Intermediate Vocabulary BJ Thomas Nelson‘Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd Nelson House Mayfield Road Walton-on-Thames Surrey KT125PL_UK 51 York Place Edinburgh EH SID UK ‘Thomas Nelson (Hong Kong) Ltd Toppan Bullding 10/ 22A Westlands Road Quarry Bay Hong Kong © B,J. Thomas 1986 Firat published by Edward Amold (Publishers) Ltd 1986. Reprinted four times. ISBN 0-7131-8427-2 ‘This edition published by Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1990 ISBN 0-17-555144-3, NPN 98765 [All rights reservad. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission orin accordance with.the provisions of the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 188, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying Issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, £0 Tottenham Court Road, London, WP SHE. ‘Any person who does any unauthorised act In relation to this. publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and clvil claims for damages. Printed in Hong Kong. Cartoons by Matthew DoyleContents SS Introduction Topics Air Travel....5, Bank Accounts....6, 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....18, Industry and 16, International Relations....17, Law and Order....18, 19, Natural Disasters....20, Public Transport....21, Romance and Marriage....22, Shopping....23, Sport....24, Television and Newspapers....26, Theatre....26, Travel....27, War....28, Welfare Slate....28, Work....30 Mini Topics Argument, Sadness, Nervousness....31, Success, Fame, Pride....32, Birth, Childhood and Adolescence, Death. ..33, Advertising, Art, Photography....34, Military Servic Police, Security Work....35, The Countryside, The Seaside, Mountains. 36, Electrical Appliances, The Telephone, Computers....37, Factory Work, Office Work, A Strike....38 Related Word Groups Sounds, Animal Sounds....39, Human Sounds, Ways of Lookin: Walking, Body Movements....41, Containers....42, Furniture and Fittings....43, Connectors....44, Tools....45, Vehicles, Bicycle....46, Collective Nouns, Young Animals....47, Law Breakers....48, Occupations....49, Male and Female, People....60, Clothes. ...51, Parts of the Body....52, Punctuation Marks.and Printing, British Measurements....53, Quantities, Shapes....54 40, Word Building Prefixes....55, Suffixes....68, Nouns made from verbs....60, Nouns made from adjectives....68, Adjectives made from nouns...,72, Adjectives made from verbs....74, Verbs made from nouns....75, Verbs made from adjectives....76 Specialized Vocabulary Formal Words....77, Slang and Colloquial Words....79, American Words....80, Newspaper Headlines....81, Abbreviations....82 Pairs of Words Often Confused....84 Key....89