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◼️Balance {noun}
💠1- your ability to stand or walk steadily, without falling
✨VERBS
◾️ lose your balance (=become unsteady)
◾️ keep your balance (=stay steady)
◾️ regain/ recover your balance (=become steady again)
◾️ knock/ throw sb off balance
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ off balance
✨PHRASES
◾️ a sense of balance
💠2- a situation in which there is the right relationship between things
✨ADJECTIVES
◾️ a good/ healthy balance
◾️ a fine balance (=hard to achieve)
◾️ a delicate balance (=easily damaged)
◾️ the right/ proper/ correct balance
◾️ the natural balance
◾️ the ecological balance
◾️ the political/ military balance
✨VERBS
◾️ get/ find/ achieve/ strike a balance (=succeed in getting the balance right)
◾️ keep/ maintain/ preserve a balance
◾️ upset/ disturb/ disrupt the balance (=make it less equal or correct)
◾️ change/ alter/ shift the balance
◾️ redress/ restore the balance (=make it equal or correct again)
◾️ the balance changes/ alters/ shifts
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ a balance between things
✨PHRASES
◾️ the balance of power
◾️ the balance of nature
◾️ your work–life balance (=between your work and the rest of your life)
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◼️Bail {noun}
💠money left with a court of law to make sure that a prisoner will return when his or her trial starts
✨PHRASES
◾️ be released/ freed on bail also be remanded on bail BrE (=be given bail and allowed to stay out of prison, usually until a trial takes place)
◾️ apply/ ask for bail
◾️ be held without bail
✨VERBS
◾️ be granted/ given bail
◾️ be refused bail
◾️ get bail
◾️ set bail (=say how much bail someone must pay)
◾️ post bail also put up bail (=pay the amount set as bail)
◾️ oppose bail (=ask a judge not to grant bail)
◾️ jump bail also skip bail BrE (=not return for your trial as you promised)
✨ADJECTIVES/ NOUNS + bail
◾️ police bail BrE (=bail given to someone by the police while deciding whether to charge them with a crime)
◾️ conditional/ unconditional bail (=bail which has or does not have rules and conditions)
✨bail + NOUNS
◾️ a bail application also an application for bail
◾️ a bail condition
◾️ a bail hearing (=a meeting of a court, that decides whether someone should be given bail)
◾️ a bail bond (=a sum of borrowed money left with a court by the person receiving bail)
◾️ a bail bondsman (=a person or company that provides bail bonds)
◾️ a bail hostel (=a place for people on bail who do not have a permanent home)
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ on bail
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◼️Acceptable {adjective}
💠good enough or satisfactory
ADVERBS
◾️ completely/ totally/ entirely/ fully acceptable
◾️ quite acceptable
◾️ perfectly acceptable (=completely acceptable – often used when you disagree with someone)
◾️ generally/ widely acceptable (=most people think it is acceptable)
◾️ not remotely acceptable (=not acceptable at all)
◾️ mutually acceptable (=acceptable to both people or groups)
◾️ socially/ culturally acceptable
◾️ morally/ ethically acceptable
✨VERBS
◾️ prove acceptable formal (=be found to be acceptable)
◾️ make sth acceptable
◾️ find/ consider sth acceptable also deem sth acceptable formal (=think it is acceptable)
✨NOUNS
◾️ an acceptable standard/ level
◾️ acceptable behaviour
◾️ an acceptable solution
◾️ an acceptable way
◾️ an acceptable alternative
◾️ acceptable quality
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ acceptable to sb
◾️ acceptable for sth
✨PHRASES
◾️ be the acceptable face of sth (=be acceptable to people who do not usually approve of that type of thing)
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◼️Accept {verb}
💠1- to take something that someone offers you, or to agree to do something that someone asks you to do
✨NOUNS
◾️ accept an offer/ invitation
◾️ accept a gift/ present/ bribe
◾️ accept an award
◾️ accept help/ aid/ assistance
◾️ accept an apology
◾️ accept sb’s resignation
◾️ accept a challenge
✨ADVERBS
◾️ gladly/ willingly/ readily accept sth
◾️ gratefully accept sth
◾️ graciously accept sth (=in a polite and kind way)
◾️ reluctantly accept sth
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ accept sth from sb
💠2- to decide that there is nothing you can do to change a bad situation
✨NOUNS
◾️ accept a situation
◾️ accept reality (=accept the real situation)
◾️ accept defeat
◾️ accept the consequences
◾️ accept your fate
◾️ accept the inevitable
◾️ accept the fact (that)...
