Vocabulary Notebook B1 U4-6

Unit 1: Tales of the unexpected
Item Word/phrase Meaning Example sentence Picture Personal association

/ Pronunciation / (dictionary or Headway
# (Word class) online)
1 Plague disease
/ pleɪɡ / A serious disease that spreads Human trafficking is infection
(noun) quickly and kills a lot of one of the greatest epidemic
people. plagues of the contagion
beginning of this
century.
2 playwright A person who writes plays. The social world that dramatist
/ ˈpleɪ·raɪt / allowed a woman to be scriptwriter
(noun) first a spy, then a tragedian
financially successful dramaturge
playwright and poet dramaturgist
was one of enormous
upheaval.
3 RAC Abbreviation for the Royal Two policemen in road help

/ˌɑːr.eɪˈsi / Automobile Club: a British fluorescent tops are
(noun ) organization that gives help talking to some men in
and information to drivers an RAC rescue van.
who are members of it.
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4 Flock A group of sheep, goats, or To these places flocked herd
/ flɒk / birds. buyers and sellers of group
(Noun) different things and flight
information from all drove
parts circulated in colony
these volatile spaces.
5 Starling A common bird with black or Today, some two bird

/ ˈstɑː.lɪŋ/ dark brown feathers that lives hundred million flock
(noun) in large groups in many parts starlings and a further
of the world one hundred and fifty
million sparrows live
there.
6 Dreath The air that goes into and out The peak inspiratory inhalation
/breθ/ of your lungs. pressure, delivered breathing
(noun) breaths per minute, pant
and the fraction of gasp
inspired oxygen all gulp
significantly increased
during sternal closure.
7 Beneath Under something, or in a She could see the under
/ˌbɪˈniːθ/ lower position than something muscles of his below
(adverb, shoulders beneath his underneath
preposition) T-shirt. lower than
8 Receipt A piece of paper that proves This goes proof of purchase

/rɪˈsiːt/ that you have received goods hand-in-hand with an voucher
(noun) or money increase in the number stub
of visitors and receipts, acknowledgment.
but also in
expenditure.
9 Basil A plant whose leaves are used Add the tomatoes and Vegetable
/ˈbæz·əl/ to add flavour to food basil with salt and
(noun) pepper to taste.
10 Distress The feeling of being very upset

/dɪˈstres/ upset or worried The rich countries worry
(noun ) must naturally come trouble
up with resources to pain
relieve the distress wound
more quickly and more
generously.
11 Sailor mariner
/ˈseɪ·lər/ Someone who works on ships We will be staffing marine
(noun) or boats, or who sails as a ships with sailors who seaman or woman
sport do not know how to salt
swim, next. tar (informal)
12 Keen eager
/kiːn/ Liking something very much I am keen to learn how earnest
( adjective) to do it and want to spirited
devoted
motivate my wife to
show me the ropes.
13 Commute reduce
/kəˈmjuːt/ To travel regularly between Under the new law cut
(verb) work and home families will have the modify
shorten
power only to
commute a death
sentence imposed by
the courts.
14 Char scorch
/tʃɑːr/ to burn and become black or They fought the flames sear
(verb) to burn something so that it for more than an hour singe
becomes black carbonize
before finding the
body inside the charred
home.
15 Skewer pierce
/ˈskyo͞oər/ A long piece of wood or metal We’re going to grill gore
(Noun) used for holding pieces of some pork skewers for impale
food, typically meat, together spike
tonight’s celebration
during cooking
16 Secede Leave/left, withdraw.

/siˈsēd/ Withdraw formally from The United Kingdom
(Verb) membership of a federal seceded from the
union; an alliance, or a European Union
political or religious
organization
17 Kvell Happy, proud

/k(ə)vel/ To feel happy and proud My mom was kvelling
(Verb) for my performance at
ballet
18 Beseech Beg, plea, supplicate
/biˈsēCH/ (Verb) To ask someone urgently and He besought for his
fervently to do or give liberty while he was
something arrested
19 Mephitic Poisonous, gas, vapor

/məˈfitik/ Foul-smelling; noxious The mephitic mist
(adjective) surrounded the castle
where the Sleeping
Beauty lays waiting for
Felipe, her prince
20 Quidnunc Gossip, chitchat

/kwid,nəNGK/ An inquisitive and gossipy Gossip Girl is a TV
(noun) person show where its trama
is about a quidnunc
who sends gossip to
everyone on NYC
Unit 2: Rights and wrongs
21 Giggle To laugh in a nervous or silly The film is fitfully laugh

/ˈɡɪɡ·l/ way amusing and there are chuckle
(verb) a few good giggles to snigger
be had. chortle
22 Soak to put something in a liquid You can soak up the steep

/səʊk/ for a period of time vista without having to immerse
(verb) leave the comfort of submerge
the duvet. infuse
23 Pebble a small stone You also need a masonry

