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ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY

1. rattle vt/i 1) (cause to) make short, sharp sounds quickly, one after the other, e.g. The windows were rattling in the strong wind. The hail rattled on the roof.

to rattle off (colloq.) to talk, to say or repeat smth quickly; to repeat (words) quickly and too easily from memory; to perform (an action) with ease and speed, e.g. What is the point of teaching the children to rattle off the names of the kings and queens of England if they know nothing about history?

to rattle away/on to talk rapidly and at some length and uninterestingly, e.g. At every meeting of the women's club, Mrs White rattles on for hours.

2) to annoy, cause to feel angry, e.g. My persistent questioning of his story rattled him, and he refused to answer my queries. She was rattled by the hypothetical eyes spying upon her.

Syn. embarrass, discomfit, abash, faze

rattled a annoyed, e.g. In the end he got rattled, (or: We got him rattled.)

2. overlookvt 1) to have or give a view of (smth or smb) from above, e.g. Our room overlooked the sea. 2) to look at but not see; not notice, e.g. Every time the question of promotion came up, Smythe was always overlooked. 3) to pretend not to see; forgive, e.g. I overlooked that breech of discipline as you were concentrating on a very important job.

Syn. open on, give on, face, miss

3. way n 1) a road or track (used lit. and fig.), e.g. Are you going my way?

to block the way to make movement difficult or impossible, e.g. Will you step aside, you're blocking the way.

to clear the way (for smth or smb), e.g. Clear the way for the car.

to make way (for smth or smb) to allow freedom to pass, e.g. All traffic must make way for a fire-engine.

to feel (grope) one's way to feel about with the hands; to search for in a hesitating way, e.g. We groped our way through the dark streets. "Have you come to any definite conclusion yet? " "No, I'm still feeling my way."

to give way 1) to break; to fail to hold up, e.g. The branch gave way and I fell into the stream. His legs gave way and he fell on his side, e.g. The army gave way (= retired) before the advance of the enemy.

2) to surrender oneself to smth, e.g. Don't give way to despair.

3) to be replaced by smth, e.g. His anger gave way to curiosity.

to go out of one's way to do smth, to make a special effort to do smth, e.g. He went out of his way to do me a kindness (a favour, an injury).

out-of-the-way remote, e.g. Students come to our city from the most out-of-the-way parts of the county.

2) direction(used lit. and fig.), e.g. I was so ashamed, I didn't know which way to look.

to know (see, find out) which way the wind blowsto know what the state of affairs is, e.g. He always seems to know which way the wind blows (is blowing).

3) progress; advance, as to make (push, fight, feel, force, elbow, shoulder, pick, etc.) one's way (along, forward, to, towards, back, home, etc.), e.g. He pushed (elbowed, forced, etc.) his way through the crowd.

4) a method or plan; a course of action, e.g. Don't change anything, I like it that way.

to know one's way about to know one's course of action, e.g. You needn't worry about her, she knows her way about and can take care of herself.

all (quite, just) the other way about (AEaround) quite the opposite, e.g. "As far as I know he denied what he had said before." "Quite the other way about. He confirmed everything."

(in) one way or another (other, the other), e.g. You'll have to do it one way or another, there's no getting away from it.

5) a characteristic method or manner of behaving, e.g. I don't like his ways at all.

to have a way with smb to be able to win the confidence and affection of people, e.g. She'll make a good teacher, she has a way with children.

it (this) is always the way with smb, it is always the case with smb, e.g. Tom failed me again, this is always the way with him.

6) respect, degree, e.g. In one way that explanation is satisfactory, but in another way it is not.

in no way, e.g. The photos are in no way similar.

by way of: 1) as a substitute for, e.g. He said something by way of apology.

2) via, e.g. He went to town by way of the old road.

underway, as restructure underway, e.g. With the election campaign underway the candidates began giving a great deal of speeches.

4. thing n 1) (C) any material object, e.g. What's that thing you've got on your head?

2) (C) a piece of clothing, e.g. I've not got a thing' to wear.

3) (C) that which is not material, e.g. What a nasty thing to say to your sister!

4) (C) a subject, matter, e.g. There's one more thing I wanted to say.

5) (C) a person or animal regarded as an object of pity, affection, or contempt, e.g. Your daughter's such a sweet little thing. You stupid thing!

6) (C) happening, event, e.g. A funny thing happened yesterday.

7) pl possessions, belongings, e.g. Have you packed your things for the journey?

8) pl the general state of affairs, e.g. Things are getting worse and worse.

(not) quite the thing (informal) what is considered socially correct, fashionable, e.g. It's not quite the thing to wear an open-necked shirt to a formal evening dinner.

the thing is the most important point is, e.g. The thing is can we get there in time?

have a thing about (informal) — a peculiar attitude or feeling toward smth, e.g. She has a thing about cats.

5. resentvt to show or feel indignation at, as to resent smb's behaviour (smb's words, an insult, smb's manner, etc.), e.g. Anyone would resent such treatment. The child resented being made fun of.

Note the pattern smb resents smth. Compare with the Ukrainian patterns: когось обурює щось; обурює кого-небудь.

resentful a feeling or showing resentment, as to be resentful of smb (smth), e.g. The boy was resentful of the remark.

resentment n a feeling of indignation or annoyance; a deep sense of injury,as to (have) bear no resentment against smb (smth), e.g. His conduct aroused everybody's resentment.

