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  1. Basic.fm Page 361 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM which 361 who must take a medical test. (NOTE: Do not company produces thousands of bottles of whisky every year. (NOTE: The plural confuse with weather.) which /wtʃ/ adjective, pronoun 1. (ask- is whiskies.) which whisper / wspə/ verb to speak very qui- whisper ing a question) what person or thing Which dress are you wearing to the etly, so that only the person you are talk- wedding? Which boy threw that ing to can hear He whispered instruc- stone? 2. (only used with things, not tions to the other members of the gang. people) that The French restaurant She whispered to the nurse that she which is next door to the office. wanted something to drink. í noun a They’ve eaten all the bread which you quiet voice, or words spoken very quiet- bought yesterday. ly She spoke in a whisper. while /wal/ conjunction 1. at the time while whistle / ws(ə)l/ noun 1. a high sound whistle that He tried to cut my hair while he made by blowing through your lips was watching TV. While we were on when they are almost closed She gave holiday someone broke into our house. a whistle of surprise. We heard a Shall I clean the kitchen while you’re whistle and saw a dog running across having a bath? 2. showing difference the field. 2. a simple instrument which He likes meat, while his sister is a vege- makes a high sound, played by blowing tarian. Everyone is watching TV, He blew on his whistle to stop the while I’m in the kitchen making the din- match. í verb 1. to blow through your ner. 3. although (formal ) While there lips to make a high sound They may still be delays, the service is much marched along, whistling an Irish song. better than it used to be. í noun a short He whistled for a taxi. 2. to make a time It’s a while since I’ve seen him. high sound using a small metal instru- in a while in a short time, soon I’ll ment The referee whistled to stop the be ready in a while. match. whine /wan/ verb 1. to make a loud high whine white /wat/ adjective of a colour like white noise You can hear the engines of the snow or milk A white shirt is part of racing cars whining in the background. the uniform. A white car will always The dogs whined when we locked look dirty. Her hair is now completely them up in the kitchen. 2. to complain in white. Do you take your coffee black a loud high voice that annoys other peo- or white? í noun 1. a person whose ple She’s always whining about how skin is pale Whites are in the minority little money she has. (NOTE: Do not con- in African countries. 2. a white part of fuse with wine. Note also: whines – something the white of an egg The whining – whined.) whites of his eyes were slightly red. 3. a whip /wp/ noun a long, thin piece of whip white wine A glass of house white, leather with a handle, used to hit ani- please. mals to make them do what you want white lie / wat la/ noun a lie about white lie The rider used her whip to make the something unimportant, especially a lie horse run faster. í verb to hit someone told in order not to upset someone or an animal with a whip He whipped (informal ) the horse to make it go faster. (NOTE: who /hu / pronoun 1. (asking a ques- who whips – whipping – whipped) tion) which person or persons Who whirl /w l/ verb to turn round quickly whirl phoned? Who are you talking to? She put on her new skirt and whirled Who spoke at the meeting? 2. the person around for every one to see. The chil- or the people that The men who came dren’s paper windmills whirled in the yesterday morning work for the electric- wind. ity company. Anyone who didn’t get whiskey / wski/ noun Irish or Ameri- whiskey tickets early won’t be able to get in. This is trial version can whisky There’s the taxi driver who took us whisky / wski/ noun an alcoholic drink, whisky home last night. (NOTE: After an object, made in Scotland from barley The who can be left out: There’s the man I www.adultpdf.com
  2. Basic.fm Page 362 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM whoever 362 will very wide at this point. 2. including saw at the pub. When who is used to many things The shop carries a wide ask a direct question, the verb is put range of imported goods. She has a after ‘who’ and before the subject: wide knowledge of French painting. Who is that man over there?, but not width í adverb as far as possible, as when it is used in a statement: I don’t much as possible She opened her eyes know who that man is over there. wide. The door was wide open so we When who is used as an object, it is sometimes written whom /hu m/ but just walked in. this is formal and not common: the widely / wadli/ adverb 1. by a wide widely man whom I met in the office; Whom range of people It is widely expected do you want to see?) that he will resign. 