Vocabulary
You need these (items of equipment) if you want to ski for pleasure, relying on your own locomotion to move over snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance.
What are cross-country skis?
This phrasal verb, in one of its meanings, means to procrastinate.
What is put off?
He keeps _______________ going to the dentist.
This word collocates with "issue" and means to deal with in a satisfactory manner.
What is resolve?
This tense is used to talk about routines.
What is present simple?
This verb collocates with "relationship" and means to make.
What is build?
This adjective describes a person who can feel what another person is feeling in a compassionate way.
What is empathetic?
This phrasal verb, in one of its meanings, means to resume or start something again.
What is pick up?
After I came back from London, we __________ things _________ again as if I had never left.
This verb collocates with "attention" and the phrase means to make (someone) aware (of something).
What is bring?
This tense is used to talk about current, unfinished projects.
What is the present continuous?
This verb collocates with "impression" and means to make.
What is form/create?
This word, which has a false friend in Russian, is used as an alternative to "in fact" or "as a matter of fact."
What is actually?
I'm actually going to be in Prague already.
This phrasal verb, in one of its meanings, means to stop doing something, typically something that will be resumed later.
What is leave off?
I forget where I _________________ in my story before we were interrupted.
This word collocates with "reminder" and means kind and pleasant.
What is friendly?
What is present simple?
This stative verb collocates with "reputation" and means to possess.
What is have?
An adjective meaning inspiring respect and admiration; having high status.
What is prestigious?
This phrasal verb, in one of its meanings, means to lose the chance or opportunity to do or experience something.
What is to miss out (on something)?
Because I was so sick last week, I ______________ on the chance to see my sister while she was in town.
This verb collocates with "meeting" and means to put off until a later date or time.
What is postpone?
A temporary situation is usually described using this tense.
What is present continuous?
This word collocates with "image" and means to extend outwards.
What is to project?
This word describes the state of keeping or being kept secret or private.
What is confidentiality?
This phrasal verb (in one of its meanings), used in the present continuous, means to be facing/expecting/anticipating something.
What is look at?
"To keep our current plan, we are ________________ a 78% cost increase."
This phrase means: "I give you permission to contact (us)."
What is feel free to get in touch (with us)?
In this type of question, the second question "disappears" (there is no inversion of the subject and auxiliary).
What is indirect question?
This word collocates with "studies" and means to complete.
What is finish?