3rd Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 303 p. — ISBN 9781316630068.The words you need to communicate with confidence.Vocabulary explanations and practice for advanced level (C1 to C2) learners of English. Perfect for both selfstudy and classroom activities. Quickly expand your vocabulary with over 100 units of easy to understand explanations and practice exercises. Also inside the book is a code for an ebook. This is the same as the printed book, but with audio so that you can listen to new words as well as reading them. The ebook is online for Windows and Mac users, and can also be downloaded to iPads and Android tablets.
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University Press does not guarantee the accuracy of such information thereafter Contents Thanks Introduction Work and study Cramming for success: study and academic work Education: debates and issues 10 Applying for a job 12 Job interviews 14 At work: colleagues and routines 16 At work: job satisfaction 18 At work: careers 20 People and relationships Describing people: positive and negative qualities 22 Describing people: appearance and mannerisms24 10 11 12 13 14 15 Describing people: personality and character traits 26 Relationships: friends forever 28 Relationships: ups and downs 30 Emotions and reactions 32 Negative feelings 34 Birth and death: from cradle to grave 36 Leisure and lifestyle 16 Free time: relaxation and leisure 17 All the rage: clothes and fashion 18 Home styles, lifestyles 19 Socialising and networking 20 The performance arts: reviews 38 40 42 44 and critiques46 21 22 23 24 The visual arts 48 Talking about books 50 Food: a recipe for disaster 52 Dinner’s on me: entertaining and eating out 54 Travel 25 On the road: traffic and driving 26 Travel and accommodation 27 Attracting tourists 56 58 60 The environment 28 Describing the world 29 Weather and climate 30 Brick walls and glass ceilings 31 Taking root and reaping rewards 32 The animal kingdom 33 Our endangered world 62 64 66 68 70 72 Society and institutions 34 Here to help: customer service 35 Authorities: customs and police 36 Beliefs 37 Festivals in their cultural context 38 Talking about language 39 History: since the dawn of civilisation 40 The haves and the have-nots 41 British politics 42 International politics 43 The letter of the law 44 War and peace 45 Economy and finance 46 Personal finance: making ends 74 76 78 80 82 84 86 88 90 92 94 96 meet98 The media 47 The media: in print 48 The media: internet and email 49 Advertising 50 The news: gathering and 100 102 104 delivering106 English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Health 51 Healthcare 52 Illness: feeling under the weather 53 Medical language 54 Diet, sport and fitness 108 110 112 114 Technology 55 Industries: from manufacturing to service116 56 57 58 Technology and its impact 118 Technology of the future 120 Energy: from fossil fuels to windmills122 Basic concepts 59 Space: no room to swing a cat 60 Time: once in a blue moon 61 Motion: taking steps 62 Manner: behaviour and body 124 126 128 63 64 65 66 67 68 Sounds: listen up! 132 Weight and density 134 All the colours of the rainbow 136 Speed: fast and slow 138 Cause and effect 140 69 70 Difficulties and dilemmas 71 Number: statistics and quantity 76 77 78 Spot the difference: making comparisons142 144 Modality: expressing facts, opinions, desires146 148 150 152 154 and praising 156 Promises and bets 158 Reminiscences and regrets 160 Agreement, disagreement and compromise162 English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Academic writing: making sense 164 Academic writing: text structure 166 Writing: style and format 168 Whatchamacallit: being indirect 170 84 The way you say it Give or take: more vague expressions172 Words and meanings 85 Abbreviations and acronyms 86 Prefixes: creating new meanings 87 Suffixes: forming new words 88 Word-building and 174 176 178 180 word-blending182 language130 Functional vocabulary 72 Permission: getting the go-ahead 73 Complaining and protesting 74 Apology, regret and reconciliation 75 A pat on the back: complimenting 79 80 81 82 83 89 90 91 English: a global language 184 Easily confused words 186 One word, many meanings 188 Fixed expressions and figurative language 92 Collocation: which words go together190 93 94 Metaphor: seeing the light 95 96 Brushing up on phrasal verbs 192 Idioms for everyday situations and feelings194 196 Connotation: making associations 198 Language variation 97 Register: degrees of formality 98 Divided by a common language 99 Language and gender 100 In the headlines 101 Red tape 200 202 204 206 208 Answer key 210 Phonemic symbols 276 Index 277 Acknowledgements 299 Enhanced ebook 301 Thanks and acknowledgements Joy Godwin wrote two units for the Third Edition: Unit 3, Applying for a job, and Unit 4, Job interviews The publishers would like to thank Joy for her contribution to this edition English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Introduction To the student This book has been written to help you expand your vocabulary at the advanced level You already know thousands of English words, but to express yourself fully and in a sophisticated way at the advanced level, you will ideally need between 6,000 and 8,000 words, so increasing your vocabulary is very important for your general progress in English, as well as for any academic, professional or vocational needs you may have where English plays an important role At the advanced level, as well as learning new words, you will need to learn more about the subtle connotations of words, aspects of register and style and how words combine into