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- Advanced
- / lo.ni/ abalone noun
- abandon LEAVE / bn.d n/ verb [T]
- abandon STOP / bn.d n/
- COMMON LEARNER ERROR
- or an?
- abbot / b. t/
- abdication / b.d ke .
- abeyance / be.nts/ noun
- abhor / b
- Essential Improver Advanced
- demonstrate/have/possess ability lack ability lose
- ə ə suffix (ALSO -ibility)
- abjure /əb dυə
- able or can/could?
- ablution / blu .
- abnormal
- abode / b d/
- abolish /ə bɒl.ʃ/
- Aborigine / b. r d
- abortive / b .tv/
- above board
- INTENDING about / bat/ adj be about to do sth
- above-mentioned / b v men.t
- abrasion / bre.
- abrasive UNPLEASANT / bre.sv/
- abscond STEAL /b skɒnd/
- absence NOT PRESENT / b.s
- absent / b.s
- absolve / b zlv/
- absorbent / b z .bənt/
- absorption /əb zɔ p.ʃən/
- absorbing / b z .b /
- noun [C] abstention
- abuse
- absurd / b s d/
- absurdly / b s d.li/
- abuse / bju s/ noun [U]
- abut
- accent MARK
- accent EMPHASIS / k.s
- ə noun [C] (US ALSO academician)
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i a A’s), a LETTER (plural (plural a’s) /e/ noun [C] the 1st letter of the English alphabet from A to B from one place to another: Using this soft-ware a driver can now work out the quickest route from A to B. from A to Z including everything: This book tells the story of her life from A to Z. A MUSIC /e / noun [C or U] (plural A’s or As) a note i...
ə əυ [C] υ a small edible sea animal that lives inside a shell that is the shape of an ear with a white shiny inside
ə to leave a place, ə thing or person forever: i We had to abandon the car. By the time the rebel troops arrived, the village had already been abandoned. As a baby he’d been abandoned by his mother. We were sinking fast, and the captain gave the bn.d order to abandon ship. abandoned /ə ənd/ adj: An abandoned baby was found in a box on the hospital ...
ə ə verb [T] to stop doing an activity before you i have finished it: The match was abandoned at half-time because of the poor weather con-ditions. They had to abandon their attempt to climb the mountain. The party has now abandoned its policy of unilateral disarmament. abandonment / bn.d n.m nt/ ə ə ə noun [U] abandon yourself to sth phrasal verb ...
abase yourself / bes/ verb [R] FORMAL to make ə yourself seem to be less important or not to deserve respect abasement /ə be.smənt/ noun [U] FORMAL The pil-
is used before consonants or before vowels which are pronounced as consonants. dog university an is used before vowels. an old building a old building grims knelt in self-abasement.
ə noun [C] a man who is in charge of a MONASTERY abbreviate /ə bri .vi.et/ verb [T usually passive] to make a word or phrase shorter by using only the first letters of each word: ‘Daniel’ is often abbreviated to ‘Dan’. ‘Chief Executive Officer’ is abbreviated as ‘CEO’. abbreviated /ə bri .vi.e.td/ US /t d/ adj: ‘Di’ is the abbreviated form
ʃən/ noun [U] FORMAL The council denied that their decision represented any abdication of responsibility. abdomen / b.d .m n/ ə ə noun [C] SPECIALIZED the lower part of a person’s or animal’s body, which contains the stomach, bowels and other organs, or the end of an in-sect’s body abdominal /b dm..nl/ US / d .m/ ɒ ə ɑ ə adj: abdominal pains ...
ə ə [U] FORMAL a state of not happening or being used at present: Hostilities between the two groups have been in abeyance since last June. The project is being held in abeyance until agreement is reached on funding it.
r/ US /b h r/ ə ɔ ɔ verb [T not continuous] (-rr-) FOR-MAL to hate a way of behaving or thinking, often because you think it is immoral: I abhor all forms of racism. abhorrent /ə bɒr.ənt/ US /b hɔ r/ adj FORMAL morally very bad: an abhorrent crime Racism of any kind is abhorrent to me. abhorrence / br.ənts/ US /b h r/ ə ɒ ɔ noun [S or U] FORMAL She...
e i a abide by sth phrasal verb to accept or obey an agree-ment, decision or rule: Competitors must abide by the judge’s decision. abiding /ə ba.dŋ/ adj [before noun] describes a feeling or memory that you have for a long time: My abiding memory is of him watering his plants in the garden. WORDS THAT GO WITH ability
the ability to do sth affect/limit sb’s ability to do sth innate/instinctive/natural ability amazing/remark-able/uncanny ability proven ability ability POWER / bl..ti/ US / .ti/ e ə noun [C or U] the ə physical or mental power or skill needed to do some-thing: There’s no doubting her ability. [+ to infinitive] She had the ability to explain thi...
