) (622) …-security (207) may (1) maybe (33)
Mayday (N) a … call / signal (666)
mayhem (U) there’s complete … (227) cause / create / wreak … on crops (224)
cause / create / wreak … (on a building) (229)
mayor (C:98)
mayoress (C:899)
Md
MD (C) Medicinae Doctor / Doctor of Medicin (172)
Me
meadow (C:157)
meager (adj.) a … diet (157)
meal (12) … ticket (75,81) a quick … (591) to make a … out of sth. (82)
mealtime (U:75) …s on `wheels (75)
mealy (adj:79)
mealy-mouthed (adj:81)
mean (adj.) … dwelling (16)
mean ( meant, = ) (vt) … sth. as sth. (42) sb. … sth. to do sth. (48) sth. … (that) - (50)
sth. … sth. || sb. … (that) (76) sth. … sth. (149) sb. … to do sth. (264) … no harm (618)
meander (C:225)
means (pl.+ sg. / pl.) … of education (3) by any … (23) money, capital and other … (91)
by … of sth. (105) by no manner of … (138) … of transport (409) by legal … (711) by no … (850)
… of production (933) a … test (1208)
meanwhile (sg.) in the … (57)
meanwhile (adv:57)
measles (U,pl:1258)
measure (C) to take …s to do sth. (16) adequate security …s (307) emergency …s (419)
a `tape … (438) a … of alcohol (617) an inch / a centimetre … (875) half ….s (E) (893) a litre … (1063)
a … ( in a tune ) (1124) a large … of self-government (1174)
measure (vi&t) … sth. in terms of sth. (152)
measuring (adj.) a `… tape (438) a … instrument (875) a … cup E/A jug (1063)
meat (U:5,&C) a … dish || hot and cold …s (794)
mechanic (C) a (car / garage / motor (E) / (A) auto … (876)
mechanically (adv:588)
mechanics (U) Newtonian / classical … (1169+)
mechanism (C) the body has a natural defence … (205)
media (U, pl.) the (broadcasting) … (+sg. / pl.) (625)
mediate (vi&t) … between spl. / a settlement (601)
medical (adj:1) M… Research Council (637) … treatment (722)
a … examination || a … ward || the … staff (1260)
`Medicaid (A) (728)
medicament [ me`dikêmênt ] (C) a herbal … (722)
`Medicare (A) (728)
medicate (vt:722)
medication (U,C) be on … || to take one’s … || (a) herbal … (722)
medicinal [ me`disênêl ] (adj.) … properties / herb / plant (722)
medicine (U,C) study …(1) `… man (71)
to take one’s … || get some / a little od one’s own … (fig:724) alternative / herbal … (722)
medi(a)eval [ medi `i~vêl ] (adj.) the … society (147) mediocre (adj:384,391) mediocrity (U:385,C:387)
meditate (vi&t) … rising (376) … revenge (388)
medium [ `mi~diêm ] (pl: media / mediums ) (C) a … ( for people ) (117) a … ( for spirits ) (902)
meet (C) a track … (eA) (634)
meet (met, met) (vi&t) people … (24) sth. … sb. (25) extreemes … (32)
… with / to be met with disrespect etc. (36) … sb. (48) to make (both) ends … (60)
… an obligation (147) … the cost of sth. || … the payments (on sth.) (783)
… an aim / a goal / an objective / a target (816)
meeting (C) a lovers’ … (29) a … with sb. (56) to call a … (57) a … place (66)
a poorly attended … (309) to give notice of board … (330) a boxing … (632) athletics … (E) (634) the
… (693) a selection …(802)
to regulate a … (803) a hastily called … (828) a … hall / house (898)
megalomania [ megêlêu`meiniê ] (U:379) megalomaniac (C:379)
megalomaniac [ megêlêumeiniak ] (adj.) a … person (379, 1243)
melancholia (U) to be disposed to / to suffer from … (1242+)
melancholic (adj.) to feel / look … || to have a … disposition / temperament / temper ||
to be in a … humour / temper / mood || a … person (1242)
melancholy [ `melênkêli ] (U:69,1239) to have … in one’s complexion / temperament ||
… is sb’s predominant humour (1242)
melancholy [ `melênkêli ] (adj.) … eyes || a … ( expression / look on sb’s ) face ||
a … look in sb’s eyes || a … tune || to feel / look … ||
a … person / tune || to have a … disposition / temperament / temper ||
to be in a … humour / temper / mood || a … person (1242) … thoughts / memories (1243)
melody (C,U:126)
melt (vi&t) … () down sth. (323) sth. … the snow / ice || sth. … (768)
melting (U) a … point (887) the … of snow (1364)
meltwater (U:768)
member (C) a .. of a legislative body (1) a … of society (7) … of a sentence (408)
a … of a compound word (1217)
membership (U,C) sign up for … (91) … fee (764) to resign (one’s) … of E/A in sth. (841)
membrane (C) mucous … (766)
memento (C) a … of sth. (763)
me`morial (C) sb’s … (342)
memory (U,C) to search one’s … (4) to have a short … for sth. (33)
…ies can be deveptive || a … plays tricks on sb. (34)
to have a vivid … of sth. || spl. have long …ies (35) sbth. was / did sth. (with>) in sb’s … (133)
sbth. was / did sth. in ( recent / living ) … (136)
(a) loss of … || (a) … loss || a vanishes from sb’s … ||
an event / a memory { remains / stays / are { etched in sb’s … / ( indelibly ) stamped on sb’s … ||
sb. refreshes their … || to have no … of sth. (209)
to regain one’s … || sth. refreshes sb’s … || sth. brings () back …ies (212)
…ies of sth. are growing dim (220)
to have an excellent / good / bad / pooor ( short- / long-term ) … || to have a … like a sieve ||
to lose one’s … || to have happy / fond / bad …ies || to take a walk / trip doen the … lane (254)
to speak from … (285) sb’s … is poor (286) to do sth. at the … of sth. (288)
to bring () back a sad … || to do sth. in … of sbth. || sb’s … lives on (289+) a lapse of … (1291)
men (pl:7)
menace [ `menês ] (C) to remove a … (1036)
menace (vt) sb. … sb. (219)
menacing (adj.) … eruptions (418) a … wave (1287)
menacingly (1287)
mend (vi&t) … (E) the damage that a remark has done (261)
… a piece of clothing (265) … one’s ways (963)
menial (adj.) … work / job / task (720)
meant (v:149 pat. of mean)
mental (adj.) … faculties (1) … developement (43) to gain the best of … health (210)
a … feeling (1043)
mentality (C) a burgoise … (169) sb’s victim … (239)
mentally (adv.) … `agile (503)
mention (U,C) … of sbth. (352)
mention (vt:33) the above-…ed person (11) as previously …ed (26) … sth. (to sb.*) (33,331*)
the person …ed (197) the first …ed person (727)
mentor (C:44)
menu (C) on the … (5) to ask for the … (793)
mercantile (adj:168)
`mercenary (C:349)
merchant (C, person:168) the … `marine (1121)
merchantman (C:659)
merciful (adj.) fate is … to sb. (289) … God || to be … (330)
mercifulness (U:250)
merciless (adj:364)
mercury (U) ( the element ) … (408)
Mercury (N) the planet … (995)
mercy (C,U) to throw oneself on sb’s … (34) to have … on sb. (39) to be left to the … of sb. (218)
to ask / beg / cry / plead for … || to show no … || to despair of ( having ) … (228)
at the … of sb. / * sth. || to beg for … || to beg … of sb. (230+, * 236) it’s a … ( that ) - (234)
mere (adj.) sb’s … awareness (72) a … trifle (100) ( at ) the … thought of ( doing ) sth. (290)
instead of … petitions (366)
merely (adv.) to … look `on (142)
merit [ `merit ] (vt) an idea … consideration (260)
merit (U,C) personal …s (153) to get a job on … (256)
the …(s) of a proposal || to consider a case on its (own) …s (258) relative …s (495)
merlon (370)
merriment (U) sb’s eyes sparkle / twinkle with … (992) to be infected with … (1247)
merry (adj.) in … company (523)
merry-go-round (C) a ride on a … (E) (992)
marrymaking (U:679)
mesh (C,U) steel … (204) to be trapped in a … of concepts (300)
to be caught in the …es of the law (406) a … fence (625)
mes`meric (adj.) a … performance (1066)
`mesmerize (vt) sbth. … sb. (1066) mesmerizing (adj.) a … performance (1066)
mesolitic period (213)
mess (sg,U,.C) one’s life is (in) a … (110) a place is (in) a … (455) sb. is a … (951) sb. is in a … (975)
message [ `mesid§ ] (C) to send out a … of peace (25) to signal a … (94)
to pass on / relay a … to sb. (1106)
messenger (C:494)
messy (adj:455)
met ( pat. / pap. of meet ) (42)
metabolism (C,U:650)
metabolic (adj.) a … process (888)
metabolism (C,U) the constructive / destructive … (569)
metal (C,U:31) heavy `… (643)
metalwork (U:899)
metamorphosis (C,U:170)
metaphysical (adj.) a … proposition (934) meta`physics (U:934)
mete (vi) … () `out (a) punishment to sb. (1162)
meter (C) a parking … (324) … reader / reading (564) a gas / electricity … (564, -75)
meterman (C:564)
`methane, methanol (570)
method (24)
meticulous (adj.) … in one’s work / about sth. || … care / preparation / details || a … order (340)
meticulously (adv:340)
mete (vt) …() out a punishment to sb. (276)
metre (E) (C) ( to run ) a / the 100 etc. …s (634)
mews (pl:17) … `house (108)
Mi
microbe [ `maikrêub ] (C:205)
microbiology [ `maikrêu bai`ålêd§i ] (U:648)
microelement (650)
micro-organism [ ‘maikrêu `å~gênizêm ] (C:205)
microscope (C:588) a … slide (1288)
microscopic (adj.) (a) … analysis (1288)
microwave (C:620) a … oven (297)
mid (amid / amidst) (prep:308)
mid- (prefix:77)
midair (U) in … (1157)
middle (sg.) in the … (191)
middle (adj.) to find a … way || to steer a … course (21) the M… East (70)
a … `name (103) the … class (155) the M… Ages (147) … rib ( steak ) (795) in the … ground (1305)
middelbrow (adj.) a … book (11)
middle-`sized (adj:856)
Midgard (N) the … Serpent (223)
midget (adj.) a … village (139)
midnight (U:318)
midst (C) in their … (145 / 523)
midterm (adj.) … vacation (674)
midtown (A) (U / adj:415)
midway (adv.) … across (1133)
midwife (C) a … delivers a baby (286)
might (mod. v) … be/do sth. (4)
might (U) with all one’s … (476)
migrate [ mai`greit E/A `mai…] (vi) people … (927)
migration (C,U:168) the period of the great … (927)
migratory [ mai`greitêri E/ & `maigrêtêri / A -tåri ] (adj.) … birds (72)
mild (adj:34)
mildly (adv.) to put it … (854) mildew (649)
mild-mannered (adj.) to be … (130) mile (C:66)
mileage (adj.) a … allowance (858) militaristic (12)
military (sg.) the … ( is / are -) (12)
military (adj.) … service (12) … law (202) … position / works (204)
militia [ mi`li$ê ] (C) to raise a … (349)
milk (U:18) cow’s … (993) breast … (424)
a breast … substitute (E) || formula … (A) || … powder (E) || powdered `… (E) || dry … (A) (1130)
milk (vt) … a cow (18)
milking (U:720)
mill (C:17) a wind … (167)
millet (U:18)
million (num., C) …s (314) look / feel like a … `dollars / bucks (988)
mimic ( mimicked ) (vt) … sbth. (1099)
mince (vt&i+adv.) … () sth. (up) || …d meat (793) … about (796) not … (one’s) words (796)
mince (E) (U:793) `… pie (796)
`mincemeat (U:796) to make … of sb. (796)
mincer (E) (C:793)
mind (vi&t) not … sb. doing sth. (104) not … the slightest (268)
mind (U,C) sb’s … (16) attitude of … || an acute / a sharp … (41) to change one’s … (59)
sb’s subconscious … (59) peace of … (89) sb’s … set (158) a person of sound … (177)
to have a … like a sieve (254) a one-track `… (602) to see / picture sth. in one’s …’s eye (521)
to have it in … to do sth. / that - (753) to have half a … to do sth. (834)
to drive sb. half out of their … (844) to let sb. know one’s … (910) not know one’s … (950)
to cast one’s … to / over sth. || to call () to … sth. (977) to know one’s own … (979)
to take one’s … `off sth. (986) to concentrate one’s … (987) sth. crowds sb’s … (1047)
to put / set sb’s … at ease / rest || sb’s … is crowded / overflowing with thoughts (1063)
to be of sound … || to be in one’s right … (1066) a healthy / sound … (1263) a sick … (1265)
minded (adj.) noble-… (180) public-… (1073)
mine (C) an active … (64) mineral (405)
mingle (vi&t) … with the crowds (10) a sound … with another sound (17) … with the audiecce (86)
minimize (vt:328)
minimum (C) the bare … (763)
mining (U:404)
`minister (vi) … among / to sb. (735+)
`minister (C) … of defence (203) prime … (309) … of religion (734+)
… of the interior || … of foreign / external affairs (621|| 811)
… of agriculture / defence / education / health / labour (812)
ministry (C) … of defence (E) (203) … for taxation (414)
… of the Interior || … of foreign / external affairs (811) … of labour (812) … (of a priest) (736)
minor (adj.) a … portion (12) Asia M… (925)
minority (22,age:366) be reduced to a … || be in a / the … (on an issue) (804)
mint (C,U) Master of the M… (1169)
minus (adj.) a … sign (125) a … point (866) minute (29) miracle (230)
miraculous (adj.) a … act / event (821) miraculously (9)
mirror (C) breaking a … (71) look into a … / at oneself in a … (1066)
misapprension (U,C) (be) under the … that - (95)
misappropriate [ misê`prêuprieit ] (vt) … trust funds (787)
misappropriation (U)
misbehaviour [ misbi`heivjê ] (U) sb’s … (56)
miscalculate (vi&t) … the figures / a risk / whxx (135)
miscalculation (C,U) to look `out for …(s) (135) to make a … (687)
miscarriage [ `miskarid§ / E& mis`- ] (C.U) to have a … (906)
miscarry [ mis`kari ] (vi&t) … (a child) (907) a plan … (915)
miscast (vt) to be … as sb. / sth. (62)
mischief [ `mist$if ] (U) to be up to / keep out of / do … (462) to do oneself a … (462) criminal … (473)
( to make ) … between ppl. (471)
mischief-maker (C:471) mischief-making (U:471)
mischievous [ `mist$ivês ] (adj.) a … child (461)
… obstruction / gossip || a … person / lie / rumour / (471)
mischievously (adv:477)
misconduct [ mis`kåndûkt ] (U) accuse sb. of (gross) … (98) to commit (serious) … (209)
… in office (714) professional … (788)
misconstruction (C,U) (a) … of a situation (830)
misconstrue [ miskên`stru~] (vt) … sth. (as (doing) sth.) (830)
`miscreate (C:274)
miserable (19) (as) … as sin (52)
misery (U,C) to suffer the extremes of … (19) to live in extreme … (21 to make sth. a … (545)
misfortune [ mis`få~t$ên ] (C,U) sth. spells … (76)
to be spared / have the … of ( doing ) sth. / to do sth. (232 / 236)
( to bear ) one’s …s (249)
misgiving [ mis`giving ] (U, pl.) to have …s about (doing) sth. (131)
despite one’s …s (248) to do sth. without (any) … (s) (253) a sense of … (270)
misgovernment (U:352)
`mishap (C,U) …s happen || to have a … with sth. (1148) a series of ( slight ) …s (1150)
without … || without having …s (1158)
misinterpret [ misin`tê~prit ] (vt) … sth. (as (doing) sth.) (830)
misinterpretation (C,U) (a) … of a situation (830)
mislay (vt) … sth. (1078)
mislead ( misled, = ) (vt) sth. … sb. (244) sb. … sb. (295)
misleading [ mis`li~ding ] (adj.) sth. is … (77) … philandering (542) mismanagement (358)
misplace (vt) … sth. (1078)
misread [ mis`ri~d ] (vt) … sth. (as (doing) sth.) (830)
misreading [ mis`ri~ding ] (C,U) (a) … of a situating (830)
miss (C) a kick is a … (38) sth. is a near `… (fig.) (60) a near … between two planes (64)
a bomb is a near … (667)
miss (vi&t) … a turn (9) … one’s key (6) … sb. || … the train (69)
sb. / sth. … ( ( hitting ) the target / game ) (199, 667)
… a turn-off / one’s turning E/A turn (324) to be sorely …ed (854)
missed (adj.) a … shot (199) a … bombing (667)
missile [ `misail E/A `misêl ] (C) to discharge a … (370)
missing (adj.) the … note / key (4 / 6) sb. is … in action (24) sth. is … (33) a … link (487)
mission (C) to conduct a … to do sth. 155) to send sb. on a … (206) to complete a … (226)
it’s sb’s … to do sth. (1164)
missionary (C:16) missionary (adj.) a … journey (818)
misspell [ mis`spel ] (vt:103) misspelling (C,U:125)
misspent [ mis`spent ] (adj.) … money / time (1245)
mist (U,C) a blanket of … (235) a window clouds (up) with … (447)
a place is shrouded in … || a patch of … (451)
mist (vt, vi+over / up ) to steam … () up a window || a window … over / up (447)
sb’s eyes … over (450)
misted ( adj.) a … window (447)
misty (adj.) a … night (235)
mistake (vt) … sth. for sth. (197)
mistake [ mi`steik ] (C:33) to make a … (79) to return a … (95) an expensive / a costly … (110)
mistaken (adj.) in the … belief that - (81) … identity (687) mistakenly (92)
mistreat [ mis`tri~t ] (vt) … sb. (207) mistreatment (U:207)
`mistress (C) sb’s … (361) to be … of the kitchen / the sea (981 / 1177)
mistrust [ mis`trûst ] (U) do sth. with … || sb’s … of sbth. (273) mistrust (vt:273)
misunder`standing (C,U:79)
misuse [ mis`ju~z ] (vt) … one’s power (72)
misuse [ mis`ju~s ] (C,U) ( alcohol ) … (55)
mitigate (vt) … anger / punishment (691/ 695) … the effect of sth. / poverty (730)
mitigating (adj.) … circumstances / factors (693)
mitigation (U) … of a punishment (694) to do sth. in … (693)
mitre [ `maitê ] (C:439)
mitten (C:1155)
mix (vi&t) … elements of different beliefs (71) … `up sth. and sth. (197) sb. … with sb. (210)
… flour and water ( together ) (262) to get / be …ed `up in crime etc. (845)
mixed (adj.) a … marriage (176) a … people (214) to have … feelings about sth. (979)
… emotions (1084)
mixture (C,U) a … of beliefs (71) cough … (773) an uneasy … of humour and violence (844)
Mj
Mjölner (N:223)
Mo
moan (vi&t) sb. … (87) … about sth. (631) moan (C) a … of pain (771)
moat (C:395)
mobility (U) social … (180)
mobilization (496) mobilize (495)
mock (attr. adj.) … dignity (609)
mock (vi&t &speech; … (sb.) 961) … (sbth.) (959) mocker (C:959) mockery (U:959 &C)
modal (C:1222)
modal (adj.) a … verb || a … auxillary ( verb ) (1222)
mode [ mêud ] (C) to be in panic / holiday … (62 / 64) a stealthy …of life (81) sth. is the … (139)
a … of society (146) sb’s … of behaviour (158) a … of thought (1162)
model (C) a role … (472)
model (vi&t) … a statue in bronze / a figure out of || … a figure of sth. ||
… oneself on E/A after sb. (1070)
modem (C:334)
moderate (adj.) a … optimist (110) moderation (U:1032)
modern (adj:49)
modest (adj.) a … person / church (56 / 348) modesty (120)
modification (C,U) an energy-saving … (297) genetical … (316)
modify (vt) …ied foods (316) … a behaviour (935)
modulation (C,U) amplitude / frequency … (620)
module (C) a lunar … (671)
moist (adj.) a … surface (447) a … cake (1317)
moistness (U:940)
moisture (U) a window clouds (up) with … || sth. absorbs / retains … (447)
the skin’s natural … (1316)
moisturize / E& <se (vi&t) sth. … ( the skin ) (1316)
moisturizer / E& <ser (C:1316)
moisturizing (adj.) a … lotion (1316)
mold (A) (E: mould) (C,fungi U:649) to pour sth. into a … (887)
molecule (C:569)
molest [ mê`lest ] (vt) … sb. (352)
molester (C) child … (739)
mollify (vt) … sb. (691)
molten [ `mêultên ] (adj.) … lava (418)
moment (C) a fortunate … to do sth. || to do sth. the next … (5) to do sth. for a … (83)
sth. happens the … sth. happens (163) the … that - (232) at the ( very ) last … (243)
to do sth. for a ( brief ) … (266) a brief … of silence (520) the mood of the … (958)
sbth. of (the) … (959) the best possible … to do sth. (998) at the critical … (1089)
to seize the psychological … (1161) the … of truth (1292)
momentarily (adj.) sth. appears … (81)
momentous (adj.) a … removal (342) monarch [ `månêk ] (C:145) `monarchy (C:145)
mo`narchic(<al) (adj:173) `monastery, mo`nasticism (161) mo`nastic (162)
money (sg.) to make … (6) illegally obtained … (577) to have a lot of … in one’s pocket (fig:602)
sb. with … to spend (672) careful with … (619) pay by … order (A) (761) to earn good … (785)
pocket … (E) (845) to spend … on (buying) sth. (952) to have … sense (1072)
to come by / into … (1080 / 1108) to get danger … (E) (1149)
…-grubber (C:604) …-grubbing (U:603) …-making (U:168) …-spinner (C:321)
moneylender (C:16)
monitor (vt:673)
monitor (C:776)
monk (C:161)
monkish (adj:342) monkey (C:39)
mono`saccharide (571)
monosyllabic [ månêsi`labik ] (adj.) a … word (1221)
monosyllable [ `månêsilêbl ] (C:1221)
monotheisme [ `månêu#iizêm ] (U:70) monotheistic [ månêu#i`istik ] (adj.) a … religion (70)
monotonous [ mê`nåtênês ] (adj.) a … series of sth. (363)
mon`oxide (570)
monster (C:1069)
monstrous (adj.) a … arrangement (365) … person (1246)
month (C:23)
monthly (adj:23)
monument (C:25)
monumental (adj.) a … mason (1315)
mood (C) in a joking …(36) in a … of despondency (87)
sth. lightens (up) sb’s … || sb’s … lightens (up) (425)
to be / feel in a good / bad / foul / filthy / confident / optimistic / depressed / pessimistic … (943)
to put sb. in a (xxx) … (950) sb. is in a (real) … || (not) be / feel in the … for sth. ||
not be / feel in the … || to be / feel in no … for (doing) sth. / to do sth. || in a festive / party … (951)
the … of a time || in a reading … || sb’s … changes || violent … swings ||
sb’s … alternates / swings (952) get into a xxx … (953) the … of the moment (958)
an excelent … || the … of a crowd (959) a jolly / jovial … of a pub (961) (in) such a … (960)
sb. is in one of their …s (961) the imperative / indicative / subjunctive … (969)
a (growing) … of sth. (in a place) (970)
the imperative / infinitive / indicative / subjunctive / participle … (1218)
to be in a relaxed / phlegmatic … (1241)
in a dispirited / downcast / dejected / despomdent / depressed / pessimistic / sad / sombre / doleful / gloomy /
glum / mournful / sorrowful … (1243)
in a bad / foul / filthy … (1244)
moodiness (U:951)
moody (adj.) … thoughts / weather || sb. is … (951+)
moon (C:116) moonbeam (C:1082)
moonlight (U:422)
moor (v) … alongside the quay || … a boat to sth. (658)
mooring (C:660) … line / rope / post (660) to break free of / slip its …s (pl:660)
moor(s) (eE) (675) moorland(s) (675) moot (adj.) a … `point / question (E/A) (817)
moot (vt, pass.) a question etc. is …ed (823)
mop (C) a … of hair (1122)
mop (vt) … ( the sweat from ) one’s brow / forehead (54)
`moral (adj.) … restraint(s) (8) a … duty / obligation // … support (502) … certainty (275)
… standard(s) (547) a … sense (944)
moralist (C:1223)
morals (pl.) a foundation for sb’s … (818) a decline of … (1142)
morale [ mê`ra~l ] (U) high / low … || to keep () `up / restore / improve / maintain / boost / raise … (502)
loss of … (593) moralist (C:823) morality (547) morally (196) morass (527) a … of sth. (fig:607)
morbid (adj.) a … lust for power (377)
morbidity (U) do sth. to the point of … (824)
more (2) plenty … (26) not do sth. no … than - (43) the … xxx the better xxx (44) more`over (220)
morning (C,U) in the …(s) (6) the … sun (452) late in the … (453) a … dress / coat (758) to do …
exercises (1070) morose (adj.) a … person (10)
morphine (U:49)
morphology (U,C) the … of a surface (677) … of a word (1217)
Morse (N) the … alphabet || to send sth. in … code (1269)
mortal (C) ordinary …s (224)
mortal (adj.) in … danger (624) … sin (749) man is … (1089)
mortally (adv.) … wounded (1012) mortar (U:221)
mortgage (C) apply for / grant / take out / pay off / redeem a … || … payer (780)
mortgage (vt) … one’s assets / property (112,780) … (sbth’s) future (784)
mortuary (C:
mosaic (C:217)
Moses (N:70)
mosquito (C:504)
most (adj:2) the top-… part (139)
MOT [ em êu `ti~ ] ( Ministry of Traffic ) (C) a car passes its … ( test ) || an … certificate (1060)
mote (o-f) (705)
mother (C:36) … country (390) M… Nature (676) …’s darling (961)
motherland (C:390)
motif (C) a picture … of photography (588)
motion (U,C) to put / set a car in … (31) a … `picture (49) a … apparatus (650)
the swaying / rocking … of sth. (769)
to propose / put forward / table a … || a … that - (813)
to `second / support a … || to put a … to the vote || to have / take a vote on a … || to vote on a … ||
to vote () through a … || to pass / carry / adopt / approve a … ||
a / to vote for / in favour of / against a … || to vote () down / reject a … ||
a … is defeated by x to y (814) the laws of … (1170)
motionless (adj:539)
motivate (vt) … sb. ( highly ) to do sth. (51)
motivated (adj.)
motivation (U,C) psychology of … (196) a … for (doing) sth. (938)
motive (C) a bad … || a … behind sth. (7) an ulterior … ( 249)
to have a … ( for ( * doing) sth.) ( * 251, 894)
a physical / mental … (1199)
motive (adj.) … power (572)
motley (adj.) a ... crew of spl. (579) a … collection of sth. (587) a … bunch (1239)
motor (C) a … idles (31)
motor (adj.) … apparatus / function / musle / nerve (1263)
motorcycle (C:633)
motorcyclist (633)
motoring (adj.) … news / offender (583) motorist (319)
motorway (301,587)
mould E/A mold (C,fungi U:649) to pour sth. into a … (887)
moulding (C,U:574) mouldy (adj:263)
mound (C) a fort on top of a … (346)
mount (C) a … (to ride on) (151)
mount (vi&t) … a campaign / … a coup [ ku~ ] (310 / 312) … a horse (383) expences … `up (880)
a car … the kerb E/A curb (991)
mountain (C) a rock makes a … (213) … bike (633) a … climber (416)
a … range / peak / ridge / spur / slope / plateau / gorge / ravine / pass (864)
a … hotel (1153)
mountaineer (C:416) mountainous (adj:216) mountainside (C:862) mountaintop (C:862)
mounted (adj.) a … warrier (151) turret-… 666) mounting (adj:594)
mourn [ må~n ] ) (vi&t) … ( for ) sb. || … sb’s death / sb’s sad loss (380, 757)
… ( for ) the loss / passing of sth. (560)
mourner (C:380)
mournful (adj.) sb. is … (380) a … person (1242)
a … ( expression / look on sb’s ) face || a … look in sb’s eyes || a … tune || to feel / look … (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
mourning (U:757)
mouse (pl:mice) (C) Mickey M… (825) a … squeaks (886)
mouse (pl:mouses) (334) (computer’s) … || … button (334) the … pointer (840) quiet as a … (887)
mouser (C:886)
mousse (U,C) (a) salmon / strawberry … (794 / 796)
moustache (C) to wear a … (758)
mouth (C) don’t look a gift horse in the … (142) to put your foot in your … (196) the … of a river (216)
by word of … (506) one’s heart is in one’s … (826) sb’s … feels dry (917)
to shoot one’s … off ( about sth.) (1079) sb’s … waters (1317)
mouthpiece (C) telephone … (576)
move (vi&t) … at a snail’s pace (11) … near (to) sth.(54) sb. … in a world apart (fig.) (66)
… (E& house) (128) … to a new home (138) … with the times (185) to … in exalted circles (190)
to be …d by ( the sight of ) sth. (221) … together (781) … in || … into a flat (782)
… a vote of `censure (803) … onto an example (820) … among sb. / in a culture (994)
sth. … sb. to tears (1082)
move (C) to make a (peace) … (24) to be on the … (154) a false … (1293)
movement (C,U) a … (74) a reform … (147) a monastic … (162) sb’s …s ( at a time / place ) (705)
freedom of … (862) thermal …s (939) sb's ease and lightness of … (1241)
movie (49) … `theater || see watch a … || go to the …s (49) `… star (50)
moving (adj.) a … speech (285)
mown (pp) new-… (589)
Mp
mph (miles per hour) (583)
Mu
much (1) muck (vi&t) muck () out a stable etc (720)
mucous (adj.) … membrane (205)
mucus (U:766)
mud (U:331) stud and … || a … hut || a … brick (1303)
muddle (C) the … of the century (1181)
muddy (adj.) … ground (332)
mug (C) a … (for drinking) (872)
Mu`hammad (N:70)
mule (C) as stubborn as a … (692) to ride on a … (769)
mullah (C:734)
mull (v) … ()`over a matter / situation (1068)
mullet (C:877)
multi> [ `mûlti ] (prefix)
multible (adj.) … injuries (709) … (`store / shop) (E) (763)
multicellular [ mûlti `seljêlê ] (adj:649)
multifarious (adj.) … livestock etc. (721) … observations (934) sb’s … talent || in … ways (1277)
multiform (adj.) in … matters (1277)
multiplication (U) to do a sum in … || a … sign (125)
multiplicity (sg.,U) the … of sb’s talent (1277)
multiply (vi&t) a …ied by b is / equals / makes c (125) the wealth is …ing (1173)
mumble (vi&t &speech:1291)
mummify (vi&t) a …ied rat (1302)
mummy (C) a … ( in nature ) (1302)
mundium (C:150)
municipal (adj.) … election / council (409 / 889) munici`pality (C:899)
munitions (pl:498)
murder (U,C:293) to commit ( a brutal ) … of sb. (321) … with intent to rob (712)
murder (vt&i) … sb. (321) … with intent to rob (712)
murdered (adj:709)
murderer (C) a cold-blooded … (321)
murderess (C:712)
murderous (adj:361)
murmur (vi&t&speech) sb. … (speech) (115) murmur (C:84)
muscle (C,U) a flabby / flaccid … (10) to exercise one’s …s (199) a motor … (1263)
muscular (adj.) a … foot (985)
mushroom (C:505)
music (U) to have a good taste in ( instrumental ) … (47)
to play (a piece of) / read … || to play sth. without the … (126)
musician (C:49)
Muslim (70)
must (aux.v:4)
mustard (U:25)
mutate (vi:648)
mute (adj.) sb. is … (238) with a look of … appeal (169) to be ( deaf ) … (1271)
muteneer (C:1176)
mutiny (vi) soldiers … (1022)
mutiny (C,U) a … breaks out (1175)
mutter (vi&t&speech:1281) … curses (536)
muttered (adj:388)
mutton (U:346)
mutual (adj.) … obligations between spl. (147)
mutually (adv.) … exclusive (60)
muzzle (vt:482,527)
muzzle (C:499,512,527) a … cap / cover / protector (512) …-loaded (adj:512) …-loader (C:512)
My
mycelium (C:649)
myriad (C) a … / …s of sth. (866) mysterious (adj.395) myth (C,U:232)
Nn
Na
nail (C:of metal:509) (bite) a … down to the quick (475) to hit the … on the `head (706)
nail (vt:509)
naive [ nai `i~v ] (adj.) a … person (112) to be so … as to do sth. || it’s … of sb. to do sth. (546)
naivety (U) sb’s … (544)
naively (adv:544)
naked (adj.) … breasts (232) a … light / bulb (619 / 770) a … shoulder // body / person (758 // 764)
feel … (fig:753) strip (sb.) … (764,771)
stark … /A buck … /A … as a jaybird (764)
… aggression / fear || to be visible to / with the … eye (771)
nakedly (adv.) … aggressive (763)
name (C:25) full / christian / first / middle / family / last … || surname (103)
more in … than in fact || in … only / alone (173) a common / proper … (188) in … at least (211)
to be sth in … (221) to live `up to one’s … (256)
name (v) … sth. (840) … sb. sth. (1229)
named (adj.) a … public figure (626)
namesake (C) sb’s … (1018)
nanny (C:131)
nanometre (C:1171)
nap (C) take / have (an after-dinner / afternoon) a … (720)
napkin (C:323) nappy (E) (C:460)
narcissus (pl: narcissi [ -sai ] ) (C) a white … (403)
narrate (vt) sb. … an experience / their life (424 / 450) … a broadcast (639)
narration (C;U:465)
`narrative (U,C:177,465) a coherent … (1221) narrative (adj:465) … fiction (465)
narrator [ nê`reitë ] (C:59) first-person / om`niscient … (465 / 608) a … in a broadcast (639)
narrow (vi&t) a struggle … to one to one (367) sb. … their eyes || sb’s eyes … (1092)
a plateau … (1117)
narrow (adj.) a … choice (1) a … escape (61) it was a … squeak (63)
the straight and … ( path / way ) (81) to have a … attitude to // vision of / view of sth. (180 // -85+)
sb’s … outlook on the world (185) a … street (249) to win / score a … victory (304) the … bed (427)
narrowly (adv:312)
narrow-minded [ - `maindid E/A `… - ] (adj.) a … person (468) narrow-mindednss (U:468)
nasal [ `neizl ] (adj.) … cavity / passages (7)
nascent [ `nasênt ] (adj.) … culture (169)
nasty (adj.) sb. turns … (233) sth. has a … taste (1265)
natal (afj.) post-… depression (288)
nation (C:22)
national (adj:12) a … team (590) the N… Cup / Championship (304)
nationalism (U:354)
nationalist (C:354)
nationalist (adj.) a … state / party (1288)
Nationalsozialistische (adj.) … Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (669)
nationwide (310)
native [ `neitiv ] (C:16)
native (adj.) sb’s … tongue (217) sb’s … soil (236) sb’s … country (390) sb’s … land (390)
… place / part of the country (1092)
natural (adj.) … grace (76) ( the ) … science(s) (195) a … catasrrophe / disaster (293)
… resources (312) … environment (316) a … child (378) in the … course of events / things (492)
a … place (756)
naturally (adv:171) … gifted (610)
nature (U,C) human … (42) … conservation (81) sb. is sth. by … (164) sth. is sth. in … (171)
… conservancy association || … reserve (316) in the … of the case (385) by the light of … (508)
by its very … (583) to appeal to one’s better … (920) ( to feel ) the call of … (938) the laws of … (946)
sth. is alien / foreign to sb’s … (961) a picture is true to … (1268)
–natured (adj.) a good-… person / discussion (1240 / -47)
naturist (C) … beach (764)
naturopath (C:1255)
naturopathy (U:1261)
naughty (adj.) a … pupil (333)
`nausea (U) to feel … || a feeling / wave of … comes over sb. (767)
nauseous (adj.) sth. makes sb. … || feel … (767) nautical `chart (225) … `mile / term (226)
naval (adj.) a … station (13) … architect /<ure (225) … army (328) … battle (226) … defence (328)
… power / shipyard / strength (225) … supremacy (668) … vessel (668) … warfare (666)
nave (C:743)
navel (C) a … on the belly (1228)
navigability (U) … of a river (226)
navigable (adj.) a … river (226)
`navigate (vi&t:260,294,301,325,330,335)
… ( one’s way ) across a sea / along a coast || to … a river (226)
… one’s way through / to a place (270,324)
navigation (U) an instrument of … (226) … on the internet (335)
navigational (adj.) … aid /skills (226)
navigator (C:225)
navvy (C1185)
navy (C, colour:U) in the … (79) the merchant `… (E) (1121) a … bean (A) (1156) … blue (1234)
Ne
near (vi&t) sth. … (44) sth. … sth. (63)
near (adj:18,51,,,) … future (54) … affair (67) … certainty (68) … concern (67) … friend (67)
a … `miss (60) it was a … thing (63) the N… East (64) on a … day (66) from far and … (67)
near (adv. / prep) to be / live etc. … (to) (sth.) || sth. is… at hand ||
to come … (to) sb. / sth. ( in qual. / quan.) (51)
to be / come / go … to (doing) sth. || … to sb in sth. (61+) … to tears (62) to be … related (67)
as … as makes no difference || as … as could be to doing sth. (62,68)
near-blind (adj:38)
nearness (U:54) nearby (adj:6) nearby (adv:54)
nearest (adj.) (be) the … thing to sth. (51) to the … xxx (64) the … way / road (to sth.) (66)
nearly (adv.) examine / resemble sth. … (67) have … finished || it’s … x (o’clock) ||
it’s … time to do sth. (68)
near-`sighted (A) (adj.) to be … || a … person (A:870)
neat (455) neatly (47)
`necessaries (pl:16)
`necessary (adj.) it’s … (for sb.) to do sth. (91+) if … (92)
a … evil (94) more than strictly … (259)
neces`sarily (adv.) not … (94)
necesseties (pl.) the basic … (16) the bare … (760)
necessity [ nê`sesêti ] (U,C) a basic / an everyday … (16) out of / through dire … (89)
if / when there’s a … (92) the … of / for sth. || the … of doing / to do sth. (853)
the pressure of … (1040) sth. is an absolutely … ( for sb.) to do sth. (1096)
neck (C) to throw / * fling one’s arms round sb’s … (69, * 266) a blow on the … (152)
to put one’s … on the block ( for sb.) (708)
… of beef / pork (795) to take sb. by the scruff of the … (1103)
neckband (C:1101) neckcloth (C:1101) neckerchief (C:1101) necklace [ neklês ] (C:266)
need (vt& modal) … time (12) (a) badly / much …ed sth. (1131)
need (U,C) in dire … of sth. (16) basic …s (19) feel a (strong) … to do sth. (920)
a bodily / physical // emotional / mental / psycic(al) / psychological … (936+ // 944)
to sense / feel a … for sth. (937)
needle (C) a … and thread (265) to have pins and `…s in an arm / a leg (438)
to be on pins and ..s (A) (438) a magnetic … (566)
needlecraft (U:581)
nefarious (adj.) a … activity (534) nefariously (534)
negative (adj.) … reinforcement (196) a … number (647)
negative (U) to answer in the … (82)
negatively (adv.) … charged electron (566)
neglect [ ni`glekt ] (U) do sth. from years of … (330) … of sb. (340) … of duty (746)
neglect (vt) … advice (249) tv … some sports (318) … a place (330) … to do sth. (331)
… one’s studies (335) … sb. (340) … one’s duty / duties (746)
neglected (adj.) a … child (340) a … subject (947)
neglectful [ ni`glektfl ] (adj.) a … student / parent (335 / 340) to be … of sth. / sb. (335 / 340)
negligence [ `neglid§êns ] (U:335) caused by … on the part of sb. (307) a … claim (1271)
negligent [ `neglid§ênt ] (adj.) sb. is … in (doing) sth. (335) a grossly … student (335) a … gesture (339)
negligently (adv:370)
negligible [ `neglid§êbl ] (adj.) a … cost (339)
negotiate (vi&t) … a settlement (24) negotiater (C:24)
negotiation (C,U) conduct (peace) …s (24) enter into / open …s ( with sb.) (203)
pay / wage / salary …s (791) Negro (<es) (629)
neighbour (22, fig:1095) … at dinner (445)
neighbourhood (C:16) an affluent … (301)
neighbouring (adj.) a … village (139)
neither (conj.) … xxx nor yyy (11) … does sbth. do sth. (340)
nemesis [ `nemisis ] (U,sg:166)
neoclassic(al) (adj:49)
Neolithic (adj.) the …period (213)
neon (Ne) (U:568)
nephew (C:352)
nepotism (U:592)
Neptune (N) the planet … (995)
nerve (C) to suffer from first-night …s (63) sb. needs strong …s to do sth. (419)
to have / suffer an attack of …s (593) a motor … (1263)
nerve-racking / -wracking (adj.) a … time (1138)
nervous (adj.) … breakdovn / disorder / strain (99) a … system (936) a … wreck (1115)
a … temperament (1244)
nest (vi&t) … in a tree (331)
nest (C) ( on `lookout in ) a crow’s … (140) to build / make a … (331)
net (C) a … ( of a goal ) (302)
Netherlands (N) the … (931)
netting (U:723)
nettle (C) a ( stinging ) … (504) sb. grasp the … (E) ( of sth.) (508)
nettle (vt) sth. … sb. (505)
network (C) … of companies (296) telephone … (576)
neuter (adj.) the … gender (1217)
neuter (U) the … (1217)
neutral (adj:568)
neutron (C:567) never (adv:7) nevertheless (adv:1) nervousness (U:83)
new (adj:10) a … mother / father / parents (287)
to become a … man (980) The N… Testament (70) a … ( grand ) parent / baby (1228+)
newborn (adj.) a … baby (287)
newborn (C:287)
newcomer (C:16)
new-fangled (adj.) … architecture (1062)
new-laid (adj.) … eggs (874)
newly (adv.) … baked bread (874)
`newly-wed(s) (C:445)
news (sg.) the … is sth. (39) … about / on / of sth. / that - (503)
a … agency / story / item / report || front-page … (507)
much / little … || a bit / item / piece of … (522)
it’s … to sb. (537) (greet / welcome the) … (that) (550)
sb. is ( bad * ) `… (for sb. / sth.) (589, 606* )
a … broadcast / headline || a … and current affairs programme (619)
sth. / sb. is on / sb. is in the … (621) sports … (632) a `… ‘blackout / bulletin (655)
on-the-spot … (993)
newsagent (’s) E/A <dealer (C:507)
newscaster eA/eE <reader (C:507)
newsdealer A/E <agent (’s) (C:507)
newsflash E/A news bulletin (C:655)
newshound (C:507)
newsletter (C:589)
newsman (C:507)
newspaper (C:17U:665) … proprietor (507) … stand (507)
a serious / quality (E) / sensational … (840)
newspaperman (C:507)
newsprint (U:614)
newsreel (C:599)
newsreader eE/eA <caster (C:619)
newsroom (C:507)
newsstand (C:507)
newsworthy (adj:507)
newt (C:651)
Newton (N) Isac … (164,1169)
Newtonian (adj.) … machanics (1169)
next (det., adj.) the … day (5) … year (63)
next (pron.)
next to (prep.) to sit … … sb. (67)
next (adv.) to rank … below sb. (191)
Ni
nice (adj.) be … || a … girl (33) … warm weather || the weather is … and warm (o. pred.) (69)
nick (C) in the … of time (243)
nickname (vt) … sb. sth. (45)
nickname (C:45)
niggard (C:55)
niggardly (adj./adv:55)
nigger (C:629)
night (C,U) at / by … || in the … (6) … and day || day and … (13 || 27) during the … || late at … (27)
a first / (an) opening `… (61) a … on the town (407) a rough … (429) to stay the … (452)
… clothes (456) to spend the … with sb. (543) … sky (866) … falls (995)
in the dead of … / E& at dead of … (1282)
nightfall (U) at / by … (1133)
nightlife (U:602)
nightmare (C) a … scenario (277) to have a … about sth. || a hideous … (706+)
sth. is a … for sb. || the … of ( doing ) sth. || sb’a worst … (708)
nightmarish (adj.) a … time || under … conditions (708) a … figure (1268)
nightly (ad:205)
nightwatchman [ nait`wåt$mên ] (C:29)
nightwear (456)
nil (U / (E) number) 0 – 1 ( … one = no goals to one ) (302) reduce sth. to (almost) … (311)
nimble (525) … on one’s feet (525)
nine (num:48)
nip (v) … into sth. (E) (591)
nipple (C) a … ( of a woman’s breast or on a man’s chest ) (772)
a baby sucks ( milk through ) the … of a bottle (A) (1230)
nitrat [ `naitreit ] (U,C:570)
nitric acid [ ‘naitrik `asid ] (U:570)
nitrite [ `naitrait ] (U,C649)
nitrogen [ `naitrêd§ên ] (U:568)
No
no (1) … matter (83)
nobility (U,C) the … (+ sg. / pl.) (144) the … of sb’s intentions (153)
noble (adj.) a … family (128) a … face (130) a … building (134) sb. … of birth (153) … gas (568)
noble (C:144) nobleman (C:27) noblewoman (C:173)
noble-minded (adj.) a … person (180)
no`blesse (U:174)
nobly (adv.) a … born person (179) … look to sth. (180)
nobody (pron:6) nobody (C:910)
nocturnal (adj.) … dangers (205) a … animal (1282)
nod (C) a … ( of the head ) (80) to be in the land of … (645)
nod (vi&t) 80) … (one’s `head) (80) … (to sb.) (to do sth.) (89) … at sb. || … sth. (at / to sb.) (90)
noise (C,U) the … of a city (12) a … nuisance (211) … abatement / control (643)
noiselessly (adv:269) noisy (193)
nomadic (adj:559)
nominally (adv.) … elective (929)
nominate [ `nåmineit ] (vt) … sb. for sth. || … sb. for / to do sth. || … sb. as sth. (805)
… a date / time as sth. (806)
nomination (C:U) ( to get the ) … for sth. || ( to win the ) … as sth. (805)
nominative (C) a word in the … (1218)
nominative (adj.) a word in the … case (1218)
nonchalant [ `nån$êlênt E/A nå~n$ê`la~nt ] (adj.) a … gesture (339) nonchalantly (adv:370)
non-commissioned (adj.) a … officer (191) non-committal (adj.) a … reply || be … about sth. (746)
none (adv.) sbth. is … too good (143)
none (pron.) … of them (sg. / pl.) (15) … at all (157) nonhe`reditary (adj.) … dignity (153)
no`nentity (C:910)
nonnobility (C:153)
nonnoble (C:173)
non-payment (575) non`plussed (adj: 837) non-returnable (323) nonsense (86)
nonsensical (adj.) a … theory (86)
non`zero (adj.) a … number (647)
noon (U) at noon (142) high … (1155)
noose (C:698)
nor (conj.) neither sth. … sth. (11) neither do sth. … do sth. (43)
normal (U) sb. / sth. returns to … (122 / 250)
Norman (C:330) Normandy (N:330)
Norse (C:223)
north (U,sg.) in the … (North) (717) to the … of sth. (717) the N… Sea / Pole (168 / 566)
north (adj.) … pole (of a magnet ) || the … magnetic pole (566)
northerly [ `nå~dêli ] (adj.) … direction (718)
northern [ nådên ] (adj:717)
Northman (C:225)
northward (adj:718) northward(s) (adv:718)
Norway (N:224)
Nor`wegian (adj:224)
nose (C) to look down one’s `… at sbth. (133) an up`turned … (264) to put sb’s … out of joint (599)
one’s … is running || a running / runny … || to blow one’s … (on sth.) (766)
to have one’s … blocked (1078) nosedive (667)
nostril (C) sth. assails the …s (16) sb’s …s flare (with anger / fright) (694 / 696)
anger / fright flares an animal’s … || its … flare (721) not (1)
notable (adj:619)
notable (C:578)
notably (369)
note (C: writing:4, music:126) (bank) (>) … (5) … line (193) on a lighter … (629)
sth. ends in a sour … (1252)
notebook (C:46) a … (computer) (878) notepaper (U:875)
nothing (pron.) there’s … to choose between sth&sth. (1) something or … (2)
to know ( absolutely ) … about sth. (8) to be … compared to / with sth. (174)
to feel like … on earth (1065)
nothing (adv.) … like sth. (174) … short of sth. (230)
notice (C,U) a … says - (76) to give … of board meeting (330)
to give sb. … || to give (one’s) … || to hand in one’s … (714+)
notice (vi&t) … sbth. ( do / doing sth.) (30, 32)
notion (C) … of sth.(41) … that - (43)
notorious [ nêu`tå~riês ] (adj.) a … womanizer || … for sth. (27)
notoriety [ nêutê`raiêti ] (U,sg.) achieve / gain / win ( (a) widespread ) … as / for sth. (27)
notoriously (adv:27,558)
notwithstanding (adv. & prep: 831)
nought (C,U) a … (eE) (647) … (E) degrees Celcius (888)
noun (C) a ( common / proper ) … || a … inflects (188, 843) a … || a … phrase (408)
a countable / uncountable … || an indefinite / adefinite } { singular / plural … (1218)
a … substitute (1221)
novel (C:49) a crime / detective … (1082)
novelist (C:465)
novice (C:8,232)
now (adv.) up to / untill / till … (469) nowhere (adv:60)
Nu
nubbly / nubby (adj.) a … surface (940) nubbiness / nubbliness (U:940)
nuclear energy / force (567) …-fusion (process) (568) … power (plant / station) (621)
… armament (U) / (a) … war (670)
nucleic [ nju`kli~ik ] (adj.) …. `acid (648)
`nucleus / <ei (567)
nude (adj.) pose …|| a … model / scene (764) nude (C) a … || a … beach || in the … (764)
nudism (U:764) nudist (C) … beach (764) nudity (U) a scene of … (764)
nuisance (C) sb. is a … (131) a common …(185) a noise … (211) to be a … to sb. (211)
sbth. is a public … (1056)
null (adj.) the … set (1215)
numb [ nûm ] (vt) a shock … sb. (1283) to go / be …ed with cold (1286)
numb (adj.) to be … with cold (1044) to be … with shock / grief (1283) to go / be … with cold (1286)
number [ nûmbê ] (C) a … of sth. (1) a telephone … (4) x of their …(364)
a whole / an even / an odd / a positive / negative / nonzero … (647) a cardinal / ordinal … (1220)
number (vt) sb’s days are …ed (1255)
numbered (adj.) in … succession (1269)
number `one (C,U) to look `out for / after … (131)
numbly [ nûmli ] (adv.) to realize sth. … (1283)
numbness (U:1257)
numerous (adj:170)
nun (C:229)
nurse (vi&t) … sinister designs (114) a …ing mother || … a baby || a baby … (288)
… an ambition (539) … an ambition || … a grudge / a grievance against sb. (683 / -95)
sb. … sb. ( back to health * ) (728,1260 * ) to … a plant (873) sb. … their sickness (1260)
… a business through a crisis / along (1263) … an injury (1263) … one’s strength (1264)
nurse (C) a student / registrated `… || a`staff E/A `practical … || a `charge … (44) a `wet … (424)
a dental … (646) a …’s aide || an auxillary … (657) a head … (728) a sick children’s … (1260)
nursemaid (o-f) (C:424)
nursery (C) a … ( for plants ) || a ( day ) … (E) || a … school || a … man E/ nurse E/E teacher (873)
a … rhyme (1229)
nursing (U) a … school (4) a … home (69) … aide / auxiliary (657)
an animal sucks milk from a … bottle (A) (1230)
nurture (vt) a social order carefully …d (1015)
nut (C) screw a … onto a bolt (31)
nutrient (C) soil, rich / poor in …s (267) food, poor in …s || an essential … || … deficiency (340)
Oo
Oa
Oak (U,C) an … (250) (a) poison … (649)
oar (C:225) to put / stick / get one’s … in (E) (264)
oat (U,pl.) to sow one’s wild …s (1041) to feel one’s …s (1047)
oatmeal (eA) (U:78)
oath (C) to exact an … (346) to break an … (352) violate an (a coronation) … (363)
an (a muttered) … (o-f) (388) to take an … of celibate (393) to do sth. on … || to be under … (398)
to swear an … of allegiance / loyalty (402)
Ob
obduracy [ `åbdjurêsi ] (U:480) obdurate (adj.) an … person (480)
obedience [ ê`bi~diêns ] (U) implicit / blind // inquestioning / complete // total… (81 // 89)
with (xxx) … || in (total etc.) … to sbth. (90)
obedient (adj:101)
obese (ad:416) obesity (U:416)
obeisance [ êu`beisns E/A ê`bi~sns ] (U,C) to make / pay … to sb. (89)
obey [ ê`bei ] (vi:2 &t) … a rule / the law (74,90)
obfuscate (vt) … one’s intentions (1281)
object [ `åbd§ikt ] (C) a pointed … (14) sbth. is the … of sb’s choice / desire // attention (67 // 827)
sb’s … is to do sth. (163) with the … of doing sth. (788,846) the … of a plan is - || sb’s … is that - (816)
an in`animate … || an … of (a) study (825) an … of redicule / pity (828) one’s (sole) … in life (831)
di`rect / indi`rect `` … || prepositional … (847) the … of the exercise || the ultimate … of sth. ||
an `… lesson (855) money / time is no … (872) an everyday / a household … (872)
object [ êb`d§ekt ] (vi &speech:85) … to sth. (691,829) … that - (829) … to sb. (836) … to doing sth. (862)
objectification (U) … of women (853)
objectify [ êb`d§ektifai ] (vt) … women (853)
objection (C,U) 41) raise / voice / make an … (to sth.) (691,817)
have (moral / religious) … ( to (doing) sth.) (816) raise / voice / make / have no … to sth. ||
sth. is passed over the … of a minority (823) have no … to sth. (826)
objectionable (adj.) … people / behaviour (844) a … scene (881) an … odeur (886)
objective [ êb`d§ektiv ] (C) … complement || predicate … (652) to have a main / primary / principal … ||
the … (of a plan) is - ||
to adhere to / set / pursue / accomplish / achieve / attain / meet / reach an … (816)
a clear / specific / realistic … (848) a performance … (851)
a prime / `primary / secondary / first / second / business … (851)
objective [ êb`d§ektiv ] (adj.) an … existence (164)
be … || an … assassment / measurement / description / reality (825) an … press (840)
objectively (adv.) consider sth. … (825) objectivity (U:825)
objector [ êb`d§ektê ] (C) a ‘conscientious ..`… (196) an … of sth. (823)
obligate [ `åbligeit ] (eA) (vt) be / feel …d (to do sth.) (735+)
obligation (U,C) liberate sb. from their …s (24)
mutual …s between spl. || to meet / fulfill an … (147)
to owe sb. an … / a labour … (156 / 160) to relax an … (160)
to disre`gard one’s (part of the reciprocal) …(s) || to fulfill / honour / meet one’s …(s) ||
to be under / have a (legal / moral / social) … towards sb. / to do sth. (183)
to impose an … on sb. || a sense of … (736)
to carry out / perform / discharge one’s (legal / moral) …(s) (737)
obligatory [ ê`bligêt(ê)ri ] (adj.) it is … for sb. to do sth. (737)
oblige [ ê`blaid§ ] (174) to be / feel …d ( to do sth.) (735+)
obligedness (U:839)
obliging (adj.) to be (very) … (741) obligingly (adv:741) obligingness (U:839)
oblivion (U:73)
obnoxious (adj.) … smell(s) (211) obscene / <nity (46) obscure (v:422/adj:428)
obsequious [ êbsi~kwiês ] (adj.) an … person (1036) observance (679)
observe (vi&t) … sth. (162) … a rule (679) … one’s bedtime (920)
observable (adj.) an … occurrence (942) observant (adj.) an … person || have an … eye for sth. (322)
observation (C,U) a method of … (353) to do an alarming … (1087)
obsess [ êb`ses ] (vt) be …ed by (doing) / with sth. (97) to be …ing about / over sth. (186)
to be … with sth., to be … by (a) lust for sth. (377)
obsession (C,U) sth. becomes a(n) (dangerous / unhealthy) … ( with sbth.) ||
sth. borders (up)on … || to do sth. to the point of … (186)
obsessive (adj.) to be … about (doing) sth. || to have an … concern for sth. (186)
obsessively (adv:186)
obsolete [ `åbsêli~t ] (adj.) an … procedure (483) sth. becomes … || an … weapon (495)
sth. renders sth. … (559)
obstacle (C) a course having …s (634) the next … is doing sth. (636)
to overcome an … ( to sth.) (839) to place / put …s in sb’s ( one’s own ) way / path (955)
an … course / race (1109) a golf … (1231)
obstinacy (U:1176)
obstinate (adj.) an … person (695)
obstruct (vt) … sb. / a performance (912)
obstruction (U) sb’s … (471)
obtain (vi&t) … a camera (26) … a juice from sth. (49) … money by fraud (109)
a relict of feudalism … (149) … status (154) … freedom / a leasehold (160) … profits (169)
… wisdom from sth. (170)
venalty … (1105) sth. … sb. sth. || … a prize (1269)
obtainable (adj:26)
obtuse (adj.) to be … (641) an … `angle (647) obtuseness (U:641)
obvious (adj.) an … choice (3) it is … that - (36) an … pleasure (85)
for … reasons || the most … thing do do (88) to state the … (112) an … comment / statement (113)
an … candidate (256) … enjoyment (338) obviously (59)
Oc
occation (C,U) on this … (45) on the rare … when - (247) an … of great festivity (285) on …(s) (293)
sth. gives … for sth. (830)
to do sth. at every … (833) to create a festive … (1248)
occationally (adv:346)
occult [ ê`kûlt / E& `åkûlt ] (attr. adj.) … practices (40)
occult (sg.) the … (71)
occupy (vt) … a country (13)
occupation (C,U) a place is under … (13) sb’s … ( = pastime) (27) a seemly … (= profession) (185)
a house ready for … (996) to be sth. by … || to follow / have an … (1149)
occupational (adj.) an … therapist (597) an … hazard (1149)
occupied (adj.) an … country (13)
occupied (pred. adj.) to be … in / with (doing) sth. (72)
occupy (vt) … land (13)
occur [ ê`kê~ ] (vi) sbth. … in actual practice (43) it … to sb. that - (105) mistakes … (177)
it … to sb. to do sth. (228) what … || where / when / how sth. … (1149)
sth. … in food / breast milk (1229)
occurrence [ ê`kûrêns ] (C,U) mistakes are a common … (177) an everyday … (627)
ocean (C) the … bed / floor (664) to / on the bottom of the … (662) oceangoing (665)
Od
odd (adj.) (do) … `jobs (pl.) (13) an … number (847) an … sensation (945)
oddity ( U,C) … ( of sth.) || an … ( a thing ) (254) sb’s …(s) || sb. feels an … (289)
odd-`job (adj.) an … man (54)
oddly (adv.) … enough (340)
odds (pl.) … and `ends / sods (782)
Odin (N:223)
odour E/A odor [ `êudê ] (C,U) ( to have* ) an … (of sth.) (25,*941) to be in bad / good `… with sb. (86)
an offensive … (460) an … of suspicion surrounds sbth. (711)
an … stimulus || have an … of sth. (941) body …(U) (1039) to sense an … of roguery (1043)
Oe
oesophagus (C) the … (938) of (1)
Of
off (adv.) call () … a search (6) to be comfortly / well … (285) itch to get / be … (788)
offence [ ê`fens ] (C,U) action lies for sb’s … (56) a traffic … (74)
to commit an … || a first / minor / capital … (194) a weapon of … || to cause … ( to sb.) (196)
to give … ( to sb.) || to take … ( at sth. / the slightest thing ) || to mean no … (197) a statutory … (202)
a serious criminal … (210)
offend [ ê`fend ] (vi&t) sb. … sb. (185) sth. … the eye / sb. (193) … against sb. / sb’s belief (197)
the smell … sb. (204) to start …ing (210)
offended (adj.) to be / get / * feel ( very / deeply ) … ( at / by sth. ) ( * 185, 206)
offendedly (adv:185)
offender (C) a first … (194) a sex … (202) a persistent / serious … (210)
a young … institution (210) a major / worst … (211) a traffic … (584)
offending (adj.) an … paragraph (202) an … tooth (204)
offensive [ ê`fensiv ] (C) a charm … (33) to act / be on the … (56 / 201, 207) … play (201)
to launch a diplomatic / military … (203)
an all-out …|| to go on ( to ) the … || to take the … || … positions || an air / a bombing … (204)
to go / be on the offensive over / in sth. ( fig.) (212)
offensive [ ê`fensiv ] (adj.) an … person (56) … weapon / war (196) an … strategy / team (201)
an … paragraph (202) sth. is ( deeply ) … to sb. (205) an … smell (614) an … scene (881)
offensively (adv.) … discriminatory (205)
offensiveness (U:206)
offer (C) to make an (a peace) … (24)
an … of a job || to turn down / decline an … (245)
sth. (is) on … || sb. has / there’s an ( a special ) … on sth. || sth. is on ( special ) … (E) (414)
to take `up / accept an … (996) a reasonable … (997)
offer (vi&t) sth. … a choice (1) … (up) a sacrifice ( to a god ) (223) … one’s labour to sb. (245)
(sth.) … the opportunity to do sth. || the opportunity … itself (490)
… a subject (at an exam) (652) … one’s services (747) do sth. every time an oppertunity … (833)
sbth. … a possibility / an option || sth. … an opportunity (989)
sb. … || sb. … ( to do ) sth. (996)
offering (C) at an … || to accept am … (223)
office (C,U) the cares of … (23) … staff / clerk / worker / work (64) a booking (E) / (A) ticket … (69)
a grant of … (148) in … (312) head `… (C,U:680+) hold … / be in … (681 / 804) the Holy O… (681)
hold an elected … (804) a box … office (draw / hit / success) || … office takings (855 || 902)
a newspaper … (1059)
officer (mil:14) a royal … (148) junior / senior … (office:597) drug … (849)
official (adj:172) … duty / policy / procedure (714)
official (C) a local … (222)
officiate (vi) … (at) an official match / a religious ceremony (731 / -35)
officious (adj) an … person (705)
offing (C) a ship is in the … (140) sth. is in the … (fig.) (141)
off-key (adj.) the playing / singing is … (1271)
off-key (adv.) to play / sing … (1271)
off-piste (adj.) … skiing (1156)
off-piste (adv.) to ski … (1156)
offshore (adj.) an … oil rig (664) offshore (adv.) to drill for oil … (664)
offside [ åf`said ] (adj. / adv.) to be / run … (400)
offside (U) to disallow a goal for … || the … rule (400)
offspring (378)
off-the-cuffs (285)
often (adv.) to … do sth. (6) all too … || only too … (19) every so … (50)
as … as not || more … that not (67)
oftentimes (o-f / A) (adv:147)
Og
ogre [ `êugê ] (C:1238) ogress [ `êugris ] (1246)
Oi
oil (U,C) an … painting (408) fragrant / scented … (454)
crude … || … refinery / rig / platform / pollution (664) …s || … paints (875) palm … (887)
to paint in …s (1305)
oily (adj:456)
ointment (C,U) a healing … (773) sbth. is a / the only fly in the … (777)
Ok
OK (adj.) feel … (944)
Ol
old (1) sb. of … age || an … enemy (12) sb’s … age || … people’s home (69) the O… Testament (70)
… campaigner (316) … friend (606) … maid (278) … pro (595) for `… times’ sake (677)
O… Catholics (928) sb. is of the … school (981) an old `wives’ tale (1153)
old-fashioned (adj:43)
old-time (adj. … manners (189)
olden (adj:524)
ol`factory (adj.) an … cell (939) oligarchy (352)
Om
omelette E/A omelet (C:793)
omen (C) a benign / good / bad / ill … ( of sth.) (72+) …s for the future are good (106)
sth. is a good … for success (115)
omen (vi&t) sth. … well / bad / ill || … bad luck etc. (73) sth. … ill for sbth (89)
–omened (adj.) an ill-… chance (115)
ominous (adj:73) ominously (adv:73)
omission (U,C) a sin of … (129) the deliberate … of sth. (1293) an … in sb’s account (1295)
omit [ ê`mit ] (vt) sth. is …ted from a book (100) … to do sth. (331)
omnipotent [ åm`nipêtênt ] (adj.) an … god (946) omni`present (314)
omniscient [ åm`nisiênt ] (adj.) an … narrator (608)
On
on (adv.) sb. rambles … (10)
on (prep.) … a sports ground (3) … the watch for sth. (4) … the right / left / inside (415)
oncoming (adj:586)
once (adv:9, conj:206) at … (32) … and for all (394) …-and-for-all (adj:576) all at … (531)
`oncoming (adj:325)
one (num.) to look `out for / after number `… (131)
one [ wûn ] (pron.) …’s appreticeship (4) which … (5) …-to-… relationship (76) …-way ticket (A) (333)
… after another / the other (adv.) (733)
one (adj.) sb’s … hope (116)
ongoing (adj:469)
onion [ `ûnjên ] (C,U:79)
`onlooker (C:142)
only (adv:1) … just (97, 207) not … sth. but (also) sth. (592) … too well (697)
sb. can … ascertain that - (1114)
only (adj.) sb’s … hope (116) an … child (420) the … one whxx - / to do sth. (917)
onside (adj.) to be / run … (400)
onto (prep:67)
onwards eE/eA (adv.) to be / run … (249)
Op
open (sg.) to be (out) in the … || come out into the … (fig:417) in the … (866)
open (vi&t) sbth. … sb’s eyes ( to sth. ) (44) sth. … doors / the way for sth. / to (do) sth. (155)
to … war on sbth. (486)
open (adj.) a choice … to sb. (2) to slit () open sth. (26) … sea (226) … secret (434)
an … question || … to question (688 || 714) sth. is … to the public (883)
opening (adj.) … night (61) (after / before) `… hours || (before) … time (883)
open-minded [ êupên-`maindid | (adj.) an … person (472)
opera (C,U) light … (451) … glasses (588)
operate (vi&t) … sb. (317) … signals (79) … rationally (1172)
operating (adj.) an … theatre E/A room / table (1289)
operation (C,U) a military … (192) a transplant … (317) to launch an … (522)
to have / undergo { a minor / major / emergency / life-saving … || to perform an … (1289)
operational (adj.) an … concept (496) … problems (962)
operator (C) telephone … (576)
opinion (C,U) to get a second … (4) to express an … (7)
to have / hold an ( a different etc.) … ( on / about a subject ) ||
a difference of … ( * over sth.) (21+,* 258)
to have a high … of sb. / good … of sth. (233) to have a low / poor … of sb. (244)
to ask sb’s … of sth. / sb. (252 / 256)
to express one’s (own) … || to give one’s … about sth. || a wide / narrow body of … that - ||
sth. is a matter of … || a difference of … as to / over sth. ||… is divided on sth. ||
to form a considered … || to ask for / give { a second / an independent … (258)
an expert … || … shifts || sb. with strong …s || sb’s personal … ||
the … that - || in sb’s ( humble ) … || it’s sb’s … that - || to be of the … that - || to want sb’s … ||
the general … is that - (259)
to have a good / bad / high / low … of sb. || public / popular … (280)
to have / hold strong …s (309) ( *carry out / conduct / do an ) … poll (309, *808)
the prevailing … (463) an … maker (1056) sb. of settled …s (1233)
opinionated (adj:22,272)
opium (U:49)
opponent (C:14) an … of sth. (239)
opportune [ `åpêtju~ne ] (adj.) an … moment / time (603) an … remark / law reform (612)
opportunism [ åpê`tju~nizêm ] (U:956) opportunist [ åpê`tju~`nist ] (C:603, 956)
opportunist / opportu`nistic [ åpêtju~`nistik ] (adj.) an … politician (603) an … crime (956)
opportunity (C,U)
to throw away / take / seize an / the … { of doing / for (doing) / to do sth. (8, 579,603)
inequality of … (21) to do sth. at the earlist / first ( practicaple ) … (28) if the … offers (77)
to have the … to do sth. (101) to avail oneself of an … (123)
to waste an … to do sth. (132) a wasted … (206) to miss an … (375)
to do sth. every time an … offers (833) a wasted / lost / missed … (950)
to do sth. at every (possible) … || to make use of every … to do sth. (956)
sth. presents / provides sb. with. / gives sb. / is an … // sb. has an … ||
sth. is a golden / once-in-a-lifetime … || sth. opens a window of … ||
sb’s window of … is xxx ( some short period) (963)
an … comes up / arises (968) equal …ies for spl. (969)
ample … (U) // a perfect / a rare / a unique / an ideal … //
sth. opens up / gives / presents / provides a … // sb. uses an … (984)
sbth. offers an … / ...ies (989) to seize the psychological … (1161)
oppose (vt) … sb’s objection (86) an army … the landing of an army (215)
… sb’s attempt to do sth. (351) … sb. (381) … doing sth. (404)
opposing (adj.) … parties (154)
opposed (pred. adj.) be … to sth. (404) sth. as … to sth. (934)
opposite (adj.) to go to the … extreme (21) a number has an … sign (125)
an … class / end (174) sb’s methods … to sth. (264) a seat … (1152)
opposite (adv.) to sit … (1152)
opposite (prep.) to be cast … sb. (62) sbth. is / sits … sbth. (1152)
opposite (C) quite the … (177) to prove the … (482)
opposition (U,C) to face … (108) the … (309) massive … (626)
oppositional (adj:469)
oppress (vt:16,375)
oppressed (adj:376) the … (pl.) (376)
oppressive (adj:375) … heat (389)
oppression (U:8,376)
oppressor (C:376)
optical (adj.) an … instrument (588)
optically (adv.) to be … mixed (871)
optician (E) (C:867)
optics (U:1170)
optimal (adj:227)
optimism (110) ( grounds / cause / reason for ) ( cautious ) … about / for / (that) sth. (110+)
optimist /<ic (110) <ally (111) (the)
optimum (C/adj:227)
option (C,U) (1) give sb. / have the … to do / of (doing) sth. (609) a … (in sth.) (899)
consider / examine an … (910) to take the easy `… (955)
keep / leave one’s …(s) open || sth. is an easy / a soft `… || xxx …(s) is / are open to sb. ||
sbth. offers an … / …ies (989)
sb. gives sb. / has x …(s) (on sth.) || to rent sth. with an … to buy (996)
optometrist (A) (C:867)
or (conj:1)
opulence (U:163,370) opulent (adj:370)
Or
oral (adj.) … report / exam(ination) (506 / 725)
`orator (C:170)
ora`torio (C:1031)
oratory (U:1167&C?)
orb (420,423)
orbit (C) to put sth. / go into … || (be) in … || to come / fall / be within sb’s … (620)
orbit (vi&t) … (around) (sth.) (620) orbital (568) orchard (723) `orchestra (451)
ordain (v) … that - (681) … sb. (as) / to a higher order (734+)
ordeal (234,317)
order (vi&t & speech,’ sb. … (sb.):192) to … that - || … sb. to do sth. (192) … sb. about (910)
order (C,U) in … to do sth. (2) to disturb public … || to restore law and … (23+) in … of preference (24)
to act upon (sb’s) … (56) to obey sb’s … (90) in … of succession ( to the throne ) (145)
the three …s (of society) (147) the … of knights (152) a hereditary … of honour (173)
the social… (180) in alphabetical … (198) O… of the Garter (359) a divine order (372)
a standing … (425) the established … (533) out of … (573) to pay by postal E/A money … (761)
a point of … (815) to call sb. to … (1143) a palnt / an animal … (1216)
orderly (adj:216)
ordinal (C:1220)
ordinal (adj.) an … number (1220)
ordinance (358)
ordinarily (447)
ordinary (adj.) an … citizen (151) … men and women (158) out of the … (174) … mortals (224)
… clothes (244)
ordination (U,C:735)
ore (U,C) iron … (405)
organ (C) a sense … (936)
an … of touch / taste / smell / hearing / sight / vision (939) an … ( for music ) (1031)
organic (adj.) … farming / food etc. (82) … `acid (570) … heart disease (638) … pest control (1265)
organization (122)
organize (vi&t) … sth. (1)
organized (adj.) … society (146) organizer (C:578)
Organon (N:1214)
orgasm [ `å~gazêm ] (C:938)
orgy (C) a drunken … (602) an … of sound production (1226)
`orient ( E& <ate ) (vt) … oneself (936) -oriented / (E) -orientated (adj.) profit-… (622)
orientation (U,C) sb’s sexual … (1281)
Origin (N:166)
origin (C,U) sb’s …(s) (133) to trace a leak back to its … (563) … of species (1197)
original (adj:16) … `sin (U:750) original (C:51) originally (71)
originate (v) sb. … from a place (218) sth. … from prejudice (1164)
originator (C) … of a scheme (831)
Orion (N) …’s Belt (995)
ornament (vt) be …ed with sth. (676)
ornamentation (C,U) for … (676) an … (676,782)
ornate (adj.) sb’s food and table grows more .. (154) an … object (676)
ornately (adv.) … decorated (676)
ornithologist (865) ornithological (865)
orphan (C:256) an … brother / sister / home (720) orphan (vt) to be …ed (720)
orphanage (U,C:720)
orthodoxy (U:687)
Os
Oscar (N,C) to win an … (1308)
ospray (C:865)
ostensible (adj.) an … reason // aim / purpose (372+)
ostensibly (adv:372)
ostentation (U:370)
ostentatious (adj.) … furnishings / array || an … smile (370)
ostentatioulsy (adv.) … dressed (370)
ostracism (U) social … (88) ostracize (vt) … sb. (88) ostrich (C:651)
Ot
other (pron.) …s (1)
other (adj.) … faculties (2) in … words (3)
otherwise (19)
otic (adj.) the … bones (939)
Ottoman (adj.) the … Empire (760) an … Turk (926)
Ou
ought (v) there … to be sth. (47)
our (pron.) O… Lord (231)
oust (vt) … sb. (as sth. / from a post) (98+)
out (adv.) to watch … for sth. (4) to go all … for sth. / to do sth. (209) to be … of order (573) to do sth.
