MAKE A SENTENCE
CEA PART 3
CEA PART 4
NEGATIVE PREFIXES
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
100

pick up

Sher picked up a couple of words when she was in Japan.

100

It is said that more time is actually spent deciding the name of a product than on the research and development leading to the ........................ (innovate) itself.

INNOVATION

100

i WOULD OFTEN GO CYCLING WITH MY FATHER WHEN I WAS A CHILD. (used)


MY FATHER...........................................CYCLING WITH HIM WHEN I WAS A CHILD.

often used to take me

100

RESPECTFUL

DISRESPECTFUL

100

LOANWORDS

a word taken from one language and used in another:

diacritic marks used in loan words like the French "naïveté"

200

naive

the rather naive young man had been totally misled

200

Understnading them can only ............ (rich) our comprehension of what is similar in all languages.

enrich

200

Students don't spend their free time in the same way as fifty years ago.


The way students spend their free time.................fifty years.

......has chenaged over|in the last fifty years.

200

PERSONAL

IMPRERSONAL

200

HAVE A SAY 

BE INVOLVED IN MAKING A DECISION

300

set up

The restautant was set up 15 years ago.

300

Consequently, many neighbours are finding it ..................(increase) difficult to settle disputes amicably.

increasingly

300
The first time Carla went skiing was last Monday. (never)


Carla........................ last Monday.

Carla had never gone skiing until last Monday.

300

CONVENIENT

INCONVENIENT

300

TURN A BLIND EYE TO

pretend not to notice.

400

twist sb's arm

I'm really scared of heights but if you twist my arm, I suppose i'll go climbing with you.

400

The collections in the museum are absolutely.....................(standing) and cover the cultures of east and west.

outstanding

400

Boris is unlikely to win the prize. (likelihood)


There is little..............................the prize.

There is little likelihood of Boris winning the prize.


There is little likelihood that Boris will win the prize.

400

LITERATE

ILLITERATE

400

CONSCIENTIOUS

putting a lot of effort into your work:

a conscientious student

500

is|are yet to be..............

The culprit is yet to be discovered.

500

One could ban the use of artificail oxygen and local guides, leaving Everest to the vesy best................. (mountain)

mountaineers

500

Madeleine felt sure that she would be offered the job.


Madeleine felt she....................... offered the job.

.................was bound to be offered the job.

500

DECISIVE

INDECISIVE

500
PULL SB'S LEG

to try to persuade someone to believe something that is not true, as a joke:

Is it really your car or are you pulling my leg?