MISPRONOUNCED WORDS: 2ND YEAR
BASIC VOCABULARY LIST (VARIOUS VOCABULARY GROUPS) (a blank line separates one thematic group from another) |
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private | |
elegant | |
chaos | |
vice versa | |
sign a contact | |
null and void | |
characteristically | |
he stopped talking | |
financial | |
idea | |
focus | |
fastened | |
razor | |
cause | |
evolve | |
pleasant | |
delete | |
error | |
boorish | |
debt | |
volcano | |
unusual | |
virtue | |
lukewarm | |
surely | |
effective | |
difficult | |
to be deadbeat | |
antibiotics | |
impulse | |
stimulus | |
development | |
a fussy child | |
to commit a fraud | |
to defraud money | |
surface | |
honour | |
honesty | |
acknowledge | |
effort | |
argue | |
horizon | |
alien | |
appearance | |
area | |
adequate | |
adolescence | |
advantage | |
clothes | |
cloths | |
analysis | |
arrived | |
branch | |
broad | |
bruise | |
choir | |
exercise | |
colours | |
a comely woman = shapely, attractive | |
council | |
deceive | |
disadvantage | |
discipline | |
failure | |
fierce | |
foreign | |
fraud | |
he kept some food | |
hidden | |
hierarchy | |
character | |
infamous | |
isolated | |
mown lawn | |
licentiate | |
as heavy as lead | |
chemicals | |
heroism | |
hero | |
vehicle | |
no vehicular traffic! = zakaz ruchu wszelkich pojazdów! | |
wheat | |
heritage | |
irreconcilable differences | |
wonder | |
wander | |
praiseworthy | |
iron | |
risen | |
opposite | |
a minute of the clock | |
minute details | |
knowledge | |
variety | |
aunt | |
hunt wild animals | |
haunted house | |
soldier | |
occur | |
compass | |
palace | |
police | |
clerk | |
donkey | |
legend | |
handsome | |
handkerchief | |
autumn | |
weary | |
meadow | |
mead | |
sword | |
gravel | |
navel | |
shovel | |
gear | |
abroad | |
conquer | |
sweater | |
diplomatic corps | |
cough | |
monk | |
cavern | |
courteous | |
Thames | |
Greenwich | |
colon | |
Edinburgh | |
diplomacy | |
pole | |
Polish | |
to polish shoes | |
receipt | |
execute | |
champagne | |
Warsaw | |
catastrophe | |
haven | |
certificate | |
gaol | |
jail | |
chef | |
chief | |
zealous | |
hiccough | |
hiccup | |
prayer | |
beard | |
boutique | |
a pint of ale | |
moustache | |
disciple | |
canal | |
nephew | |
Stephen | |
situation | |
insincere | |
competence | |
competitive | |
a ton = a tonne | |
poverty | |
saliva | |
restaurant | |
though | |
throughout | |
thoroughly | |
fierce | |
two-edged weapon | |
a learned man | |
merely | |
civilisation | |
organisation | |
bewilder | |
dawn | |
yawn | |
lawn | |
pawn | |
sphere | |
dove | |
a clove of garlic | |
glove | |
love | |
loyalty | |
mortgage | |
naughty | |
neatness | |
opposite | |
piracy | |
pirate | |
pleasant | |
publicly | |
questionnaire | |
readily | |
received | |
rival | |
scene | |
sheer | |
souvenirs | |
straight | |
suitable | |
sue someone | |
technical | |
technology | |
severe | |
vaccine | |
vacuum cleaner | |
vague | |
valley | |
the Sahara desert | |
to desert the army | |
a dessert = deser | |
to get one’s deserts | |
bosom | |
bald | |
bold | |
physicist | |
surface | |
cruise | |
a long-winded lecture | |
a winding path | |
to wind a clock | |
righteous | |
gases | |
vases | |
solemn | |
anxiety | |
Irishman | |
Ireland | |
Edinburgh | |
a row of houses | |
we rowed past the docks | |
they had a row = quarrel | |
often | |
soften | |
scenario | |
slavery | |
bravery | |
voluntary | |
monetary | |
hereditary | |
calm | |
palm | |
salmon | |
almond | |