✨VERBS
◾️ be forced to accept sth
◾️ learn/ come to accept sth (=gradually accept something)
💠3- to agree that something is right or true
✨NOUNS
◾️ accept an idea/ principle/ notion
◾️ accept a view
◾️ accept an argument
◾️ accept an explanation
◾️ accept a proposal
◾️ accept a claim
◾️ accept a recommendation
◾️ accept the need for sth
✨ADVERBS
◾️ be generally/ widely/ commonly accepted (=by many or most people)
◾️ be universally accepted (=by everyone)
◾️ fully accept sth (=completely)
◾️ readily/ happily accept sth
◾️ reluctantly/ grudgingly accept sth (=unwillingly)
◾️ blindly/ unquestioningly accept sth disapproving (=without thinking or asking questions)
✨PHRASES
◾️ accept sth at face value (=accept something without thinking that there may be a hidden meaning)
◾️ have no choice but to accept sth
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◼️Accent {noun}
💠the way someone pronounces the words of a language, showing which country or which part of a country they come from
✨VERBS
◾️ have an accent
◾️ speak with an accent
◾️ pick up an accent
◾️ lose your accent
◾️ put on an accent (=deliberately speak with a different accent from your usual one)
✨ADJECTIVES/ NOUNS + accent
◾️ a strong/ broad/ thick/heavy accent
◾️ a slight/ faint accent
◾️ a French/ American etc accent
◾️ a New York/ London etc accent
◾️ a foreign accent
◾️ a regional accent
◾️ a southern/ northern accent
◾️ an upper-class/ middle-class/ working-class accent
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ with an accent
◾️ in an accent
✨PHRASES
◾️ a hint/ trace of an accent
Note
💢 Strong, broad, thick, or heavy accent?
You use all these words when saying that someone’s accent is very noticeable.
♣️Strong is the most common word:
✨ Ex:- The man had a strong German accent.
♣️ You use thick or heavy when someone’s accent is very strong and difficult to understand:
✨ Ex:- The teacher had a thick Scottish accent, and some of the students had difficulty following what he said.
♣️ You use broad when someone has an accent from a particular part of the UK or the US:
✨ Ex:- She spoke with a broad Yorkshire accent.
💢Accent or pronunciation?
💠 Your accent shows which country, or which social group you come from.
💠Pronunciation is a more general word meaning the way in which a language or a particular word is pronounced.
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◼️Zone {noun}
💠a large area that is different from other areas around it in some way
✨ADJECTIVES/ NOUNS + zone
◾️ a war zone
◾️ a danger zone
◾️ an earthquake zone (=where earthquakes are likely to happen)
◾️ a disaster zone
◾️ an economic zone (=an area with special trade or tax conditions)
◾️ an enterprise zone (=where business activity is encouraged by the government)
◾️ a time zone (=which has a different time from the rest of the world)
◾️ a 20 miles/ 80 kilometres etc per hour zone (=where vehicles’ speed is limited)
◾️ a no-parking zone
◾️ a pedestrian zone (=only for people walking, not cars)
◾️ a smoke-free/ nuclear-free etc zone (=where smoking, nuclear weapons etc are not allowed)
◾️ a demilitarized zone (=where soldiers and military activities are not allowed)
◾️ the euro zone (=the countries where the euro is used as the official money)
◾️ a no-fly zone (=an area that aircraft are not allowed to fly in)
✨VERBS
◾️ enter a zone
◾️ leave a zone
◾️ set up/ establish/ create a zone
◾️ declare/ designate sth a zone (=officially make it a zone)
◾️ divide sth into zones
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ in a zone
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◼️Zeal {noun}
💠great eagerness to do something
✨ADJECTIVES
◾️ great zeal
◾️ excessive zeal (=too much)
◾️ missionary/ religious zeal (=great eagerness because you strongly believe that something is right)
◾️ revolutionary/ reforming zeal (=eagerness to make big changes)
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ with zeal
◾️ a zeal for sth
✨PHRASES
◾️ in sb’s zeal to do sth
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💠Year {noun}
1- a period of 365 or 366 days divided into 12 months, beginning on January 1st and ending on December 31st
✨ADJECTIVES
◾️ this/ next/ last year
◾️ every year
◾️ the current year
◾️ the coming year (=the year that is about to start)
◾️ the past year
◾️ the previous year
◾️ the following year
◾️ the new year (=used to talk about the beginning of the next year)
◾️ the school/ academic year (=the period of the year during which there are school or university classes)
◾️ the financial/ fiscal year (=the 12-month period over which a company’s accounts are calculated)
◾️ a leap year (=a year that has 366 days, which happens every four years)
✨VERBS
◾️ a year passes (by)/ goes by
◾️ spend a year
◾️ sth takes a year
◾️ last a year
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ in/ during/ over the year
◾️ in the year 1846/1900 etc
◾️ for a year/ three years etc
✨PHRASES
◾️ the beginning/ start of the year
◾️ the end of the year
◾️ all year round (=at all times during the year)
◾️ (at) this time of year (=used especially when talking about the season)
💠2- a particular period of time in someone’s life or in history
{Grammar Always plural in this meaning}
✨ADJECTIVES
◾️ early years
◾️ later/ latter years
◾️ the last/ final/ closing years of sth
◾️ the intervening years (=between two periods or events)
◾️ sb’s teenage years
◾️ sb’s formative years (=when someone’s character develops)
✨NOUNS + years
◾️ b’s childhood years
◾️ the war years
◾️ the boom years (=when an economy or industry is very successful)
◾️ sb’s retirement years
✨PHRASES
◾️ in recent years
◾️ in later years
◾️ in years gone by (=in the past)
🍀Don’t say in ancient years.