6. to fall about – to laugh uncontrollably), e.g. The audience fell about laughing, but no laughter came from me, I was in love with her.

to fall apart – to disintegrate), e.g. Ann did what she could to keep the marriage from falling apart.

to fall away – to disappear), e.g. The wind fell away and all was calm.

to fall back – to withdraw, to retreat), e.g. They had fallen back to let her through.

to fall behind – to fail to remain level; to move to a position lower down or behind others), e.g. We fell behind with the payments on the car and it was repossessed.

to fall for – to be strongly attracted to smb, to come to admire), e.g. I fell for Irma in a big way.

to fall from – to lose smth good), e.g. The Minister fell from favour and was dismissed from the government.

to fall in with – to become friends and start spending a lot of time with people who are a bad influence on you), e.g. Even since she had fallen in with Tommy Jones and his gang, her school work had gone downhill.

to fall into – to begin smth, to enter), e.g. I fell into conversation with an interesting man at the meeting.

to fall off– to become smaller or to get worse), e.g. The cooking fell off remarkably.

to fall out with – to quarrel with smb and stop being friends with them), e.g. We fell out with him when he criticized my sister.

to fall over – to fall while walking, running, moving, etc), e.g. She fell over and hurt herself.

to fall through – not to be successfully completed(used for plans, projects, arrangements), e.g. Our project to set up an English school fell through when we found out how much we would need to invest.

to fall to – to begin especially to eat, attack or do anything active, e.g. When the children saw the food on the table, they fell to eagerly and soon ate everything.

Word combinations and idioms: to fall for a lie– to believe in lie;

to fall flat – to fail to amuse or interest people;

to fall from grace/favour – to stop being liked by people in authority;

to fall victim, prey – to get a very serious illness or be attacked or deceived by someone;

to fall in a line – to obey someone or do what other people want you to do, especially when you do not want to do it at first;

it fell off the back off the lorry –used to say when smth is stolen;

to fall on deaf ears – not to pay any attention to smth.

7. suggestvt 1) to cause to come to the mind, e.g. The open window suggested that somebody else had got into the house.

2) to bring itself to the mind, e.g. An idea suggested itself, Harry has bad manners. Lack of proper home training suggests itself.

3) to give signs (of), e.g. Her expression suggested anger/(that), she was angry.

suggestion n a slight sign, e.g. Her face held a suggestion of anger.

8. ignorevt not to take notice of, e.g. Ignore the child if he misbehaves and he will soon stop.

to ignore smth to pretend not to know or see it, e.g. She saw him coming but she ignored him.

Ant. to consider, to regard

Note: The Ukrainian for to ignore is ігнорувати, не помічати. Ignore does not correspond to the Ukrainian нехтувати, не турбуватися про що-небудь, випускати з поля зору which is expressed by the verb to neglect, as to neglect one's duties, one's children.

ignorant a 1) lacking knowledge, not aware, as ignorant of even simplest facts, e.g. He is quite ignorant of these facts. She was ignorant of his presence. (She didn't know he was there.)

2) rude, impolite esp. because of lack of social training, e.g. He is an ignorant person — he always goes through a door in front of a girl (lady). She is an ignorant girl: she knows nothing about her country's history.

9. error n smth done wrong, a mistake, as spelling errors; an error of judgement, e.g. Not to commit an error of judgement he looked for more evidence.

errvi (formal) to make mistakes; to do or to be wrong, e.g. To err is human.

erratic a irregular in behaviour or opinion (of a person or his behaviour); likely to do unusual or unexpected things, e.g. She's so erratic I never know how she's going to react to my suggestions.

10. mindvt1)to attend to or take care of, e.g .Mind your own business.Please mind the baby(the fire).

2) to obey, e.g. The child won’t mind his granny.

3) to be careful of, e.g. Mind your step. Mind! There is a bus coming. Mind the traffic rules.

4) to object to, be afraid of, e.g. Do you mind my smoking (if I smoke)? –I don’t mind it a bit. (Yes, I mind it very much.) Would you mind closing the window? – Never mind (an answer to an apology).

mind n 1) intellectual faculties, as the great minds of the world; to be in one’s right mind, e.g. Paton was one of the greatest minds of the world of his time. Are you in your right mind to say such things?

2) memory or remembrance, as to come to one’s mind; to bear in mind, e.g. The incident gradually came to my mind. Bear in mind that you are to be here at six sharp.

3) one’s thoughts, opinions, wishes, as to make up one’s mind to come to a decision. to change one’s mind., e.g. I won’t change my mind whatever I said.

to be in two minds to hesitate, e.g. I’m in two minds and can’t give you a definite answer now.

to speak one’s mind to say what one thinks, e.g. Don’t beat about the bush, speak your mind.

to give a person a piece of one’s mind to tell him frankly what one thinks of him, e.g. I shall give you a piece of mind, unpleasant as that may be.

to have a (no) mind to to be disposed to, e.g. She had no mind to answer such questions.

to have smth. on one’s mind to be anxious about smth, e.g. She seemed to have something on her mind and could not concentrate.

-minded adj in compounds having the kind of mind indicated, as absent-minded, fair-minded, broad-minded, narrow-minded, e.g. She is very absent-minded and always leaves her things behind.

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