/ˈpeb·l/ smaller pebble that is rock
(noun ) easy to spot.
24 Smoulder to burn slowly, producing So there was a tricky smoke
/ˈsməʊl·dər/ smoke but no flames ex and an officer doing burn slowly
(verb) smouldering looks
across the camp
kitchen.
25 Backhand in tennis etc, a stroke or shot My forehand went ambiguous

/’bakənl/ with the back of one’s hand better than my ironic
(noun) turned towards the ball backhand but it was a indirect
good first match for
me.
26 Buffo A comic actor in Italian opera Clopin is the buffo in clown

/ˈbo͞ofō/ The Hunckback of fool
noun Notre-Dame comic
comedian
wag
27 Boisterous Noisy, energetic, and cheerful Marianne expected the unruly

/’boist(ə)rəs/ boys to be loud and wild
(Adjective) boisterous disorderly
loud
noisy
28 Chute a narrow, steep slope down He dispatched the most slope
/ʃuːt/ which objects or people can dangerous towel in channel
(noun) slide history down a laundry slide
chute. incline
runway
gutter
29 Bosky Covered by trees or bushes; It was a bosky place idle talk

/ˈbɒs.ki/ wooded with mossy roots and scandal
(adjective) green arches. hearsay
tittle-tattle
30 Lore traditional knowledge and What he is saying, traditions

/lôr/ stories about a subject then, is not a piece of sayings
(noun) antiquarian's lore, but experience
an account of saws
contemporary practice.
31 Stint a fixed or limited period of He has just finished a term
/stɪnt/ time spent doing a particular stint of compulsory time
(noun) job or activity military service. turn
bit
32 Gasp to take a short, quick breath When she saw the pant
/ɡæsp/ through the mouth, especially money hidden in the blow
(verb) because of surprise, pain, or box she gasped in puff
shock: surprise.
33 Flawless perfect or without mistakes The countdown was perfect

/ˈflɑː.ləs/ flawless, and the space impeccable
(adjective) missile went off faultless
exactly on schedule
34 Lattice Structure consisting of strips Its five floors are Grid, fretwork, openwork
/`latis/ of wood or metal crossed and linked by an old lift
(Noun) fastened together with square with a metal lattice
or diamond-shaped spaces left door, clanked shut by
between, used typically as a an ageing attendant
screen or fence or as a support
for climbing plants
35 Whimsical Acting or behaving in a The whimsical Capricious, erratic, volatile
/’(h)wimzik(ə)l/ capricious manner arbitrariness of
(Adjective) autocracy
36 Irksome Annoying; irritating His voice is extremely Annoying, irritating,

/’ərks əm/ irksome exasperating
(Adjective )
37 Gadfly A fly that bites livestock A gadfly bit me, I Mosquito, fly
/gad,flī/ thought it was a
(noun) mosquito
38 Twig A slender woody shoot That tree sprout has its a royal butler
/twig/ growing from a branch or a twigs already
(noun) stem of a tree or shrub
39 Bankster A member of the banking Nothing ever seems to Banker, gangster

/`baNGkstər/ industry seen as a profiteering happen to any of the
(Noun) or dishonest banksters who caused
all the problems in the
first place
40 Lard Fat from the abdomen of a pig She cooks the beans Oily, fat, cooking
/lärd/ that is rendered and clarified with a little lard to
(noun) for use in cooking maximize the flavor
Unit 3 : Easier said than done

41 Drip If a liquid drips, it falls in Buying permits to fish unaided
/drɪp/ drops, or you make it fall in friers for their supplies on your own
(verb) drops of oil and dripping are by yourself
issued for a two
months' period.
42 Single-handedly without any help from anyone In this way one man spare time
/ˌsɪŋ.ɡəlˈhæn.dɪd.l else could single-handedly free time
i/ control everything that rest
(adverb) went on among the holiday
confined prisoners
from his panoptical
position in the tower.
43 Accomplish to finish something Of course, many of the realize

/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ/ successfully or to achieve objectives could have produce
(verb) something also been effect
accomplished by finish
regulations. complete
44 Loggers a person who cuts down trees Unfortunately, the data

/ˈlɒɡ.ər/ for wood logger was faulty and
(noun) most of the data
records for relative
humidity were
corrupted.
45 Shortage a situation in which there is Given the continual deficiency
/ˈʃɔː.tɪdʒ/ not enough of something shortages of funds to want
(noun) meet its budget the lack
government is unlikely failure
to consider a halt to
logging.
46 Shelter to protect yourself, or another The typhoon in 1994 take shelter

/ˌsiː.iːˈoʊ/ person or thing, from bad was suciently late for hide
(noun) weather, danger, or attack that planting to curtail seek refuge
but not to annul net take cover
returns to the rain
shelters.
47 Barren unable to produce plants or The large grasslands desolate

