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| The villain in the movie was eventually brought to justice. | He has played villains in most of his films. |
| That can be done; that will be successful | None of the projects proved financially viable. |
| A person who has been a soldier, sailor, etc. in a war. | Veteran. a veteran of the Spanish Civil War |
| That cannot be cured and will lead to death, often slowly | Terminal/He has terminal lung cancer. |
| Very likely to be influenced, harmed or affected by something | Susceptible/Some of these plants are more susceptible to frost damage than others. |
| To manage to stay alive, especially with limited food or money | Subsist/Old people often subsist on very small incomes. |
| Money that is paid by a government or an organization to reduce the costs of services or of producing goods so that their prices can be kept low | Subsidy/The EU spends billions on subsidies to farmers every year. |
| Anger or violence between two people or groups of people who disagree | Strife/The country was torn apart by strife |
| Completely clean and free from bacteria | Sterile/The experiment was performed under sterile conditions. |
| A law that is passed by a parliament, council, etc. and formally written down | Statute/he statute provided for a maximum sentence of 53 months. |
| A white carbohydrate food substance found in potatoes, flour, rice, etc.; food containing this | Starch/There's too much starch in your diet. |
| Not planned but done because you suddenly want to do it | Spontaneous/The audience burst into spontaneous applause. |
| Seeming evil or dangerous; making you think something bad will happen | Sinister/We needn’t assume that there was a sinister motive for what she did. |
| The use of legal authority to take something from somebody; an amount of something that is taken in this way | Seizure/he court ordered the seizure of his assets. |
| The action or unpleasant sound of one thing rubbing roughly against another | Scrape/She felt the scrape of wall against bare skin. |
| A small piece of something, especially paper, cloth, etc. | Scrap/Some of the women were wearing scraps of cloth in their hair. |
| A strong feeling that somebody or something is stupid or not good enough, usually shown by the way you speak | Scorn/Her fellow teachers greeted her proposal with scorn. |
| The opportunity or ability to do or achieve something | Scope/There's still plenty of scope for improvement. |
| To make something such as a container or a pipe break or burst; to be broken or burst | Rupture/A pipe ruptured, leaking water all over the house. |
| (of rules, methods, etc.) very strict and difficult to change | Rigid/His rigid adherence to the rules made him unpopular. |
| To change something completely so that it is the opposite of what it was before | Reverse/Falling birth rates may reverse the trend towards early retirement. |
| To make something full again by replacing what has been used | Replenish/to replenish food and water supplies |
| A short surprise attack on an enemy by soldiers, ships or aircraft | Raid/The air force carried out a bombing raid on enemy bases. |
| Suffering from severe mental illness, so that the person loses contact with reality | Psychotic/He suffered a psychotic episode two years ago. |
| Connected with strange powers of the mind and not able to be explained by natural laws | Psychic/psychical research or research into strange powers and events |
| Relating to psychiatry or to mental illness | Psychiatric/a psychiatric hospital/nurse/patient |
| A statement that something will happen in the future, especially one made by somebody with religious or magic powers | Prophecy/Macbeth believed the witches' prophecy about his future. |
| To exist or be very common at a particular time or in a particular place | Prevail/We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. |
| A statement or an idea that forms the basis for a reasonable line of argument | Premise/His reasoning is based on the premise that all people are equally capable of good and evil. |
| A serious illness affecting one or both lungs that makes breathing difficult | Pneumonia/She died from bronchial pneumonia |
| To take a piece of somebody’s skin and press it together hard with your thumb and the finger next to it | Pinch/My sister's always pinching me and it really hurts. |
| The act of going to different parts of a building, an area, etc. to make sure that there is no trouble or crime | Patrol/Security guards make regular patrols at night. |
| A minister in charge of a Christian church or group, especially in some Nonconformist churches | Pastor/He was ordained a pastor in the Lutheran Church. |
| Unfair support for one person, team, idea, etc. | Partiality/allegations of dishonesty and partiality |
| An area that has its own church and that a priest is responsible for | Parish/He is vicar of a large rural parish. |
| The act of not including somebody or something or not doing something; the fact of not being included or done | Omission/he play was shortened by the omission of two scenes. |
| To block a road, an entrance, a passage, etc. so that somebody or something cannot get through, see past, etc. | Obstruct/You can't park here, you're obstructing my driveway. |
| A thing, person or situation that is annoying or causes trouble or problems | Nuisance/I hope you're not making a nuisance of yourself. |
| The quality of being new, different and interesting | Novelty/here's a certain novelty value in this approach. |
| An extremely large number of things or people | Multitude/The library offers a whole multitude of books for young readers. |
| The amount of confidence and enthusiasm, etc. that a person or a group has at a particular time | Morale/Morale amongst the players is very high at the moment. |