… of sth. (736) a day … (1273)
out-and-out (adj.) an … traitor (531)
outbreak of war (497)
outbuilding (C:247)
outcast (adj. / C:613)
outcome (C) sth. is the most likely … (55) a ( quite / very / most ) likely / probable … of sth. (176)
out`dated (adj.) an … idea / system (472 / 1295)
outdo (vt) sb. … sb. (913)
outdoor (adj.) an … theatre (51) … life (849) … activities / pursuits (1155)
outdoors (pl.) (in) the (great) … (608) outdoors (adv:613)
outer (adj.) an outer bank / ditch (213) the … skin (796) the … world (939)
outfit (C) to wear an xxx … (867) a gentlemen’s / ladie’s …ing shop (876)
outfitter (C) an …(s) (E/A) ..|| a ladies’ … (876)
outgoings (E) (pl.) pay one’s … (998)
outhouse (C:247)
outing (C) to go on an … (128)
`outlaw (vt) … sb. (352)
outlet (C) an … for aggression / an ambition (154) … box (572) wall … (572) a (`retail) … (872)
`outline (C:664) `outline (vt) sb. … their vision (805) sth. … a development (986)
`outlook (C) the … for the day etc. is fine etc. || in further … (130)
sb. is {adj.} in … || sb’s … is {adj. || sb’s … on life (133)
the … ( for business )  ( is good // bleak / black ) (138 // 143)
from a distant … || an … over sth. (139) to be on the … for sb. (140)
to have a practical … (on life) (143) there’s a gloomy … || business … brightens (143)
the … for sb. is bleak etc. (159) to cloud sb’s … (472)
outlaw (vt) … sb. (352)
out`moded (adj.) an … superstition (930)
out`number (vt:87)
out-of-date (adj.) an … weapon (495)
out-of-the-way (18)
out-of-town (adj.407) outpost (216)
`outrage (U,C:233,545) commit (an) … (against a law etc.) (535 / 624)
moral / popular / public … (at/over) (535,610) … on feelings (544)
to cause / generate (public / popular) … || sth. is an … (against sth.) (535)
`outrage (v:535,545) …d at / by sth. (535,545,610) …all decency / all sense of justice (535)
outraged (adj.) … dignity / pride (606)
outrageous [ aut`reid§ês ] (adj.) … flirtation (35) an … disrespect (68) an … sight (233)
it’s … (that) - (535) sth. is an … thing (591) … scandal (622) … clothes / hairstyle (623)
… heat / rain (627) (an) … (rise in) prises (628)
outrageously (535) increase … (628) outrank (204)
`outright (adv.) say sth. … (830) outside (prep:29)
outside (adj.) the … world (620)
outside (adv:756)
outside (C) from the … of sth. (936)
outsider (C, not local:1120)
outskirts (269) out`smart (475)
outspoken [ aut`spêukên ] (adj.) to be … on one’s criticism (238) an … person / comment (239)
outspokeness (U:239)
outspokenly (adv.) … criticize sth. (239)
outstanding (adj.) … debt(s) (109)
outstretched (456) out`vote (vt) be …ed (804) outward (72,314) … appearance (72) out`wit (475)
Ov
ovation (C) give / get a { huge / rapturous / rousing / standing … (387)
oven (C) to bake sth. in an … (262) a microwave … (297)
over (adv. / prep) throw () … sb. (8) … and … (again) (544)
over (prep.) a plant rambles … a trunk (10) to throw a shadow over sth. (14) … the years (189)
… a period of years (561) … time (677)
overall [ êuvêr`å~l ] (adj.) an … responsibility (143)
overall (adv:166)
overalls [ `êuvêrå~lz (A / E) (329 / 727)
overawe [ êuvê`å~ ] (vt) … sb. (215)
`overboard (adv.) to throw sth. … (29, fig:45)
overburden (vt) be …ed with sth. (646)
overcast (adj.) a sligtly … sky (434)
overcome [ êuvê`kûm ] (vt) … one’s shyness (35) … sb’s defences (209) … sb. (399)
to be … with sadness (417) … an obstacle (839) to be … with feelings (839)
… a temptation (1107) … a disease / an illness (1262)
overcrowded (adj.) … conditions (500)
overdone [ êuvê`dûn ] (adj.) an … steak (796)
`overdose (C) take an … (607)
`overdose (vi) … on sth. (607)
`overdraft (C:96)
overdraw [ êuvê`drå~ ] (vi&t) … ( one’s account ) (96)
overdrawn (pred. adj.) to go … || an account is … by £ x (109)
overdue (adj.) an … bill / payment (109) machinery … for service (134) … library books (198)
sth. is … for innovation (254) sb. is … for a wash (257) luck is long … (284) an … reform (309)
overestimate (vt:219)
overflow [ êuvê`flêu ] (vi&t) to be …ing with anger (417)
spl. … (into) the streets || be filled to …ing (*with. sth.) (1057,* -72)
a streets … with spl. (1062) sb’s mind is …ing with thoughts (1063)
sb’s heart … with love || sb. … with emotion (1077+)
`overflow (U,sg.,C) to show an … of emotions (1077) an … (of water) || an … (pipe) (1082)
at an … (1083)
overhead [ êuvê`hed ] (adv:436,adj:565)
overhear [ êuvê`hiê ] (vt) … sb. / sth. || … sb. do(ing) sth. (519)
overheated [ êuvê`hi~tid ] (adj.) an … discussion (1124)
overload (vt:498)
overloaded (adj:498) to be … with sth. (fig:646)
over`look (vt) a steeple … a landscape (140) … a mistake (141)
overlord (C:147)
overnight (adj.) … accommodation(s) (726) an … stay (859)
over`night (adv.) to stay … (452)
overpower (vt) sb. … sb. (24) a flavour … sth. (25) …ed by sth. (fig:43)
overpowering (adj.) … heat / smell (25) … desire (27)
overprotection (U:629)
overrule (vt) … a decision (398)
overrun [ êuvê`rûn ] (vi&t) soldiers … a place (214)
`overseas (adj.) an … province (925)
oversee [ êuvê`si~] (vt) … sbth. (161) `overseer (C:231)
over`shadow (379)
over`sleep (452)
overstep (vt) … the bounds of truth (1295)
overt (adj.) an … love affair (178)
over`take (vi&t) a car … on the right / on the inside (415) a company … a company ||
sb. is …n by worry || sth. is …n by events (417)
overthrow (vt) … a king (358) overthrow (U) … of established order (364)
overture (C) to make ( peace ) …s (24)
overturn (vi&t) … a form of government (146)
overweening [ êuvê`wi~ning ] ( attr.adj.) an … person || … ambition (1154)
overweight (adj:657)
over`whelm (vt) to be …ed by sb’s kindness (143) despair … sb. (228) … the enemy (499)
to be …ed by / with calls (528) to be …ed by / with a feeling of sth. (827)
overwhelming (adj.) an … urge (33) an … amount (98)
Ovid (N:170)
ovulation (U:315)
Ow
owe (vt) … sb. an obligation (160) … one’s life to sb. (1090)
owing to - (prep.) … sb’s prudence / flabbiness (4 / 10) … default of sth. (42)
owl [ aul ] (C:919)
own (vt) … a place (10) … a leasehold (160)
own (adj:2) sb’s … country (413)
own (pron.) to be swh. (all) on your … (248) to hold one’s … against sb. (275) on its … (535)
owner (C) a home>… (16) part … (56) ownerless (adj:370)
ownership (U) to have joint … of sth. (181) right of … of private property (556)
Ox
ox ( pl: oxen ) (C) …en were few (157) the ‘ Dumb O… ‘ of Roccasecca (165)
Oxford (N:1)
oxidation (U:571)
oxidize (vt) … foodstuffs (888)
oxygen (O) (U:568) an … mask (1080)
Oy
oyster (C) … bed
Pp
Pa
pace (vi&t) sb. … + adv (287)
pace (C,U) at a snail’s … (11) at a fast … (458) to drive at a furious … (584) to quicken one’s … (589)
pacesetting (adj.) a … person (463)
pacificator (C:24)
pacifier (C) a … ( in a conflict ) (24) to suck a … (A) (1229)
pacifist (C:12)
pacify (vt:13)
pack (C) a … of cards (E) (5) a … of lies (86)… of dogs (229) … of cigarettes (A) (618)
pack (vi&t) sb. … a place (362) to send sb. …ing (480)
… for one’s holiday || … a suitcase / some clothes || … sth. into one’s suitcase || … sth. with sth. (762)
… sb. sth. (798)
a film / play … them in (855) … (up) one’s things (1237)
packed (adj.) action-… (50) to play to … houses (63) a resturant is … (78) a … `lunch (78)
to be (jam-) … with cars (728)
packet (C) a … of cigarettes (E) (618)
a ( nive fat ) pay / wage …(E) (779)
package (C) a … ( deal ) (674) a … tour / trip / E& holiday (761) to pass a bank … (784)
packaging (U) foam / safe … (1317)
pact (C) to make a peace / electorial … (with sb.) (24 / 807)
paddle (v:322)
Padua (N:172)
paedagogy = pedagogy (U)
paediatrician E/A pedia- (C:1262)
paedo`philia E/A pedo- (U:sexuality:611) `paedophile E/A pedo- (C:611)
pagan (C, adj:16)
page (C) … x (8) a … (<boy) (103) a front … (117)
to turn (E&`over) a … / the …s of a book || to flick through the …s (143)
to serve as a … (152) … after … || …s and …s (610) a sex problem … (611)
pageboy (C) a … ( in a hotel) (103)
pageant (C:1234)
pageantry (U) … of sth. (359)
paid (v.pp:23) to be stingily / nearly (o-f) … (55) poorly … labour (245)
badly / poorly / ill- … ( job / employment ) (791+)
pain (C,U) in (extreme) … (12) to take ( great ) / to go to great …s to do sth. ||
to take ( great ) … with / over sth. (186) a surge of … (632) a moan of … (771) to feel … (942)
to feel a stab of … (1307)
painfully (adv:33)
painkiller (C:645)
painkilling (adj.) … drug (645)
painstaking (adj.) a … search (6) … plan (1161)
paint (vi&t) … sth. in sth. (430) to … a gloomy / harsh picture of sbth. (1301)
… sth. with adj. paint || … sth. white (1303)
sb. … ( well ) || … a picture || … a story with a broad brush (1304)
… a picture / portrait of sb. || … sb’s picture / portrait || sb’s portrait … well || … in adj. colour ||
… in oils etc. || … () out sth. || … over sth. (1305) … the town red (1308)
a testimony … sb. as sth. || sb. is not as bad as they are …ed (1311) freshly …ed (1313)
paint (U:875) a … shop / dealer / roller / pot (875) a … chip || … stripper (1302)
to paint sth. with gloss … || … dust || water-resistant … || wet … (1303)
paintbox (C:1304)
paintbrush (C) a broad / fine … (875)
paint-by-numbers (adj.) a … policy (1301) a … book (1306)
painter (C) a sign … (124) a …’s tool (1306)
painterly (adj.) a … talent / picture (1304)
painting (C,U) a … (159) an oil … (408) sth. needs … (1302)
a … of sbth. by sb. || a print of a … (1304) a … book (1306)
pair (C:18)
palace (C:362)
palatable (adj.) a (very) … dish / wine (774) a film … to the audience (1270)
palate [ `palêtê ] (C) to tempt / tickle sb’s … || sth. tastes strange to sb’s (untrained) … (774)
pale (adj.) to go / turn deathly … (233) … with horror || … moonlight (1082) a … complexion (1252)
pal(a)eolithic (adj.) … period (213)
`palette (C:1304)
pallor (U) an unhealthy / A sick … (1252)
palm (C) have sb. in the … of one’s `hand (52) … oil (887)
pan (C:443)
pancake (C:796)
pane (C) a window … (439)
panel (C) a flat-… TV (1306)
pantry (C:1253)
panygyric(al) (adj.) a … letter (1072)
pang (C) …s of conscience (707)
panic (sg.U) to be in … mode (62) … erupts || sb. erupts in (a) … (418) a … attack (614)
Pankhurst (N) Emmeline … (802)
pant (vi) … for / after sbth. (839) … for a cigarette / drink (845) … for breath || … one’s way ||
… heavily (863) sb. … for more (881) … for revenge (893)
pant (C) sb’s breath comes in short / shallow …s (863)
panties (eA) (pl.) (760)
pants (eA) (pl:14)
pants (E) (pl.) to have ants in one’s … (504)
papacy (C) the … (147)
paparazzo (C) …zzi (pl.) (881)
paper (U:17,C news:27,320,507) … work (64) … shop (507)
a heavyweight / quality (A) / tabloid … (625)
writing … || lined / unlined / ruled / unruled / squared …(875) a … clip (875) cover … (1269)
papacy (147)
par (U) to be up to `… (314)
`parable (C) a … of sbth. (742)
parabola [ pê`rabêlê ] (C:1060)
parade (C,U) … of secrecy (549)
paradise (U,sg.) to go to P… (155)
parafin (U) a … lamp (663)
paragon (C) a … of virtue (461)
paragraph (C:202)
parallel (vt:161)
paralyse [ `parêlaiz ] (vt) … a part of the society (626) … sb. with a poisonous bite (651)
to be …d with fear (1065)
paralysis [ pê`ralesis ] (pl: paralyses [ pê`ralêsiz ] ) (U,C) to cause … of a part of the society (626)
… ( of the body ) (1257)
paramedic [ parê`medik ] (C:419)
paranoia, paranoiac, paranoid (58)
parapet (C:370,416) to put / stick one’s head above the … (417)
parasite (C:183) parasitic (adj:183) parasitize (vt:649)
parcel (C:48)
parcel (v) … () `out land ( into sth.) (556)
pardon (C,U:264, rel:360) I beg your … (249) to pray for / beg (for) (sb’s) … (238)
to ask / beg sb’s … for sth. || to grant / give sb. a ( royal ) … (549)
pardon (vt) to be …ed by sb. (238) … sb. for sth. (549)
parent (C:2) a lone / single … (35)
parental (adj:2)
parenthesis [<is ] / (pl.) <ses [ <iz ] (C) to put sth. in … (pl.) (411)
`parenting (U:334) Paris (172)
parish (C:219) … clerk / register (735)
parishioner (C:738)
park (C:29) a car … (E) (325)
park (vi&t) … ( a car ) (324) … backward(s) (991)
parking (U) a … offence (211) a … meter (324) a … lot (A) || free … || a … space / place / spot (325)
a … brake (A) (415) a backward … (991)
`parliament (C:7)
`Parliament (U:181)
elect sb. to / get into / enter { P… / the p… || win / have a seat in { P… / the p… || to dissolve … (802)
an act of … (803) sit in (the) … (as sth.) (841)
parliamen`tarianism (U:7) parlia`mentary (adj:7)
parochial (adj.) axtra-… person (743)
parole (U) to be eligble / due for … || to release sb. on … (872)
parole (vt) … sb. (872)
parry (vi&t& speech:387) … a volley (302) ,377,386)
parry (C:302,387)
parse (vt) … a word / sentence (847)
parsimonious (adj:55) `parsimony (U:55)
parsley (U) … sauce (262)
parson (C) …’s nose (E) (723)
part (vi&t) … two people (15) …  a crowd (22) …  a rope (31)
… with sth. || people … into two parties (45) … company (with / from sb.) (on sth.) (& fig:48)
… friends / in anger (48) … (sb.) from sb. (58)
part (C,U) to be (a)… of sth. (4) to take ( active ) … in sth. (11) to make a ( side / center ) … (A) (32)
to act / play a … || to act the … (of sb.) || cast a … (36,51)
on sb’s … (41) to take sth. in good / bad / ill … (45 / 58) to take sb’s … (45)
sb’s private / secret …s (39 / 454) for sb’s … || for the most … (45) … of speech (46) … song (48)
a spare / `sub`ordinate … (50) a … owner (56) a leading … (62) to be cut for a … (62)
to do one’s … (64) in … (65) a salvage … || a used car … (1122)
part (adv.) (be) … sth. ( … sth.) (65)
part-payment (U:31)
part-singing (U:48)
part-`time (adj./ adv.) … employment || working … (60)
part-`timer (C:60)
partake [ pa~`teik ] (vi) … (in sth.) (10+) partaker (C:11)
-parted (adj.) two-… (48)
part-finished (adj:61)
partial [ `pa~$l ](adj.) to be … ( to(wards) sbth. ) || a … judge (30) a … payment (31) … blindness (38)
a … success (61)
partiality [ pa~$i`aliti ] (U:30 & sg.) to have a … for sth. (30)
partially [ `pa~$êli ] (adv.) … intact (13) sth. is … adopted (149)
participant (C,adj:57)
participate [ pa~`tisipêit ] (vi) … in a campaign (9) … in profits (58)
participation (U:58)
participator (C:57)
participle (C) the ( present / past ) … ( mood * ) (847, 1218* )
particle (38) not a … of sense in sth. (59) not look a … like sb. (67)
parti-coloured (adj:32)
particular (adj.) to be … ( * about / over sth.) (30,* 32) to act a … part / role (52)
to take … trouble doing / to do sth. (58) for a … purpose (60) on that … day || that … blouse (64)
for no … reason (65) to have nothing … to do (66) a … friend (67)
particular (U, pl.) to remember / mention sth. in … (35 / 58)
to ask for / give sb. ( further / full )…s of sth. (57)
to go into …s (58) to learn the ….s (59) to have nothing in … to do (66)
particularity (U,pl:C) … of sth.(59) … about sth. (65)
particularize ( <ise E) (vi&t) … (an account / things) (59)
par`ticularly (adv.) … important (64) … interesting (69)
parting (U,C) two people are at a / the … of the ways (19) … of a rope (31)
to make a (side / centre) … (E) (32)
to take a … in good parts (45) at a … of the ways || after their … (48)
in the hour of / on … (69) … advice / gift / kiss / words (48,69)
partisan (armed:13, not armed:22,47, old weapon:23)
partisanship (U:22)
partition (U,C) a … ( wall ) (17) … of a country (23)
partition (v) … sth. || … () sth. off (17) … people (22) … a country (24)
partly (adv:13,58) … do sth. … do sth. (17)
partner (C:4)
partner (vt) … a singer (48)
partnership (U,C) sb&sb. derive pleasure from their … (48) to go into … (1147)
partridge (C:1117)
`partway (adv.) do sth. … through (881) … up sth. (886)
party (C) a search … (6) a political … (7) to give / throw / have a (dinner etc.) … (10)
a … ( to a dispute ) (17) a queer … (59) to be one of the … || to be a … of one (47)
to be a … to sth. (115) a hunting / shooting … (199) a drunken … (602) in a … mood (951)
party-coloured (adj:32)
pass (vi&t) … an examination (47) … a bill (101) a look … between spl. (130)
… () `on land / a mesage to sb. (168 / 1106)
sth. … fast / quickly (456) … (a ball etc.) (to sb.) (589+) … away / on (174) … sentence (695)
… by sbth. (778) … lightly over sth. (911) … () on the throne to sb. (1093)
… () a heirloom from sb. to sb. || …() `down a tradition ( from sb.) to sb. (1108)
… () on one’s hereditary characteristics to sb. (1109) to do sth. to … the time (1154)
… a disease on to sb. (1255)
pass (C) to make a … (at sb.) (fig:264) to make a … ( in football ) 589) a beach … (764)
a mountain … (768)
sth. is a bare … (779) a reporter’s … (1057)
passage (C) work one’s … through an education etc. || a … of writing etc. (4)
a … of a bill / reform (102 / 555) with the … of time (160) a … of arms (473) the air …s (646)
the nasal / respiratory …s (766) a secret … (1141)
passbook (C) a bank … (1125)
passenger (C:69) passer(s)by [ pas~ê(z)`bai ] (C:615)
passing (U) … of a bill (101) … place (325) passing (adj:738)
passion (C,U) a … for sth. (168) the P… (1097)
passionate (adj.) a … actor (55) a … belief (83) a … temperament / temper (1244)
passionately (423)
passive (U) in the … (46)
passive (adj.) a … person (11)
a … vocabulary / sentence verb / ( form of a ) verb || the `… voice (46)
a … sentence (847)
passport (C) … application (298) sth. is a … to sb’s goodwill (1096)
password (C:334)
past (C) sb’s ( sorry * ) … (19, 280 * ) the ( recent / distant ) … (686) the … ( tense ) (847)
past (adv:29) the … tense (847)
past (adj.) … glories (69) sb’s … life (90) a … experience (284)
the … tense || the … participle ( tense ) (847)
pasta (U:794)
paste (C,U) a … of fish / meat || ( filo / flaky / puff / shortcrust ) … (793)
pastime (C) to do sth. as a / their … (1156)
pastor (C:734)
pastoral (adj.) … function (734)
pastime (C:27)
pastry (U:443,C:793) filo / flaky / puff / shortcrust … (U:793)
pasture [ `pa~st$ê ] (C,U) rights of … (345) permanent / rich / rough …(s) (558)
to move on to / seek …s new // greener … (715)
to put animals to … (721) to be off / leave for new …s // greener …s (728) common … (1172)
pasture (vt&vi+in/on) to … animals || … in a field (721)
pat (C) a … on the back (114)
pat (vt) … sb. on the shoulder (114)
pat (adv.) to stand … (eA) (642) to have / know an answer etc. off E/A down … (958)
patch (C) a … of mist (451) a worn … ( on sth.) (762) a … of the skin (1257)
patchwork (U,sg.) a … of estates (348) a … cultures (609)
pâté (C,U:793)
pa`ternal (adj:216)
path (C) a woodland … (10) a … to a single truth (166) off the beaten `… (608)
to place / put obstacles in sb’s (one’s own) … (955)
pathetic (adj.) a … excuse (310)
pathogenic (adj:649)
patho`logical (adj.) a … liar (910) a … dread / fear of sth. (1118)
pa`thologist (C:638)
pathway (C:526)
pathless (adj:501)
patience (U) to be armed with (extreme) … (21) to have the … to do sth. (34) to lose … (389)
to try sb’s … (1104)
patient (adj.) to be … with sth. / sb. (21 / 35)
patient (C:113)
patio (C) on the … (770)
patriarc (C) the P… of Constantinople (928) a wilful … (1094)
Patric (N) Sct … (219)
patrician (C:924)
patriotic (adj.) the P… Party (A) (1171)
patrocinium (C:150)
patron (C) … saint (219) … (of a shop etc.) (874)
`patronage (U) the … is in sb’s hands (1032)
patronize (vt) … s shop (874)
pattern (vt) a secular order …ed ( loosely ) on a religious one (153)
pattern (C) sb’s doings follow a predictable … (74) to do sth. after a … of some kind (215)
a criss(-)cross … (468) a … in trade and industries (1134)
patty (C) … (case / shell) || minced beef / hamburger / pork / peppermint … (793)
pause (C) sb. needs a … (520) to give sb. … for thought (608)
pause (vi&t) sb. … ( * to do sth.) (87,* 349) … sb. a compliment (759)
… pensively / thoughtfully (1133)
pave (vt) a …d road (216) … the way for sth. (306)
pavement (C) to pound / hit the … (in search for a job) (51) on the … (67) a … cafe (E) (991)
paving (U,C) a … (stone) (704)
pawn (C) a … ( in chess ) (198) to act as sb’s … (1135) to be a … in sth. (1141)
pawn (U) sth. is in … (780)
pawn (vt) … an article / object etc. (780)
pawnbroker (C:780) pawnshop (C:780)
pay (vi&t) sb. / a job … sth. (23 / 60) sb. … a fee (47) sbth. … well (779)
… a ( courtesey ) call / visit on sb. || … sb. a call (404 || 738) … tribute to sb.(fig:544)
… an arm and a leg (590) … (sb.) (for sth.) || … for sb. || … a bill (774)
… a round (618) … () `off a debt etc. (715)
… one’s last respect / one’s respect to sb.(757)
… (in) cash || … (for) sth. { in cash / cash `down / cash up `front || … by postal E/A money order (761)
… an arm and a `leg (*for sth.) (590,*763) … through one’s `nose for sth. (763)
sth. … itself / its way (764) … sth. (to sb.) (764) … the `penalty / price (for (doing) sth.) (765)
( to make ) farming … (769) … (no) heed (to sbth.) (760,789) sb. … their way (770)
… () `off sb. (* with a golden handshake) (771,* 784) … with one’s life (771)
… ( no* ) attention to sbth. (776, 789* ) … on delivery (778)
… one’s way ( through one’s studies ) || … a wage / salary (779)
… money into an account || … () back money / a loan (780)
it … (sb.) to do sth. || sth. … dividend (in the end) (781) sb’s persistence … `off (782)
… the cost of sth. || … for sth. by / in instalments || … () `down £ x ||
… the balance || … () out £ x (783) … sb. `back ( for sth. bad ) (788) … lip service to sb. (791)
… sb. a living wage (792)
… sb. back ( money / a loan ) || … () back money etc. to sb. || …() off a loan || … `up (797)
pay (U) low … (281) a (nice fat) … packet (E) (779)
basic E/A base … || overtime / extra / sick / maternity / holiday E/A vacation …(779)
… day (U:779) to make a (xxx) … claim / offer || to offer a (xxx) … increase // rise E/A raise (786)
to be in the … of sb. (787) redundancy E/A severance … (790) to get hazard / danger … (A) (1149)
… and conditions || … determination || a … deal || … and conditions (791) … for tax (841)
payable (734) a price … by / in instalments (783)
`payback (U,C) a … of x years || a x-years … || a … includes interest (780)
sth. is a … for sth. (good ) (786) it’s … time (788)
paycheck (A) (C) a huge … (779)
paydirt (A) (U) hit / stike … (785)
PAYE ( E:pay as you earn) (411)
payer (C:761) tax> (296) paymaster (C:779,787)
payment (U,C) partial … / part-… || … in instalments (31) to meet an overdue … (109)
to demand a … (298) additional / back … (576)
to meet the … (on sth.) || a down `… || to make a … (783) bonus … (785)
to get sth. in … for sth. (fig:785) a redundancy … (790) on a (small) … (992)
`payoff (C:784,787)
payroll (C) have sb. on the … (785) an income exceeds the … (786) payslip (E) / (A) pay stub (C:779)
Pc
PC [ pi~`si~ ] (C) personal computer (654)
Pe
pea (C) a snow … (A) (1156)
peace (U,C) (in) war and … || … and quiet || give sb. / get / find … (to do sth.) || be at … with sb. / sth.
|| do sth in …|| make one’s … with sb. (12)
to hold / keep one’s … || keep the … (22)
(a) … feeler / move / overture / offer / effort / conference / talks / negotiation / treaty / pact (25)
… of mind (89) a … process / settlement (306) … agreement (307) (make) a conclusion of … (551)
to rest in … (RIP) (12,662) to restore … (550)
peaceful (adj.) a … death (12) a … demonstration / autonomist party || a … future (21)
peaceable (adj.) a … demonstration / policy (21) sb’s … character (43)
peaceably (adv:354)
peacebreaker (C:22) peacemaker (C:24)
peacetime (U:12)
peak (C) a … of a cap (39) a mountain … (864) a … of a shoe || a dropping … of a cap (1234)
peaked (adj.) a … shoe (1234)
peal (C) to burst into …s of laughter (39) a … of thunder (394) a … of a bell (707)
peal (vi) … with laughter (39) a bell … (out) (707)
peasant (C:156) a …’s coat (256)
peasantry (U:156)
peat (U) a … bog || … soil || to cut … || a … turf (1128)
peaty (adj.) … soil (1128)
pebble (C:423) a … beach (1116)
pebbly (adj.) a … beach (116)
peckish (E) adj.) be / feel … (954) pectin (571)
peculiar (adj.) sth. is … to sbth. / in appearance (71+) a … rental (150)
peculiarity (C,U) cultural / physical / mental … / ies (72)
peculiarly (adv.) … local (72)
pedal (C) press (down hard on) the gas … ( 584)
pedagogically (adj:197)
pedagogy (U) teacher-directed / -controlled … (1166)
peddler (A) (C) a drug … (1132)
pedestal (C) to knock sb. off their … (1281)
pedestrian (adj:581)
pedestrian (C:582) … crossing (E) (582) a `… ‘precint (878)
pediatrician A/E paediatrician (C:1262)
pedlar (C) a drug … (1132)
pedophile (C:611) pedophilia (U:611)
pee (vi:524)
pee (sg.,U:936) to go for / have a … (E) || (A) take a … (524)
peek (C) take a … (at sth.) (611)
peek (vi) … at sbth. (288) a flower … out (1151)
peel (C,U) orange … (796)
peel (vi&t) the paint(work) … (1302)
peeled (adj.) to keep one’s eyes … ( for sbth.) (261)
peep (C) take a … (at sth.) (611)
peep (vi&t) … at sbth. (288) a flower … out (1151)
peer (vi+adv.) … into the future (1014)
peer (C:144) to create sb. a … (190) a hereditary / life … (803) … pressure (1051)
peerage (C) ( a member of * ) the …(144, -73 * ) to raise sb. to the … (190)
peg (C) a tent … (510) to buy clothes off the `… E/A rack (1112)
pen (for writing:103, for animals:267) to set … to paper (494) fountain … || a felt-tip(ped) … (875)
a lapse / slip of the … (1292)
penal [ `pi~nêl ] (adj.) a … code (1181)
penalty (C) the extreme … of the law (20) … for sth. (584) … (kick) / area (25) the death … (537)
to pay the`… ( for (doing) sth.) (765)
penance (U, sing.) to do sth. as a … for a sin (677) do / perform … for sth. (679) submit to … (749)
pencil (103) a propelling … (875)
to sharpen / put a fresh point to a … (875)
penetrating (adj.) a … look / gaze / stare (1044)
penetration (U:215)
penicillin [ penê`silin ] (U:649)
peninsula (C:219)
penis [ `pi~nis ] (C:938)
penitence (U) express / show … for sth. (540)
penitent (adj.) a … traitress (488) to be … || a … sinner (540) penitent (C:540)
penitential (adj.) a … discipline (679) penitently (753) penny (13)
pension (C) a … scheme (296) a … (on the Continent) (772)
pensive (adj.) to look … || a … expression / look (130)
pensively (adv:130)
pentagon (C:647) `pentane (570)
Pentateuch [ `pentêtju~k ] (N) the … (819) pentathlon (634)
pent (-) up (adj.) … rage (388) sth. is … (839)
people (C, pl.) most … (2) the / sb’s … (146) a Mediterranian / mixed … (213+)
people (vt) spl. … a place || to be …d with spl. (213)
pep (vt) … () `up sb. (11)
pepper (U,C) black / white / ground … || (a) ( sweet EA/A bell ) … (656) a … pot (873)
pepper (vt) … a steak (796) …sb. with bullets (1088) … one’s speech with jokes (1167)
peppercorn (C) a black / white … (656)
peppery (adj.) a … person (53)
pepperily (adv.:53)
peptide (C) a … linking (571)
perceive (vi, no prg.t.) … a thing (164,936) … that - || … sth. as / to be sth. (1039)
percent / per cent (adj. / adv.) x … (1270)
percentage (C,U) a … point (808) to express sth. in … / a … (1270)
perceptible (adj.) a … phenominum || … by sensation (939) a … smell (982) a clearly … signal (1044)
perceptibly (adv.) be … influenced / nervous (1043+)
perception (C,U) sense … (936) a keen … (986) quickness of … (1039)
perceptive (adj.) a … writer (1043) sth. is … of sb. (1045)
perceptively (adv.) to be … under the impression that - (1044) to answer … (1313)
perch (vi&t) sb. … on sth. (v:464)
perch (C) to knock sb. off their … (1281)
perdition (U:rel:89) an alcoholic is on the road to … (55)
perennial (adj.) a … problem (639) a … plant (650) to be a … success (653)
perennial (C) a … lives for more than two years (650)
`perfect (C) the ( present / past ) … (847,1218)
`perfect (adj.) a … partner (26) … makes `perfect (30) the ( present / past ) … tense (847,1218)
perfect [ pê`fekt ] (vt) … double-entry bookkeeping (168)
perfection (U) sth. reaches it’s … (357)
perfidious (adj.) a … person (484)
perforation (U, C) provided with …(s) (749)
perform (vi&t) … a play (48)
performance (C,U) a … is a success (48) a cinema / theatrical … (49) the first … (61)
a spellbinding / bewitching // dazzling / definitive … (84 // 279) to attend a … (100)
excellent … (U) (279) a poor … (309)
perfume [ `pê~fju~m E/A pêr`fju~m ] (C,U) to drench oneself in … (445)
perhaps (adv:14)
peril (U,C) an economy is in ( great / grave / serious ) … (1112)
to invest / ski at one’s ( own ) … (1112, -56) to put one’s life in … (1156)
the …s of smoking (1122) sth. is fraught with … (1138) sth. poses …s (1156)
perilous [ `perêlês ] (adj.) a … enterprise (155) a … adventure / trip (1138 & -56) … year (1174)
perilously (adv.) … close to disaster (1156)
period (C) for an indefinite … (28) a consultation … (69) a later part of a … ( after sth.) (147)
in the later … of sth. (152) for a certain … of time (160) during the monarchic … (173)
over a … of years (561) a … of sth. (676)
a … ( in literary language ) (1221) a … ( at the end of a sentence ) (1222)
perish (vi&t) sb. … (367)
perjure [ `pê~d§ê ] (vt) … oneself (833)
perjury (U) to commit … (711)
perm (vt) … hair (877)
perm (C:877)
perm (vt) …ed hair (877)
permanent (A) (C:877)
permanent (adj.76) … relationship (76) …-way (E) work (883)
permanently (adv:44)
permeat (vt&i+adv.) Christianity … all aspects of everyday life (158) a society …d with faith (289)
permission (U:91) to beg … (247)
with(out) …. || to apply for / ask / request / give (sb.) / grant (sb.) / get / obtain / have (written) … >
{ to do sth. / for sth. (842)
to refuse / deny … || refuse / deny sb. … ( for sth.) / ( to do sth.) (846)
permissible (adj.) it’s … (for sb.) to do sth. (843) a … level (882)
permissive (adj.) a … school system / society (845)
permissiveness (U) … in education / the society (845)
`permit (C) … limit (622) to get a … for doing sth. (842)
to apply for / need / issue / get / obtain a ( work / residence / camping / fishing etc. ) … ||
a … for sth. (858+)
permit [ pê`mit ] (vt) sb. … sth. to do sth. (25)
sth. … sb. to do sth. (150) sth./ sb. … sth. || sth./ sb. … doing sth. || sth./ sb. … sb. to do sth. (814)
sth. … access (840) sth. … sb. sth. (842) (not) … a problem to do sth. (844) … sb. + adv. (846)
… sb. an hour (848) sth. … sth. to do sth. (857)
if time / the weather etc. …s || time / weather …ing (859) sth. … for sth. (880)
permitted (adj.) be … + adv. (845) an hour / a dictionary is … { to do / for the test (848)
a … level (882)
pernicious (adj.) a … effect (64)
perpendicular [ pê~pên`dikjêlê ] (adj.) P… Gothic (369) to be … (to sth.) (864)
perpetually (adv:287)
perpetuate [ pê`pet$jueit ] (vt) … sb’s power (1032)
perpetuation (U,sg.) a … of sth. (1172)
persecute [ `pê~sikju~t ] (vt) … sb. for sth. (683) to be …d (945)
persecution (C,U) sb’s … (244) religious … (365) … complex (945)
persecutor (C:365)
persist (vi&t) feudalism … (149)
persistence (U:782)
persistent (adj.) a … person (210) … persecution (244)
persistently (adv:525)
person (C) an impudent … (7) to do sth. in … (298) the first / second / third … (1220)
personage (C:446)
personal (adj.) (a) … choice (5) … estate / property (141) for … reasons (269) … knowledge (843) a
… class (1220)
personality (C,U) a healthy … (28) to have … (76) a split … (1066) a … trait (1094)
personnel [ pê~sê`nel ] (U, pl.) a … manager (592) the … do sth. (653)
perspective (C,U) (see sth.) from a xxx … || from the … of sb. (815)
perspiration (U:614, -39)
perspire (vi&t) sb. … ( *sth. ) ( * 614, 639) sth. … from sb’s body (614) an animal … a fluid (651)
persuade [ pê`sweid ] (vt) … sb. into sth. (81) … sb. of sth. (83) … sb. (84) … sb. that - (87)
… sb. ( to do sth. ) (107) … sb. into doing sth. (207) … oneself that - (247)
persuasion (C,U) many shades of ( religious / political ) … (74) a religious … || great powers of … (84)
persuasive (adj.) sb. is … (77) a … promise / argument (85 / 87)
persuasively (adv:85)
pertain (vi+to) a belief … to a place || a practice … to a belief (70+)
pervade (vt) ( a spirit etc. of ) sth. … a place (1032)
pessimism (U:110) pessimist (C:110)
pessimistic (adj.) a … view of life || to be … ( about sth.) (110) in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
pessimistically (adv:110)
pest (C) a … attack (224) sb. is a real … (777) organic … control (1265)
pester (vi&t) flies … sb. (769) sb. … ( sb. for sth.) ( sb. with sth.) (sb. to do sth.) (777)
pestering (adj.) a … person (777)
pesticide (C,U) a toxic … (622) … residues (1265)
pet (C) a trusting … (32)
pet (adj.) … aversion / `hate E/A `peeve (37)
petard (C) to be hoist(ed) by / with one’s own … (275)
Peter (N) St. …’s Church (680)
peter `out (vi:356)
petit (adj.) the … bourgeoisie || a … bourgeois || a … bourgeois mentality (200)
petition (C) to draw up / get up / sign a … ( against / for sth. ) (98)
to present a … to Parliament (1184)
petition (vi&t) … against / for sth. || … (sb.) to do sth. (98)
petitioner (C:98)
petrified (adj.) to be … with fright / fear (891) sb. is … (1310)
petrol (U) … station (319)
petty (adj.) the … bourgeoisie || a … bourgeois || a … bourgeois mentality (200)
a … kingdom (220)
pew (C:743)
Ph
pharmaceutical (adj.) a … remedy / preparation (263)
pharmacy (C:4)
phase (214)
PhD ( Philosophiae Doctor / Doctor of Philosophy ) (172)
pheasant (C:220)
phenominon / <na [ fi`nåminên ] (C:72)
phew ! (interj:63)
philander (vi:33) philanderer (C:33) philandering (U:33)
philosopher (C:48) the …’s stone (418)
philosophiae (U) P… Doctor (172)
philosophical (adj.)164)
philosophy (U,C) home-spun … (43) Doctor of P… (172)
phlegm (U) a lump of … (766) … as a humour (1239, -41)
phlegmatic (adj.) a … person / temperament / temper (1241)
phlegmaticness (U:1239)
phone (C) … book (4) chat(ter) on the .. (65) to answer / pick up / to be on the … (576)
to put down the … on sb. (1065) a … box (A) (1079)
phone (vi&t:340)
phonetic (adj.) a phonetic alphabet (1221)
phonetics (U:1217, -21)
phoney (adj.) … `war (E) (672)
photo (C) … of sbth. (126)
to take a … of sbth. || to take sb’s … || to have sb’s … taken || a … shop (588)
photograph (C) to take a … of sbth. (588)
photograph (vt&i+adv.) … sbth. ( + adj. / doind sth.) || … well / badly (588)
photographic (adj.) a … dealer (588, 675)
photography (U) a motif of … || high-speed … (588)
photon [ `fêutån ] (C:1169)
photosynthesis [ fêutêu`sin#isis ] (U:571)
phrase (C) in a few choice / polite…s (2 / 948)
to turn a … ( about sb.) || a crude // colourful / apt / incisive turn of …(235 // 264)
a noun … (408) a strong … (1053)
phylum ( pl:phyla ) (C:1216)
physical (adj.) …appearance (72) a … map (213) … education (681) ( the ) … science(s) (195)
… requirement / desire // need / state (936 // 944) … therapy (A) (1263)
physicality (U) the … of sports (824)
physically (adv:497)
physician (eA) (C:632) a chief … (728)
physicist (C:1169)
physics (pl.+ sg:195)
physiotherapist (1263)
physiotherapy (E) (U:1263)
physique (C) to have a strong … (824)
Pi
piano (C:47) to practise ( on / to play ) the … (47)
Picasso (N) Pablo … (1268)
pick (vi&t) … and choose (2) … oneself `up (15) … `up the pieces (38) … () `up sth. (39)
… up the phone / receiver (576) … up `speed (584) … berries / fruit (723) to … () up sb. (1153)
`pick-up (C,U) a … in economy (997)
pickle (vt:79)
pickle (C,U:78+) sb. is in a ( pretty ) … (86)
picnic (C:32) a … basket (323)
pictorial (adj.) a … tradition (1303)
picture (C) to be in ( the right of ) a … (14) a … theatre || a motion `… (A) || to go to the …s (49)
the other side / the reverse of the … (fig.) (560) to take a / sb’s … (588)
a ( religious / scientific ) … of the world / universe (820) to be the (very) … of amazement etc. (963)
sb. has a vivid … of sbth. to paint a gloomy / harsh … of sbth. ||
the ( overall ) … ( for sth. ) is different / encouraging (1301)
a … window (1302) to draw / paint a … ( of sbth.) || a book with … (1304+)
to draw / paint sb’s … || sb. is / looks a … || to be as pretty as a … ||
to be / look the … of health / misery (1305 / -07) to be out of the … (1307) Best P… (1308)
to build up a … of sth. (1310) to put / keep sb. in the … || sb. gets the … (1313)
picture (vt) sb. … sbth. as sbth. (417, 1302)
sb. … sbth. || … what - / how - || … sbth. doing sth. in one’s mind (1301+)
a painting … sth. (1303) … sth. ( in words ) (1314)
picturesque (adj.) a … garden (139) a … description of sth. (1304)
picturesquely (adv:139)
pie (C,U) a … (5) … (U) in the `sky (807) a steak and kidney … (793)
piece (C) a … of action (36) to pick `up the …s (38) a … in a paper / on TV (41) a set … (51)
a … of toast etc. (77) a … in chess (198) to be (all) of a … with sth. (548)
pier (C:658)
pierce (vt&i+adv.) a remark … sb. to the quick (475)
piercing (adj.) a … shriek // scream / screech / squeal (891/1113)
pier (C) the head of the … (717) Pier’s Plowman (172)
piety (U:171)
pig (C:18) piglet (C:18)
pigment (C,U) a … (875)
pigmentation (U:1257)
pigmy = pygmy
pigsty (C:18)
pigtail (C) wear one’s hair in …s (E) (758) pike (traffic:324, fish:865)
pile (C,U) a … of work (11) to make a / one’s … (135) a … of ironing (452) … of dog shit (614)
a … of books (1168)
pile (v) … ( () `up) sth. (1168)
pili (pl. of pilus) (648)
pill (C:40) the … (315) a bitter … to swallow (596)
pillage (U:237)
pillage (vi&t:237)
pillager (C:237)
pillar (C) sb. is a … of society (516) sb. is a … of strenght || to be driven / pushed from … to post (520)
sb. is a … of the church (682) a … of smoke (1236)
a bust surmounts a … (1263)
pillow (C) a …<case (456) a throw … (A) (1267)
pimp (C:612)
pimp (vi:612)
pin (vt) … the blame on sb. (38) … ones `faith / (all) one’s `hopes on sb. / sth. (115)
… sb. on sth. (fig:691)
pin (C:321) to have …s and `needles in an arm / a leg (438) to be on …s and needles (A) (438)
a drawing … (E) (875)
pincer (C, pl.) ( a pair of ) …s (509) a `… movement (1035)
pinch (C) feel the … (1040) pinstripe (U:758)
pinstripe (adj.) a … suit (758)
pint (C) a … of beer (858)
`pin-up (C:1276)
pink (C,U) the sky turns a glowing … (283)
pink (adj.) the sky turns … (283)
pinnacle (C) ( to reach the ) … of power (539)
pioneer (C) a … ( * ( in the field ) of sth.) (472, * 1199) … ( in travelling ) (558)
pious (adj.) a … hope / wish || … speech (227)
pipe (C) dance to sb’s. … (278) an exhaust … (E) (319) a gas / sewer / water … || a … fitter (564)
pipeline (C) through a … || a project is in the … (664)
pirate (C) a … ship (140)
piratical (adj:218)
piste (C:1157)
pistol (C:499)
pit (C) … sweat (<ing) (639) to have a feeling in / at the … of one’s stomach that - (1248)
pit (vi&t) … one’s wits against sb. (472)
pitch (C,U) on a football … (E) (25) fast / slow … (589)
pitch (v) … a tent (501)
pitch-`dark (adj:444) pitch-darkness (U:444)
pitched (adj.) a … battle (473)
pitcher (C) (baseball ) … (633) a … (of water etc.) (E/A) (770)
pitfall (C) to look `out for / avoid judicial …s (135)
pitiable (adj:246)
pitiably (ad.) 246)
pitiful (adj.) a … excuse (245)
pitifully (adv.) a fee … low (245)
pitiless (adj.) a … person (237) … persecution (244)
pitilessly ( adv.) to answer … (246)
pittance (sg.) to work for a … (1175)
pity (U,sing.) to feel … for sb. || to have / take … on sb. (39,237)
( it’s / what a ) (a) … (that) - / to do sth. (237) it would be a ( great ) … if - (252) more’s the … (261)
pity (vt) … sb. / sth. (237)
pitying (adj.) a … outlook on life (133) to give sb. a … look / smile (249)
pityingly (adv.) to … realize sth. (249)
Pisa (N:168)
pivot [ `pivêt ] (vi&t) sth. … on / around sth. (fig:744)
pivot (C) the … (point) on / around which sth. turns / revolves (744)
pixie (C:1238)
Pl
placard (C) a … ( to carry) (1057)
placate (vt:544) placating / placatory (adj:544)
place (v:59) to be …d in an impossible situation (920)
place C,U) a .. to slep (6) … of residence (20) sth. takes … (49) to have a central … in tradition (165)
a public … (212) sth. assures / secures sb. a … in history (304) in high …s (471)
to have a … in E/A on a team (590) to put sb. in his / her … (618) in (some) …s (583)
( to finish in ) ( a joint ) first etc. … (635) in the first … (738) to put sb. in their … (fig:757)
a decimal `… (848) to knows one’s … (981)
placement (U,C) job … service (791)
placenta (C:287)
plague (C,U) to punish sb. with a … || a sufferer from … (159) a form of bubonic … (360)
the Great P… (1024)
plague (vt) sth. … sb. (163) sb. … sb. ( with sth.) (777)
plaice (C,U:793)
plain (C:213)
plain (adj.) … clothes (32) purl and … ( knit ) (266) to use … language / English (766)
plain-clothes (attr. adj.) a … policeman (1137)
plainly (adv:543)
plaintiff (C:212)
plait (C) wear one’ hair in a … (E) (758)
plan (vi&t) … sth. (33) … ( to do ) sth. || … on (doing) sth. || … whxx - (225) … that - (226)
sth. goes as …ned (235) … ( sth.) for the future (236)
plan (C) a future … || sb’s … falls by the wayside / goes astray (6) to punch holes in sb’s … (17)
sth. goes according to … (38) a … to do sth. / for sth. (203) to let sb. in on a … (532)
a master … (822) a … of campaign (919) a(n) ( abrupt ) change of … (1130)
plane (C) a … crash (64) a floor … (781) a … banks (995)
plane (vi&t) … a floor (781)
plane (adj.) a … surface (940) planeness (940)
planet (C) a terrestrial / giant … || the … Earth || P… Earth (995)
Plank (N) the … constant (1169)
planned (adj.) … work (28)
plant (vt) … a field (157)
plant (C,U) a rambling … (10) a … shoots (17)
the … kingdom || a(n) annual / biennial / perennial … (650) a power … (565)
a tender / healthy / unhealthy / diseased / sickly … (1265)
plantation (C:150)
plaster (U,C) a leg in a `… cast / E& in … || P… of Paris (1154)
crumbling … || to daub a wall with … (1302)
plaster (vt) … a wall || … over the brickwork (1302) … sbth. with sth.
