Book : Skills for life

Level : 4th form.

Introduction :

Vocabulary Items Equivalents and synonyms.

1- Alien = - Stranger
2- Collocation= - 2 or more words that go together
3- Cuppa = - Cup of tea
4- Farewell = - Bye, bye.
5- Homographs= - Words having the same spelling but different in meaning.
6- Homophones = - Words having the same but different spelling and meaning.
7- Kettle = - A container used to boil water.
8- Staggering = - Walking unsteadily and not arranged.
9- Thesaurus = - A book that contains lists of words and phrases with similar meanings.
10- Idiom = - A group of words together that mean something different from the
meaning of individual words.
11- An encyclopedia= - A set of books that gives information about many subjects arranged in
alphabetical order.
12- Monolingual = - Speaking only one language.
13- Bilingual = - Speaking two languages.
14- Cultural pluralism - Accepting more than two cultures.
15- Bicultural = - Accepting more than one culture.
16- Multicultural = - Accepting several cultures.
17- Multilingual = - Speaking several languages.
18- Lifestyles = - The way people live.
19- Ethnic diversity = - People of many different races and nationalities.
20- A metaphor = - A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly
comparative word such as: “like” or “as”.
21- A simile = - A figure of speech involving a comparison between unlike things using
“like”, “as”, or “as though”.

Unit 1: Art Shows and Holidaying

1- Admission = - The right to enter a place.

2- Billionaire = - An extremely rich person.
3- Check in (v)= - To register = to record.
4- Constituent = - A part of.
5- Contest = - A fight / a competition.
6- To convene = - To go together.
7- Cosmopolitan = - Containing people of different races.
8- A deal (n)= - An agreement
9- Deposit = - Amount of money in an account that someone pays.
10- Discount = - A reduced price
11- Emerging = - Becoming known and noticeable/ to emerge = to appear.
12- To deposit = - To lay or put down / leave on something
13- Evil = - Cruel or wicked
14- Exhibition = - Show, performance
15- Face off = - Fight , argument

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 16- Faith = - Strong trust and confidence
17- Fate = - Destiny
18- Frontier = - Border
19- Foyer = - Entrance hall or large open space (theatre)
20- Heading to = - Move towards a place
21- Immortality = - ≠ mortality / eternity
22- Foothold = - Strong position in a business
23- Former = - An earlier period
24- Interactive = - Helping to communicate with each other
25- A myth = - A story from ancient times that explains natural events.
26- Mortgage = - To give a bank the right to own your house temporarily in
exchange of a loan.
27- Package holiday/ - A holiday or tour organized in advance by a travel
package tour = company
28- Prowess = - Great skill at doing something.
29- Refund (n)= - Repayment (n), to pay back ( money)
30- To rule = - To govern
31- Renown = - Celebrity / fame.
32- Refreshments = - Drinks
33- Scheduled = - On the calendar / planned.
34- Shamefully = - In an embarrassing way.
35- Shuttle = - Aircraft.
36- Sightseeing = - Landscape / visiting places.
37- Sorrow = - Sadness / regret.
38- Soul = - The spiritual part of a person.
39- Spaceport = - Departure point for space flights.
40- Spaceship = - A vehicle that travels in space, carrying people.
41- Spectacular = - Wonderful
42- Stage (v) = - To present (a play) on a stage / to put something before
the public.
43- Stage (n) = - Platform or area on which plays are performed to an
audience.
44- Stardom (n) = - The state of being famous as an actor or singer.
45- Superb = - Wonderful, amazing, excellent.
46- Venues = - Places where shows take place.
47- Well – to – do = - Rich, wealthy.
48- Year round = - In all seasons.
49- Superstar status= - Level of importance.
50- Unfaithfulness = - Having a relation with a person who is not your spouse.

Unit 2: Education matters

1- Accurate= - Precise /exact.

2- Acronyms = - Words formed from the first letter for a name. eg. UNICEF.
3- To adjust = - To adapt
4- Acute = - Sharp =piercing
5- Anguish = - Deep suffering
6- Appeal = - What makes something attractive.

