LDOCE Test Part IV

Principle A moral rule or belief about what is right and wrong, that influences how you behave

Prior Existing or arranged before something else or before the present situation

Prospect The possibility that something will happen

Profession A job that needs a high level of education and training

Pursue To continue doing an activity or trying to achieve something over a long period of time

Quote To repeat exactly what someone else has said or written

Quantity An amount of something that can be counted or measured

Progress The process of getting better at doing something, or getting closer to finishing or achieving something

Propose To suggest something as a plan or course of action

Prosecution When a charge is made against someone for a crime, or when someone is judged for a crime in a court of law

Punishments Something that is done in order to punish someone, or the act of punishing them

Publicity The attention that someone or something gets from newspapers, television etc

Profit An advantage that you gain from doing something

Purchase To buy something

Privilege A special advantage that is given only to one person or group of people

Qualified Having suitable knowledge, experience, or skills, especially for a particular job

Proceed To continue to do something that has already been planned or started

Promote To help something to develop or increase / To give someone a better more responsible job in a company

Radical A radical change or difference is very big and important

Raffle A competition or game in which people buy numbered tickets and can win prizes

Rails / Go off the rails The railway system / To start behaving in a strange or socially unacceptable way

Raise To move or lift something to a higher position, place, or level

Provide Used to say that something will only be possible if something else happens or is done

Range A number of people or things that are all different, but are all of the same general type

Remarkably rapid recovery A very fast period of time to get things back to normal

Rate The number of times something happens, or the number of examples of something within a certain period

Recall To remember a particular fact, event, or situation from the past

Receptive Willing to consider new ideas or listen to someone else’s opinions

Recent recommendations Official advice given to someone, especially about what to do that was given not long ago

Recession A difficult time when there is less trade, business activity etc in a country than usual

Realistic Judging and dealing with situations in a practical way according to what is actually possible rather than what you would like to happen

Reduce To make something smaller or less in size, amount, or price

Reasonable Fair and sensible

Receive recognition The act of realizing and accepting that something is true or important

Reckon redundancy To think or suppose a situation in which someone has to leave their job, because they are no longer needed

Refer If you refer to a particular subject or person, you talk about them or mention them.

Reference A part of something you say or write in which you mention a person or thing reference to

Reflection A careful thought, or an idea or opinion based on something

Regarding Concerning or relating to

Refugee Someone who has been forced to leave their country, especially during a war, or for political or religious reasons

Reform A change or changes made to a system or organization in order to improve it

Regularly At the same time each day, week, month etc

Remind To make someone remember something that they must do

Remember To bring information or facts that you know into your mind

Reinforce To give support to an opinion, idea, or feeling, and make it stronger

Relate If two things relate, they are connected in some way

Reject To refuse to accept, believe in, or agree with something

Relief A feeling of comfort when something frightening, worrying, or painful has ended or has not happened

Relieve To reduce someone’s pain or unpleasant feelings

Relevant Directly relating to the subject or problem being discussed or considered

Release To let someone go free, after having kept them somewhere

Remains The parts of something that are left after the rest has been destroyed or has disappeared

Remedy A way of dealing with a problem or making a bad situation better

Remote Far from towns or other places where people live

Representative Someone who has been chosen to speak, vote, or make decisions for someone else

Reputation The opinion that people have about someone or something because of what has happened in the past

Resident Someone who lives or stays in a particular place

Requirements The capital needed by a company to operate, grow etc

Resistance A refusal to accept new ideas or changes

Reward Something that you get because you have done something good or helpful or have worked hard

Resolution A formal decision or statement agreed on by a group of people, especially after a vote

Ridiculous Very silly or unreasonable

Restrict To limit or control the size, amount, or range of something

Resources Something such as useful land, or minerals such as oil or coal, that exists in a country and can be used to increase its wealth

Ruin To spoil or destroy something completely

Retirement When you stop working, usually because of your age

Revenue The amount of money received from selling goods or products divided by the total number of goods or products sold

Revolution A complete change in ways of thinking, methods of working etc

Riot A situation in which a large crowd of people are behaving in a violent and uncontrolled way, especially when they are protesting about something

Rural Happening in or relating to the countryside, not the citySsO50V4RWRpdEV4ZXJjaXNlfDEwMzc0OTI0fHNob3dlfDA#

Routines The usual order in which you do things, or the things you regularly do

Responsibilities The idea that a company’s role is not just about producing goods, but that it has a duty to help people in society and protect the environment

Royal Relating to or belonging to a king or queen

Resolve To find a satisfactory way of dealing with a problem or difficulty

Robbery The crime of stealing money or things from a bank, shop etc, especially using violence