plasterer (C:1302)
plastic (U, pl.) to keep one’s … in a wallet (298)
plastic (adj.) red hot iron is … (1235)
Plasticine [ -sin ] (U:1069)
plate (C) dinner … (5) (L-) … (74)
… tectonics || tectonic … || constructive / destructive … margin (647)
plated (adj.) armour-… (666)
plateau (C:1116)
platform (C) a … ( at a train station ) (E) (69) a viewing … (864)
plateau ( pl: <aux / aus ) (C) a mountain … (864)
plating (U) armour … (666)
Plato [ `pleitêu ] (N) …’s the Republic (164) the dialoges of … (1214)
platoon (C:192)
plausible (adj.) an account sounds … (84)
play (U,C:writing:49) a ball is in / go out of … (25) to perform a … (51)
play (vi&t) … the devil’s advocate (7) … dice (8)
… cards / spades / a club / a king / an ace / the queen of hearts / the two of diamonds ||
… out of turn (9)
… sports (A) (14) … rounders / punchball (15) … the goalkeeper (25) sth. … sb. a trick (34)
… a part (36) … a joke on sb. (37) … the piano (47) … at doing sth. (51)
… sb. / a part / a role / a character (52) sb. / sth. … a part in sth. (53)… a leading role (56)
… to packed houses (63) … music || … it without the music (126)
… (at doing) sth. (140) … a game (143) … (it) safe (262)
… one (party / suspect ) off against E/A off the other || … sb&sb. off against E/A off each other (275)
… away / at home / on one’s own ground || … a home / an away { match / game (300)
… a record (338) … fast and `loose (with sb. / sth.) (605+)
… rough (589) … tricks (on sb.) (462)
… truant (596) … sports / football (631) … for time (641) … double or quits (702)
… one’s cards right (702) … on sb’s desire / urge (853) … sb. at their own game (E) (910)
two can … at `that game (911) … the woman (1086) … hazard (1140) … out of tune / off-key (1271)
playable (adj:193)
`play-act (vi:544)
`play-acting (U:544)
player (C) a card / dice … (8+) a football … (25)
playful (adj.) a … cuff (271) a … person (425)
playfully (adv.) to cuff sb. … (271)
playground (C) in a … (724) a place is a … for sb. (727)
playhouse (C:1267)
playing (U) a … card (9) ( in a * ) … field (589, 742 * ) to do sth. on a level `… field with sb. (702)
the … is out of tune / of-key (1271)
playpen (C:1230)
plea (C) do sth. on the … that - (183) to make / enter a … { in mitigation / of ‘not guilty’ (693)
plead (vi&t & speech:234) … not guilty (210) … ( in (one’s) excuse ) that - (618)
pleasant (adj.) … behaviour (263) ( to sb’s ) … surprise (722)
pleasantly (adv.) … surprised (277)
please (interj.) …, help yourself to sth. (5) manners, … ! (132) will you … look at this (141)
please (vi&t) … sb. || sb. does what they … || sb. does sth. as / whxxever they … ||
to be eager / easy to … (93)
pleased (adj.) to be (as) … as Punch (31) (I’m) … to meet you (78) … (that) - (80)
… about / with sth. || … for sb. (90) to be … to do sth. || to be … with oneself (93)
pleasing (adj.) sth. is … to the eye (78) sb. has a … appearance (130)
pleasingly (adv.) a … relaxed atmosphere (285)
pleasure (U,C) to derive (great) … from sth. (48) to take ( great ) … in (doing) sth. (175)
to wish sb. … in (doing) sth. (581) to do sth. at … (674) malicious … (960) love of … (1047)
a …-loving person (1049) a sensual / sensuous … (1050) the … principle (1199) a doubtful … (1271)
plebeian [ pli`bi~ên ] (C:924)
plebicite [ -sit ] (553) by … / hold / take a ( advisory / consultative / mandatory ) … (553)
pledge (vt) … ( one’s ) loyalty to sb. || … to do sth. (148) … money to sbth. (190)
… (that) - || … oneself / sb. ( to (do) sth.) (271) … sth. (276) … allegiance to sb. (402)
… one’s faith to do sth. (1295)
pledge (C) a … of homage (148)
to give a … (that) - / to do sth. || to honour one’s … (271)
to leave ( sth. valuable as ) a … (276) an election … (601)
plenitude (sg.,U) to possess a … of wealth (228) a … of products (266)
a … of opportunity / ties (390)
plentiful (adj.) a person of … charm (251) … inspiration (279) … opportunity (390)
plenty (pron., det.) … of commodities (266) there’s … to do || … of possibility / <ties (390)
plenty (U) a land of … (224) … of products || commodities in … (266) sth. brings … (1178)
plenty (adv.) … prudent / long enough ( to do sth.) (4 / 323)
plethora (sg.) a … of opportumities (390)
plight [ plait ] (norm. sg.) the … of the poor || an economic … (1040)
be in a sad / sorry / dreadful // desperate … (1042 // -47)
plight (vt) … one’s troth (1077)
plodder (11)
plot (C,U) a play has a single … (49) to be a party to a …(60) a … (of land) (157)
a … about sth. || in terms of … (465) to hatch a … against sb. / to do sth. (486) a … unfolds (602)
a … thickens (603) a burial … (720)
plot (vi&t) … against sb. (87) … with sb. to do sth. (486) … a course (661)
plotter (C:486)
plough (E) (C:157)
plough (vi&t) … ( land ) || … a lonely / one’s own furrow (157)
… one’s way through a magazine (1154)
ploughland (U:17)
ploughman (C) a …’s lunch (E) (78)
plow (A) [ plau ] (C:157)
plow (A) (vi&t) … ( land ) (157)
ploy (C) a … to do sth. (694)
pluck (vi&t) … `up (the) courage ( to do sth.) (283) … fruit (723)
plug (v:414) … () in sth. || … sth. into sth. (575)
plug (C) a … socket || an electric … (572)
a three-pin … (572) wire … (572)
plumage [ `plu~mid§ ] (U) a bird’s … (1174)
plumber (C:563+)
plumbing (U) … and heating / … and sanitary engeneer || to have problems with the … (564)
plume (C) a … of smoke || a … on a hat (441)
plume (vi) smoke … out of a chimney (441)
plunder (U:218)
plunder (vi&t:226)
plunderer (C:235)
plunge (vi&t) … a country into war (352) … into the water ect (704) … into a defence (706)
… into an a`byss of economic ruin (784)
pluperfect (C) the … (847)
pluperfect (adj.) the … tense (847)
plural (sg.) the ( indefinite / definite ) … (1218)
plural (adj.) a … noun || an indefinite / a definite … noun || the ( indefinite / definite ) … form (1218)
plus (adj.) a … point (866)
Pluto (N) the planet … (995)
plutocracy [ plu~`tåkrêsi ] (C:1090) plutocrat [ `plu~têkrat ] (C:1090)
Pn
pneumatic [ nju`matik ] (adj.) a … tyre (1062)
pneumonia [ nju~`mêuniê ] (U:1257)
pneumonic [ nju~`månik ] (adj.) … plague (1257)
Po
poacher (C:257) a ( goal ) … (400)
pocket (vt) … a ball ( in billiards ) (1123)
pocket (C) in one’s … || to search one’s … (5) an inner … (265) to turn () out one’s …(s) (272)
to end / be in sb’s … (487) to have sth. in one’s … (524) to have a lot of money in one’s … (fig:602)
inner … (298) to consult one’s … E/A …<book (798) a … of a billiard table (1123) a … knife (1273)
poem (C:172) poet (C:170) poetry (U:171)
poignant [ `påinënt ] (adj.) a … poem (222)
point (C: land 235) at the extreme … of vision (13) … of a story (31) … of departure (fig.) (45)
( from a practical ) view … (46) to have a … in common (186) to reach / pass the … of return (243)
a turn of phrase very much to the …(264)
a vantage (…) / a … from which there is a view (416,858) when it comes to the … (484)
a (power) … (E) (572) to play a … again (631) pivot … (744) from all …s of the compass (805)
sb’s good … || to get (straight) to the … (806) in … of fact (807) a percentage … (808)
a … of order (815) to carry one’s … || the … is - || the whole … of sth. is to - (815+)
a … man ( A: on sth.) (815) to make one’s (principal) …(s) against sth. (816)
not see the … in / of doing sth. || the … of the matter || illustrate / prove a … || spell out a …||
to miss the … || make one’s … || agree with sb’s … ( about sth.* ) || to take / see sb’s … ||
at this / that … || a moot `… (817, 822 * )
a … of reference || a starting … (fig.) || a case in `… || to make a xxx … (about sth.) ||
sth. is a (good) …|| the next … || at a … in history || and more to that … (820)
that’s the whole … || do sth. to the … of (doing) sth. || sth. is a … of conscience (821)
to do sth. up to a (certain) … || sth. is up to the … || ( to point out ) a weak … in an argument ||
sb. has a … || to prove a … || to keep / stick to the … || to score political …s ||
to score a … / …s { off / against / over sb. || the finer …s of sth. || there’s no … in doing sth.(822)
to make a … of (doing) sth. || sth. is sb’s … of honour (823)
to do / be sth. to the … of morbidity / (doing) sth. (824 / 827/ 843)
at the … where - (826) that’s beside / not the … (828) short and to the … (828) a talking … (E) (828)
to be at / on the … (doing) sth. || not to put a too fine … on it (830) to get to the … where - ||
what’s the … of sth. ? (831) sth. is a sore … with sb. || it’s a sore … with sb. that - (832)
at one / this / that … (in time) || OK, … taken || it’s a … of honour with sb. (to do sth.) ||
sb’s good …s (835) sb’s strong …s || to reach a … in one’s life where - || and, more to the …, ||
to take sth. as one’s … of departure (fig.) (836) to get / come (straight) to the … (838)
a text is x …s || a major … (840) five … nine (5.9) || a decimal … (844) the main …s in a book (849)
to earn / score / win brownie …s (850) sth. is / to reach a / the { high / low … in the season (852)
to get / score / win x …(s) || win on …s || `match / game … (852) if / when it comes to the … (E) (854)
to strain / stretch a / the `… (855)
a … of entry (to sth.) || a three-… `turn || sth. / sb. is the `focal … of sbth. / attention (857/ 867)
a crossing … (859) a … of departure / a departure … / jumping-`off … for a tour (862)
a compass … || a … of compass (862) a … of light (866) a selling … / plus / minus (866)
to put a fresh … to a pencil (875) the sharp … of a needle / pin (880) be on `… duty (E) (882)
(railway) …s (E) (883) a meeting … (883) (the) freezing … (C,U) (888)
tension reches the poiling … (890)
be at / on the … of death / dying // collapse / collapsing etc. (892) a low … (894) to press the … (1053)
point(s) of view (C) to adopt a xxx … (21) from a practical … (46) to look at sth. from xxx … (143)
from the … of sb. (815)
from sb’s … || regarded from the … of sth. || see sb’s … || there are different … on a subject ||
a moot `… (817) have a … || see / respect sb’s … (818) adopt a (new) … || change one’s … (822)
see things from a xxx … (819) at that … in time || at one … || at some … in the future (834)
x … ahead of / behind sb. (851) at the … of sale / `purchase (853) a `vanishing … (871)
a melting … (887)
point (vi&t, … out speech:132) … sb. toward(s) a xxx career (806) … to sth. (fig:807)
sb. / sth. … the way for / to reform (807) … out that - (817) … () `out a weak point (822)
sb. … (sth.) / sth. … { at / to(wards) sth. // in the direction of sth. (827) … a / the finger at sb. (828)
evidence … a finger of suspicion at sb. || everything / evidence … in one direction / to(wards) sb. (831)
sb. … () `out sth. || … out to sb. sth. || … sth. out to sb. (833)
… { the finger / an accusing finger / a finger of blame at sbth. || sth. … () out sth. (841)
… sb. in the right direction || … the way {forward(s) for sb. / to(wards) sth. … (fig:842)
… sb. in the directon of / towards sth. (855) to … a wall (880)
point-`blank (adj.) a … refusal (827) at … range (891) sth. … `up sth. (895)
point-blank (adv.) refuse / say sth. … (827 / 830) to fire … (891)
pointe(s) (U) be on … (55)
pointed (14) sth. is a … reminder of sth. (828) a … look / comment // joke (833 // 844)
a … arch / hat (861) a … claw (865) a … nose / chin (892)
pointedly (adv.) answer … || to look … at sb. (835)
pointer (C, a dog:891) the mouse … (840) give sb. a … ( on / about sth.) (842+) to use a … (847)
a … on a speedometer (883)
poitillisme (U:871) poitilist ( C:871) pointing (U:880)
pointless (adj.) it’s … doing / to do sth. (822)
pointlessly (adv.) to argue … (835) pointlessness (U) the … of sth. (832) pointsman (E) (C:882)
poise (vi&t) … oneself to do sth. || … oneself + adv. (384) … sth. to do sth. || … sth. + adv. (387)
a helicopter … over sth. (849) a bird … over sth. (865)
poise (U) to be full of / have … (743)
poised (adj.) at a … position (384) sb. is … (743)
poison (C,U:453,532) … gas (666) to hate like … (546) a … `pen (548) a …-`pen letter (534)
a … (<ed) arrow (558) deadly … (558) a … `pill (596) the … of sth. || sth. is a … that - (629)
poison (vt) … sb. / sth. (with sth.) (532) … the atmosphere / sb’s childhood (533 / 536)
… a mind (against sb.) / relations (629) poisoned `chalice (E) (593)
poisoner (C:532)
poisoning (U,C:55,532) radiation … (621)
poisonous (adj:418,505,fig:536) … reading (545) … to sb. / sth. (650)
poke (C) to give sb. a … ( in the ribs / side ) ( with one’s elbow / finger ) || to take a … at sb. (1307)
to give the fire a … (1307) to have a … around (1308) a car with ( more ) … (1311)
poke (vi&t) … fun at sbth. (37) weeds … ( up ) through sth. || … a hole in sth. with sth. (1301)
… at a mummy / * the dust ( with a stick ) || … sth. onto a dustpan (1302+ * )
a cable end … out of a wall || sb’s head … out of the blanket (1303)
… sb. ( in the ribs / side ) ( with their elbow / finger ) ||
… one’s elbow / finger into sb’s ribs / side || … the fire (1307)
… around / about in a place || … at sth. with a fork (1308)
… holes in a story || … around / about in sb’s business || a man … a woman ||
… sb. ( in the ribs / side ) with one’s elbow || to … one’s elbow into sb’s ribs / side (1309)
… one’s hand into one’s pocket || … into sb’s private life (1310) … along at x km / h (1311)
… about / around in a room || … one’s head around a door || … sth. under a door (1314)
… a hole in a substance (1316)
poker (C,U) a … (887)
polarize [ `pêulêraiz ] (vi&t) …d light (1171)
pole (C) to be …s apart (66) … vault (634) a telephone … (575) a ski … (1155)
a / the north / south magnetic … || the celestial north … || the North … (566)
police (pl.) the …(4) the … service (418) policies (473)
policy (C,U) a government’s … (21) sb’s new … (122) to take out a(n) (insurance) … (294+)
public … (U) (1050) policyholder (C:293)
polish (U,C) wax … (444)
polite (adj.) … person / conversation (40 / 46) sth. is not for … ears (919)
… literature (951) in … society (968)
politely (adv:103)
politeness (U) common … to do sth. (181)
politesse (U:968)
politic (adj.) it is (not) … to do sth. (1105)
political (adj.) … consciousness (7) … correctness (629)
politician (C:146)
politics (U + sing. / pl.) (engage in) … (45,474)
poll [ pêul ] (C) an opinion … shows that - (309) a … tax (362) to go to the …s (803)
to carry out / conduct / do a(n) ( opinion ) … || to be ahead in / lead the …(s) ||
a(n) ( opinion / exit ) … indicates / suggests / predicts / decides sth. ||
the … open at x a.m. / (the) …s close at x p.m. || a … card (808)
the … is x % || a heavy … || a victory / defeat at the …s (809)
polling (U) … takes place (806) on … day (E) || … station (E) / place (A) || … booth (808)
heavy … (809)
pollute (vt) the air is …d (211) … a watercourse (664)
pollution (U:211)
polygamy [ pê`ligêmi ] (U:817)
poly`saccharide (C:571)
polysyllable (C:1221)
polysyllabic (adj.) a … word (1221)
polytheism [ `påli#i~izêm ] (U:71)
pompous (adj.) a … person / remark (1123)
ponce (E) (C:612)
pond (C) a fish … (1127)
ponder (vi&t) … on / over / about sth. || … a situation / whxx (1068)
ponderable (adj.) a … class (1069)
ponderous (adj.) … witticism(s) (1071) have a … walk || to walk with a … gait (1077)
sth. looks … (1080) a … piece of writing (1082) a … burden (1084)
ponderously (adv.) to walk … (1077) … written (1082)
ponderousness (U) … of an object / a novel (1080)
ponytail (C) wear one’s hair in a … (758)
pool (C) sb. does the …s || there’s £ x in the … || to win £ x on the …s (1080)
a ( swimming ) … || a … room || to shoot / play … || a labour … || a … of applicants (1081)
a … of water // blood / light (1082+) to put sth. in a common … (1084)
a … table (1123) to play / shoot … (1124)
pool (vt) spl. … their know-how / resources (1084)
poolside (sg.) a … bar || at the … (1081)
poor (U) the … (6) the rural / urban / working … (309)
poor (adj: 286,304) a … grade / mark (eE) (2) … people (6) you … creature (42) a … offer (57)
sb’s … judgement (59) a … harvest (159) a … sailor (fig.) (225) a … box (228)
a … part of a town (244) to be in … health || sb. is in a … conditions (248)
a the … man’s sth. (262) you … thing (282) the … relation of (291) … second / third etc (310)
sbth. is a … excuse for sbth. (310+) a `… boy (A, food) (319) a … joke (425) a … diet (1262)
poorest (adj.) the … family (309)
poorhouse (C:248)
poorly (adv:335,336) … paid labour (245) … dresses (249)… educated (309)
poor-spirited (adj:336)
pop (vi&t) … into sth. (E) (591) … `up (614) … the question (718)
sb’s eyes … out of ( his / her head ) (1245)
pope (C) the P… (220) …’s nose (A) (723) poppy (49)
populace (C:217)
popular (adj.) a … choice (3) ( contrary to ) … belief (85) … `opinion (190) to be … with sb. (197)
popularity (U:92)
populated (adj.) densly … (16) heavily / thinly / sparsely … (587)
population (C:12) a dense … (16)
porch (C) a church … (745) a sun … (A) (1081)
pork (U:79) leg of … || … chop / cutlet (795)
porker (C:794)
porn / por`nography (U) … shop / model (610)
porno / porno`graphic (adj.) … mag / magazine (610)
porpoise [ `på~pês ] (651)
porridge (eE) (U:78)
port (C) a … town (168) to turn to the … (226) on the … side (227)
a major … || to come into / leave … || to be in … (653) to come into / reach … (1135)
portable (adj:444)
portend [ på~´tend ] (vt) sth. … a good event (73)
portent [ `på~tent ] (C) to be a benign / good / bad / ill … ( of sth. ) (72+)
portentous [ på~tentês ] (adj:73)
porter (C:103)
porterhouse (C) a … ( steak ) (795)
portfolio (C) sb’s … ( of work ) (165)
portion (C) a … of food (5) a … of a population (12) the front / central / rear … of a building (13)
a … of the blame (24)
`portrait (C) …s are a popular subject with a painter (408) a book gives a devastating … of sth. (500)
a film gives a … of sb’s life (608)
to do / make / draw / paint sb’s … / a … of sb. || a self-… || a full-lenght … (1304+)
portray [ på~`trei ] (vt) a book … sth. (500) sbth. … sbth. ( as sth.) (609, 1301, -04+)
… oneself / sth. // sb. as sth. (1304 // -11)
portrayal (C) a book gives a devastating … of sth. (500) an accurate / a correct … of sb. (609)
pose (vi&t) sth. … a threat (55) sth. … a peril (1156)
pose (C) to strike a ( xxx ) … (1101)
posit (vt) … sth. / that - (946)
position (vt:198)
position (C,U) in no … to do sth. (9) (not*) in a … to do sth. (37*, 56) to remove sb. from their … (98)
to leave sb. in a better … (133) a holder of a … (151) an offesive … (204)
to be in an exposed … (206) ( to put sb.) in an awkward / unfortunate … (584)
to play a … in E/A on a team (590) to move into … (mil:512)
positive (66) … discrimination (629) … reinforcement (196) be … that - (534) to be … about sth. (641)
a … number (647)
positively (adv.) … charged proton (567) positivism (U:934)
possess (vt) … sovereignty (145) … ( a plentitude of ) wealth (228)
possessed [ po`zest ] (adj.) … of a seductive manner (80) … by a demon (97)
possession (U,C) in … of great mental faculties (1) to take … of sth. (23) sb’s …s (141)
sb’s …s (151) to come into … of sth. (153)
pessimism takes … of sb. (950) be in … of one’s faculties / reason / senses (1047)
possessive [ pê`zesiv ] (adj.) a … `pronoun (847,1220)
possibility (U,C) a … that - (54) there’s a bare … that - (781)
sth. is … || ( there’s ) a … of (doing) sth. || a strong / real / distinct / remote / faint … of sth. ||
there’s little / much … of sth. || to rule out / neglect the … of sth. / that - (905)
to consider / study / examine / explore the …ies of (doing) sth. (910)
see (great etc) …ies in sth. || sth. is beyond / within the bounds / realms of … (911)
there’s no … of (doing) sth. || to use `up / exhaust all …ies || sth. offers …ies for (doing) sth. ||
sth. is the only … for (doing) / of (doing) sth. (915)
sth. raises the … that - (981) sbth. offers a wide range of … ies (989)
a wealth of …ies are open to sb. || the …ies are endless (990) sth. has (great) …ies (997)
possible (C) a … (901) to do one’s … (908) sth. is the art of the … (912)
possible (adj.) as soon as (is) ( practicably ) … (29) all … help (75) to do everything … (93)
a … customer (263) it’s ( certainly ) … (that) - (270) a … escapee (308)
it’s … for sb. to do sth. (904) a … explanation (907) all humanly … (908)
sth. makes it … to do sth. (909)
the only … thing for sb. is to - || whatever / wherever / whenever / however … || if (at all) … ||
(in) every way … || do everything … (910)
a … consequence / effect || the worst … thing (957)
a … cause (958) as much / few as … (965) sth. is not … without sth. (967) every … moment (980)
the best … price (981) the best … chance of sth. / moment to do sth (998)
possibly (adv.) as xxx as sb. … can (905) sth. can’t … be tru (907) sb. can / could … do sth. (958)
sbth. is … sth. / the most - / best - (970) everything sb. … can (980) sb. can’t / couldn’t … do sth. (981)
post (C,U) to remove sb. from their … (98) to open / read one’s … (E) (130) to deliver … to sb. (300)
a ( goal ) … (303) to apply for a … || fill a … || take `up one’s … (as sth.) (736) at a … office (761)
to do sth. by return of … (842)
post (vt) … (off) a letter ( to sb. ) || … sb. sth. (300)
post– (prefix)
postage (U) the … on a letter || a … stamp || … rates (300)
postal (adj.) to pay by … order (A) (761)
postbox (E) (C:300)
postcard (C:326)
poster (C:90) to put up a … of sth. / for sth. (807)
posthumous [ `påstjumês ] (adj.) (a) … commendation (1084) posthumously (adv:1084)
postman (C:26)
post-mortem (C) to carry out / do conduct a … ( examination ) on sb. (541) the … shows that - (709)
post-natal (adj.) … depression (288)
postpone [ pê`spêun ] (vt) … sth. for / until some time (28 / 777) … sth. indefinitely (245)
postponement (U,C) give / grant (sb.) a … (of sth.) (797) post-`war (adj.) … community / time (669)
postulate (C) a … of sth. (946)
postulate (vt) … sth. / that - (946)
posture (C,U) in a sitting … (1307)
pot (vt) … a ball ( in billiards / pool ) (1123) … a plant (1318)
pot (C,U) …s and pans (447) a coffee … || a tea>… (453) to smoke … (605)
to keep the … boiling (722) a pepper … (873) a paint … (875) a … of coffee / tea (982)
jam / honey … (1316)
potato (C,U) mashed …es (795) potency (10) potent (10)
potentate [ `pêutnteit ] (C:1094)
potential (U) sb. has the … to do sth. (168) sth. has (great) … (997)
potential (adj.) a … Casanova(10) a … customer (263) a … escapee (308) … success (1053)
potentially (adv.) … hazardous / fatal (1122 / 1290)
potted (adj.) a … plant (1267) … meat / fish (1317)
potter E/A putter (vi+adv.) … around / E& about ( the house ) / in sth. (433, 1318)
… away one’s time || … with sth. (1318)
potter (C) a …’s shop / bench / wheel / oven || …’s clay (1316)
pottery (U:214) classes in … || a piece of … || a … (1316)
potting (adj.) a … shed (E) (1318)
potty (adj.) … about sbth. (1318)
poultry (144)
pound (£:29) a … cake (68)
pound (v) sb’s heart … (614)
pouding (adj.) … headache (40)
poulaine [ pu~`lein ] (C:1234)
pounce (vi) … on a mistake (833) … ( on a mouse ) (886) … ( on a job etc.) (889)
pour [ på~] (vi&t) … praise // abuse / scorn on sbth. (179 // 206) light … + adv. (433)
… () `out one’s troubles etc. (702) … sb. sth. || … sth. for sb. (751) … sth. on sbth. (755)
… out heart / soul (to sb.) (752) spl. … onto the street(s) (808) … oil into sth. (890)
information … in (1087) … a liquid off (1132) water … out (1272)
pout (C) sb’s lips are set in a … (264)
pout (vi&t &speech:264) sb. … ( their lips ) || sb’s lips … (264)
poverty (U, sing:235,338) dire … (16) to alleviate / relieve … || the … trap (309)
… line / level (A) (312)
poverty-stricken (adj:312)
powder (U,C) to apply … to the face (445) ( gun>) powder (510)
sth. in … form || baking / cyrry / cleaning / soap / washing … (656) milk … (E) (1130) (a) fine … (1154)
powder (vt) … one’s nose (407)
powdered (adj.) … milk (E) (1130) a … form (1154)
power (U,C) the separation of …s (23) solar … (49)
the supernatural …s || to have supernatural … (70)
the …s of darkness || the higher …s || the …s above (71) to have magic(al) / psychical …(s) (72)
economic / social … (144) to have sovereign … (145) to use one’s (great) … (146)
to increase one’s … (148) the legislative / judicial / executive … (189) to sieze … (312)
a … apparatus (375) a … game / struggle (371) to grant sb. emergency …s (419) royal … (463)
a … plant / station (565) motive … (566) … supply (572) a big / great … (620)
a light and … company (565) to give sb. extensive …s (625) the Allied / Central P…s (666)
glasses with … (764) the … of language (909)
the … of sight / hearing / feeling / taste / smell / speech ||
sb’s …s of observation / perception / cognition / memory (936)
sb’s …s of persuation / concentration (963+) a number to the … of a number (1060)
to struggle for / come to / gain / obtain / sieze / take / remain in / stay in / use / wield / arrogate to
oneself / be in / have / lose / … || to have sb. in one’s … || to have … over sb. ||
to have the … to do sth. || to use (one’s) …(s) to do sth. || abuse / lust of … ||
to do everything in one’s … to do sth. (1106) the … of resistance eludes sb. (1140)
a paint has good covering … (1268)
powerful (adj.) a … blow (15) a … monarch (149) an … idea / argument (163 / 463)
powerhouse (&fig:565)
power-`crazy / -hungry / -mad / -seeking (adj.) a … person (371)
Pr
practicabillity (U:28)
practicable (adj.) … idea / plan / suggestion (28)
practical (adj.) … farmer (17) be … for sb. to do sth. (28) … nurse (A) (44)
… question / stranger (44) in … terms (45) from a … point of view (46)
practi`calities (46) practicality (28)
practically [ `praktikli ] (adv.) … no difference (1) … certain (309)
practice (U,C) a … ( game /eE match ) (25) to be in … || in be / get out of `… || put sth. into … (28)
… makes `perfect (30)
the … of medicine || to be in ( general ) …. || a medical … || guidelines for good … || a code of … ||
religious …(s) || to run a … (40)
a matter of common … (42) one’s usual … (45) … of sth. (46)
in … || it’s the … for sb. to do sth. || it takes (some) … to do sth. || to do … (47)
a commercial … (168) it’s common … (175) as is one’s usual … (523) a …field / E& pitch (953)
practise (E/A) practice (vi&t) … usury / one’s religion (16) … economy (19) … law / medicine (40)
… doing sth. (46) … (on) the piano (47) … ( for sth. / some time ) (47)
practised (E/A) practiced (adj:14) be … in sth. (46) … eye (47)
practitioner (C) a ( legal / qualified ) … (40)
prairie (C,U:557)
pragmatic (adj.) a … person (1226)
praise [ preiz ] (vt) … sth./ sb. ( for (doing) sth.* ) (82, 179, 774*)
praise (U) sb’s … (82) to expect … for sth. (152) to pour / heap … on sb. || self-… (179)
a word of … (967)
pram (E) (C) to push a … (1230)
prawn (E) (C) a … cocktail (C,U:794)
pray [ prei ] (vi&t, speech:106) those who … (147) … ( for sb. / sth. ) || … (that) - (227)
… to God || … to do sth. (230)
prayer (C,U:304) a place is dedicated to … (162)
the power / a life of …|| a … mat / rug || to kneel in … || sb’s …s are with sb. || spl. say ( their ) …s ||
sb’s …s are with sb. || to say a … ( for sb.) (227) to answer sb’s … (232) sb’s … is that - (284)
preach (vi&t) practice what you … (30) … a sermon ( against sth.* ) (742, 756* )
… (to sb.) (on / about sth.) (237, 353, 742) … the Gospel etc. (to sb.) (735, 742)
… in a church / at a service (742) … to the converted / choir (742)
… the word of God / the benifits / virtues {of sth. (to sth.) (756)
preacher (C) fire-and-brimstone … (742)
preaching (U,C) … of the Word (380)
prearranged (adj.) a … signal (101)
precarious (adj.) a … position (364)
precarium (C:150)
precaution [ pri`kå$n ] (C) to take all reasonable …s to do sth. || to take the … of doing sth. ||
to do sth. as a (wise / sensible) … against sth. (299)
precede (vt) a ceremony is …d by another ceremony (152) … sb. in rank (178) sb. … sb.+ adv. (193)
… a speech with sth. (380)
`precedence (U) sth. takes … over sth. (156) in order of … (193) to give safety … (386)
to lose one’s … (484)
`precedent (C,U) sth. sets / creates a … ( for sth.* ) (137,189*) to break … (187)
not much … for sth. (202)
a dangerous … (1003)
precept [ `pri~sept ] (C,U) to break with a … (187) humane …(s) (1162)
precinct [ `pri~singkt ] (C) a `shopping / pedestriam … (878)
precious (adj.) a … object (223) to be … to sb. (229) a … stone (1089)
precipice [ `presêpis ] (C) ( to be / stand ) on the edge of a … (fig:784) a vertical … (1117)
precipitate [ pri`sipiteit ] (vi&t) … an attack (525) … sth. out (1132)
sth. … an area into unimployment || sth. … a comedown / decline ||
sth. … sb. into a depression (1134)
precipitate [ pri`sipiteit ] (C:1132)
precipitate [ pri`sipitêt ] (adj.) … decision (137) precipitately (108)
precipitation (U,C) (a) … of a substance from a distillate (1132) to regret one’s … (1133)
precipitous [ pri`sipitês ] (adj.) a … cliff / climb / path / flight of stairs (1117) a … decision (1133)
a … closure (1134)
precipitously (adv.) to act … (1133)
precisely (adv:241)
precocious [ pri`kêu$ês ] (adj.) a … child / draftsman (1006 / 1268)
precon`ceived (att.adj.) a … idea (843) precursor (361)
predator (C:331)
predatory [ `predêtri ] (adj.) … invasion (214) a … expedition (225)
predeliction (C) to have a … for sth. (1265)
predetermin (vt) sth. … sth. (181)
predetermined (adj.) a … signal (101) a … orbit (620)
predicament (C) to be in a ( terrible ) … (86) to explain one’s … (113) sb’s economic … (124)
predicate (C) `… complement || … `noun / ad`jective (652) a … ( of a clause ) (1221)
predict (vt) … sth. / that - / whxx (72) it is …ed that - || to be …ed to do sth. (122)
predictable (adj.) everyday life is highly … (74) a … pattern (77) sb. is … (95)
predisposed (adj.) … to a disease (1254)
predominance (U:127)
predominant [ pri`dåminênt ] (adj.) … conditions (127) a … culture (144) sb. … humour (1240)
predominate (vi) the conditions that … ( 127) conscripts soldiers … (194) human values … (1162)
sb’s ...ing humour || sth. … in sth. || good … over evil (1240) choler … over the other humours (1244)
predominantly (adv.) … Celtic (215)
pre-`eminent (adj.) sb. is … (928)
`preface (342)
prefer [ pri `fê~ ] (vt) … sth. ( to sth.) || … that (19)
… doing / to do sth. … sth. + adj. || … it if || sth. is to be …red (20)
preferable (adj.) … to (do / doing) sth. (21)
`preference (C,U) a matter of personal … (20) to express a strong … for sth. (19) in order of … (24)
to have a … for sth. / sb. (1265 / -81)
preferential (adj.) … treatment (629)
pre`ferment (U:1032)
prefigure [ pri~`figê ] (vt:221)
prefix (C:1218)
pregnancy (U:175) a … test (1228)
pregnant (adj.) to become / get … (286) a … `pause / `silence (289) heavily … (457)
prehistoric (adj:213)
prehistory (U:213)
prejudice [ `pred§udis ] (U,C:16) a … against sb. (76) racial …(s) (629)
prejudiced [ `pred§udist ] (adj:44) prejudicedly (adv:843)
prejudicially [ pred§u`di$êli ] (adv:843)
`prelate (C:1004)
pre`liminary (adj.) sth. … to sth. (558)
prelude (C) a … to a war (1207)
preliminary (C) sth. as a … to sth. (558)
premature [ `premêt$ê E/A pri~mê`t$ur ] (adj.) a … decision (137) … birth / baby (286)
prematurely (adv.) act … (252) Premier Legue (126)
premiere (C:62) to have its … (599)
premiere (vi&t:599)
`premise /E& premiss (C) sth. is based on the … that - (156) on a false … (707) a … ( in logic ) (1214)
`premises (pl.) company … (615)
pre`monitory (adj.) … pains (286)
premonition (C) have a … of sth. / that - (602)
preparation (U, pl., C)
sth. is in … || …(s) for an expedition || to make …s to do / for sth. || a step in the …s (225)
food … (257) a pharmaceutical … (263) Christmas …s (280) delivery …s (283)
preparatory [ pri`parêtêri ] (adj.) a … meeting (225) … school (336) … studies / work (339)
prepare (v&t) … one’s flight (108) to … a response (135) … to do / for sth. (204)
… oneself to do / for sth. || to have time to … || … a map (225) … an alter for service (228)
… the ground for sth. ( fig.) (252) … a room for sb. (255) … food / a meal / breakfast (257)
… the soil (267) … a case (307) … one’s lessons || … for one’s exam (335)
prepared (adj.) ( to be ) … to do sth. (13,204) … for sth. (54) to be … for war / the worst (192 / 226)
an ill-… plan || sb. is ill-… to do sth. (1250)
preparedness (U:327) defensive … (203) sb’s … to lie (273)
preponderance (U:127)
preponderant (adj.) … conditions (127)
preposition (C:847) the object of a … (1218)
prepositional (adj.) … group / phrase / object (847)
” pre-prep” / ”prep” school (336)
prerogative (adj.) a … court (1019)
prerogative (C:1032)
presage [ `presid§ / pri`seid§ ] (C) a … of sth. (369)
presage (vt) … sth. (369)
Presbytarian (adj.) a … church (1010)
preschool (U,C:873)
prescribe [ pri`skraib ] (v) sth. …ed by a rule / law (40) … sb. a drug || … opium for pain (49)
prescribed (adj:344)
`presence (U,sg.) sb’s … (98)
`present (C) ( to give sth.) as / for a ( wedding * ) … (5,761* ) for the … (51) the … ( tense ) (847)
`present (adj.) sb. is … (22) sb’s … job (51) sth. is … (149) (to) the … day (465)
the … ( perfect ) tense (847)
present [ pri`sent ] (vi&t) … statute a council (101) sb. … a credo (109) a problem … itself (245)
sb. … a banner (383)
… ( sb. with ) a prize (786) … a petition to Parliament (1184)
presentation (C,U) a … round (383)
presentiment [ pri`zentimênt ] (C) to have a … of sth. / that - (602)
preservation (U) environmental … (78)
preserve (vt) … the peace (25) … the head of a trophy (675) … the original features of sth. (997)
preside [ pri`zaid ] (vi) the …ing judge (118) … over a court (345)
presidency (C) be elected to the … || holder of a … || stand for (E) the … (804)
president (C:25) run for … (A) (804)
presidential (adj.) a … system of government || a … election (804) a … campaign (807)
press (C,U) freedom / liberty of the … || … freedom / liberty (23) the (local) … (+sg. / pl.) (507)
a … release (828) the gutter … (840) a printing … (1002) a suit is out of … (1039)
the … of modern life (1041) a … of sb’s hand / arm (1044)
to give sth. a slight / hard … of one’s finger (1045)
to be lost in the … (of bodies) (1049) the sensational … (840,1051)
a … photographer || to send the matter to … (in printing) (1054)
(as) the newspaper goes to … || at the time of going to … || (there’s) a great … of work (1054)
to correct the … || pass the type set up for … || the finished matter goes to … (1055)
to have a good … (1056) a member of the … || a … card / pass / box / gallery / campaign (1057)
a … agent / agency / conference / corps (1058) a … of people / bodies ||
the … of the crowd drives sb. on (1059) do sth. with a light … (1060) a fruit … (1063)
press (vt&i + adv.) … a button / a switch (29 / 31) … sb. hard (fig.) (126)
sp. … into a place from swh. (214) … (down hard on) the accelerator / (eA) gas (pedal) (584)
… ahead / on with sth. (589,1053) … (on) for sth. (835,1053)
a problem … (down) heavily on sb. (1040)
… the point / question || … sb. (for sth. / to do sth.) || … for sth. ( to do sth. ) (1042)
… an opinion on sb. || … sb’s hand / arm (1043) … sb. to one’s side || … sth. against sth. (1044)
… sth. to / onto / into sth. (1045) the crowd … to do sth. || sb. … `up to sb. (1049)
sb. needs …ing (1050) … one’s claim (1051)
… the point / question || … ahead / on || … home one’s point / an attack / a success (1053)
… (all) the right `buttons || … sb’s buttons (1056)
sb. … against sth. || sb. … sb. || spl. … (a)round sb. || to be …ed in a crowd || sb. … forward (1059)
… sth. into service || … one’s foot down on sth. (1060)
… here (to open)|| … fruit || … the juice out of sth. || … a lid firmly shut (1063)
… sb. into service (1064) thoughts … in on sb. (1065)
… a piece of clothing / a plant (between sth.) || … a lump of sth. into sth. (1070)
… sb. for debt || … a sum of money on sb. (1076)
pressed (adj.) a hard-`… person (386) (feel) …ed for space / money / time (1044 / -52+)
be hard-`… to do sth. (1049) a … flower (1069)
pressing (adj.) a … job (268) a … way of doing sth. (1043) … danger / necessity (1046 / -52)
a … issue // question / invitation (1058+)
pressing (C,U) sb’s … is injudicious (1043)(a) … of a flower || x …s of a record (1070)
pressman (C) a … (in printing / (E) a member of the press) (1054 / -57)
press-lord (C:1055) pressroom (508)
press-up (C) to do …s (1070)
pressure (C,U) a group … (85) external / internal … (146) to exert … on sb. (190)
a … cooker (297) … of work (268)
to live under the …(s) of sth. || family … || the … of necessity ||
to bring … to bear on sb. ( to do sth.) (1040)
to succumb to (peer) … (1051) a hign-`… `task / job (1052+)
do sth. under … (1053) to bow / give in to (popular) … (1058)
atmospheric / tyre … || … per unit of area (1062) to put … on sb. to do sth. ||
to come / be under (strong) … (to do sth.) || to bring … to bear on sb. to do sth. ||
to exert … on sb to do sth. (1065)
to resist … (1066) to apply (powerful) … to sth. (1070) to subject sb. to … (1071)
a … cabin (1080)
pressure / eE pressurize (vt) … sb. to do / into doing sth, (1065)
pressurized (adj.) a … cabin (1080)
prestige (U) based on … (147) to enhance one’s … || the … attached to / of doing sth. (154)
prestige (attr. adj.) a … tournament (154)
prestigious (adj.) a … tournament / prize / clothes (154)
presume (vi&t) … (that) - (59) … sb. to be / have sth. (249 / 272) sb. … generosity (1233)
presumption (C,U) human … misleads man wherever it wills (1094)
presumptive (adj.) an heir … (1106)
presumptuous (35)
presuppose (vt) sb. / sth. … generosity etc. || sth. … that - (1233)
pretence [ pri`tens ] E/A pretense [ `pri~tens ] (U,sg.) to make (a) … of / at (doing) sth. (85)
to keep up the … (that) - (98) to make no … to doing sth. (112) sb. with little … to beauty (133)
by / under / on false …s (pl.) (95)
pretend [ pri`tend ] (vi&t) … to do sth. (36) … ignorance (56) … ( to sb. ) (that) - (98) … an interest (98)
sth. … to do/be sth. (119)
pretender (C) … to the throne (145 / 1107)
pretension (U,C) without … || to have no …s to ( do/be(<ing) ) sth. (118) to mock sb’s …s (133)
pretentious (adj.) … person / remark (1123)
preternatural [ pri~tê`nat$êrêl ] (adj.) a … faculty (112)
pretext (524) … for, on some … (or other), under / on the … { that / of doing sth. (524)
pretty (adj.) a … girl (30)
pretty ( adv.) … near (62) … sure (253)
prevail [ pri`veil ] (vi) … among spl. / in sth. (97) sb. … (up)on sb. to do sth. (119)
justice / reason / common sense … || sb. … over obstacles (120)
prevailing (adj.) … conditions (127) … mood (220) the … opinion (463)
prevalence [ `prevêlêns ] (U) the … of sth. (among sb. / in sbth.) (127)
prevalent [ `prevêlênt ] (adj.) sth. is … among sb. / in sbth. (127)
prevaricate [ pri`varikeit ] (vi&speech:806)
prevent (vt) … sb. / sth. ( from ) doing sth. (11 / 17) … the disappearance of sth. (82)
… a disease (1255)
preventive (adj:308)
`preview (C) a sneak `… (599)
previous (adj.) … customs (16) sb’s … history (705) … knowledge (913)
previously (adv:16) as … mentioned (26)
prey (sg.,U) sb. is easy … (for sb.) || to be / fall … to sb. / sth. (114) an animal is easy … (331)
sth. is a profitable … (359) a beast of … (366) an animal’s … || a bird of … (865)
prey (vi) sb. `… on sb. (113) cats … on mice (876) sth. … on sb’s mind (951)
price (C,U) a reduction in (the) … (26) a … increase / rise (320) prices soar / surge (1084)
to pay the … ( for (doing) sth.) (fig:765) at bargain … (878)
priced (adj.) reasonably … (997)
prick (C) a … of conscience / anxiety (706 / -14) a …-tease (1309)
prick (vi&t) sb’s conscience … them || sth. … one’s conscience (707)
prickle (vi&t) a sweater … (sb.) || sb’s leg / skin … (783)
prickly (adj.) a … person (392) a … subject (407) … plant (723)
a … sensation || the skin feels … || to feel … on a leg || … skin (783)
a … surface (940)
prickliness (U:940)
pride (U) wounded … (39) to radiate … (287)
pride (vt) … oneself on (doing) sth. (806)
priest (C:72) a …’s robe(s) (740) priestess (C:72) priesthood (72) primarily (218)
`primary (adj.) … school (336) … education (843) a … objective (851)
prime (attr.adj.) … minister (309) … objective (851)
primitive (adj.) under … conditions (205) … people (558)
primogeniture (U:150)
prince (C:162) a crown … (178) P… of Wales (355)
princess [ prin`ses / `prin- ] (C:84)
principal (adj.) the … mode of sth. (146) principality (348) principally [ `prinsipli ] (adv:153)
principle (C,U) to lay down a … (45) to break with old …s (187) to act on / follow the … that - (723)
a man of … || firmness of … (823) the pleasure … (1199)
`principled (adj.) a ( high-* ) … person (43, 823 * )
print (vi&t) … a text ( from a computer ) (340) … sth. (by writing) (656) … a mark on / in sth. (1045)
sth. … sth. on sb’s brain / mind / memory (1047) … an article (in a paper) (1051)
a negative … well (1054) to … an etching (1072)
print (C,U) to press a … onto sth. || impress a … on sth. || a … of sth. on / in sth. (1045)
a … of age on sb’s face (1047) sb. rushes into … (1051) see it in cold … (1053)
a … of a negative || a clear / an uneven … || a … ( a book etc. ) (1055) sth. gets into / see … (1072)
to read the small … || sth. is in … || a … shop || a … of a painting || a silk screen … ||
a … works (1072) a book goes to / is out of … (1075)
a … of a drawing / painting || to make a Renoir … (1304)
printed (adj.) a … form (96) … matter (U) (1055)
printer (C) a … ( connected to a computer ) (334) a … ( in a printery ) (508) a …’s devil (1055)
a …’s error / imprint (1055) a book is in the hands of the … (1075)
printery (C:1054)
printing (U) a … office (508) write in … (656) a … press / machine (1002 / 1054)
a … apparatus || …(<out) paper || a … office / house (1054) … ink (1055) a first etc. … (1075)
prior (adj.) … arrangement (123) … knowledge (913) prior (C:222) <ess (222)
priority (C) to be a high … (409) one’s first … (738)
priory (C:222)
prism (C:444,1170)
prison (C,U) a governor E/A warden of a … || … warder E/A guard (23) sentence sb. to … (117)
to sit in … (118) to commit sb. to … (307)
to do one’s … time || an open (women’s) … || a minimum security … (842)
the … service (846) a … uniform (1139)
prisoner (23) … at the bar (537) … of war (551) life … (539) be taken … (511) privacy (315)
private (C,U) sb’s …s (39) a … (191) to spare sb. some time in … (268) to do sth. in … (848)
private (adj:25) sb’s … parts (39) a … soldier (191) … `property (212) a … individual (560)
privateer (C:140)
privately (adv.) spend one’s time … (848)
privilege [ `privêlid§ ] (C,U) sb’s ( rights and ) …s (145)
privileged (adj.) a … aristocracy (144) the … ( few ) (374)
privy (adj.) the P…Council / a P… Councillor (381)
privy (C) to go to the … (1252)
prize (C) the first … in a lottery (188) P… Day (580)
prize (vt) to be …d ( for sth.) (50)
probability (C,U) sth. is a … / within …ies || in all … || there is a ( high / low ) … that - ||
sth. has a ( high / low ) … of (doing) sth. || the … of (doing) sth. is high etc. (175+)
sth. is every / a strong … that - || the … of (doing) sth. is low (176)
the balance of … suggests etc. that -, || on the balance of …, - (177)
probable (adj.) a ( quite / very / highly / most ) … reason || it’s … that - || sth. is … (175)
a ( quite / very etc. ) … consequence / effect / outcome / result (176) the … is that - (178)
sth. is less / least / highly / most / not very … || a … story / plot / character || it sounds … (177)
probable (C:189)
probably (adv:52,174+) very / most … (174) sth. is … OK / the best - (175 / 970)
probe (vi&t) … the structure of sth. (1196)
problem (C) to wrestle with a … (15) to solve a … (44)
to solve a mathematical / arithmetical / algebraic / geometric(al) … (200)
an answer / a solution to a … (410) an acute … (418) to tackle a … (1164)
procedure [ prê`si~d§ê ] (C,U) working … (597)
proceed (v) sb. … (140) as sth. … (851)
proceeding (C) to watch the …s (53)
at this part of the …s || to initiate / take / bring ( legal ) …s against sb. (58)
sb. opens the …s (83) the … of a meeting (120) to take ill-advised …s (1253)
`process [ `prêu- / A& prå- ] (C) to promote a (peace) … (24) to be in the … of sth. (479)
procession (C,U) to participate in a … (159) to march in … (409)
proclaim (vt) … sth. (145) … that - / sb. to be sth. (1103)
procure (vi&t) … sth. (294) … sth. for sb. || … sb. sth. (612) … ( a prostitute ) (612)
procurer / procuress (C:612)
prod (C) to give sb. a … ( in the ribs / side ) ( with one’s elbow / finger ) (1307)
to give sb. a … ( fig.) (1314)
prod (vi&t) … at a mummified rat (1302) … sb. into doing sth. (1306)
… sb. ( in the ribs / side ) ( with one’s finger ) (1307)
to … at the ingredients with one’s knife and fork (1308) … the air ( with sth.) (1309)
prodding (U) sb. needs (no) … to do sth. (1306)
produce [ `prådju~se ] (U) farm … (266)
pro`duce (vt) … an item (20) … a play (51) sb. … a letter ( from their pocket ) (59) … an excuse (335)
producer (C:51)
product (C:92)
production (C,U) (a) play / film / broadcast … (53) on the … of one’s birth certificate (298)
productive (adj:253)
productivity (U:160)
profane (adj.) a … attitude (756)
profanity (U:756&C) a stream of …ies (759) profess (343)
profession (C,U) unqualified practice of … (40) to be engaged in a … || to be sth. by …. (1149)
professional (adj.) a … education (4) professionalism (U:303)
professor (C:171)
proficiency (U) reading … (92) to develope / have … in (doing) sth. / with sth. (964)
a certificate of French … (966)
proficient (adj.) make oneself / be … in (doing) / at / with sth. (964) a … swimmer / driver (991)
profile (C) to keep a low … (968) a DNA … (1093)
profiling (U) to undergo DNA … (1093)
profit (v) … from sth. (291)
profit (C,U) to derive … from sth. (49) to participate in …s (58) to reap the …(s) of sth. (168, 590)
declining …(s) (252) … due to appreciation || to make / earn / turn a … (257)
profitability (U:253)
`profitable (adj.) … management (162) a … idea (183) a … time (189)
profound (adj.) a ramification is less … (165) a … transformation (170)
profuse (adj.) … thanks || a table is … in food || sb. is … in their praise || with a … hand (1250)
… vomiting / cramps / diarrhoea (1256) to have a … bleeding (1277)
profusely (adv.) … illustrated (1250)
profusion (U,sg.) a … of wrinkles // flowers / gifts (1092 // 1250) flowers grow in … (1250)
to make apologies in … || a … of hair (1252)
programme (E/A) program (C:print:115) to watch / see a … on TV (126)
a … of reform / for social reform (309) a radio / tv … controller (1271)
progress [ `prêugres E/A `prå~gres ] (U) … of sth. (35) … in business / society (185)
(the) … of events (482) sth. in … (629)
progress [ prê`gres ] (vi) trade / economy … (404) … to sth. (629) as sth. … (851)
progressive [ prê`gresiv ] (adj.) a … system of taxation (411) a … person (481)
the … form / tense (847 / 1222) … sickness (1258)
pro`hibit (vt) be …ed by a rule / the law (74)
prohi`bition (U,C) … sign / signal (74) The P… (559) … against / on (doing) sth. (679)
prohibitionist (C:559)
pro`hibitive (adj.) … sign / signal (74)
`project (C:28)
pro`ject (vt,vi+adv.) … an image on(to) a place (941)
proletarian (C:200)
proletarian (adj.) a … mentality (200) the … revolution (1198)
proletariat [ prêulê`teêriêt ] (C+ sg. / pl.) the … (200)
prolonged (adj.) a … success (63)
pro`militarist (C:12) pro`military (adj:12)
prominent (adj.) to play a … part / role in sth. (553)
promise (C,U) a bold / empty … (7) to keep / break { a / one’s … (7 / 98) glittering …s of sth. (85)
to work under / make a … of secrecy (518) (make good / fulfil) a … of marriage (544 / 545)
breach of … (544) be full of … (735) ( to make) a / one’s … { of sth. / to sb. / to do sth. / that - (736)
to give it a lick and a … (754)
promise (vi&t) … (sb.) (that) - (84,736) … sb. wonders / the moon and stars (543)
… sth. (to sb.) || … sb. sth. || … to do sth.(736) sth. … sth. (738)
promising (adj.) a … future (68) to look … (76)
promontory [ `promênrtêri ] (C:226)
promote (v) … a process (24) … sb. (194) … sustainable agriculture (316) … trade (355)
promotion (194)
prompt (vt& speech (sb.) : 142 ) … an actor (51) … sb. to do sth. (583)
prompter (C) a … box (51)
prompt (adj.) a … disappearence (111) promptly (adv.) do sth. … || … do sth. (113+)
promulgation (C) a … of sth. (928)
pronoun [ `prêunaun ] (408) a relative … (652) a pos`sessive … (847)
a personal / reflective / demonstrative / interrogative … (1220)
pronounce (vi&t) … a word / a decree (46 / 118)
pronounced (adj.) sth. is more … in a place (170)
pronouncement (C:161)
pronunciation [ prênûnsi`ei$ên ] (C,U:46,1221)
proof (C,U) burden of … (531) to give … of sth. (684) to have …(s) of sth. (686)
tangible … ( that - ) (687) a (printer’s) … || a … sheet (1055)
proofread (vi&t) … (a text) (1054)
proofreader (C) a … || a …’s mark (1054) proofreading (U:1055)
`propane, propanol (570)
propel (v) self-…ed (666)
propelling (adj.) a … pencil (875)
proper (25) a … name / noun (188, 1217)
property (U,C) sb’s … (91) tangible … (112) to inherit a … (141) private `… (212)
a … developer || … developing company (560) a vacant … (616)
chemical // curative / me`dicinal … (<ies) (567// 722)
… market / speculator / shark (784) sbth. is public `… (fig.) (1056)
prophecy (C,U) to make / fulfil a … (70) a gift of … (72+)
prophesy (vi&t, speech:81) … an event (72)
prophet (C) P… of Allah (70)
prophetess (C:72)
prophetic (adj.) sth. is … (72)
propinquity (U) the … (of sth.) (to sth.) (716) sb. of … (717)
in the … of sth. || in (close) … to sth. (717) propionic `acid (570)
proponent (C) a …’s argument (17) a … of sth. (202) a religious … (315)
proportion (C,U) a … of sth. (12) blow an issue (up) out of (all) … (961) sth. is out of … (to sth.) (1057)
sth. changes in direct / inverse … to sth. (1060)
proportional (adj.) sth. is directly / inversely … to sth. (1060)
proportionality (U:1170)
proportionally (1060) sth. changes directly / inversely … to sth. (1060)
proportionate (adj.) sth. is … to sth. (294) sth. is directly / inversely … to sth. (1060)
proportionately (adv.) sth. changes directly / inversely … to sth. (1060)
propose (vi&t) … doing sth. (29) an ideology … sth. (146) … ( to sb. / marriage ) (131,283)
proposal (C,U) to put `forward a … ( for sth.* ) (24,* 258) to approve ( a suggestive ) … (43)
to take up an unsynpathetic attitude to a … (1245)
proposition (C) to come up with a … (43) a … ( in logic ) (1214)
proprietor (C:128)
propriety (U, pl.) to be offensive to … || observe the …s (844+)
prorector (C:150)
prose (U) a … work (221)
`prosecute (v&t) … sb. for unseemliness (185) …ing counsel (626) … a war (1030)
prosecution (U,C) counsel for the … (115) … for an offence (194) sb’s … against sb. (692)
as (a) witness for the … || a … withess (711)
`prosecutor (C:209)
`proselyte (C:23) `proselyte / `proselytize /<ise (vi&t:22)
prospect (C,U) (by) the … of sth. (32,81) sth. in … (81) there’s a bleak … (143)
the … of doing sth. (827) prospective (263)
prosper (vi:162) prosperity (U:76) prosperous (adj.) to get … (135) … people (183)
prostitute (C:256, 611)
prostitute (vt) … one’s talent / oneself (606, 612)
prostitution (U:249,612)
protagonist (C) a … ( in a conflict ) (1176)
protect (vi&t) to be …ed under a law (45) sb. … sb. (144) … one’s interests (168)
sth. … sb’s right to do sth. (196) sth. … sth. from the wind (267) … oneself against sbth. (917)
protection (U,C) a service in exchange for … (150) … of the environment (316)
as (a) … against sth. feudalism provides … for sb. (374) a … racket (1144)
protective (adj.) a … suit (1236)
protector (C) an uncle as … (368) ear / hearing …s (1148)
protein (C,U:571)
protest [ `prêutest ] (C,U) to stage a … against sth. (56) a … petition (98) … march (211)
do sth. in … at sth. (828)
protest [ prê`test ] (vi&t&speech:828) … against sth. E/A … sth. (98) … one’s innocence (208)
a …ing peron || … about / against / at sth. || … that - (211) … one’s innocence (828)
protester [ prê`testê ] (C:211)
Protestant (adj.) a … edition (100) … Reformation (163) Protestantism (147)
proton [ `prêutån ] (C) a positively charged … (567)
protozoan ( pl: protozoa ) (C:648)
proud (adj.) (as) … as Punch (31) to be … to do sth. (52) a … ship (140) a … father (287)
to be fiercely … of sth. (559) the … owner of sth. (783)
proudly (adv.) to … drive a car (31)
prove ( proved, = / proven ) (vt, &i 262) … that - (59) sbth. … ( to be / do ) + adj. / subst. (62, 609)
… one’s case (209) (a / the) dough … (262)
… (oneself) / (to be / do) adj. / subst. || … oneself (to sb.) (682)
… that - / whxx || … sbth. (to be) adj. / subst. (687) … (not) guilty (on a count) (688)
let sb. … their skills (747) … one’s point (817)
provide (vi&t) … education (4) sth. …ed in a law (47) sb. … assistance to sb. (75) a well-…d table (80)
to … the services with soldiers (174) spl. … a guard (224)
a warship … sb. with power (225) sth. … a safe heaven (230) sth. … sth. with a rise in turnover (255)
… security for sth. (292)
to be (heavily) …d with sth. (586) … against sth. / sb. (912 / 917)
providence (18)
provident (adj.) to be … || … care (42) a … person (495)
province (C) a … (18) the …s (23) sth. is the … of mathematicians (1215)
provision (U,C) educational … (1162) to enforce a … (1183)
provisional (adj.) a … decision (135) a … rescue effort (114) provisionally (123)
provocation (C,U) … of public disorder (681) under … (688)
provocative (adj.) a … question (687) a … dress (758)
provoke (v) … sb. into (doing) / to do sth. (624) … sth. (681)
proximity [ pråk`simêti ] (U) the … (of sth.) ( to sth.) (716) sb. of … (717)
in the … of sth. || in (close) … to sth. (717)
proxy (C,U) do sth. by … (671)
prude (adj:4) prudence (U:4) prudent (adj:4) prudential (adj:4) prudery (U:4)
prurient (adj.) a … person || … curiosity (1309)
Prussia (929)
pry (vi&t) … sth. out of sb. (911)
prying (adj.) a … person (913)
Ps
pseudonym (C:126)
psyche [ `saiki ] (C:61)
psychiatrist [ sai`kaiêtrist ] (C:113)
psychic (C:72,902)
psychic(al) (adj.) … powers // phenomina / energy / forces / healing (72 / 902) a … problem (607)
a … need (944)
psycho (C:320)
psychoanalysis [ saikêuê`nalêsis ] (U:1199)
psychological (adj.) a … problem (607) a … need (944)
psychologist (C:115) psychology (U:27) psychopat (C:113)
psychotherapy [ saikêu`#erêpi ] (U:1199)
Pu
pub (C:66)
puberty [ `pjubêti ] (U:43, 1274)
public (U, sg.) ( open to * ) the … (25, 29*) sb’s appearance before the … (486)
the general … || the … at large (1040)
sb. appears / comes before the … (1058) a bookloving / cinemagoing … (1072)
public (adj.) a … fund || … securities (16) … order / peace (23 / 25) … `opinion (190)
a … `place (212) to return to … life (312) a `… school / (E) … `school (336)
… transport E/A transportation / transit (409) a … enemy (534) … `feeling (540) a … danger (577)
… re`lations (PR) ( * manager ) (598, *1058) to be in the … `eye (606) a … figure (626) … land (665)
… exposure (834) sth. is … knowledge (922) a … asset to sb.|| to the …benenefit (982)
the … purse || … assistance (1040)
the … sentiment ( of justice ) || … law (U,C) / policy (U) || it’s in … interest that - (1050)
a … duty || to make one’s opinion … (1051) sth. becomes … (1053)
(be) in the … `domain || sbth. is … `property (fig.) || sbth. is a … nuisance (1056)
a … assembly (1057) sb. is in / enters … life (1058) a … convenience (1062)
(a) … office || … works || a … building / road / duty / servant / matter / service / company ||
the … `sector / service || a … sector / service worker || a … utility (company) ||
to have a … duty to do sth. || to fulfil a … duty (1079) a … `bar (1081)
publican (E) (C:1083)
public-minded / -spirited (adj.) (1073)
publication (U,C) … of sth. (1018) an essay for … (1051) a …s committee (1054)
to own / sell a … (1055, -72)
publicise (E) = publicize
publicist (C:1057+)
publicity (U) advance / wide … || a … stunt (277) sth. gives … to sth. || sb. obtains … for sth. (1056)
a … agent / manager || to seek / avoid (1058)
publicity-shy (49)
publicness (U) some state of … (1079)
publicize (vt) sb. … the plight of the poor || a much / highly / widely …d critism ( (1056+)
publish (vi&t) … a book (26) … an article / one’s opinion (1051+)
… a book in an edition of x copies (1075)
publisher (C:26) a …’s imprint (1055)
pucker (vi&t) … (up) one’s forehead || sb’s brow / forehead … (up) 274)
publishing (U) a … firm / house (1075)
pudding (E) (C,U) steak and kidney // chocolate / Christmas … (793 // 796)
to have sth. for … (796)
puff (C,U) … paste / pastry (793) a … (1277)
puff (vi&t) … () out one’s chest (322) … (away) at / on one’s pipe (1261)
puffball (U:649)
pull (vi&t) … a handle (11) (not) … any / one’s punches (in doing sth.) (15)
… oneself together || a wry face (39) … () apart sb. / sth. (65 / 68) … `over (128)
… () out sb. ( from a place ) (391) … a curtain aside (599)
… a `fast one (603) sb. … through (754) … a knife (1096)
a train … out ( of a station ) / in ( at a station ) (1151/-53)
pulpit (C) in / from the … (738)
pulse (C,U) sb’s … quickens (421) (a fall in) … (rate) (888) to feel sb’s … (1044)
pump (C) a water … (29,325) a bicycle … ( connection ) (589) an air / a fuel … (1062)
Punch (N) a … and Judy show (31)
punch (vt) … sb. on his head / in his face (14) … sb. `out (14)
… holes in sb’s argument / idea / plan (17) … the air in triumph (15) … ( a hole in ) a ticket (20)
… () `in a code || … () `up a code on a keyboard (29)
… the clock || … `in / out || … () `in / out sth. (31)
punch (C,U:drink:10) to have a strong … || to throw a … (at sb.) || to land a … on sb’s nose (14)
(not) pull any / one’s …es ( in doing sth.) (15) a ticket … (20)
to land a … in sb’s face || a … lands on sb’s head (530) a hole … (875)
punchball (U) play … (15)
punch-drunk (adj:15)
punching (U:25) a … bag (14)
punch-line (C:22) `punch-up (C:22)
punctual (adj.) to be … || a … arrival / departure (962) punctuality (U:962) punctually (adv:962)
pungent (adj.) … smell (614)
Punic (adj.) the … Wars (925)
punish (vt:117) to be …ed by death (194)
punishment (C,U) to impose a harsh / severe / lenient / light … on sb. (117)
harsh … (461) … by death || corporal … (697)
punishable (adj:211)
pupil (C) an apt … (4)
puppet (C) a … theatre / show (31) to be a … of sb. (971)
puppy (C) a … whines (886)
purchase [ `pê~t$ês ] (vt) … a book (26) … victory (861)
purchase (U,C) to be satisfied with a … (27) an economical … (136)
to get a / lose one’s … on sth. (849) a … price (866)
purchasing (U) sb’s … power (873)
purgatory [ `pê~gêtri E/A -tå~ri ] (U) P… (155) sth. is sheer … (193)
purge (vt) … sth. of sb. (1021)
pure (adj.) … reason (163) … terror (1064)
purely (adv.) … a practical question (44)
purify (vt) …ied water (563)
puritan (C) a P… (1010)
puritan (<ical) (adj.) a … streak (1050)
purity (U) spiritual … (227) … of the water (564) … ( of a bride ) (758)
purl (U:266)
purl (vi&t) to knit and … || … a row (266)
purpose (C,U) sb’s … (24) for a particular … (60) to act to (a) sinister … (114)
to do sth. for a common … (181) for / with the … of doing sth. (788) serve a (common, etc.) …
(78,578) to do sth. on … (702)
purse (C:32) a threat to sb’s … (55) the public … (1040)
pursue (vt) … sb. (39) … a policy (354) … sb. (with sth.) (527) hotly …<d (584)
… a line of questioning (714) … sb. with sth. (fig:752) … an aim / a goal / an objective / a target (816)
pursuer (C:38)
pursuit (U,C) the … of gain (169) to proceed with the … (527) with sb. in hot … (584)
outdoor …s (1155)
pus (U:722)
push (vi&t) … it to extremes (20) … a button (29) … and shove (587) … `off (ship:529)
… oneself forward (601) … ( one’s way ) + adv. (722) … sb. to the limit (953)
… it / things / one’s luck (955) … (all) the (right) `bottons (1056)
… a barricade in || … a door open (1137)
pushchair (E) (C:1230)
pusher (C:615)
pushing (adj.) a … person (913)
pushpin (A) (C:875)
push-up (C) to do …s (1069)
pushy (adj.) a … person (913)
put (vt) … a liberal interpretation on sth. (7) … a coin into a slot (11) … sb. in jail (20)
… `forward a proposal (24) … (out) to sea (225) … right the damage that a remark has done (261)
… () `out a cigarette / a light (318 / 452) … a / the (im-) balance ( between sth&sth.) (412)
… one’s trust in (513) … sb. `off (stall:544) … () on the kettle / pot / pan / food (722+)
… `up with sth. (587) … sth. up for sale (653) … an animal down (656) … sb. through sth. (685)
… () up sb. as sth. (725) … sth. down to sth. (732) … sb. in their place (618)
… () forward a candidate (802) … forward an argument (807) … () `away sth. (841)
… `up at a hotel (eE) (991) … money into (doing) sth. (996) … down the phone on sb. (1065)
to be hard … to it to do sth. (1244)
putter A/E potter (vi+adv.)
