Advanced Vocabulary 11 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

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trying to make yourself seem less important - She wrote a wonderful book but she is so ____________ that she feels like it was not good enough.

self-esteem

self-depreciating

selfless

selfish

an area of completely wild land that is far away from where people live - We walked through the _________ of northern Scotland.

far vecinity

wild place

remote wilderness

outback

to leave someone waiting on the phone - His line’s busy at the moment – I’ll _____________.

place you on wait

get you on waiting

stand you on standby

put you on hold

something that is easy and without problems - I had revised for weeks, so the test was _________.

pure easy

plain sailing

pretty fine

usual cruising

inside the range of distance where you can hear something or someone - Make sure the children are playing ___________.

within hear

within sound

within earshot

within hearing

a walk that people pay you to do in order to raise money for charity - I owe Saskia $10 for that ________ walk she did.

sponsored

charitable

funded

lucrative

Doing something suddenly, without planning it - On the ___________ we decided to visit James.

spur of the moment

edge of the moment

wing of the moment

tip of the moment

to set a date or time by which something must be done - If he’s working too slowly, you need to _____________.

implant a deadline

impose a deadline

impead a deadline

instigate a deadline

to move quickly, and almost or just touch the surface of something - These boats go so fast that they literally just _______ the surface of the water.

skim

stir

slide

slip

a large uncountable flow of something - He received a _______ of abuse from the crowd.

pinch

trickle

torrent

speck

to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush - We had to _______ the pot really hard to remove the black burn marks from the fire.

wipe

scrape

scrub

scratch

an opinion formed too quickly to - You should avoid making __________ and get to know her first.

hasty judgments

rapid assumptions

quick conclusions

hurried opinions

causing little damage to something so it lasts a long time - We need to find more _______ sources of fuel.

sustainable

fulfillable

managable

attainable

the lowest amount of money that you can buy a particular thing for - These apartments have ________ price of £500,000.

starting

a beginner

a smallest

an ending

death - On his __________, the land will go to his son.

dying

morgue

decease

demise

in a place where few people go - Her cottage is a long way _____________.

from somewhere

to nowhere

off the beaten track

far from civilization

to phone someone - Let´s ___________ to see if he will pick us up with the car.

call to Dad

call Dad in

call Dad up

call Dad on

to be able to obtain something - I read anything I could _____________.

catch onto

hold onto

grab onto

get my hands on

a journey to a place that nobody knows about - Their expedition was a real ______________.

trip into the desert

travel into the distance

journey into the wilderness

voyage into the unknown

Saying sorry for someone´s bad luck especially when someone has died - Please ___________ to your sister on her loss.

give my congratulations

offer my condolences

hand my sorrows

share my saddness

to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts - In a long relationship, you have to ________ .

eat the sour with the sweet

have the good with the bad

take the rough with the smooth

get the tough with the easy

causing death - Police are investigating a _________ accident in the town centre.

terminal

life-threatening

fatal

feeble

Not pleasant or friendly to be around - We visited some of the world’s most ________ deserts.

unhospitable

inhospitable

indispicable

inhabitable

to make someone wait for you - The boss is ready to see you – don’t __________!

have her waiting

let her wait

make her late

keep her waiting

to stay somewhere for a period of time - If you ___________ after the concert and you might meet the band.

swing back

stick around

slip back

stray around