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7- To assess = - To evaluate
8- To boast = - To talk about one’s achievement with much pride/boastful
(adj).
9- Biographer = - Someone who writes a biography.
10- Bullying = - Frighten or hurt a weaker person.
11- Bustle = - Crow of people moving in a busy way.
12- To boost = - To increase the strength. To improve/to make better.
13- To cater for = - To build around something
14- To cater = - To provide what’s needed or desired by somebody.
15- Confined = - Limited / restricted.
16- Conventional = - Traditional
17- Crumble = - To be destroyed.
18- To deny = - To refuse.
19- Depicted = - Described.
20- Elocution = - Art of speaking clearly/ elocutionist.
21- Enrolment = - Registration/ record.
22- Genuine = - Authentic /real /true
23- Impediments = - Handicaps = difficulties /defects/
barriers/obstacles/hindrances.
24- Jail = - Prison
25- Landscape = - Scenery
26- Log on = - Connect a computer system.
27- Numeracy = - Arithmetic knowledge.
28- Vocational - Connected with skills or knowledge
29- To make ends - To earn enough income /money to provide for basic needs
meet= E.g.: the workers complained that on their present wages
they could hardly make ends meet
30- Manslaughter = - Killing someone.
31- Maturity = - Full growth and development .
32- May be = - Perhaps / probably.
33- Merely = - Simply
34- Nutritious = - Nourishing / healthy.
35- To overlook = - To have a view of.
36- Occur = - To happen.
37- Outlive = - To live longer than / to outlast.
38- Outstanding = - Excellent
39- Palpable = - Clear and obvious
40- Priority = - A very important thing
41- Paramount = - Having the greatest importance
42- Piercing = - Sharp and unpleasant.
43- Queer = - Strange
44- Rationally = - Logically
45- To provide = - To give = to offer / to supply
46- Stream (n)= - A steady flow of (people/liquid) group of people with same
level of ability.
47- Switch (n)= - A change
48- To tackle = - To deal with
49- Texting = - Writing on the computer
50- Timeless = - Ageless /changeless /endless/eternal/everlasting/permanent
51- Unforgettable = - Memorable / something we can’t forget
52- Unfamiliar = - Odd /strange

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 53- Venture = -
Something new and different in which there is a risk of
failure
Unit 3: Creative, inventive minds

1- Actually = - Really
2- Actual = - Real and exact
3- Accountable = - Responsible
4- Alliteration = - It’s the repeating of initial sounds in a poem.
5- Attachment= - A document sent along with an e-mail message
6- At the expense of - With damage to.
7- To banish (v) = - To send away as a punishment
8- Blessing = - Something one is glad of.
9- Browser = - A program that allows you to red documents on the web.
10- To cite = - To mention something as a reason
11- Commitment = - Willingness to do something
12- Contentious = - Likely to cause disagreement.
13- Creativity (n) = - Creation and originality
14- Daffodils = - Yellow trumpet –shaped flowers that grow in spring.
15- Dedication (n) = - The effort that somebody puts into an activity.
16- To dedicate (v) = - To devote one’s time to a cause.
17- To download = - To copy something from another computer to your own.
18- Delay = - Put off
19- Disguise = - (v) to change the appearance in order not to be
recognized.
20- Diminish = - To decrease/ drop / fall.
21- Distinction = - A reward =award =prize/ medal.
22- Emoticon = - A symbol used to convey an emotion, a smiley.
23- Entrance = - (v) fill with wonder and delight
(n) Door, gate by which one enters.
24- Entrepreneur = - A person who starts a business.
25- Expanding = - Emerging
26- Envision = - Imagine a future situation.
27- Exit (n) = - Way out of a public building/act of leaving a place(hotel,
restaurant ..etc)
28- Expertise = - Skill in a particular subject.
29- Expatriate = - Person living outside one’s country.
30- FAQS = - Frequently Asked Questions.
31- To flee = - To escape / to run away.
32- Former = - An earlier period/ a previous position.
33- Gaze = - To look fixedly and steadily at……..
34- Giant = - Very large and big.
35- Glance = - A quick look.
36- Have credit for= - praise because you are responsible for something good that
has happened
37- Holy = - Something associated with God or religion.
38- Honouring = - Great public respect / a person who brings respect.
39- Host = - A number of people gathered/ crowd/ throng/
mob/troop/bend/assemblage/array.
40- Hypertext = - Text in which links are inserted to allow the reader to read
in a linear way.