2. over a wide area whoever /hu evə/ pronoun (emphatic whoever Contamination spread widely over the form of ‘who’) no matter who, anyone area round the factory. She has trav- who Whoever finds the umbrella can elled widely in Greece. keep it. Go home with whoever you widow / wdəυ/ noun a woman whose widow like. husband has died and who has not mar- whole /həυl/ adjective all of something whole ried again She must have been hungry – she ate width /wdθ/ noun 1. a measurement of width a whole apple pie. We spent the whole something from one side to another I winter in the south. A whole lot of need to know the width of the sofa. people went down with flu. í noun all of The width of the garden is at least forty something She stayed in bed the feet or the garden is at least forty feet in whole of Sunday morning and read the width. 2. the distance from one side to newspapers. The whole of the north of another of a swimming pool She the country was covered with snow. swam three widths easily. Did you watch the whole of the pro- wife /waf/ noun a woman who is mar- wife gramme? (NOTE: Do not confuse with ried to a man I know Mr Jones quite hole.) í adverb in one piece The well but I’ve never met his wife. They birds catch small fish and swallow them both came with their wives. (NOTE: The whole. plural is wives /wavz/.) whom /hu m/ ‘ who whom wig /w / noun false hair worn on the wig whose /hu z/ pronoun 1. (asking a whose head question) which belongs to which per- wild /wald/ adjective 1. living naturally, wild son Whose is that car? Whose book is this? Whose money was stolen? 2. not with people as a pet 2. very angry or of whom the family whose house was very excited He will be wild when he burgled the man whose hat you bor- sees what I have done to the car. The rowed the girl whose foot you trod on fans went wild at the end of the match. (NOTE: Do not confuse with who’s.) 3. not thinking carefully She made a why /wa/ adverb 1. for what reason few wild guesses, but didn’t find the why right answer. They had the wild idea Why did he have to phone me in the mid- of walking across the Sahara. í adverb dle of the TV film? I asked the ticket without any control The crowds were collector why the train was late. 2. giv- running wild through the centre of the ing a reason She told me why she town. couldn’t go to the party. 3. agreeing wildlife / waldlaf/ noun birds, plants with a suggestion ‘Would you like wildlife some lunch?’ ‘Why not?’ and animals in their natural conditions wicked / wkd/ adjective very bad wicked will /wl/ modal verb 1. used to form the will What a wicked thing to say! It was future tense The party will start soon. wicked of them to steal the birds’ eggs. Will they be staying a long time? We This is trial version wide /wad/ adjective 1. which measures wide won’t be able to come to tea. If you from side to side The table is three ask her to play the piano, she’ll say foot or three feet wide. The river is not ‘no’. 2. used as a polite way of asking www.adultpdf.com
  3. Basic.fm Page 363 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM willing 363 winter someone to do something Will every- waist. She wound the string into a one please sit down? Will someone ball. (NOTE: winds – winding – wound /waυnd/) close the curtains? (formal) Won’t you sit down? 3. used for showing that wind up phrasal verb 1. to turn a key to you are keen to do something Don’t make a machine work When did you call a taxi – I’ll take you home. The wind up the clock or wind the clock up? car will never start when we want it to. 2. to turn a key to make something go up Don’t worry – I will do it. (NOTE: the Wind up your window if it starts to negative: will not is usually written rain. 3. to be in a situation at the end of won’t /wəυnt/. The past is: would, a period (informal ) They wound up negative: would not, usually written owing the bank thousands of pounds. wouldn’t. Note also that will is often window / wndəυ/ noun 1. an opening window shortened to ’ll: he’ll = he will) í noun in a surface such as a wall or door, 1. someone’s desire that something will which is filled with glass a seat by the happen against your will without window I looked out of the kitchen your agreement He was forced to pay window and saw a fox. It’s dangerous the money against his will. 2. a legal to lean out of car windows. The bur- document by which a person gives in- glar must have got in through the bath- structions about what should happen to room window. 