Vocab unit 1 + 5
- accomplished (at writing)
- advent (time before something was common)
- allegory (story with moral lesson)
- as far as sth goes (work is satisfactory to a certain degree)
- banter
- block out a memory
- build followers
- caught up in the past (so involved in past that you don’t notice other things)
- character study
- charismatic
- chart (record information to see how it develops/changes over time, verb)
- commit sth to memory
- conceptual (showing an idea instead of thing, conceptual artist)
- current
- cutting-edge (advantage over other people/things)
- designated (chosen for particular job/purpose)
- doodle (noun)
- engaged (with) (getting involved to understand something)
- episode
- erase
- exclusively
- facilitate (to make something happen easily)
- flashback
- flawed
- flush (sth away)
- freak (sb) out
- full-on (extreme, something can be full-on)
- fundamental (very necessary and important)
- get into sth (enjoy/be interested in sth)
- gush (liquid flows quickly in big quantities)
- hang around with
- have a selective memory
- impartial (not involved → can’t give fair opinion/advice)
- infuriated
- inspirational
- jog someone’s memory (to make someone remember something)
- make stuff up
- manipulate (not only emotionally, also e.g. lab results)
- marked improvement (very obvious, he was impressed by the marked improvement)
- memorise
- mind-blowing
- modify (small change to make sth more effective/efficient)
- mundane
- on a positive note
- operate (as) (to have a particular purpose, sunscreen operates as a filter for the sun)
- overall (considering/including everything)
- partial-ly (not complete, partial eclipse)
- pave the way (for sth) (to create the right conditions so you can do something in the future)
- play a vital role (in sth)
- provocative
- pure
- invention
- quit
- raise awareness
- read up on (sth)
- realise
- realm (general area of knowledge, thought or activity, it’s within the realms of possibility that…)
- reassuring
- recall
- recognise
- remember
- remind
- ripple effect (action causes another action, causes another action etc.)
- run into trouble
- scamper (run with quick short steps, child and small animal for example)
- scrapbook
- sequence (one part of a story/film that deals with a single subject or action)
- showcase (verb)
- slippery path (process/habit that’s difficult to stop)
- stick to sth
- substantial (large in amount/number, substantial increase in salary)
- take liberties with (make unreasonal changes to something)
- therapeutic
- trigger a memory
- unnerving (making someone feel uncomfortable, adjective)
- witty (using words in a clever/amusing way)
- word for word (in exactly the same words)
- a faint chance (that)
- a soft touch (someone who is too kind or easy to deceive)
- accumulate
- acquire
- ahead of the game
- aptitude (for) (natural ability or skill)
- breakthrough
- bring in (to hire someone from outside to solve something)
- budding (a starter who will make it in the future)
- bulk (main/largest part of something)
- buy into (accepting an idea and letting it influence you)
- buyout
- check sth out
- chuck out
- clutter up
- cocooned
- collect (as in postcards or stones)
- come in for (to be criticized or blamed for sth) (the director has come in for a lot of criticism)
- consume
- cover up
- crackdown (action that is taken to deal more strictly with crime, a problem, protests, etc.)
- cutbacks
- defining
- diagnosis
- dodgy
- dole out (giving out sth for more than 1 person)
- downturn (a period/process in which business activity, production, etc. is reduced and conditions become worse)
- downward spiral
- drawback (disadvantage to sth)
- easy prey (for)
- eat up (to use sth a lot or until it’s gone)
- embark upon (to start sth new/exciting)
- emote
- fallout (the, unexpected, results of a particular event)
- feedback
- flip
- flooded (with)
- full-blown
- generate
- get the hang of
- give a heads up
- glass ceiling (sth that prevents particular groups from getting high-level jobs, even though there are no actual laws or rules to stop them)
- go without
- hang onto (keep sth)
- hard sell (selling sth by pressuring someone)
- hoard
- hold up (situation that stops sth from progressing)
- hot property (someone or sth very popular or valuable)
- immersive (making you feel you are really taking part in the events you are seeing on a screen or hearing about, or are really in a virtual environment)
- initial
- insatiable desire (for) (always wanting more)
- intake (amt of people who join sth at a perticular time)
- knock-down price (cheap)
- living proof
- mind-blowing
- mine
- offspring (animal’s baby)
- outcome
- outlay (costs to start a business)
- outset (beginning of event/process)
- part with our money (unvoluntarily give money)
- pass up an opportunity
- pocket (obtaining money in a not fair way (getting money to buy sth and keeping change)
- pulse (as in heart)
- push the right buttons (to get what you want)
- sentimental value
- set the bar
- setback
- spare cash
- splash out (on) (spend a lot of money on sth)
- spouse
- stumble (hit foot or almost fall)
- takeover
- the rumour’s going round that
- the time is ripe
- tick a box
- turnover (amt of business done in particular period of time)
- unparalleled (bigger, better or worse than anything else, e.g. someones influence on sth)
- upbringing
- utopian (imaginary world where everyone is happy)
- watch your money
- workout