collocations, compounds and fixed phrases In this book, there are over 3,000 new words and expressions for you to learn You will find them on the left-hand page of each unit Every new word or phrase is used in a sentence, or in a conversation, or is in a table, or has a picture with it, or has some explanation of what it means On the right-hand page there are exercises and other activities to help you practise using the words and to help you to remember them Where our research shows that learners frequently make errors, we give you advice on how to avoid the most common ones, as well as other useful language tips The book has been written so that you can use it yourself, without a teacher You can the units in any order you like, but we have grouped them into themes, so you might wish to work through several units on a particular area of vocabulary before moving to a new one The Answer key at the end of the book is for you to check your answers to the exercises after you them The key sometimes has more than one answer This is because often there is not just one correct way of saying something Where you are asked to talk about yourself, in the Over to you activities, we not provide answers, since this is your opportunity to work completely independently and in a very personal way, so everyone’s answer will be very different The Index at the end of the book has all the important words and phrases from the left-hand pages The Index also tells you how to pronounce words There is a table of phonemic symbols to help you understand the pronunciation on page 276 You should also have a dictionary with you when you use the book You can use a paper dictionary, an electronic one, or you can go to Cambridge Dictionaries Online at http://dictionary.cambridge.org Access to a dictionary is useful because sometimes you may want to check the meaning of something or find a word in your own language to help you remember the English word Sometimes, you will also need a dictionary for the exercises; we tell you when this is so To learn a lot of vocabulary, you have to two things: Study each unit of the book carefully and all the exercises Check your answers in the key Repeat the units after a month, and then again after three months, and see how much you have learnt and how much you have forgotten Repeating work is very important Develop ways of your own to study and learn new words and phrases which are not in this book For example, every time you see or hear an interesting phrase, write it in a notebook, and write who said it or wrote it, and in what situation, as well as what it means Making notes of the situations words are used in will help you to remember them and to use them at the right moment We hope you like this book You can also go to the other books in the series which have more specialised titles: English Idioms in Use, English Phrasal Verbs in Use and English Collocations in Use, which are available at advanced level, as well as Academic Vocabulary in Use Find out more at the Vocabulary in Use website: www.cambridge.org/elt/inuse English Vocabulary in Use Advanced To the teacher This book can be used in class or as a self-study book It is intended to take learners from an upper-intermediate level of vocabulary to an advanced level The vocabulary has been chosen for its usefulness in everyday situations, and we consulted the Cambridge English Corpus, a billion-word-plus written and spoken corpus of present-day English which includes a huge learner corpus, to help us decide on the words and phrases to be included and to help us understand the typical problems learners encounter at the advanced level We also consulted the English Vocabulary Profile to make sure that the words in the book are a representative sample of vocabulary that is typical of the Common European Framework levels C1 and C2 Visit the English Vocabulary Profile at www.cambridge.org/elt/inuse At the advanced level, as well as learning a large number of new words and expressions, learners are often directing their efforts towards academic, professional or vocational needs, and so we have tried to offer a modern, sophisticated vocabulary that will underpin their work in other areas The new vocabulary (on average 40 items per unit) is presented with explanations on the left-hand page, and there are exercises and activities on the right-hand page There is an Answer key and an Index with pronunciation for all the target vocabulary The key at the end of the book is for students to check their answers to the exercises after they them The key sometimes has more than one answer This is because often there is not just one correct way of saying something Where students are asked to talk about themselves, in the Over to you activities, we not provide answers, since this gives learners the opportunity to work completely independently and in a very personal way, so everyone’s answer will be very different The book focuses not just on single words, but on useful phrases and collocations, and the vocabulary is illustrated in natural contexts The book is organised around everyday topics, but also has units devoted to basic concepts such as time, modality, manner and varieties and style Typical errors are indicated where appropriate, based on information from the Cambridge Learner Corpus, and the most typical meanings and uses are focused on for each key item The right-hand pages offer a variety of different types of activities, some traditional ones such as gap-filling, but also more open-ended ones and personalised activities which enable learners to talk about their own lives Although the activities and exercises are designed for self-study, they