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41- ICT = - Information and Communication Technologies.
42- Impact = - A strong effect.
43- Incentive = - A reason that encourages you to do something.
44- Ingredient = - Constituent part.
45- Initial = - first
46- Intrusive = - Disturbing / bothering / annoying.
47- Iron –fisted = - Strong
48- Inventive = - Creative / innovative.
49- To magnify = - To make something look bigger than it really is.
50- Maturity = - Adulthood
51- Merely = - Simply.
52- Naturalness = - Artificial
53- Netiquette = - A set of conventions for polite behavior on the internet.
54- Newscast = - Broadcast of news= a T.V or radio broadcast consisting of
news.
55- Gather pace = - Increase in number.
56- Omnipresent = - Present everywhere and at all times.
57- Pace (n) = - Single step in walking or running/ speed / rate of progress.
58- Patent = - An official right to be the only person to use or sell a
product or an invention.
59- Paths = - Ways of achieving something / streets.
60- To pinpoint = - To locate and identify.
61- Portal = - A site which provides a gate way into a range of web
services like Yahoo and Alta Vista etc…
62- Primetime(n) = - The hours when T.V audiences are usually largest, typically
from 7:00pm to 11:00 pm.
63- Realm = - Kingdom.
64- Recognition = - Public praise and reward.
65- To release = - To launch / to start/ to begin.
66- Search engine = - A program which allows users to search for specific
information.
67- Shortage = - Lack of something/ scarcity.
68- Significant = - Important/ elementary.
69- Simile = - Description of something as being like another.
70- Sonnet = - A poem containing 14 lines with 10 syllables
each(Shakespeare’s sonnets)
71- Sparkle = - To give quick flashes of light (say, a plane at night)
72- To spark = - To produce flashes of fire
73- Spamming = - Sending the same e-mail to multiple lists, usually to
advertise a product or service, which is against netiquette?
74- Stanza = - Group of lines in a poem.
75- Sparingly = - Prudently – cautiously – sparingly.
76- Supply = - Provide / afford.
77- Shift = - Change and modify
78- Throne = - A special chair or seat used by a king or a queen.
79- Trend = - A general direction in which a situation is changing
80- A tribute = - Something you do or say to show respect for someone .
81- Twinkle = - Shine
82- Ultimate = - Last
83- Unwilling = - Not ready willing
84- Valued = - Important =significant

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 85- Via = - Through / by means of
86- To wander = - To walk slowly around or to a place, often without a
particular aim.
87- To wonder = - To think about something to decide what is true.
Unit 4: life issues

1- Addictive = - The effect of smoking that causes addiction.

2- Affluent = - Having a lot of money and a good standard of living/
prosperous
3- Alienating = - Not belonging to a particular group.
4- Appliances = - Devices / machines
5- Approach = - Means almost the same as movement something.
6- Assets = - Valuable / useful persons or things.
7- Badly – off = - Poor / miserable.
8- Be broke = - Having no money
9- Be keen on = - Be interested in someone or something
10- Bill = - Invoice (list of charges)
11- Biodata = - C.V. (resumé)
12- Blessed = - Holy
13- Blisters = - Swelling under the skin containing watery liquid
14- Bloom = - (v) to produce flowers
(n) Flower /producing flowers.
15- Booming = - growing / being successful.
16- Cancelled = - To cancel (v) = say something already arranged will not be
done or happened.
17- Casualty = - A person who is hurt accidently.
18- Career = - Job.
19- Commitment = - Willingness.
20- Consumerism = - To consume (v); consumption (n).
21- Coward = - Not courageous.
22- Crippled = - Damaged.
23- Culprit = - Person or thing causing a problem, a crime.
24- Curriculum vitae = - (C.V) an outline of one’s career, listing experience, education,
etc…
25- Damp = - Wet /rainy.
26- Deadline = - Closing time.
27- Decade = - Period of ten years.
28- Dietitian = - A specialist in the study of food and nutrition in relation to
health.
29- Drizzle = - A light rain.
30- Dumped = - Deposited
31- Dusk = - Period after day but before night.
32- Ecodriving = - Driving while respecting the environment.
33- To embrace = - To accept an idea.
34- Emission = - Discharge – outpouring – ejection.
35- Envy= - Be jealous.
36- Executives = - Concerned with managing and carrying out decisions.
37- Efficiently = - Effectively.
38- Exodus = - A departure or going out or away from a place that involves
large numbers of people.
39- Fahrenheit = - To measure temperature.