2. any of several sections his or her property after he or she dies of a computer screen on which informa- He wrote his will in 1984. According tion is shown Open the command win- to her will, all her property is left to her dow to see the range of possible com- children. Has she made a will yet? mands. at will whenever someone wants to windy / wndi/ adjective when a strong windy Visitors can wander around the gardens wind is blowing (informal ) (NOTE: at will. windier – windiest) willing / wlŋ/ adjective keen to help willing wine /wan/ noun an alcoholic drink wine Is there anyone who is willing to drive made from grapes We had a glass of the jeep? I need two willing helpers to French red wine. Two glasses of white wash the car. wine, please. Should we have some win /wn/ verb 1. to beat someone in a win white wine with the fish? game, or be first in a race or competition wing /wŋ/ noun 1. one of the two parts wing I expect our team will win tomorrow. of the body, which a bird or butterfly The local team won their match yes- etc. uses to fly The little birds were terday. She won the race easily. 2. to flapping their wings, trying to fly. get something as a prize She won first Which part of the chicken do you prefer: prize in the art competition. He won a leg or a wing? 2. one of the two flat two million pounds on the lottery. parts sticking from the side of an air- She’s hoping to win a new car in a com- craft, which hold the aircraft in the air petition in the paper. (NOTE: wins – winning – won /w n/) í noun the act He had a seat by the wing, so could not see much out of the window. of winning a game, race or competition wink /wŋk/ verb to shut and open one The local team has only had two wins wink so far this year. We’re disappointed, eye quickly, as a signal She winked at we expected a win. him to try to tell him that everything was going well. wind1 /wnd/ noun air moving outdoors wind winner / wnə/ noun 1. a person who winner The wind blew two trees down in the park. There’s no point trying to use an wins something The winner of the umbrella in this wind. There’s not a race gets a silver cup. 2. something breath of wind – the sailing boats aren’t which is successful His latest book is moving at all. a winner. This is trial version wind2 /wand/ verb to twist round and winter / wntə/ noun the coldest season wind winter round He wound the towel round his of the year, the season between autumn www.adultpdf.com
  4. Basic.fm Page 364 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM wipe 364 woman and spring It’s too cold to do any gar- hands were blue with cold. Half the dening in the winter. We’re taking a people in the office are ill with flu. winter holiday in Mexico. within /w ðn/ preposition inside an within wipe /wap/ verb to clean or dry some- wipe area or period of time The house is thing with a cloth Wipe your shoes within easy reach of the station. We with a cloth before you polish them. are within walking distance of the shop. Use the blue towel to wipe your hands. I must go back for a another check wire / waə/ noun 1. a thin piece of metal within three months. They promised to wire deliver the sofa within a week. or metal thread He used bits of wire to without /w ðaυt/ preposition 1. not without attach the apple tree to the wall. The chip basket is made of woven wire. 2. with They came on a walking holiday (electric) wire thin metal thread along without any boots. She managed to which electricity flows, usually covered live for a few days without any food. with coloured plastic The wires seem He was stuck in Germany without any to be all right, so there must be a prob- money. They were fined for travelling lem with the computer itself. without tickets. 2. not doing something wisdom / wzdəm/ noun general com- She sang for an hour without stop- wisdom ping. They lived in the hut in the forest mon sense and the ability to make good without seeing anybody for weeks. decisions witness / wtnəs/ noun 1. a person who wise /waz/ adjective having intelligence witness wise sees something happen or who is and being sensible It was a wise deci- present when something happens The sion to cancel the trip. I don’t think witness happened to be outside the it’s wise to keep all that money in the house when it was burgled. 2. a person house. who is present when someone signs a wish /wʃ/ noun 1. what you want to hap- wish document The contract has to be pen 2. a greeting Best wishes for the signed in front of two witnesses. His New Year! Please give my good wish- sister signed as a witness. í verb to be es to your family. (NOTE: The plural is present when something happens, and wishes.) í verb 1. to want something see it happening Did anyone witness to happen She sometimes wished she the accident? could live in the country. I wish you witty / wti/ adjective clever and funny witty wouldn’t be so unkind! 