Units 11 & 12

Word Type/meaning Example/Translate

acquaintance /əˈkweɪn.tənts/ They're not friends, just
Noun acquaintances
Conocidos
Agitated ˈædʒ.ɪ.teɪ.tɪd Don't get agitated
Adjective Nervioso
Bird-brained ˈbɝːd- -breɪnd
Adjective
Candlestick /ˈkæn.dl̩.stɪk/ Candelabro
Noun
Culprit /ˈkʌl.prɪt/ Culpable
Noun
Eyesight /ˈaɪ.saɪ/ Vista
Noun
Crow /krəʊ/ Cuervo
Noun
Dreadful /ˈdred.fəl/ Horrible
Adjective
Jelly /ˈdʒel.i/ Gelatina
Noun
Gamble /ˈɡæm.bl̩/ to gamble on the horses
Verb. apostar
Hurriedly ˈhʌr.id/ We left early, after a hurried
Adjective breakfast.
Muy rapido
On tiptoe /ˈtɪp.təʊ/ The children stood on tiptoe in order
Noun to pick the apples from the tree.
Ransack ˈræn.sæk/ The burglars ransacked the house
Verb but found nothing valuable.
Shrink /ʃrɪŋk/ The company's profits have
Verb. shrunk from £5.5 million to £1.25
million.
Threshold /ˈθreʃ.həʊld/ the floor of an entrance to a
Noun. building or room
Wobbly /ˈwɒb.l̩.i/ Likely to wobble: a wobbly
Adjective ladder/table I’ve been in bed with flu
and my legs are still feeling all
wobbly.
Zillions An extremely large, but not a
/ˈzɪl.jən/ / stated, number: I’ve told you a zillion
Noun times/zillions of times not to do that.

Abandon /əˈbæn.dən/ To leave a place, thing, or person for ever:

Verb We had to abandon the car.
Agnostic æɡˈnɒs.tɪk/ Someone who does not know, or believes

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Noun that it is impossible to know, if a god exists:

Although he was raised a Catholic, he was
an agnostic for most of his adult life.
Alienate /ˈeɪ.li.ə.neɪt/ to cause someone or a group of people to
Verb stop supporting and agreeing with you:
All these changes to the newspaper have
alienated its traditional readers.

Heresy /ˈher.ə.si/ An opinion or belief that is the opposite of or

Noun against what is the official or popular
opinion, or an action that shows that you
have no respect for the official opinion:
Radical remarks like this amount to heresy
for most members of the Republican party.
Encourage / ɪnˈkʌr.ɪdʒ/ to make someone more likely to do
Verb something, or to make something more likely
to happen:
The council is encouraging the development
of the property for both employment and
recreation.
Migraine /miː iː.ɡreɪn/ /ˈmaɪ- Severe continuous pain in the head, often
/ with vomiting and difficulty in seeing: Do you
Noun suffer from migraine?
Law-breaker /’ɔːˌbreɪ.kər/ a person who does not obey the law,
Noun especially intentionally and often

Disorder /dɪˈsɔː.dər/ A state of untidiness or lack of organization:

Noun The whole office was in a state of disorder.
Riot a noisy, violent, and uncontrolled public
/ˈraɪ.ət/ meeting: Inner-city riots erupted when a local
Noun man was shot by police
Spill /spɪl/ To (cause to) flow, move, fall, or spread over
Verb the edge or outside the limits of something: I
spilled coffee on my silk shirt.

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