Mastering - Speaking Chapter 1 Skill A Q1-Practice 1 Wordlist mentor (n) revere (v) compel (v) perseverance (n) virtue

(n)

Meaning a respected person who guides and teaches to admire greatly to make somebody do something; to exert strong pressure or influence on the quality of continuing to work at something despite difficulties and challenges the quality of moral excellence and righteousness; goodness

Skill A Q1-Practice 2 Wordlist gadget (n) learning disability (n phrase) dyslexia (n) hindrance (n) excel (v)

Meaning a small tool or appliance, often electronic a disorder found in children of normal intelligence, causing difficulties in learning pecific skills a disorder marked by difficulty in recognizing the order of written letters and words, thus making reading a challenge a problem or impediment that slows the progress of to perform better than others or better than expected

Skill A Q1-Practice 3 Wordlist better off (adj phrase) hinder (v) negate (v) chief (adj) crucial (adj) stamina (n)

Meaning in a better situation or condition to impede; to slow the progress of to make ineffective; to counteract main; principal very important; essential the ability to perform exercise for a long period of time; endurance

Skill A Q2-Practice 1 Wordlist in charge (adj phrase) destiny (n) crave (v) diverting (adj) curriculum (n)

Meaning in control; able to lead and make choices the events that will occur in ones life; fate to want strongly entertaining; fun the group of subjects studied at school and their schedule of study

Skill A Q2-Practice 2 Wordlist

Meaning

expert (adj) erudite (adj) cynical (adj) heed (v) give credence to (v phrase)

having great skill or knowledge having or requiring a high level of knowledge or learning skeptical; pessimistic to listen to and follow the advice of to treat with respect and legitimacy; to believe and support

Skill A Q2-Practice 3 Wordlist chore (n) domestic (adj) pitch in (v phrase) lift a finger (v phrase) maturity (n)

Meaning a small piece of work often performed on a regular schedule related to the house or home country to help others perform a certain task to work; to make an effort the state of being responsible and adult-like

Skill B Q3-Practice 1 Step 1 Wordlist commence (v) commotion (n) relocate (v) relay (v) disruption (n)

Meaning to begin; to start a large, confusing amount of noise and movement to move; to change the place of to pass information one has received on to another person or group; to tell a break from a regularly scheduled activity; an unpleasant interruption

Step 2 Wordlist hold off (v phrase) distracting (adj) cacophony (n) allay (v) figure out (v phrase)

Meaning to wait causing loss of focus and concentration a large amount of jarring, unpleasant sound to provide relief; to make better to make a final decision; to realize

Skill B Q3-Practice 2 Step 1 Wordlist unsolicited (adj) a.k.a. (acronym) recipient (n) redirect (v)

Meaning not requested; not asked for also known as the person to whom an email or letter is sent; the person meant to receive something to change the direction of; to move to a place different from the originally intended place

bulk (adj)

being large in volume or quantity; related to mail sent to a large number of addresses simultaneously

Step 2 Wordlist implement (v) abhor (v) from time to time (adv phrase) incertitude (n) misidentify (v)

Meaning to put in; to start using to hate occasionally a doubt; a feeling of uncertainty to make an incorrect conclusion about the nature of something

Skill B Q3-Practice 3 Step 1 Wordlist faculty (n) inaugurate (v) enterprise (n) telecommerce (n) discipline (n)

Meaning a branch of a university in charge of one field of study to begin; to launch a business venture the field of business and banking done using telecommunications such as telephones or Internet a field of study; a major

Skill B Q3-Practice 3 Step 2 Wordlist extra credit (adj phrase) whiz kid (n phrase) counsel (n) freebie (n) beforehand (adv)

Meaning related to assignments outside the regular course assignments and exams that are designed to allow students to increase their grades a teenager or child with exceptional intelligence or achievements a series of suggestions; advice an event or item that costs nothing prior to an event

Skill B Q4-Practice 1 Step 1 Wordlist renowned (adj) equilibrium (n) static (adj) collusion (n) corollary (n)

Meaning famous; well known a state in which things remain constant, or equal on two or more sides unchanging the act of agreeing on a plan a consequence that follows logically

Skill B Q4-Practice 1

Step 2 Wordlist collision (n) oncoming (adj) in essence (adv phrase) delay (n) pose (v)

Meaning the act of crashing, or colliding moving towards basically; essentially the condition of being later or slower than expected or desired; a postponement to put forward; to present

Skill B Q4-Practice 2 Step 1 Wordlist sweep through (v phrase) strain (n) parasitic (adj) advent (n) eradicate (v)