used to form nouns from adjectives ending in ‘-able’ or ‘-ible’, to mean the quality of being the stated adjective: suitability stability abject EXTREME / b.d ekt/ adj FORMAL abject misery/ poverty/terror, etc. when someone is extremely un-happy, poor, frightened, etc: They live in abject poverty. This policy has turned out to be an abject failure....
r/ US /d r/ υ verb [T] FORMAL to state pub-licly that you no longer agree with a belief or way of behaving: He abjured his religion/his life of dissipation. ablaze BURNING / blez/ adj [after verb] 1 burning very ə strongly: The house was ablaze, and the flames and smoke could be seen for miles around. 2 brightly lit or brightly coloured: The ball...
Able is used with modal and auxiliary verbs, where can or could are not grammatically possible. I might not be able to attend the meeting. I’ve never been able to understand him. able SKILFUL / e.bl./ adj clever or good at what you do: an able child/student/secretary This problem is now being looked at by some of the ablest minds/scientists in the...
ə ʃən/ noun [U] FORMAL the act of washing yourself: Ablution is part of some religious ceremonies. ablutions /ə blu .ʃənz/ plural noun HUMOROUS I must just perform my ablutions (= wash myself)!
what is usual /b n .ml/ US / n r/ a ɔ adj different from ə ɔ or average, especially in a way that is bad: abnormal behaviour/weather/conditions Tests revealed some abnormal skin cells. abnormality / b.n ml. ə.ti/ US /n r ml. ə.ti/ ɔ ɔ noun [C or U] something abnormal, usually in the body: genetic/ congenital abnormalities An increasing number of te...
US / bod/ ə əυ υ noun [C usually singular] the place where someone lives: FORMAL The defendant is of no fixed abode (= has no permanent home). HUMOROUS Welcome to my humble abode!
US / bɑ.lʃ/ verb [T] to end an activity or custom a officially: I think bullfighting should be abolished. National Sevice was abolished in Britain in 1962. abolition / b. lʃ.ən/ noun [U]: the abolition of ə slavery abolitionist / b. l .ən. st/ ə ʃ noun [C] a person who sup-ports the abolition of something abominable /ə bɒm..nə.bl ./ US / bɑ ....
.ən.i/ ə noun [C] a member of the race of dark-skinned people who were the first people to live in Australia Aboriginal / b. ə rd ..nəl/ adj: Aboriginal art/traditions Aboriginal / b. r d ..nl/ ə noun [C] an Aborigine ə abort STOP /ə bɔ t/ US / bɔrt/ verb [T] to cause something to stop or fail before it begins or before it is complete: The pl...
US / b r.tv/ adj FORMAL ə ɔ ɔ describes an attempt or plan that you have to give up because it has failed: He made two abortive attempts on the French throne. abort END PREGNANCY /ə bɔ t/ US / bɔrt/ verb 1 [T] to stop the development of a baby that has not been born, usu-ally by having a medical operation: Do you think it’s wrong to use aborted...
abound in/with sth phrasal verb If something abounds in/with other things, it has a lot of them: The coast here abounds with rare plants. about CONNECTED WITH connected with: What’s / bat/ e ə υ prep on the subject of; that book about? a film about the Spanish Civil War We were talking/laughing about Sophie. He’s always (going) on about what a grea...
ə υ to be going to do something very soon: e I was about to leave when Mark arrived. She looked as if she was about to cry. / t n/ about-turn UK /ə baυt n/ t US noun [C] (US about-face) 1 a change of direction: I’d only gone a little way down the street when I remembered I hadn’t locked the door, so I made/did a quick about-turn and ran back to the...
ə ʃənd/ adj FORMAL refers to things or people in a document or book that have been mentioned earlier: All of the above-mentioned films won Oscars. Compare undermentioned. 7 abracadabra / b.r .k db.r / ə exclamation said by ə ə someone who is performing a magic trick, in order to help them perform it successfully abrade /ə bred/ verb [T] SPECIALIZE...
ən/ ə noun SPECIALIZED 1 [U] the process of rubbing away the surface of something: There seems to have been some abrasion of the surface. 2 [C] a place where the surface of something, such as skin, has been rubbed away: She had a small abrasion on her knee. abrasive CLEANING SUBSTANCE /ə bre.sv/ noun [C] a sub-stance used for rubbing away the s...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
someone who teaches at a college, or who studies as part of their job academic THEORETICAL / k. dem. k/ adj theoretical and ə not related to practical effects in real life: a purely academic argument/question academy / kd. .mi/ noun [C] ə ə an organization in-tended to protect and develop an art, science, language, etc., or a school which teaches...
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