| Wrong because you have understood or judged a situation badly | Misguided/In her misguided attempts to help, she only made the situation worse. |
| An officer of the highest rank in the armed forces of some countries | Marshal/Marshal of the Royal Air Force |
| To show something clearly, especially a feeling, an attitude or a quality | Manifest/Social tensions were manifested in the recent political crisis. |
| Easy to see or understand | Manifest adjective /His nervousness was manifest to all those present. |
| To show that somebody/something is right or reasonable | Justify /The results of the inquiry did not justify them departing from their existing policy. |
| To mention or use a law, rule, etc. as a reason for doing something | Invoke/She invoked several eminent scholars to back up her argument. |
| Being an essential part of something | Integral/Music is an integral part of the school's curriculum. |
| Done by accident, without being intended | Inadvertent /an inadvertent omission |
| To make or do something using whatever is available, usually because you do not have what you really need | Improvise/here isn't much equipment. We're going to have to improvise. |
| To develop and improve something, especially a skill, over a period of time | Hone/She honed her debating skills at college. |
| Speed in doing something, especially because you do not have enough time | Haste/In her haste to complete the work on time, she made a number of mistakes. |
| To please or satisfy somebody | Gratify/It gratified him to think that it was all his work. |
| Very beautiful and attractive; giving great pleasure | Gorgeous/gorgeous weather (= warm and with a lot of sun) |
| Refugees gave accounts of the mass genocide | Genocide/genocide against ethnic minorities |
| Clear and easy to understand, so that you have no doubt what is meant | Explicit/The reasons for the decision should be made explicit. |
| To officially make somebody leave a school or an organization | Expel/Olympic athletes expelled for drug-taking |
| To think that something is the same as something else or is as important | Equate/Money cannot be equated with happiness. |
| Wanting to be in the same situation as somebody else; wanting something that somebody else has | Envious/hey were envious of his success. |
| To say publicly that you support a person, statement or course of action | Endorse/The newspaper has formally endorsed the Democratic candidate. |
| Difficult to find, define or achieve | Elusive/the elusive concept of ‘literature’ |
| To make it difficult for something to continue in the normal way | Disrupt/Demonstrators succeeded in disrupting the meeting. |
| Disagreement; arguing | Discord/A note of discord surfaced during the proceedings. |
| To give somebody information about something, especially something that was previously secret | Disclose/The spokesman refused to disclose details of the takeover to the press. |
| Completely without something | Devoid/The land is almost devoid of vegetation. |
| To be different from something; to do something in a different way from what is usual or expected | Deviate/He never deviated from his original plan. |
| To keep somebody in an official place, such as a police station, a prison or a hospital, and prevent them from leaving | Detain/One man has been detained for questioning. |
| Likely to make you believe something that is not true | Deceptive/Appearances can often be deceptive or things are not always what they seem to be. |
| The act of deliberately making somebody believe something that is not true (= of deceiving them) | Deception/He'll use deception to get what he wants. |
| Dead | Deceased/her deceased parents |
| (of food) (also crispy) pleasantly hard and dry | Crisp/Bake until the pastry is golden and crisp. |
| To push or force somebody/something into a small space; to move into a small space with the result that it is full | Cram/supporters crammed the streets. |
| Polite behaviour that shows respect for other people | Courtesy/It's common courtesy to warn your neighbours if your children are going to have a party. |
| The act or process of changing something from one form, use or system to another | Conversion/No conversion from analogue to digital data is needed. |
| To say that something that somebody else has said is wrong, and that the opposite is true | Contradict/All evening her husband contradicted everything she said |
| To behave and think in the same way as most other people in a group or society | Conform/There is considerable pressure on teenagers to conform. |
| To produce a book, list, report, etc. by bringing together different items, articles, songs, etc.; to collect information in order to produce a book, list, etc. | Compile/The figures were compiled from a survey of 2 000 schoolchildren. |
| To force somebody to do something; to make something necessary | Compel/I feel compelled to write and tell you how much I enjoyed your book. |
| To begin to happen; to begin something | Commence/he meeting is scheduled to commence at noon. |
| A hole or empty space inside something solid | Cavity/the nasal cavity |
| To give information about somebody/something to an enemy | Betray/for years they had been betraying state secrets to Russia. |
| A large farm building for storing grain or keeping animals in | Barn/They live in a converted barn (= a barn that has been turned into a house). |
| To fully understand an idea or some information so that you are able to use it yourself | Assimilate/The committee will need time to assimilate this report. |
| Having a lot of money and a good standard of living | Affluent/affluent Western countries |
| The coming of an important event, person, invention, etc. | Advent/Before the advent of the railways, communications were slow and difficult. |