puzzle (C) sth. is a … (414) to set sb. a … || be in a … about sth. || to solve a … (1039)
puzzle (vt) …over / about sth. (466,1039)
sth. … sb. || sb. … their brains || … () `out sth. || … out whxx (1039)
puzzled (adj.) a … frown (9) be … at sth. / that - / about whxx / as to whxx (1039)
puzzler (C) sth. is a … (1039) puzzlement (U) to frown in … (1039)
Py
pygmy (adj.) a … person (1238)
pyjamas (C:30)
Qq
Qu
quack (C:person:40)
quackery (U:40)
quadrangle (C:647) quadratic (adj.) a … equation (1060)
quadruped (adj.) a … animal (795)
quagmire (527) a … of sth. (fig:607) (a road is) a … (628)
a political / military … (629)
quaint (adj.) a … village (139)
Quaker (C) the …s (1023)
qualification (C) the …s of sb. (152) to have / lack the …s for sth. / to do sth. (403 / 477)
qualified (adj.) a … practitioner (40) … truth (437) … estimate (576) … to do sth.(476)
qualify (vi&t) sb. … for sth. (75)
qualified (adj.) be … for sth. / to do sth. (62, 970)
quality (U,C) sb’s …ies (61) of choice … (68) … paper (A) (625) wearing … (782)
a(n) inherited / hereditary / inheritable / genetic ( character ) … (1093)
qualm (C) to have no ..s about (doing) sth. (131)
quandary (C) to be in a … (86)
quantitatively (adv.) … sensitive (939)
quantize (vt) energy is …d (1169)
quantum (C) the … theory (568,1169)
Qu`ran (N:70)
quarrel (C:19) to have no … with sth. (260) to pick a … || sb’s only … with sth. is that - (264)
to have a … with sb. about / over sth. (710)
quarrel (vi) … ( with sb. over * / ** about sth. ) (22, 352 * / ** 710 )
quarrelsome (adj:219)
quarter (C) to cut sth. into …s (846) living …s (pl.) (1146)
quaterly (adj:576)
quay [ ki~ /A& kei ] (C) come / moor alongside the … (658)
queasy (adj.) feel … || sth. makes sb. … (766+) to be / feel … about sth. (A) (788)
queen (C:9)
queer (adj.) a … party / customer (59 / 711)
quench (vt) … a flame (667) … one’s thirst (937)
querulous (adj.) in a … voice (727) … person (731)
query (C) have a … (120)
query (vt& speech) have sth. to … || … whxx (120) … a judgement / decision / contract (731)
quest (C,U) a Holy Q… (170) … for truth etc. / a partner (707/ 717) to do sth. in … for / of sth. (715)
quest (v) … for happiness (716)
question (vt) … sth. (83) … (sb.) (about* / on sth.) (212* / 686) … whxx (687)
question (C,U) to give an answer to a … (4) discuss a … (21) a … time (197)
sth. begs the `… of / as to / that (238) a`ddress the … of sth. (682)
to ask / answer / have a … (about / on sth.) || sbth. in … (686)
to put a … to sb. || an awkward / inquisitorial / leading / open / probing / searching / tricking `… ||
to pose a … || a … arises (688) to see both sides of a / the … (693) sth. is be beyond … (702)
to raise the … of sth. (707) a key … (712)
there is no … about / of sbth. doing sth. / that - || to look at a … || the … is - || without … (713)
to be open to … || to call / bring / throw () into … sth. (714)
to invent / set an exam(ination) / a test … (725)
(that’s a ) good … || sth. is (just / merely / only / simply) a … of (doing) sth. (726)
sth. / it is out of the … (727) the … is - (730) a moot `… (817) a … mark (1222)
questionable (adj.) the nobility of sth. is highly … (153) a … character / decision (515 / 695)
( highly ) … evidence (710) to be of … character (711) it’s … whxx (730)
questionably (adv:695)
questioner (C:592)
questioning (U:113)
questioning (adj.) to raise a … eyebrow (131) a … look (134)
questioningly (adv:131)
question mark (C) there is a … over sth. || a … hangs over sth. (716)
questionnaire [ kwest$ê`neê ] (733) work out // fill in / out // complete a …(733)
queue (E) (C) to join a … (618)
queue (vi) … (up) to do sth. (1153)
quick (of nail:475) to bite nails down to the … (475) cut / pierce / sting sb. to the … (475)
quick (adj:108,421) to be … to do sth. (169) … answer (592) be … about sth. (655)
to make a … buck (603) a … drink / one (605) … fix (for sth.) (596) …-fix solution (596)
… glance / hands / look (581,610) … learner (464) … meal (591) … recovery (657) … response (592)
… result(s) (595) … sale (653) sb. is a … study (464) … temper / …–`tempered (475) … wits (479)
… worker (464) … to do sth. (471) be … about sth. (641)
to be … off the `mark / on the `draw / on the `uptake (475) (as) … as a `flash (525)
(in) … succession (510) (make a) … decision (421) in double-… time (655)
quick (adv.) to come … (462) it all happens pretty …(<ly) (662) to do sth. as …(<ly) as (662)
quickie (C) to get a … (603) quickness (464)
quicker (421) quickest (462) to … way to sth. (582)
quickly (adv:421) sb. quitens … (288) … one after the other (510) … realize (655)
to come … (462) to answer … (592)
to do sth. … and easily (603) it all happens pretty … (662) do sth. as … / fast as (662)
quicken (vi&t:355,421,464) … one‘s pace / step (589 / 611)
quickening (adj.) … pace (594)
quick`fire (adj.) … questions (592)
quicksand(s) (U,pl.) come upon … (495)
quicksilver (adj:407/U:408) a … temper (475) to be like … (475)
quick-tempered (adj.) a … person (1244)
quick-`witted (adj:261, person / phrase:475) quick-`wittedly (adv:477)
quiet (U) peace and … (12) on the … (E) (16)
quiet (adj.) keep … (22) a … child (35) anything for a … life (833) … as a mouse (887)
quieten (vi&t:288)
quiff (E) (C:877)
quit (vi&t) … ( all ) doubt * / convent life (242, * &715)
… office / working / (one’s) work || … oneself of one’s past || to give sb. / get notice to … ||
… one’s debt (715)
… for good (718)
quite (adv:24)
quits (adj.) to play double or … (702) spl. are quits (703)
quitter (C:715)
quiver (C:543)
quiver (vi) sb. … (272) sb’s voice / mouth … (545 / 549)
quiz (vt) … sb. on / over / about sth. (967)
quiz (C) an answer / a solution to a … (410) … a general knowledge … (958) quizmaster (C:958)
quizzical (adj.) having a … expression / look / smile on one’s face (184)
quotation (C,U) to get a … for some work (1147)
quote (vi&t) the …d price of a share (780) … sb. as saying (1161)
quote (C) to get a … for some work (1147)
Rr
Ra
rabbi (C:734) rabbit (C:436) rabies (U:1258)
race (C:type55, competition:633) … relations (629) a … over 100 metres etc. (634)
a dirt-track / car / motor … || a … track || a … car (A) (633)
a relay … || a running … (E) (634) a space … (671) racecourse, <horse, <track (633)
race (vi&t) sb. … southwards (343) racer (C:633)
racing (U) a … motorcyclist || car / motor … || a … car || a … driver (633)
racial (adj.) … discrimination / hatred / prejudice(s) / segregation (629) racially (adv:356) racist (C:305)
rack (C) to put sb. on the … || sb. is on the … ( fig.) (696+)
a … of pork / lamb || a clothes … || to buy clothes off the `… A/E peg || a company is on the … (1112)
a … ( for balls ) (1124) to go … and ruin (1148) a roof /eA luggage … || a bicycle … (1151+)
a magazine / wine … (1154+)
rack (vt) sb. is …ed by / with { pain / guilt (746 / 1139) … one’s brains (755)
sb’s body is …ed with sobs (1083) sobs … sb’s body (1103)
… up £ x in losses (1112) sb’s face is …ed by / with pain / horror (1149)
racket (vi) … about (1132)
racket (C) a ( tennis ) … (852) a screeching / squealing … (1113) to stop the … (1124)
to live in a … of enjoyment || to go / be on the … || to kick up a … || to stand the … ( of sth.) (1132)
to makes a infernal / terrible … (1132 / - 48)
to run a drugs and smuggling … || to be involved in a protection / extortion … (1144)
racketeer (C:1140)
racketeering (U:1140)
rackety (adj.) a … person / life (1132)
raconteur [ rakån`tå~] (C:465)
racquet (C) tennis … (852)
radar (radio direction and range) (U:673) a … trap (583) a … beacon (673)
radarscope (C:673)
radiant [ `reidiênt ] (adj.) sb. / sb’s face is … with joy / health (287 / 1110) a … smile (287)
radiantly (adv.) … beautiful (1110)
radiate [ `reidieit ] (vi&t) hills / roads … from a place (213 / 216)
sb. … joy (etc.) (at (doing) sth.) || joy / kindness … from sb. (287 / 1092)
a fire … a warm glow || heat … from sth. (1092)
wrinkles … from a place (1092) confidence … from sb. (1110)
radiation (U) radioavtive … / … poisoning (621) electromagnetic … (1169)
radical (adj.) a … change (99)
radical (C: chemistry: 571) radically (484)
radio (C,U) to turn / switch `off a … (31) … beacon (673) … signal / transmission / transmitter (126)
a … wave (620) to listen to the … || on (the) … (126) to do sth. by … / over the … (1131)
radioactive (adj.) … radiation (621)
radioactivity (U:567)
raffinose (U:571)
raffle (C) a … ticket (991)
rag (17) to rise from …s to riches (374) to wear sth. to …s (769)
ragbag (E) (sg.) a … of memories (454)
rage (U:37)
rage (vi) a bull … (267) sb. … about doing sth. (397)
ragged [ `ragid ] (adj.) … clothes / a … person (769+)
raggedly (adv.) ... clad (579)
raging (adj.) … thirst (645) a … torrent (768)
raid (C:225) to launch / carry out / stage a … on / against sth. (227)
raid (vi&t) … in a place (224) … a place (226)
raider (C) a Viking … (227)
rail (vt&speech:417) … sth. in / off || … at / against sb. (416+)
rail (C,U) a guard … (416) a … system (561) a … link (561) to go off / get back on the `…s ( fig:592)
sb. goes off the `…s (605) a train run off / jumps the `…s (E) (630) a … joint (883) a dress … (1112)
railing (C:416)
rail-line (C:630)
railroad (A) (561) … engine (561) … line / link / section / track(s) (562)
railway (A) (C:630)
railway (E) (C:79,561) … engine (560) … link / line / section / track(s) (562)
rain (v:63) it … lightly / heavily // fast (435+ // 660)
rain (U) life-giving / lack of … (17+) heavy / gentle / light … (63)
the … comes down in torrents (317) as right as … (431)
rainbow (C:1170)
rainforest (C,U:316)
rainproof (adj.) … clothes (298)
raise (C) give … to (A) (a discussion) (38)
raise (v) … money for sth. (122) … livestock / a crop // a child (144 // 167) … troops (151)
… sb to honourable rank (153) … war fever (525) … a siege (550) … hell (685)
sth. … the possibility that - (981) … a hand / one’s hat ( in greeting ) (987) … a wave of feeling (1047)
raised (adj.) a … hand (987) raison d’etre (174) rake (vi&t) … () `up a bad experience (907)
rally (v:358)
ramble (vi:10) rambling (U, pl.) …(s) (9+) rambling (adj:10)
ramification (165)
ramp (C) an on- / off-… (587)
rampant [ `rampênt ] (adj.) … (use of) sth. (626)
rampantly (adv.) … growing (fig:682)
rampart (221,370)
ramshackle (adj.) a … house / shipyard // car (1126 // 1148) an organization is … (1144)
random (adj.) to choose sth. at … (78)
randy (adj:233)
range (C) a wide / narrow … of choises (2) a kitchen … (455) a comprehensive … of sth. (463)
… riding (559) an electric … (A) (890) a mountain … (864)
outside the … of sb’s experience (947) a … of ( serried ) hills (1116)
range (vi&t) … from sth. to sth. (620)
-ranging (adj.) a wide-… outlook / landscape (139+) a wide-… discussion (281)
rank (vt&i+adv.) sb. … below / above sb. (151 / 173)
nobles … in noble rank || … sb. / * sth. in order of sth. || sb. … at the top (173, * 192)
… oneself among sb. (174)
sb. … among / with sb. / for sth. || to … sb. as sth. || spl. … in line (190)
sb. … in the middle / at the bottom || sb.// sth.… alongside / with sb. || … sb. highest (191 // 198)
sth. … among the best || … sb. among the best || … sth. // sb. second / number one ||
… well over sb. in tact (195 // 198) sth. … as sth. || … sth. over / below sth. (198)
rank (C,U) a position in the …s (pl.) of nobility (151)
to elevate / raise sb. to honourable military … (153)
nobles rank in noble … (173) in the front … (174) a ( taxi ) … (184)
spl. fall into … || to put sb. into noble … || to have / hold { noble / official / military … ||
sb. pulls (their) … (on sb.) || a person of (high) … || to pull ( their ) … ( on sb.) (190)
sb. of / with high … || to hold a high … (191)
spl. close …s || spl. close their …s about sb. || all …s || the …s || the … and file || to break …s (192)
to serve in the …s || the … of corporal || to rise from the …s / to high … ||
to break …s ( with sb.) (fig.) || to reduce sb. to the …s (194)
( in their own ) …s (523)
rank (adj.) … plants / soil || … with sth. (504) … smell / taste / poison (505) … character (524)
ranker (C:194)
ranking (adj.) the … officer (191)
ransack (vt) … a building / room ( for sth.) (6, 229, 255)
ransom (C,U) to spare sb. for their … (358)
rap (C:453) a sharp … (461) to give sb. / get a … on / over / across the knuckles (for sth.) (461,594)
to take the … ( for sth.) (482) … sheet || to beat the … (A) (606)
rap (v:453,494 speech:480) … (out) orders (496)
… sb’s knuckles ( for sth.) || … sb. on / over / across the knuckles (461,589,594) … on a door (1271)
rapacious (adj:229) rapacity (U:229)
rape (C,U:202)
rape (vt:233)
rapid (adj.) … exorcism (107) … growth (148) … response (592) (in) … succession (510) rapidly (107)
rapist (C:234)
rapture (U) in … (421) with … (423) rapturous (adj:423,445)
rare (adj.) a … honour (120) a … picture (125) intermarriage is … (176) an animal is … (184)
on the … occastion when - (247) … (–) `done (steak) (796)
rarely (adv:43)
rascal (C:275)
rash (C:414,415,416)
rash (adj:379,398) a … decision (137) rashly (adv:379) rashness (379)
rat (C, person:1141) to smell a … (108) like …s deserting / leaving {a / the sinking ship (593)
rat (vi&t) … on sb. || eA … () `out sb. ( to sb.) || E … on a promise (1141)
rate (C) (you cannot call sb. sth.* ), at `any … (51, 752*) at an alarming … (81) a … of pay (415)
interest / mortgage … (291/ 780) … of consumption (576) … of return (292) at `any … (752)
a church … (815)
rather (adv.) to do sth. … than sth. (4) sb. would … do sth. (11) a … lackadaisical person (59)
ratify (vt) … a treaty (985)
rating (C) credit … ( agency * ) (96, 780 * )
ratio (C) … of chance (188) sth. changes in direct / inverse … to sth. (1060)
rational (adj.) … thought (164) … discourse (1214)
rationalism (U:164)
rationally (adv:1172)
rattle (C,U) to shake a … || at every … || the … of sth. (1230) to utter a death … (1310)
rattle (vi&t) … () off sth. (682) a train … along (883) a rattle  … || to make a …ing noise (1230)
rattling (U:1230)
ravage (vt) spl. … a country / builing etc. (218 / 237 / 326) sb’s health is …d by drinking (236)
ravages (pl.) the …of drought / time / drink / fire (224 / 229 / 236 / 367)
raven (C:580)
ravenous (adj.) a ... appetite / hunger (580) sb. is absolutely … (864)
ravenously (adv.) eat … (580) … hungry (864) ravioli (U:794)
ravish (vt:233) …ed by sb’s beauty (233)
ravished (adj.) … with beauty (233) … sb. to a place || … a woman (233)
ravishing (adj.) a … smile / woman // beauty (232+)
ravishingly (adv.) … beautiful (232)
ravine [ rê`vi~n ] (C) a mountain … (864)
raw (adj.) … material(s) (68) … sewage (333)
raw (U) to catch / touch sb. on the … (E) (1248)
ray (C) a … of hope (106) a … of light (433)
raze (vt) … sth. to the ground (628)
razor (C) an electric `… || a cut throat … || a safety … || a … blade (299)
Re
reach (vi&t) … a place (19) .. an agreement (24) … the bottom (28) a traditon … back to sb. (163)
… an aim / a goal / an objective / a target (816) … x ( an age ) (920)
sb. … ( down / out ) for / to do sth. || sb. can’t … sth. / that far ||
sb. … (down) sth. for sb. / sb. sth.(1088) …into / inside a bag etc. (1089)
reach (U,sg.) to do a short … of a river (529) to be out of … / within … (1088)
react (vi) sb. … to sth. || sth. … on sb. (36)
reaction (37) sb’s instinctive / gut … (is that -) (971)
to bring / provoke / produce an emotional … with sb. (1085)
reactive (adj:569)
reactionary (adj./C:484)
read (vi&t) … aloud sth. (5) … a smile (7) … a book (27) … sth. (as sth.) (72) … music (126)
… out a statement (307) … a map (324) … a gas meter (564)
reader (125) a fast … (464) a meter … (564) a …’s letter (626)
readily (adv.) … do sth. (11) sth. happens most … (171)
readiness (U,sg.)… to do sth. (75)
reading (U:27,C) a meter … (564) a first / second …of a bill (815) … matter (1154)
ready (adj.) … to do sth. (13) … for sth. (78) to get … ( * to do / for sth. ) (225, *284)
ready-made (adj:9)
real (adj.) sb. is a … joker (9) … estate / property (U) (141)
real estate (eA) (U) a … agent (135)
realism (U:982) realist (110) realistic (adj:442)
reality (U,C) to be blinded to … (109) the harsh …ies ( of poverty * ) (113, 248 * )
sth. is an independent … (164) in ( the realm of ) … (174)
to lose one’s sense of … // sense of …ies of the situation (1067)
real-`life (adj.) … event / incident (608) realization (427)
realize (vi&t) … (that -) (26)
really (adv:2)
realm [ relm ] (C) a … ( ruled by a king ) (145) in the … of reality (174)
beyond / within the …s of possibility (947)
`realtor (A) (C:135)
realty (A) (U:135)
reap (vi&t) … the benefit(s) / fruit(s) / profit(s) / reward(s) of sth. (168 / 590)
reaper (C:344)
rear (vi&t) sth. … its (ugly) head (506)
rear (adj.) the … portion of a building (13) a … admiral (191) a … wheel (319) a … light (582)
rear (sg.) the … of sth. (650) sb. brings up the … (1234)
reason (C,U) for prudential etc. …s (4) to give one’s …(s) for sth. (28) for no particular … (65, 960)
to have every … to do sth. / for doing sth. (122, 950) for certain personal …s (269)
to be amenable to … (274) to get sb. to listen to / make sb. see / be open to … (920)
the Age of R… (932) capable of … || the faculty / power of … (935+)
there’s … for pessimism / to be pessimistic (950) to lose one’s … (951)
there is / sb. has no … for (doing) sth. / to do sth. (954)
to explain / give { the / one’s …(s) for (doing) sth. / that - / why - (955)
for one … or another || do sth. without … (959) it stands to … that - (974)
to give a / no … for (doing) sth. || have / give { a / no reason why - || for some … ( or (an)other ) (962)
to have good … to do/be sth. (967) to do anything within … (968) with (good) … / a good … (970)
to have no particular … for doing sth. || to have one’s …s (973) to do sth. for the simple … that - (974)
there is / sb. has any / no … whatsoever for doing / to do sth. || a compelling … || for obvious ..s ||
by … of sth. || for …s best known to oneself || for personal …s (975)
there’s no rhyme or … for sth. (1045) for …s of economy / security (1060,-63)
to be in possession of one’s … (1047) without rhyme or … (1074) sth. impairs / loosens sb’s … (1073)
to do sth. with all the more / just … || sth. is out of all … || there’s no … with sb. (1074)
to do sth. by … of sth. || for a very good … || for the very good … that - || for excellent …s ||
to do anything in … || to follow the dictates of … || there’s every … for sb. to do sth. ||
to show good …s for one’s assertion (1075)
reason (vi& speech:84) … with sb. (693,961) the ability to … (935) … (that) - (969) … () `out sth. (974)
… from (one’s) experience (1074) … sb. into doing sth. (1075)
reasonable (adj.) a … hope (122) a … way to do sth. (175) in a … way (960) a … boss (969)
a perfectly / completely … question || prove sth. beyond (a) … doubt (973)
it’s … to do sth. || be … ! (974) a … ( enough ) excuse (975) a … price (981) within a … time (990)
a … hotel / request (991)
reasonableness (969)
reasonably (adv.) do … well at E/A in school (919)
… sober || discuss sth. … || behave (very) … (960) … good / priced // happy (997+)
reasoned (att. adj.) … argument (1214)
reasoner (C:1073)
reasonless (1080) a … display of anger (1080)
reasoning (U:190) sb’s … is based on sth. (156) a line of … (955) the … behind a decision (973)
reassert [ ri~ê`sert ] (vt) a way of life … itself (220)
reassurance (U,C) to offer … (257)
to look for … ( about sbth. ) || look for / give / provide … that - (270) to give …s that - (325)
reassure [ ri~ê`$uê ] (vt) … sb. ( about sth.* ) (250, 270 * )
reassuring (adj.) a … smile (250) it’s … ( for sb.) to do sth.(270) it’s … ( to know ) that - (296)
reassuingly (adv.) to smile … (250)
`rebel (C:490,536) a … leader (307) a … army / war (671) … good / priced (997)
rebel [ ri`bel ] (vi) sb … (307) … against sb. (490) sb’s mind … (492) … against one’s upbringing (536)
a part of body … (617)
rebellion [ ri`beljên ] (U,C) sb. turns to … (238) to end a … (306)
to stage a / rise in … against sbth. (490,fig:536) to crush / suppress a … (491) sb’s youth … (979)
rebellious (adj:307,490) a … streak (536) rebelliously (536) rebelliousness (536)
rebuild (vt:237)
rebuilding (U:254)
rebuke (vt) … sb. ( for (doing) sth.) (242,1042)
rebuke (C,U) to receive a … (242) a look / word of … (582) (a) stinging … (1043)
rebut (vt) … an accusation / argument / a suggestion (686)
recalcitrant (adj.) a … person (228)
recall (vi&t) … (sth.) / (that -) (114) … whxx (992) … doing sth. (1275) … sb. to military duty (1286)
recapture (vt) … a town (312) … the original feeling of a place (982) … one’s time as sth. (1275)
receipt (C,U) …s (pl.) (253) to make out a … || to pay / dispatch sth. on … ||
to acknowledge … (of sth.) (255)
receive (vt) … training / education (3 / 4) … an award (50) … a letter (60) … help (75)
… (sb’s) assent (97) … sb’s estate / property etc by inheritance (1103)
receiver (C) TV … (126) … (of goods / a letter) (255) telephone … (299)
`recent (adj.) the most … set of books (26) in … years (122) in … memory (136)
`recently (adv.) sth. has … happened (26) sb.did sth. … (48) until … (189)
receptacle ( container:30, fig:664) (electric) … (A) (575)
reception (U,C) go to … || do sth. in … (eE:103) the … desk (103)
to give sb. / receive / have / get / meet / be met with a ( warm ) … (250)
to hold / give a ( wedding ) … (408)
receptionist (C:103)
receptive (adj.) … to a stimulus (939)
receptor (C) a sensible / sensuous / sensory … (936)
recess (vi&t) a …ed line (1312)
recess (C,U) to be / go / rise in … (674) to have a … || at / after … (724)
recession (C,U) sth. leads to (economc) … || the economy is in (deep) ||
… there’s (deep)… in a country || to pull a country out of …(669) the depth of (a) … (732)
recharge (vi&t) …  a battery (586)
`recipe (5) a … for / against sth. (& fig:68 / 69)
recipient (C) a … of goods / a letter (255) a … of a sacrement (761) a … of a disease (1254)
reciprocal (adj:183)
reciprocate (vi&t) sb’s love for sb. is … (1245) … a favour (1250)
recite (vi&t, speech:757) … sth. (73)
reckless (adj.) with … abandon (261) a … person / act (379+) … courage || a … disregard (384)
recklessness (379)
reckon (vi&t) … on an expenditure of sth. (203) the difficulty of …ing (254)
to be …ed ( to be ) sth. || be sb. / sth. to be …ed with || have sb. / sth. to … with (681)
… to do sth. (682) … (that) - || … sth. (at sth. / to be sth.) (687)
… on (doing) sth. || (not) … with (doing) sth. || … without sth. / one’s host || … on (doing) sth. (685)
reckoning (U,C) the difficulty of … (254) a mistake in / by one’s … (686)
the day of … (706) in the final … (716) sth. puts sb. out of / into … || be in … (731)
reclaim (vt:18) reclaimable (adj:18)
recluse (C:227)
reclusive (adj.) a … person (227)
recognizable (adj:171)
recognize (vt) … sth. (49) … sth. as sth. (88)
recognition (sg.,U) from … (49) to win … (279) to achieve / attain / gain / obtain / win (wide) … ( 601)
sth. is a … that - (1183)
recoil (vi) … with horror at sth. (1077)
recol`lect (vt) … sth. / that - (114) … one’s childhood (433) … whxx (992) … doing sth. (1275)
recollection (U,C) sb’s mind is loaded with …s (454) to have a clear / vivid … of sth. (836)
recommend [ reckê`mend ] (vt) … sb. to do sth. || … (sb.) doing sth. (17) … that - / sth. to sb. (294)
recommendation (C,U) a … (299) to make a … for sth. (823)
`reconcile (v) to be …d with sb. (19) … conflicting demands (1199)
reconciliation (U,sg.) hopes of … || hopes for a … with sb. (118) to seek … (166)
reconnaisance [ ri`kånisêns ] (C,U) make (a) … || a … mission / patrol / platoon (502)
reconnoitre [ rekênåitê ] (vi&t) … enemy territory (205,502)
reconsider [ ri~kên`sidê ] (vi&t) … ( one’s attitude ) (381)
`record (C) a … throw (15) a written … about sth. (156) a … list (198) a good safety … (301)
to play a … || a … player (338) the …s of an institution (1293)
record [ ri`kå~d ] (vi&t) sth. … itself in the mind as sth. (164)
a good / proven `track … of doing / in sth. (595) sth. is …ed in the Gospel (1097)
recount (vt& speech:386) …sth. to sb. || … whxx (386)
recourse [ ri`kå~s ] (U,sg.) to have … to sth. (306) to do sth. without … to sth. (318)
sb’s only … is sth. (344)
re-cover [ ri~`kûvê ] (vt) … a cushion (1266)
recover [ ri`kûvê | (vi&t) … one’s composure (57) … oneself (108)
… missing property || … from a deceit / a depression || … one’s optimism (110)
… one’s wits (473) … consciousness (639) … sth. from a wreck (1122) sb. begins to … (1260)
the economy … (1263) … one’s health // appetite / good spirits (1262 // -64) to … to health (1265)
… one’s lead (1270) a dog … the scent (1282) … from one’s grief / ( the blow of ) sb’s death (1283)
… one’s balance (1285) … lost ground (1286) … an oar || … one’s breath (1287)
… sth. stolen (1288)
recoverable (adj.) … costs and damages (1291)
recovered (adj.) to be fully … (270) 1262)
recovery (U,C) sb. suffers from lack of … (55) … of the missing money || … from a cheat (110)
an economic … (122)
to make / have a ( slow / quick // full * ) … ( from an illness * ) (318 / 657, 1260 * )
to be past … (1265) the … of sth. stolen (1288) to be taken to the … (U) || a … ward / room (1290)
recreate [ ri~kri `eit ] (vt) … the original feeling of a place (982) … one’s time in a place (1275)
recreation (U,C) wholesome … (1263) to do sth. for … || other …s (E) || a … room (1267)
re-creation (U,C) a … of the past (1275)
recreational (adj.) … facilities / activities (1263 / -67)
roc room (C:1267)
recruit (v:162/C:192)
rectangle (C:647)
rectify (vt) … a balance (253) … a fault / mistake / situation (595) … a bad image (850)
rector (C:734) rectory (C:734)
rectum (C:938)
recuperate (vi&t) … from an operation || time to … (1290)
recuperation (U) a period of slow … (1290)
recuperative (adj.) the … powers of sleep (1290)
recur (vi) an infection … (1269) sb. … to a theme || a theme … (1274)
recurrence (norm. sg.) a … of a disease (1269)
recurrent (adj.) a … thought (950) a … illness (1269) a … theme (1274)
recurring (adj.) a … illness / problem (1269)
recycle (vi&t:323)
red (adj.) light … piglets (18) … light (74) the … card (400)
to go … ( with embarrassment ) ( at sth.) (750)
… hot coals / iron (1235) fiery … hair (1252) to paint the town … (1308)
red (U:74 &C) to cross against the … (582) to drive into the … (582)
to roll out the … carpet || to give sb the … carpet treatment (786) …-`light district (610)
reddish (adj.) a … hue (863) a … complexion (1240)
redecorate [ ri~`dekêreit ] (vi&t) … ( a flat / an appartment ) (781)
redecoration (U:781)
re`deem (vt) … a fraud / … oneself / … a promise / a pledge || Jesus … sb. from sin (753+)
sth. good … sth. bad (756) … a coupon / voucher (763)
… a loan / a mortgage / shares / an object (780)
redeeming (adj.) a … feature (756)
redeemable (adj.) a coupon / voucher // share is … (against sth.) (763 // 780)
Redeemer (N) the … (754)
redemption (92) … of sb. from sin … || be beyond / past … (754) rediscovery (170)
redress [ ri`dres ] (vt) … sb’s grievances (362) … a / the ( im>) balance ( between sth&sth. (412)
to do sth. to … the situation / balance (414) … a wrong (1184)
redress [ ri`dres / A `ri~dres ] (U) to seek … for sth. (417) to pay sth. in … for sth. (1150)
Redskin (C:558)
reduce (vt) … the likelihood (64) … pain / a problem (124) ( to live ) in …d `circumstances (123)
… sb. to the ranks (194) to reduce the costs (253) to be …d to a minotity (804)
reduction (C,U) a … in price (26) make (staff) …s (790)
redundancy (E) (C,U)
… pay (U) / payment (C) || to face … || accept ( voluntary ) / take ( compulsory ) … (790)
… (in language) (793)
redundant (adj.) sb. is made … (from their work) || a job / position is made … (311 || 790)
… information (793)
reed (U,C) to cut …(s) (1126) … mace (1128)
reef (C:226)
reel (v) one’s brain … (454) … () off sth. (682) … home (704)
re-election (C,U:309)
reeve (C:344)
refer (vt&i+ to ) … to sth. (69) … to sb. as sth. (157) by the …ring of sth. to sth. (553)
… sb. to the medical ward (1260)
referee (C) a … ( in boxing / football ) (15 / 25) the … blows the final whistle (303)
reference (C,U) to render topical …(s) (46) to do sth. with … to sth. (159)
to submit one’s …s (1162) to have good …s (1295)
referendum (U,C) by … / hold / take a (advisory / consultative / mandatory) … (553)
refine (vt) … one’s manners (184) … crude oil (664)
refinement (169)
refinery (C:664)
reflect (vi&t) sth. is …ed in sth. (fig.) (148) a document … a change (172) a room … order (340)
glints …ed from the dew (451)
sb’s behaviour … their personality (895) sth. … light (941) sth. … the mood of a time (952)
reflective (adj.) sb’s behaviour is … of their personality (895) a … pronoun (1220)
reflectively (adv:894)
reflex (C) unconditioned … (763)
reform [ ri `få~m ] (C,U) a … movement (147) to initiate a sweeping … (414)
reform (vi&t) … the Church (163)
reformation (U,C) the R… (147)
reformed (adj.) … belief / Christian (715)
reformer (C:364)
reforming (adj:493)
reformist (C:493)
refract (vt) sth. … the light (1170)
refraction (U:1170)
refractory (adj.) a … person (375)
refrain (vi) … from ( doing ) sth. (178)
refresh (vt) sb. … their memory || sth. … sb’s memory (209 || 212)
refreshed (adj.) to feel … (937)
refreshing (adj.) a … drink (853)
refreshment (U,C) liquid … || find … in sth. / for mind and body || light …s (pl.) (25)
refuge [ `refju~d§ ] (U,C) sth. offers a … for sb. (213) a … from sth. || to take … in doing sth. (227)
a place of … || to seek / take … in a place // from sb. / sth. (230 / 244) a women’s … (256)
refugee [ refju`d§i~ ] (C) a religious … (244) a … camp (313)
refundable (adj.) a … deposit (256)
refusal (U,C) (to get) a ( blunt / flat / curt ) … ( of a request ) ( to do sth.) (850)
refuse (v) … to do sth. (22) … sth. (96) … battle (523)
refutable (adj:686) refutation (C,U) to meet sth. with a firm … (686)
refute (vt) … an accusation / argument / a suggestion (686)
regain (vt) … one’s composure (59) … one’s self-respect (118) … one’s memory (212)
… the beach (322) … consciousness (639) … one’s seat in the parliament (841)
… one’s strength / health (1263 / -65) … one’s feet / legs / balance (1285)
… control / freedom / independence (1288)
regalia (U:420)
regard (U, pl.) in … to sth. (14) to hold sb. in high … (280)
to have … for sb. || to show … for sb’s feelings etc. || to pay … to sb’s needs (957)
regard (vt) sth. is …ed as sth. (7) …ing sth. || as … sth. (14) … sb. as sth. (132)
a theory that … sth. as sth. (146) … sth. with seriousness (163)
regardless (adv.) to carry on … (197) … of (prep.) sth. (187)
regicide (act / person:492)
regime [ rei`§i~m ] (C) an ancient … (147)
regiment (497) regimentation (7)
region (C) a arid … (18)
register (vi&t) … at a hotel || … sb’s arrival (103)
register (C) a cash … (95) a hotel … (103) a … office (1161)
registered (adj.) a … nurse (44) a … letter (95)
registry (C) a … office (1161)
regret (U,C:11,487) a pang / twinge of …(488) with … (495) … for sth. (540)
to have (no) …s about sth. (544) much to sb’s … (596) it is with (great) … that (596)
to give / send one’s …s (653)
regret (vi&t:487) … that - (487) … to do sth. (563) … doing sth. / what (591) live to … (495)
it is to be …ed that (604)
regretable (adj:653) it’s … that - (487) regretably (adv:27) regretful (adj:488) regretfully (adv:113)
regular (C:874)
regular (adj.) … troops (24) … consultations (44) a … hero (64) a … customer (874)
a … verb (1219)
regularity (U,C) to do sth. with … (161) `regulate (vi&t) … a payment (576) … a meeting (803)
regularly (adv:193)
regulation (316) rehabilitation (311)
rehabilitate [ ri~ê`biliteit ] (vt) … a patient (1092) … sb. physically / psychically (1263)
… sb. as sth. (1295)
rehabilitation (U) physical / psychical … (1263)
rehearsal (C,U) sth. is in … (51) a day of … (63) a dress … (61) a … of one’s arguments (87)
rehearse (vi&t) … ( one’s part / role ) (51) dress-… (63)
reign (C) in / during a … of sb. (146) a … of terror (146)
reign (vi) … supreme || … over a country / spl.(145, 372,383) … supreme in an event (401)
reigning (adj:406)
reimburse [ ri~im`bê~s ] (vt) … loss and damage || … sb. for sth. (293) reimbursement (U:295)
rein (C) to pull on the (horse’s) …s (719)
reincarnate [ ri~in`ka~neit ] (vt) be …d (in /as sth.) (84,94) reincar`nation (U:71,C:83)
reinforce [ ri~in`få~s ] (vt) … a team / its attack (201) sth. … an economic decline (203)
… the armed forces / military positions (204) … a structure / a sleeping bag to withstand sth. (204+)
sth. … a stereotype (205)
reinforced (adj.) … concrete / plastic / steel (204)
reinforcement (U,C) positive …(196) to call for …s (207) a / the … of prejudice (208)
reiterate (vt, speech:106) … sth. (105) … that - (106) reiteration (sg:106)
reject (vt) … a bill (23) … a plan (101) … sb’s advances (28) … a motion / a bill (814+)
rejected (adj.) … lover (58) rejection (C,U) a … of a view (708)
rejoice (vi) … at / in / over / that- (462)
rejoicing(s) (U,pl.) (great) … at / over sth. (462)
relapse (vi) … into paganism (1275) … into stupor (1276)
relapse (C,U) to have a …(270) to have a … into paganism (1275)
relate (vi&t) sb. … an experience / their life (424 / 450)
sb. // a book // a statement … sth. (to sb.) / that - / whxx - (424 // 467 // 478)
… to children / a book / politics (461 / 463 / 474) … {A and B / A to B (467, 474)
things … || things are …d (478)
related (adj.) sb. are (near) / ( closely / distantly ) … (67,440,461) a … subject (200)
… by marriage || sb. is … to sb. (440) sth. is closely / directly / strongly … to sth. (607)
… issues (467)
(–)related (adj:467)
relatedness (607)
relation (67,426,461) … by marriage (440) (blood) / close / near / distant … (67,440)
to bear little / no … to sth. (478,578) … of sb. to sb. (593) … (s) (with sb. / between spl.) (597)
public `…s (PR) (598)
to have (sexual) …s (with) (544) diplomatic …s (552) foreign …s (598)
relationship (C,U:426) a romantic … (27) one-to-one / permanent … (76) in improper … (244)
… between spl.(440)
to bear little / no … to (478, 578) to have a sexual … ( with sb.) (543)
( to establish / have good working ) … ( with sb. / between spl.) (597)
to be in / form a … ( with sb.) (641) an uneasy … (833)
relative (C:67,426,461) … by marriage (438) blood / close / near / distant … (67,440)
relative (adj:467) … frequency (583) … poverty (467) … lack of sth. (632) … merits (495)
… clause / pronoun (652) … to sth. (471) it’s all … (471)
relatively (adv.) … speaking (592)
relativity (U) the theory of … (1169)
relax (vi&t) … an obligation (160) relaxation (42)
relaxed (ad.) sb. is … (314) in a … manner || a … attitude (1241)
relay (vt) … a message to sb. (1106)
relay (C) (to run) a / the … (race) (634)
release (vt) … sb. from a spell (279) … sb. on bail (292) … sth. to sth. (649) … one’s grip (704)
sth. … a behaviour (935) … sb. from (A: the ) hospital (1092) … waste / fumes into sth. (1225)
release ( U,C) a self-timing … (50) sb’s … (321) to issue a press … (828)
sth. goes on general … (881)
relegate (vi) … sb. to sth. (1017) relegation (589)
relentless (adj.) a … enemy || a … loss of sth. (538) … symptoms (773)
relentlessly (adv.) … exploit sb. (538)
relevant (adj:61)
reliable (adj:489,562) reliability (U:489) reliably (adv:489)
reliance (U) (place) (heavy) … (up)on sb. / sth. (594,652) in … on sth. (653)
reliant (adj.) be … (up)on sb. (651)
`relic (C) a … from feudalism (149) a sacred … (228) sb. is a … from a former gang (371)
relief (U,sg.) to throw sth. into ( sharp ) … (34) tax … (307) to breathe / heave a sigh of … (397)
(a) … agency / deliveries / organization / supplies (314) to get tax … (412) a little, light … (458)
to feel … (938)
relieve (vt) … the tension (35) to … a partner (235) … poverty (309) … oneself (543)
relieved (adj.) be (greatly / immensely / extremely) … ( that - ) / to see, hear, know etc. (550)
to feel … (938)
religion (U,C:16)
religious (adj.) … regimentation (7) … knowledge / instruction (756)
religiosity (U:824)
religiousness (U:824)
relive [ ri~`liv ] (vt:430)
reload [ ri~`lêud ] (vi&t) … a camera (675)
reluctant (adj.) … agreement / smile (21/37) (be) … to do sth. (38) reluctantly (22)
reluctance (U, sg.) act a … (36) (a) … to do sth. (64)
rely (vi+(up)on) … on sth. (78) … (heavily) on sb. / sth. (489) … on sb. to do sth. (489)
… on sth. to do / doing sth. (489) … on sb. for sth. (651)
remain (vi, vi+adv. / link.) sth. … a popular choice (3) … sceptical (85) a question … (127)
sth. … inconclusive (148) sth’s influence … on sth. (149) tribalism … in a place (216)
sb. … on dry land (225) sth. … little more than a pious hope / wish || sb. … subst. (227)
remainder (C) the … (+ sg. / pl.) (819)
remains (pl.) the sad … of sth. (120) human … (1223)
remand (E) (vt) … sb. in custody (208)
remand (E) (U) hold sb. in … || a … prisoner / prison / home (208)
remark (C) to put () `forward an apt … (24) to throw a slighting … (37) to make a … (77)
an ill-advised … (141) to let `fall / pass a … (695) to send sb. a fresh … (1084)
remark (speech:104) … on sth. / that - (695)
remarkable (adj.) a … innovation (50) it’s … that - || sth. is … for sth. (271)
a … person || to be … for sth. (290)
remarkably (adv:92)
remedy (C:124)
remedy (vt) … a fault / mistake / situation (595)
remember (vi&t) … sth. (4) … why (99) … (that) - (114) … to do sth. (124)
… ( sb.* ) doing sth. (301, * 308) sb. … (338) sb. … the deceased / departed (426)
remembrance (U,C) to do sth in … of sbth. (290) a … of sth. (763)
remind (vt&speech:480) … sb. (of) whxx (886) sb. … sb. about sth. / that - / to do sth. (992)
reminder (C) a pointed … (828)
remi`nisce (vi) … about sth. (433)
remiss (pred. adj.) to be … in (doing) sth. || it is … ( of sb.) ( to do sth.) (335)
remissness (U:335)
remittent (adj.) malaria is … (1258)
remnant (C) the …s of a fire (30) the sad …s of sb’s belongings (120) the …s of a society (147)
re`monstrance (C,U) the Grand R… (1020)
`remonstrate [ `remênstreits E/A ri`må~ ] (vi) … (with sb.) (about sth.) (818)
remorse (U:540) remorseful (adj:540) remorseless (adj:538) remorselessly (adv:538)
remote (adj.) a … part of sth. (13) in a … future (141)
remotely (adv:346)
removal (U,C) a … (E) (135) a forcible … of a child (340)
remove (vt) … sb. (from a job) (98) … sth. (211) … sb. from sb. (340)
renaissance (sg.) the R… (147, 930)
rend (rent, rent) (vt:426,429) … sth. asunder (669)
rend (C:427)
render (vt) … reference(s) (46) … help (to sb.) (75) … a performance (84) … a service to sb. (98)
… sb. service (150) … sbth.+ adj. (692)
renegade (C:244)
renew (vt:168)
renewable (adj.) … energy / resources (49 / 623)
renewal (U,sg.) urban … (615)
renewed (adj.) to do sth with … efforts / vigour (869)
re`nounce (vt) … a belief (696)
renovate [ `renêveit ] (vt) … a flat / an appartment (781) renovation (C,U:254,781)
rent (C,U) to pay a … / collect … (154) to pay … for sth. || to pay (the) rent to sb. (781)
rent (vi&t) … sth. from sb. || … sth. (`out) to sb. (160) … sth. to pieces (661)
a scream … the air (1113)
rental (C) a peculiar … (150)
repair (C,U) an easy … (255) a warrant for … (300)
to do sth. for … || sth. is beyond … || to make / carry out / do ( minor ) …s (655)
a car / bike … shop (876)
repair (vt) … a chair (255) … the damage that a remark has done (261)
repairer (655) repairman (C:655)
reparation (U, pl.) to make … to sb. (622) to impose …s upon a country || to pay …s (669)
repay (vt) … sb’s sincerity / a loan (197 / 292) sth. … attention / reading (789)
… sth. ( to sb.) / sb. (sth.) || … sb. ( for sth. good) / sth. ( with sth.) (797)
repayment (U,C) … of debt || meet the …s || fall behind on …s (780)
repeal (U:362)
repeal (vt) … a law / a measure (813 / 1007)
repartee (U) to be quick at … (1123)
repeat (vi&t) … sth. (103)
repeated (adj.) … strokes (193) … invasions (222)
repel (vt) … an invader (222)
repent (vi&t) … (of) sth. (549)
repentance (U:540)
repentant (adj.) a … sinner (540)
rephrase (v) … a question (688)
replace (vt) … sb. (59)
replacement (U,C) a warrant for … (300) sth. needs … || a … for sth. (1296)
replay (C) a … shows sth. (126)
replicate (vi&t) … (oneself) (648)
reply (C,U) to make no … (35) a …-paid envelope (E) (298)
reply (vi, speech:54) sb. … (35)
report (vi&t, speech:505) … that - (503) … (on) sth. (to sb.) / … sb./ sth. (as) adj. (506)
… (for duty) (to sb.) (508) … `back (508) … sick / fit for duty (518)
… sth. (to sb.) / … sb.(to sb.) (for (doing) sth.) / … sth. + adj (515)
reported (adj.) …. speech (513) badly … (of sth.) (515)
report (C) an economic … (121) a weather … (130) a teacher’s … (199) a … on sth. (208)
… has it that - (503) to prepare / make / give a … of / on / about sth. (506)
a ( loud ) … of a gun (510)
reportage [ ri`på~tid§ / repå`ta~§ ] (C
reporter (C:507) a sports … (632) a …’s pass (1057)
represent [ repri`zent ] (vt) … sth. as sth. (49) … sb. doing sth. (223) … sb. as sbth. (1094)
representational (adj.) a … form of government (7)
representative (adj.) a … council (3)
representative (C) a student … (3) a … of the church (162) a `sales … (858)
repress (vt:375,386,393) … a smile (78) … a thought (209)
repressed (adj.) a … servant (376) a … giggle (387)
repression (U:376,393) repressive (adj:375)
reprieve [ ri`pri~v ] (vt) sb. … sb. (539)
reprieved (adj.) a … convict (539) … a job (560)
reprimand (vt&speech:242) … sb. for ( doing ) sth. (242)
reprimand (C,U) to receive a … (242)
reprisal (C,U:53)
reproach (vt) ‘speech’… (sb.) (240,591) … sb. ( for (doing) sth.) 591)
reproach (U,C) a look / word of … (582)
reproduce [ ri~prê`dju~s ] (vi&t) a picture … sth. (442)
reproof (U,C) a look / word of … (582)
reprove (vt) ‘speech’ … (sb.) (573) … sb. ( for (doing) sth.) (582)
republic (C:146)
repudiate (v) … a story (59) … sb. (o-f) (1104) … sb’s idealism (1205)
repulse (vt) a
repulsion (U:567)
repulsive (adj.) a … force (566) … abnormality (1091)
reputation (C) act up to one’s … (57) to acquire a … as sth. (64) to live up to one’s … (256)
to have a … for sth. (263) ( to damage / injure sb’s ) … (534) to have the … of (doing) sth. (565)
repute (U) sb. of good / bad / ill … (1239)
a house of ill … || sth. of not very / none too savoury … (1245)
request (C) assent to sb’s … (84) clients’ … (598) ( to get ) a refusal of a … ( to do sth.) (850)
request (vt,&speech:133) … sb. to do st. (330)
require (vt) sth. … hard work (4) sth. … to do sth. (49) sth. is …d by law (74)
requirement (C) to counter sb’s …s (484) to be surplus to …(s) (596)
to meet / fulfil / satisfy sb’s (physical) …s (936)
requisite (C) sth. is a / the … for sth. (403 / 477) the … of / for tact (454) a toilet … (456)
to get all the …s for a journey (557)
requisite (adj.) with … tact (456) to have // lack the … qualifications / skills / experience (403 // 477)
sth. is … for sth. (557)
rescind (vt) … a law (813)
rescue (vt) … sb. ( * from sth.) (322, * 628,fig:645) … sth. from sth. (fig:642)
rescue (U,C) … craft (323) … mission / operation / worker / helicopter (628)
to come to the … (of sb.) / sb’s … (628) to hoist a … distress signal (661)
rescuer (C:323,628)
research (vi&t) … ( in / on / into ) ( sth. ) || … whxx - (637)
research ( & <es eE) (U, pl.) a … animal (408) … establishes that - (467)
to do / conduct / undertake … on / into sth. (637) to do some … (1051)
resell [ ri~`sel ] (vt:6)
resemble (vt:62) resemblance (362)
resent [ ri`zent ] (vt:347,538,546) … (sb.) doing sth (538)
resentful at / about / of sth. (538) a … expression / look (547) (in a) … voice (547)
resentment (37,538,545) (filled with / harbour / bear (deep)) … (at / against / towards) (538)
reservation (C,U) a … ( for natives ) (1017) to have one’s …s about sth. (1247)
reserve (C,U) a `nature … (556) a … ( for natives ) (1017) a … ( in a team ) (731)
reserved (adj:33)
residence (C,U) a hall of … (3) a place of … (20) years of … (417)
residency (U,C) years of … (417)
resident (C:437)
residential (adj.) … care / a … home (69)
residue (C) herbicide / pesticide / chemical …s (1265)
resign (vi&t) … ( (from) one’s post ) (99) to … oneself to (doing) sth. / to one’s fate (246 / 248)
… (one’s) membership of (E) / in (A) sth. (841)
resignation (U,C) to hand `in / offer / tender one’s … (99)
resist (vi&t) … a seduction (88) a structure … attack (204)
resistance (U,sg.) fierce … of sb. (216) to choose / take / follow etc. the line / path of least … (956)
the power of … eludes sb. (1140)
resistant (adj.) sth. … to the action of humidity (50) sb. is … to sb’s seductiveness (85)
… to a disease (1254) water–… paint (1303) acid-… (1312)
`resolute (adj.) a … person || … in one’s belief etc. (106)
resolutely (adv:107)
resolution (107) make a … to do sth. (837)
resolve (vi&t) … a discord (368) … an issue / a dispute / conflict / crisis / problem (472)
resort (C) a country … (12) as a last …
resonance (U,C) sth. has a thrilling / spellbinding … (805)
resonant (adj.) … voice / `imagery (805) resonate (adj.) be … with sth. ( 805)
resonate (vi) sth. … with sth. / through sth. / with sb. (805)
resort [ ri`zå~t ] (vi) … to ( doing ) sth. (55, 249)
resort (C) a country … (19) do sth. as a last / final … (55, 249) in the last … || without … to sth. (249)
a winter sports … (1153) a health … (1260)
resound (vi) sth. … through sth. || sth. … to / with. sth. || sth. … all over / in the press (805)
resounding (adj.) a … defeat (39) a … success / victory // defeat / failure (805 // 809)
`resource [ A& ri`sårs ] (C) ( inner ) …s (pl.) (35,40) renewable …(s) (623)
resourceful (adj:555)
respect (vt) a ( highly ) …ed person (3) … sb’s views (44) … sb. for sth. (282)
respect (U,C) lack of … (42) in this … (92) to lose one’s self-… (118)
to pay one’s ( last* ) … to sb. (120, 757*) to be sth. with … to sb. / in … of sb. (157)
to have … for sth. || to deserve … ( for sth. ) (283) a healthy / wholesome … for sth. (1264)
re`spectively (adv:1)
respiration (U) anaerobic … (649)
respirator (C) to put sb. on a … (317) to wear a … (1148)
respiratory [ ri- / re- / rê`spaiêtêri / ri`spirêtêri / `respireitêri / -rêtêri ] (adj.) … tract / passages (766)
respite [ `respit / -pait ] (U,sg.) without … || no … (from sth.) (696)
to bring a brief / temporary … (from sth.) (697) to give / grant (sb.) a … (797)
resplendent (adj.) sb. looks … in sth. (441) resplendently (adv:442)
respond (speech:104)
response (C,U) to receive a … (95) to prepare a considered … to a problem (135)
a quick / rapid / speedy … (592)
fast / prompt / quick / rapid / speedy / swift … time (597)
sth. brings / provokes / produces an emotional … with sb. (1085)
responsibility (U,C) throw (all) … on to sb. (36) to disclaim … (120) to have the overall … (143)
to have …ies (151) to have a … to do sth. (195) the … for sth. lies with sb. (203)
heavy … || to abdicate …. / one’s …ies (476) … lies with sb. (482) to deny / disclaim … (594)
to feel a (strong) sense of … to(wards) sb. (961)
sth. is a … to sb. (985) within sb’s field of … (990)
responsible (adj.) to be … for sth. (135) to be … (directly) to sb. (405)
rest (vi&t) … in peace (12) … assured (that - ) (249) a budget … (up)on sth. (255)
sb. needs to … (270) … in peace (RIP) (662) … easy ( on that head ) (702)
to have no place to … one’s head (721)
rest (C,U) to lay sb. to … (fig.) (12) the … of the round / country (15) the … (18)
the … of us (pl.) (85) sb. needs a … (270) to have a good night’s … (509)
to put / set sb’s mind at … (1063)
restart (vi&t) … an engine (768)
rested (pred.adj.) feel … (937)
resting place (C) final / last … (662)
restaurant (C:5)
restful (adj:437)
restore (vt) … peace (24) to be …d to favour (279) … sb. to the throne (342)
to be fully …d to health (1265)
restoration (C,U) mental / economic … (120) ( a ship etc.) under … (666)
restorativ (adj.) a … treatment (1260)
restrain (vt) sb. … sb. (6) … sb. from ( doing ) sth. (90)
… one’s temper / indignation || … oneself ( from (doing) sth.) (129 / 276) … a shortfall (268)
… one’s boldness (1157)
restrained (adj.) a … behaviour / response (276) a … decoration (277) a … smile (279)
restraining (adj.) to hold a … hand on sbth. (276)
restraint (C,U) emancipate sb. from moral …(s) (8) self-… (45) governmental … (146)
to put / place / impose …(s) on sth. (903) a physical … (983)
restrict (vt) sth. … sb’s power (145) to … sth. to a period (147)
… oneself to doing sth. (1248)
restriction (C,U) a severe … of sb’s powers (346) put / place / impose …(s) on sbth. (903)
result (C,U) a search gives no … (4) an end … (165)
a ( quite / very / most ) likely / probable … of sth. (176) as a … (627) a table of …s (851)
result (vi) a chance … in sth. (116)
resultant (adj.) … cuts (790)
resulting (adj.) the … fragmentation (148) a … famine (627)
resume [ ri`zju~m ] (vi&t 317) … doing sth. || … one’s seat (235)
… one’s working position (255) cheers … (304) … peace talks (306)
resumé [ `rezjumei ] (C:319)
resurgence (U,sg.) a … of nationalism (1205)
resurrect (vt) … a party (1185)
rersusitate (vt) … sb. (1310)
resusitation (U) an attempt at … (1310)
retail [ ri `teil ] (vi&t) sb. … sth. at / for x || sth. … at / for x (872+)
retail [ `ri~teil ] (U) … dealer / trader / outlet // price / trade (872 //+ )
retail (adv.) sell (sth.) … (873)
retailer (C:872)
retain (vt) … a title (304) sth. … moisture (447) a line … ink (1312)
retainer (C:154)
retaliate [ ri `talieit ] (vi) … by doing sth. (547)
retaliation (U) to threaten … against sb. || to do sth. in … for sth. (53)
retard (vt) … progress (185) … sb. (1193)
retardation (U) growth … (185)
retarded (adj.) a … person (185)
retina (C:941)
`retinue (C:371)
retire (341) retirement (433)
retort (C) make a (sharp) … (54)
retort (vi& speech:54) … that - (54)
retrain (vt) … one’s motor apparatus (1263)
retreat (C,U:106)
retrieval (199) beyound / past … (488)
retrieve (199) … one’s honour (488) … a situation / mistake / an error // oneself (from disaster) (549)
retriever (199)
return (vi&t,,,340) … a mistake ( in a shop ) (95) … home ( * from sth.) (116, * 236)
sb. / sth. … to normal (122 / 250) … to / from a place (235+)
to wait for sb. to … || … sth. to its ( old ) place (236)
sb’s suspicion … (238) … a loss / a profit (252+) … to one’s figures (255) … a taunt (261)
sb’s mind … to an event || sb. … to a topic || sb’s anger … (282) … a letter || … to sender (298)
… fire (306) a jury … their verdict (307) … sb. to the parliament (309) …ed empties (421)
return (C,U) 312,317,339) to do sth. in … (55) to have sth. in … (95)
to do sth. in … for sth. (148) at the … of spring (226) the … of sb’s doubts (238)
to reach / pass the point of no … (243) declining … (s) || to ask a question in … (252)
to improve …s from a business (253) a safe … of sb. (269) sb’s safe … home (271)
a … ( for a show ) (277) on sbth’s … from / to a place (280)
a … on ( one’s capital ) || a poor … (292)
a … ad`dress E/A `address (298)
a … game /eE match (305) election / census …s (309 / 315) sb. … to a post (309) a … `visit (310)
a … trip (332) a … ticket (E) || a … fare (333) a … journey || a … (key) (334)
to do sth. by … of post (842)
returnable (adj.) a … deposit (256) sth. is … not later than - (298) a … bottle (323)
returnee (eA) (C:299)
returner (E) (C:311)
returning officer (E:310)
reunite [ ri~ju~`nait ] (vi&t) … with sb. (207)
reveal (vt) … a smile (61) … sth. through sb. (70) … a credibility gab (106) … a story behind sth. (199)
… a crime (274) … a secret (487)
revealing (adj:524)
revel (vi) … in a drunken life (171) … in cheering () `up sb. (201)
revelation (C,U) the book of R… || the R… of John the Divine (70, 819) to learn sth. through … (166)
to make a … (751) the … (U) of the scandal || a … about sb’s secret life || a … that - (828)
revelatory (adj.) … insight / truth (946)
revelry / revelries (U, pl.) the sound of … (961)
revenge (v) … oneself / be …d on sb. (548)
revenge (U) a threat of … (53) to take signal … (114) to consider / contemplate / meditate … (388)
to take / get / have (one’s) … (on sb.) || to thirst for … || to seek … for sth. || an act of … ||
to be in … for sth. (548)
revengeful (adj:548) revengefulness (U:392)
`revenue(s) (U,pl:253)
reversal (C,U) a … of a situation (219)
reverse (vi&t) … roles (62) … a decision (398) the … side of the picture / coin (fig.) (560)
… a situation (1090)
reverse (U,C) to put a car in(to) … (332) sth. is the … of sth. (1188)
revert (vi+adv.)a country … to anachy (351)
review [ ri `vju~] (U,C) to read a … of a film (50) a … ( of soldiers ) (193)
to see one’s life passing in … (608)
review [ ri`vju~] (vt) … a film (50) … soldiers (193) … a case (276)
reviewer (C:50)
revise [ ri `vaiz ] (vi&t) … a budget (255) sth. is …d to x (418) … one’s view(s) (836)
revision (U,C) make … (s) (707)
revival (U,C) religious … (92) a … of the art and letters (170)
revive [ ri`vaiv ] (vi&t) sb’s hopes … (121) a debate … old hatreds (481) sth. … sb. (1293)
revoke (vt) … a grant (150) … the Senate (925)
revolt (C,U:377,467) to be in … (over) (492,601) to put down / crush a … (491)
to rise in … (against) (490) stage a … (against) (491) stir up a … (533)
revolt (vi&t:467) … against sb. (490,fig:536) … at (492) It …s sb. to do see / hear (492)
revolting (adj:468) … dish (505) … sight / smell (520 / 614) … manners (537) to be … to sb. (492)
revolution (C,U) the industrial … (182) on the brink / verge of … (465)
( the American / French ) Revolution (467) to cause / start a … (491) a … of a wheel (499)
a … of sth. about / (a)round sth. (501) a … in politics (533) a cultural … (555)
revolutionary (C:147)
revolutionary (adj.) sb. is … in sth. (408) a … uprising (491) … ideas etc (555)
revolutionize (555)
revolve (vi&t:277,459,499) … about / (a)round (459,470,501) … a plan etc. (532)
talks … around (593) the world … about sb. (602)
revolving (adj.) … door (599,fig:593) … stage (643) … chair (653) a … table (1316)
revulsion (U,sg.) … against sth. (492) (a) … of public feeling (550)
reward (C,U) to give / receive / win a … (for sth.) (50) reap the …(s) of sth. (168, 590)
an Academy R… (1308)
reward (vt) … sb. (for (doing) sth.) (50)
Rh
rhetoric [ retêrik ] (U:1167) empty flowery … (1167)
rhetorical (adj.) a … question / device (689 / 1167)
rhetorically (adv:689)
rhetorician (C:1167)
rhyme (C,U) there’s no … or reason for sth. || without … or reason (1055 || -74) a nursery … (1229)
rhythm (C,U:193)
Ri
rib (C) a bruised … (625) … of beef || chuck / middle … ( steak ) (795) the false …s (795)
rice (U:18)
rich (adj.) …(<est) people (91) … soil || … in nutrients (267) a … part of a town (406) a … wine (447)
rich (pl.) the … (91)
riches (pl.) to amass … || to enjoy one’s … || to rise from rags to … (374) rid (vt) … a place of sb. (155)
… oneself of sbth. (1006)
rickets (U) to suffer from … (1262)
rid (adj.) to get … of sbth. (368)
ride (vi&t) … a horse (16) … a bus (31)
to be / … on the crest of a wave || to … the crest of innovation // a / the wave of popularity etc. (271)
… a bike (582) … in a car / bus || … a bus (A) (585)
… (out) a / * the storm (661, *fig:787) a ship … at anchor (1121)
ride (C) to take sb. for a … (31 / fig:603) to give sb. / have a bumpy `… (fig.) (950)
a horse … || a … on horseback (1110)
riding (U) cross-country … (410) to go (A:horseback) … (631) a … school (1109)
ridge (C) a limestone .. (213) a mountain … (864) the … ( of a house ) (1126)
ridicule (U:120) ridicule (vt:120) ridiculous (adj:45)
rife (pred.) … with sth. || run … || rumours are … that - (682)
rifle (C:671)
rig (C) ligting … (643) an oil … (664)
rig (vt) to … an election (808)
rigging (U) ballot / election / vote … (808)
right (U,C) …s and freedoms || the … to do sth. (under the constitution) ||
…s and freedoms ( *guaranteed by the constitution) (7,* 625)
in the (extreme) … of a picture (14) to have a (an exclusive) … of sth. (54) to set aside sb’s rights (58)
to have a ( legal ) … to do sth. (99) to grant sb. a … of sth. (148)
the … of ownership of private property (556) two wrongs don’t make a … (753)
right (adj.) a … assumption (57) to prove oneself (to be) … / the … person (for sth.) (73)
a … wing belief (74) … as rain (431) the … thing (fig:609) a … angle (647) to put sth. … (980)
to be absolutely … (1097)
right (adv.) …where - (14) left, … and `centre / …, left and centre (1142) to do … (1199)
righteous (adj:180) self-… (742)
rightful (adj.) sth’s … ovner (275)
rightfully (adv.) to … turn sb. in || and … so (276)
rightly (adv.) to complain … (972)
rigid (adj.) a … class society (180) a … system (346)
rigidly (adv.) a barrier is … fixed (180) sth. is … enforced (345)
rind [ raind ] (C,U) (a) … of a pork cut || orange … (796)
ring (vi&t) a bell … (14) sth. … a few bells (166) sth. is …ing in one’s head / ears (696)
an explanation … false / hollow / true to sb. (1291)
ring (C) a fraud … (335) a metal … (396) a gas … (E) (564) an electric … (890) … worm (649)
a wedding … (759) a `… binder (875) sth. has a … of truth about it (1295)
ringworm (U:649)
rinse (vt) … one’s laundry (1082)
rinse (C) a … of one’s laundry (1082)
riot (C) outbreak of a … (306) … gear (624) a … of thoughts / flowers (951 / 1070)
riot (v:306) rioter (306)
rioting (U) … breakes out (306)
riotous (adj.) a … part of a town (1308)
ripe ( adj.) … fruit (441) a place is … for exploitation (1193)
ripen (vi&t) meat  … (794)
rise [ raiz ] ( rose, risen [ `rizn ] ) (vi) the sun … (139) a steeple … in / into the air (139)
… from / to a rank (194) (a / the) dough … (262) sb. … ( and falls ) (303) … against sb. / in revolt (377)
tax … (412) smoke … (441) emotion ... (493) land … (557) a slope … steeply (1116)
… to the surface (1136)
rise (C) to give … (U) to a discussion / a system etc. (38 / 150)
the … of a monarch / town / feudalism (149) the … and fall of sth. (602)
rising (C: revolt:343, U) to practise early … (45)
rising (adj:435) … sun (438)
risk (C,U) to avoid a … (74) sb. is a bad credit … (96) a … involved in sth. (135)
to have a (high) … of (doing) sth. (138) the … (that) - (175) to take / run risks (320) a … factor (618)
to run a (high) … of (doing) sth. (612) a(n) ( un>) calculated … (702) a … (that) - (989)
risk (vt) … doing sth. (186) … one’s life ( to do sth. ) (226)
risk-taking (U:169)
rite [ rait ] (C:755) an initiation / i`nitiatory … (755)
ritual (C,U) religion shot through with …s (159) in a sacred … (28) an initiation … (755)
rival (C:62) sb’s main … (537)
rival (adj:97)
river (C:6) to advance up a … (218) the head / source of a … (719)
rivet [ `rivit ] (C) punch () in a … (31, 402)
rivet [ `rivit ] (vt) … metal plates / leather together (402) …ed by / on / to sth. (408)
be …ed to the ground / spot (418)
riveting (adj.) a … book || … reading (408)
Rn
RNA (648)
Ro
road (29) the nearest … (to sth.) (66) … drill || … safety (and traffic) education (73)
… sense || R… Traffic Act || a … sign (74) by the side of the … (319) a … accident / victim (321)
to take the wrong … (324) … tax (411) a fast … || a main `… (562) access … (578)
a busy … || a … user (582) a `slip … (587) a … winds ( its way ) up / along sth. (768)
along / down the … (fig:854) ( to be ) on the ( high ) … to prosperity / recovery (1010 / 1261)
a … runs + adv. (1115) a … worker (1311)
roadbed (C,U:630)
roadside (sg.) on / by / at the … (319)
roadside (adj.) a … inn (250)
roadworks E/A roadwork (pl. / U:1311)
roar (vi) a fire … (234) thunder … (436) a train … along (883) roar (C:43)
roaring (adj.) a … success (E:63)
roast (C:262)
roast (vi&t) sth. … slowly (262) … a carcass on a spit (580)
roast (adj:580)
rob (vt) … a bank (671) murder with intent to … (712)
robber (C) a … and murderer (712)
