Cambridge 1 test 3
Compiling
Meaning: to collect information from different places and arrange it in a book, report, or list:
We’re compiling some facts and figures for a documentary on the subject.
Nuances
Meaning: a very slight difference in appearance, meaning, sound, etc.:
The painter has managed to capture every nuance of the woman’s expression.
Linguists explore the nuances of language.
Definitely
Incorporate
Meaning: to include something as part of something larger:
Suggestions from the survey have been incorporated into/in the final design.
This aircraft incorporates several new safety features.
Dictionaries
Access
Vibrant
Meaning: energetic, exciting, and full of enthusiasm:
a vibrant young performer
a vibrant personality
a vibrant city
The hope is that this area will develop into a vibrant commercial centre.
Vernacular
Meaning: the form of a language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, especially in informal situations:
The Spanish I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of this Mexican village.
Many Roman Catholics regret the replacing of the Latin mass by the vernacular.
Volunteers
Corpus
Meaning: a collection of written or spoken material stored on a computer and used to find out how language is used:
All the dictionary examples are taken from a corpus of billions of words.
Foreign
Appropriate
Intuitively
Meaning: (knowledge from) an ability to understand or know something immediately based on your feelings rather than facts:
Often there’s no clear evidence one way or the other and you just have to base your judgment on intuition.
I can’t explain how I knew – I just had an intuition that you’d been involved in an accident.
Frequent
Reality
Humorous
Meaning: the ability to find things funny, the way in which people see that some things are funny, or the quality of being funny:
He’s got a great sense of humour (= he is very able to see things as funny).
I must say I find his schoolboy (= childish) humour rather tiresome.
Noise
Irony
Meaning: a situation in which something which was intended to have a particular result has the opposite or a very different result:
The irony (of it) is that the new tax system will burden those it was intended to help.
Initiative
Content
Protruding
Meaning: to stick out from or through something:
A rotting branch protruded from the swamp like a ghostly arm.
protruding ears/teeth
Undetected
Clutch
Regulation
Dismantle
Embankment
Meaning: an artificial slope made of earth and/or stones:
a river/road/railway embankment
Foundation
Unusual
Commercial
Outstanding
Accommodation
Environment
Conventional
Meaning: traditional and ordinary:
conventional behaviour/attitudes/clothes
conventional medicine/farming
a conventional wedding
disapproving I find his art dull and conventional.
Workaholic
Shrinking
Entirely
Hire
Diminishing
Incentive
Contribution
Penalty
Commitment
Succumb
Meaning: to lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat:
The town finally succumbed last week after being pounded with heavy artillery for more than two months.
I’m afraid I succumbed to temptation and had a piece of cheesecake.
I felt sure it would only be a matter of time before he succumbed to my charms.
to die or suffer badly from an illness:
Thousands of cows have succumbed to the disease in the past few months.
Redundancy
Meaning: a situation in which something is unnecessary because it is more than is needed:
The aircraft has seven computer systems running in parallel, so as to provide enough redundancy to cope with computer breakdowns.
Assert
Contingencies
Meaning: something that might possibly happen in the future, usually causing problems or making further arrangements necessary:
You must be able to deal with all possible contingencies.
Have you made any contingency plans?
Flexible
Leisure
Assumption
Career
Efficiently
Substituted
Cope
Weight
Bridge
Vegetation
Frequency
Tongue
Finance
Business