half | |
halves | |
calf | |
climb | |
clamber a tree | |
limbs | |
bomb | |
bomber | |
indebted | |
dumbness | |
numbness | |
lamb | |
tomb | |
womb | |
mumble | |
comb one’s hair | |
dumbbells | |
doubtful | |
castle | |
subtle | |
rustling leaves | |
hustle and bustle of a city = zgiełk wielkiego miasta | |
what’s the worth of your car? | |
my car is worth five pounds | |
it’s not worthy of my effort | |
barrier | |
career | |
carrier | |
modal verbs | |
model solution | |
dairy products | |
whole | |
wholly | |
purpose | |
porpoise | |
a draught in the chimney | |
draught beer/horse | |
drought in the desert | |
apostrophe | |
catastrophe | |
horizon | |
hypocrisy | |
series | |
serious | |
to bear | |
a bear | |
beer | |
to tear a piece of paper | |
a tear from the eye | |
an ear | |
air | |
a hare | |
hair | |
hear | |
wear | |
near | |
here | |
weird | |
be weary of sth | |
a beard | |
rare | |
mere | |
moor | |
poor children | |
pour water on someone | |
sour milk | |
tour | |
to soar (of prices) | |
soup | |
soap | |
a vice | |
niece | |
nice | |
rise | |
raise | |
prize | |
price | |
praise | |
prise sth open = otworzyć na siłę/wyważyć | |
bullet | |
tunnel | |
bulldog | |
butcher | |
dull | |
pull | |
null | |
skull | |
bull | |
rush | |
bush | |
puny | |
culinary | |
cushion | |
on the spur of the moment | |
cup | |
rustic | |
rural | |
discussion | |
illustrative | |
substance | |
difficult | |
industrial | |
Chicago | |
avalanche | |
to look chic | |
food rations | |
rational | |
rationale | |
nation | |
national | |
an oafish book/film = boring | |
obese | |
obesity | |
odour | |
odious | |
oven | |
opera | |
obey | |
post | |
postal | |
vine | |
wine | |
vineyard | |
assure | |
ensure | |
insure | |
a chest of drawers | |
to draw | |
tired | |
pioneer | |
cleanly | |
cleanse a wound | |
regrettable | |
comfortable | |
respectable | |
creditable | |
unbeatable | |
provable | |
estimable | |
capable | |
admirable | |
ADJECTIVES ENDING IN -ed /-d/ /-t/ /-ɪd/ |
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a two-edged weapon | |
barbed wire | |
sagged breasts | |
a finished job | |
baked bread | |
naked body | |
thatched roof | |
two-faced person | |
PLURAL FORMS -is, -es | |
basis | |
crisis | |
analysis | |
diagnosis | |
STRESS SHIFT: VERBS vs. NOUNS VERB NOUN |
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contract | |
protest | |
research | |
DIFFERENT PRONUNCIATION: VERB vs. NOUN VERB NOUN |
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record | |
reuse | |
LONG VS. SHORT VOWELS | |
ship | |
bit | |
rich | |
knit | |
shit | |
FINAL VOICING AND DEVOICING | |
pick | |
loose | |
docks | |
neat | |
rip | |
watched | |
rich | |
foot | |
heart | |
bet | |
slap | |
loose | |
ostrich | |
write | |
laugh | |
brought | |
sight | |
lit | |
peck | |
watch | |
cap | |
sat | |
hiss | |
coarse | |
place | |
price | |
beats | |
composed | |
plans | |
accused | |
creatures | |
wigs | |
claws | |
shoes | |
supposed | |
calls | |
orange | |
houses | |
[-ɡ] vs [-dʒ] VERB ADJECTIVE NOUN |
|
to singe a shirt | |
argument | |
original | |
figure | |
legislation | |
vegetation | |
gesture | |
vegetarian | |
digestive | |
garage | |
agitate | |
dog in the manger | |
vague | |
vegan | |
elegant | |
Portuguese | |
orange | |
strange | |
longevity | |
foreign | |
argument | |
dungarees | |
/-eɪt/ vs /-ət/ VERB /-eɪt/ NOUN /-ət/ ADJECTIVE /-ət/ |
|
appropriate | |
duplicate | |
degenerate | |
estimate | |
separate | |
moderate | |
elaborate |