UNIT 6
Habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep.
INSOMNIA
To know and understand something, or suddenly begin to understand it. (VERB)
REALIZE
The crime of deliberately killing someone.
MURDER
To bring a product from one country into another so that it can be sold there.
IMPORT
Someone who works or is trained in science.
SCIENTIST
To breathe in a noisy way through your mouth and nose while you are asleep.
SNORE- SNORING
To increase an amount, number, or level.
To move or lift something to a higher position, place, or level.
RAISE
The use of violence such as bombing, shooting, or kidnapping to obtain political demands such as making a government do something.
TERRORISM
A number of shops, hotels, cinemas etc owned or managed by the same company or person.
CHAIN
The scientific study of living things.
BIOLOGY
A very high singing voice belonging to a woman or a boy, or a singer with a voice like this.
SOPRANO
The narrow part in the middle of the human body.
WAIST
Someone who reads the news on television or radio.
NEWSREADER
To use machines to make goods or materials, usually in large numbers or amounts.
MANUFACTURE
A very short part of a speech or statement, especially one made by a politician, that is broadcast on a radio or television news programme.
SOUND BITE
Someone who stands in front of a group of musicians or singers and directs their playing or singing.
CONDUCTOR
To raise and then lower your shoulders in order to show that you do not know something or do not care about something.
SHRUG
Someone whose job is to make judgments about the good and bad qualities of art, music, films etc.
CRITIC
A business activity which involves collecting information about what goods people buy and why they buy them.
MARKET RESEARCH
The ability to say things that are clever and amusing.
WIT
Photographers who follow famous people in order to take photographs they can sell to newspapers.
PAPARAZZI
To rub your skin with your nails because it feels uncomfortable.
SCRATCH
Unfairly preferring one person or group over another. (ADJECTIVE)
BIASED
To combine, or to join things together to form one thing. (VERB)
MERGE
Backwards and ................... .
FORWARDS