VOCABULARY UNIT 8
Please look at the meaning and definition of the vocabulary items. Additionally, write a
sentence using the word.
WORD MEANING and DEFINITION
1. Culture
2. Leisure activities
3. Apologise (v)
4. Excuse (n)
5. Sculpture
6. Architecture
7. Painting
8. Commit a crime (phr.)
9. Sell over (phrasal verb)
10. Best-selling (adj.)
11. Upset (adj.)
The way of life, especially
the general customs and
beliefs, of a group of people
at a particular time
An activity chosen for
pleasure, relaxation, or other
emotional satisfaction,
typically after work and
other
To tell someone that you are
sorry for having done
something that has caused
problems or unhappiness for
them
To forgive someone
The art of forming solid
objects that represent a
thing, person, idea, etc. out
of a material such as wood,
clay, metal, or stone, or an
object made in this way
The art and practice of
designing and making
buildings
The skill or activity of making
a picture or putting paint on
a wall
To commit a crime: to do
something illegal, to perform
an action which is against
the law.
To give something to
someone else in return for
money
Extremely popular and that
has sold in very large
numbers
To make someone worried,
unhappy, or angry
EXAMPLE
She's studying modern
Japanese language and
culture.
They organize leisure
activities, they provide
pocket money, they
celebrate birthdays, etc.
I must apologize to Isobel for
my lateness
We cannot excuse him for
these crimes
Tom teaches sculpture at
the local art school
to study architecture
We were taught painting
and drawing at art college
Marco commits a crime near
the market
she sells over me her cell
phone at a low price
When he was alive, he never
had a best-selling album
It still upsets him when he
thinks about the accident
12. Award (n) To give money or a prize
following an official decision
13. Alive (adj.) Living, not dead
14. Disco tracks (c.n) It is a circular path on the
surface of the magnetic disk
where the information is
recorded magnetically and
from which the recorded
information is also read
15. Vote (v) To express your choice or
opinion, especially by
officially writing a mark on a
paper or by raising your
hand or speaking in a
meeting
16. Illegally downloaded Activity is usually known as
(phr.) prohibited
17. Play a character If an actor plays a role or
(collocation) character in a play or film, he
or she performs the part of
that character.
18. Lie (v) If something lies in a
particular place, position, or
direction, it is in that place,
position, or direction
19. Team mates (n) A player on the same team
20. Races (n) To (cause to) compete in a
race
21. Record breakers (c.n) Someone or something that
beats the previous best
result in a sport or other
activity
22. Dull (adj.) Not interesting or exciting in
any way
23. Rugby (n) A sport where two teams try
to score points by carrying
an oval ball across a
particular line or kicking it
over and between an H-
shaped set of posts
Carlos was awarded first
prize in the essay
competition
He must be 90 if he's still
alive
she plays on the disco tracks
She was too young to vote in
the election
we illegally downloaded
some movies
It's much easier, he says, ‘to
play a totally different
character, put on a different
accent
There's an old pair of shoes
of yours lying at/in the
bottom of the wardrobe
My team mates are great
fun to play with
He has been racing for over
ten years
The movie became a box-
office record breaker
She wrote dull, respectable
articles for the local
newspaper
Tom plays rugby every
Saturday
24. Get better (collocation)
25. Get paid (collocation)
26. Get on well (collocation)
27. Get ill (collocation)
28. Get an offer (collocation)
29. Get to know (collocation)
30. Get in touch (collocation)
31. Get engaged
(collocation)
32. Snowboarding (n)
33. Skateboarding (n)
34. Gymnastics (n)
35. Windsurfing (n)
36. Squash (n)
37. Jogging (n)
38. Village (n)
Make one thing better than
it was.
Used in combination to refer
to the amount of money that
someone is given for their
work
Have good communication
with another person
Experience a health disorder
It is a proposal that is made
with the promise of
executing or giving
something.
report any events
It is the action and the effect
of touching two or more
things or people
Establish formal love
relationships with another.
The activity or sport of
moving over snow using a
snowboard
The activity or sport of riding
a skateboard
physical exercises and
activities performed inside,
often using equipment such
as bars and ropes, intended
to increase the body's
strength and the ability to
move and bend easily
a sport in which you sail
across water by standing on
a board and holding onto a
large sail
to crush something into a
flat shape
to run at a slow, regular
speed, especially as a form
of exercise
a group of houses and other
Your symptoms may get
better before the infection
is completely treated.
Vanessa gets paid for doing
a good job
my sister and I get on well
when he get ill my uncle
took him to the hospital
my brother has get an offer
work in Paris
my brother-in-law got to
know that he will be a father
My friend from New York get
in touch with my family
My brother got engaged to
his girlfriend
Mateo goes to Canada to
practice Snowboarding
in the park many people
practice skateboarding
the US women's gymnastics
team
I went windsurfing most
afternoons
He accidentally sat on her
hat and squashed it
He was walking at a very
quick pace and I had to jog
to keep up with him
It's a little fishing village with
 buildings that is smaller than very narrow streets
a town, usually in the
countryside
39. Prison (n) a building where criminals He's spent a lot of time in
are forced to live as a prison
punishment
40. Murderer (n) the crime of intentionally There were three murders in
killing a person the town last year.
41. Hard to follow (phr.) This is not possible to my cousin dances very well
achieve or understand but it's hard for me to follow
without making a maximum in her footsteps
effort and on the other hand
to what is unlikely to happen
42. Put down (phrasal verb) Action of not touching, of my dog put down his toys in
leaving the park
43. Fiction (n) the type of book or story The book is a work of fiction
that is written about and not intended as a
imaginary characters and historical account
events and not based on real
people and facts
44. Available (adj.) able to be bought or used There's no money available
for an office party this year
PHRASES
Apologies and excuses
45. I´m really sorry I haven´t called you.
46. I couldn´t call or send you a message.
47. I was going to call you, but I couldn´t find my mobile.
48. I didn´t mean to make you worry.
49. I meant to call you after I went to the doctor.