robbery (U,C) a … victim (293) an armed … (671)
robe (C) a (bath>) … (30) a priest’s …(s) (740)
rock (U,C) an old … makes a hill / mountain (213) sth. is the … on which sb’s career is wrecked (607)
a … wall (768)
rock (vi&t) … a cradle (288) … sb. to sleep (424) the …ing motion of sth. (769)
rock-bottom (attr.adj.) a … price (1273)
rocket (C) a distress … (661)
rod (C) spare the … (289) a lightning … (A) (434) a (fishing) … (579) a … ( in the retina ) (941)
rodlike (adj.) a … bacteria (648)
role (C) a sex … (52) to act / play a ( leading / main ) … || a … of sb. (52) to fill the … of sb. (57)
sb. plays a decisive … in sb’s life (242) a … model (472)
roll (vi&t) … a trolley E/A cart + adv. (1288)
roll-call (U,C:1086)
roller (C) a … skate (338) a paint … (875)
a ride on a … coaster || sb’s life / relationship is a (real) … (992)
rogue (C:275,1043) roguiry (U,C:1043) roguish (adj.) a … glint / gleam in sb’s eye (1043)
roll (vi&t) … the dice (8) thunder … (436) … a trolley / cart + adv. (1289)
roll (C) a … of thunder (436)
rolling (adj.) … hills (1115)
Roman (adj.) a … basis (148) … `Catholic Church (163) the … `alphabet (767) … Republic (924)
romance (C,U) a prose … (369)
Romanesque (adj:347)
Romanize (vt) a …d gaul (217)
romantic (adj.) a … person (393) romantic (C) a … (824) romanticism (U) R… (982)
Rome (N:151)
roof (C:139) a … rack (1152)
roof (vt) a …ed veranda (1266)
rooftop (C:434)
rook (C:138, -40) a … cheats sb. (142) (kings / queens) … (198)
rook (vt) sb. … sb. (142)
rookery (C:138, -40)
rookie (adj/C:192)
room (C,U) a ( living / E& sitting ) … (17) a dining … (139) to make … for sth. (578) a single … (844)
an operating … (A) || there’s no … for doubt (1289)
rooster (A) (C:578)
root (C) cube `… (8) a …(of a plant) (17) (give a tooth a) … treatment (646) the … cause of sth. (950)
a problem has it’s …s in sth. || get to the … of a problem (971) sth. is the … of all evil (975)
root (v:222) … for sb. / sth. (fig;581) … through sth. (647) … () `up / out a plant (723)
rooted (adj.) a deep-`… sense of sth. (133) sb. is … in the soil (222)
to stand … to the spot / ground (891)
rope (31) show / teach sb. the …s || learn / know the …s (966+) rose (pt:360) rotary (A:325)
rotation (167) rotten (adj: fig:217) a … apple || there are … apples in sth. (fig:742)
rough (adj.) … ground (205) a … night (429) a … estimate (576) … sea (661) a … surface (940)
to feel … (944) … hair (1122) a … sketch (1303)
rough (adv.) to play … (589) live / sleep `… (613) roughly (183)
rough-mannered (adj:132)
roughness (U:940)
round (adj.) a … table (369) to put sth. in … brackets (E) (411)
round (C) a … ( in boxing ) (15) a … of ( toast etc.) (77) a presentation … (383)
to stand / buy / pay a … ( of drinks ) (618)
a match goes x …s || it goes the full x …s (852) the daily … (1229)
round (adv. / prep.) do sth. … the clock (458)
to get … a trap (fig:688) (a) … `trip (E:C, A:U:727) spl. … about the table (765)
the first etc. time … (394)
round (vi&t) … a bend in a road (1119) … a headland (1129)
round-the-clock (adj:459)
roundabout (C) to turn round a … (E) (325) a ride on a … (992)
roundabout (adj.) to show one’s feelings in a … way / fashion ||
to let sb. know sth. by a … way (1099)
round-arched (adj:347)
roundness (U:940) a round-trip ticket (A:333) `round-up (of cattle) (559)
rounders (U) play … (15)
rouse (vt) sth. … sb’s instinct (218) … sb. / sb’s emotions (613)
… sb. (from slep) (614) … sb./ oneself to (do) sth. (615) rousing (adj.) a … speech / reception (615)
rout [ raut ] (vi) … sb. (in a battle) (358) route (C:92)
routine (C,U) sb’s …s (234) by … (414) routinely (414)
row [ rêu ] (vi&t) … ( a boat ) up river (225+)
row [ rêu ] (C) to knit / purl a … (266)
row [ rau ] (710) to have a (blazing) … ( with sb.) (about / over sth.) (eE) (709)
row (vi) … (with sb.) (about sth.) (710)
rowboat (A) (C:660)
rower (C:235)
rowing (U) to train … (199) a … boat (E) (660)
royal (adj.) a … officer || … interference (148) … absolutism (155) the … family (178) … crown (420)
… power (463)
royal (C:178)
royalties (pl.) to receice x in … from a book etc. (1076)
Ru
rub (vi&t) … one’s hands (in glee) (39) … the skin (783) … shoulders with sb. (1142)
rubber (U,C) a … ball (15) a … `band (572) a … (E) (875)
rubbish (eE) (U:29) to listen to such … (264) … dump / tip (782)
rubbish (eE) (vt) … self-indulgence (1042) rubbishing (E) (adj.) a … letter (1072)
ruddy (adj.) a …-faced person (1240)
rude (adj.) to be … (86) a … awakening (119,426,461) a … person || to be … to sb. (132)
to be … about sbth. (133)
rudely (adv:868)
rudimentary (afj:354)
ruff (C) a clergyman’s … (743)
ruffle (C) a shirt … (1101)
rug (C:227) a scatter / throw … (1267)
rugged (adj.) a … surface (940) ruggedness (U:940)
ruin (C,U) financial … (110) a … of the Romans ( & fig.) (221+) sb’s life is in …s (607)
on the brink / verge of … (889) to go rack and … (1148)
ruin (vt) … a performance (63) … sb. (97) sth. … sb’s career / marriage (607) … a company (895)
ruined (adj.) … idyll (587)
rule (vt) sb. … a country (7) sb. … () `out sth. (996)
rule (C,U) to exercise absolute … (145) a dictatorial / tyrannical … (145) under theocratic … (146)
a … of inheritance governs the inheritance (150) to bend / stretch the `…s (856)
a community founded on the … of law (1142)
ruled (adj.) … paper (875)
ruler (C) a(n) absolute / sovereign / supreme / hereditary … (145) a … (for drawing straight lines) (875)
ruling (C) a … (on sth. / a case) (693)
ruling (att. adj.) a … class (184)
rumble (vi, E& vt) thunder … (436) … sb. / sth. (E) (543)
rumble (U,C) the … of thunder (436)
ruminant (C:649) ruminant (adj.) a … animal (649)
ruminate (vi&t) … ( on / over / about sth.) (669)
ruminative (adj.) a … person (669)
rummage (vi+adv.) sb. … around in sth. (246)
rummage (sg.) to have a … around in sth. (246)
rumour (C,U) to deny a … that - (17) … has it that - (60)
to start / spread a … ( about / of sth. ) || a … circulates || there’s truth in a … (473)
a … of sth. spreads (523) a baseless / groundless / unfounded … (533) …s are rife that - (682)
rump (C,U) ( of an animal ) …steak (794) a … ( of a group ) (1021)
run (C) a … of good luck (8) in the long … (979) to escape at a … (1090) to take a … (1129)
a ski / toboggan / sleigh E/A sled … (1159)
run (vi&t&speech,’ … the headline:826) … the ( whole ) gamut ( of sth.) (20) … sluggish etc. (26)
… a class (46) a film … for some time (127) a road … from swh. to swh. (216) … away ( to sea ) (225)
… a business (258) … sb. down (529) to … track (634) one’s nose is …ning (766)
… for (A) (a term as) president || … (A) (in a presidential election) (another time ) (804)
… one’s eyes over sth. (826) a case … (830) feelings … `high (914) … into sb. (951)
a road / valley … + adv. (1116 /1153)
runaway (adj.) … capitalism (622)
run (-) down (adj.) sb. is … (287)
runner (C) a … bean (E) (1156)
running (adj.) … race (E) (634) a … nose (766) out of the … (præd:532)
runny (adj.) a … nose (766)
runway (C:667)
rupture (C,U) a diplomatic … (494)
rural (adj.) the … poor (309) … county / district / parish (717) … `dean (734)
rush (vi&t) a …ing river (29) … towards the exit (415) … to do sth. (462) … into a discussion (694)
sb. … back to a place || … sb. to hospital E/A the hospital (891+)
rush (U,C,sg.) in a / the ( mad ) … to do / for sth. (624) at … hour (U) || in the … hour (sg.) (585)
to be owergrown with …s (1128)
`rush-hour (adj.) … traffic (585)
Russel (N) Bertrand … (1215)
Russia (N:149) Russian (adj:224)
rust (U:512: fungi:649) a … spot (1313)
rust (vi:512) damp weather … sth. || sth. is …ed in || sth. … away / solidly (1313) sb. … out (1314)
rust-coloured ( asj:1314)
rusted (adj.) a … pipe / gate (575 / 1313)
rusting ( adj.) a … gate (1313)
rustproof (adj.) a … metal (1313)
rusty (adj.) a … gate || sb’s tennis is … (1313)
rut (C,U) a buck is in ( the ) … (199) to get a wheel out of a … (332) to be stuck in a … (574)
ruthless (adj.) a … person || … villainy(377+) ruthlessly (377) rye (U:18)
Ss
Sa
sabre E/A saber [ `seibê ] (C) a bare … (767) `…-rattling /A … rattling (767)
`saccharose (U:571)
sacerdotal [ sasê`dêutl ] (adj.) … function (736)
sack (vt) … sb. from a job (E) (59) … a town (218)
sack (C) the … of a place (237) a … ( for goods ) (265)
sackcloth / sacking (U:265)
sacrament (C) to receive the …(158) to celebrate (Holy) S… || a … (745)
sacred (adj.) sth. is … to sb. (223) a … feast / object (223) a … cow (259)
… music / songs (228) to die for one’s … faith (238) nothing is … (247)
there’s nothing … about sth. (260) to hold sth. … (283)
sacredness (U:223)
sacrifice (C,U:327,334) to make the supreme … (144) to conduct a … (214)
to make a … ( to sb.) ( to do sth.) (223+)
economic …(s) || no … of quality (259) to make a … (260) to sell at a … (281)
at a great personal … (283)
sacrifice (vi&t:302,334) … ( an animal ) (223)
… a career to do sth. || … wealth for welfare (260) … oneself for sb. / to do sth. (283)
… fancy design for utility (296)
sacrificial (adj.) a … feast / ceremony (223)
sacrilege (U,sg.) it would be … to do sth. (254) it’s (a) / no … ( for sb.) to do sth. (259)
sacrilegious (adj.) a … act (254) … practice || a … person (259)
sacristan (C:228) sacristy (C:228) sacrosant (adj:260)
sad (adj.) to make sb. … (19) the … remains of sth (120) … news (207) a … tune (278)
… memories (289) a … fate (290)
to have a … ( expression / look one’s ) face || a … look in one’s eyes || … eyes (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
sadly (adv.) … lacking in sth. (33) … neglectful of sb. (340) to … do sth. (602)
sadness (U,sg.) an undefinable … (269)
saddle (C:384)
safe (C:292) `…-deposit box (292)
safe (adj:322,328,338) to settle down in a … place (112)
a … `haven ( for sb.) || a place … for sb. (230)
to feel … || sth. is … for sb. to do (248) sb. is a … pair of hands (253) it’s … to assume that - (259)
to play ( it ) … (262) at / from a … distance || to keep a … distance (from sth.) (267)
… in the knowledge that - (269) to find sb. … and well (270) to return home … and sound (271)
a play is … (fig.) (279) a … subject (281) a … bet (284,292) … in the knowledge (that) - (284)
better ( to be ) … than sorry || to be on the … `side || to keep sth. … // to put / keep in a … place (298)
a … `house (307) (a) … `conduct / `passage (C,U) (308) … period (315) a … seat (310) … sex (315)
safeguard (vt:311,316,327,334) sth. … sb. against fraud (298)
safeguard (C:315)
safely (adv:314) it can … be said / assumed that - (148 / 284) to fall asleep … (288)
safekeeping [ - ` - ] (U:292)
safer (adj.) it’s … to do sth. (298)
safest (adj.) the … car (296) the … bet is to - (298)
safetiness (U) feel … (944)
safety (U, (C) ) to wear // * put on / fasten / buckle / undo a `… belt (64,* 585)
a … valve ( * for tension) (155,* 297) the … of a place || to be in … (230)
a haven of peace and … (256) afraid for sb’s … (269) a ( financial ) … net (290, -93)
a feeling of … (291) `…-deposit box (292) … glass (296) … pin / razor (298+)
a … island || road … || a (good) … record (301)
… concerns || a … officer || the … and security of sb. (305)
a … catch (E) || a … (A) (307) to lead sb. to … (308) to reach … (313) air …(314)
the … of foods / a treatment (316,-18) for …’s sake || there’s … in numbers (322)
… first || … regulations (pl.) || for … reasons || a … risk / policy / officer / representative ||
the health and … of sb. (328)
… measures / precautions / equipment / shoes / helmit / glasses / googles / harness / net (329)
Sahara Desert (312)
said (pat. / pap. of say) sb. has … ‘ speech’ (2) this much … (165)
sth. is … to do sth. || it’s … that (691) when all is … and done (694)
sail (C,U) hoist the … (225)
a … up the river (226)
sail (vt,vi+adv.) … a ship || sb. / a ship … a sea / at ( the open ) sea (140) … at night || … a river (226)
sailing (U) a … ship (666) sailor (C:224)
saint (C:219)
sake (U) for the … of appearance (101) for God’s / sb’s / sth. / gooddness’ / old time’s … (675+)
salable [ `seilêbêl ] (adj.) = saleable (1134)
salad (C,U:5) a … bowl || to toss a … (890)
salaried (adj.) a … employee / official (790) a … job (792)
salary (411) … earner (411)
to earn a good … || a basic E/A base … || on a monthly / annual / yearly … (of xxx) (785)
a high / low … (785 / 791) … negotiations / talks (791)
sale (U,C) a …s assistant (93) sth. is for … (129) … of sth. (169) …s tax (A) (411) the … of sth. (507)
…(s) of arms (672) to put sth. up for … (653)
saleable [ `seilêbêl ] (adj.) a … house (1134)
sales (pl.) … assistant / A: (…) clerk (93) `… representative (858) salesgirl (876) saleslady (876)
salesman (C) a travelling … (858) a … (in a shop) (876) salespeople (876) salesperson (876)
saleswoman (876) saliva [ sê`laivê ] (763)
salivary [ sê`laivêri / (A&E) `saliveri ] (adj.) … gland (763)
salivate (vi) … (at / over sth.) (763+)
sally (C:261,314)
sally (v) … forth / out (313+)
salmon ( = pl.) [ `samên ] (U:262&C)
salmonella (649)
saloon (C) a … (car) (E) (586)
salt (vt) … a steak (796)
salt (C,U) … water (79, 651) table … (656) … cellar E/A shaker (873) fluid and …s (1256)
salted (adj:505)
saltwater (attr. adj.) a … plant / animal (651)
salvage [ `salvid§ ] (vt) … a wrecked / disabled ship || … sth. from sth. (1122)
… the situation / one’s pride (1113)
salvage (U) to be employed in … / a … operation || a … company / team ||
the … ( from a ship ) || … material (1122)
salvager (C:1122)
salvation (U:92)
same (pron.) all the … (8) sth. is the … as sth. (46) to do the … (60) it’s all the … (63)
same (adj.) at the … time as - (45)
sanctimonious (adj.) … person / self-glorification (279) … person (742)
sanction (vt) … a tax (362) sanction (C,U) impose a … || lift / rescind a … (850)
sanctuary (C,U) a … ( connected with a cult ) (213) to seek / take … (230)
to offer … to sb. (313) a bird … (331)
sand (U,C) a particle of … (38) to lie on the … (1081)
sand (vt) … a wall ( down ) (1302)
sandal (C) wear …s (764)
sandbank (C:226)
sandbar (C:662)
sandstone (U:1315)
sandy (adj.) a … beach (1116) … hair (1122)
sanguine (adj.) a … person / disposition / humour / temperament / temper (1240)
to take a … view of sth. || to be … about the future (1247)
sanguineness (U:1239) to be disposed to / affected with … (1240)
sanitary (adj.) … facilities (564)
sanitation (U) to install … (564) poor … (1256)
sanity (U) to keep / preserve one’s … (473) to see the … of (doing) sth. (854)
sank (pat. of sink) (385)
saprotroph (saprophyte) (C:649)
sarcasm (U:466)
Satan (113) spawn of … (689)
satellite (C126) spy … (620)
satiate (vt) be …d with impressions (775) satire (C:27,U)
satisfaction (U,C) self-… (102) to do sth. with … (287) to run after easy … (606)
bodily / spiritual … (716) to do sth. to sb’s ( complete / entire ) … (748) to feel … (938)
satisfactorily (adv:742) satisfactory (adj:281)
satisfied (adj.) … with sth. (27) self-… (102) feel … (938)
satisfy (vt) … sb’s hunger for sth. (fig:625) … sb’s hunger (627) … a need / a desire (936+)
Saturday (126)
Saturn (N) the planet … (995)
saunter (C) to go for a … (1084)
saunter (vi+adv.) … down the road (1084)
sauce (C,U:455)
saucer (C:873)
sausage (C:25)
savage [ `savid§ ] (C:140) savage (adj:226,327) savage (vt:229,327) savagely (adv.229)
savagery [ `savid§êri ](C,U) the … of an offering || with a … that - (228+) ,327)
save (C) to make a … (302)
save (conj.) … sbth. (220) … that - / for sth. (250)
save (vi&t IT:334) … something / oneself from the wreck (fig.) (38 / 1139) … one’s appearance (112)
… sb. ( from (doing) sth.) || … sb’s life (230)
… one’s (own * ) ` skin / neck / bacon (232+, -77* ) … the situation (233)
sb. … (doing) sth. || sth. … (sb.) (doing) sth. (246)
sb. … sth. ( for sb. / sth.) || sb. … sb. sth. (247) not do sth. to … one’s life (285)
… (up) ( to do / for sth.) || … (up) ( money ) ( on a savings account ) ( with a savings bank /
with a building society E/A savings and loan ( association ) ) (291)
… () (`up) sth. || … (on) energy, water etc. || … money / * time ( on sth.) (297, * 302)
… ( a shot / a penalty ) (302, -04) … sb’s `blushes (303) sth. … the day (304) … face (306)
… oneself from the wreck (fig.) (1139)
saver (C a … ( of money ) (291) a water / an energy … (297)
saving (C) to make …s || a …s account / bank || a …s and `loan (association) (291)
to put one’s … into sth. || sth. takes all your … (292)
a … of £ x || sth. leads to …s in sth. || to make a … of £ x || sth. means … in sth. ||
to make ..s on sth. (296)
saving (adj.) a … `grace (272) a life-… device (296)
a labour-… device || a water- / energy-… modification || a space- … machine (297 )
a face-… compromise (306)
life-… treatment (314)
saviour (C) the S… (231) a … (280)
savour E/A savor (U,sg.) have a … of sth. (941)
savour E/A savor (vt) sth. … of despotism (1032)
savoury (adj.) sb. none too … || of not very … repute (1245)
saw (pat. of see:17)
saw (sawed, sawn E/A sawed) (vi&t) to … through a bar (308)
saw (C) a hack>… (308)
sawn-off (adj.) a … shotgun (671)
Saxon (C:218)
say ( said / = ) (vt, speech:2) sth. … sth. (5) it goes without …ing that - (170) … to do sth. (256)
… too much (275)
say (C) give sb. / have a … (in sth.) (46,74)
Sc
scaffold (C) to assemble a … || a … hand (328) to mount / die on the … (698)
scaffolder (C.328))
scaffolding (U:328)
scalding (adj.) a … ( hot ) soup (723)
scale (v:355)
scale (C) the …s fall from sb’s eyes (121) on this / that … (327) (a set of) …s (E) || a … (A) (1063)
large-… (adj:627)
scandal (C,U) (a) subsequent … (98) sb’s hunger for … (625) a … breaks (826) to create a … (836)
there is no hint of … (1297)
scandalize (vt) yo be …d at sth. (826) … sb. (832)
scandalous (adj.) a … affair / tendency (826 / 840)
Scandinavian (adj.) … countries (149)
scantily (adv.) … clad (442)
scapegoat (vt) … sb. ( for sth.) (238,689)
scapegoat (C) to find a … for sth. (234) to make sb. a … ( for sth.) (238,689)
scar (vt) sb. is …red (1091)
scar (C) sb’s … (1091)
scare (sg.) to throw a … into sb. (40)
scare (vt) … sb. ( into doing sth.) (1064+)
scared (adj.) to be… out of one’s wits (473) to be … witless (473)
to be … stiff / to death || be… to do sth. (1064) to be … of (doing) sth. / that - (1065)
scarf (C:32)
scarcely (adv:94)
scarlet (adj:1234) to blush / go … ( with embarrassment ) ( at sth.) (750) … fever (1257)
scary (adj.) a … thought (322) a … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
scathing (adj;468)
scatter (vi&t) a cloud … (434)
scattered (adj.) … trees (17) sb’s estates are … over an area (154)
… clouds || the sky is … with stars (422)
scatter (norm. sg.) a … cushion (E) / rug (1267)
scenario (C) under a possible / likely / plausible … || the worst-case … (247+) a nightmare … (277)
scene (film:50, theatre:51) to make a … (54) sth. // sb. sets the … for sth. (54 / 162 // 772)
the … of the crime / accident (709 / 884)
scenery (U) the … ( at a theatre ) (51) the … ( of an area ) (139)
scenic (adj.) a … view (859)
scent [ sent ] (C,U) throw / put sb. off the … (fig.) 28,528) to lose sb’s … (527)
( on the ) … of sbth. (528) a smell of … (1039) the … of a flower (1081)
to have a … of sth. (941)
scent (vt:527) … that - (& fig:529) scented (adj.) … oil (454) sweet-… (1081)
sceptic (E) (C:82)
sceptical (adj.) be … (84) … about / of sth. (5,84)
scepticism (U,sg.) regard sth. with … (84) sound … (87)
sceptre (C:420)
schedule [ `$edju~l E/A `sked§ul ] (C,U) ( well ) ahead of … (23) sb’s … for sth. (37) to do sth. on … (52)
behind … (61) a train … (A) (69) to have a heavy … (439)
schedule (vt) … sth. to do sth. (763)
scheduled (adj.) … time of sth. (776)
scheduling (U) a clash in … (A) (1226)
scheme (vi&t) … against sb. || … to do sth. || … sb’s downfall (87)
scheme (C) to throw () `out one’s … (37) a shady … (91) a … to do sth. (88) a … against sb. (688)
to make / form (a heady) … (725) (in) the (religious) … of things || sb’s … of things (820)
schism (C:693)
schizophrenia (U:1066)
scholar (C:148)
scholastic (adj.) a … philosopher (930) scholasticism (U:930)
school (C,U) to go to … || to be at E/A in … (3) to attend one’s … ( work ) (141)
a `public … || a public `… (E) || (E) a `state … (336) a … day // year / play (724 // 725)
to skip E/A ditch … (623) sb. is of the old … (981) a riding … (1109) … attendance (1162)
a … of thought about sth. || strictly academic … (1166) (a) summer … (1231)
schoolboy (C:367) … humour (1247)
schooling (U) compulsory … (1162)
science (U,C) the faculty of … (1) ( the ) social / natural / physical / applied …(s) (195)
scientific (adj.) a … fact (934)
scientist (C:164)
sciolism (U:919) sciolist (C:919) sciolistic (adj.) a … person / consideration (919)
scissors (pl.) a pair of … (265)
scoopful (C:757)
scope (C) the … of knowledge (163)
scorching (adj.) … (hot) sun / weather / temperature / day || … heat (884)
score (vi&t) … ( a goal ) (201) … a hat-trick (590)
… political points || … a point / points off / against / over sb. || … `off sb. (E) (822) … (with sb.) (vi:831)
… x point(s) (852)
score (C) …s of people (277) a … is even (303) to settle an old `… || to settle a … ( with sb) (394)
a … of 5-2 (852) to know the … (963)
scoreboard (C) on the … (851) scorer (C:731)
scorn (vt) … sb. / sth. (184) … sb. / sth. as womanish (1098) … to ( do ) sth. (1101)
scorn (U) to have / feel … for sbth. (180)
to heap / pour … on sbth. (206)
scornful (adj.) to be … of sth. (183) a … remark (205)
scorpion (C:504)
Scotch (adj.) … `tape (A) (U) (875)
Scotland (N:214)
scoundrel (C:274)
scout (C:24,503)
scout (vi&t) sb. … a territory for information (205) … sth. ( out ) (502) … (a)round ( for sth.) (503)
scouting (U) a … party (502)
scowl (C/v:477)
scrap (vt) … a plan (621) … a car (1122) spl. … (1239)
scrap (C,U) …s ( of food ) || sb. is a … of a thing (246) …s of information (273) a … of paper (295)
not a … of difference (318) not a … of evidence (712) to get into a … ( with sb.* ) (983, 1248 * )
not a … of vegetation (1118) to sell sth. for … (1122) a … dealer || some fine … (1134)
scrape (C) to get into / out of a … / …s (705)
scrape (vt) … a living (16)
scrapyard (C:1234)
scratch (C) to start from … (304)
scratch (v) … a living (16) … the surface (of sth.) (fig:109) … one’s leg (783)
… one’s ( bald ) head (688)
scratchy (adj.) a … sweater || sth. looks … (783)
scrawl (vi&t) … sth. on sth. || … (all) over sth. (295)
scrawl (U,C) to be covered in …(s) (295) a mass of …(s) 508) a signature is a … (534)
scream (C) a … of horror (891) a piercing … of pain (1113)
scream (vi&t) … for help (104)
screech (C) a car stops with a … of brakes / tyres || a piercing … of pain (1113)
screech (vi&t, speech:1113) a …ing sound || a car … to a halt || sb. … ( with pain ) (1113)
screen (49) … ad`vertisement (E) / adver`tisement (A) (49) silver … (599)
screw (C) the slot of a … (26)
screw (vi&t { norm + adv.) … a screw tight (26) … a nut onto a bolt (31)
to … () up one’s `face ( with pain ) / eyes (1113 / 1151)
screwdriver (C:26)
scribble (vi&t) … sth. on sth. || … (all) over sth. || … () down sth. (295) … ( away ) (508)
scribble (U,C) to be covered in …(s) (295) a mass of …(s) (508) a signatur is a … (534)
scribbler (C:413)
scribe (C:172)
script (50,53)
scripture(s) (U,pl.) S…(s) || the (Holy) S…(s) (824)
scriptwriter (C:1270)
scrounge (vi&t) … for sth. || … sth. from / off sb. || … around (A) ( for sth.) (607)
scrounge (U) to be on the … (607)
scrub (U:1117)
scrubby (adj.) a … place (1116)
scruff (C) to take sb. by the … of the neck (1103)
scrupulous (adj.) a … person (43)
scuffle (C) get into a … (983)
scullery (C:1303)
sculpt (vt) … sth. from sth. || … sth. in marble / clay || … an abstract out of sth. (1315)
the landscape is …ed by sth. (1330)
sculptor [ skûlpt$ê ] (C:1315)
sculpture (C:357) sculptured (adj:221)
scurvy (U) to suffer from … (1262)
scuttle (vi&t) … a ship (1205)
Se
sea (C,U) to sail at ( the open ) … || to sail a … (140) the North S.. (168)
to go to / put (out) to / run away to … (225) a … warrior (226) at … || on the ( open ) … (226)
to be at … / on the … (236) a … of faces (279) by the … (456) a … cucumber / lily / urchin (651)
rough … || heavy …s (661) to / on the bottom of the … (662) the `…()bed / … `floor (664)
to serve / be lost at … (1121)
seafood (U:796)
seagoing (adj:665) seagull (C:658)
seal (vt) spl. … their agreement with a kiss (1077) sealed (adj:99)
seam (C:265) seamstress (C:265)
seance [ `seiåns E/A `seia~nse ] (C:901)
search (C,U) a … of a cupbord (4) in … of adventure / a key || to make a personal / body … ||
a … party / warrent || to carry out / conduct a ( thorough ) … of a place ||
to institute / launch / begin a … (for sbth.) || a (painstaking) … is fruitless ||
to call `off / abandon a … (for sbth.) (6)
search (vi&t) … ( for sb. / a partner ) ( high and low ) || … one’s heart / memory ||
… through a cupboard / directory || … () `out sb. (4) … one’s / sb’s pocket || … () out a coin (5)
… for adventure / a key || sb. … the streets / a house ( for sth.) / || … sb. ||
… for sth. to say || … () out the truth || … one’s conscience || a cold wind … the city / streets ||
dim light … the corners (6)
searcher (C:4,6)
searching (adj.) a … look (5) a … question (1310)
searchlight (C:6)
seascape (C:408)
seasick (adj.) to get / feel / be … (767)
seasickness (U:767)
seaside (eE) (C) to go to the … || at / by the … (456)
seaside (adj.) a … resort (323) a …holiday (675)
season (C,U) (at) any … (12) the (football) … (590) to do sth. in and out of … (833)
season (vi&t) … a cutlet (79)
seasoned campaigner (316)
seat (vt) sb. is …ed (193)
seat (C, a … in a theatre (63) to wear // * put on / fasten / buckle / undo a … belt (64,* 585)
a … in the country (E) (410) … of government (554) trouser … (529)
to get / put bums on …s (E) (609)
a … in (the) parliament (841) the driver’s … ( of a sleigh ) (1158)
seating (U) … ( capacity ) (904)
seaward (adj:663)
seawards (adv:662)
seclusion (U) to do sth. in … || the … ot a place (227)
second (C) to come (in) / be { a good / poor … (310) a boxer’s … (622)
second (num., det.) 4) have … `thoughts (31) on `… thoughts E/A thought (40) ... lieutenant (191)
( in ) the … person (1220)
second (adv.) to come `off … `best (108)
second(-)hand (adj.) a … booth / shop (579 / 587)
secrecy (U:90,489) to shrowd sth. in … (490) to do sth. under … (518) a promise of … (518)
to observe the deepest … (518) a parade of … (549)
secret [ `si~krêt ] (C) to coax a … from / out of sb. (43) to tell sb. / let sb. in on / reveal a … (95)
an open …(434) to keep a … (518) to make no … of sth. || (the) … of success etc. (537)
to get / be in on a … (548) to keep it a closely guarded … whxx / that - (1105)
secret (adj.) … parts (454) … passage / police (491) … service (518) … society (493) … ink (534)
to have a … doubt (548) to keep sth. … from (490) in one’s … heart (548)
secretary (C) sb’s … (480) Home S… E/A S… of the Interior (621)
… of state for the `Home Office (E) || S… of State (A) (811)
secretion (U,C) … of mucus (766) excretion of …s (936) secretive (adj:260)
secretly (adv:16)
sect (C) to form a ( heretic ) … (679)
section (C,U) to be divided into …s (143) a Caesarian … (459) a wide … of the citizenry (521)
a … of a line (562)
sector (C) private / public … (790)
secular (adj.) a … order (153) a … theme (171) … clothes (701)
secure (vt) … compliance (90) an act … a place for sb. (165) … a door with sth. (246)
… an augmentation (259) … a seat (277) … a ( good / fair ) deal (286)
… a loan || a loan …d on sth. (292) … sb’s future (293) sb. … the majority (309)
secure (adj.) to be … in the knowledge that - (230) a … way to do sth. (245)
a chair / shelf is … (255) a place is … against / from sth. (257) … destiny / fate (278)
… working conditions || the future looks … (281) a … footing (281,338)
sb. is … (289) a … rate of interest (291) a … job / income || to feel financially … (293)
to feel … about the future (296) a … place (298) in … accomodation || a … unit (307)
a … foothold (328)
securely (adv:301,329)
secureness (U) feel … (944)
security (U:334) to convert …ies (pl.) into cash (6) a … code (29) to have … of tenure (148)
a false sense of … (239) a … deposit (247) to hold a … blanket || sth. is sb’s security … (288)
the … of a family life (289)
to find / provide / give … for sth. || to offer / use / hold sth. as … for sth. (292)
national … || for … reasons || a … check / force / … guard / … risk / … service ||
(a) … clearance (306) adequate … measures (307)
a … camera / light (308)
sedan (A) (C:586)
sedate (vt:1289)
sedation (U) to be kept under … (1289)
sedative (adj.) a … injection / drug (1289)
sedentary (adj.) a …farmer (144, 559)
a … lifestyle / job / occupation / activity || … work || a … animal || sb. becomes … (410)
sedge (U,C:1128)
sedition (U) a charge of … (1184)
seduce (vt:27,78,,,) seducer (C:27) seduction (C,U:27,78) …(s) (80)
seductive (adj.) … (person / voice / offer) (79,,,)
seductiveness (U:80) seductress (C:80)
see (C:734) the Holy S… (680)
see (vi&t) … sbth. (5) … whxx (6) … `through sbth. (11) … ( military / national ) service (12)
… (that -) (36) … a joke (37) … one’s chance to do sth. (39) … sb. without bias (43)
… a doctor / a friend (40 / 44) … sbth. to be sbth. (88) … sth. as sth. (89) … sth. on TV (126)
… oneself / sb. as sth. (174 / 422) … to the security / safety of sth. || … to it that - (305)
… the light (452) a year etc. … sth. (666) … far || … sth. close `to / up (764)
… sth. from a xxx perspective / standpoint / viewpoint / point of view ||
… sth. from the perspective / standpoint / viewpoint / point of view of sb. (815)
as far as the eye can … (1117)
seed (C,U) a … (887) sth. sows the …s of sth. ( fig.) (1144)
seek ( sought / = ) (vi&t) … glamour / help (55 / 75) … to do sth. (146) … `out sth. (169)
… funding / funds (773)
seeker (C) a border-… (1248) a … after truth (1274)
–seeking (adj.) sensation-…(117) border-… (1248)
seem (v+link:174,,,) sb. / sth. … to do sth. (5 / 37) it … (that-) (26) it / sb. … (to be) subst. / adj. (33)
sb. / it … like subst. (34 / 52) it … to sb. (that) - (54) so it … (76)
it … (un)likely / probable // true / a fact (that) - (112 / 175 // 182)
it … as if / as though sbth. does sth. || it … like sbth. (does sth.) (129)
sth. … easy / difficult to sb. (179) sb. … like sth. (183)
seemingly (adv:186) seemly (adj:179) seemliness (U:184)
seen (pap. of to see (13)
segregation (U) racial … (629)
seigneur (161) seismic (adj.) … centre (647)
seize (vt) … sbth. (14) … power (312) to be …d by / with excitement (851)
… the psychological moment / opportunity (1161)
seizure (C,U) to make a … of drugs (1137)
seldom (adv:12)
select [ si`lekt ] (vt) … sb. as / for sth. / to do sth. (3,5) … sth. as / for sth. (5) … sth. from sth. (5)
… a dessert (5) a …ing meeting (802)
select [ si`lekt ] (adj.) a … school / few (3) to be … in doing sth. || a few … friends || a … dress (5)
selection (U,C) a … of students (1) …s of Shakespeare (5) a large … of desserts (5)
by means of natural … (1197)
selective [ si`lektiv ] (adj.) a … choice (1)
self (C) reveal / *show one’s real / true … (536 / *968) appeal to one’s better … (920)
self – (prefix) –assumed (adj.) powers (1090) –`assurance, -assured (240) –appointed (829)
–blame (238) –centred / > ness (33 / 27) –concept (538) –confident (33) -confidence (33)
-conscious (33) –constituted (adj.) a … president (1091) –contradictionary (59) –control (394)
–deception (55) –defence (202) –delusion (55) –doubt (1259)
–esteem (U) to build one’s … (1164)
–examination (747) –exposure (822)
–glorification (279) –`governing /<ment (23) –effacing (519) –evidently (790) –help (123) –image (538)
–important / –importance (843) –importantly (850) –indulgence (1041) –indulgent (358) –`made (17)
–obsessed (948) –opinionated (272) –perception (538) –possed / –possession (107) –propelled (666)
–`reliance / –`reliant (489) –`respect (118) –restraint (45) –righteous / <ness (180) –`sacrifice (U:82)
–sacrificing (adj:82) –`satisfaction / <fied (101+) –sufficiency (472) –supporting (346) –willed (957)
–worth (U) to build one’s … (1164)
selfish (adj.) a … measure (352) selfishness (U:359)
selfless (adj.) … entrepreneurship (810)
sell (vi&t) … sth. (31) sth. … well (656)
seller (C) a … (person:130) a best-… (125)
Sellotape (E) (U:875)
semen (U:936)
semi- (398)
seminarian (682)
seminary (C:685) theological … (A) (682)
senat (C) the S… ( in the US ) / ( in ancient Rome ) (804 / 924)
senatorial (adj.) the … class (151)
send (vt&i+adv.) a fire … () `up sparks (30) … for sb. / sth. (113 / 298) … sb. packing (480)
… () `in sth. (292)
sender (C) return to … (298)
Seneca (N:170)
senior (C:597) an office … (597)
senior (adj.) … officer || … to sb. (597)
sensation (C,U) a warm / wet … (199) a tickling … (772) a … (934)
to perceive / experience sth. by … || have (bodily) …(s) (936)
have a … of a need / hunger / thirst / satisfaction / relief (937+)
to have a tickling … || to lose … in a body part (942)
to have the … that - || have a … of flying / danger ||
to do sth. with a (strange / curious / odd) … of sth. (945)
cause / create / make a … (1054) doing sth. is a strange / curious / odd … (1058)
sensation-seeking (adj. / U) (117)
sensational (adj.) the … press || a … newspaper || … journalism (840,1051)
sensationalism (U:1050+)
sensationalist (C:1050+)
sensationalist (adj.) a … newspaper / story / headline (840)
sensationally (adv.) to have a … good press (1056)
sensationism (U:1050)
sensationist (C:1050)
sense (vi&t) … sbth.( + inf / -ing ) || … (that) - || … whxx (249+, 288, 945)
… light / touch / temperature / taste / smell / sound / a need // … hunger / thirst / suffocation /
satisfaction / relief (936 // 938) … excitement / danger (945)
sense (C,U) a … of humour (28) not a grain / particle of … in sth. (59) to have road … (74)
to feel a … of superiority (102) to have a … of inferiority (133) in an economic … (150)
to have common … || to use one’s common … (174 || 188)
to feel a ( great / strong / overwhelming ) … of despair / desertedness etc. (230 / -38)
to lose one’s … of location (270) to talk / knock some … into sb. (693) to see … (920)
… perception || a … impression || the … of sight / hearing / touch / taste / smell || a … organ ||
to have a … of a need (936) the … world || … data (942)
to have a language / a moral … || to have a … of direction / location / rhytm / identity / purpose /
duty / responsibility / loyalty / right and wrong / justice / fairness / proportion / occation /
the importance of sth. etc. || have the … that - || to do sth. with a … of understanding etc. ||
to feel / have a … of joy / grief / respect etc. (943)
to have a … of apprehension / dread (945)
to labour under a … of wrong (1041) to talk … || to have plenty of … (1048)
to take the … of a crowd (1049) in no … (1056)
in a / the { full / literary / figurative / positive / negative / strict / proper / best / worst … of a word (1061)
to lose one’s … of reality / of realities of the situation (1067) to have money … (1072)
in the truest … of the word (1267)
senses (pl.) bring sb. to their … (55) to take leave of one’s … (858) in possession of one’s … (1047)
to be in one’s (right) / out of one’s … (1066) to come to one’s … (1068)
to have a … of time || to lose one’s time … (1069)
senseless (adj.) a … act (239) a … body part (942) to drink oneself … (951) a … habit (956)
a … crime (975) it’s … to do sth. (979) to beat / knock sb. … || … violence (993)
a … idea || … luxury (1042)
senselessly (adv:957)
senselessness (U:957)
sensibility (C,U) a person of … (967) sb. has … || have the … of an artist || sb. of refined …ies (986)
to offend / wound sb’s moral / religious / racial …ies || show respect for sb’s … (994)
sensible (adj.) a … person (197, 967) a … receptor || a … phenominum (939)
to do sth. in a … way (960) be … of { a xxx situation / the fact that - (955,975) … clothing / shoes (983)
… of sb’s (moral / religious / racial) sensivities || it’s … to do sth. || the … thing to do is - ||
be … of the fact that - (994) a … idea / choice (996)
sensibly (adv.) … dressed (983) behave … (960) … avoid sth. (994)
sensitive (adj.) … people (197, 967)
a … receptor || be … to a stimulus || a … body part || … skin / conscience (942+)
to be … to sb’s feelings / needs (956) to be … about one’s weaknesses / to criticism (969)
a … soul (E) (978) sb. is … to cold (983) sth. is … to pollution (985) a … ear / mind / character (986)
a highly … camera || light-… (990) … singing (992) a … issue (994) prices are … to sth. (997)
a … gauge / instrument (1062)
sensitively (adj.) sing … (992) handle sth. … (994)
sensitivity (C,U) show a lack of / show (a) … to sb’s feelings / needs (956, 967)
a person with (great) … (967) sb’s …ies (957) do sth. (to sb.) with … (969)
play / paint / write with (great) … (982) an ear has (great) … to sound (983) … to light (990)
sb. is a mixture of anger and … (993) develope …ies || food … || … to food (993)
political … || sb’s moral / religious / racial …ies || show (a) … to sb’s sentiments (994) price … (997)
sensitize (E& -ise) (vt) sb. is …ed to a different attitude / a danger etc. (964+ / 985)
to become …d to a substance (993)
sensor (C) a light-sensitive …(990)
sensory (adj.) a … apparatus / nerve / receptor / stimulus (936) a … cell (939)
sensual (adj.) a … appetite / life / person / temperament / pleasure (1050) … lips (1059)
sensualism (U:1042, -50) sensualist (C:1042, -50)
sensuality (U:1050)
sensuous (adj.) a … receptor (936) a … phenominum (939)
a … person / temperament // pleasure / life (986 // 1050)
sensuosity (1050) sensuousness (U:1050)
sent (pa.t & pa.p of send:25)
sentence (vt) … sb. to prison / jail ( for lifetime * ) (117, 212 * )
… sb. to death (by hanging / beheading / decapitation / shooting / electrocution) (697+)
sentence (C,U) a … verb (46)
to pass … || to impose a … on sb. ||
to receive / be given a heavy / severe / stiff / long / lenient / light / short … (117)
a death / life … || a crime carries the death … (536) to serve one’s … (842) a suspended … (1144)
a simple / complex / declarative // interrogative … (1221+)
sententious (adj.) a … reproof / remark (978 / 996) sententiously (adv.) to act … (996)
`sentiment (C,U) sb’s …s (938) to express one’s … (967) no place / room for … in business (975)
a display of … (978) to have / entertain friendly / hostile …s towards sb. (990 / 993)
to agree with a … (991) anti-American …s || popular / public … is against sbth. ||
be in touch with popular / public …(993) ‘ My …s exactly (996) sb’s … of pity (1048)
the national (1048) the public … (of justice) (1050) do sth. for …s (1060)
senti`mental (adj.) to be … (425) to have a … attachment to sbth. || to get … about sbth. (1041+)
… stories / music || sth. of … value (1042) to do sth. for … reasons (1060)
sentimentalism (U:425,1051)
senti`mentalist (C:1051)
sentimentality (U:425,1051)
sentimentalize (vi&t) … (nature) (986)
sentry (C:205) on … duty (205)
separate (adj.) have a … bed || have … beds (17) keep sth. … from sth. (22)
separate (v) … sth./sb. (from sth.) || sb./sth. … (from sb./sth.) (15,17,19) … sth. from sth. (18)
separates (pl.32)
separation (U,C) … from sth. (19) …. of sth. from sth. || … between sth. and sth. (21)
separatism (U:21) separatist (C:21)
sepoy (C:1187)
septice(a)mic (adj.) … plague (1257)
sequel (C) a … to sth. (818) a legal … (1139)
sequence [ `si~kwêns ] (C,U) a … of plays (364) a … of events (427,482)
Serb (C,adj:1204)
Serbia (N:1204)
serf (C:144) serfdom (U:156)
sergeant (C:191)
series (C) a … of books (339) a continuous / an uninterrupted … of days (431)
a … of opportunities (950)
serious (adj:19) seriousness (U:163) … ( of the situation ) (470)
sermon (C) give / preach / deliver a … (to sb.) (on sth. ) (159,742,744) the S… on the Mount (819)
serried (adj.) a range of … hills (1116)
servant (C:52) a civil … (217) a domestic … (446) …’s bell (453) sth. is the … of sth. (930)
a public `… (1079) …’s quaters || a …’s room (1298)
serve (vi&t) … one’s apprenticeship (4) … a portion (5) … ( in a ball game ) (15)
sth. … a (common, etc.) purpose (78, 578) … () `up sth. (82) … the court of sb. (154)
sth. … as sth. (155) … sb. (181) sb. … (a term) (as sth.) (804) … one’s sentence (842)
to be well …d (1084) … at sea (1121)
serve (C: ball game / tennis: 15 / 317)
server (C) … ( in a ball game ) (15)
service (C,U) public:418) to see military / national … || to go into the …s (12) in / on active … (12+)
sexual …s (58) to render a … to sb. (98) machinery overdue for … (134) a promise of … (148)
to hold a / the … || at a / the … (158+) the ( armed ) `…s (E) (202) a ( church ) … (228)
a … station (E) (319) train … (333) the National Health S… / the health …s (728) … book (735)
to be at // to hold / conduct / attend (a) ( church / Sunday / baptismal / marriage / funeral /
memorial ) … (736,738+)
job replacement … (791) to give / pay lip … to sb. (791) the prison … (846)
press sth. / sb. into … (1060 / -64) do sth. in the … of a good cause (1071)
serviette (E) (C:323)
`servile (adj.) a … class / conduct (156) a … person (1105) servility (U:156)
serving (C) a large … || enough for x …s (5)
servitude (U:156)
session (C,U) chat … (IT:654)
set (C: people / things:45) … of cards (9) a … piece || a ( background ) … (51)
… theory || the null / universal … (1215)
set (vi&t) … a prisoner at liberty (23) sth. … sb. / sth. apart ( from sb. / sth.) (35,49)
… () aside formalities / feelings / a verdict / money (54 / 57 / 69) … `out to do sth. (130)
… a date (284) … oneself a task (225) `… about (doing) sth. || … `to (455)
… on doing sth.(469) … sb. to work || sb. … `to (455) a book … () `forth / out sth. (463) ... out (498)
… `about sb. (o-f) (530) … () off sth. (535) ... () `up a fence / a committee (578 / 713)
… an aim / a goal / an objective (816) … () `up a scheme (832) ‘… up `shop (876)
… (up) type / a page / an article (1054) … a clock by the tv (1268)
setback (C:67)
settee (E) (C:645)
setting (C) a (stage) … (51) in an unlikely … (69) the … of the sun (116)
a view over the quaint … (139) a … is sacred (223) a place is a perfect / beautiful … for sth. (299)
in a picturesque … (1301)
settle (C) to sit on a … (1127)
settle (vi&t) to … a trial of strenth (14) sb. … in a place / on sb’s land (17 / 151) … a debt (109)
sb. … ( down ) (112) sb&sb. … a dispute (195) … for a job (245)
… an old `score || … an account / a score ( with sb.) (394)
sb. … for some nights || a place is …ed by sb. (1120) … (up) with sb. (1124) a substance … (1132)
… a bill || sb. / things… down || … for the second best / * sth. || … (up) with sb. for sth. (1138,*-48)
depression … over sb. (1139)
…oneself in(to) a seat || … (back) ( to do sth.) || …down { with a book / to some work (1141)
a frown … on sb’s face || that … it (1143)
sb&sb. … ( their differences ) || … ( down ) to sth. || it is …d that - || … one’s affairs ||
… abroad / with sb. || … into a new home / * job || how is sb…ing in ? || sb. is …ing in OK (1144,*-48)
silence … over sth. || an animal … on sth. || sb’s eyes / gaze … on sth. || that … the matter ||
nothing is …d (1146)
…(up)on a plan (1147) the ground … (1148)
a cold … in sb’s head || a virus … in sb’s throat || … sb. in their bed ||
… a pillow behind sb’s back (1150) sb&sb. … outside court (1150)
snow … ( on sth.) (1151) … an annuity on sb. (1161) … for a draw (1167)
sb. … ( down ) (fig.) || … ( () down ) sb. (fig.) || to let the dust … (fig.) ||
sb. … ( down ) to an activity (1168)
… on a name (1228) … ( down ) one’s nerves || … one’s stomach || … a quilt around sb. (1229)
…down in one’s old groove / ways (1237)
things … themselves || … sth with one’s own conscience || sth. … sb’s doubts (1233)
settled (adj.) a … way of life (144) a … farmer (559) … weather (1116)
to feel … ( in one’s job ) || a … existence / habit (1229) sb. of … opinions (1233)
settlement (C,U) to negotiate a ( peace ) … (24)
to reach a ( an amicable / a peaceable / <ful ) … ( * of / over sth. ) (59,* 1145)
a Germanic … (148) a divorce … (1144)
a … of a bill || in … of an invoice (1148) an out-of-court … (1150)
to make a … on sb. || to make a marriage / property … (1161)
a … of a dispute (1168)
settler (C:17)
sever (vt) … the head from the body (697) … the relations (1010)
several (det., pron.) … lectures (1)
several (adj.) they go their … ways (19)
severally (adv.) to be … liable (1147)
severance (U) … pay (U:790)
the … of sth. and sth. (813)
severe [ si`viê ] (31) … punishment (536)
sew [ sêu ] ( sewed, sewn E/A sewed ) (vi&t) … ( clothes / a seam ) || … () `up a seam (265)
… () up a deal (268)
sewage [ `sju~id§ ] (U) … ( treatment / disposal ) works, … farm (E), … ( treatment ) plant (A) (333)
sewer [ `sju~ê ] (C:333) a … grate (333) a … contractor (564)
sewerage [ `sju~êrid§ ] (U:333)
sewing (U:265) a … machine (297)
sewn (pap. of sew) to have sth. up … (310)
sex (U,C) a … role (48) to have … (81) a … offender (202) the … of a person (286)
… object || to have … with sb. (544) the battle of …es (547)
… act / game / item / life / maniac / organ / shop / toy || the same / opposite … (610)
… guidance / instruction || … problem page || …-change operation || … appeal (611)
… assault / attack / crime / offender (612)
-sexed (adj.) highly–… (610)
sexed-up (adj:610)
sexism (U:45)
sexist (C, adj:45,546+)
sex`ologist (C:610) sex`ology (U:611)
sextant (C:663)
sexton (C743)
sexual (adj.) to have a … relationship (34) … discrimination (47) … services (58)
… assault (202) to have a … relationship ( with sb.) || to have … relations ( with sb.) (543+)
… (in)equality (549) … `harassment / ha`--- (606)
… ability / activity / capnacity / behaviour / desire / drive / organ || to have … intercourse (610)
a … urge / need / inclination / propensity / … life || … abstinence (611) … arousal (612)
… appetite (1245)
sexuality (U) male / female … (611)
sexually (adv.) … abused / molested || … attractive (611) … transmitted disease (STD) (612)
sexy (adj.) … briefs (610) to feel / look … (640)
Sh
shabby (adj.) …(-looking) person (711)
shack (C:526)
shackle (C:378,396)
shackle (v:396,404)
shade (U,C) a sun>… (32) throw sth. into … (fig.) (37) a bright / delicate / rich … of colour (408)
with ( delicate ) light and … (fig.) (450) a loud / gaudy / garish … of a colour (455)
a lamp … (572) to sit in the … (770)
shadow (C,U) to throw / cast a … (14 / 770) sth. is a … of reality (164) without any … of doubt (1292)
shadowy (adj:221)
shady (adj.) … dealings (98) a … character (515)
shaft (C) a … of light (435) shafted (ad:357)
shake (v:8) sth. … one’s belief in oneself (119) … one’s head (682)
shake (C) a … of the head (481)
shaken (adj.) be … by sth. (fig.) (826)
shallot (C:1156)
shallow (adj.) a … joke (35) a … person (41) … water (322) a … mind (955)
shallows (pl.) the … (322) shallowly (adv.) to act … (41)
sham (adj.) a … Gotic building (1179)
shame (U,sg.) a sense of … (38)
shameful (adj.) feel … (944)
shank (C,U) (a) fore / hind … (795)
shanty (C:526)
shape (C,U) to throw a lecture into … (37) to be embodied in a new … (83)
to get / knock / lick the information etc. into … (1291) the … of a person (1315)
to throw clay into the … of sth. (1316)
shape (vt) … feudalism (161) … dough into portions (262) sb. … well (462)
–shaped (adj:627)
shard (C) to get a … in one’s foot (771)
share (C) to cheat sb. (out) of their … (9) to have a ( liberal ) … of the punch (10)
the biggest … of a cake (67) a … of a profit (256) a … holder (E) || stocks and …s (291)
… price / price of … (593 / 780) quoted price / market value of a … (780) to redem a … (780)
share (vi&t) … a view ( of life / the world ) (56) … a cake (67) … a belief (69)
… sth. among / between spl. (105) … a common language (174)
… in sb’s doubts || spl. … the blame (241)
… ( out ) the work (257) … sb’s views (817)
shark (C) loan / property … (16 / 784)
sharp (adj.) a … object (14) … practice (43) a … mind (41) a … retort (54) a … pencil (875)
the … point of sth. (880) a … increase (1134)
sharpen (vi&t) … a pencil (875)
sharpener (C) a pencil … (875)
sharp-sighted (adj:579) sharply (283)
shatter (vi&t) sb’s nerves are …ed (99) sth. … one’s belief in oneself (119) sth. … a city (221)
sb’s faith is …ed (238) sb’s illusions are …ed (1144)
shave (vi&t) to save …ing || to … () `off one’s beard (299)
shave (C) to need / have a … (299) sth. was a close … (321)
shaved (adj.) a … head (877)
shaver (C:299)
shavings (pl.) wood … (1317)
shaving (adj.) … cream / foam / soap || a … brush (299)
shawl (C:266)
she (pron:2)
shear (sheared, shorn) (vi&t) a …ing stress (204) … a sheep (1128)
shed (C:245)
shed (vt) a snake … its skin (16) … light on sth. (41) … a tear / tears (290 / 977)
… sth. (not needed) (363) … its load (498) … (one’s) blood (for) (520)
sheep = pl. (C) to separate the … from the `goats (19)
there’s a black … in every flock || a wolf in …’s clothing (742)
sheepish (adj:37)
sheer (adj.) by … default (48) … folly (196) … terror (1064) a … cliff / slope (1116+)
sheet (C) a … ( of metal ) (31) to tuck () up a … (288) a … of paper (414)
shelf (C:30)
shell (C,U) a … of animal (213) … shock (511) a snail … (985)
shelling (511) heavy … (668)
shellfish (U:794&C)
shell suit (E) (C:635)
shelter (U,C) to find food and … (278) to reach … (317)
to take / seek // run for / find … ( from the rain // in / under sth. ) (505 // 718)
a homeless … || a … for battered women / the homeless (613) an air-raid / bomb … (667)
to run for / seek etc the … of sth. || to seek into … || sth. gives … ( from sth. ) ||
in / under the … of sth. (718, -21)
shelter (vi&t) … from the rain (505) … sb. from the police (517) … sth. from the wind (721)
shelve (vi&t) … sth. (fig:28)
shelves (pl.30)
sherd (C) to get a … in one’s foot (771)
sheriff (C:345)
sherry (C,U) cream … (448)
shield (C:227) as a … (229) as a human … (1223)
shift (C:171, clothing:760)
shift (vi&t) sb. … the blame ( onto sb.) (240) … one’s … (957) shiftness (358)
shilling (23)
shine (vi&t) sb’s eyes / face … with happiness (287) … a light (427) a star … (995)
shingle (U,C) a … beach (1116) to hang out one’s own … (A) (1127) to be covered with …(s) (1131)
shingled (adj.) a … roof (1131)
shingly (adj.) a … beach (1116)
shiny (adj.) a … object (444)
ship (C) a … yard (31) a … is stranded (323)
( like rats ) to desert (<ing) / leave (<ing) a / the sinking … (593)
a sailing … || battle>… (666) a … goes down / is lost ( with all hands ) (1121)
ship (vt) a port … iron from a place (217)
shipbuilder (C:225)
shipwreck (U,C) a survivor of a … (323) to narrowly escape … || a … sinks (662)
shipwrecked (pap) to be … (236)
shipwrecked (adj.) a … person (323)
shire (344) S… Court (345) shirt (14)
shit (v:524)
shit (U,C) to take / (E) have a … (524) ( a pile of ) dog … (614)
shiver (vi) … with anger / fright (290 / 697)
shock (vt) to be …d by / at sth. (228) to be …d that - / to hear etc. (826)
shock (C,U) an electorial … (669) a … of hair (1122)
shoe ( shoeing / shod / shod ) (vt) … a horse (509)
shoe (C) a horse throws a … (16) to wear …s (142) tennis / training … (762)
… dealer / polish / shop (876)
shoebox (C:876) shohorn (C:876) shoelace (C:423) shoestring (A) (C:423)
shoot (C) a … ( of a plant ) (17)
shoot ( shot / shot ) (vi&t) a plant … (vi) (17) to … sb. a black look / an angry glance (129)
… on `sight (849) … sb. dead (891) … one’s mouth off ( about sth.) (1079)
… () `down a remark ( in flames ) (1123) … craps (1140)
shooting (C,U) accurate … (U) (14) … of a film (U:50) a … party || … boots (199)
a … `booth / tent (992)
shooting (adj.) a … `star (423)
shop (vi) (&t) be out / go …ping || … (for sth.) (at a shop) || sth. is in a … (872)
… around ( for sth.) (878) … sb. ( to the police ) (882)
shop (C,U) a greengrocer’s … (5) a … steward (56) a … assistant (93)
(on) the … `floor || the … floor ( = people) (E:595,889) multible `… (763)
to do the … (E) || to go down to the … (E) (872) run // look after / mind a … (872 // 874)
a car / bike repair … (876) all `over the … (E) (878) a company ect. is a well-run … || to talk … (889)
industrial `… (class) (A) || a (work) … (A) (899) an art … (1306)
shop`aholic (C:869)
`shop-bought (adj.) … bread (874) `shopfront (E) (879) shopgirl (C:876)
shopkeeper (C:168) a small … (579) `shoplift (v:879) shoplifter (C:879) shoplifting (U:879)
shopman (C:872) shopper (C:873)
shopping (U) to go on a … expedition / trip / spree (869) to do the / one’s … (872) a … list (872)
a `… ‘precint / centre E/A center / arcade E/eA mall (878)
a … bag / basket || a … trolley E/A cart (879)
`shop-soiled (adj.) … goods // ideas / arguments (878 // 889)
`shoptalk (U) to do some … (889)
`shopworn (adj.) `… goods // ideas / arguments (878 // 889)
shore (C,U) the ‘ Saxon S… ’ (218) towards the … (247)
shorn (pap. of shear) God tempers the wind to the … lamb (1239)
short (C) a … ( `circuit ) (573)
short (adj:48) … of breath (458) a … (`circuit) (573) … story (49) (a) … dough (793)
( to take ) a … `cut / `… cut || there are (no) … to sth. (fig.) (953)
shortage (C,U) a … of equipment / orders / manpower (509 / 594 / 1121) wartime / food …(s) (514+)
there’s no … of things to do / possibilities (577)
`shortcrust (adj.) … `paste / pastry (U:793)
shorten (vi&t) … a time (253) … (a) dough (793)
shortening (U) … (of length) (438) a paste prepared with … (793)
`shortfall (C) a profit or a … (255) a … in supplies (168)
( there is ) a … ( of some size ) ( in sth.) || to cover a / the … (628)
short`handed (norm. pred. adj:796)
short-`lived (adj:926)
shortly (adv:soon:673)
shorts (pl.) wear ( boxer* )… (760*,763)
short-`sighted (adj.) a … person (fig.) (472) to be … || a … person (870)
short-sleeved (adj:283)
short-`staffed (norm.pred. adj:796)
short-term (adj:311)
shot ( pat. / pap. af shoot) to be … through with sth. (fig.) (159)
shot (C) a long-range … (in football) (302) an acci`dental … (307) a … in the `arm (595)
a … in the dark (636) shotgun (671) should (2)
shoulder (C:32) a blow in the … (152) to give sb. the cold `… (606) a … blade (795)
to rub …s with sb. (1142)
shoulder (vt) … arms (502) … a burden of sin (540) cold-`… sb. (606)
shout (vi&t) sb. … with rage / at sb. (87) sb. … over sth. (264) … () sth. (1234)
shove [ $ûv ] (vi&t) to push and … (587)
shovelful (C:757)
show (C,U) a Punch and Judy … (31) a cinema / film … (49) a … model (296) a … trial (377)
to have sth. on … (858)
show (vi&t) … sth. (8) … (an) interest in sth. (11) … stage-craft (52) … (that) - (139) … sth. off (483)
… off (537) … sb. round || … sb. over the house (720) sb’s irritation … (776)
sth. … groundless || … oneself (to be) + adj. (898)
shower [ $auê ] (C) a … of sparks (30) …s are likely (63)
a heavy … || a … of rain / hail || a hail / rain … (436) a … of blows (530)
to install a … || to have eE/eA take a … (564) a light / heavy … (639) a snow … (1151)
shower (vt) ash … down || ash … ( down ) on sth. || to … sth. with ash (418)
… sb. with praise / presents // kisses // curses (445 // 453 // 531) … one’s love (up)on sb. (461)
showery (adj.) a … evening (437)
showdown (norm. sg.) to have a … with sb. ( * over sth.) (385, * 621)
a … between sb&sb. over sth. (389)
a `show-off (919)
showy (adj.) … furnishings (370)
shrapnel (U) ( a piece of ) … (1088)
shred (C:68)
shred (v:68)
shredder (C:68)
shredded (adj.) … coconut (68)
shrewd (adj:114)
shriek (vi&t) … for help (104) … with pain ( & speech ) (1113)
shriek (C) a … of laughter / terror (395 / 891) a piercing … of pain (1113)
shrimp (A) (C) … cocktail (C,U:794) shrine (C:228)
shroud (vt) a place is …ed in mist (451)
Shrove Sunday / Monday / `Tuesday (679) Shrovetide (679)
shrowd (vt) … sth. in secrecy (490)
shrub (C:578)
shrunk (pp:361)
shudder (vi) to … to think of it (282) … with sth. (697) a vehicle … to a halt (1115)
sb. … at sth. / the thought of ( doing ) sth. (1118)
shun (vt:211)
shunt (C) a … yard / engine (E) (562)
shunt (vt) … a railway carriage / wagon (E) (562)
shut ( shut, = ) (vi&t) … one’s eyes to sth. (210) … oneself up (fig:269) … sb. up (278)
to … oneself up ( fig.) (797)… oneself `in (1137)
shutter (norm. pl.) to close the …s (229)
shuttle (C) a space … (620)
shy (adj:32+) painfully … || be … with sth. || … about (doing) / of (doing) sth. || … to do sth. ||
fight … of (doing) sth. || be sth. … (of sth.) (33)
shy (C) to have a … at sth. (32)
shy (v) … away from doing sth. (35) shyness (35)
Si
sick (adj.) to be off … (56) sbth. makes sb. … (290)
to be taken … (eA) || to become / fall / get ( acutely ) … (418)
to feel … ( *A: to one’s stomach ) (944,* 962)
to be extremely / violently … || to be … in sth. (E) || a … person || … pallor / skin (A) (1252)
a … stomach (A) || sb’s … condition (1253) to be as … as a cat || to be … unto death (1254)
a … mind / joke (1265) to make sth. look … (1276)
to be reported … || to be … for home || to be … ( and tired ) of ( doing ) sth. ||
to be .. to death of sth. || … humour (1277)
to be … about sth. / for sb. / at heart / with fear || sth. makes sb. … ( fig.) (1278)
sick (sg.,U) on the … list (56) the … (227) a … bed (458) to pay a … call on sb. || to smell of … (1254)
a …club (1260) the … quaters || to be on … leave || to draw … pay || a … note (E) (1277)
sick (vt) … () sth. up (1252) the smell of … (E) (1254) to give sb. the …(s) (E) (1277)
sickbed (C:1254)
sicken (vi&t) sbth. … sb. ( fig.) (290,1278) … for something / for an illness || rich food … sb. (1250+)
sb. … (1254) … of sbth. / at sbth. (1277)
sickening (adj.) a … smell (1254) a … loss (1259) a … sight (1277)
sickish (adj.) to feel … (1252) a … smell (1254)
sickly (adj.) a … smell || a …-sweet taste (1251) a … skin (1253) … air (1254)
… person / complexion / climate (1262) a … smile (1277) … sentimentality (1278)
sickness (U,C) physical … (430) … benefit (E) (779) to suffer from (a) slight … (1251)
sleeping … (1258) to be overcome by … ( fig.) (1278)
sickroom (C:1254)
Siddharta (N:71)
side (C) to choose (up) …s (3) a sinister … to sth. (131) … effect (in sb.) (607) to be on sb’s … (534)
on one … || on all …s (768)
side (v) … with / against sb. (302)
sideline (v:137,472)
sideline (C) from behind the …s (25)
work as sth. as a … (137) push sb. to / watch sb. from the …s (485)
sidestep (v) … a question (688)
sidewalk (A) (C) on the … (67) a … cafe (991) sideways (adj:388)
siege (512) lay … to a castle / town (395,512) be under … (527) to raise a … (551)
sieve (C) to have a memory / mind like a … (254)
sift (v) … sth. from sth. (18)
sigh (C:119/v:430) to breathe / heave a … of relief (118)
sight (U,C) the faculty of … (2) the … of sth. (104) to disappear / vanish from … (108)
to catch … of sth. (139) to be out of … (206) the end is in … (218) by the … of sth. (221)
an opinion of sb. at first … (256) to be sth. in sb’s … (823)
sth. is within … || sb. is within .. of sth. || sth. comes into … || sb. comes / is in … of sth. ||
to be hidden from … (826)
keep out of … (829) sb. / sth. is a … for sore eyes (842 / 863)
to be sick of / can’t stand / hate the … of sb. || dislike sb. on `… || get out of sb’s … (843)
shoot on `… || there’s no end in … || peace is in … (849)
sb. is within … sth. (fig.) || sth. is in … ( fig.) || set one’s …s on (doing) sth. (fig.) ||
to have sth. in … (fig.) || lose … of sth. (fig.) (851) every xxx in … (861)
sth. spoils the … || have a … of sth. || sth. is a … to behold ||
sth. is a magnificent // stunning / common / familiar / spectacular / rare … ||
to see a strange … (857/ 865) sth. is in … (in a telescope) (865) sb’s … (in one eye) is poor ||
sb. has poor … (in one eye) || get a … test (865) the …s and sounds of a place (866)