2. to hope some- She gave a witty and entertaining thing good will happen She wished speech. (NOTE: wittier – wittiest) him good luck in his interview. He wives /wavz/ plural of wife wished me a Happy New Year. Wish wives me luck – it’s my exam tomorrow. wobble / wɒb(ə)l/ verb to move from wobble witch /wtʃ/ noun a woman believed to witch side to side in a way that is not smooth have magic powers (NOTE: The plural is or steady The children made the jelly witches.) wobble in their bowls. Don’t wobble with /wð, wθ/ preposition 1. showing with the table when I’m pouring coffee. woke /wəυk/ past tense of wake that things or people are together She woke came here with her mother. My sister woken / wəυk(ə)n/ past participle of woken is staying with us for a few days. (NOTE: wake with is used with many adjectives and wolf /wυlf/ noun a wild animal like a wolf verbs: to agree with, to be pleased large dog, which usually lives in groups with.) 2. something which you have in the forest At night the wolves came The girl with fair hair. They live in the and howled outside the hut. (NOTE: The house with the pink door. 3. showing plural is wolves.) something which is used He was woman / wυmən/ noun an adult female woman chopping up wood with an axe. Since This is trial version his accident he walks with a stick. The person The manager is an extremely crowd attacked the police with stones experienced woman. There are very and bottles. 4. because of Her little few women in government. There are www.adultpdf.com
  5. Basic.fm Page 365 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM won 365 work more and more women bus drivers. promise which you have made to give (NOTE: The plural is women / wmn/.) your word to promise He gave his word that the matter would remain con- won /w n/ past tense and past participle won fidential. to keep your word to do of win what you promised to do He kept his wonder / w ndə/ verb 1. to want to wonder word, and the cheque arrived the next know something I wonder why the day. to take someone’s word for it to room has gone quiet. If you don’t ring accept what someone says as being true home, your parents will start wondering OK, I’ll take your word for it. to what has happened. 2. to think about have a word with someone to speak something I wonder how I can earn to someone I must have a word with more money. He’s wondering what to the manager about the service. The do next. 3. asking a question politely salesgirl had made so many mistakes, I We were wondering if you would like to had to have a word with her. without come for dinner on Saturday. a word without saying anything She wonderful / w ndəf(ə)l/ adjective ex- wonderful went out of the room without a word. tremely good or enjoyable They had a word for word exactly as it is said or wonderful holiday by a lake in Sweden. written Tell me what he said word for The weather was wonderful for the word. A word-for-word translation of- whole holiday. You passed your driv- ten doesn’t make any sense. ing test first time? – Wonderful! word processing / w d prəυsesŋ/ word processing wood /wυd/ noun 1. a hard material wood noun using a computer to produce, which comes from a tree The kitchen check and change texts, reports and let- table is made of wood. She picked up ters etc. a piece of wood and put it on the fire. word processor / w d prəυsesə/ word processor A wood floor would be just right for this noun 1. a small computer which is used room. (NOTE: no plural: some wood, a to produce texts, reports and letters etc. piece of wood) 2. an area in which She offered to write the letter for me many trees are growing together The on her word processor. You can use path goes straight through the wood. my word processor to type your letter if Their house is on the edge of a wood. you like. 2. a word-processing program (NOTE: The plural is woods. Do not which allows you to create texts, edit confuse with would.) them and print them wooden / wυd(ə)n/ adjective made out wooden wore /wɔ / past tense of wear wore of wood In the market we bought little work /w k/ noun 1. things that you do work wooden dolls for the children. using your strength or your brain wool /wυl/ noun 1. long threads of twist- wool There’s a great deal of work still to be ed animal hair, used to make clothes or done on the project. There’s too much carpets etc. The carpet is made of work for one person. If you’ve fin- wool. I need an extra ball of wool to ished that piece of work, there’s plenty finish this pullover. 2. the hair growing more to be done. Cooking for two on a sheep The sheep are sheared and hundred people every day is hard work. the wool sent to market in early summer. 2. a job done regularly to earn money woolly / wυli/ adjective made out of woolly He goes to work every day on his bicy- wool She wore a woolly hat. cle. Work starts at 9 a.m. and finishes word /w d/ noun 1. a separate piece of word at 5 p.m. Her work involves a lot of language, either written or spoken travelling. He is still looking for work. This sentence has five words. He al- 3. something which has been made, ways spells some words wrongly, such painted or written by someone the as ‘though’. 2. something spoken She complete works of Shakespeare An This is trial version exhibition of the work of local artists. í passed me in the street but didn’t say a word. I’d like to say a few words about verb 1. to use your strength or brain to Mr Smith who is retiring today. 3. a do something I can’t work in the gar- www.adultpdf.com
