English Vocabulary in Use
English Vocabulary in Use CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE LJNlVtRSlTY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK www.cup.cam.ac.uk 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-421 1, USA www.cup.org 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia Ruiz de Alarc6n 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain 0 Cambridge University Press 1994 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1994 Ninth printing 1999 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 521 423961 Contents Acknowledgements Using this book Introduction 1 Learning vocabulary - general advice 2 Learning vocabulary - aids to learning 3 Organising a vocabulary notebook 4 The names of English language words 5 Using your dictionary 6 Revising vocabulary 7 Formal and informal words Word formation 8 Suffixes (e.g. actor, permission, modernise) 9 Prefixes (e.g. over-worked, exhale) 10 Roots (e.g. impress, pressure, expression) 11 Abstract nouns (e.g. faith, hope and love) 12 Compound adjectives (e.g. well-dressed, time-consuming) 13 Compound nouns - combinations of two nouns (e.g. baby-sitter, youth hostel) 14 Compound nouns - combinations of verb + preposition (e.g. drawback, input) 15 Words with interesting origins - people and places (e.g. hooligan, denim) 16 Words with interesting origins - from other languages (e.g.
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