sbth. is / looks a … || sbth. is a … for sore eyes (E) (867,881) to lower / raise one’s … (867)
sb. does a (damn / darn / darned) … better || know sb. by … || lose one’s sight || have little … (868)
the end (of sth.) is in … || have sth. in … (fig.) || set one’s … on doing sth. (869)
to have good / normal … || show sb. / see the …s of a place || like sb. on … || it’s love sb. at first … ||
to stand in sb’s line of … || to save sb’s … (870)
to buy sth. … un`seen (879) be nowhere in … (888) sbth. is a sorry … (892)
the power / sense of … (936) an organ of … (939) a keen / good / poor (sense of) … (942)
sight (v) ... land / sth. (557 / 865)
sighted (adj.) far- / short-… (fig.) (472) keen- / sharp- … (579)
long- / short-… (E) || far- / near-… (A) (870) be partially … (868)
sighting (C) a ( confirmed ) … of sth. (865) sightless (adj.) … eyes (868)
sightseeing (U:324) sightseer (C:324)
sign (vi&t) … (a document) (25) … `on / up (as sth.) || … () on / up (sb.) (for / to do sth.) (79,89,93)
… (that -) (90) … (to sb.) (to do sth.) (90) … `in || … () `in sb. (90,103) … out || … () out sb. (92+,103)
… () `away sth. (93) … for sth. (95) … () `off (A:on) sth. (97,99) … a bill into law (101)
… off with sth. (E) (108) … (a contract) for / with sb. // to do sth. (126+) … sb. (127)
sign (C,U) to be a … of sth. (7,72) informative / traffic / road / street etc. … (74)
a … ( for sb.) to do sth. (74,90) an alarming … of sth. (76) a … that - (80) all the …s are that - (86)
a (star) … (89) to give a … ( to do sth.) || … language (90)
a ( disquieting / worrying ) … of the times (that - ) (97)
(no) … of life (108) show no / every … // some / all …s of sth. (121) a sure … of sth. (286)
signboard (C:92)
signer (C:127) signing (U,C:126)
signpost (C:92,125) signpost (v:92(E),125) sign-posted (adj:124)
signal (C) a … (to / for sb.) to do sth. (74,80) be a .. of sth. (76) a … that- (80) … (87) … box (79)
to give a / the … (to do sth.) (91)
signal (vi&t:74,,,) sbth. … (sth. / whxx- / that-) (74)
sb. … (that-) || … (to sb.) (for sth.) || … (to) sb. to do sth. (80) … for sb. to do sth. (91)
signal (adj.) … influence (89) a … victory / achievement / success (102) to take … revenge (114)
signalize (98,114) sth. … sth. (98)
signally (adv.) a … broken promise (98) … defeated (114) signaller (E) (79) signalman (79)
signatory (C:25,101)
signature (75,95) … collection (98) … tone (126) signer (C:98,127)
sig`nificance (92) significant (adj.) … portion (12) it’s … that (89) … sign / signal of sth. (98)
signification (U,C:95,101)
signify (vi&t:73,,,) (85,89,98) … (that-) (73) … sth. / whxx (74) sth. … much ( to sb.) (75)
signing (U,C person (E):126) … of sb. (126) a deathly … (1113)
silence (U,C) (a) heavy / loaded … (449) a brief … (520)
a moment of dead / death-like / deathly … (1113) in dumb … (1283) a deafening … (1283)
silent (adj:50) … movie (50) … partner (565) (as) … as the grave (520)
silk (U) a … hat / a … handkerchief (758) a … screen print (1072)
silly (adj.) a … person / joke (10 / 42) silliness (U:10)
silt (678)
silver (U) solid … (228) a … screen (599)
silverware (U:444)
silvery (adj:423)
similar (adj.) to be … in general appearance to sbth. (77) a … challenge (133)
simmer (vi&t) …ing revolt (477) hatred … below the surface (481)
simple (adj.) … libertism (7) a … task (257) a … equation (1060) a … tense (1222)
simpleton (C:532)
simply (adv.) to … be sth. (7) simplicity (158)
simplify (vt:363)
simulated (adj:496)
sin (v) … ( against sb.) (750) to be more …ned against than …ning (753)
sin (C,U) confess one’s …(s) (158) preach on … (237) burden of … (540) a light … (549)
a mortal … (749) (seven) deadly …s (749) original `… (U:750) commit a … (750)
(as) miserable / ugly as … (752) a … tax (1040) a … of omission (1291)
sinful (adj.) … thoughts (237) sinfulness (237)
since (conj:155) since (prep.) … then (143) long … (532)
sincere (adj.) a … belief (74) sincerity (U) to practice artless … (43)
sing ( sang, sung ) (vi&t) … a part / a song // a tune (48 // 278) … out of tune / off-key (1271)
singer (C:48)
singing (U) the … is out of tune / off-key (1271)
single (adj.) a … parent / mother (35+) a … act (165) a … fare (333) … cream (453) a … sentence
verb (847)
a … room (848)
single (C) a … ( ticket ) (E) (333)
single-handed (adv.) to bring sb. up … (283)
single-parent (adj.) … mother (36)
singles (pl:445)
singly (26)
singular (sg.) the ( indefinite / definite ( … (1218)
singular (adj.) a … noun || an indefinite / definite … noun || the ( indefinite / definite ) … form (1218)
singularity (U:159)
`sinister (adj.) … design (114) a … look / atmosphere || … manners (128+) a … side to sth. (131)
darkly … (430)
sink (C) a kitchen … (564)
sink (vi&t) … back to sth. (fig.) (368) a ship … (662) … a ship (668) the sun … below sth. (782)
sb. … to the ground (1310)
sinker (C) to do sth. hook, line, and … (407)
sinking (adj.) (in a) … condition (529) ( like rats ) desert (<ing) / leave (<ing) a / the … ship (593)
sinner (241)
sip (C) to have / take a … of sth. / from sth. || to drink (sth.) in …s (953)
sip (vi&t) … (at) one’s drink (953)
sire (vt:378,402)
sire (C:402,409)
siren (C) a … call / song || … voices (88) to have blue light and …s on (891)
a … sounds an air raid warning / a bomb alert (1087)
Sirius (N:995)
sirloin (U,C) a … (steak) (795)
sissy (C:961)
sister (C) sb’s … (36) S… Mary (243) a ward … (E) (1260)
sit (vi&t) … next to sb. (68) … (oneself) `down || to be …ting down (621) … as president (804)
sth. … uneasily with sth. (fig: 829) … in (the) parliament as an independent (841)
site (C) an indefensible …(205) a camp … (207) a building … (565) to be on a … (1148)
sitting (U) a … room (E) (17)
situate (vt:503)
situation (C:54) a crisis … (110) an acute … (418) the seriousness / gravity of the … (483)
a way out of a … (951) in acknowledgement of the / one’s … (951)
six (num: 5) sth. hits / knocks sb. … (1277)
sixteen (num:438)
sixth (num:27)
size (C,U) to vary in … (157) the … of a manor (347) … of type (840)
to try sth. for … || sth. ( in ) the right … (1155)
sizzle (vi) the water / bacon … (890)
sizzling (adj.) a … scandalous / love affair (826 / 830)
…. (hot) sun / weather / temperature / day || … heat (884) a … sound (890)
Sk
skate (C) an ice … || a roller … || get / put your skates on (E) (338)
skate (vi:338) … on thin ice || … over / around sth. (fig.) (338)
skateboard (C:852) skateboard (vi:852) skateboarder (C:852) skateboarding (U:852)
skater (C:338) skating (U) to go … (338)
skeleton (C) have a … in the cupboard / …s in the cupboards (742)
skeptic (A) = sceptic, <al (84)
sketch (C) to do / draw / make a rough … of sth. (1303, -05)
skewer [ skju~ê ] (C:1237)
skewer (vt) … sb. / sb’s rhetoric (1167) … a roast || … lumps of meat (1237)
ski ( skied ) (vi) to learn to … || … into sth. (1154) to go …ing (1155)
ski (C) … goggles, a pair of slalom …s ||
a … binding / boot / fastening / pole / E& stick / instructor (1155)
a … slope (1157) cross-country …s || a … jump / jumper || … jumping (1159)
skid (vi) a car … to a halt (1117)
skier (C:1154)
skiing (U) to go ( cross-country / down-hill ) … / on a … trip || good … snow (1159)
skilful E/A skillful (adj.) a … comedian || a … display of sth.(48) skilfully (adv:48)
skill (U,C) to learn / acquire / develope) a … (46+) to let sb. prove their …s (747) study …s (846)
skilled (adj.) … worker (20) to be … at / in (doing) sth. (202)
skillet (C:723)
skillful (A) = skilful (E)
skim (vi&t) … (through) a book (142)
skimobile [ `skimêbi~l ] (C:1169)
skin (C.U) a snake throws its … (16) to do sth. by the … of one’s teeth (321) the outer … (796)
(a) sensitive … (942) to get under the … of sb. (1248)
skinned (adj.) to keep one’s eyes … ( for sbth.) (261)
skint (adj:244)
skip (vi&t) … off / out without paying the bill (276) … school (E) (623)
skirmish (C mil:366)
skirmish (vi:552)
skirt (C:14) skirt-chaser (C:42)
skive (vi&t) sb. …s || to skive off ( early ) || … a lesson / part of one’s hours (333 / 596)
skiver (C:333, 596)
skull (C) a fracture of the … (624)
sky (C,U) the … clouds over (63) a clear … (116) the evening … darkens || the black night … (422)
across the … (423) a clear blue … (433)
a cloudy grey morning … || the open … || a slightly overcast … (434)
an unclouded / uncloudy summer … || a cloudless blue … || high in the … || high up in the … ||
a period of blue …ies || a heavy … || the … grows darker (435)
thundery … (U) (436) the … is the limit (601) night … (866)
sky-`blue (adj:438)
sky-`high (adj.) … confidence (471) … inflation (669)
sky-high (adv.) to blow sth. … (667)
skylark (C:435)
skylight (C:443)
skyline (C:664)
`skyrocket (vi) …ing inflation (669)
skyscraper (C:664)
skyward(s) (adv:435)
Sl
slack (adj.) sb. is … in (doing) sth. (335)
slacken (vi&t) sb’s zeal … (1183)
slain (236)
slake (vt) … one’s thirst / desire (627 / 937)
slam (C) a grand … / Grand S… ( tournament / cup ) (1307)
slam (vi&t) … on the brakes (331) … sth. || … sb. for sth. (625)
slander (vt) … sb. (537)
slander (C,U) to make a … || to sue sb. for … (537)
slanderous (adj.) a … remark (537)
slant (v:427)
slapstick (U) … ( comedy ) (1266)
slate (C) a blank … (164) to wipe the … clean (836)
slating (E) (adj.) a … letter (1072)
slaughter (vt) … spl. (218, 861) … an animal (794)
slaughter (U) the misfortune of … (232) an animal for … (794) wholesale … of spl. (861)
slaughterhouse (C:794)
slave (C:16) a … driver (231) … `labour * / `trade (231, fig:245 * ) to be … of one’s car (296)
to be a … to fashion (321)
slave (vi + adv.) to … one’s guts out (fig.) (168) … ( away ) at / over sth. (339)
… ( away ) ( all day ) doing sth. (374)
slavery (U:231)
Slavic (adj.) … lands (149)
Slavic (C:1217)
slay ( slew, slain ) (vt:235)
sled (A) (C) to drive ( a dog * ) … (1153 *, -58) a … ride (1158)
sledding (U) to go … (1159)
sleep (vi&t:452) a place to … (6) … deeply || … through the night (424) not sleep a `wink (427)
… fitfully / uneasily (429) … through the noise || … like a baby / log || … solidly (432)
… it `off || … () `off a hangover / headache (432 / 453)
… `on (437) …`over (451) … `in / late / out || a place … x people (452) … through (sth.) (453)
(good night – ) … tight (462) … () `away the hours / cares (469) … on a problem / it (495 / 656)
… together / with sb. (543) … around (545) … at the switch / wheel (594)
… `rough (on the street) (613) … at sb’s home (645)
sleep (U) … in one’s eyes (432)
sleep (U,C) deep … (119) to lull sb. to … || deep / heavy / light … (424) to go / get to … (427)
to lay sb. to … (fig.) || not get / have a `wink of … || lack of … (427)
(a) fitful / (an) uneasy … || to get some … (429) to do sth. in one’s … (429,461)
to drift / nod / go off to … || to drift / fall into a deep … (457)
an arm / a leg goos to … || to have one’s … `out (459) to put sb. to … (459,656+)
to read oneself to … || to send sb. to … (465) to lose `… (over sth.) (480)
the last / everlasting … || the … of death (540) heavy with … (1064)
sleeper (C: railway:562, train:563, book, film:609 )
a deep … (424) a solid / sound … (432) a good / bad … (505) a … ( agent ) (520)
sleepily (449)
sleepiness (505)
sleeping (adj.) a … person (424) to let … dogs lie (428) … partner (565) … po`liceman (E) (583)
sleeping (U) … bag (205) between waking and … (428) a … car (563) … sickness (1258)
a … draught / pill / E& tablet (505) … sickness (645)
sleepless (427) … ambition (538) sleeplessly (429) sleepnessness (429)
`sleepover (C:645) sleepwalk (v:461) sleepwalker (C:461) sleepwalking (U:461)
sleepwear (U:455)
sleepy (adj:432) a … town (503) sleepyhead (C:459)
sleet (U) a … shower (1151)
sleet (vi) it is …ing (1151)
sleeve (C ) to have / keep sth. up one’s … (fig.) (252) to roll () up one’s …s (332) a record … (E) (338)
-sleeved (adj.) a long-… (dress )
sleigh (E) (C) to drive ( a dog ) … (1153 *, -58) a … ride (1158)
sleighing (U) to go … (1159)
slept ( pat. pap of sleep) (128,430)
slew (vi&t+adv:235)
slice (vt) … bread (159)
slice (C) a … of toast (77) to cut a … from a loaf || a … of bread (262)
slide (slid,slid) (vi&t) … out (660) … down a rope / a ski jump (849 / 1159 )
a ski … well || … over the snow (1159)
slide (C) a … in / into sth. (fig:817) a ride on a … (992) a microscope … (1288)
slight (C) sth. is a … on sb. ability (35) sth. is a … || to take sth. as a … on sb. / to sb’s authority (36+)
slight (vt) sb. … sb. (36)
slight (adj.) a … woman (20) a … change (35) a … hadache (40) … comedy (49)
a … improvement (143) to take offence at the …est thing (197) not mind the …est (268)
the …est hint of sth. (397) at the … thing (690) a … mishap (1150)
slighted (adj.) to feel … (36)
slighting (adj.) a … remark (37)
slightly (adj.) … overcast / hungry (434 / 954) … sloping (1126)
slimy (adj:648)
slip (C) a … of the tongue (275) a … road (E) (587) to wear a … (760) a cover … (1288)
a … of the pen (1291)
slip (vi&t) sb. … out (915) slipper (C:876)
slippery (adj.) … ground (666) ( to get / be ) on a / the … `slope (fig:602) … with snow (887)
slit (C) to put a coin in a … (11) a … in one’s clothes (14) … of a letter box (26)
slit (vt:13,14)
slobber (vi) … over sth. (764)
slog (U,C) (a) hard … (13)
slog (vi&t) … through sth. (11) … (away) (at sth.) (13) sb. … || sb. and sb. … it out (E) (14)
… sb. (15)
slogan (C) a peacetime … (21) slogger (11,14)
slope (vi) sth. … down towards sth. (557)
sth. … (steeply / *gently) towards / down to sth. (864 / * 1117) sb. … off (E) (1110)
some writing … ( backkwards) (1112) a motorcycle … to the side (1119)
slope (C) (get / be) on a / the slippery `… (fig:602) a mountain … (864) a … rises steeply (1116)
a gentle / steep / precipitous / sheer … (1116 / -17)
a … falls away ( gently / steeply / sharply ) to a place (1117)
sth. is build on a … (1119) a ski … (1157)
sloping (adj.) a … surface (940)
slot (C:11) … machine (11,1159) … (of an animal) (13) a letter … (26) … (of a screw) (26)
a … for (doing) sth. (27)
sloth [ slêu# ] (C,U:11) slothful (adj.) a … person (11) slovenly (adj:614)
slow (adj:40) a clock is ( x ) … (1268)
slow (vi&t) … down || … () down sth. (583)
slowly (adv.) … but surely (168)
slug (C:animal:11) to put a … (A) in a slit / slot (11)
slug (vi&t) sb. … || sb. and sb. … it out (14) … sb. (15)
slugabed (C:11)
slugfest (eA) (C:14) sluggard (C:11) slugger (C:14+)
sluggish (adj.) … people / digestion / traffic (11) to feel … (12) … waters (14) … economy (19)
… action (46) … list / market (26) run … (26) sluggishly / <ness (11)
slum (C) … area / district || in the …s || urban …s (613)
slumber (U,C) to pass into ( deep ) …(s) / a deep … (437) a … party (A) (645)
slump (C) the economy sinks into a … (1206)
slush (U:1151, fig:1154)
sly (U) on the … (78) sly (adj.) … person / smile etc. (78) … as a fox (81) play a … trick (520)
slyly (78) slyness (543)
Sm
small (adj.) a … helping (12) … arms (499) in the `… hours (227)
(a) … tradesman / shopkeeper / tradespeople (579) (write in) … letter(s) (642) `… talk (449)
a … criminal (844) feel / look `… (915) to read the … print (1072) smallholder (C:558)
smallness (U:940)
smallpox (U:1269)
small-town (adj:406)
smart (vi) sb’s eyes … (419)
smart (adj.) a … remark (43) to play … || to get … with sb. (37, 41) to be …er (85)
a `… alec(k) / arse E/A ass (1123) a … blow (1276)
smart-arse /-ass (adj.) a … remark (1123)
smash (vi&t) (have the teeth) …ed (624)
smattering (sg.) a … of applaus (912) to have a … of French (918)
smear (v:455,494,503,fig:473,534) smeared (with) (455)
smear (C:455,494,fig:534) … campaign (473) … word (540)
smeary (adj:455)
smell (vi+,vt) … a rat (108) a book that … of the lamp (fig:553)
… a substance || sth. … of / like sth. || sth. .. good / bad (941)
smell (C,U) faculty of … (2) a vile … (16) a foul / revolting … (614) the power / sense of … (936)
an organ of … (939) a noticable / perceptible … (982) a keen sense of … (942) a horrible … (1062)
smelling (adj.) sweet-… (1081)
smile (C) a wooden … (7) to wear a bright / sweet … on one’s face || to give sb. a big / broad … ||
to smile a xxx … || to be all …s (32)
to smile a … of sth. (33)
smile (vi&t) … with confidence || … brightly / sweetly || … at sb. || … a xxx smile ||
… a smile of sth. (32)
… one’s thanks (44) … through ( one’s ) tears (232)
smirk (vi:101)
smirk (C:102)
smith (C:509,1235)
smithereens (pl.) sth. dashes (in)to … (1281)
smithy (C.1235)
smock (C) an atist’s … (1306)
smoke (U,C:10)
smoke (vi&t) … a cigar // a cigarette / a pibe (204 // 318) … meat (795)
smoked (adj.) … meat (874)
smoker (C) a ( cigarette / pibe ) … (318) a habitual … (336) a …’s cough (773)
heavy / light … (617)
smokestack (A) (C:561, 664)
smoking (U:336) heavy / light … (617)
smooth (adj.) the … working of sb. (346) … manners (473)
a … surface (940) smoothness (940) smoulder (350)
smudge (vi&t:455,494) to be …d ( with sth.) (455)
smudge (C:455) smudgy (adj:455)
smug (adj.) a … expression (101) a … smile / face || to be / look … about sth. (102)
smugly (adv.) to grin … (101) smugness (U:482)
smuggle (vi&t) … ( sbth. (+ adv.) ) (308,414)
smuggler (C:414)
smuggling (U:414) a … gang / boat (1131 / 1136)
Sn
snack (C:441)
snail (C) at a …’s pace (11) an edible … || a … shell (985) snake (C:16)
snap (vi&t,&speech:843) sb. … (fig.) (881)
snap (adj.) a … decision (137) a … fastener (581) a … solution (596)
snarl (speech:233)
snatch (C:520/v:529)
sneak (C:523)
sneaker (A) (C) a pair of …s (611)
sneak (vt / vi+ adv.) … away (206) … along || … `up on sb. (504)
… a look / glance / peek at sbth. (519)
… sb. sth. || … sth. to sb. (523) … sth. from sb. (619) … sth. into sth. (642)
sneak (adj.) … attack (504) … thief (517) … `preview (599)
sneakily (adv:542)
sneakiness (U:523)
sneaking (adj.) … person (532) ( to take ) a … look / glance / peek at sth. (519)
to have a … suspicion / affection (523 / 542)
sneaky (adj.) … trick (520) … person (523) … glance (542)
sneer (vi& speech:1269) … at sb. (1269) … at sth. (1270)
sneer (C) to say with a … (1269)
sneering (adj.) in a … tone (1269)
sneeringly (adv:1269)
sneeze (vi:759) sth. { is not to be …d at (E) / nothing to … at (A) (779)
snicker (eA) (vi&speech:388) … ( at sbth. ) (387)
snide (adj.) a … remark (1101)
sniff (vi&t+speech1078) … (at) sth. || … () `out sth. (891) try and … (1078)
sth. is not to be …ed at (1079,-84) a dog … () `out sth. || sb. … sbth. (1080) … glue (1084)
sniff (C) to take a … ( of sth.* ) || give a (loud) … (1078,* -81)
not get a … of sth. (you want) || a / the … of trouble (1079)
a … of disapproval || sb. has a … (a)round (1080)
sniffer dog (E) (C:1080)
sniffle (vi+speech:1078) … with emotion / from crying (1078) sb. … (1085)
sniffle (C) sb’s …s die away (1078) to have the …s (1085)
sniffy (adj.) to get … about sth. (1078) a … pose (1101)
snigger (vi&speech:388) … ( at sbth. ) (387)
snigger (C:387)
snipe (C:1126)
snob, <bery / <bish, <ness (184)
snooker (U) a game of … || to play … (1123)
snooty (adj.) a … person (779)
snooze (v:885) snooze (C) to have a … (885)
snore (C:457) snore (vi) … (heavily) 457) snorer (C:458) snoring (U) (heavy / gentle) … (458)
so (1) … as to do sth. (673)
snot (U:766) a blob of … (766)
snot-`nosed (adj.) a … child (777)
snotty (adj.) a … nose / child (766 / 769) a … person (779)
snotty-`nosed (adj.) a … child / person (777 / 779)
snow (v) it … heavily (510) sb. … sb. with sth. / into doing sth. (1153)
to be …ed under with work (1155)
snow (U, pl.) heavy … (510) … chains (887)
… falls heavily / settles || to have x metre of … || to have the first …s of winter
to clear a road of … || …  banks (up) / melts || a flurry / shower of … || … drifts / settles ||
a … flurry || a … tire (A) (1151)
a … bank / plough / scraper /A day || … clearance || covered in … (1152)
the S… Belt (1153) a … gun / E& cannon (1156) the ( deep ) …s of sth. || a … pea (A) (1156)
snowball (C) a massive … fight (1152) to have a … effect on sth. (1155)
not having s …’s chance in hell (1158)
snowball (vi) interest in sth. // an activity / a problem … (1155+)
snowbird (A) (1153)
snowblind (adj.) to get … (1155) snowblindness (U:1155)
snowblower (C:1152)
snowboard (C:852) snowboard (vi:852) snowborder (C:852) snowboarding (U:852)
snowbound (adj.) a person / house / car / road is … (1151+)
snow-capped (adj.) a … mountain (156)
snow-clad (adj.) a … field (1152)
snow-covered (adj.) a … field (1152)
snowdrift (C:1151)
snowdrop (C:403)
snowed (adj.) a road is … up || sb. is … up / in (1152)
snowfall (C) to have a heavy … of x metre (1151) light / no … (1156)
snowfield (C) in a … (1156)
snowflake (C:1151)
snowline (sg.) the … (1156)
snowmobile [ `snêumêbi~l ] (C:1160)
snowplow (A) (C:1152)
snowshoe (C:1160)
snowslide (C) sth. sets off a … (1156)
snowstorm (C:1152)
snowy (adj.) a … morning / landscape (1151+) … hair (1155)
So
so (conj:2)
so (adv.) … to speak (23) … far (28) to do … (62) to be called … (64) a month or … (1166)
so-and-so (U,C) Mr S… (330) a … (779)
soak (C) a … (261) to give the laundry a good … || sb. has a long … (452)
soak (vi&t) sb. … sb. (306) rain … sb. / sth. || rain … in || rain …into / through sth. (317)
a tax … the poor || sth. … up money (376)
… up the sun (<shine ) / warmth || … up knowledge / language (410)
blood … in || blood … into / trough sth. (419)
to … dried fruit ( in a liquid ) || dried fruit … || a cloth … () up a liquid (448)
sb. ... up the atmosphere (449)
to … the laundry || the laundry … ( in a liquid ) || a liquid … () off sth. (452)
to go and … in the bath (452)
soaked (adj.) sb. is … ( to sth. skin / through ) || rain-… clothes (317)
sth. is … ( with blood / through ) || sth. is blood-… (419)
soaking (adj.) sb. / sth. is … ( wet ) (317)
soaking (C) sb. gets a … (317)
soap (U,C) a … powder (656) a bar / piece of ( toilet ) … (1112)
soapstone (U:1315)
soar (vi) a …ing amount / number of sth. (212) to send prices …ing (1007)
sob (vi&t+speech:1085) to … (out) one’s grief etc. || to … one’s heart out (1083)
… uncontrollably (1085)
sob (C) sb’s body is racked with …s (1083) to give a loud … || a … catches in sb’s throat (1085)
great …s rack sb’s body (1103)
sober (vi&t) sb. … || sth. … sb. || sb. … `up || sth. … sb. up (949) sb’s expression … (968)
sober (adj.) to be … ( = not affected by alcohol ) (10) a … account / person // debate (907// 909)
a … suit (962) a … solution (964) as … as a judge (964)
… restraint / reflection // assessment / judgement (968+) sth. is a … affair (990)
sobering (adj.) a … experience / effect // thought (962 // 968) it’s … for sb. to do sth. (971)
sober-minded (adj:907) sober-mindedness (909)
sobriety (U) in sb’s … (951)
so-called (adj:172)
soccer (A) (U:25) a … team (201) a … game (A:302)
sociable (adj.) a … person (901)
social (adj.) … graces (40) … critisism (45) … power (144) a … ladder (174) ( the ) … science(s) (195)
… life (314) … security ( benefit ) (311) … studies ( 899) … equals (899) a … critic (1223)
socialism (U:1179)
socialize (vi&t) … with sb. (210)
socially (adj.) … useful (577)
society (C,U) a member / rule of …(7) organized … (146) to move in … (195) to delight in sb’s … (368)
in polite … (968)
socioeconomic (adj.) … relations (463)
sociology (U:27)
sock (C:266) to knock / blow sb’s …s off (1276)
socket (C) a … spanner E/A wrench (319) a plug / two-way … (572) a mains / wall … (575)
Socrates (N:164)
soda (U) caustic … (570) (a) … (water) 853)
sodium (Na) (U:568) … `chloride / hy`droxide (570)
sofa (C:17)
soft (adj:421) … light (505) … landing (671) a … drink (853) softness (U:940)
software (U:653)
soil (C,U) sb. is rooted in the … (222) sb’s native … (236) light / heavy … (504) … erosion (730)
soiled (adj:456)
solace (U) to find … in sth. (1278)
solace (vt) … sb. (1278)
solar (adj.) … power (49)
sold (pat. / pap. of sell ) sb. … a drug (6)
soldier (C:13) … of fortune (371) a disabled … (1091)
sole (C,U) a … (of a shoe) (762) ( lemon ) … (sg. = pl., U) (793) under the …s of sb’s feet (1044)
sole (adj.) sb’s … companion (20) the … object of sb’s desire (67) not a sole person (94)
sb’s … duty (162) … heir (420)
solely (adv.) … do what - (182)
solemnly (adj:402)
solicit (vi&t) … in the street (611)
… sb. (for sth.) / (to do sth.) || … (for) sth. || … sth. from sb. (612,615)
soliciting (U:612) solicitude (U) … ( * for sb.) (965 / * 967)
solid (adj.) to be back on … ground (236) a lake freezes … (888)
solid (C:567)
solidarity (U:19)
solidly (adv.) to sleep … (431)
`solitary (adj.) … child (19) … confinement / animal (20)
solitary (U:20)
soli`tarity (U:20)
solitude (U:227)
solo (adv.) sing … (744) soloist (744) solstice (223)
solution (C) a … to a problem (111) to find a … (201) a … to a crossword ( puzzle ) / quiz (410)
a sugar … (649) a compromise … (1231)
solve (vt) … a problem (44) … a crime (274)
… a crosswork ( puzzle ) / a quiz / a mathematical problem (410)
sombre (adj.) a … style (357)
to look / feel … || to have a … ( expression / look n one’s ) face / in one’s eyes (1242)
to be in a … humour / temper / mood || … clothes / shades of grey and black (1243)
sth. ends in a … tone (1253)
some (det.) … faculties (1) … man (849) some (pron:3)
somehow (adv:118) … or other (916)
somersault [ `sûmêså~lt ] (C) to do / turn a … (278)
somersault (vi:279)
something (pron.:6) to have that indefinable … (267) a little … (878+)
sometimes (adv:7)
somewhat (adv.) … inconclusive (148)
somewhere (adv:at some place:66) … else ( to another place:659)
somnolent (adj.) a … Church (1033)
somnambulism (U:461)
son (C) the S.. of God (70)
song (C,U) to sing a … (48) a team … (589)
soon (adv.) … ofter (8) as … as - (prep.) (14)
soot (U:1235)
soothe (vt) … sb’s pain (204) soothing (adj.) a … remark / smile (544)
sooty (adj.) a … face (1235)
sop (C) a … to the electors (807)
sopping (adj.) sb. / sth. is … ( wet ) (317)
sorcerer / sorceress (C:71)
sore (adj.) a … knee (579) sth. is a … point with sb. || it’s a … point with sb. that - (832)
sbth. is a sight for … eyes (867) to touch sb. on a … spot (1248)
sorely (adv.) a … tried person (833) to be … tempted (602) to be … missed (854)
sorrow (U,C) more in … than in anger (119) the joys and …s of sth. (290) deep … (757)
sorrowful (adj.) … eyes || a … ( expression / look on sb’s ) face || a … look in sb’s eyes ||
a … person (1242) to be in a … humour / temper / mood (1243)
sorry (adj.) to be / feel … for sb. / to do sth. (13) sb. will be … (264) sb’s … past (280)
to suffer a … fate (293) better (to be) safe than … (298) a … concomitant of war (313)
to be … ( to say * ) that - (653 / 770 * )
to be … that - || sbth. is a … sight (892)
sort (C) all …s of sth. (49) in a (sinister) … of way (128) be / feel out of `…s (E) (759)
sth. of one … / kind or another (960)
sort (v) … out sth. from sth. (18)
sought (pat. / pap. of seek:166)
soul (C,U) to throw the whole of one’s … into the work (52) sb’s … will live again (81)
…-searching (747) to pour `out / bare one’s … (to sb.) (752+)
sound (vi&t) sth. … like sth. (39) … () `out sb. (1071) … the alarm (1087)
an explanation … true / hollow / false to sb.(1291)
sound (adj.) … scepticism (87) a person of … mind (177)
to put the economy on a … basis / footing (253 / 281)
(as) … as a bell (431) a … mind in a … body (1263)
sound (C,U) … film (49) … signal (74)
the sights and …s of a place (66) audible / infrasonic … (942)
soundly (adv:431)
soup (U,C:5) to be in the … (1133)
sour (adj.) milk turn / go … (263) a … person / ingrediece (1244) sth. ends in a … note (1252)
sour (vi&t) milk … || ( bacteria ) … milk (649)
source (C) a … of wealth / fun (28, 39) a … of ( plentiful ) inspiration (279) a … of information (489)
a light … (663) the … of a river (719) a … book (1214)
sourness (U:941)
sourpuss (C:1244)
south (U, sg.) in the … of sth. (172) in the … / South (717) … pole (magnetic:566)
southern [ `sûdên ] (adj.) … people (213) S… England (215)
southerly (adj.) a … direction (718)
southward (adj:718) southward(s) (adv:718)
souvenir [ su~vê`niê /A& `su~vêniê ] (C:763)
sovereign [ `såvrin ] (C) a … (145) the … (803)
sovereign (adj.) a … ruler (145) a … position (383)
sovereignty (U) (pro>) claim / exercise / possess (the full) … of / over sbth. (145,372)
sow [ sau ] (C:18)
sow [ sëu ] ( sowed, = / sown ) (vi&t) … one’s wild oats (1041) sth. … the seeds of sth. ( fig.) (1144)
Sp
space (U,C) to stare into … (116) a … race (671) a … shuttle / station (620)
to feel pressed for … (1044)
spacecraft (620) launch a … (671) spacious (463)
spade (C) a … || the ace / two / knight etc. of …s (9) to dig with a … (1318)
spaghetti (U:794)
Spain (N:148)
span (C) a short … of life time (380)
span (vt) a bridge … a river (658)
Spanish (adj.) a … nobleman (27) the … Civil War (1268)
spanner (C) a socket … (eE) (319)
spare (C:319,332)
spare (vt:324,333) … sb’s life / sb. their life || … sb. their life (231)
…sb. the misfortune / ordeal of (doing) sth. (232, -34) … sb. from ( doing ) sth. (234)
… (sb.) some money (245)
to have sth. to … || sb. can … (sb.) food || … a thought for sb. || to have enough and to … (246)
… no effort to do sth. / expence in doing sth. (253)
… sb. / *oneself the difficulty / pain / trouble / worry of ( doing ) sth. (254,*-82) … a room for sb. (256)
to have no time to … (259) not … oneself (260) (not) … the good material / the quality (262)
… land for a garden (267)
… sb. / sth. ( for sb.) & / ( for sth. ) // ( to do sth. ) || … a thought for sb. || … sb. sth. (268, -82)
to arrive at sth. with a moment to … (277)
sbth. … one’s / sb’s blushes ( 281 / 303) … sb’s feelings (282) no expence (is) …d (285)
… the rod ( and spoil the child ) (289)
… sbth. a glance (461)
spare (adj.) a … `part (13) … time (27) a … room (244)
sth. is going … (E) (246) a … person (250) … `ribs (262) … capacity || a … hour / moment (271)
sb. goes … (E) (272) … clothes (298) a … can / tyre (319) … style (334) … `cash / `change (346)
spare-part surgery (317) spares (E) (296) sparerib (U,C:795)
sparing (adj.) … use of sth. (262) to be … with praise (288)
sparingly (adv.) to use sth. … (262)
spark (C,U) a fountain of …s (29) spark (vi&t) a fire … (30) … sth. (off) (535)
sparkle (vi) sb’s eyes … with joy (287) sb. … with wit (1067) sparse (adj.) … vegetation (768)
sparrow (C:278)
spatial (adj.) … configuration (571)
spawn (U) … of Satan (689)
speak (vi&t) practically …ing (28) … from memory (285) sth. … for itself (318) … fast (632)
… `out (against sth.) (112) … one’s `mind (689) … for deaf ears (829) … with knowledge (907)
`speakeasy (C:559)
speaker (C, person:285) a ( loud> ) … (334) a … / the S… (803)
special (C) today’s … || sth. is on … (954) specialist (258) specialize (172) specialized (adj:353)
species ( = pl:82) a plant / an animal … (1216)
specifically (adv:167)
specious (adj.) a … argument (909) speciously (adv:909) speciousity (U:909) speciousness (U:909)
spectacular (adj.) a … parry (302)
spectator (C) …s’ enclosure (25) … sport (632)
spectrum (C) the radiowave part of the … (620)
speculate [ `spekjuleit ] (vi&t) … in shares* etc / on the stock market (16*, 789) … that - / whxx (916)
speculation (C,U) armchair …s (495) … ( in shares / on the stock market ) (788)
speculator (C) … in sth. (292) property … (784)
speech (C,U) the faculty of … (2) sb’s rambling … (U) (10) to hold a … (22) freedom of … (23)
to give/ make / deliver a … of / on sth. (25) a part of … (43) an actor knows his/her …es (277)
direct / reported … (513) involved / tangled / tortuous … (691) S… Day (580)
a … defect / impediment (814)
speechless (adj.) … with panic (87)
speed (speeded / sped) (vi&t) … sb. (69) … + adv. / prep. || … `up (582,597) …() up sth. (583,597)
speed (C,U) a … trap (74,583) at / with lightning … (108) the … of a raid (241) at breakneck … (577)
xxx–… bicycle (582)
a …-limit sign || a … hog || a … limit / restriction || a … hump eE/eA bump ||
to keep to / break / exceed a … limit || to increase / reduce … ||
( to drive at ) low / slow / fast / (a) great / high / full / top / excessive … (583)
at … || at a … of xxx || to pick up / gather `… (584)
… of photographic film ( ASA ) || shudder … (588)
to bring sb. / be up to `… (on / with sth.) (589)
sb. has … || to bring sb. / be up to `… (regarding sth.) || it’s full … ahead || turn of `… (590)
to act with … and efficiency (597)
speeding (U) to get caught / stopped … || … ticket (583)
speedo [ `spi~dêu ] (C:584)
speedometer [ spi`dåmitê ] (584)
speedy (adj.) … response (592)
spell (C:108,113,120) to cast a (magic) … (over / on sb.) || to put a … on sb. (73)
to weave a … (over sb.) || to fall / come / be under a / sb’s (magic) … (80+) to break the … (105)
spell (spelt) (v:76,103,107) … (good) fortune / mis`fortune ( for sb.) (76)
spellbinding (adj:84) spellbound (adj:84)
spellcheck (vt&t) … ( a text ) (125)
spellcheck / <checker (C:125)
speller (C:125)
spelling (U,C) a … mistake (125)
spend (vi&t) … time (12) … one’s service in a place (13) … time doing sth. (22) … lightly (445)
… (one’s) time (in) doing sth. || … time on sth. || … money on ( buying ) sth. (952)
spending (U) defence …(203) … power (873)
spent (pat. / pap. of spend :13) ill-… money / time (1244+)
sperm (U,C) a … ( cell ) (998)
spew [ spju~ ] (vi&t) flames / smoke … from sth. / out || sth. … out flames / smoke (1236)
sb. … (up) || sb. … ( ()up ) sth. (1237)
sphere (C) the duties of a … (252) a cultural … (767)
within one’s ( own ) … / their respective …s (1271)
spherical (adj.) a … figure (1170)
spherical (adj:648)
spice (U,C) a strong … (262)
spike (C: bot:18)
spiked (adj:381) … mace (381)
spikelet (C:18)
spikiness (940)
spiky (adj.) a … surface (940)
spill (spilt, spilt (eE) / (eA) spilled, spilled ) (vi&t) light … + adv. (433)
a liquid … || sb. … a liquid ( + prep ) (446) spl. … onto the street(s) (808)
spill (C,U) to take a … on a horse (402) a … for lighting sth. (443) … of food / drink (455)
(an) oil … (664)
spin ( spun, = ) (vi&t) … sb. a yarn (85) … on one’s heel (242) a …ning mill (405)
… ( strands ) wool ( into thread ) || to … ( thread from ) wool (1128)
spinach [ `spinid§ ] (U:723)
spinal (adj.) a … cord (936)
spine (C:795) the cervical … (1235)
spininess (U:940)
spinning (U) a … mill / machine (415 / 1173) a … wheel (1128)
spiny (adj:940)
spiral (C:648) spirally (adv.) … coiled (985)
spire (C:139)
spirillum (C:648)
spirit (C,U) …s (E) (30) to enter into the … of sth. (52) an evil … (70)
sb’s … lives on (85) a … of risk-taking (169) the Holy S… (725) ( to be in * ) high `…s (732, 765* )
the … is willing but the flesh is waek (736) white `… (875) community … / a … of community (898)
-spirited (adj.) high-… (731) public-… (1073)
spiritism (U:83)
`spiritual (adj.) … life / guidance (161+) … purity (227) a … guide (902) `spiritualism (U:902)
`spiritualist (C:902) spiritu`ality (U:82) `spiritually (adv.) … inclined (902) spirulum (648)
spit (vi&t) … sth. (out) || … on sth. (766)
spit (C:land:226, metal rod:262, liquid:763)
spittle (U:763)
spite (U) in … of sth. / oneself / the fact that - (18,107) do sth. out of ( pure / sheer ) … (960)
spiteful (adj.) a … person (960) spiny (940) a … surface (940)
splash (C) a … of water (460) to hear a … (704) to add a … of vinagar (890) a … of cream (1080)
sth. makes a … (fig.) (1080) sth. has …s of sth. all over (1082) the … of an oar / a wave (1286+)
splash (vi&t) … sth. on sth. || … sth. with sth. (770) sth. … onto the floor (1079)
sth. … over the TV screens / across the front pages (1080) sb. … out ( £ x ) ( on sth.) (1080)
… about / around || … through a puddle || … sth. onto sb’s back (1081)
water … against / over sth. (1083)
splashy (adj.) a … thing / colour (1080)
splatter (vi&t) … sth. on sth. || … sth. with sth. (770)
splendid (adj.) … stained glass (348) … pageantry (359) to have a … evening (1124)
spliff (E) (C:605)
splinter (C:771) to get a … in one’s foot (771)
splinter (vi&t) …  wood / glass / metal (771)
split (C fig:693)
split ( spilt, split ) (vi&t) a …ting headache (40) sth. … the society (55) … sth. asunder (669)
one’s head is …ting (1064) a … personality (1066) …() `up colours (1171)
a country … into two nations (1173)
splutter (vi&t&speech) an engine … (768)
spoil (pl.,U:235)
spoil (vt&i) … a performance (63) … a kid (131) sth. … sb’s appetite (580)
spoils (pl.) the … (235)
spoiled / spoilt (adj.) a … brat / child (131 / 334)
spoken (adj.) the …language (172) the … word (738)
spokesman, … on defence (203) … for a party (815)
spokesperson / <woman (C:207)
spoliation (U:1009)
sponge (C) throw `in the `… (15) sponge (v) … on sb. (603)
sponsor (C:58)
sponsor (vt) … a bill (803)
spontaneously (adv:362)
spore (C:648)
sport (v) … sth. (640)
sport (E: U,sing. / A: sing.) to do … (E) || to go in for / engage in / take part in a … ||
(an) individuel / (a) team … (15,631) a martial … (154)
sports (pl.) play … (eA) || … club / team / equipment / goods (E) / (goods) shop / day (E) ||
blood … (631) … ground (3, 631) … news / reporter / item (632) sportscast, <er (632) sportsman (317)
sportspeople / <person(s) / <man / <woman / <wear (631)
sportsmanlike (adj.) … attitude / behaviour (632) sportsmanship (632)
sporting (adj.) a … dog (199) … activity / interest / event /A goods store (631) … (athlete) (fig:631)
it’s … of sb. (to do sth.) || a … chance (of doing sth.) (632)
sportingly (adv:631)
spot (vt) … a difference (47) … sb. doing sth. (78)
spot (C) a … on a dice (8) to do sth. on the … (284) to put sb. in / be in / get out of a tight … (525)
a … (<light) (643+) ( to stand ) rooted to the … (891) on-the-… news (993)
to touch sb. on a tender / sore … (1248) to knock …s off sb. / sb’s eloquence (1280) a rust … (1313)
spotlight (U,C) a … || to stand in the … || to turn the … on an issue || an issue comes under … ||
an issue is in the … (643)
spotlight (vt) to … an issue (643)
spotter (C:385)
spouse (C:69)
spout (C) a pot with a … (543)
sprain (vt) … one’s ankle (104)
sprain (C) an ankle … (104)
sprang (pat. of spring:166)
spray (vt&i+adv.) … a crop with sth. (622) … foam over sbth. (1237) … sb. with bullets (1088)
spread (U,C) the … of knowledge (922)
spread (vi&t) … a blanket (32) feudalism … from a place to a place (148) a disease … (159)
… the Gospel (to sb.) (735) knowledge  … (922) fields ( are ) … (out ) towards sth. (1117)
spreading (adj.491) spreadsheet (125)
spree (C) a shopping … (869) a drinking … (951)
spring (vi+adv.) a town …up (1173)
spring (C:season:20, wire:50, water:658) … action (50) a … clean (981)
springboard (C) a … (at a pool) || sth. is a … to sth. (1081)
spring-`clean (vi&t:981)
spring (vi&t) hope … eternal in the human breast (111) … a leak (662) (a retort) … to sb’s lips (792)
sprinkle (vt+adv, vi) … sth. with sth. ( grains / drops ) || … sth. with sth. (68, 770)
sprite (C:1238)
sprout (C) Brussels … (723)
spruce (C,U:879) a … (859) spun (43)
spunk,<y, spunkily (513, semen:514)
spur (C) a mountain … (864) spur (vt) … a steed (1031)
sputter (vi&t&speech) an engine … (768)
spy (v:518) spy sb. / sth. (518) … (up)on sb. / into sth. (518) … () out sth. (518) … out the `land (519)
spy (C:386,518) … satellite (620) spying(U:518)
sq
squabble (C) … (over sth.) (604)
squabble (vi) …(with sb.) (about / over sth.) (604)
squad (C + sg./ pl. 192 / 698) (a) firing … (U, sg: 698) an anti-terrorist … (849)
squall (C:627)
squally (adj.) … showers / wind (639) squall (v) …ing kids (645)
squalor (U) to live in … (612)
square (C, a form:647) a … (in a town) (193) to put sth. in … brackets (E) (411) … cm (1062)
squared (adj.) … paper (875)
squeak (vi) a mouse … (& speech) (886)
squeak (C) it’s a narrow … (63)
squeal (vi&t) a pig … with excitement (18) a …ing sound || sb. … ( with pain ) ( & speech ) (1113)
squeal (C) a … of delight (977) a car stops with a … of brakes / tyres || a piercing … of pain (1113)
squeegee (C) to sweep sth. with a … (1082)
squeeze (vi&t) … a trigger (499) … cream out of a tube (977)
… information / an agreement { from / out of sb. (1059 / -67)
… sb’s hand / arm (1043) … a cloth || … the water out (of sth.) || … the juice from / out of sth. (1063)
… money from / out of sb. (1076)
squeeze (C) a … of sb’s hand / arm (1044) squeezer (C) a lemon-… (1063)
squire (C) to serve as a … (152) squirrel (C) the red …(184)
Sta
stab (vi&t) … sb. to death (387)
… one’s finger at sb’s chest || … sb. in their chest with one’s finger || sth. … sb’s conscience (1306+)
pain … sb. in their chest (1308) … the air ( with sth.) (1309)
… sb. ( in the chest ) with a knife || … sb. to death (1310) … sb. in the back ( fig.) (1314)
stab (C) a … in the dark (636) to feel a … of pain / pity / guilt // jealousy (1307 // -09 )
to make a good … at sth. || to have / make / take a … at ( doing ) sth. (1306)
a … in the chest || a … ( wound ) to the heart (1311) to have a … in the back ( fig.) (1314)
stabbing (C) a fatal … (1311)
stability (U) to look for … (131)
stable (adj.) a … orbital (569)
stable (C) to clean () out / muck () out a … (720) a … boy E/A man / girl / door (1298)
stack (vi&t) … books (455) … wood ( in a woodpile ) (887)
stack (C) the …s (105) a … / ...s of information (334) a … of plates (455) a (smoke>) … (561, 664)
stadium (C) a ( football ) … (25)
staff (vt:348)
staff (A:sg. / E&pl., music:193) a … nurse (44) the general … (194) ( teaching etc.) … (1,455,643)
a … member (50) member(s) of … (E) || (A) … member(s) (643) a … club (788)
stag (C:199)
stage (v:34,53) … a coup [ ku~] (312)
stage (C:51) …-struck (51) …-craft (52) a … hand (53) sth. / sb. sets the … for sth. (54 / 772)
… fright || a … of / for an act of God (62) …-manage (78) in the initial …(s) of sth. (418)
to get to a / the … where - (594)
staggered (adj.) to be / look … (837) staggering (adj.) a … blow for sb. (1030)
stagnate (vi:348)
stain (C,U) sth. showes a … (442)
stained-glass (adj:159)
stainless (adj.) … steel (1313)
stainless (U)
staircase (444)
stairs (pl.) to climb the … (104) a steep flight of … (1117)
stake (C,U) to be at … (8) to pull up `…s (A) (792) to play a game of chance for a high … (1140)
stake (vt) … (out) a / one’s claim on / to / for sth. (370)
stalk (v:370)
stall (C) a market … (266)
stall (vi&t) … sb. (544) a …ed car (1122)
stallion (C:402)
stamina (U:381)
stamp (C) to punch a … on sth. (20) to bear / have the … of settled habits etc. (1229)
stamp (vi&t) … a design on sth. (20) sth. is …ed on sb’s memory (1069)
stand (C) the …s / the … (E) (25) to take the … || witness … (A) (710)
to take / make / mount a … against sb. (1281)
stand (vi&t) (cannot) … sth. (25) … in the foreground (53) … the test of time (61) … up to sb. (88)
… in awe of sb. (92) … together (111) … (eE) as a candidate for a post (99)
sb. … outside the image of sth. (171) a structure … up to attack || sb. … up (204)
… `against / `up to { sb. / sth. (401) … out (441) … in the way of progress (468)
… fast (on / against sth.) (469 / 476) … sb. a drink / meal (602)
… a round ( of drinks ) || … drinks all round (618)
… as (eE) a candidate || … for (eE) election / the presidency (804) … by one’s action (1069)
standard (C,U) … of `living (998)
standard (adj.) … living (42)
standing (att.adj.) a … invitation (310) … order (425)
standing (U) of long … (537)
stadium (C:305)
standpoint (C) from a xxx … || from the … of sb. (815)
`standstill (sg.) come to a … (784)
Staphylocuccus (U) … aureus / pyogenes (1269)
staple (C) a household … (872) a (metal) … (875) stapler (C:875)
star (C) `film … (50) … sign (89) a shooting `… (423)
a … shines / twinkles || the evening / morning … (995)
starboard (U) turn (to) … (226) on the … side (227)
starfish (= pl.) (C:651)
starch (U,C) …(<es) (571)
stare (vi) … at sbth. (84) … in front of you / into space (116)
stare (C) a wooden … (7) to give sb. a penetrating … (129) to return a … (263)
stark (adv.) … naked (758)
start (vi&t: begin / jump:464) … doing / to do sth. (14) … sth. (23) get …ed (28)
start (C:sudden movement:454) make a fresh … (608) starting signal (74)
startle (vt) sth. … sb. (199,436) … to do sth. (465)
startled (adj.) to look … || with … eyes || a … rabbit (436) a … expression (480)
startling (adj:436,464,465) … (of colour) (459) startlingly (487)
starvation (U:278)
starve (vi&t) … sb. into submission (73) … to death (627) starving (adj:627)
starved (adj.) a … bird (278) a half-`… kitten (886)
state (C,U) church and … (23) a … of society (146) a(n) improbable / gloomy … of mind (177 / 1243)
a `… school (E) (336) the … of affairs / things (615) in a battleground … (621)
secretary of … for the Home Office (E) || `Home S… (E) || Secretary of S… (A) ||
the Department of S… (A) || the S… Department (A) (811)
sb’s bodily / physical / emotional / mental / psychic(al) / psychological … (944)
sb’s … of health (1260)
state (v:92) to be …d to do sth. (73)
stately (adj.) a … building (134)
statement (C,U) sb’s … is true (59) to make / issue a … on sth. (309)
the police take …s (1149)
static (adj.) … electricity (566)
station (vt) … sb. / oneself (13)
station (C) army / naval … (13) central / main ( train ) … (69) police … (92) … wagon (A) (129)
a filling /E petrol /E service /A gas … (319)
stationary [ `stei$ênri E/A - nêri ] (adj.) … charge (566) a … desktop (computer) (878)
stationery [ `stei$ênri E/A - nêri ] (U:875)
stationing (U:13)
statistic (U,C) …s show that - || a … shows || … is a branch of mathematics (1224)
status (C,U) a society based on … (147) to achieve / attain … (175) sb’s … depends on sth. (1054)
statute (C) to enact a … (of sth.) || a … permits sth. (47) … law (U:101)
statute-barred (adj:202)
statutory (adj:202)
staunch (adj.) a … advocate of sth. (7) a … character (21) staunchness (U:87)
stave (C: music:193)
stay (vi (&t) ) … somewhere near (68) … out of debt (109) … over`night / the night / over (452)
… awake (465) … out of the limelight (608) … one’s hand (996)
stay (C) a … at an inn (265) an overnight … (859) sth. is the … of the world (1014)
Ste
steadily (adv:258)
steak [ steik ] (U,C) (a) sirloin … / a cod … || … ta`tare / `tatar(e) … (794)
steal [ sti~l ] ( stole, stolen ) (vi&t) … a glance at sb. (78) … sth. ( * from sb. ) ( * 235, 272)
… one’s way to (524) … a march from (490) … sb’s thunder (481)
stealth (U) do sth. by … || rely on … (78)
stealthy (adj.) … glance / operation (78) … animal / life (81)
stealthily (adv:78)
steam (vi&t) …ed fish (794)
steam (U:263) … engine / train (561) it’s full … ahead (590)
steamer (C) a tramp … (659)
steamy (adj.) a … window (447) a … room (775)
steed (C) the Muse’s … (1031)
steel (U:443) hardened … (308)
steep (adj.) a … track (633) a … price (1112) a … landscape / hill / hillside / incline / slope (1116)
a … climb / path / top / flight of stairs (1117)
a … cut in benefits || a … decrease / increase / fall in sth. (1134)
steep (vi&t) the tea ( bag ) … || a novel is …ed in mystery (1110) a place is …ed in history (1112)
… sth. ( in a liquid ) (1132) a decision is …ed in economy / politics (1134)
steepen (vi&t) a road … (1117)
steeple (C:139) (run) a / the … chase (634)
steeply (adv.) a slope declines / inclines / slopes / rises … (1116)
steepness (U) … of a slope (1118)
steer (C:794)
steer (vi&t) … a middle course (21) … down a river (235)
steering (adj.) a … oar (226) a … wheel (331)
steerman (C:226)
stench (C) have a … of sth. (941)
step (C) a few …s shy of sth. (35) a … ( of a set of stairs ) (104) to take …s to do sth. (107)
a system is a … towards centralization (149)
to march in … || to fall / get out of … || to keep / break … (193)
to be out of / in … with sbth. (194) to take a few uncertain ..s forward (269) the front …s || a flight of
…s (444)
to quicken one’s … (611) to take ill-advised …s (1253)
step (vi+adv.) … a`side / nearer (54) … out (451) … () `up reform / a conflict (479 / 522)
stepping (adj.) a … stone (81)
stereotype (C) sth. reinforces a gender / sexual … (205)
stereotyped (adj.) a … picture (616)
sterile [ `sterail E/A `sterêl ] (adj.) … water (1256)
stern (C:128)
stew (C,U:263)
steward (C) a shop … (56)
stewardess (C:673)
Sti
stick (C) to do sth. with a … (529) to up `…s (E) (792) a ski … (E) (1155)
stick (stuck, stuck) (vi&t) … sbth. with sth. (696) … together (111) … sth. together (574) … fast (483)
… to a light diet (460) … to sb. ( like glue ) (580) a door … (866) … to one’s decision (1103)
sticky (adj.) a … mass (776)
stiff (adj.) a … sentence (117) … manners (128) a joint feels … (457) a … drink (1311)
stifling (adj.) … air (510)
still (adv:2)
still (adj.) … waters (14) an object is … (940) (a) … life (U,C) (408)
stillbirth (C,U) to have a … (286)
stillborn (adj.) a … baby (286)
stimulant (C:substance:1053)
stimulate (vt) sb’s backing … sb. ( to do sth.) (1130)
stimulus (pl. stimuli) (C:935) a perceptible / sensible / sensuous / sensory … (936)
sting (C:504)
sting (vi&t:418,475)
stingily (adv:55)
stinging (adj.) a … rebuke (1043)
stingy (55) … with sth. (617)
stink (C) to have a … of sth. (941) stinking (adj:614)
stipulation (C,U) … that - (783)
stir (vi&t) sb’s kindness … sb. (251) … cream || … water and flour ( together ) (262)
… sb. into action || … sb. to do sth. (1101) … ( the paint ) || the paint … easily (1302)
… the topsoil (1318)
stir (sg.) cause / create a … (625)
stirrer (C:1249)
stitch (v268,274,296,321) … sth. ( (on)to sth. ) (265) … sth. together / up (303)
stitch (C,U:266) a long / loose … (265)
to cast a row of …es on a knitting needle || to cast on some …es (266)
a … in time ( saves nine ) (271)
to have / keep sb. in …es || not have a … on || not be wearing a … (285)
to have a … ( in your side ) (297)
stitching (U) poorly sewn … (265)
Sto
stock (vt) … up (on) food (515)
stock (U,C) breeding / live> … (U) (144) the native … (217) a fast turnover of … (262)
…s and shares || … exchange / market || a … holder (A) (291) a … jobber (292)
a … broker (410) fish … (664) a ( rifle ) … (1088)
stocking (C:760)
stockpile (C:498)
stocky (adj:214)
stoicism (U:170)
stole ( pat. of steal ) (273)
stolen ( pap. of steal ) (272)
stolen (adj.) a … coin (272)
stomach (C) to punch sb. in the … (15)
sth. churns / turns sb’s … || sb’s … churns / turns (239, 1253)
to be sick to one’s … (A) (962) to crawl ( along ) on one’s … (1088)
to do sth. on an empty … || an army marches on its … (1230)
to have no … for sth. ( unpleasant ) (1245) to have a feeling in / at the pit of one’s … that - (1248)
… trouble || to have a bad / diseased / disordered / A sick … (1253)
stomach (vt) can sb. … sth. ? || sb. cant’t … sth. || sth. is hard / difficult to … (1245)
stomachache (C,U) to suffer from … (1252)
stomp (vi+adv.) sb. … out (242)
stone (U,C) to throw a … (9) a …’s throw from sth. (29) a stepping … (81) (the) S… Age (213)
… dead (891) a precious … (1089) … cutting || a … cutter / cutting (1315)
Stonehenge (N:213)
stonemason [ `stêunmeisn ] (C:1315)
stonemasonry (U:1315)
stoneware (1316)
stonework (U:1315)
stoneworks (C) a … + sg. / pl. (1315)
stoneworker (C:1315)
stony (adj.) … land (555)
stoop (vi) … so low as to do sth. (1101) … to ( do ) sth. (579,1101) sb. … (1102+)
stoop (C) to have a … (1102)
stooped / stooping (adj.) to have … shoulders (1102)
stop (vi&t) … doing sth.(8) … sb. from doing sth. (22) … work (57)
stop (C) a bus … (51) … signal (74) to put a … to sth. (724) a full … (848)
stoppage (C) a … of work || a work … (58)
storage (U) put sth. into cold … (747) … room (782)
store (v:29) … () (away) sth. (880) sb. … () `up their anger etc. (881) … () `up fat in the body (887)
… () sth. for sb. (897)
store (C,U) a department … (29) …s (pl.) (29) a … card (96) a … (E) || a small … (A) (334)
the fate in … (for sb.) (426) a grocery … (A) (656)
life / the future etc. holds sth. in `… (for sb) || sth. lays in … (for sb.) (854)
a chain /E& a multiple … (763) a general … (879) a … detective (879)
to set (great / considerable `… by (doing) sth. (880) a surprise is in … for sb. (886)
to eat into one’s … (887)
`store-bought (874) … bread (874)
`storefront (879)
storehouse (29) sb. is a … of memories (889)
storekeeper (C:873)
storeroom (C:17)
storey E/A:story (C:29) an upper … (857)
storeyed (adj.) single-/ two-… building (861)
storied (adj.) a … place (427) a single- / two-… building || a … thing / person (861 / 867)
storm (C,U) … clouds near (& fig:63) a … cloud (435)
… clouds are gathering over sth. (fig:494)
… ( force 11) || to ride (out) / weather { a / * the … (661,*fig:787)
a … surge (1082)
stormy (adj.) a … life (608)
story (C) to tell only part of the … (13,27) a … / an upper … (A) (29 / 857) to tell one’s `life … (134)
a biblical … (159) a fantastic … (907) a human interest … (1223) a fairy … (1237)
a cover … (1276, -79)
storyteller (C:1247)
storytelling (U:1274)
stove (C) a (wood-burning) …(444,887) a gas / electric …(eA) (564 / 890)
Str
straight (C:610)
straight (adj:33) (the) … and narrow (path / way) (81) … `off / out (adv:477) a … line (647)
keep … (fig:842)
strain (U,C) (nervous) … (99) …(s) of music (424) stresses and …s ( of sth.) (594)
to be under … (493) to be a … on sb. (577) a … of a virus (1258)
strain (vi&t) … credulity (119)
strained (adj.) sb. is … (509)
strainer (C) a tea … (453)
strand (C) a steel … (204) a … of hair / beads || to draw the …s of the plot together (1110)
the … of a the sea / a lake / a river (1116)
a … of opinion || to draw all the …s of thought / argument together (1124) a … of wool (1128)
to be linked to sb. by …s of sympathy (1138)
strand (vt) a ship is … (323)
stranded (adj.) a … motorist (319) sb. is … (1139) a person / car is … in a snow bank (1152)
strange (adj.) a … noise (143)
stranger (33) feel a … to sb. (979)
strangle (vt) make as if to … sb. (961) strangled (adj.) a … cry / gasp (961)
stranglehold (C) take a … on sb. (961)
strap (C) a (leather) … (719)
strapped (adj.) be … (for cash) (792)
stratagem (C) a cunning … (694)
strategic(al) (adj:496)
strategist (C:495) strategy (C:196)
straw (C,U:18) to catch at a … (38)
strawberry (C,U) … jam (453)
stray (vi) … into sth. (613)
stray (adj.) … dog (614) streak (C) to have a rebellious … (336)
stream (vi) light … + adv. (433) … sb. for sth. (eE) (652) spl. … + adv. (808) blood … from sth. (1102)
stream (C:small river: :504) a … of abuse (206)
street (6) … cred / credibility (77) … lamp / light (E) (562) a … sign (74) a ... urchin (579)
… people (613) a women of the …s (615) … violence || disorderly conduct in the … (732)
a high E/A main … (732)
streetwalker (o-f) (C:611)
strength (U,C) on the … of one’s blue eyes (90) sb’s …s and weaknesses (969)
to nurse one’s … (1264)
strengthen (vi&t) … sb’s influence / power / morale / confidence / courage (539)
sb’s position … (598) … sb. in sth. (755)
strenghtening (U:263)
strenuous (adj.) … exercise (17) a … climb (862)
strenously (adv.) … deny sth. (17)
stress (vt, speech:259) sb. … the need for sth. (259) … that - (756) to … a syllable (1221)
stress (U,C) to suffer from … (99) a tensile / shearing … (204) to be under … (593)
…s and strains (594) a …-related illness (597)
a word has a ( primary and secondary ) … ( falling on the first, second etc syllable ) (1221)
stretch (vi&t) … credulity (119) a market … from swh. to swh. (168) land … out (557)
to be …ed off + adv. (1154) … the truth (1295)
stretch (C,U) a … of swamp / of road (526 / 582)
stretcher (C) to put sb. on a … (1149)
stricken (adj.) … (ship) (662) to be … with sth. (627) hunger- / horror-… (627)
strict (adj:377)
strictly (adv.) … necessary (259)
stride (v+ adv:370)
strife (U:1032)
strike (C:55) ( to join a ) … (482)
strike (vi&t) … ( sb.) (14) spl. … ( = don’t work ) (58) it … sb. that - (105)
… sb. ( lightly ) with a sword (152) sth. … sb. as ( being ) sth. (158) … coins (215)
sth. … sb. with horror (222) … a light / match (443 / 617) (a) tragedy … sb. (737)
… a bargain / deal (791) … camp (792 to hunger … (802) … a(n) ( xxx ) attitude / pose (1101)
… `up a jaunty tune (1124) a clock … ( the hour ) (1156) an oar … the water (1286)
string (C) a … of accusations (205) a … of beads (1110) a … bean (1156)
strip (C) … ( of cloth ) (14) … ( of wood ) (574)
strip (vi&t:233) be …ped to the waist (233) sb. … naked (764) … sb. (763) … sb. of sth. (894)
stripe (C) with black and white …s (1139)
striped (adj.) a black and white … uniform (1139)
stripper (C,U) paint … (1302)
stripping (U) `asset … (895)
strive (vi) … (to do / for sth.) (509)
stroke ( pat. of strike:152)
stroke (vt) sb. …s an animal (267)
stroke (C:music:193) a … victim (293) a backnand … (317) a ( lightning ) … (436) a … of genius (917)
a … of the brush (871)
a … of an axe (1104) a brush … (1305)
stroll [ strêul ] (C) to go for a … (124)
stroll (vi+adv:124)
stroller (C) a … drops into a pub (124) a … that can be folded (1230)
strong (adj.) … winds (13) a … drink (14) a … preference (19) a … psyche (61) a … faith / fear (71)
sth. is one’s … point (254) a … phrase / word (1053)
a … nuclear force (567)
strong (pl.) the … (525)
stronger (adj:315)
strongly (adv.) … governed (71) … advise against sth. (137)
stronghold (C) to build a … (221)
strongroom (C:1125)
struck (pat /pp: 51) … by lightning (436) … with fear (1088) structure (48,204) <al (204)
struggle (C) a tiring … to the top (13) a … for liberty (23) a … with Rome (220) to engage in a … (382)
a ( long ) … to do sth. || a … between sb&sb. (353)
to engage in a power … with sb. to gain power (371)
struggle (vi) … one’s way through a terrain || … up a hill / through a wood (13)
… with one’s conscience (15) … through a book (27) … against despair / poverty (111 / 247)
… to make a living (248) sb. … onward(s) (249) … for breath (250)
… with adversity (284) … with the caprices of sb. (334) … for control (366)
… along / on || sb&sb. … together || … ( with sb.) || … free (382)
… with a heavy suitcase (421)
struggling (adj.) a … actor (50)
strut (vi:322)
Stu
stub (C) a cigarette … (733)
stub (vt) … () `out a cigarette (318) … () out smoking (733)
stubborn (adj.) a … refusal / determination / prosecution (642 / -85 / -92) to be as … as a mule (692)
stubbornly (adv:693)
student (C:1) … nurse (44) … representative || …s’ representative council (3)
… counselling service || … counsellor (652)
stuck (pat./ pap. of stick)
stuck (adj.) sth. is … between sth. (68) to be … with the bill (80)sb. is … (87)
to get … in the traffic (585)
stuck-`up (adj.) a … person (473)
stud (C,U) a … horse (619) … and mud (1303)
studio (C:50)
study (U,C room:463) a choice of … || … guidance (2+) a thorough / comprehensive … into sth. (463)
a quick … (464 ) a / the … of / into / on sth. || an object of (a) … (825) … skills (846) social …ies (899)
study (vi&t) to choose to … (2) … one’s part / the star signs (52 / 89)
stuff (vt) … sth. with sth. (30) …oneself ( with … ) (1251)
stuff (U) all kinds of … (30)
stuffiness (937)
stuffing (U) to knock the … out of sb. ( fig.) (1280)
stuffy (adj.) it’s getting … in here (958) a … wedding (998)
stultification (U: 692)
stultify (vt) … sb. / oneself / sb’s mind / efforts (692) stultifying (adj:692)
stumble (vi) sb. … and falls (104)
stump (vi&t) sth. … sb. (913)
stunned (adj:251) stunning (adj:442)
stunt (C:277)
stunt (vt) a …ed figure (748) stuntedness (748)
stupid (adj.) a … person / book (10 / 43)
stupidity (C:10, U:76)
stupidly (adv.) to act … (41)
stupor (C,U:1276)
Sty
style (C,U) a fond … || sb’s charm of … (33) a … of writing (170) a … victim (321)
style (vt) … sb. { ‘’ his / her gracious ( Majesty the ) King / queen ‘’ // ‘’ his Grace ‘’ (178 // 1004)
stylist (C) a ( hair ) … (877)
stymie (C:396/v:401)
Su
subcategory [ sûb`kategêri ] (C:1216)
subclass [ sûb`kla~s ] (C:1215)
subconscious [ sûb`kån$ês ] (sg.) sb’s …. (7)
subconscious (adj.) the … mind (88) subconsciously (88)
subcontractor (C:1134)