  6. Basic.fm Page 366 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM worker 366 worse den if it’s raining. He’s working well works works plural noun 1. the moving parts of at school, we’re very pleased with his a machine I looked inside the clock progress. Work hard and you’ll soon and there seems to be dust in the works. get a better job. 2. to have a job She 2. a factory The steel works will be works in an office in London. He used closed next week for the Christmas hol- to work in his father’s shop. She had idays. í the works everything to stop working when her mother was (informal ) They built a conservatory ill. 3. (of a machine) to run The com- with a fountain, automatic lighting, a puters aren’t working. The machine barbecue – the works! works by electricity. 4. to make a ma- workshop / w kʃɒp/ noun a very workshop chine run She works the biggest print- small factory where things are made or ing machine in the factory. Do you repaired know how to work the microwave? 5. to world /w ld/ noun the earth on which world be successful His plan worked well. we live Here is a map of the world. Will the plan work? If the cough med- She flew round the world twice last year. icine doesn’t work, you’ll have to see a He has to travel all over the world on doctor. business. A round-the-world ticket al- work out phrasal verb 1. to solve a lows several stopovers. problem by looking at information or worm /w m/ noun a small thin animal worm calculating figures I’m trying to work which has no arms or legs and lives in out if we’ve sold more this year than the soil Birds were pecking at the soil last. to work out at something to for worms. amount to an amount The total works worn /wɔ n/ past participle of wear worn out at £10.50 per person. 2. to succeed worn out / wɔ n aυt/ adjective very Everything worked out quite well in worn out the end. to work something out to tired He was worn out after the game find a successful way of solving a prob- of rugby. She comes home every lem 3. to do exercises He works out evening, worn out after a busy day at the every morning in the gym. office. worker / w kə/ noun 1. a person who worker worried / w rid/ adjective unhappy be- worried works She’s a good worker. He’s a cause you think something bad will hap- fast worker. 2. a person who works in a pen or because something bad has hap- particular job The factory closed pened He had a worried look on his when the workers went on strike. Of- face. She’s looking worried. I’m fice workers usually work from 9.30 to worried that we may run out of petrol. 5.30. worry / w ri/ verb to make someone feel worry working / w kŋ/ adjective relating to a working anxious She’s always looks so tired, job or to work the working population and that worries me. (NOTE: worries – of a country The unions have com- worrying – worried) í noun 1. some- plained about working conditions in the thing that makes you anxious Go on factory. He came to the party in his holiday and try to forget your worries. working clothes. í noun a way or ways (NOTE: The plural is worries.) 2. the in which something works The work- state of being anxious She is a great ings of a car engine are a complete mys- source of worry for her family. (NOTE: tery to him. I wish I could understand no plural) the workings of local government! worse /w s/ adjective 1. less good than worse working class / w kŋ klɑ s/ noun a working class something else It rained for the first group in society consisting of people week of our holidays, and the second who work with their hands, usually week was even worse. I think this film earning wages not salaries is worse than the one I saw last week. This is trial version workman / w kmən/ noun a man who workman Both children are naughty – but the little works with his hands (NOTE: The plural girl is worse than her brother. 2. more ill He’s much worse since he started tak- is workmen.) www.adultpdf.com