Meaning to spread or move quickly across a given area a type relating to living on another living thing without helping it the beginning; the coming of to destroy; to remove completely

Skill B Q4-Practice 2 Step 2 Wordlist scrutiny (n) culprit (n) pandemic (n) subsequent (adj) incubation (n)

Meaning the act of questioning and examining closely a guilty party; a cause a widespread disease affecting many people following after in time the development of an infection from the time the microorganism enters the body until signs or symptoms first appear

Skill B Q4-Practice 3 Step 1 Wordlist herder (n) migrate (v) ravages (n) thrive (v)

Meaning a person who raises livestock, such as cattle, sheep, or goats a large, flat area of land a series of problems or damage to live successfully

Skill B Q4-Practice 3 Step 2 Wordlist undermine (v) commission (v) plunder (v) contradict (v)

Meaning to destroy the foundation of to hire officially to destroy and steal from to state the opposite of; to question the validity of

dispel (v)

to prove a belief or opinion is false

Skill C Q5-Practice 1 Wordlist frazzled (adj) take off (v phrase) monumental (adj) shot (n) check out (v)

Meaning feeling stress to go away very large and important an attempt; a try to borrow; to officially remove from a library

Skill C Q5-Practice 2 Wordlist drive someone crazy (v phrase) in jeopardy (adj phrase) manipulative (adj) tough out (prep phrase) bicker (v)

Meaning to make someone very upset at risk; in danger tending toward using people for ones own selfish reasons to endure; to remain strong in a difficult situation to argue

Skill C Q5-Practice 3 Wordlist dissect (v) gross (adj) hold against (v phrase) suck it up (v phrase) virtual (adj)

Meaning to cut open for the purpose of study disgusting; revolting to think badly of someone because of some event; to resent to quietly endure a difficult situation simulated on a computer

Skill C Q6-Practice 1 Wordlist prey (n) tame (v) custom (n) ritual (n) context (n) nomadic (adj) procure (v) enlist (v) subsistence (n) assert (v)

Meaning an animal that is hunted to teach a wild animal to obey commands an accepted practice a practice repeated and performed a specific way for religious purposes the circumstances surrounding a situation relating to people who constantly move, who have no fixed home to get to get the help of; to recruit the act or state of surviving to claim strongly; to contend

Skill C Q6-Practice 2 Wordlist migraine (n) vomit (v) cant stand (v phrase) episodically (adv) blood vessel (n) stimulant (n) contract (v) compound (v) compensate (v) trigger (v)

Meaning a severe form of headache to force material from the stomach up through the throat and mouth to hate; to not be able to tolerate occurring occasionally, but in clusters or groups a vein or artery; a tube in the body through which blood can flow a material or event that causes a reaction to become smaller; to squeeze to add to; to make stronger or more intense to make up for a shortcoming; to attempt to fix a problem to start; to set off

Skill C Q6-Practice 3 Wordlist imperceptible (adj) punctuated (adj) dilute (v) peripheral (adj) novel (adj) take over (v phrase) exterminate (v) predecessor (n) complement (v)

Meaning too small to be noticed occasionally interrupted to make weaker; to decrease the ratio of to the side; not part of the center new; different from past examples to become dominant; to seize control to kill; to destroy a person or thing that comes before to work well with; to improve the situation in combination with

Chapter 2 Skill A Q1-Practice 1 Wordlist fellow (adj) forum (n) symbiotic (adj) respective (adj) broaden (v)

Meaning part of the same group or engaged in the same activity a site at which people with similar interests can communicate beneficial to both parties in order to make wider

Skill A Q1-Practice 2 Wordlist widespread (adj) obligatory (adj) innovation (n) witness (v) update (n)

Meaning common in many places done out of a sense of duty a new and improved technology or way of doing something to see; to observe information about new events in a persons life

Skill A Q1-Practice 3 Wordlist blizzard (n) raging (adj) stranded (adj) pull over (v phrase) lift (n)

Meaning a severe snowstorm very strong and violent stuck; unable to move or escape to direct a moving vehicle to the side of a road and stop a ride somewhere

Skill A Q1-Practice 4 Wordlist optimist (n) enriching (adj) forge (v) lasting (adj) on edge (adj)

Meaning a person who always looks on the positive side of an event or experience causing improvement; making better to create; to establish enduring; remaining strong for a long time nervous; feeling great stress

Skill A Q2-Practice 1 Wordlist remainder (n) trauma (n) antisocial (adj) nurturing (adj) foster (v)

Meaning a part remaining; a part that is left an experience of great stress acting against society, i.e. criminal behavior caring and encouraging to help develop

