Vocabulary 1
(ideas, tech)
(ideas, tech)
An adjective that describes sth you can easily carry:
portable
A noun for "too much consumption":
overconsumption
Jobs that require physical work (typically with your hands) but also a high level of expertise are called:
skilled jobs / skilled manual labour
to __ a step back/forward
TAKE
Note: with "forward", we can also use "make", but NOT with "back".
Turn the following phrase into passive and run it through at least 3 other tenses:
"The hurricane flooded the area."
"The area was flooded by the hurricane."
+ suggested:
The area has been flooded by the hurricane.
The area will have been flooded by the hurricane.
The area is being flooded by the hurricane.
What's the difference between VR (virtual reality) and AR (agumented reality)?
VR = full digital, either accessible through goggles or a computer screen.
AR = real-life (and often real-time) view with digital elements added to it. A famous example is Pokemon Go or Instagram beauty filters.
Instead of saying someone is "poor" (which is subjective), we can say:
A compound noun for "bosses" or "people in charge":
the higher-ups
to be/work __ a field
IN
Describe a mammoth using vague language (phrases like "resembling an X", "a sort of Y", -ish endings for adjectives, etc.)
It was an animal that resembled an elephant, with small ears and wool-ish hair that was a sort of black-brown colour, and it lived somewhere out in the north.
A modern idiomatic phrase that means some invention or idea failed, people didn't like it, etc.:
sth was a flop
A type of content that influencers post online to make you angry, because if you're angry you're more likely to engage:
rage bait / rage baiting
A type of deduction you make based on some data, so technically you're guessing, but you have better odds of being right than 50/50:
to make an educated guess
to come __ sth (find by accident)
ACROSS
Take this pair of events (cause and result) and run them through all three unreal conditionals (future, present, past):
I have a bicycle --> perhaps I am able to exercise more
1: If I have a bicycle, perhaps I will be able to exercise more.
2: If I had a bicycle, perhaps I would be able to exercise more.
3: If I'd had a bicycle, perhaps I'd have been able to exercise more.
A verb we use to say we want to energetically and aggressively take care of a problem/issue:
to tackle a problem/issue
Housing provided by the government is called:
social housing / council flats
A modern idiom that means "for me the moral of the story is..."
my take-away from this is...
it doesn't __ any sense!
MAKE
Describe a cancelled plan from the past, using one of the given words "about", "due", "set", "point".
"I was about to leave, when..."
"The changes were due to go into effect, but..."
"We were all set to continue, when..."
"They were on the point of breakthrough, but..."
An idiom that means something has "died out", become obsolete:
sth went the way of the dodo bird
We don't say "rather not", we say...
NOT REALLY
An idiom that means sth will be a difficult task to achieve, there will be obstacles, etc.:
an uphill battle
to come __ __ an idea (have an idea)
WERE = the focus remains on the fact that sth was discussed; here, backshifting softens the message.
ARE = the focus is on the person being late, suggesting it's an ongoing habit, and it can come across as passive-aggressive.