  7. Basic.fm Page 367 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM worship 367 wrestle ing his medicine. í adverb not as well would often bring us flowers. 5. used He drives badly enough but his sister following a condition I’m sure that if drives even worse. they could come, they would. I would’ve done it if you had asked me to. worship / w ʃp/ verb 1. to praise and worship If she were alive, she would or she’d respect God The ancient peoples wor- be a hundred years old today. If it shipped stone statues of their gods. 2. to snowed we would or we’d go skiing. take part in a church service They (NOTE: The negative would not is usu- worship regularly in the local church. ally written wouldn’t. Note also that (NOTE: worships – worshipping – would is often shortened to ’d she’d be worshipped) a hundred, he’d stay at home. Note worst /w st/ adjective worse than any- worst also that would is only used with other thing else I think this is the worst film verbs and is not followed by to) he’s ever made. í adverb less well than would rather phrasal verb to prefer anything or anyone else or than at any wound1 /wu nd/ noun a cut made on wound other time It’s difficult to say which someone’s body, usually in fighting í team played worst. She works worst verb 1. to hurt someone badly by cutting when she’s tired. í noun a very bad into their flesh Two of the gang were thing This summer is the worst for fif- wounded in the bank robbery. 2. to hurt ty years. someone’s feelings She was deeply worth /w θ/ adjective 1. worth to be worth wounded by what he said. to have a certain value or price This wound2 /waυnd/ past tense and past par- wound ring’s worth a lot of money. Gold is ticiple of wind worth more than silver. The house is wove /wəυv/ past tense of weave wove worth more than £250,000. 2. to be woven / wəυv(ə)n/ past participle of worth doing something to find some- woven thing good or helpful to do It’s worth weave taking a map with you, as you may get wrap /r p/ verb to cover something by wrap lost in the little streets. His latest film putting something over it She is well worth seeing. The old castle is wrapped the parcel in paper. (NOTE: well worth visiting or is well worth a wraps -wrapping – wrapped) í noun visit. í noun a value Its worth will in- 1. a type of shawl that is put round the crease each year. She lost jewellery of shoulders or the top part of the body great worth in the fire. Can you give She pulled her wrap closer around her. me twenty pounds’ worth of petrol? 2. a piece of material used to cover would /wυd/ modal verb 1. used as a po- would something Remove the wrap before lite way of asking someone to do some- putting the dish in the microwave. thing Would you please stop talking? wrapping / r pŋ/ noun the paper or wrapping Would someone please tell me where plastic used to wrap something up the library is? Would you like some wreck /rek/ noun 1. a ship which has wreck more tea? 2. used as the past of ‘will’ been sunk or badly damaged Divers He said he would be here for lunch. have discovered the wreck on the sea- She hoped she would be well enough to bed. The wreck of the ‘Mary Rose’ come. He wouldn’t go even if I paid was found in the sea near Southampton. him. 3. used as the past of ‘will’, show- 2. anything which has been damaged ing something which often happens and cannot be used The police towed He would bring his dog with him, even away the wreck of the car. Their house though we asked him not to. My hus- is now a total wreck. í verb to damage band forgot my birthday again this year something very badly The ship was – he would! 4. used for showing some- wrecked on the rocks in the storm. The thing which often happened in the past bank was wrecked by the explosion. This is trial version Every morning she would go and feed wrestle / res(ə)l/ verb to fight with wrestle the chickens. He would always be there waiting outside the station. They someone to try to throw him to the www.adultpdf.com
  8. Basic.fm Page 368 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM wriggle 368 wrung ground The President’s guards wres- something tled with the demonstrators. writer / ratə/ noun a person who writes writer wriggle / r (ə)l/ verb to twist from side wriggle books or articles to side The baby wriggled in her fa- writing / ratŋ/ noun something which writing ther’s arms. The worm wriggled back is written Please don’t phone, reply in into the soil. writing. Put everything in writing, wring /rŋ/ verb to twist something, espe- wring then you have a record of what has been cially to get water out of it Wring the done. written1 / rt(ə)n/ adjective which has face cloth (dry) after you have used it. written He wrung out his shirt before putting it been put in writing to dry. (NOTE: wrings – wringing – written2 / rt(ə)n/ past participle of written wrung /r ŋ/) write wrinkle / rŋkəl/ noun a fold in the skin wrinkle wrong /rɒŋ/ adjective 1. not correct wrong She had an operation to remove wrin- He gave three wrong answers and failed kles round her eyes. the test. That’s not the right time, is it? wrinkled / rŋkəld/ adjective full of wrinkled – No, the clock is wrong. You’ve come lines or creases to the wrong house – there’s no one wrist /rst/ noun the joint between the wrist called Jones living here. I must have pressed the wrong button. 