Skill A Q2-Practice 2 Wordlist capable (adj) sufficiently (adv) adequate (adj) diverse (adj) milieu (n)

Meaning able to do well enough sufficient; enough for a given purpose many different a setting; an environment

Skill A Q2-Practice 3 Wordlist multitude (n) indigenous (adj) captivating (adj) venue (n) endangered (adj)

Meaning a large number; several native; naturally occurring in interesting; engrossing a place for a specific purpose threatened; facing possible extinction

Skill A Q2-Practice 4 Wordlist

Meaning

turnout (n) sway (v) refrain (v) take part (v phrase) constituent (n)

the level of participation in an activity to convince; to change the opinion of to stop; to hold back to participate; to do something with others a person living in an area or district served by a politician

Skill B Q3-Practice 1 Wordlist invaluable (adj) grant (n) comparable (adj) afford (v) unparalleled (adj) arbitrary (adj) technically (adv) fathom (v) preclude (v) merit (n)

Meaning excellent a sum of money given to students to pay for tuition similar; approximately the same to produce; to create not equaled by others; the best chosen or created without justification according to exact rules or definitions to understand; to comprehend to prevent; to forbid a quality deserving praise or respect

Skill B Q3-Practice 2 Wordlist renovation (n) humanities (n) precedence (n) partial (adj) proffer (v) get by (v phrase) preferential (adj) prestige (n) pull in (v phrase) give someone a piece of ones mind (expression)

Meaning a change to a room or building, usually for improvement the areas of study including literature, philosophy, and religion the opportunity to choose first; priority incomplete; in part to provide; to offer for acceptance to survive; to subsist better; given more importance than others a level of high respect to earn; to garner to complain; to express anger

Skill B Q4-Practice 1 Wordlist drift (v) morphology (n) mechanism (n) entangle (v) appendage (n) elusive (adj) in vain (adv phrase) glean (v) carcass (n) specimen (n)

Meaning to move with the current of air or water a design or shape a tool; a technique to capture as with a net; to twist together an attachment to a body, such as an arm or leg difficult to find or capture without success or purpose to learn a dead body an example for scientific study

paradigm (n)

a model

Skill B Q4-Practice 2 Wordlist

govern (v)

Meaning to control; to make rules for working well together a feeling of victory or celebration a feeling of something strange and intriguing to express; to communicate a state of shock and loud disagreement to fill a hole in order to stop anything flowing through it to speak quietly and unhappily to criticize harshly crude; unrefined; not sophisticated to become irrelevant; to not be used

complementary (adj) triumph (n) enchantment (n) convey (v) uproar (n) plug (v) mutter (v) lambaste (v) uncouth (adj) go out the window (expression)

Skill C Q5-Practice 1 Wordlist glitch (n) scanner (n) find out (v phrase) come through (v phrase) in training (adj phrase) pain in the neck (idiom) varsity (n)

Meaning a problem; an error a machine that reads the code on a card for information to discover; to learn to arrive involved in a regiment of exercise; preparing for an athletic event an inconvenience; a nuisance a team representing a university or college

Skill C Q5-Practice 2 Wordlist catch up (v phrase) put ones nose to the grindstone (expression) from here on out (adv phrase) pull off (v phrase) extension (n) dock (v) suit (v) give something a shot(expression) heavy (adj)

Meaning to work fast enough to attain the same level as others to work very hard starting now and continuing until the end; from now on to do; to accomplish a delay in the date on which an assignment is due to subtract; to remove to please; to act according to preference to try; to make an attempt very serious; emotionally important

ASAP (acronym)

as soon as possible

Skill C Q6-Practice 1 Wordlist incarnation (n) norm (n) mainstream (adj) intoxicating (adj) universally (adv) infancy (n) on the scene (adv phrase) sample (n) fusion (n) myriad (n)

Meaning a new form of a familiar idea a standard, or acceptable, behavior accepted by the majority very fun and interesting; captivating by all people around the world the early years of; the period at the beginning within a certain sphere of activity an audio segment taken from an original piece and inserted, often repetitively, in a new recording a mixture a large number of different things

Skill C Q6-Practice 2 Wordlist conjure (v) pinpoint (v) regurgitate (v) confines (n) marginalize (v) pathological (adj) dysfunctional (adj) adhere (v) alarmist (n) notion (n)

Meaning to call or bring to mind; to evoke to define with exactness to reproduce exactly, without question or analysis the limits; the scope to put into a lower or outside group relating to unhealthy behavior with abnormal or impaired functioning to stick; to conform a person who exaggerates possible dangers in order to worry others a belief; a conception