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40- Feel tense = - Feel worried, anxious and nervous.
41- Fit in = - Be in harmony with somebody / something
42- To fire = - To dismiss / force someone to leave a job / to sack.
43- Foes = - Enemies.
44- Foolish (adj)= - Silly
45- A foot = - A unit of measuring length equal to 30.48 cm.
46- Frugally = - Economically.
47- Give way to = - Stop resisting
48- Global warming = - An increase in the world’s temperature believed to be
caused in part by the greenhouse effect.
49- Go green = - Concerned with the protection of the environment.
50- Go on strike = - To stop work as a protest.
51- Greenhouse effect - The gradual rise in temperature of the earth’s atmosphere
caused by an increase in gases
52- Grieve = - Sorrow / sadness.
53- Give up = - Stop doing something.
54- Hampered = - Made more difficult.
55- Hint = - Express indirectly what we think.
56- To hire = - To employ / to recruit.
57- An inch = - A unit of measuring length equal to 2.54 cm.
58- Ignore = - Take no notice of.
59- Illuminate = - To give light to / to decorate with lights .
60- Imposter = - Person who pretends to be someone else to deceive people
61- Impoverished = - Having become poor.
62- Issue = - Important topic.
63- Jar = - Storage container.
64- Outlive = - Live longer
65- Life –and- death = - Essential, critical and crucial.
66- Life expectancy = - Number of years a person is likely to live.
67- Lifeless = - Not living = inanimate = dull.
68- Lifelike = - Realistic / authentic = real.
69- Lifelong = - Lasting / constant / permanent
70- Lifestyle = - Way of life / habits.
71- Limp = - (v) walk unevenly
(n) a limping walk (n) limpness
(adj) not stiff or firm.
72- To loathe = - To dislike strongly loathing (n) = disgust.
73- Level out = - Stay at a steady level.
74- Make allowance = - Consider something.
75- Make ends meet= - To earn enough money to provide basic needs.
76- Misfortune = - Bad luck.
77- Mist = - Fog
78- Mistaken = - Wrong in one’s opinion or judgment.
79- Newscast = - A radio or television program that reports the news.
80- Myth = - Something that many people believe but that does not exist
81- Nostalgia = - Feeling of sadness when you think of happy past times.
82- Panic –stricken = - A state of panic, extremely frightened.
83- Peak = - Highest level (e.g.) of a mountain.
84- Penniless = - Having no money, food, clothes etc….
85- Penurious = - (Formal) very poor / needy.
86- Per annum = - (Adv) for each year .E.g. earning $ 30.000 per annum.

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87- Plummeting = - Falling steeply, suddenly / dropping rapidly.
88- Potential = - Power /qualities that exist and can be developed
89- Proficient = - Able to do something well.
90- Profound = - Deep ≠ shallow.
91- To quit = - To leave / give up / stop doing something.
92- To race = - To move fast.
93- Reap the harvest = - To cut and gather a crop especially grain.
94- To reckon = - To think.
95- Relief = - Lessening or ending of pain, worry/ to relieve(v)= to lessen
pain
96- Scared = - Frightened / afraid.
97- Sag = - Bend down.
98- Shiver = - Tremble / shake.
99- Smoothly = - Smoothness (n)= having on even surface
To smooth (v) = to make smooth
100- Soles= - The bottom surface of the human feet.
101- To strike = - Refuse to work as a protest.
102- Soaking = - Steeping/ to soak=to immerse something in liquid.
103- Sparingly = - Prudently and cautiously.
104- Staff = - All the workers employed in an organization.
105- Standby = - On standby= in a state of being ready to act, take part.
106- To steam= - To cook food over boiling water.
107- A stroke (n)= - Sudden serious illness when blood is blocked.
108- Tablespoon = - A large spoon used for serving food at table.
109- Threatened = - Menaced / endangered
110- Tight –fisted = - Unwilling to spend money.
111- Tough = - Difficult.
112- Triumph = - Victory.
113- Typhoon= - A violent storm / hurricane.
114- Unseasonally = - Unseasonable(adj)= not occurring at the right time /not
appropriate or usual for the time of year.
115- Utterly = - Completely
116- Valiant = - Brave / courageous
117- Vibrant = - Exciting
118- Vice = - Evil, illegal or immoral behavior
119- Virtue = - Good behavior and attitude.
120- Valuable = - Precious
121- Wear something - (Cause something to) become useless because of constant
out = wear or use.
122- Wearily (adv) = - Weary (adj) = very tired.
123- Whistle = - (n) Instrument that produces a clear high sound as a signal.
(v) To make the sound of a whistle.
124- Well –to –do = - having a lot of money /rich e.g. they are very well-to-do.

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