can be easily adapted for pairwork, groupwork or whole-class activities in the usual way When the learners have worked through a group of units, it is a good idea to repeat some of the work (for example, the exercises) and to expand on the meaning and use of key words and phrases by extra discussion in class, and find other examples of the key items in other texts and situations This can be done at intervals of one to three months after first working on a unit This is important, since it is usually the case that a learner needs five to seven exposures to a word or phrase before they can really begin to know it, and no single book can enough to ensure that words are always learnt first time It is especially important at the advanced level to discuss in detail the meanings and uses of words and phrases and how they combine and collocate with one another Your students can also consult the more specialised higher level books in this series: the advanced levels of English Idioms in Use, English Phrasal Verbs in Use and English Collocations in Use, or they may wish to work on academic vocabulary by using Academic Vocabulary in Use, all by the same authors as this book They can also test themselves on the knowledge they have gained from this and the other books in the series by using the separate books of tests that accompany the series You can find out more at the Vocabulary in Use website: www.cambridge.org/elt/inuse We hope you enjoy using the book English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Cramming for success: study and academic work A Study and exams Before an exam, some students cram1 for it Even if you’re a genius2, you’ll have to some revision If the exam happens every year, you can revise by looking at past papers3 Some things can be memorised or learnt (off ) by heart But rote-learning4 is not sufficient for most subjects It is also possible to use mnemonics5 However, all things considered, the best idea is to bury yourself in your books6 and to study intensively7 until you know the subject inside out8 B study in a very concentrated way for a short time an exceptionally clever person exam papers from previous years learning purely by repetition /niˈmɒnɪks/ tricks that help you remember something, for example: ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’ is a mnemonic for English spelling (e.g friend, but receive) spend the maximum time studying in a very focused way know it completely Academic writing composition could be just 50–100 words, often used for school work essay longer than a composition, more serious, hundreds or thousands of words assignment a long essay, often part of a course, usually thousands of words project like an assignment, but emphasis on student’s own material and topic portfolio a collection of individual pieces of work; may include drawings and other examples of creative work as well as writing dissertation a long, research-based work, perhaps 10–15,000 words, for a degree or diploma thesis a very long, original, research-based work, perhaps 80–100,000 words, for a higher degree (e.g PhD) It’s a good idea to start with a mind map1 when preparing an essay Always write a first draft2 before writing up the final version Your essay should be all your own work; plagiarism3 is a very serious offence in colleges and universities It is an increasing problem because it is so easy to cut and paste from materials available on the internet, and students have to sign a plagiarism form to say that the work they are handing in is all their own and that they acknowledge4 any sources they have used There is usually a deadline5 After the essay is submitted6, it will be assessed7 and usually you can get feedback8 diagram that lays out ideas for a topic and how they are connected to one another first, rough version / pled ərzəm/ using other people’s work as if it was yours give details of date by which you must hand in the work handed in; formal evaluated and given a grade comments from the teacher/tutor C Aspects of higher academic study less formal is research magazines with academic articles (we not use the word magazine to talk about this kind of academic publication) get hold of (it) on the internet system where libraries exchange books/journals with one another HOME FACULTY RESEARCH University academics carry out research and are expected to read academic journals2, which publish papers/articles on specialised subjects If a library does not have a copy of a book or journal, you may be able to access it online3 or you can usually get it through an inter-library loan4 Open educational resources5 are particularly convenient for many students Academic study can be very demanding, and some students drop out6, but the majority survive till finals7 and become well-qualified8 members of their future professions online materials that can be freely used by teachers and students anywhere leave the course before the end last exams before the end of a college or university course with the right formal qualifications English Vocabulary in Use Advanced ... Idioms in Use, English Phrasal Verbs in Use and English Collocations in Use, which are available at advanced level, as well as Academic Vocabulary in Use Find out more at the Vocabulary in Use.. . something should be done] [takes attention away] 10 English Vocabulary in Use Advanced Exercises 2.1 Complete the collocations by filling in the missing words according to the meaning given in brackets... letter in English English Vocabulary in Use Advanced 13 Job interviews A Preparing for interviews When companies are recruiting1, they often have a set of criteria2 (e.g three years of experience in