Say in ancient times or long ago.
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ the years of sth
◾️ sb’s years in sth
◾️ sb’s years as sth
◾️ during the years
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◼️Yard {noun}
💠 1- AmEthe area around a house, usually covered with grass
✨ ADJECTIVES
◾️ a back yard/ backyard
🍀It is more common to write
backyard as one word.
◾️ a front yard
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ in the yard
🍀In British English,
people say garden
✨yard + NOUNS
◾️ a yard sale (=a sale of used clothes and things from someone’s house which takes place in their yard)
💠2- an enclosed area next to a building or group of buildings, used for a special purpose, activity, or business
✨NOUNS + yard
◾️ a school yard/ schoolyard
🍀It is more common to write
schoolyard as one word.
◾️ a prison yard
◾️ a timber yard (=where wood for building or making things is stored or sold)
◾️ a builder’s yard (=where materials for building are stored or sold)
◾️ a goods/ freight yard (=where goods can be loaded onto or unloaded from trains)
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◼️Wait "2"{noun}
💠a period of time in which you wait for something to happen, someone to arrive etc
✨ADJECTIVES/ NOUNS + wait
◾️ a long/ lengthy wait
◾️ a short/ brief wait
◾️ a one-hour/ 30-minute etc wait
◾️ an anxious/ nervous wait
◾️ the average wait
✨VERBS
◾️ have a wait
◾️ face a wait
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ a wait for sth
✨PHRASES
◾️ be worth the wait
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◼️Wait "1"{verb}
💠to stay somewhere or not do something until something else happens, someone arrives etc
✨ADVERBS
◾️ wait patiently
◾️ wait anxiously/ nervously
◾️ wait expectantly (=because you are hoping that something good or exciting will happen)
◾️ wait forever informal also wait ages BrEinformal (=wait a long time)
◾️ not wait long (=not wait for a long time)
◾️ wait around also wait about BrE (=stay in the same place and do nothing while you are waiting)
◾️ wait up (=wait for someone to return before you go to bed)
◾️ wait in BrE (=stay at home and wait there for someone to arrive)
✨wait + NOUNS
◾️ a waiting list (=a list of people who are waiting for something)
◾️ a waiting room (=a room at a station, doctor’s etc where people wait)
✨PREPOSITIONS
◾️ wait for sb
◾️ wait for sth
◾️ wait until/ till sth
✨PHRASES
◾️ wait two hours/ 20 minutes etc
◾️ keep sb waiting
◾️ wait with bated breath (=while feeling very anxious or excited)
◾️ wait in vain (=wait for something that never happens)
◾️ wait and see (=used when saying that you will find out about something soon)
◾️ wait your turn (=wait until it is your turn to do something)
◾️ wait a minute/ second/ moment (=used for telling someone to not do something immediately)
💢Note:- 💢
🌀Can’t wait
If you say that you can’t wait to do something, you mean that you feel very excited about it
Ex:- I can’t wait to see my family again.
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◼️Wage {noun}
💠money you earn for doing your job
[Grammar Often plural]
✨ADJECTIVES
◾️ high wages
◾️ low wages
◾️ good wages
◾️ a decent wage (=a fairly good one)
◾️ the hourly/ daily/ monthly etc wage
◾️ the minimum wage (=the lowest wage that a company can pay someone according to the law)
◾️ the basic wage (=before extra amounts are added)
◾️ lost wages (=the amount you lose by not being able to work)
✨VERBS
◾️ earn a wage also be on a wage BrE
◾️ get/ receive a wage
◾️ pay a wage
◾️ supplement your wages (=earn extra money)
◾️ dock sb’s wages (=give someone less money as a punishment)
◾️ push up/ raise wages (=increase them)
◾️ hold down/ keep down wages (=keep them at a low level)
◾️ wages increase/ rise
◾️ wages fall
✨wage + NOUNS
◾️ a wage increase/ rise
◾️ a wage reduction/ cut
◾️ a wage freeze (=wages stay the same)
◾️ wage levels/ rates
◾️ the wage bill (=the amount a company has to pay in wages)
◾️ a wage earner (=someone who earns a wage)
◾️ wage differentials (=differences in people’s wages)
✨PHRASES
◾️ a cut/ drop in wages (=someone’s wages are reduced)
◾️ a fall/ decline in wages (=wages become lower generally)
◾️ an increase/ rise in wages