Glossary
Cash -
money in notes and coins
Common -
frequent or typical
Cool
- good,
exciting (informal)
Corrupt
- something
made bad by dishonesty
Crop
- the total
number of vegetables/fruit grown in a season
Declining
- reducing or
going down
Dictatorship
- government
without democracy and supported by the threat of force
Documentary
- television or
radio programme about something real.
Estimate
- calculation,
estimation
Expand
- make bigger
Fair
- reasonable or
just
Figures
- numbers or
statistics
Fortune
- large
amount of money
Gradually
- slowly over
time
Hug
- an embrace,
to hold close
Ingredients - 'the ingredients of an
omelet are eggs, butter, milk, salt and pepper'.
Inherit
- receive something from
someone when they die (e.g money)
Import
- take from a
different place.
Irregular
Verbs -
verbs that don't follow the regular (I paint, he
painted etc) pattern.
Linguist
- studies
language
Memorize
- learn
something by memory (e.g phone number)
Official
- legal, used
by government
Opaque
- not clear,
difficult to see or understand
Opinion
- what you
think or believe
Pacifist
- against violence/war
Rifle
- a long gun
for shooting animals etc
Spoof
- a
spoof documentary pretends to be about something real.
Survive
- to continue,
not die
Tax
- money the
government takes
Temper
- someone with
a bad temper gets very angry very quickly
Universal - for all places/situations
Vowel
- the
letters a, e. i, o, u
Wrapped
- covered in
something like paper or plastic
Do you know the words
we use to describe he English language. Try
this crossword. You can find all
the words in the glossart of this section of ESL
Reading.