Page 4 - B.J. Thomas - INTERMEDIATE Vocabulary

Contents

Introduction iv

Oictionary Practice 1

Topics
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Air Travel 4, Bank Accounts 5, Books and Reading 7, Cars 8, Cinema and Films 9,
Doctors and Hospitals 10, Education 11, Elections and Government 12, Flats and
Houses 13, Food and Restaurants 14, Gambling, Smoking and Drinking 15, Industry
and Agriculture 16, International Relations 17, Law and Order 18, Music 19, Natural
Disasters 20, Public Trans~rt 21, Romance and Marriage 22, Shopping 23, Sport 24,
Television and Newspapers 25, Theatre 26, Tra~1 27, War 28, Welfare State 29,
Work 30
Mini Topics
Argument, Sadness, Nervousness 31, Success, Fame, Pride 32, Birth, Childhood and
Adolescence, Death 33, Advertising, Art, Photography, Military Service 34, Police,
Security Work, The Countryside 35, The Seaside, Mountains, Electrical Appliances 36,
The Telephone, Computers, Factory Work 37, Office Work, A Strike 38

Related Word Groups
Sounds 39, Animai Sounds, Human Sounds 40, Ways of Looking, Walking 41, Body
Movements 42, Containers 43, Furniture and Fittings 44, Connectors 45, Tools 46,
Vehicles, Bicycle 47, Collective Nouns 48, Young Animals, Law Breakers 49,
Occupations 50, Male and Female, People 51, Clothes 52, Parts of the Body 54,
Punctuation Marks and Printing 55, British Measurements, Quantities 56, Shapes 57
The British Isles 58

Word Building
Prefixes60, Suffixes 63, Nouns made from Verbs 66, Nouns made fram Adjectives 74,
Adjectives made fram Nouns 78, Adjectives made fram Verbs 80, Verbs made fram
Nouns 81, Verbs made fram Adjectives 81

Specialised Vocabulary
Formai Words 82, Slang and Colloquial Words 84, Popular Language 85, American
Words 87, Newspaper Headlines 88, Abbreviations 89, Classified Advertisements 91,
Shortened Words 93

Problem Pairs
Pairs of Words Often Confused 94, One Word or Two? 99

Spelling Rules 100
Word Games 104
Key 106