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

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