 Composite – made up of separate parts

 Enhance – improve, increase

Text A
 Counterpart – a person or thing identical to or closely resembling another (duplikat)
 Gear – the enquipment, clothes you use to do a particular activity
 Outfit – a set of clothes worn for a particular occasion or activity
 Ever-better – improving all the time
 Distinguish – contrast (razlikovati se)
 Legitimate – reasonable and acceptable by the law
 Draw the line – set a limit
 Ingenuity – originality, the ability to solve problems in new and clever ways
 Utilise – to use something in an effective way

B
 Steady – continuing or developing gradually without any interruptions and not likely to change
quickly
 Seemingly – apparently
 Mundane – very ordinary
 Make strides – make rapid progress
 Formerly – previously; once
 Fine – very delicate, small or exact
 Track – a piece of ground, often oval-shaped, that is used forraces involving athletes, cars,
bicycles, horses

C
 Kit – special clothing and equipment that you use when you take part in particular activity esp.
Sport
 Ride on – depend on
 Capitalise on – take advantage of
 Prowess – great skill
 Track and field – particular group of sports in which people compete, including running, jumping
and throwing (atletske discipline)
 Esteem – respect for a good opinion of someone
 Elite – a small group of people who have a lot of advantages and keep the most power and
influence

D
 Nutrition – the science of food and its effect on health and growth
 Negate – to cause something to have no effect (negirati, ponistavati)
 Accomplishment – achievement
 Respective – relating separately to the individual people you have just mentioned
 Fiberglass – a lightweigh, extremely strong and robust material
 Pole – a long thin piece of wood or metal, used especially for supporting things
 Enterprise – a business company or organization
 Fuel – intensify strong feeling
 Incremental – increasing gain-profit; advantage

4.1

 Phonograph – an old word for a record player

 The brainchild of sb – new and clever idea or invention (izum)
 Prolific – producing a lot of books, CDs...
 Purpose-built – specially designed
 Soundproof – not allowing sound to go through
 Squeeze – to get into a small place
 Horn – a curved musical instrument that you blow into to make a sound (rog)
 Vinyl record – a gramophone record
 Launch – makes a product available to the public
 Commercial flop – a total failure
 Bring out – to produce a new product and start to sell it
 Adopt – to accept or start using something new
 Prevail – prove more powerful or superior (nadjacati, preovladati, dominirati)
 Mainstream – popular, common
 Come into prominence – to gain recognition or fame
 Retail at – to be sold at the a particular price (maloprodaja)
 Outsell – to be sold in greater numbers that another product
 Fall by the wayside – not be successful or effective any longer
 Herald -indicate, announce (glasiti, najaviti)
 Give way to – to be replaced by something, especially something newer or better
 Remain in ascendancy – have more power or influence than the other group
 Predominant – most important or powerful
 Subscription based – used to describe a website or television station that customers pay to use
 Awareness – knowledge or understanding of a subject
 Blacklash – negative response
 Downturn – a drop or reduction in the success (pad)
 Resurgence – revival, return
 Royalties – money paid to writers for recorded music (honorar)
 Fun base – faithful followers