Negative Adjectives
This adjective describes a place that is dirty, unpleasant, and immoral, often used for a "cellar" or "scandal."
What is sordid?
This idiom means to be cheerful and see the positive side of a situation.
What is to look on the bright side?
To express a regret about a past situation, we use "I wish" followed by this verb tense.
What is the Past Perfect?
This 11-letter noun describes a general increase in prices and a fall in the purchasing value of money.
What is Inflation?
This 4-letter term refers to a personal preference or prejudice that prevents someone from being objective.
What is Bias?
If a kitchen has cockroaches and is generally gross, you might use this adjective starting with "m."
What is musty?
If you are "short of" something, like money or time, it means you have this.
What is an insufficient supply?
Correct the sentence: "I wish I have a car."
What is "I wish I had a car"?
In academic writing, instead of saying "get bigger," we use this verb to describe a business or economy increasing in size or scope.
What is Expand (Expansion)?
In an academic argument, this is the name for the "opposing view" that a writer acknowledges before refuting it.
What is a Counter-argument?
This word describes a desert or a landscape that is completely dry and has little or no vegetation.
What is arid?
This expression means to be ungrateful for a gift or a favor you have been given.
What is to look a gift horse in the mouth?
We use "I wish + would" when we want someone else to do this.
What is change their habits or behavior?
This term refers to the total value of goods and services produced by a country in one year. (Use the 3-letter acronym).
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
To check if a source is reliable, an EAP student must look for this 11-letter noun, meaning the quality of being trusted.
What is Credibility?
When you are extremely tired after a long train journey, you feel this.
What is weary?
If a manager is "running a business," they are doing this.
What is managing a company?
Rewrite using "If only": "I'm sorry I didn't take up his offer."
What is "If only I had taken up his offer"?
This academic adjective describes a situation where there is not enough of something to satisfy the demand for it.
What is Scarce (Scarcity)?
If a study's results are consistent and can be reproduced by others, the study is said to have high ____.
What is Reliability?
To be "filled with" something unpleasant, like a swamp full of malaria or a house full of pests.
What is infested?
This phrase means to catch someone in the middle of doing something wrong or illegal.
What is to catch someone red-handed?
Between "I wish" and "If only," this one is considered more emphatic (stronger).
What is If only?
This specific phrase describes the "fair price" paid to producers in developing countries.
What is Fair Trade?
This 10-letter verb means to represent the main points of a long text in a shorter version.
What is Epitomize (or Summarize)?