subdivide (vt) … sth. into sth. (1215)
subdue (vt:377,386,393) … people / a country (214 / -16)
… a crowd / a person || … one’s rage / an urge (305) … a riot (306) … inflation (309)
subdued (adj.,310,379,382) a … market || … trading (309) a … titter (387) … lightning (505)
`sub-heading (C:826)
subject [ `sûbd§ikt ] (C, 407,409,416,+, at school:652)
an opinion on a … (22) a … of a book (28) a course / class on a … (46)
to embark (up)on // enter into / (up)on a … (280) to keep to a safe … (281) to exhaust a … (329)
a … area (334) to skate over / around a … (338) sb. is sb’s … (447) a … of a kingdom (383)
to broach the … of sth. ( to / with sb.) || a touchy … || a … of / for conversation ||
to drop / change the … || to get / keep / stay off a … || to let a … drop ||
to consider a …under a broader / wider / larger canvas || to say sth. on a … (407)
a (sentence) … || … matter || … of / for an experiment (408)
`subject (adj:406,413,,,415) sth. is … to obligations (148) to be … to the course of nature (186)
to be… to a manor / a baron / sb’s whims (360 / 375)
subject [ sêb`d§ekt ] (vt) … sb. to horrors / villeinage / redicule (349 / -75 / -87)
… a land ( to one’s rule ) (370) … sth. to bombing / criticism (395 / 413)
subjection (U) … of land (370)
subjective [ sêb`d§ektiv ] (adj.) a … opinion (413) a … compliment (652) subjectively (adv:413)
subjectivism (U:413) subjectivity [ sûbd§ek`tiviti ] (U:413)
`subjugate (vt) … a people (343, 359) … sb. to sb. (378)
subjugated (adj:376)
subjugation (U:376)
subjunctive [ sêb`d§ûngktiv ] (C) the … mood (969)
submarine (adj.) a … cable (1189)
submarine (C) a … `sandwich (320)
submerged (adj.) … reef / rock (661)
submit [ sêb`mit ] (vi&t) … (oneself) (to sb. / sth.) (73 / 89) … sth. to sb. (98) … that - (115)
submission (C,U:73,88,115)
submissive (adj:88) submissively (adv:88)
subordinate [ sê `bå~dineit ] (vt) … sb./sth. to sb./sth. (100,375)
subordinate [ sê `bå~dinêt ] (adj.) ( to act ) a … part (50,52) a … person (212) a … clause (1222)
subordinate (C:91,132)
subordination (376)
subscribe (vi&t) … to an idea etc (22) … to an organisation etc. (23)
… one’s name ( to a document ) (25)
subscriber (C:25) a telephone … (576)
subscribtion (C,U:23)
subsequent (adj.) the … history (147) a … increase (169) a … page (783) … to sth. || ( sth. and ) (a /
the) … sth. (790)
… generations / years (791)
subsequently (89,790)
sub`servience (102)
sub`servient (adj.) … ( to sbsth.) (102) a … conduct (1040)
subset (C:1215)
subside (vi:168)
subsidence (U,C:678)
subsidize (vt:157)
subsist (vi) … on sth. (888) evidence … (897)
subspecies (C:1197)
substance (C,U) a particular … (416)
substantial (adj.) a … portion (12) a … soup (793)
substantive [ `sûbstêmtiv ] (C:408)
substantively (adv:1220)
substantive [ sêb`stantiv / `sûbstêntiv ] (adj.) a … form of pronoun (1220)
`substation (C) a ( transformer ) … (565)
substrate [ `sûbstreit ] (C) sth. grows on an inorganic … (648)
substratum [ `sûbstreitêm / sûb`- ] (C, pl: substrata) sth. grows on an inorganic … (648)
substitute (vt) to … sth. for sth. (150) to … sb. (303)
substitute (C) sb. is a … (303) a noun … (1221) a breast milk … (E) (1230)
subsupplier (C:1134)
subtenant (C:344)
subtitle (C) a film with …s (49)
subtitle (vt) … a film (127)
subtitled (adj.) a … film (127)
subtle [ `sûtl ] (adj.) … approach (703) … hues (871)
subtract (vt) … a from b (125)
subtraction (C) to do a … || a … mark / sign (125)
suburb (C:166)
sub`versive (adj.) … activity / a … person (491)
sub`versive (C:491)
subvert (v:524)
succeed (vi&t) sb. … in (doing* ) sth. (22*,144) a play / plan … (61 / 275) sb. … (188)
sb. is …ed by sb. (342) calm weather is …ed by strong wind (436) … to a `perilous heritage (1009)
… ( sb.) to the throne || … sb. ( as sth. ) (1107) … to the title (1108)
… to a fortune / the presidency (1286 / -88) sb’s argument … (1291)
success (U,C) to be a victim of one’s own …(27) sth. is a howling … (37) lack of … (50)
with little … (245)
to press home a … (1053)
successful (adj.) … efforts (24) successfully (adv:50)
succession (C,U) in order of … ( to sth.) (145) (in) quick / rapid … (510)
to exclude sb. from the … (1106) the law of wills and … || rules / right of … (1109)
in numbered … (1269) a war of … (1286)
successive (adj.) … governments (1288)
successively (adv:1288)
successor (C) a … ( to sth.) (145)
succumb (vi) … to sth. (22) … ( to an enemy ) (73)
suck (vi&t) … `up sth. (297) to … blood (504)
… at their mother’s breast || … milk from a breast ||
… a dummy / comforter E/A pacifier / one’s finger (1229)
… milk from a baby’s bottle // feeding E/A nursing bottle ||
a baby … ( milk through ) the teat E/A nipple of a bottle || an animan … ( milk from ) a teat (1230)
suckle (vi&t) sb. … a baby || a baby … (288)
suckling (C:1229)
`sucrose (U:571)
sudden (adj.) all of a `… (23) suddenly (6) sue (212) suet (U:887)
suffer (vi&t) … a loss || to make sb. … (19) sb. … ( from ) sth. / a disease) (19 / 38)
sb. / sth. … from (a) lack of sth. (18,21,42 / 68) … for sth. || … the consequences of sth. (41)
… injury / injuries (64) … an unkind etc fate (289) … great pain (419) … a defeat (in (a) war) (551)
sufferer (C) a … from sth. (159) the … (626)
suffering(s) (C,U:98)
sufficiency (U) self-… (482)
sufficient (58) … reason (335)
suffix (C:1218)
suffocate (vi&t:937)
suffocating (adj.) a … gas (418) suffocation (U:937)
suffrage (U) universal adult … || women’s … (801+) suffragette (C:802)
suffragist (C) … movement (802)
sugar (68) … lump / (eA) cube (774)
sugary (adj.) … words (870)
suggest (vt) … doing sth. (29) … sth. (66) … (that -) (105)
suggestion (C,U) throw ()out / make a … (28 / 34) mass … (100) a … (that - ) (686) a … for sth. (823)
suggestive (adj:263)
suicide (U,C) a … letter (108) to commit … (607) a … (1279)
suit (vt) … the action to the word (57) sth. … sb. to a T / down to the ground (67)
sth. … one’s / sb’s books (E) (1098)
suit (C) a … of cards (9) sth. is sb’s strong … (254) to wear a … of armour (383)
to wear a three-piece … (758)
suitability (U:713)
suitable (adj.) a … wife (4) a … way to do sth. (187) a … place (233)
sb. is … for a task / job (257/ 970) it’s … to do sth. (968) sb. is … to use (970)
suitcase (C:421)
suited (adj.) sbth. is well etc. …ed for / to sbth. || be …ed to doing sth. (62, 970)
sulk (vi) sb. … (1015)
sulky (adj.) a … person (1244)
suitor (C:283)
sulphuric (adj.) … `acid (570)
sum (C) to draw a … out of the bank (96) to set sth. at a considerable … (292) to do a … (686)
sum (vt) to … up, - (1166)
summarize (vi&t) sth. can be …ed as follows (1166)
summary (adj.) a … judgement (1103)
a … court / execution || … proceedings || to do sth. with … dispatch (1104)
summarily (adv.) to be … executed / dispatched (1103)
summer (U,C) in the … (25) … school (1231)
summery (adj.) a … skirt / breeze (283)
summon (vt) … (up) one’s charm / strenght (84 / 608) … sb. (703)
summon(s) (vt) be …(s)ed to appear at the trial / before court / to { testify / give evidence (710)
summons (C) issue a … (against sb.) (556,605) serve a … on sb. || receive a … to do sth. (605)
summon(s) (vt) … sb. (for sth.) / (to do sth.) (556,606) sumptiously (81)
sun (C,U) the … throws () `out light (17) the evening / rising / morning … (116 / 438 / 452)
the … rises (139) everything under the … (733) to get a touch of the … (770) the … beats down (884)
broiling / scorching / sizzling / sweltering /A broiling (hot) … (884)
a … lounge E/A porch || a … lounger (1081)
sun-baked (adj.) a … mud brick (1303)
sunbathe (vi:764)
sunburn (U) to be affected with … (990)
sunburned / <burnt (adj.) to look / get … (990)
Sunday (C,U) on … (116)
sundry (adj:518) all and … (519)
sung (pap. of sing:171)
sunglasses (pl:603)
sunhat (C:764)
sunk ( pap. of sink:73)
sunlight (U) a beam / ray / shaft / gleam of … (435) to be bathed in … (441)
sunny (adj:116)
sunrise (U:438)
sunshade (C) to put / throw up a … (32)
sunshine (U:426)
sunstroke (U) to get ( a touch of ) … (770)
suntan (C) get a … (990)
suntanned (adj.) get … (990)
superb (adj:225) supercilious (adj:843) superciliousness (U:843)
superego (C:1199)
superficial (adj:359) superficially (adv:609)
superin`tendence (U) to be under … of sb. (663)
superior (C) an immediate … (56)
superior (adj.) feel … (to sb.) (132) … forces || to be … ( to a group ) in number / in efficiency (1090)
superiority (U) sb’s … ( in sth.) (86,100) a sense of … (102) with an air of … (103)
supermarket (656) a … trolley (E) (879) supernatural (adj:70)
supersede (vt) nationalism … feudalism (1001) sth. … farming (1173)
superstition (C,U) (a) … (that -) (71)
superstitious (adj.) a … person / belief / fear (71)
supertax (E) (C:1202)
supervision (222)
supper (C,U) to cook / eat … || to have ( a late ) … (257) the Last / Lord’s S… (745)
sup`plant (vt) … sb. (364)
`supplement (vt) … one’s income (137)
supplement (C) newspaper comes out with / is accompanied by a (xxx) … (988) supplies (268)
supply (vt) … sb. with sth.(162) sb. … a synthesis of sth. (165)
supply (C,U) be in short … / short-… (104 / 515) an abundant / a plentiful … of sth. (266)
water / electricity … (575)
support (vt) sb. … sb. economically / financially (2) the land … sb. (167) sth. … a proposal / sb. (258+)
… sb. to a place (1089)
support (U,C) for the … of sb. (150) sb’s love and … (200) to give sb. emotional … (1085)
the … under sb. (1117)
supporter (C) a … ( of an idea ) (22) … ( of a team ) (E) (201)
supportive (adj.) a … association / society (589)
suppose (vi&t) be ….d to do sth. (2) … (that -) (84) supposedly (511)
suppress (vt:16,375,386,393)
suppressant (C) a pain … (389)
suppressed (adj:376) a … laugh (387)
supression (U:376,393)
suppressive (376)
suppressor (C:376)
supremacy (U:380) to etablish … over sth. (144) naval … (668)
supremacist (C:380)
supreme (adj.) the … position (98) the … achievement (144) to make the … sacrifice (144)
… effort(s) (145) (the) S… `Being (146) of … importance (213) with … confidence (370)
… commander (373) the S… `Court (398) … `sacrifice (229)
surcoat (C:383)
sure (adj.),,,340) to make … (that) - (133) to be absolutely / pretty … (that) - (197 / 253)
to be … of oneself (240) to know / say for … || are you … ? (243) to be … ( of ( doing ) sth.) (250)
to be / * look … to do sth. (253 / 279) sb. will make … of sth. (264)
one thing is ( for ) … || that’s for … || to be … about it || sb. is ( not ) … whxx - || it’s not … if - (273+)
a … way of doing / to do sth. (275) the first / a … indication / sign of sth. (286 / 323)
a … footing || a … hold (328) … thing (337)
(as) … enough || a … touch (338) as … as sth. is sth. (1102)
sure (adv.) … as hell (337)
sure-fire (adj.),336) a … way of doing sth. (271) a … success (280)
sure-`footed (adj:328,338)
surely (adv:251,313) sb. … didn’t do sth. (22) sth. … does sth. (76) slowly but … (168)
… sb. does sth. (232)
sureness (U:249,338)
surety (C,U) to act / be / stand … ( for sb. / sth. ) || to pay … (292)
surf (U) to navigate through the … || a breaker with its … (662)
surface (109) beneath / on the … (fig:609)
surge (vi) anger … inside sb. (1056) spl. … into a place (1059) adrenalin … through sb’s veins (1064)
relief / happiness … through sb. (1069/-77) a wave … towards sth. || water … into a house (1083)
prices … (1084)
surge (C) feel a … of pain / love / relief (632 / 988 / 1069) a storm / tidal … (1082)
surgeon (C) a … performs an operation (1289)
surgery (U,C) life-saving / spare-part … (317)
to have / undergo { minor / major / emergency / life-saving … || to be in … (1289)
surgical (adj.) a … operation (459) a … collar (1235) … equipment / instruments (1289)
surging (adj.) a … crowd (1062)
surmount (vt) … a disease / an illness (1262) a bust … a pillar (1263)
surname (C:103)
surpass (vi&t) … sb. (908)
surplus (adj.) … goods (169) to be … to requirements (594)
surplus (C,U) to be in … (596) have (a) (food / trade) …(ses) (of some size) (in sth.) (628)
surprise (C,U) … attack / raid (24) a look of … (88,837) to do sth in … (233)
a … visit / visitor || there’s a … in store for sb. || to do sth. in / with … || ( much ) to sb’s … ||
sth. is a … ( to sb.) || it’s / what a … ( to sb.) ( to do sth.) || sth. comes as a … ( to sb.) ||
sth. / sb. takes / catches sb. by … (837) to have a … for sb. (839)
it comes as no … (to sb.) that - / to experience sth. (843) a … announcement (850) a … gift (886)
it’s no matter for … that - (1243)
surprise (vt) sb. … the enemy (24) sth. … sb. (229)
to be … by sth. (837) it … sb. how / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
it … sb. if - / to experience sth. (839)
surprised (adj.) to be … ( at sth.) (81, 838) (adj.) a … look (837)
to be / look … ( to experience sth.) || sb. is … at how / (that) - / to experience (837+)
sb. will / shall (not) shouldn’t / wouldn’t be … if - / that - (843)
surprising (adj.) it’s (hardly) … when - (174) it is … how / (that) - / to experience sth. (838)
a … thing (839) it’s hardly … that - (843) a … number of sth. (855)
surprisingly (adv.) quite … / not …, - (55 / 77)
surrealism (U:1268)
surround (vt) sth. … sth. (128) … oneself with spl. (150) circumstances …ing an accident (1114)
surrounding (adj.) the … world (939) surroundings (pl:118)
surtax (C:1202)
surveillance (U) … camera / equipment (307) to keep / place sbth. under … (307,728)
… mission / aircraft (732) to carry out / on 24-hour … of sbth. (732)
`survey (C) a … of manors (347) to give a … of sth. || carry out a … of land (732)
a … institution || carry out / conduct / do a … (of sbth.) || a … reveals / shows || answers / replies /
responses of a … (733)
survey [ sê`vei ] (vt) … a scene / damage (511,728) … sbth. (cooly) / the enemy (731+)
a situation is difficult to … (732) … land / a building etc. (733)
surveying (U:733) surveyor (733)
survive (vi&t) sb. … (20) sb. … the consequences of sth. (121) the economy … sth. (203)
sb. … the winter (223) a thing … the ravages of time (229)
sb’s looks / health … the ravages of drink (236) … on sth. (888)
survivor (C:155)
susceptibility [ sê`septêbilêti ] (U,pl.) customers’ … (1063) … to hypnosis / pressure(1066, -68)
to show consideration for / offend / wound sb’s …s (1071) … to infection(s) (1079)
susceptible [ sê`septibêl ] (adj.) a situation is … of change / improvement (1050)
sth. is … to interpretaion / proof (1060) a … consumer (1063) a … state of mind (1066)
sb. is (highly) … ( to hypnosis // pressure / flattery / sb.) (1066 // -68) … to frost (1070)
… to colds || a … person (1079) … to erosion (1083) … to the infection of propaganda (1256)
susceptibleness (U:1066)
susceptive (adj.) a … state of mind (1066)
susceptiveness (U:1066)
susceptivity (U:1066)
suspect [ `sûspekt ] (C:6)
suspect [ `sûspekt ] (adj.) a … activity (308) a … character (515) ( highly ) … evidence (710)
suspect [ sê`spekt ] (vi&t) … sb. of ( doing * ) sth. (53 *, 251)
without …ing anything / …ing nothing (893)
suspected (adj:6)
suspend (vt) … one’s unbelief (88) a …ed sentence (1144)
suspender (C) … belt (760)
suspence (U) in … (457)
suspicion (C,U) sb’s arouse (sb’s) … (523) to have a sneaking … that - (523)
to throw … on sb. || divert … to sb. (59 || 711) to come under … (493) to have one’s …s (544)
on … of (doing) sth. (710)
suspecious (adj.) a … activity (308) a … character (515)
suspeciously (adv.) to … do sth. (272)
sustain [ sê`stein ] (vt) an area … life (18) … a defeat (37) … injury / injuries (64) sb’s love … sb. (117)
the land … sb. (167) … a class barrier (180) food to … sb. (205) sb. … sb’s interest (285)
sbth. … damage / a loss (295) … an argument (477) … ( economic ) growth (480)
… the weight of sth. (498)
sustainability (U:500)
sustainable (adj.) a … form of transport E/A <ation (297) environmentally … use / agriculture (316)
sustained (adj.) a … attack (201)
sustenance [ `sûstênêns ] (U) ( means of ) … (246) the … of democracy (480)
sth. gives … to sb’s argument (500)
suzerain (C:country:145, person:148)
suzerainty (U:145)
Sw
swagger (vi+adv.) … about (10)
swallow (C) to take a … (325)
swallow (v:325) a bitter pill to … (596) sbth. is …ed (`up) by the waves / by an empire (720 / 861)
… an insult (792) … a story ( whole ) / ( hook, line, and sinker ) || to find a story hard to … (905)
… the bait (fig.) (1067)
swamp (C,U:139,526)
swamp (vt) to be …ed by the tide (527) to be …ed by / with calls (528)
people … the streets || the streets are …ed with people (554) … sb. with. ideas (555)
swampy (adj.) … ground / land (134 / 555)
swarm (C526
swarm (vi+adv:526+) … with sbth. (527)
swathe [ sweid ] (vt) … sth. in sth. (1317)
sway (vi&t) a vehicle … (585) sb. is …ed by a bid (596) the …ing motion of sth. (769)
sb. is easily …ed (604) …ing hips (1245)
sway (U) to hold … over an area || to fall under sb’s … (671) the … of sb’s hip (1245)
swear (vi&t) … by sth. (40,826) … ( an oath / a vow of ) allegiance / loyalty (402)
… () in sb. ( as sth.) (810) … like a trooper (845)
swear word (C:826)
swearing-`in (sg:810)
sweat (U,sg.) beads of … (53) wipe the … from one’s brow (54)
to break out into / wake up in a cold `… (706+) to wake up in a cold … / bathed in … (772)
sweater (C:32)
sweating (U:639)
sweatpants (A) (pl:635)
sweats (A) (635)
sweatshirt (C:635)
Sweden, Swedish (225)
sweep (vi&t) plague … over Europe (360) … a floor (455) wind / waves … (sth.) (+adv.) (sth.) (661+)
… sth. under the carpet (760) republicanism … a country (1190) high spirits … through a party (1252)
sweeper (C) a road … (779) a mechanical ( road / street ) … (1151+)
sweeping (adj.) a … reform (414)
sweet (adj.) a … smile (32) a … pepper (656) a … doll (E) (847)
sweet (C,U) a … (507)
sweeten (vi&t) sth. … one’s life (1041)
sweetly (adv:32)
sweetheart (C:263)
sweetness (U:424)
swell (swelled, … / swollen) (vi&t)
sth. … an account / a crowd / a river || an account / a crowd / a river … (112 / 759 / 768)
sb. … with pride / anger (774 / 788) a sail … || the wind … the sail (775)
music / noise … (783) popularity / a fortune … (785) sth. … the number / ranks of sth. (791)
swell (C) a heavy … (of the sea) (661) a … of pride (774) a … in the music / noise (783)
a … in the number / ranks of sth. || a … of feelings (784) a … in popularity (785)
swell-`headed (A) (adj:778)
swelling (C:389,U:773) reduce the … (773)
swelter (vi) sb. … (770)
sweltering (adj.) … midday sun // … (hot) sun / weather / temperature / day || … heat (770 // 884)
swept (pt/pp:360) to be … to sea (1130)
swim (vi&t) going …ming || where it’s (un)safe to … (322) one’s head … (454)
swimming (U:322)
swift (adj.) … retaliation (53)
swimmer (C) a poor / proficient… (322 / 991)
swindle (C:184)
swing (C) a … of an object (940) mood …s (952)
a ride on / in a … || to gain on the …s what sb. loses on the roundabouts (992)
the … of sb’s hip (1245)
swing (vi&t) sb’s mood … between from sth. and sth. / from sth. to sth. (952) … an axe (1104)
…ing hips (1245)
swingboat (C) a ride in a … (992)
swineherd (394)
switch (vi&t) … () `off a radio (31) … a railroad car / fright car (562)
switch (C) press / flick / throw a … (31) a … yard / engine (A) (562) an electric / a light … (572)
a main … (574) be asleep / sleep at the … (593+)
swollen (adj.) a … foot (773)
swoop (v) sb. … on an address etc. || a helicopter … down over sth. (849) a bird … down (865)
swoop (C) in a … on sth. (849)
sword [ så~d ] (C) to strike sb. (lightly) with a … || a blow with (the flat of) a … (152)
sworn (adj:532)
Sy
sycophantic (adj.) a … person (1016)
syllable (C) a word having / with x …(s) || to say sth. in words of one … (1221)
syllabus (C) a school has a … (187) sth. is on the … for a sublect (1162)
syllogism (C:1214)
symbol (C) sth. is sb’s … (48) sth. is a … of sth. (660)
symbolic (adj.) a … element || sth. is … of sth. (609) symbolism (159)
symbolize (vt) sth. … sth. (607) sympathize (282)
sympathy (U,pl.) to accept sb’s … (118) to meet … from sb. (750) to feel / have … for sb. (987)
to arouse … || to engage sb’s … (1045) sth. does sth. in … with sth. (1048) inborn …ies (1172)
symptom (C) …s of loss of identity (114)
synod [ `sinêd ] (C:220)
synonym [ `sinênim ] (C:1061)
syntax [ `sintaks ] (U:1217)
`synthesis (U,C) a … of years of discussion (165)
synthetic [ sin`#etik ] (adj.) a … act (165)
syrup [ `sirêp A& `sê~ ] (U) to cough … (773)
system (C) a parliamentary … of government (7) a justice / prison … (202) an immune … (205)
Tt
T (C) to a … (adv:67)
Ta
tabard (C:441)
table (C:10) a times … / the x-times `… (68) a gift … (445) a dressing … (456) … salt (656)
to head the … of results (702) to turn the …s on sb.|| the …s are turned (836)
a … of `contents (849) a … of results (851) a ( baby ) dressing / changing … (1230)
a revolving / throwing … (1316)
table (vt) … a motion (813)
tabloid (C:625)
tabloid (adj.) a … paper (625)
tabula (C) … rasa (164)
tacit (adj.)… knowledge (694) by … agreement / approval (688 / 695)
tacitly (adv:689)
tack (U,C:265)
tack (vi&t:265)
tackle (C,U) to make a … (590) fishing … (665)
tackle (vi&t) … (sb.) ( in football ) (589+) … heresy (681) … the cause of sth. (969)
… a problem with understanding (1164)
tact (U:28)
tactful (adj:43) tactfully (adv:41)
tactlessly (adv:41) tactlessness (U:38)
tactile (adj.) a … cell (936)
tag (C,U) a `… line (22) a grafitti painter’s … (1308)
tagliatelle (U:794)
tail (C) to turn `… (240) to do sth. with one’s … between one’s legs (242) … light (586)
(the) … `end (684) heads or …s ( of a coin ) ( 703)
to wag it’s … || it’s … wags || it’s (a case of) the … wagging the dog (1039)
tailback (E) (C:882) tailbone (C:795)
tailor (C:355)
tailpipe (A) (C:319)
take (v:2) … () sb. / sth. `apart (41) … () `up sth. (45, 608) it … sth. to do sth. (47) … () `on sb. (50)
… to drink / to the bottle (60) … oneself / sb. off (275) … on the form of sth. (278)
… () `over a business (286) … () `in sb. (deceive:398) … a position / stand on sth. (474)
… sth. away with you (591) a plane … off (667) … () out sb. ( for sth.) (774)
sb. can’t … it / (it) any more (831) … sb. for sbth. (841) … () the sin of man (1096)
to be …n ill / sick (1255) it only … a phone call to do sth. (1293)
`take-off (C,U) a … procedure (673)
`takeover (C) a … bid (596)
takings (pl.) box office … (902)
tale (C) a folk … (952) an old `wives’ … (1153) a fairy … (1237)
`talent (U,C:384,385) to have a … for sth. (41) to show considerable … for sth. (125)
`talented (ad:385) a … writer (125)
talk (vi&t) … to / with sb.(33) :46) … one’s way out of sth. (95) … sense (1065)
talk (C,U) to hold (peace) …s || to walk out of the …s (24) … (on sth.) (81)
to have …s with sb. about sth. (203) pay / wage / salary …s (791)
… one’s way out of (doing) sth. || … (a)round sth. || … sb. `round (E) ( to do sth.) (909)
sb. is all … (1079)
talkative (adj.) a … person / mood (918) talkativeness (918)
talker (C) a fast `… (603) more a … than a doer (919)
tall (adj:67) tallness (U:261)
tallow (U:887)
tame (adj:580)
tamper (vi) … with sth. (817)
tan (C) to get a … (990)
tanned (adj.) to get … (990) a … face (991)
tangibility (U:729)
tangible (adj.) … assets / property (112) … evidence / proof (688) sth. is almost … (693)
… aim // quality / properties (716 // 720) the … world (729)
tangibly (adv:720)
tangle (C) … of hair / emotions / weeds (692 / 718 / 723) get into a … with sb. (693)
tangle (vi&t) hair / bedclothes / weeds  … `up (692 / 706+ / 723) … with sb. over sth. (693)
… with an animal (721)
tangled (adj.) …(up) accusations / speech (691) … (up) hair / bedclothes / weeds (692 / 707/ 723)
… web of beliefs etc. || … (up) affairs (716)
tank (vi) … `up (992)
tankard (C) a tin … (1312)
tanked (adj.) to get … (A) `up (E) (990)
tank (vehicle:204) … battle (668) tantamount (364) tap (v:159) tap (C,U) a … room (257)
a cold / hot (<water) … (325,564) beer / information on `… (617)
tape (U,C) Scotch … (U) || a `… measure || a measuring … (875)
a … dispenser (875) tapestry (330) taproom (E) (C:858)
tar (vt) to be …red with the same brush (117)
target (vt) … the needy (628)
target (C) a civil / military …(196) a … for a raid (226) a … for burglars / burglary (301)
a bombing … (667)
to adhere to / set / pursue / accomplish / achieve / attain / meet / reach a … (816)
tarnished (adj.) … reputation (251)
tarpaulin [ ta~`på~lin ] (C,U:498)
Tarquin (N) … the proud (924)
tarry (vi) … ( at / in a place ) (1062)
tart (food:67, prostitute:611) tartar(e) steak (C,U:794)
task (C) a tax on a … (160) to set oneself the … of doing sth. (225)
to take sb. to … ( for / over sth.) (239) to `set about the … of doing sth. (250)
to set / give sb. a / the … ( of doing sth.) || entrust / leave a / the … to / with sb. ||
to leave sb. with a / the … ||
to take on / undertake / have / carry out / perform / do / complete a / the … ||
to be faced with a difficult … || sth. not an / no easy … || the first / main … (253)
to carry out / undertake a simple / daunting / laborous / formidable / thankless //
an impossible / unenviable … (256)
to be suitable / fit for a ( simple ) … (257) a … force (306,330)
task (vt) be …ed with (doing) sth. (255,329)
taskmaster (C) to be a hard … (237)
taste (vt&vi+adj.) sth. … delicious (83) … a substance || sth. … of / like sth. || sth. … good / bad (941)
taste (U,C:80) a faculty of … (2) to have a good … in music (47) a … of sth. (80)
a remark in bad / poor … (261) to acquire a … for sth. (458) a con`summate … (505)
to one’s own … (834) the power / sense of … (936) an organ of … || a … bud (939 || 941)
a person of bad … (1039)
tasteful (adj.) … raw material(s) (262)
tasteless (adj.) a … remark (261)
tat (U) to give tit for … (35)
tatoo [ tê- / ta`tu~ ] (C) a … of sth. || a .`.. artist / parlour (660)
tatoo (vt) … writing / a picture (on sbth.) (660)
tatooist (C:660) taught (119)
taunt (C/vt:261,531) tauntingly (531)
tax (vt) … sb. (376) … sb. with doing sth. (377) sbth. … sb’s strength / patience (387/ 964)
sth. … sb’s brains (403) … a car (411)
tax (C,U) to receive a … credit (97) payment of … (150) to collect ( in-) direct …s (154)
to owe sb. a … on sth. (160) to extract sth. from sb. in …es (347) collection of …es (348)
to levy …es (356) a poll … on sb. (362)
to levy / raise / cut … || to impose / lay / put a … on sth. || to pay … on sth. (376)
a `… advantage (413) a … assessment || a … allowance (E) (841) … avoidance (413)
a … avoider (412) … bracket (411) … break (412) … burden (412) … cheat (413) a … collector (376)
… credit (97) a … cut (376) … demand (note) (841) … disc (411)
a … dodger || … dodge / dodging (413) a … evader (413) … evasion (413) … exemption (412)
a … exile (413) a … form (296) a … fiddler / … fiddling (413) … fraud (413) a … haven (413)
… incentive (296) a… increase (376) a … inspector (413) … load (412) … relief (309,412)
… return (411) a … shelter (412) … threshold (411) sb’s pay for … (841)
a sin … (1040) taxable (adj:411)
taxation (U) to control …(356) to increace / reduce … (376) … authorities (411)
a heavy burden of … (476) tax-de`ductible (adj:412) tax-e`xempt (adj:412) tax-`free (adj:412)
taxing (adj.) sth. is … for sb. (386) a … job (403) taxman (97,376) taxpayer (C:296,411)
-----taxi (184) … driver (415) taxicab (184)
taxonomy [ tak`sånêmi ] (U,C) plant / animal … (1216)
Te
tea (U,C) breakfast with … (77) a … leaf / strainer (453) sbth. is not sb’s cup of … (1056) the … ( bag )
steeps (1110)
teach (vi&t) sb. … (46) … in different settings || … (sb.) (a) language (195)
… sb. ( how ) to do sth. (197) … sb. a lesson (489) … a lesson E/A class (646)
teachable (adj.) a … person (966)
teacher (C:1,472) a …s’ college (195) a … `trainer || …`training (195)
teacher-controlled / -directed (adj.) … p(a)edagogig (1166)
teaching (1) …s (pl:70)
team (C) to choose (up) …s (3) in E/A on a … (126) the home / visiting … || … `spirit (201)
a … song (589) a dog … (1153)
teapot (C:453)
tear [ teê ] ( tore, torn ) (vt & vi+adv.) … sth. asunder (669) a car … down a road (768)
… sb. to death (1110) … () down a building (1148)
tear [ taê ] (C:265)
tear [ tiê ] (C) ( to be / come ) near to …s || to check one’s …s (62) to smile through ( one’s ) …s (232)
sb’s eyes fill with …s (250) to shed a … / …s ( * of joy ) (290 / 977,* 1085) to dry one’s …s (439)
to be reduced to …s || be all / do sth. in …s || in a flood of …s (E) || …s well up in sb’s eyes ||
…s roll / run / stream down sb’s face / cheeks (1083)
sth. moves sb. to …s || to shed / weep crocodile …s (1084)
to burst into …s || to brush the …s from one’s eyes || be close to / on the verge of …s ||
sth. brings …s to sb’s eyes (1085)
teardrop (C) a … runs down sb’s cheek (1077)
tearful (adj.) … eyes || a … farewell (977) sb. is … (1083) a … ending (1270) tearfully (adv:1083)
tearjerker (C) a film is a … (1270)
tease (C:321) a cock- / prick-… (1309)
tease (vi&t & speech) … (sb.) || … sb. about sth. (321) … () `out information etc (of sb.) (911)
teat [ ti~t ] (C) a baby sucks ( milk through ) a … (E) of a bottle ||
an animal sucks ( milk from ) its mothers … (1230)
technical (adj.) a … school (4) a … genius (965) technicality (C:276)
technician (C) a … of genius (965)
technique (U,C:162)
technology (U,C:4)
tectonics (U) plate … (647)
tedious (adj.) a … piece of writing (1082)
tee (C) a … shirt (760)
teem (v) a place is …ing with spl. || one’s brain is …ing with emotions etc. || it is …ing with rain (718)
teenager (C:35)
teeter (vi) to be …ing on the brink / edge of sth. ( fig.) (1134)
teeth ( pl. of tooth ) to cast / throw sth. in sb’s … (38) by the skin of one’s … (321)
a set of false … (1293)
telephone (vi&t:576)
telephone (C,U) … directory / number (4) a … engeneer / fitter / cord / wire / pole (575)
(a) … receiver / cradle / operator / exchange / subscriber / line / mouthpiece / conversation / link /
consumption / network (576)
telescope (C) to look through a … (139)
telescopic (adj.) a … ladder (1236)
television (C,U) the medium of … (117) a … set || to watch … || to watch / see sth. on (the) … (126)
tell ( told, told ) (vi&t&speech+sb.) … sb. whxx (2) … whxx (10) … a story (13) … (sb.)
the truth || truth to … (27) … sb. (that-) (30) … sth. to sb’s face (38) … sb. to do sth. (39)
… two things apart (66) ( only ) time will … ( if -) (76) … a book by its cover (77)
… sb. (about) sth. || … sth. to sb. (79)
teller (C) a fortune-… (72) a … machine (96) story-… (1274)
tell-tale (adj.) … signal (98)
telly (E) (C,U) to watch … || on the … (126)
temple (C) a … ( on the side of the head ) (1279)
temper (vt) … justice with mercy (260) the heat is …ed by a cool breeze (767)
God … the wind to the shorn lamb (1245) sb’s hot temper is …ed by the fact that - (1248)
… sth with sugar (1251)
temper (U,C) sth. reacts on sb’s … (36) sb’s … boils over (65) to lose one’s `… (612) …s flare (694)
to avoid one’s … (910)
to have a sanguine / good / gay / optimistic … || to be in a good / cheerful … (1240)
to have a phlegmatic / apathic / sluggish / even / gentle … || to be in a relaxed / phlegmatic … (1241)
to have a melancholy / melancholic … || to be in a melancholy / melancholic … (1242)
in a dispirited / downcast / dejected / despomdent / depressed / pessimistic / sad / sombre / doleful / gloomy /
glum / mournful / sorrowful … (1243)
to have a quick / bad / choleric / difficult / fiery / foul / impatient / passionate … ||
to be in a bad / foul / filthy … || to keep one’s … || to put sb. out of … || to get into a … ||
|| sb’s … rises || to fly into a … || to show … (1244)
an uncertain … (1246)
to have a ( hot ) … || to recover one’s … || to do sth. in (a) … || to control one’s … (1248)
to have an evil / angry / stubborn … || to be in an ill / evil … || to be out of … with sb. ||
the … of a meeting (1249)
temperament (C,U) to throw a … (39) the four cardinal …s (1239)
blood predominates in sb’s …. || to have a sanguine / gay / optimistic … || to be sth. by … (1240+)
phlegm predominates in sb’s … || to have a phlegmatic / apathic / eaquable / sluggish … (1241)
melancholy ( black bile ) predominates in one’s … || to have a melancholy / melancholic … (1242)
a choleric / difficult / fiery / foul / impatient / passionate / nervous… || to throw a … (1244)
an uncertain … (1246) an artistic … (1247)
temperamental (adj.) a … person (692) to have a … liking for sth. (1247)
temperamentally (adv.) … unsuited (1246)
temperance (U) a … movement / lodge / hotel / restaurant (1247) lack of … (1251)
temperature (C,U) the … falls / drops (63)
… goes down / falls / drops ( below freezing ( point ) / zero ) || … goes up / rises ( above sth.) (888)
–tempered (adj.) bad-… (389) a good-… person (1240) an ill- / quick-… person (1244)
tempestuous (adj.) a … life (608)
temporal (adj.) a … system (161) the Lords T… (189) a … head of sth. (926) … power (928)
temporary [ `temp(ê)rêri ] (adj.) a … grant of land (150) temporarily (adv:123)
tempt (vt) to be …ed to do sth. (15) to be sorely …ed by sth. (602)
… sb. into (doing) sth. / to do sth. (603) … `fate / providence (604)
temptation (C,U) to wrestle with … (15)
to resist the … (to do sth.) || to give way / succumb / yield to the … (to do sth.) (603)
to resist the … of sth. || to put … in sb’s way || sth. is a … to sb. (604) to overcome a … (1107)
tempter (C:516)
tempting (adj.) … offer (604) it is … to do sth. (604)
ten (num:5)
tenable (adj.) … evidence (711)
tenant (C) a feudal … (148) …-in-chief (344)
tend (vi&t) sth. … to do sth. (150)
tendency (C) sb. has a … to do sth. (840)
there’s a … ( among sb.) to (<wards ) sth. || there’s a ( clear ) … ( for sb.) to do sth. (1166)
tender (U,C) to put some work out to … || to invite …s / to submit a … for a contract ||
a rival / competitive … (1147)
tender (vi&t) … one’s resignation / one’s services (99 / 747)
( to invite sb. ) to… for a contract (564)
tender (adj.) a … kiss || … feelings (288) a … knee (579) … meat (794) not for …ears (796)
to touch sb. on a … spot (1248)
tenderloin (U,C) … (steak) of beef / pork (794+) tenderness (421)
tenement (C) a crowded … (138) a … building / house / block (778)
tenfold (adv.) to do sth. … (1172)
tennis (U) in … || a … court (317) … shoes (762)
tense (C,U) the future / present / past … || to future / present / past perfect … (847,1218)
a simple / compound … || a progressive … (1222)
tense (vi&t) sb. … (up) || … oneself (up) || … one’s muscles (up) || sb’s muscles … (up) (1129)
tense (adj.) a … atmosphere (379) sb. is … (1129)
tensed `up (pred. adj.)
tensile (adj.) … stress (204)
tension (U,C) to relieve the … (35) … that builds up at work (297) … reaches the boiling point (890)
tensly (adv.)
tent (C) … peg / pole || to put up / erect / pitch a … (501)
tenterhook (C) to be on …s (438) tenuous (365)
tenure (U,C) a … of land || based on … (148)
term (vt) sth. is …ed sth. (151)
term (C,U) in practical …s (45) to do sth. on friendly …s (48) credit … (96)
in … of history (166) to tell sb. in no uncertain …s what - (264) the … ‘ depression’ (271)
short- / medium- / long-`… (291,474) under the …s of a contract (293)
in the short / medium / long … (465) …s and conditions (791) on sb’s …s (909)
terminal (C) a … ( building ) (776)
terminal (adj.) a … case / disease / patient (315)
terminally (adv:315)
termination (C,U) a … of a word (216) a … of a fight (632)
terminology (339)
terrace (C) a covered … (982) terrestrial (526)
terrible (adj.) sb’s spelling is … (125) a … sight (233) a … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
Ivan the T… (1065) sb. is … to sb. (1066)
terribly (adv.) … sorry / busy (978 / 1053) sth. goes … wrong (1066) to feel … cheated (1068)
terrified (adj.) a … person (229) be … out of one’s wits (473) be … at sth. (1064)
be … of (doing) sth. / (that -) (1065)
terrify (vt) … sb. (1064)
terrifying (adj.) a … feeling / experience / situation (1064)
territorial (adj.) a … unit (150) territory (C,U) sb’s … (145)
terror (U,C) a … attack (68) a reign of … (145) a feeling / look of pure / sheer … (1064, -66)
be frantic with … || to spread … || a real little / holy / perfect … ||
to have a / * live in … of (doing) sth. (1065,*+) the King of T…s || death holds no … for sb. ||
sth. strikes .. into sb. / sb’s heart || be struck with … || sb’s eyes are wild with … (1066)
terrorism (U:293)
terrorist (C:68) a … attack (305)
terror-stricken (adj:233)
test (C) to stand the … ( of time ) (61) a driving … (74) to take / do / sit / fail / pass a … (on sth.) (141)
to get a mark in (E) / grade on (A) a … (725) let it come to a … (747)
test (vi&t) … sb. (86) … sb. to the limit (953)
testable (adj.) sth. is … to sensory perception (1216)
testament (C) the Old / * New T… (70, * & 818) sth. bears … / is a … { to / of sth. (709)
an eloquent … to / of sth. (732) sb’s last will and … (1102)
testify (vi, speech:711) sth. … to sth. (709,726) sb. … (in court) (710) … against sb. / that - (711,726)
testimonial [ testi`m`êuniêl ] (C) to have a glowing … (726) a … from sb. (726) … match / dinner (731+)
`testimony [ `testêmêni E/A -mouni ] (U,sg.) sth. bears … / is a … to / of sth. (709,726)
sb. gives (a false) … (710+) in one’s … (711) an eloquent … to / of sth. (732)
testing (adj.) in a … manner (1101)
testing (U) to undergo DNA … (1093)
testy (adj.) a … person (1244)
tetchy (adj.) a … person (1244)
Teutonic (adj:218)
text (U,C) to `spell check the … (125) the rediscovery of some …s (170) to type (a) … (334)
textbook (C:142) textile (214)
Th
than (4) thane (222)
thank (v:172) thankfully (234) thankless (256)
thanks (pl.) to smile / express one’s … (44 / 1076) … to sbth. (850)
that (det, pron.) … which - (2) sth. like … (9) because of … (36) … is ( to say ) - (537)
that (con.) to be happy … - (4) to know … - (5) sth. … - (17)
that (adv.+adj./adv.) to be … particular (30)
thatch (U,C) to gather … || a house with a … (157) a … of hair (1122) to cover a roof with … (1126)
thatch (vt) … a roof (1126)
thatched (adj.) a … house (1216)
thatcher (C:1126)
thatching (U) to cover a roof with … (1126)
thaw (sg.) a … sets in (1151)
thaw (vi) it … || it is …ing || snow / ice … ( out ) || sth. … ( out ) snow / ice (1151) sb. … (1153)
relations between ppl. … (1156)
… () out sb. / sb’s body / hands / feet || sb. / sb’s body / hands / feet … out (1160)
the (def. art:1)
theatre E/A theater (49) … company (51) … of war (508) (at a) picture / movie (A) … (49)
an operating … (E) (1289)
theatrical (adj.) … performance (49)
theft (U,C) charged with …(115) a victim of a … (272)
their (2) them (1)
theme (C) a secular … (171)
themselves (1) then (adv:4, 6)
theng (C:222)
the`ocracy (U,C:146)
theo`cratic (adj.) … rule (146)
theo`logian (C:170)
theological (adj.) a … collage E/A seminary (682)
theology (U,C:1)
theorem (C:1060)
theoretical (adj:46)
theory (C,U:32) … of sth. (46) a … proposes / regards sth. as sth. (146)
therapist (C) an occupational … (597)
therapy (U,C:107)
there (1) … and back (adv:727) therefore (548) thereupon (358)
thermal (adj.) … movements (939)
these (1)
thesis (pl: theses) (C:931)
they (pton:1)
thick (adj.) … and `fast (adv:592) through … and `thin (606)
thicken (vi&t) a plot … (603)
thief (C:273)
thimble (C) to wear a … (265)
thin (adj.) … comedy (49) …-skinned (adj.) (197) through thick and `… (606) thinly (adv:213)
thing (C) sb’s …s (37) to make …s worse (39) you poor … (282)
for one … sbth. - for another sbth. - (318)
theory and idea are one …, practicalities another (46) sb. is the nearest … to a father (51)
the right / wrong … (fig:609) the slightest … (690) do (a few little) …s (288)
in the natural course of …s (492) …s that go bump in the `night (913)
think (vi&t &speech:33) … about / of sth. (2) … ( that- ) (10) … to oneself (33)
… () `up a joke / an excuse (35 / 245) … () out sth. (57) … about / of doing sth. (79)
on …ing sth. over (407) not / never … / esp: thought to do sth. (686)
to do sth. as one … best (742) … of sbth. as sbth. (743) to come to … of sth. (772)
… back ( to / on / over sth. ) (834) … () through sth. (1069)
thinker (C:163)
thinking (U) quick … (475)
third ( ord. num., det. pron.) the … biggest (856) ( in ) the … person (1220)
third (C) one … of sth. (12) one … as big as sth. (856)
thirst (U,sg.) to feel a … for sth. (fig.) (603) a raging … (645)
to quench / slake one’s … || be dying of … || to die of / from … (627)
( to satisfy sb’s) … for sth. (fig.) (654) to work `up a … (954)
thirst (v) … for sth. (fig.) (603) … to do sth. (606)
thirsty (adj.) be (really / very) … (325) sth. is … work (328) … for sth. (fig:603)
thirstily (adv.) drink … (325) thirteen (71)
thirty ( thirties ) (num:77) the T… Years War (716)
this (pron.) … and `that || …, that and the `other (65)
thistle (C:504)
Thor (N:223)
thorn (C) sth. is a … in sb’s flesh / side (155) a bush with …s (526)
thorny (adj.) a … subject (407) a … bush (526)
thorough [ `#ûrê / A& - rou ] (adj.) a … search (6) … knowledge (40)
thoroughly (262) ( to go more ) … into sth. (476)
those (pron.) … who - (85)
those (det.) … people (151)
though (adv:3 / conj.) (even) … (16) as … (31)
thought (C,U) to give sth. ( a careful / a lot of ) … (4) to have second `…s (31)
on `second … A/E …s (40) to give ( a lot of ) … to (doing) sth. (47) the … that - (64)
sb’s …s turn in the direction of sth. || to turn one’s …s to sth. (224) sb’s …s are with sb. (227)
( at ) the mere … of (doing) sth. (290) to be deep in … (464) to collect / gather one’s …s (520)
an alarming / a disquieting / disturbing / worrying … || gloomy / moody …s (951)
to interrupt sb’s / to lose one’s train of … (1067) to divert one’s …s (1069)
a school of … about sth. (1166)
thoughtful (adj.) a … expression / look (130)
thoughtfully (adv:130)
thoughtless (adj.) a … womanizer (37) it is … (of sb.) to do sth. (956) thoughtlessly (adv:43)
`thought-provoking (adj.) a … sight (1154)
thousand (num. 8) The T… and One Nights (952)
thousands (of sth.) (pl:115,314)
thrall (C,U) to have a …(144) to carry sb. off as a … (231)
to be in sb’s … || to have / hold / keep sb. in … || to be … to sb. || to be in … to sb. (231)
thralldom (U) to be subjected to … || to keep sb. in … (231)
thrash (vi&t) … sb. (624)
thrashing (sg.) to get a … (624)
thread [ #red ] (U,C) a needle and … (265) to spin (a) … (1128)
threat [ #ret ] (C,U) to throw a … at sb. (37)
to make / utter an idle … || to make a … / …s (of sth.) (against sb.) (53)
a … to do sth. (54) to carry () `out a … (60) a veiled … (60) to give `in to a … (68) to issue a … (1064)
threaten (vi&t) … to do sth. (15) sth. … sth. / sb. (19 / 53) … sb. with sth. (54)
… proceedings || … (that) - (55) the sky / clouds …( (to) rain ) (63)
threatened (adj:58) threatening (adj.) … sky (63)
three (num:2)
three-piece (adj.) a … suit (758)
thresh (vi&t:18) threshold (C:411)
threw (v) pat. of throw (13)
thrill (C) the … of the excitement (852)
thrill (vt) be …ed by sth. (952)
thrilling (adj.) … resonance (805) a … ride (992) in … expectation (1104)
thrive (vi) a plant … (267) business / economy … (281) … on sth. (405)
sale of arms / corruption … (672 / -80) thriving (adj:515)
throat (C) slit sb’s … (13) an infection in the … (766) have a tickle in one’s … (772)
to have a lump in / to one’s … || sb’s … clogs || the words stick in sb’s … || to clear one’s … (1078)
a piece of jewellery at sb’s … || a sob catches in sb’s … || have a sore … ||
to have a frog in the … || spl. are at each other’s … || to force / ram / shove an idea etc. down sb’s … ||
sth. sticks in sb’s … (E) (fig.) || sb. jumbs down sb’s … || to cut one’s own … (1085)
-throated (adj.) a deep-… voice (1084)
throaty (adj.) a … voice / laugh (1085)
throatily (adv.) cough … (1085)
throne (C) succession / a successot to the … (145) to usurp the … (401)
to come to the … || the (sole) / an heir to the … || the power behind the … (420)
to receive the … by inheritance || to have / make a ( hereditary ) claim to the … (1106+)
throng (C:684) throng (vi&t) … the streets etc. || … into / through sth. (684)
(a place) … / is thronged with people (701)
through (adv.)
through (prep.) … an education (4) to search … sth. (4) to look `… sb. (8)
to see `… sb. / sth. (11/43) to have been … an experience (44) all … one’s life (1199)
throughout [ #ru~`aut ] (adv.) to be similar … (149) … the night (655)
throw (C) :8) to make a record … (15) a … pillow (A) / rug (1267)
throw (vi&t) … the dice || … () `over a partner || … in one’s lot with sb. || … a six ||
… () `away time / money / an opportunity || … one’s money about (8)
… the game (9) … oneself on sb. || … a punch at sb. (14)
… well / xxx metres || … up the `game || … `in the sponge / towel || … `up (15)
… a shoe (16) … oneself / sth. into (doing) sth. (24,52) … `in ( from behind the sideline ) (25)
… () open a park (29) … cold water on sth. (fig.34)
… a threat / remark at sb. || sth. … sth. into shade || … a lecture into shape ||
sth. … sb. into confusion etc. || … `in one’s hand (37)
… a fit / temperament || … sth. in sb’s teeth || … `up the game (38) … out a joke etc. (38,42)
… sb. back on sth. (42) … together a collection of sth. (43) … together ( to buy sth.) (44)
… () `away / out / over / up sth. || … sth. overboard (45)
… expression into music || … care to the wind (47) … `in for a job || … () `up a job / career (51)
… one’s arms round sb’s neck (69) … sth. out of balance (475) … sb. off the scent / track (534)
… () out a bill (815) … clay into a shape (1316)
`throw-in (C:25)
throwaway (adj:9/C:26)
throwback (15) a … to sth. (fig:38,43)
thrown (pat:13) to be … (16)
thrower (C:15,633)
throwing (adj.) a … table (1316)
thrush (U:649)
thrust (C) a well-placed … (384)
thrust (vi&t+adv.) … at sb. (384) … sb. into sb’s arms (fig.) (484)
a piece of land …ed out (1002) to be …forward(s) (1117)
thumb (C) a …-up sign (106) thumb (vt) … one’s `nose at sbth. (185) thumbtack (A) (C:875)
thunder (U:223,433) … and lightning (436) … of guns / hooves (509)
a clap / clash / crack / roll of … (436) a face / to look like … (477) to steal sb’s … (481)
thunder (vi&t, speech:479) it … ( and lightens ) || sb. comes …ing downstairs (436)
a voice … in sb’s ears (479) … (against) (481) guns / hooves … (509) the traffic … (587)
… (a ball etc.) (590)
thunderbolt (C:426,436) to hit sb. like a … (481)
thunderclap (C:436) thundercloud (C:436)
thunderous (adj.) a … applause (450,479)
thundery (adj.) … weather / sky / rain (435+)
thunderstorm (C:433)
thunderstruck (pred. adj:463,479)
thus (6)
thwart (vt) … sb’s ambitions (401) sb. is …ed at sea (1176)
Ti
ticket (14) a … collector / punch || a valid … || the validity of a … (20) a … office (69)
to draw a (tombola) … (992) a speeding … (583) a return (E) / round-trip (A) … (333)
ticket-office (C) a … window (883)
tickle (vi&t) sth. … sb’s `fancy (763,-65)
sth. … sb’s `vanity || to be …d ( `pink / to death ) ( to do sth.) || sb. … (sb. / sb’s feet) (765)
sth. … sb’s nose / throat || sb’s nose / throat … (766)
a fly … sb’s neck (771) silk … sb’s nipples || sth. … sb’s imagination (772)
tickle (norm. sg.) to give sb. a (little) … || to have a … in one’s nose / throat (765)
feel a … in sth. (1044)
tickling (adj.) a … cough / sensation (766 / 772)
ticklish (adj.) a … cough (766) a … question (806)
tidal (adj.) … wave of sth. (fig.) (690) a … surge (1082) tidbit (A) = (E) titbit (1056)
tide (C) the … turns / E& is on the turn || the encroaching ... (226+)
the … ( of public opinion ) turns || sth. turns the … in favour of sb. (280)
the … of battle turns ( against sb.) || to turn the … of the war (327)
tidily (adv.) … arranged (455) tidy (adj.) a … person / habit || to keep a place … (455) a … sum (456)
tidy (vt) … (up) (a place) (257, 455) … ( ) away sth. (455) tidying (up)(455) tiger (366) tie (v:24)
tie (C, railroad:562) (family) … (471) to wear a (bow) … (758) a cup … (E) (1270)
tie (vi&t) … sb. to a chair (23) an obligation … sb. to the land (166) … () up sb. (276)
sth. … `in with sth. (473) …d `up in contradictions (706) to be …d by / to sth. (fig.) (1134)
tight (adj.) a … skirt (14) … security (308) to be in / get into a … spot (525)
tight (adv.) to screw sth. … (26)
tighten (vi&t) … security (307) … one’s belt ( & fig. ) (889)
tightly (30)
tight(ly)-knit (adj.) a … community / team (269 / 302)
tile (C) a … floor (763)
tile (vt) a …d floor (763)
till (vt:345) tillable (adj:18) tillage (U:144)
tilt (C,U) a … || do sth. (at) full … (383) a … at sb. (401) a … toward(s) sbth. (401)
tilt (vi&t) … ( at sb.) || … a lance / an adversary (383+, )
sth. … the balance (of sth.) // a situation … sth. // sth. … { in favour of / away from sb. ||
a situation … toward(s) sbth. (401)
tilter (383) tiltyard (383)
timber (U,C) to exploit a wood for … (395)
time (vt) … ( the duration of ) sth. (673) sth. is well …d (1248)
time (U,C) sb. takes a long … doing sth. (3) to throw away … (8)
(at) any … of (the) year || … to do sth. (12) in …(s) of sth. (19) in no … (62) in good / due … (66)
(at) any>… /E& any … (adv.) (75) to have an incredible / unbelievable … (89) within the … limit (101)
it’s a`bout / `high … (104) it’s … to do / for sth. || it’s about / high `… sbth. did sth. (108)
a … signature (126) a … of sth. (130) at a … in history (144)
in …s of peace / trouble / war (154 / -58 / -81) to have a hard … doing sth. (158)
in those / all …s (175) since the beginning of … (180) to move with the …s (185)
in the course / march of … (482) to shout / beat the … (193) a question … (197) at …s (224)
in later …s (262) in plenty of / ample … (298) in / on … (340)
( the ) first / second / next / last … round (394) the … is out of joint (480)
at a / some … || at one / the … (523+) at any (one) … (525, 662)
from … to … (542) (with) the passage of … (552) … and … again || … after … (585)
to drag () out the … (641) …s of ill fortune (677) by the … (that -) (687) to have no … to do sth. (662)
to play for … (641) a period of … (676) over … (677) to do one’s prison … (842)
(after) `closing … || (before) opening … (883)
to spend (one’s) … on sth. || to spend … (in) doing sth. (951) it’s high … (that -) (957)
during the last … before sth. (979) within a reasonable … (990) to bide one’s … (996)
to have a sense of … || to lose one’s … sense (1069) in ( less than / next to ) no … (1102)
to do sth. to pass the … (1154) when her … comes (1228)
a clock keeps good / bad … || what … does sb. make it ? (1268)
one’s … as sth. / in a place (1275) ( in order to ) gain … (1291)
–timed (adj.) an ill-… remark (1244)
timely (adj.) … solicitude (965)
timer (C) a self-… (50)
times (prep.) a … b is / equals / makes c (125)
times (pl.) a … table / the x … `table (68)
timetable (C) a train … (E) (69) to have a heavy … (436) a TV … (1226)
timetabling (U) a … clash (1226)
timid (adj:33)
tin (container:16, metal:214)
tinder (U:443) … fungus (649) tinderbox (C:443) a place / time is a … (481)
tinfoil (U:414)
tinge (vt) white blossoms …ed with pink (1267)
to … the paint with a dash of red || white…ed with rose (1268) surprise …ed with despair (1291)
sth. … the situation with tragicomic (1293)
tinge (C) there’s a pink … to the sky (1272) to feel a … of pity (1293)
tininess (U:940)
tinker (vi) … with an engine etc. || … around with sth. (768 || 70)
tinned (eE) (adj.) … food (1223)
tint (C,U) a … (875)
tinted (adj.) … windows (803)
tiny (adj.) a … roof (139) … crevices (677) a … man (1238)
tip (C) lance … (384)
rubbish … (E) (782)
tip (vi&t) … ( a waiter ) (5) … one’s hat (987)
tiptoe (vi) … ( around ) || to do sth. …ing (288)
tiptoe (U,pl.) to be on … (fig:286) to do sth. on …(s) (288)
tire (A) = (E) tyre (319)
tire (vi&t) sb. … (fast) || sth. … sb. (863) … () sb. (865) never … of doing sth. (881)
tired (adj.) a … person (12) … of sth. || … of doing sth. (352 || 885) to be healthily … (1239)
tiredly (adv:13) tireless (adj:123)
tiresome (adj:455) tiring (adj:13,455)
tissue (U, C) (body) … (s) (U / pl.:649) connective … (657) a ( paper ) … (759)
a … of lies / falsehoods (789)
tit (U) … for `tat (34)
Titanic (N) the wreck of … (663)
titbit E/A: tidbit (C) a … of gossip / news (1054, -56) a … (to eat) (1062)
tithe [ taid ] (C) a payable … (734)
titillate (v:610) titillation (U:611) titillating (adj:610) fancy-… (610)
title (C,U) a … of a book (70) to defend the …(201) … (U) of land (555)
to succeed to / inherit a … (1108)
titter (vi:387)
titter (C:387)
To
to (1)
toad (C:651) toadstool (C:649)
toady (C:1106) toady (vi) … ( to sb. ) (1106)
toast (U,C) a piece / slice / round of … (77)
toboggan [ tê`bågên ] (C) to ride on a … || a … run (1159)
toboggan (vi:1159)
tobogganing (U) to go … (1159)
today (adv:32)
today (U) by / with comparison with …´s society (180) comparison with … (182) sth. of … (1167)
toddler (C:1126)
to-do (39)
toe (vt) … the line (E) / (A&) the mark (194)
together (adv.) sbth. … with sbth. (24) throw sth. … (37)
toilet (C,U) a … (25) a … requisite (456) to go to / be in / use the … (619)
toiletry (C:456)
token (289,297) a gift … (E) (793)
told ( pat./ pap. of tell ) to do as you are … (2)
tolerance (U,C43)
tolerant (adj:43)
tolerate (vt:682)
toll [ têul ] (C) to pay a … (324) the death … is x (418)
toll (vi&t) … the ( death ) knell for / of sb. (925)
tomb [ tu~m ] (C:213)
tombola [ tåm`bêulê ] (C) a … booth (579)
tombstone (C:220)
tomfool (C:1246)
tomfool (adj.) a … person / idea (1246)
tomfoolery (U:1246)
tomorrow (adv.) to do sth. ( the day after ) … (265)
tomorrow (U) to save sth. for … (247) sth. of … (1167)
ton (C:628) to do sth. like a … of briks (407) millions of …(s) || a metric / long / short … (628)
tone (C,U) a … of voice (34) in a cheerful … (278) an abrupt / brusk / curt … of voice (1129) sth. ends
in a sombre … (1253)
tone-`deaf (adj:942)
tongs (pl.) a pair of ( fire ) … (1235) spl. go / are at hammer and … (1237)
tonne (C) millions of …(s) (628)
tongue (C, joinery:574) the native / English … (217 / 363) a … of land (235)
to let your … run away with you || a slip of the …(275) too (4,7)
tool (C) to throw down one’s …s (16) spl. down …s (57) to use a philosophical … (165)
to be an unwitting … of sb. (278) to be a naive / credulous / gullible … in the hands of sb. (972)
to act as sb’s … (1135) a painter’s … (1306)
tooth ( pl. teeth ) (C)
top (v) to … it all (39)
top (C) to the … ( of a hill ) (13) on … of sth. (everything) (fig:39) to make it to the … ( fig.) (188)
on … of the world (431) … round of beef (U) (795) sth. goes over the … (979)
…-`down management (601) the …-most part (139) …-ranked (198)
top (adj.) a … shelf (30) a … hat (758)
topic (C) a … of conversation / the day (44) a conversational … (46)
topical (adj.) of … interest (44) to make sth. … (46) topicality of sth. (46)
topple (vi&t) … a king (358)
topside (E) (U:795)
topsoil (U:1318)
Torah (N) the … (70)
torch, <light (C:444)
`torment (U,C) in … (706) sb. is a … (1269) some music / a fly is a … (1271+)
sb. is a … to sb. || to suffer { … / …(s) from sth. / from …s of sth. / the …s of the damned (1278)
sth. is the … of sb’s life || sth. is a slow … (1284)
torment [ tå~ment ] (vt) …d by a feeling / by disease (707 / 1269) … sb. ( with sth.) (1278)
… the evidence (1284) a storm … the water (1286)
tormentor [ tå~`mentê ] (C) sb. is a … (39,1278) a headache is a … (1271) a … of animals (1278)
torn (pap. of tear) to be … by war (353) war-`torn (adj:669)
tornado (C:627)
torrent (C) a … in a river (29) a … of abuses / excuses (206 / 955) the rain comes down in …s (317)
a raging … (768)
torrential (adj.) … rain (394) torso (C:751)
tortuous (adj.) … speech (691)
`torture (v:349) sb. … sb. into doing sth. (696) thoughts / feelings … sb. || to be …d by sth. (697 / 707)
`torture (U,C) send / put / subject sb. to … (695)
… chamber || instrument of … || do sth. under … (696)
tortured (adj.) to have a … mind (708)
torturer (C:696)
Tory (C:1025)
toss (vi&t) … a coin || … (sb.) for sth. eE||eE … up ( for sth.) (703) …ing and turning (706)
… () `off a generalization (844) … a salad (890)
toss (C) with a … of one’s head (694) to decide sth. on / by the … of a coin (703)
total (adj.) … emancipation (21) in the … (593) totally (adv:7)
totter (vi) sb. … (104) a government … (1031)
touch (C,U) in the form of a … (74) a … of sth. (133) to come in … with sth. (416)
a light / delicate / firm / heavy … (450) to do sth. with a light … (fig.) (609) the sense of … (936)
an organ of … (939) sb. has a / the human … || to be lacking in the human … (1165)
to put the finishing … to sth. || sth. gives sth. the finishing … (1305)
touch (vi&t) … (up)on a topic (280) sb. can … bottom (322) … lightly on ( a problem ) (490)
… () off sth. (535) not … a drop of sth. (897) … () `up sb. (965)
touching (adj.) a … speech (285)
touchline (C:25)
touchy (adj.) sb. is … about sth. (390) a … person (392) a … subject (407)
tough (adj.) … work (469) … meat (794)
tour (C) a sightseeing … (324) a package … (761) a walking … (862)
tourist (C:323) a … vessel (323)
tournament (C) to hold a ( prestige / prestigious ) … (154,383)
tow [ têu ] (vt) … a car (31)
tow (C,U) to give sb. a … || to take a car in … || a … rope (31) a … car / truck (1122)
towline (C:31)
towards (30) towel (C) throw ‘in the `… (15)
tower (C) an outlook … (139)
towering (adj.) a … figure in history (1216)
town (16) the (whole) … (= its people) (sg:102) … `centre (406,416) … council (98,409)
… `councillor (409) … crier (277,409) … dweller (73,405) … gas (564) … gate (406) … `hall (98,405)
a … planner / … planning (409) a man about `… || a night on the `… || go out on the `… ||
to go to `… (on sth.) (602)
townee, townie (C:406) townscape (C:408) townsfolk (pl:73)
township (C:221) townsman (C:74,405)
townspeople (pl:74,405) townswoman (C:405)
toxic (adj.) … emission(s) (622)
toy (vi + with ) … with an idea
toyshop (C:587)
Tr
trace (v:214,465,491,526, draw:528,539, describe:599) …sth. (to sth.) (527) … sth. back to (528)
… a call (638)
trace (C,U:117,488) a … element (568,650) to disappear without a / to leave no … (117,491)
( to find any ) … of sb. / sth. (491) ( without ) (a) … of sth. (524) to put a … on sb’s calls (638)
( to kick over the ) `…s (523) to bear / lose all / show …(s) of (493)
traceable (to) (528,539)
tracery (C,U:562)
trachea (C:766)
tracing (C) (a) … (528) … paper (U) (528)
track (C,U:28,69, music:643,U:561) to keep `… of sb./sth. (524)
to be on the … of sb./sth. (524,528) to be on the right / wrong `… (524,528) to lose … of sb./sth. (527)
to throw sb. off the … (534) sth. is a `fast … (fast-… route) to sth. (542) to be on … (for sth.) (590)
to (get) (sth.) back on … (592,605) a good / proven `… record of doing / in sth. (595)
to be on the `fast … to sth. || a one-… `mind (602) a cart … (E) || off the beaten `… (608)
a train jumps the `… (A) (630) a dirt / mountain … || a dirt-… race (633)
to run … || a … event || a … team / star (634) to lose all … of time (641)
to be in the … of (a storm) (661) … work (883)
track and field (A) to go in for / engage in … (634)
tracks (pl.) to cover one’s … (117,491) to stop (dead) / halt (dead) / freeze in one’s … (498,594)
to be hot on sb’s … (525,528) to stop / halt sb. in their … (594)
to be from the wrong / right side of the … (599)
( to be situated) off the beaten `… (608) to make … (640)
trackless (adj:501)
track (vi&t:526+) … sb. for sth. (A) (652) … sb. to sth. (527) (camera) … `in / out (608)
… sth. (by radar) (620) … () down sth. (526)
tracker (C) a … dog (527)
tracking (U) a … station (C:620)
tracksuit (E) (C:635) … bottoms (635)
tract (C) a … of forest etc. (157 / 526) to issue a … on sth. (618) the digestive / urinary … (657)
the respiratory … (766)
tractability (U:595)
tractable (adj:42,528)
traction (U:666) to put / be in …(585)
tractor-trailer (A) (586)
