Advanced Vocabulary 12 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

Use one´s experience, talents, or skills as a resource - Sue has a lot of past experience to d________ o______.

draw on / from

to accept something to be true without question or proof - My parent just a___________ that I will go on to study at university, but I am not so sure.

assume

To allocate, designate or set for a specific purpose - The teacher says that she will a_________ seats for us so that the students do not fight for the best ones.

assign

to tell someone that you are sorry - You should a_______ to the teacher for missing her class.

apologise

to make someone dislike you or feel opposed to you - The bully continued to a_______ the other children.

antagonize

to recognize or admit truth or importance - My friend refused to a_________ the fact that I studied harder than her for the exam.

acknowledge

in my opinion - To my m_______, McDonald´s is better than Burger King.

to / in my mind

a small noticeable part of a problem, which is really much bigger - The plastic that can be cleaned from the shore is just the t_______ of the i______.

tip of the iceberg

old and not fresh - We could not eat the bread because it was s__________.

stale

needing a lot of time - The legal process was t______- c_______ and expensive.

time-consuming

to give someone a written suggestion for doing something - Youth groups are invited to s________ p________ for activities they would like to be funded.

submit a proposal

Communicating by using hands for people who cannot hear - Deaf people communicate with s________ L______.

sign language

learning something from memory, rather than understanding it - Much of what they do in class is little more than r______ L_______.

rote learning

a place where people who have escaped from their own country can live, for a limited time - Huge r__________ c_________ have sprung up on the borders.

refugee camps

to achieve everything you are capable of - She is a gifted violinist, but she may never r______ her p_______.

reach her potential

energy that comes from sources such as wind or the sun - The house is heated entirely from n_______ e_________.

natural energy

mental problems that affect a person’s ability to learn things - Some of the children have specific L________ d________.

learning difficulties

able to pass a disease from one person, animal or plant to another - This disease is highly i_________.

infectious

a state in which your body is protected from disease - The vaccination gives you i_________ against the disease for six months.

immunity

a period of time when the weather is much hotter than usual - The h______ w_________ is set to last for another week.

heat wave

when the world becomes warmer because of pollution - G_______ w_______ is affecting the polar ice caps.

global warming

a fuel such as coal or oil that is obtained from under the ground - We need to find alternatives to f________ f________.

fossil fuels

barriers or methods used to stop an area from flooding - The government plans to build stronger f______ d_______ on this area of coastline.

flood defenses

something that could cause a fire - This old wiring is a f_______ r________.

fire risk

intentional and planned - We made a d_________ decision to live apart for a while.

deliberate

A crop to be sold to an area different from where it was grown - Coffee is an important c_____ c_______ in this region.

cash crop