Language
Glossary
Cash
- money in notes
and coins
Common -
frequent or typical
Cool
- good, exciting
(informal)
Corrupt
- something made
bad by dishonesty
Crop
- the total number
of vegetables/fruit grown in a season
Declining
- reducing or going
down
Dictatorship
- government
without democracy and supported by the threat of force
Documentary
- television or
radio programme about something real.
Expand
- make bigger
Fair
- reasonable or
just
Figures
- numbers or
statistics
Fortune
- large
amount of money
Gradually
- slowly over time
Hug
- an embrace, to
hold close
Ingredients
- 'the
ingredients of an omelet are eggs, butter, milk, salt and
pepper'.
Inherit
- receive
something from someone when they die (e.g money)
Import
- take from a
different place.
Irregular
Verbs -
verbs that don't follow the regular (I paint, he painted
etc) pattern.
Linguist
- studies language
Memorize
- learn something
by memory (e.g phone number)
Official
- legal, used by
government
Opaque
- not clear,
difficult to see or understand
Opinion
- what you think or
believe
Pacifist
- against
violence/war
Rifle
- a long gun for
shooting animals etc
Spoof
- a spoof
documentary pretends to be about something real.
Survive
- to continue, not
die
Tax
- money the
government takes
Temper
- someone with a
bad temper gets very angry very quickly
Universal
- for all
places/situations
Vowel
- the
letters a, e. i, o, u
Wrapped
- covered in
something like paper or plastic
Do
you know the words we use to describe he English language.
Try this crossword. You can find all the
words in the glossart of this section of ESL
Reading.