2. not suitable arm and the hand You came just at the wrong time, when write /rat/ verb 1. to put words or num- write we were bathing the children. She was bers on paper etc. using a pen, pencil, wearing the wrong sort of dress for a computer etc. She wrote the address wedding. 3. not working properly on the back of an envelope. Write the There is something wrong with the tele- reference number at the top of the letter. vision. 4. morally bad It’s wrong to 2. to write a letter and send it to some- talk like that about her. Cheating in one She writes to me twice a week. exams is wrong. 5. making someone Don’t forget to write as soon as you get worried í adverb badly Everything to your hotel. 3. to be the author of a went wrong yesterday. She spelt my book or music etc. He wrote a book on name wrong. keeping tropical fish. Didn’t you know wrongly / rɒŋli/ adverb not correctly wrongly she used to write for the ‘Sunday wrote /rəυt/ past tense of write Times’? (NOTE: writes – writing – wrote wrote /rəυt/ – written / rt(ə)n/) wrung /r ŋ/ past tense and past participle wrung write down phrasal verb to write of wring This is trial version www.adultpdf.com
  9. Basic.fm Page 369 Friday, January 16, 2004 3:10 PM XYZ x /eks/, X noun the twenty-fourth letter of when you are tired or bored He went x on speaking for so long that half the the alphabet, between W and Y í sym- people at the meeting started yawning bol 1. a multiplication sign 3 x 3 = 9. or started to yawn. (NOTE: say ‘three times three equals nine’) 2. showing size The table top is yeah /jeə/ interjection yes yeah 24 x 36cm. (NOTE: say ‘twenty-four by year /jə/ noun 1. a period of time lasting year thirty-six centimetres’) twelve months, from January 1st to De- X /eks/ noun the Roman numeral for ten X cember 31st Columbus discovered or tenth America in the year 1492. Great cele- X-ray / eks re/ noun 1. a type of radia- X-ray brations which took place in the year tion that doctors use for taking photo- 2000. Last year we did not have any graphs of the inside of your body The holiday. Next year she’s going on hol- X-ray examination showed the key was iday in Australia. The weather was inside the baby’s stomach. The X-ray very bad for most of the year. all year department is closed for lunch. 2. a pho- round working or open for the whole tograph taken with X-rays The X-ray year The museum is open all year showed that the bone was broken in two round. 2. a period of twelve months places. They will take an X-ray of his from a particular time We spent five leg. She was sent to hospital for an X- years in Hong Kong. He died two hun- ray. í verb to take an X-ray photograph dred years ago today. She’ll be eleven of someone There are six patients years old tomorrow. How many years waiting to be X-rayed. They X-rayed have you been working for the compa- my leg to see if it was broken. ny? y /wa/, Y noun the twenty-fifth letter of y yell /jel/ verb to shout very loudly yell The the alphabet, between X and Z policeman yelled to her to get out of the yacht /jɒt/ noun 1. a sailing boat used for yacht way. pleasure and sport 2. a large comforta- yellow / jeləυ/ adjective of a colour like yellow ble boat with a motor She spent her holiday on a yacht in the Mediterrane- that of the sun or of gold His new car an. is bright yellow. She’s wearing yellow yard /jɑ d/ noun 1. a measurement of sandals. At this time of year the fields yard are full of yellow flowers. í noun the length, equal to 0.914 metres The po- colour of the sun or gold Do you have lice station is only yards away from any hats of a lighter yellow than this where the fight took place. Can you one? move your car a couple of yards as it is blocking the entrance to our garage? 2. yes /jes/ adverb a word showing that you yes an area of concrete at the back or side of agree with someone, accept something, a house We keep our bikes in the yard. or give permission for something yarn /jɑ n/ noun a long piece of wool yarn They asked her if she wanted to come used in knitting or weaving She sells and she said ‘yes’. Anyone want more This is trial version yarn from the wool of her sheep. coffee? – Yes, please. You don’t like yawn /jɔ n/ verb to open your mouth yawn living in London? – Yes I do! Didn’t wide and breathe in and out deeply you work in Scotland at one time? – Yes, www.adultpdf.com
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