trade (U,C) a … circular (26) a … union (E) (56) the outlook for … (143) a … link with sb. (598)
… balance (628) a … war || to erect a … barrier (670) a …(s) union (E) (791)
President of the Board of T… (812) to carry on … (860) (brisk) (retail) … (873)
… and industries (1134) to be engaged in a … || to be sth. by … (1149)
trade (vi&t) … sth. with sb. (214) … with sb. (224) … on one’s abilities (603)
trader (C) street ... (579)
tradesman (168) a small … (579)
tradespeople (pl.) small ... (579)
tradeswoman (C:872)
trading (U) a … association (168) a … vessel (659)
tradition (C,U) according to (a) local … (72) a … reaching back to sth. (163) to break with … (187)
there’s a … that - || it’s the … ( for sb.) to do sth. (497) by … (598)
traditional (adj.) a … concept (300)
traditionally (adv.) sth. is … used (262)
traffic (U) sluggish … (11) … regulations (pl.) || a … offence / sign / signal (74) … jam (211)
a … island (E) (301) a … circle (A) (325) (linked / phased) … light(s) (582) a … accident (583)
a … offender (584) heavy / light / terrible / horrendous / rush-hour // oncoming … (585+)
to get stuck in … (585) a … queue (E) (882) … (1060)
trafficked (adj.) heavily … (562)
trafficker (C) a … in pardons (360) a drug … (1132)
tragedy (C,U) (a) … strikes sb. (737) tragically (286)
tragicomedy [ trad§i`kåmêdi ] (C:599) tragicomic (adj:599) tragicomically (adv:599)
trail (v) (be) … (<ing) (in competition) (590)
trail (C:525) be hot on sb’s … (525)
trailor (C:vehicle:586, film:599)
train (C) a … accident (64) a … of humiliations (282 ) … service (333)
a passenger / goods E/A freight … (630) a high-speed … ( journey ) (810)
to interrupt sb’s / to lose one’s … of thoughts (1067)
train (vi&t) sb. … (14) … in / to do sth. (46) … for an exam (47) … sb. to do sth. (79) … sth. (199)
trainband (C:514)
trainee (C:830) … work (830)
trainer (E) (C) a pair of …s (611)
training (U,sg.) (a) university … (3) get / receive (a) vocational … (4) a police … school (4)
a … shoe (762) a … course (830) basic … (843)
trait (C) a(n) inherited / inheritable / hereditary / genetic ( character / personality ) … (1093+)
traitor (U,C:486) to turn … to sb. / sth. (212,492) traitorous (adj:487) traitress (C:487)
tramp (C: person:528,619, walk:644,ship:659) the … of boots etc. (509,514) … steamer (659)
tramp (v: 509,514,526)
trample (vi&t) … (on / over) sth. / sb. (515,526,fig:532 / 623) …() `down sth. / sth. to death (527)
… sb. underfoot (624)
trance (C) be in / fall into / go into a … (72)
tranquillize E/A <quilize (vt:1289)
tranquillizer (C:1289)
transaction (C,U) a credit card … (335) an odd … (971)
transalpine (adj.) T… Gaul (925)
transcend (vt) an idea … experience (164)
trance (C) in a hypnotic … (1065)
trans`fer (vt) … money from a bank account to sb. (96) … one’s land to sb. (150)
… sb. from a place to another (174) … sb. (739)
`transfer (U,C) funds / credit … (97)
`transferance [ A: -`fer- ] (U) … of money (112)
transform [ trans`få~m ] (vt) … sb. (44)
transformation (C,U) incarnation is a … (83) to undergo profound … (170)
transformer (C) a … substation (565)
transience (U:1253)
transient (eA) (C:1253)
transient (adj.) … fashions (321) the spoken word is … (738) a … population (927)
a … guest || … influence (1250) the merriment is … || … success (1252) to have … authority (1260)
`transit (U) public … (A) (409) sth. settles / is damaged in … (1230 / -50)
sb’s … from good health to sickness (1252) a … system (1260)
transition (U,C) the … to a socialist society (1198)
a … from warm to cold weather / between warmth and cold (1250)
the … from being sth. to being sth. || a … period || a period of … (1253)
transitional (adj: a … government (553)
transitory (adj.) a … population (927) a … guest || … influence (1250) to have … authority (1260)
the merriment is … || a … success (1252)
trans`late (vi&t:342)
trans`lator (C:364)
transmission (U,C) a radio / TV … (126) … of a disease (1255)
transmit (vi&t) … a signal || … a programme live (126) … a character / disease to sb. (1093)
… a heirloom from sb. to sb. (1098)
transmitter (C) a radio / TV … (126)
transnational (adj:810)
trans`parant (adj:528)
transplant (C,U) a … operation (317)
transport (U,C) to be in …s of delight (251) a form of … (E) (297)
transport (vt) sb. … sth. from swh. (214) … sb. on a charge of sth. (1184)
transportation (U) … corps [ sg: kå~ / pl: kå~z ] (204) a form of … (A) (297)
transsubstantiation (U:1006)
transverse [ tranz`vê~s ] (adj.) … vibrations (1171)
trans`vestite (C:611)
trap (vt) to feel …ped by a mesh / web of sth. (205) sb. is …ped (388)
sb. is …ped in a dangerous place (1114)
trap (C) a `poverty … (309) to walk / fall into a … (388) to catch sb. in a (radar) … (583)
to catch an animal in a … (676) to lay / set a … (688)
to lay / set a … || to walk / fall into // avoid the … of doing sth. (689)
trash (eA) (U:29)
trash (eA) (vt) … self-indulgence (1042)
trashing (A) (adj.) a … letter (1072) traumatize (vi) a …ing effect (741)
travel (U:64) … agency (64) a means of … (989) to face the direction of … (1151)
travel (vi&t) … around (144) … at a low / slow speed (583) light … a distance (463)
… light / far (503) sb’s eyes / gaze … + adv. (863) to face the direction of …ling (1151)
… widely (1157)
traveller (332) a commercial … (858)
travelling (adj.) a … salesman (858) `travesty (C:27)
tray (C:441)
treacherous (adj.) a … person (484) … ice (510) … memory / smile (519) … weather (505)
treachery (U,C:490)
tread (vi&t) sb. … lightly (451)
tread (C,U) a … on a tyre || the limit of … (319,769) caterpillar … (666)
treason (U:194) to commit ( high ) … (against sb.) (492)
treasonable / treasonous (adj:492)
treasure (vt) … a knowledge of sth. / a relic (219 / 228)
treasure (C ) the …s of a place (228)
treasury (C) the T… (E) || the Secretary of T… (A) || the T… Department (A) (812)
treat (C) a meal is a ( real / great ) … (1265)
treat (vt) … sb. with respect (42) … sb.+ adv. (58) … sb. / a disease with sth. (722)
… sth. against corrosion (1313)
treatable (adj.) a … infection (773)
treatment (C,U) to give sb. dehypnotizing … || the … of sb. (114)
preferential … (629) hospital … (1110) emergency … (1149) an anti-corrosion / -rust … (1313)
treaty (C) to make a (peace) … (24) T… of Rome (670)
tree (C:14) to eat of the T.. of Knowledge (968) treetop (C:283)
tremble (vi) sb. … at sth. // with excitement / fear (229 // 287 / -90) … to do sth. (827)
sb’s voice … with unease (828) the earth … (1044)
tremble (C) with a … of fear || a … in one’s legs (826+)
trench (C) an oceanic …(647) … warfare || life in the …es (666) …s intersect the marsh (1126)
trend (C) there’s a ( general ) … towards ( doing ) sth. || the ( growing ) … for sb. is that - (1162)
`trendsetting (adj.) a … debater (463)
trepidation (U) with … (827)
trespass (vi) … ( on sth. ) (556) trespass /A& <ing (C,U:556) trespasser (C:556)
trial [ `traiêl ] (C,U) ( to settle ) a … of strenth (14) to bring sb. to / sth. comes to // to put sb. on … (58)
… by combat (381) (to wait) … (536) a … game (E) (953) in the hour of … (1091)
triangle [ `traiangêl ] (C:647)
triangular [ trai`angjulê ] (adj.) a … prism (1170)
triathlon [ trai`a#lên ] (C:634)
tribal (adj.) a … chief (145) tribalism (U:216)
tribe (C:145,675+)
tribesman / <woman / <people (C:676)
`tribune (C:924)
`tributary (C:225)
tributary (adj.) … river (658)
tribute (U,C) to pay … (money:352) to pay … to sb. (fig:554)
tribulation (C,U:460)
trick (v) … on sb. (603) … sb. into doing sth. || … sb. out of sth. (701)
trick (C:86) to win a … (100) to play …s ( on sb.) (462)
to know every … in the book || confidence …(s) (702) to do boyish …s (724)
trickery (U:71)
trickle (vi + adv.) beads of sweat … down sb’s face (53)
tricky (adj.) a … situation (520)
tried (adj.) a sorely … person (833) … and tested / trusted / true method (1295)
trifle (vi) … with sb. / sth. (40 / 43)
trifle (C) a … annoyed (45) to make a fuss about …s (834)
trifling (adj.) a … detail (40)
trigger (C) to pull / squeeze the … (499) a … for / to (do) sth. (508)
trigger (v:504) … a memory / response (511) … sth. (off) (535)
trigger-happy / -ready (adj:499)
tri`glyceride (571)
trim (vt) clothes …med with lace (422) … sth. (off) (596)
trimming (U,C) meat with …s (1308)
Trinity (N) the … (84)
trip (C:68,301) a fast … (673)
trip (v) … `over (423) … () `up sb. || … `up (689) … sb. (696) … up in / over the words (703)
… ( `up on / over sth.) (704) … along (by sb’s side) (717)
trip (C) to make a … (journey:673, error:692, step:718) a … down the stairs (717) a … to swh. (727)
(a) round … (E:C, A:U) (727) a package … (761) a business … (786) a … down || a down … (863)
tripartite [ tri`pa~tait ] (adj.) a … society (147)
triple (adj.) … jump (634)
tri`saccharide (571) triterium (568)
triumph (C,U:387,397,406)
triumph ( at/in/over sth.) (v:388,397,399,415)
triumphalism (U:385)
triumphalist (adj:385)
triumphant (adj:388)
triumphantly (adv:351)
triumvirate [ trai`ûmvêrêt ] (925)
troll (C:1238)
trolley (C) a supermarket / shopping … (879) to roll a food … (1289)
troop (vi+adv.) spl. … out (513)
troop (C) irregular …s (23) to raise / command …s (151)
… concentrations / movements (503) a gentry … || a … of spl. (514) a … of birds (529)
trooper (C:498) to swear like a … (845)
trophy (C:385)
trot (vi) … along (719)
trot (C) break into a … || at a ( brisk / smart ) … (719)
troth [ trêu# E/A trå~# ] (o-f) (U) to plight one’s … (1077) in … (1161)
trouble (U,pl.) to cause … (22) to have … doing sth. (31) to take (xxx) … doing / to do sth. (52)
to take the … to do sth. (56) to have stomach … (1237)
trouble (vt) a problem … sb. || sb. is …d by their conscience (181) sb’s stomach … them (1237)
troublemaker (C:54)
troublesome (adj.) a … visitor (29) trouser (adj.) … seat / leg (529)
trousers (eE) (pl:14)
trout (C,U) to breed / farm …(s) (1127)
truancy (U:333)
truant (vi:333)
truant (C) to play … (333)
truce (540) to agree on / call / declare / break a … (550)
truck (C:565)
truckload (664)
true (U) an object is out of … (1293)
true (adj.) sth. is … (27) a … hero (64) a … fact (73) quite … (76) … enough (86)
sth. is … to a certain degree / extent (252)
to make sth. come … (578) sb’s … self / worth (536 / 963) a premonition holds … (1064)
a wheel / floor / door is out of … (1266)
a … masterpiece || in the …est sense of the word || how / perfectly … (1267)
a picture is … to nature (1268) a dream comes … (1269) a film is … to the book (1270)
the same is … for sth. (1271) sth. in a story … to life || to be … to oneself (1274) … belief (1275)
sth. holds … for sth. (1283) the … costs of being sth. (1284)
sth. is completely / strictly … || … or false || straight and … to the target || sb’s aim is … (1292)
a tried and … method (1295) it is … (that) - || it’s too good to be … (1297)
true-blue [ tru~`blu~] (adj.) a … supporter (1270)
true-life [ …-`… ] (attr. adj.) a … story (1274)
truly (adv.) … happy / sorry (856 / 1293) really and … (1293) to speak … (1293)
a … outdated system (1295)
trump (C) to play a … ( card ) || … is / are { hearts / diamonds / clups / spades ||
to hold a … card || to play one’s … card (100)
trump (vt) … a card ( with sth. ) (100)
to come up / turn up `…s (278)
trumped-up (adj:207)
trumpet (C:383)
truncheon (C:531)
trunk (C) a … ( of a tree ) (10) a … ( of a car ) (319)
trust (vt) … what sb. tells (1292)
trust (U,C) to have (blind) … in sb. (81) to earn the … of sb. (267) sb’s … in sb. (267)
to put / place { one’s / * absolute … in sb. (513,*1097) a … fund (787)
trusted (adj:492) a tried and … method (1296)
trustful (adj:267)
trusting (adj.) a … animal (32) a … attitude (267)
`trustworthy (adj.) a … person (82) trustworthiness (489)
truth (U,C) to search out the .. (6) to winnow … from falsehood (19) to tell (you) the … || … to tell (27)
the … about sth. (43) to depart from the … || there’s no … / not a grain of … in sth. (59)
the … of a story (83) to distort / twist the … (105) a single … (166) to tell sb. a few home …s (274)
to get at / find out / discover the … (275) a qualified … (435) real / eternal … || to come unto the
knowledge of … (707)
to tell the honest … || to keep / stick to the simple / plain / naked … (830)
if (the) … be told / known (956)
to take sth. as / for gospel … || sth. is gospel … (1097) in … (1161)
a(n) eternal / religious / scientific … || a seeker after … || love of … (1274)
to deny / doubt the … of sth. (1291 / -95) the moment of … (1292)
to stick to / speak the … || the whole / full … || it is God’s … (1293)
the ( honest / plain / simple / unvarnished / naked ) … is that - || to pervert the … ||
speak (the) … and shame the devil || to say … || that is the … of it || sth. is only a half … (1294)
to bend / stretch the … || to be economical with the … || to overstep the bounds of … ||
in accordance with the … || sth. has a ring of … about it || … is stranger than fiction (1295)
truthful (adj.) sb. is … (76) a … answer || to be … with sb. (1294)
truthfully (adv.) to answer … (1294)
truthfulness (U) the … of sb. (83)
truth-loving (adj.) a … person )
try ( tried, = ) (vi&t) … to do sth. (7) … all to do sth.(75) … () `on sth. (438) … sb’s patience (1104)
to be … at (the) Bar (1139) to … sth. for size (1155)
tryout [ `traiaut ] (C:953)
tryst (C:27)
Ts
tsetse fly (C:1258)
T-shirt (760)
Tu
tub (C) a (bath>) … (564)
tube (C) a gas … (563) a water … (575) a bike’s … || a … valve (589) a … of cream (977)
a fluorescent … (574)
tuberculoid (adj.) … leprosy (1257)
tuberculosis (U:1257)
tuck (C,U) a dress has a … (265) a tummy … (322) to eat … (340)
tuck (vt:265,286,323,,,339) a jewel is …ed away in sth. (289) … () away sth. (293)
a shop is …ed away swh. (325)
tuition (U:1010)
tumble (C) a … over an edge (1117)
tumble (vi+adv.) sb. … to the ground (387) sth. … down || sbth. … over a brink / precipice (1118+)
tumbledown (adj.) a … chimney (1126)
tummy (C) a … tuck (322) … button (1228)
tumour (C) a malign / harmful … (1308)
`tumult [ `tju~mûlt ] (U,C384,387,393,409) tu`multuous (76,387,401)
tuna (C,U) … ( fish ) (U:794)
tune (C) to whistle a ( cheerful ) … (121) a signature … || to play a … (126) to sing a sad … (278)
to change one’s … ( fig.) (1123) to hum a sad / doleful / melancholy / mournful … (1242)
to sing / play out of … (1271)
tunnel (C) light at the end of the … (111)
turbulent (adj:76)
turd (C:616)
turf ( turfs / turves ) (U,C) to be covered in …(s) 1127) a ( peat ) … || to burn …(s) (1128)
Turk (C:767, inform:778) Turkey (N:767)
turkey (C,U) a … ( cock / hen ) || roast … (772) a … (A) (person / film:778) to talk … (eA) (778)
Turkish (adj. ) … population (767) … de`light / coffee (772 / 774) to go to / have a … bath (775)
turmoil (393,398) … or war (498) to throw sb. into … (394)
emotional / religious / political / economic … (401)
turn (vi&t) sth. … into a slugfest / an active list (15) sb. … sb. out (29)
… off a radio || … the volume down (31) … on one’s charm (34) … tail (39) … to vulgarities (46)
it … `out that - (65) an event / things … out adv. / ( to be ) adj. / to be subst. (73, 63, 244)
sb. … ( * left || … away from / onto a road ) (74, * 128)
… one’s attention to sb. / sth.* || …sb. into a companion (78, 226* ) … to sb. ( for sth.) (103, 244)
… (E& `over) the pages (142) … to a subject (166) sb. … into a snob (186)
… a deaf ear to sb. / sth. || … a blind eye ( to sth.) (206)
sb’s thoughts … in the direction of sth. || to … one’s thoughts / mind to sth. (224)
the sun … winter into spring || winter … into spring (225)
… () `over sth. ( in one’s mind ) || to … a steering oar || a ship / river … ( to the ) north ||
a thing … up || the tide is …ing (226)
… a ship aport || … a ship towards sth. (227)
… sb. out (of / from sth.) (227,247) … sb. aside (228)
sb. … () `away sb. || … a dog loose || to let sb’s fate … (up)on sth. || … over a barricade ||
… () `over a thing to sb. || a situation … violent (229)
… one’s head / face ( away ) || … (a)round / away || … one’s back on sbth. ( & fig.* ) ||
… white / a whiter shade of pale || as if …ed to stone (233, * -34, -42)
… sb. loose || … () back sb. || … back ( to a place ) (234)
a ship … a point || … a phrase ( about sth. ) (235) … one’s hand to ( doing ) sth. (237)
sb. … to self-blame (238)
sth. … sb. away from faith || … against blind faith || … one’s nose up at orthodoxy ||
… sb’s stomach * || * sb’s stomach … (239, * & 1253)
sth. … sb. away from sb. || … away from orthodoxy || sb. … (a)round and do sth. (fig.) ||
… the tables on sb. * || * the tables are …ed (240, * & 836)
… / spin on one’s heel || … a new leaf (fig.) || there’s no …ing back (242)
it … ( people’s / some ) heads || sth. … out badly || … traitor to sb. (244)
… () down an offer || … () down sb. for a job || a job / solution … up ||
… sb. from one’s door (245)
sb’s efforts … up nothing (246) … in on oneself (248) … the corner || … and run away (249)
as it … out || sb. … out to be sth. (250) … () (a)round an idea (252)
an idea … () on sb. || a nun …ed a prostitute (256)
poacher …ed gamekeeper || sth. … (up)on sth. || a business … over sth. || … in /A … a profit (257)
… `in ( early / late ) || …up ( on time / ( too / x minutes ) late ) || … sb. on to sth. (258)
… a practice upside `down / on it’s head (260) … a conversation away from sth. (261)
cream  … to butter and buttermilk (262)
sb. / the kitchen … () (a)round / out x meals a day || sb. / sth. … sb’s head (fig.) (263 / 682)
sb. … (up)on sb. || … one’s gaze towards sth. (264) to … sth. inside out (266)
… land over to a garden || … an animal ( loose ) into a place (267)
… () over a business / responsibility to sb. (268) sb. … x in June (271)
an investigation … () up some evidence || … () out one’s pocket (272)
… () in sb. / * oneself ( to the police ) || … () over sb. to the law (276, * 608)
… sth. into sth. || sth. … into sth. || sb. … out ( to attend sth.) || … () in an inspiring performance (277)
… () (a)round a business || a busines … (a)round ( from loss to profit ) (281)
… (sth.) + adj. || … () down sb. (283) sbth. … () off sb. (285) … a match (302)
… in a superb performance || a match … ( around ) (304) … sb. loose onto the streets (308)
turn (C) to play out of … || to miss a … (9)
spl. do / sb. does sth. in … ( ~ one after the other / as a result ) (205 / 239)
one good … deserves another (186)
the tide / sb’s luck is on the … (226 / 251) to give sb. a … (228)
a … of the wind || spl. take …s ( to do sth.) / (in) doing sth. || E& to take it in …s ( to do sth.) ||
to miss / skip one’s … || it’s sb’s … to do sth. || to have / use a crude etc. * … of phrase (235, 264* )
the … of the century / year (237 / 271)
sth. take a … for the worse || sb. has a … (o-f E) || by …s sb. is adj. then adj. ||
in … sb. does sth. (238)
sb’s … of mind || to speak / talk out of … (239) sth. happens at every … (245)
to do sb. a bad … || a pessimistic … of mind (248)
to do sb a good … (250) sb’s fortunes takes a fresh / dramatic … || a … of events (251)
the food is done to a … (262)
with a surprising … of `speed (E) (303) a … signal (A) (324)
a three-point `… (857) a hairpin … (A) (1119) to do sb. an ill … (1252)
turnament (C) a … ( on horseback ) (154) a chess … (198)
turnabout (sg.) to do a … ( in one’s attitude ) (239) … is fair play (A) (240)
turn(a)round (C:298,325) to do a … ( in one’s attitude ) (239) sth. is a … in sb’s life (250)
a … time (253) a … in sb’s economy (281)
turncoat (C:240)
turner (C:325)
turning (U,C) sth. marks a … point in sb’s life (250) a … (E) (324) a … circle / radius (325)
a … lathe (325)
turnkey (adj:334)
turn-off (C) sbth. is a … to sb. / for sth. (251 / -61) a … ( on a motorway ) ( to a place ) (334)
turn-of-the-`century (adj:325)
`turn-on (C:263)
turn(-)out (sg.,C) sth. attracts / draws a record … || a poor / low / high / record … for a show (277)
a poor / low / high … ( of voters ) (309)
to wait at a … (A) (325)
`turnover (C,U) a rise in … (255) a fast … of stock || an apple … (262)
a high … of staff (281)
turnpike (A:324)
turnround = turnaround (C)
turnstile (C:330) turn-up (257,265) turpentine (U:875)
turret (C:666)
tutor (C:3)
Tv
TV (C,U) … is a medium of television (117) to watch … || to watch / see sth. on … (126)
high definition // flat-screen / -panel … (1306)
Tw
tweezers (pl.) a pair of … (771)
twenty (num:8)
twice (adv. / det. pron.) … as adj. (as sbth.) (878)
twig (C:723)
twist (vi&t) … an ankle (303) a river … (526) … sb’s arm ( about sth.) (480)
… sb’s arm behind them (624) … the truth / a fact (117 / 471)
two (num:1) twos (383)
twice (adv:35) … a week (46)
twilight (U) at / by … (1133)
twinge (C) a … of conscience (706)
twinkle (C) with a … in one’s eye (967) a / the … of (a) light / a star (995)
twinkle (vi) sb’s eyes … with happiness (987) (a) light / a star … (995)
twinkling (C) in a … || in the … of an eye (993)
twinkling (adj.) … eyes (984)
twist (vi&t) … the truth (105) … sb’s arm behind them / their back (276) … sb’s arm about sth. (480)
… a cloth (1063) … wool (1128)
twitch (vi&t) sb’s eyelid … (961) … one’s face (696) sb’s mouth / lips … (717+) … the reins (719)
its tail is …ing (723) … sb’s skirt / sth. out of sb’s hands || a curtain … (724)
twitch (C) to feel a … of anxiety (686) sb. has a … in his eye (691) with a … of one’s head (694)
to give sth. a … (719)
two (1) … way plug (572) tying (24)
Ty
type (C,U) all …s of sth. (49) size of … (840) to set (up) || a … ( in printing ) || legible … (1054)
the … set up (1055) a blood … (eA) determination (1093)
type (vi&t) … () `in a code (29) … a text ( in ) (334) typhoon (627)
tirannical [ ti`ranikêl ] (adj.) a … ruler || … power (145)
tyranny [ tirêni ] (U:146 &C)
tyrant [ `taiêrênt ] (C:145)
tyre (E/A) tire (C) a spare … (319) a flat … (589) a pneumatic … || … pressure (1062)
Tyrk (C:147) Tyrkey (N:69)
Uu
Ug
ugly (adj.) an … person (30) (as) … as sin (752)
Ul
ulterior (adj.) an … motive (249)
ultimate (adj.) the … sacrifice (229) an … favour (231) … reality (934) ultimately (adv:320)
ultrasound (U,C:942)
ultra`violet (adj.) … light (941)
Um
umbilical (adj.) to cut / ligate / ligature an … cord (1228)
umbilicus (sg:1228)
umbrella (C:32)
Un
UN (N:315)
unable (pred. adj.) ( to be ) … to do sth. (9)
unac`customed (adj:356)
unaffected (adj:227)
unarmed [ ûn`a~md ] (adj.) an … person (527)
unauthorized (adj.) an … person (1139)
unavoidable (adj:124) unavoidably (adv:536)
unaware [ ûnê`weê ] (pred.adj.) … of sth. / that - (10)
unawares (adv.) to take / catch sb. … (816) to do sth. … (824)
unbalanced (adj.) an … dog (199) sb. is … (832) an … diet (1262)
unbearable [ ûn`beêrêbl ] (adj.) an … time (1114)
unbecoming (adj.) … clothes || conduct … of / to sb. (1168)
unbecomingly (adv:1170)
unbelievable (adj.) … beauty / story (77/85) (it’s) … that - (85,97)
have an … time (89) unbelievably (76) unbelief [ ûnbi`li~f ] (U: 88)
unbeliever (C:70)
unbelieving [ ùnbi`li~ving ] (adj.) to be … (85) … eyes (119) unbelievingly (adv:85)
unborn [ ûn`bå~n ] (adj.) an … child / baby (286)
unbridled [ ûn`braidld ] (adj.) … competition (1205)
unburden (vt) … oneself / one’s heart / mind (282,488)
unbutton (vt) … a dress (265)… one’s buttons (A) (300)
uncalculable (adj.) … risk (704)
uncalculated (adj.) … risk (702)
unceasingly (287)
uncertain [ ûn`sê~tn ] (adj.) in no … manner (138) an … future / factor (145 / 255)
an … look (250) to tell sb. in no … terms what - (264) an … step (269)
to be … about / of sth. // (about) whxx || it’s … if - (273+) an … temper / temperament (274,1246)
uncertainly (adj.) to smile … || to walk … (250)
uncertainty (U,C) the …ties of life / life’s …ies (171) times of … (200) the …ies of war (313)
times of great … || there’s great … about / as to the future (244)
uncharitable (adj.) be …(76) … thought / remark (77)
uncharming (adj:41)
uncle (C:532)
unclean (adj.) sb. is … (fig.) (814)
unclouded (pred. adj:435)
uncloudy (adj:435)
uncomfortable (adj:613)
uncomfortableness (U) feel … (944)
uncommon (adj.) … pleasure || sth. is ( not ) … for sb. to do sth. (175) sth. is … (176)
uncommonly (adv:175)
uncom`municative (adj:748) uncomplicated (adj:157)
uncon`ditioned (adj.) an … reflex (763)
uncon`nected (fig:637) be … with sth. / sb. (638)
unconscious [ ûn`kån$ês ] (adj.) an … person (15) the … mind (1199)
unconscious (U) the … (1199)
unconsciousness (U) to lapse into … (607)
uncon`trolled (adj:538) uncontrolable (adj:458)
unconvinced [ ûnkên`vinst ] (adj.) to be … by sth. (211)
uncoordinated (adj:343)
uncountable (adj.) an … noun (1218)
uncover (vt) … a conspiracy (487) … a casserole (1272) … one’s head (1283)
uncovered (adj.) sb. / sb’s head is … (1283)
uncritical (adj.) … use (818)
unction (U,C) the extreme … (745)
un`damaged (adj.) the front part is … (31)
undaunted (adj.) … by sth. || sb. is … (748)
undecided (adj.) sb. is … as to / about whxx - || sb. is … ( about ) who - (377)
a contract is … (1127)
undecomposable / undecomposed (adj.) … fibers (938)
undeniable (adj.) … knowledge (913) under (11)
underarm (attr. adj.) (an) … antiperspirant / deodorant || … sweat (<ing) (639)
underbush (A/E undergrowth ) to hide in (the) … (1282)
undercarriage (667) underclassman / <woman (181)
underclothes (pl:760) underclothing (U:760)
under`cover (adj.) an … helper (87)
undercover (adv.) to go / work … (1280)
under`cut (C:877)
under`done (adj.) … (steak) (796) under-eat (221)
underfoot (adv.) trample sth. … (624)
undergarment (C:760)
undergo (vt) … a crisis (89) … DNA testing / profiling / fingerprinting (1093)
… a medical examination (1260)
undergraduate (C:3)
`underground (adj.) an … prison (1097)
underground (adv.) to go … (1143)
undergrowth (E/A underbush ) (U) to hide in (the) … (1282)
under`hand / <ed (adj.) … methods (535) to play an … game (1066)
underline (vt) … that - (84)
under`lying (adj.) an … cause of sth. (970)
undermine (vt) … sb’s credibility (107)
underneath (sg.) the … (1111)
undernourished (adj.) an … person (248)
undernourishment (U:248)
underpants (E&A) (pl:760)
underprivileged (adj.) … people (289) the … masses (374)
underprivileged (pl.) the … (374)
undershirt (A) (C:751) undershorts (pl:760)
underside (sg.) the … (1111)
understand (understood, = ) (vi&t) … sth. (7) … sth. to be sth. (44)
understandably (adv:282)
understanding (U,C) sb’s immediate … (60) an … of sth. (147)
with human … || to have an … of sth. (1164)
understood (pap.) sth. is … (963)
`understudy (C:62)
undertake [ ûndê`teik ] (vt) … a task / job (256,757,781) … to do sth. / that- (781)
`undertaker (C:757)
`undertaking (U:757)
undertaking [ ûndê`teiking ] (C) a desperate / dangerous … (525 / 669)
an … to do sth. / that - (781)
underway [ ûndê`wei ] (pred.adj.) urbanization is … (167)
underwear (U:760)
underworld (C:519)
underwriter (C:1122)
undeserving (adj.) an … person (244)
undesirable (adj.) sth. is … for sb. (535) sth. has … consequences / effects (539)
undeveloped (adj.) … film (675)
undigested (adj.) … food (938)
undiscriminating [ ûndis`krimineiting ] (adj.) an … appetite for sth. (1266)
undisguised (adj.) … condescension (132)
undisturbed (adj.) to live … (1120)
undo (vt) … a dress (265)
undoing (sg.) sth. is sb’s … (1035)
undone (adj:265)
undressed (adj. norm pred:764)
`undulate (vi&t) …d hilly land / …ing hills (557)
unduly [ ûn`d§u~li ] (adv.) sth. is … hard on sb. (1040)
uneasy [ ûn`i~zi ] ( adj.) to fall into an … sleep (429) to feel … about (doing) sth. (430)
an … alliance (806) an … relationship (833) an … compromise (835) … smile / movements (838)
an … laughter / mixture of humour and violence (844)
unease / uneasiness (U) a prick // feeling / sense of … (714 // 827)
a ( growing ) sense of … about sth. (829)
uneasily (adv.) sth. sits … with sth. (fig:829) do sth. … (837+)
uneducated [ ûn`ed§ukeitid ] (189) … person (189)
unemployed [ ûnem`plåid ] (adj:8)
unemployed (pl.) the … (194)
unem`ployment (U:194) … benefit / service (311)
unenclosed (adj:345)
unendurable (adj.) be … (746) unequal (460)
uneven (adj.) an … surface (940) unevenness (U:940)
unexpected (adj:387) unexpectedly (adv:143)
unexperienced (adj:311)
un`fair (adj.) … dismissal (55) an … system (413) life feels … to sb. (986) unfairly (58)
unfaithful (adj.) be … to sb. (378) unfaithfulness (378)
unfasten (vt:423,454) … a dress (265)
unfavourable (adj:58)
unfeeling [ ûn`fi~ling ] (adj.) an … treatment (577) a cold and … person (834)
unflagging (adj.) … energy123)
unfit (adj.) … for work (56) … for a job / to do sth. (595) to feel … (944)
sth. is … for human consumption (1223)
unfitness (U) feel … (944)
unfold (vi&t) the spirit of man … (357) a plot … (601)
unforeseeable (adj:76,116)
unforeseen (adj:116)
unforgivable (adj.) an … indiscretion (975)
unfortunate (adj.) (5) ( to put sb.) in an … position (584)
unfortunately (adv:28) … for sb. (1138)
unfounded (adj.) an … rumour (533)
ungovernable (adj:36)
ungrateful (adj.) feel … (944) ungratefulness (U) feel … (944)
unguarded (adj.) in an … moment (536) unhappily (adv:28)
un`happy (adj.) get … (203)
unhappiness (U:102) feel … (944)
unharmed [ ûn`ha~md ] (adj.) to set sb. at liberty … (23)
unharness (vt:501)
unhealthy (adj.) an … obsession with sth. (186) an … life (897) to feel … (944)
an … person / complexion / climate || … food (1262) an … interest in sth. (1265)
unhelpful (adj:75) unhelpfulness (U:97)
unhesitating (adj:75) unhesitatingly (adv:98)
unhindered (adj.) an … view (863)
unhurt (pred. adj.) to get away … (199)
unicellular (adj:649)
unified (348)
uniform (C14) a prison … (1139)
unify (vt:553)
unilaterally (adv:183)
unimaginatively (adj.) … harsh (1183)
unimpressed [ ûnim`prest ] (adj:227)
uninflectional (adj.) an … word (1219)
unintelligible (adj.) an … word (954)
unintended [ ûnin`tendid ] (adj.) an … consequence (488)
unintentional (adj.) sth. is … (484)
unintentionally (adv.) … funny (285)
uninterupted (adj.) an … series (431) … fighting (530)
uninviable (adj:256)
union (C,U) a ( trade ) `… E/A a ( `labor ) … (56)
unionist (C) trade(s) … (889)
unionize (vi&t) … ( sb. ) (889)
uninspiring (adj:158)
unique (adj.) sb’s … talent (48) uniqueness (U) sb’s … (1097)
unit (C) a territorial / military … (150 / 199) a secure … (of a prison ) (307) a … of area (1062)
unite [ ju~`nait ] (vi&t) sb. … two traditions (166) a country is … under sb. (215)
sth. … people (350) sb. … with sb. (399)
united (adj.) the U… Nations (315)
unity (U,C) the …ies of dramatic structure || the … of action / time / place (48+)
sb. imposes … (348) the … of the nation || national … || … of purpose (420)
universal (adj.) a … idea (164) the … set (1215)
universe (430) a perceptible / sensible / sensuous … (936)
university (C,U:1) to go to / be at … (E) || (A) to go to / be at a … (3)
unjust (adj:470)
unjustifiable (adj:333)
unjustly (adv:626)
unkempt (adj.) … hair / suit / manners (1039)
unkind (adj.41) unkindly (adv.) to act … (41)
unknown (adj:298)
unlace (vt) … a shoe (423)
unlamented (adj:1181)
unlawful (adj:612) unlawfully (adv:29)
unless (prep:321)
unlicenced (adj:349)
unlike (pred.adj.) sb&sb. are … (44)
unlike (prep:11)
unlikely (adj.) … explanation / person / place (55,69) sth. is ( considered * ) … (175 *, 178)
in the … event of sth. (176) it is … (that) - (178)
unlit (adj:573)
unlivable (adj.) an … house (1216)
unload (vi&t:421,497) … a camera (675) un`luck (144) unluckily (adv:28)
unlucky (adj:71)
unmanagable (adj:461)
unmo`lested (adj:356)
unmoved (pred. adj.237)
unnatural (adj:378)
un`nessary (adj:107)
unnoticed ( pred.adj. / adv.) sth. … as a signal of danger (114) to do sth. … (269)
sth goes / passes … by sb. (271)
unob`served (adj:269)
unopened (adj.) an … letter / envelope (298)
unpack (vi&t) … a sanwich (864)
unpalatable [ ûn`palêtêbêl ] (adj.) … food (774) unpardonable (544)
unpayed (adj.) an … volunteer || … work (791) an … bill / debt / rent (792)
unpleasant (adj.) in an … light (58) an … subject (261)
unpopularity (U:377)
unpowered (adj:659)
un`precedented (adj.) an … supply (359)
unpredictability (U:116) unpredictable (adj:113,116) to be … (77)
unprepared (adj:285,320,327) to be … for sth. (227)
unpreparedness (U:241)
un`prececentedly (adv:1003)
unprepo`ssessing (adj.) an … person (1032)
un`proven (adj.) an … allegation (909)
unpunished (adv.) let sth. go … (1064)
unqualified (adj:40)
unravel (vi&t) … a crime (274)
unread (adj:339)
unreasonable (adj.) an … person (957) an … demand (969) it’s … to do sth. || sb. is … (969)
… prices / treatment (990)
unreasonably (adv.) … high prices (990)
unreasoning (adj.) … anger (959)
unrelated (adj.) … images / thoughts (607)
unrelenting (adj.) …exploitation (538) an … tickle (773) unrelentingly (adv.) … exploit sb. (538)
unreliable (adj:489,562) an … person (272) … information (273)
unreliability (U) … of sth. (594)
unrepentant (adj:540) unrepentantly (adv:540)
unreserved (adj.) … support (604)
unresisting (adj:1140)
unrest (U) ( popular / civil / social / political ) … (466+)
unroll (504)
unruly (adj.) an … child (35) … hair (287)
unsafe [ ûn`seif ] (adj:305,322,338) rumours are an … guide (244) to feel … (248) … sex (315)
unsafeness (U) feel … || sbth. of … reputation (944)
unsafety (U) feel … (944)
unsavoury (adj.) an … character || of … repute (1245)
unscrupulous [ ûn`skru~pjulês ] (adj.) … mind / person (41+)
unscrupulously (adv:43)
unseat (vt:532)
unseemly (adj.) sth. is … for sb. (184) an … usage (185) an … behaviour (186)
unseemliness (U:185)
un`seen (adj.) to buy sth. sight … (879)
unsettled (adj.) … borders (346) a contract is … (1127)
unshaven (adj.) sb. is … (1039)
unsigned (adj:96) unsluggish <ly (11)
unskilful E/A unskillful (adj.) an … actor (62)
unskilfully (adv:62)
unskilled (adj.) an … worker (123)
unsociable [ ûn`sêu$êbêl ] (adj:844)
unsocialized (adj:844)
unspoilt (adj:316)
unsporting (adj:632)
unstable (adj:567)
unstoppable (adj:34)
unstoppably (adv:536)
unsub`stantiated (adj.) an … allegation (909)
unsuccessful (adj:35)
unsuited (adj.) to be … to (do) sth. (189) to be … for a job (1165) sb&sb. are … to each other (1244)
unsup`ported (adj.) an … allegation (909)
unsure [ ûn$uê ] (adj.) to feel … about sth. || to feel … of oneself (232)
to be … of sth. || to be … ( of / as to ) whxx || it’s … if - (273+)
unsuspecting (adj:116)
unsuspicious (adj:545)
unsustainable (adj.) an … argument (500)
unsympathetic (adj.) … person / … to(wards) sb. (606) … to sth. (602)
to take (up) an … attitude to(wards) a proposal (1245)
unsympathetically (606)
unthankfulnes (269)
unthinking (adj.) an … person (37) unthinkingly (adv:43)
untidy (adj:455)
until (prep:2)
untimely (adj:380)
untinged (adj.) joy not … with sadness (871)
untiring (adj:123)
untouched (adj.) a place … by Roman customs (149)
untrained (adj.) sb’s … palate (774)
untreated (adj:664)
untroubled (adj.) sb. is … (915)
untroublesome (adj.) an … escape (915)
untrue (adj.) a rumour / an accusation // a claim is … (1291+) an … explanation (1291)
untruth (C,U) the … of a rumour (1291)
untruthfulness (U:545)
unused (adj.) to remain … (616)
unusual (adj.) sth. is not … || there’s nothing … in sth. (132)
unveil (vt) … a document / a traitor (534+)
unwaged (adj.) to be … || an … work / worker / voluteer || the … (pl.) (790+)
unwanted (adj.) an … behaviour (308)
unwarlike (adj:218)
unwell [ ûn`wel ] (pred.adj.) to feel … (766) unwellness (U) to feel … (944)
unwholesome (adj.) … food (1262) an … interest in sth. (1265)
unwilling (adj.) … to do sth. (103) an … person (105)
unwillingly (adv:105)
unwitting (adj.) sb. is the … cause of sth. (479)
to be an … accomplice || an … tool in sb’s hands (972)
unwittingly (adv.) to do sth. … (479)
unworthy (adj.) … of consideration (930)
Up
up (vi&t) … `sticks / stakes (792)
up (adv. / prep. / adj.) to be … against sth. / sb. (fig.) (76 / 472) … to now (469) … to no good (690)
to be … to a job / task (970)
up (C) have one’s ..s and `downs (955)
`upbringing (sg.,U) … of children || to have a strict … (141)
up-`country (adj./adv:379)
up`heaval (U,C:of land:678, disturbance:360)
uphill (adj.) to fight an … battle (469)
uphold (vt) … an argument (477) sb. … sb’s authority against sb. || sb. … old traditions (1171)
upholder (C) an … of conservative principles (1171)
`upkeep (U) poor … of a car (296)
uplands (pl:213)
upon (7)
upper (adj.) the … extremities (20) the … class, <es (3,144) the … `crust (178) the U… House (189)
to gain / get / have the … hand (382)
( to write in ) … case || …-`case letter(s) (U:642)
upper (usu. pl.) leather …s (762)
upper-class (adj.) sb. is … (181)
upperclassman /<woman (C:181)
upper-crust [ …-`… ] (adj.) an … person (178)
upright (adj.) an … person (fig:538)
unprescribed (adj:607)
uprising (C:23) a popular … (465)
upriver [ up`rivê ] (adv.) to row … (226)
uproarious (adj.) an … part of a town (1308)
upset [ ûp`set ] (vt) to … an opponent (201) sth. … sb. || sth. … a balance (203) … a glass (204)
… sb’s stomach (205) … sb. that - || it … sb. to do sth. || … a plan || … the `apple cart (206)
`upset (C,U) sth. is a major … (201) political … || an … in prices (203) to have a stomach … (205)
upset [ ûp`set ] (adj.) ( to be / get ) … about / at / by sth // that - (107,201,206) … with sb. (206)
to have an … `stomach (205)
upsetting (adj.) an … defeat (201) an … experience || … circunstances (207)
`upside (adv.) turn a room … `down (251) to turn a practice … down (260) sb’s / the worlg has turned
… `down (950)
upstage (v:49/adj:51) upstairs (104)
upstart (358)
`upsurge (C) an … of sth. (1012)
`upswing (C) an … in economy (997)
`uptake (C,U) be quick on the … (475)
up-to-`date (adj.) … information (726)
uptown (A) (adv./adj:415)
untrustworthy (adj.) an … person (1297)
untruthful (adj.) … information || an … person (1297)
upturn (C) an … in economy (281)
upturned [ ûp`tê~nd ] (adj.) an … nose (264) an … face (279)
upward (attr. adj:251)
Ur
Uralic (adj:652)
Uranus (N) the planet … (995)
urban (adj.) … zone (17) … civilization (167) the … poor (309) … renewal (615)
urbanization (U:167)
urchin (C) a street ... (579) u`rea (U:938) u`rethra (938)
urge (C) to have / feel an … to do sth. (33) feel an inward … to breathe (937)
urge (vt) … sb. to do sth. (34) sb. … caution (140) a doctrine … sth. (146)
urgent (adj.) an … job (259) urgently (227)
urinary (adj.) the … tract / bladder (657 / 938) `urinate (vi:937) urination (U:938) `urine (U:936)
Us
usage (C,U) irony in … || current English … (125)
USB (C) a universal serial bus (654)
use (v:6) sb. …d to do sth. (o.pat.) (30) … sth. generously / sparingly (262)
use (U,sg:16) ( what’s ) the … of (doing) sth. / it’s no … ( doing sth.) (87)
to be ( of ) no / little / not much … ( to sb. ) (124) the … of land (148) sth. is in ( general ) … (167)
generous / sparing … of sth. (262) to make … of sth. (265) heavy … of sth. (609)
used (adj.) to be … to (doing) sth. (11,43) a … car (31)
useful (27) … to society || socially … (577)
useless (adj:40)
user (C:329)
usual (4adj:5) as … (11) sb’s … practice || the … crowd (45) sth. is ( much ) as … (236)
usually (adv:18)
usurer [ `ju~§êrê ] (C:16)
usurious [ ju~`zjuêriês ] (adj.) a … landlord / rent (16)
usurp [ ju~`zê~p ] (vt) … power (401) … sb. / a position (1094) usurpation (401) usurper (C:366,401)
usury (U) to practice … (16)
Ut
utensil (C:447)
utilitarian (afj.) a … philosophy (1179)
utility (C,U) design for … (296) …ies (usu. pl.) (561) … plant (723) sth. of (public) … (810)
a public … ( company ) (1079)
utilize (vt) sb. … sb. (162)
utmost (adj.) of … importance (163)
utter (vt) … a threat (53) … a cry (228) not … a word (238) … a stream of abuse (276)
U-turn (C) to do / make a … in one’s attitude etc. (239) to do / make a … on a promise (247)
to do / make a … ( in a car ) (324)
Vv
Va
vacancy (C,U) to fill a … (736) vacant (adj.) … land (558) a … property / (eA) lot // house (616 // 996)
vacation (A) (vi) … in / at a place (675)
vacation (U,C:674) to have / take (a) … (eA) (675)
vacationer (A) (C:322)
vaccinate (vt) … sb. against a disease (1270)
vaccination (C,U:1258) to perform a … against a disease (1269)
vaccine (C,U:1258)
vacillate (vi) … between sth. (796)
vacuum (C) a … cleaner (297) vacuum (vi&t:297)
vagabond (C:721)
vagaries [ `veigêriz ] (pl.) the … of nature (293)
vagina [ vê`d§ainê ] (C:459)
vagrant (C:1262)
vague (adj:601)
vain (adj.) to be … of sth. (33) in a … attempt to do sth. (38) a … hope || in the … hope that - (116)
it’s all in … (124)
valet (C:425)
Valhalla (N:236)
valid (adj.) a … ticket (20) a … signature (102) to remain … (821) a … inference (1214)
validity (U) the … of a ticket (20) the … of a plan (496)
Valkyrie [ val`kiêri / `valkiri ] (C:223)
valley (C:213) a … runs + adv. (1153)
valour [ `valê ] (U:152)
valuable (adj:91) valuables (pl:91)
value (U,C) sth. of … (93) sth. of the same … (95) to take sth. at face `… (782) human …s (1162)
value (vt) sb. … feeling (982) … one’s life (1105)
valve (C) a safety …(155) a tube … (589)
van (C) a ( railway ) … (630)
Vandal (C) a … (927)
vanguard (sg.) to be in / at the … of the society (174)
vanish (vi) a problem / sth. … (81/103)
… from sight || … into the blue (108) … without a trace / off the face of the earth (117)
a place is a … for doing sth. (858)
`vanishing point (C:871)
vanity (U:32,C) the … of sth. (45) to have (no) … about sth. (47) a … ( table ) (A) (456)
vanquish (vt) the …ed English (348)
vanquished (pl.) the … (1205)
vantage ( point ) (C) (to visit) a … || from the … of sth. (fig.) (416)
vapour (C,U:447)
variance (U,C) to be at … with sbth. (694)
variation (C,U) a … in sth. (1166)
varied (adj:10)
various (adj:3) variously (adv:79)
varnish (U,C) floor … (781) varnish (vt) … a floor (781)
vary (vi&t) sth. … (46)
varying (adj:246)
vassal [ vasl ] (C) an inferior … (147)
vast (adj:23)
Vatican (N) the … ( State / Palace ) (680)
Ve
vault (C) pole … (634)
veal (U:79)
Veen (N) a … diagram (1215)
vegetable [ `ved§têbêl ] (C ) fruit and …s (5) a … garden (267) to grow …s (405) a … kingdom (650)
vegetated (adj.) be … (647) vegetationless (1117)
veggie (adj.) a … burger (794)
vehement [ `vi~êment ] (adj.) a … denial (493) vehemently (adv:493)
vehicle (C) a military … (211)
veil (C) lift a corner of the … of sth. (490) wear a … (767)
veil (vi&t) … (one’s face) (767) veiled (adj.) a … woman (767)
vein (C,U) … (in rock) (405) on a lighter … (629) adrenalin surges through sb’s …s (1064)
velocity (C,U:1060)
velvet (U:370,377)
venal [ `vi~nal ] (adj.) a … person / behaviour (1105)
venalty [ vi`nalêti ] (U) … obtains (1099)
vending (U) a … machine (1159)
vendor (C) a street … (1057)
venerate (vt) … sbth. as sbth. (743)
Venetian (adj.) a … blind (872)
vengeance (U,C) to wreak … (224) to do sth. with a … (234, 279)
Venice (N:168)
venomous (adj.) a … bite (651) a … accusation / attack (691)
ventral (adj.) a … muscular foot (985) venture (C:9)
venture (vi&t) … to do sth. (423) … into / (up)on sth. (555) … out of doors (748)
Venus (N) the planet … (995)
veracious (adj.) a … person / report (1274 / 1283)
veracity [ vê`rasêti ] (U) the … of a story / sb. (83)
verandah (C) a covered … (1266)
verb (C) an active / passive ( sentence ) … (46) a … conjugates (188) a linking / equational … (652)
a single / compound sentence … || an auxiliary / a main … (847) a regular … (1219)
a modal ( auxillary ) … (1222)
verbal (adj.) … self-defence (202)
verbiage [ `vêrbi id§ ] (U) sb’s … (1040)
verbose [ vê~`bêus ](adj.) a … person || … writing (1039+)
verbosely (adv:1039) verbosity (U) sb’s … (1039)
verdict (C) to set aside a … (69) a jury delivers / returns their … // a safe / an unsafe … (307)
verge (vi) sth. … on sth. (fig.) (289)
verge (C) the … of a road (E) (331) to be on the … of (doing) sth. (fig:61, 784) on the … of ruin (889)
verger (eE) (C:746)
`verifiable (adj.) a … aspect (907)
verification (U) scientific … (909)
verify (vt) sb. … sth. / that - (906) … whether / how (912,914)
veritabel (adj.) a … battlefield (624)
verity (C,U) an eternal … || the …ies of a religion (1274)
vernacular (C) in the … (159)
vernacular (adj.) … literature (171)
vernal (adj.) a … expectancy (357)
versatile (adj.) milk is a … food (267) a … person / talent (290) a … teacher (1162)
versatility (U) a person of … (290)
verse (C:171)
versed (adj.) to be ( well ) … in sth. (682)
version (C:26)
vertebra (pl: <brae) (C) a cervical … (1235)
vertical (adj.) sb. holds sth. … (384) a … inclination / slope / precipice (1118)
vertically (adv:468)
very (1)
very (adj.) the … idea of (doing) sth. || to do sth. at the … idea (290) before sb. … eyes (396)
vessel (214) naval … (668) communicating …s (890)
vest (C) a … E/A (751/ 758)
vested (adj.) a … interest (1005) vesty (228)
veteran (C) a war … (12) … campaigner (316)
veterinarian, vet (E) (C:655)
veto (vt) … a bill (803)
Vi
vibration (C,U:940)
vicar (C:734)
vicarage (C:734)
vice (C,U) to abandon oneself to … (249) a den of … (612)
vice-(prefix) …-admiral (191)
vice versa (adv.) and … (179)
vicinity (sg.) in the (immediate) … (of sth.) (379, 717)
vicious (adj:473) viciousness (U:759)
victim (C,U) sb. a … of success (27) to fall … to sth. (32) a sacrificial … (223)
a rape … || a … of circumstance (234) an innocent … of sth. (237) sb’s … mentality (239)
a … of a hold up (268)
a crash … (293) to fall … to sb. (320) homicide / murder … (321)
sth. is a … of cuts in spending (335)
victimization (U) to be subjected to … (238)
victimize (vt) … sb. (238,305,311)
victimized (adj.) a … person (235)
victor (C) a … ( of a game / battle / competition ) (304 / -30 / -88)
victory (C,U) a (signal) … ( for sb.) (102) to win / gain a … (551 / 1287)
vie (vi) … with sb. (929)
view [ vju~ ] (vt) … people apart (66) … sth. from a place (139) the medieval world … (163)
… sth. as sth. (813)
… sth. from a xxx perspective / standppoint / viewpoint / point of view ||
… sth. from the perspective / standpoint / viewpoint / point of view of sb. (815)
… sth. with suspicion (819)
to be …ed by appointment (866)
view (C,U) sb. with liberal …s (7) have xxx …s (12) to have / hold a xxx … || to take the … that - (21)
to have / share a … of life / the world || to have a … about / on a matter (56) sb’s … on sth. (69)
to disappear / vanish from … (108) to gaze at the .. (139) from xxx point of … (143) in … of sth. (309)
(with) a … to sth. (405) to have a … of sth. (435) on … (441) cloud sth. from … (510)
in the long … (602) to take a realistic … of sth. (813)
a prevalent / traditional … of / on / about sth. (814)
(Christian) world … || to incline to the view that - (815) to have strong …s on / about sth. (816)
to share sb’s …s || in the … of sb. (817) in … of sth. (817)
to have / take a { different / opposing / conflicting view ( about / on sth.) ||
to take / express / support ( purely ) the { … that - / same … as sb. ||
it’s a strongly / deeply / widely held … that - (818) || a ( frank ) exchange of …s ||
to state one’s …s (822) share the … that - (823)
to come into / be in … || to be hidden from … || there’s a … to sth. (826)
take a ( pretty ) dim / poor … of sb. || in full … of sb. (827)
to have a pessimistic / optimistic … of life / marriage / love (832+)
to have / with sth. in … ( fig.) || do sth. with a … to (doing) sth. || take the long .. (of sth.) (832)
revise / change one’s ( fundamental ) … of sth. / …(s) on sth. (836) a change of …s (841)
to block sb’s … (852) have a (good) … of sth. (855,863) have sth. in … (fig:856)
sth. spoils the … || sth. is in … || sth. commands a (fine) … of sth. (857)
a book containing / with … (of sth.) || hold a (private) … (858) sth. is on … (859)
sth. gives a (stunning) … over sth. || there is a (magnificent) … / are …s (of / over sth.) ||
sb. has a (good) … / …s of sth. (863) a house has a … / views (of / over sth.) || a lake / mountain … ||
sth. can be …ed by apointment (866) to take a … of sth. (891)
viewer (C) (tv) … (127) a … of the political situation (841) a … of a painting (870)
viewing (C) hold a (private) … (858) a … platform (864)
viewpoint (C) to agree with sb’s … || to agree (with sb.) about / on sb’s … (817) from a xxx … (819)
to look at things from a different … || to have one’s own … on a matter (818)
to draw sth. from a xxx … (871) to carry / push a … to its logical conclusion (1231)
vigil [ `vid§il ] (C,U) a ceremony of a … (152)
vigour [ `vigê ] (U) with … (10) to do sth. with fresh / renewed … (869)
vigorous (adj:9) vigorously (adv:11)
Viking (C:223) a … expedition (224)
vile (adj.) … smell (16)
vilifying (adj:540)
villa (C) the Roman … (150)
village (C:139) a … hall (E) (898)
villager (C:404)
villain (C:274) the … of the piece (403) villainous (379) villainy (378) villein, <age (157,374)
vindicate (vt) … a theory (1196)
vindictive (adj.) a … peace (1205)
vinegar (U:79)
vintage (adj.) a … car (997)
violate (vt) … a law (209) … a woman (234)
violater (C:414)
violation (U,C) human rights … (315) … of a right (625)
violence (U) a threat of … (54) to do sth. by … (146) street … (732)
violent (adj:210)
violin (C:770)
VIP (64)
viral [ `vairêl ] (adj.) anti>`… (648) a … infection (766)
Virgil (N:170)
virgin [ `vê~d§in ] (adj.) … land (558)
virgin (C) V… Mary (743)
virile [ `virail E/A `virêl ] (adj:341)
virtu (U) sb. has … (1267)
virtual [ `vê~t$uêl ] (adj.) … stranger (44) a … victory (1287)
virtually (adv:309)
virtually (adv.) … ampty (28) … certain (309)
virtue (C,U) the …s of chivalry || … is its own reward || to make a … of necessity (152)
to have the … of courage (206) a paragon of …(461) no … in doing sth. (625)
by / in … of sth. (693) to be familiar with / well versed in the social …s || to lack social …s (854)
the …s of a drug (1260) a healing … (1261)
sth. has the … of doing sth. (1266) the Christian / theological / cardinal …s (1275)
a(n) article / work of … (2188)
virtuous (adj.) a … girl (36) to feel … (450) virtu`osity (U:450) virtu`oso (adj./C:450)
virus (U,C living thing:205,648 disease:766) … infection / disease (766) a … settles in sb’s throat (1150)
viscount [ `vaikaunt ], <cy / <ess / <ship (173)
viscous [ `viskês ] (adj:455)
visibility (U) poor / zero / all-round … (320 / 859 / 862) (increase) the … of sbth. (fig.) (867)
high … clothing (882)
visible (adj.) a … sign of sth. 152) barely … (763) a … change (850) highly … to sb. (882)
a … sign of sth. (886)
visibly (adv.) … flattered (543) to be … shaken (fig.) (826)
Visigoth (C) a … (927) Visigothic (adj.) the … kingdom (927)
vision (C,U) within sb’s field of / at the extreme point of … (13) sb’s … (fig.) (85)
sth. clouds sb’s … (472)
sbth. with (breadth) of … || to have a clear / grand / powerful / original … for / of sth. (805)
a ( religious ) … (819) tears blur sb’s … || sb’s … blurs (839)
sb’s … ( in one eye ) is poor || sb. has poor … ( in one eye ) (865)
an i`maginative … || have little … (868)
a … of beauty / loveliness || inside / outside sb’s field / line of … (870) to have …s of sth. (885)
to have good night … (886) an organ of … || to be … impaired (939)
visionary (adj.) a … person (480) a … speech (805) a … dreamer (868)
visionary (C:480) (a religious) … (519)
visit ( vi&t) to … a store (29) … sb. (250)
visit (C) to pay a … to a place (29) to have a … from sb. (1313)
visiting (adj.) a …ing person (128) the … team (201)
visiting (U) a … card (984)
visitor (C:19) a health … (728)
visual (adj.) a … cell (939)
a … sense / impression (941+)
vital (adj.) a … style(357) a … necessity (942) it’s … for sb. to know sth. (969)
vitamin [ vi - E/A vai - ] (C:571)
vivid (adj.) a … memory of sth. (35) a … recollection of sth. (836) a … colour (1267)
Vo
vocabulary [ vê(u)`kabjulêri ] (C) (active / passive) … (46)
vocation (C,U) … for sth. (180) a sense of … (682) to feel / have a … to the priesthood (682)
vocational (adj:3) vociferate (37) vociferous (29)
voice (U,C) to throw one’s … (20) a tone of … (34) the `active / passive (…) (46)
to have a … in a matter (258) to lower one’s … (264) a dissenting … (789)
say etc. sth. with one … (863) a deep-throated … (1084)
voice (vt) sb. … a resentment (361)
volcanic (adj.) … eruption / activity (293 / 414) … ash (418)
volcano (C) an active … (64)
volley (C) to kick a … into the goal (302) to hit a … into the net (317)
volley (vt) … the ball into the corner (302) … the ball outside the line (317)
volt-face [ vålt fa~s ] (sg:239)
volume (U,C) a book in x …s (26) to turn the … down (31) the … of traffic (64)
a sound rises in … (1057)
voluntarily (adv:16) voluntary (adj.) … association (146)
volunteer [ vålên`tiê ] (C:50)
volunteer (vi&t) sb. … (50) … ( * sb.) for sth. ( * 91, 118) … to do sth. (118)
voracious (adj.) a … appetite / eater (1251) a … reader || a … appetite for information (1266)
voraciously (adv.) to eat … (1251) to read … (1266)
voracity (U:1251)
vomit [ `våmit ] (vi&t) … (sth.) || … `up sth. (767)
vomit (U:767)
votary (C:22)
vote (vi&t:7) … for / in favour of / against sbth. (101) to be entitled / eligible to … (801)
… sb. a member / onto a committee (806) … conservative (807) … in an election ||
… sb. for president (808) sth. is …d a success / failure (808) … sb. in (as sth.) || … sb. into sth. ||
… sb. out (of sth.) / off sth. || … () down sb. / * a motion etc. (809 / * 814) … on sth. || … (that) - (814)
… with one’s feet (877) … oneself sth. (892)
vote (C:28,U) take / have a … (101,807) direct … (553) a light / heavy … (463)
to have / hold a (popular) … (553) to give sb. the … (802) to move a … of `censure ||
to win a … of `confidence || pass a … of no `confidence (803) … catching / grubbing ||
to consider one’s … (807) … rigging (808)
to gain / obtain / win x % of the vote(s) || return a blank … (809) to put sth. to a / the … ||
to have the casting / deciding …(814) a … of `thanks (814)
voter (C:101) an eligible … (808)
voting (U:310) … takes place || … age (806) a … booth / (mark) a … paper (808)
voucher [ `vaut$ê ] (C:297) a luncheon … (E) (78)
to redeem a … || a … is redeemable (against sth.) (763) … fiddling (788) a gift … (793)
vow (C) make / take a … (of sth.) || keep / break a … (393)
make / take one’s ( marriage / wedding ) …s (439)
vow (vt&speech:393) … (to do) sth. || … (that -) (393)
vowel (C:1218)
voyage (C) to go on a ( long ) … (225) on its maiden … (663)
Vs
V-sign (C:106)
Vu
vulgar (adj.) … conversation / joke (46, 844) vulgarity (U:43) vulgarities (pl:46)
`vulgarize (vt) a composition … lofty material (609)
vulnerable (adj.) a … position (613) … person (622)
Ww
Wa
wade (vi+adv.&t) sb. … (A) || … around in the water (322) … through a magazine (1154)
wader (C:331)
waders (pl.) to wear … (1136)
wafer (C:745)
wag (C) a … of the tail (1039)
wag (vi&t) … one’s tail / head || sb’s tail … || sb’s tongue … incessantly ||
to set tongues / beards / chins / jaws …ging || tongues etc are …ging ||
it’s (a case of) the tail …ging the dog || how … the world ? || that’s the way the world … (1039)
… one’s finger at sth. || let one’s tongue … (1040)
wage (sg./pl. 60) … earner (411) a (huge) … packet (E) (779) earn a good … (785)
… fixing || the fixing of the …s || … negotiations || … agreement / settlement || a level / rate of …(s) ||
a low …(791) pay sb. a living … (792)
wage (vt) … (a) war (203) … against / on (495)
waged (adj.) … worker / work || sb. is … (791+) the … (pl:791)
wagon (E&:waggon) (C) station … (A) (129) a … ( pulled by horses ) (498)
(goods) / box (E) … (630)
wail (vi&speech:111)
waggery (U,C) sb’s … (1039) waggish (adj.) a … eccentric || … verbosity (1039)
wainscot (430)
waist (233) stripped to the … || bare from the … and upwards (233) waistcoat (E) (758)
wait (sg.) a (long) … (for sth.) (446) a … between sth. (450) a … for sb. (462)
to lie in … ( for sbth.) (534)
wait (vi) … for hours (and hours) (13) … for sbth. to do sth (101,440)
… a long (& little / short) while … || … for (quite) a while / (for) a couple of hours (116)
… sb’s convenience (421) … for sb. (421) can’t / can hardly … (for sth.) (to do sth.) (434)
sth. … for sb. (457) … orders / signal (499) … around / about (E) (504) … ages (504)
… one’s chance / opportunity (504) … till / until (591) … trial (536)
… a moment / minute / second (640) … in (for sth.) (E) (655) … `up (for sth.) (457) … `up ! (A) (657)
(a policy of) …-and-see (495) … () `out sth. (505)
wait (serve:445) … on sb. ( hand and foot ) (445) … at `table (446) … upon sb. (455)
… (on) table (591)
waiter (C:5)
waiting ( prep.) sth. is … ( for sb. / to do sth.) (446) ( to have sth.) … ( for sb.) || to keep sb. … (457)
a disaster / an accident is … to `happen (428) to be well worth … for (609) to be … to do sth. (592)
be … in the wings (596)
waiting (U) a … list || to be in … on sb. (446) a … room (562) … time (561) ‘ No …’ (sign) (586)
to play a … game (495) a … school (591)
waiting-maid (C:453) waitress (C:257)
waits (pl.) to join the … (580)
wake (C) in the … of sth. (fig.) (83) the … of a ship (225) a … before / after a burial (426)
in the … of sb. (441)
wake (up) (vi&t:424,+) … (sb.) `up (114)… up to (fig:483) … up with a start (460)
(a noise to) … the dead (461)
wakeful (adj:427) <ness (432)
waken (up) (425) … (up to) (fig:470)
wakey-wakey (438)
waking (adj.) … hours (425) … day / life / moment (428)
waking (U) between … and sleeping (428)
wale (C:227)
walk (C) to take a … (31) the … (634) to have a jaunty … (1110)
walk (vi&t) … with a swagger (10) … out of the talks (24) … alongside (48) … a road (66)
… `out on a promise / a deal (247 / -68) … out on sb. (256) … out of a job (257)
… `up / down a street (613)
… on water / the waters || Jesus … upon water(s) (967) sb. … on air (968)
walking (adj.) a …race (634) … boots (762) a … tour (862) within … distance (866)
wall (vt:216)
wall (C:17) bang / bash / run one’s head against a brick `… (601) a rock … (768)
wallet (C:298)
wallpaper (C,U:17)
wallop (vt) … sb. (1307)
wallop (C) sth. packs a … (1326)
walloping (C) to get a real … (1307)
wall-to-`wall (adj.) … carpeting (U) / a … (E& fitted) carpet (782) … ( news ) coverage (786)
wand (C) wave a (magic) … (113)
wander (vi&t) … aimlessly around (269) … about in the dark (422) … (around) the streets (763)
sb’s eyes / gaze // mind … + adv. (863 // 884) one’s mind / thoughts … (885)
… from / off the point (893)
wandering (adj.) a … scholar / knight (171 / 390)
wane (sg.) sb’s popularity is on the … (107)
wane (vi) sb’s enthusiasm … ( rapidly ) (108) the moon … (116)
wangle (vt) … sth. out of sb. (911)
want (v:4) … sb. (640) … to do sth. (524) … sb. doing / to do sth. (641)
want (C,U) there is (a) … of sth. || be in … of sth. (13) for … of sth. (14) a list of …s (19)
sb’s …s and needs (736) to meet / fulfil / satisfy sb’s bodily …s (937)
wanted (adj.) a … person (6) to be …ed by the police (109)
wanton (adj.) … violence (276) … use of sth. (305) a … person (360)
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war (v) sbth. … with lust / conscience (554)
war (C,U) in ( times of ) … (12) civil … breakes out (24) to engage an army in (a) … (148)
to wage (a) … (203) to turn the tide of … (328) (the) W..s of the Roses (366)
to plunge spl. into … (471) to have a … on with sb. (472) … of nerves / words (473) class … (482)
to open … on sb. (486) council of … || to fight a / wage (a) / make) … against / on (495)
… craft || a … game || at … (with sb.) || be on … footing || to fight in a / the … ||
to go to … / the …(s) (496)
to declare … on sb. || … breakes out || … between spl. (497) turmoil of … (498)
a … cry || fortune of … (510) to declare … against / on (fig.) (516) to raise … fever (525)
to carry the … into the enemy’s camp / country (532) to suffer a defeat in (a) … (550)
to win / lose a … || prisoner of … (551) a … crime / criminal / widow / cloud (552)
a … dance (558) tobe in the ...(s) (579