/ˈbær.ən/ fruit and barrens are empty
(adjective) dominated by scattered desert
jack pine, red pine,
scrub oak, and quaking
aspen trees.
48 Weep to cry tears He has left his wife, cry

/wiːp/ and a child in the high shed tears
(verb) school has been ill for sob
a week, weeping her whimper
eyes out and complain
murmuring his name.
49 Gloom feelings of great unhappiness Bergman's films are darkness
/ɡluːm/ and loss of hope often full of gloom and dark
(noun ) despair. shadow
cloud
shade
50 Soil the material on the surface of Compost-treated soils earth

/sɔɪl/ the ground in which plants exhibited higher ground
(noun) grow organic carbon content clay
than inorganically dust
fertilized soils,
throughout the
experimental period.
51 Sapling Many saplings

/ˈsæp.lɪŋ/ a young tree survived the attack,
(noun ) whereas most
seedlings had died
already.
52 Nunnery The younger children Convent, nun
/’nənərē/ A group of buildings in which stayed at a nunnery
(Noun) nuns live as a religious until the end of the war
community
53 Surrogate She was regarded as the Substitute, proxy,

/’sərəgət/ A substitute, especially a surrogate for the replacement
(Noun) person deputizing for another governor during his final
specific role or office illness
54 Stab He was stabbed several pierce

/stæb/ to push a knife into someone times in the chest. cut
(verb ) gore
run through
55 Bishop The pope needed to be Church, pope

/’biSHəp/ A senior member of the a bishop in order to
(noun) Christian clergy, typically in achieve his goal of
charge of a diocese and being pope
empowered to confer holy
orders
56 Lupus Selena Gomez suffer of Disease, skin
/ˈlo͞opəs/ Any of various diseases or lupus at her young age of
(noun) conditions marked by 26
inflammation of the skin
57 Enhance Increases in plume improve

/ɪnˈhɑːns/ to improve the quality, amount, temperature enhance the better
(verb) or strength of something validity of the increase
assumption. raise
58 BookTokker Jaysen is an author, bookworn

/ˈbʊk.tɒkəʳ/ someone who posts videos on the blogger, Disney lover,
(noun) social media platform TikTok in board game collector,
which they talk about books and AND BookTokker. His
reading videos focus on offering
book suggestions, tips on
diversifying your
bookshelf, and sharing
funny stories and
reactions about the books
he has read.
59 Dub-Lit Hailed as the next big

/dʌb.ˈlɪt/ a genre of books written by name in Dub-Lit, Naoise
(noun) authors from Ireland and set in Dolan is being touted as
present-day Dublin the new Sally Rooney
following a seven-way
bidding war for
publishing rights to her
debut novel.
60 Fulfill carry out

/fʊlˈfɪl/ to do something that you have I finally fufilled my perform
(verb) promised or planned to do ambition. execute
discharge
keep
effect

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Unit 1: Tales of the unexpected

Item Word/phrase Meaning Example sentence Picture Personal association

3 RAC Abbreviation for the Royal Two policemen in road help

5 Starling A common bird with black or Today, some two bird

8 Receipt A piece of paper that proves This goes proof of purchase

10 Distress The feeling of being very upset

16 Secede Leave/left, withdraw.

17 Kvell Happy, proud

19 Mephitic Poisonous, gas, vapor

20 Quidnunc Gossip, chitchat

21 Giggle To laugh in a nervous or silly The film is fitfully laugh

22 Soak to put something in a liquid You can soak up the steep

23 Pebble a small stone You also need a masonry

25 Backhand in tennis etc, a stroke or shot My forehand went ambiguous

26 Buffo A comic actor in Italian opera Clopin is the buffo in clown

27 Boisterous Noisy, energetic, and cheerful Marianne expected the unruly

29 Bosky Covered by trees or bushes; It was a bosky place idle talk

30 Lore traditional knowledge and What he is saying, traditions

33 Flawless perfect or without mistakes The countdown was perfect

36 Irksome Annoying; irritating His voice is extremely Annoying, irritating,

39 Bankster A member of the banking Nothing ever seems to Banker, gangster

Unit 3 : Easier said than done

43 Accomplish to finish something Of course, many of the realize

44 Loggers a person who cuts down trees Unfortunately, the data

46 Shelter to protect yourself, or another The typhoon in 1994 take shelter

47 Barren unable to produce plants or The large grasslands desolate

48 Weep to cry tears He has left his wife, cry

50 Soil the material on the surface of Compost-treated soils earth

51 Sapling Many saplings

53 Surrogate She was regarded as the Substitute, proxy,

54 Stab He was stabbed several pierce

55 Bishop The pope needed to be Church, pope

57 Enhance Increases in plume improve

58 BookTokker Jaysen is an author, bookworn

59 Dub-Lit Hailed as the next big

60 Fulfill carry out

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