Salvation Something that prevents or saves someone or something from danger, loss, or failure

Safety When someone or something is safe from danger or harm

Security Things that are done to keep a person, building, or country safe from danger or crime

Sandwich Two pieces of bread with cheese, meat, cooked egg etc between them

Satisfaction A feeling of happiness or pleasure because you have achieved something or got what you wanted

Sensible Reasonable, practical, and showing good judgment

Savings When people spend less than they earn because there are not enough goods available to buy or because goods are too expensive

Sayings A well-known short statement that expresses an idea most people believe is true and wise

Scheme An official plan that is intended to help people in some way, for example by providing education or training

Scientific About or relating to science, or using its methods

Scope The range of things that a subject, activity, book etc deals with

Selection The careful choice of a particular person or thing from a group of similar people or things

Sequence The order that something happens or exists in, or the order it is supposed to happen or exist in

Separated Not living with your husband, wife, or sexual partner anymore

Scale The size or level of something, or the amount that something is happening

Score The number of points that each team or player has won in a game or competition

Setting The place where something is or where something happens, and the general environment

Settlements When shares etc that are bought on a financial market are paid for with money, rather than with other investments

Severe Severe problems, injuries, illnesses etc are very bad or very serious

Shaft A passage which goes down through a building or down into the ground, so that someone or something can get in or out

Specify To state something in an exact and detailed way

Shall Used to emphasize that something will definitely happen, or that you are determined that something should happen

Shell The hard outer part that covers and protects an egg, nut, or seed

Shortly Soon

Significant Having an important effect or influence, especially on what will happen in the future

Shrug To raise and then lower your shoulders in order to show that you do not know something or do not care about something

Shoulders One of the two parts of the body at each side of the neck where the arm is connected

Sign A piece of paper, metal, or wood with words or a picture that gives people information, warnings, or instructions

Similarities If there is a similarity between two things or people, they are similar in some way

Skinny Very thin, especially in a way that is unattractive

Slim Someone who is slim is attractively thin

Society People in general, considered in relation to the laws, organizations etc that make it possible for them to live together

Ski slope A snow-covered part of a mountain which has been prepared for people to ski down

Snapped To break with a sudden sharp noise, or to make something do this

Soak If you soak something, or if you let it soak, you keep it covered with a liquid for a period of time, especially in order to make it softer or easier to clean

Solid Hard or firm, with a fixed shape, and not a liquid or gas

Sophisticated Having a lot of experience of life, and good judgment about socially important things such as art, fashion etc

Solution A way of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation

Soap The substance that you use to wash your body

Soup Cooked liquid food, often containing small pieces of meat, fish, or vegetables

Sources A thing, place, activity etc that you get something from

Spaces Somewhere that advertising is placed or shown

Species A group of animals or plants whose members are similar and can breed together to produce young animals or plants

Spare Not being used or not needed at the present time

Spot A particular place or area, especially a pleasant place where you spend time

Spotting Bird-spotting / train-spotting etc

Spray To force liquid out of a container so that it comes out in a stream of very small drops and covers an area

Spread If something spreads or is spread, it becomes larger or moves so that it affects more people or a larger area

Springs Comes to mind / Something, usually a twisted piece of metal, that will return to its previous shape after it has been pressed down

Square Having four straight equal sides and 90° angles at the corners

Stable Steady and not likely to move or change

Stabbed To push a knife into someone or something

Stadium A building for public events, especially sports and large rock music concerts, consisting of a playing field surrounded by rows of seats

Stalking The crime of following and watching someone over a period of time in a way that is very annoying or threatening

Stalemate A situation in which it seems impossible to settle an argument or disagreement, and neither side can get an advantage

Stand up To be on your feet, or to rise to your feet

Starred Playes a role in a movie for example

Stared To look at something or someone for a long time without moving your eyes, for example because you are surprised, angry, or bored

Start To begin

Starvation Suffering or death caused by lack of food

Stateless Not officially being a citizen of any country

Statement Something you say or write, especially publicly or officially, to let people know your intentions or opinions, or to record facts

Statues An image of a person or animal that is made in solid material such as stone or metal and is usually large

Stereotypes A belief or idea of what a particular type of person or thing is like. Stereotypes are often unfair or untrue

Stewardess A woman whose job is to serve food and drinks to passengers on a plane or ship

Stuck Impossible or unable to move from a particular position

Stone deaf Completely unable to hear

Stone Age The Stone Age / Stenåldern

Stop To not continue, or to make someone or something not continue

Strike To hit or fall against the surface of something

Straight In a line or direction that is not curved or bent

Forward Towards a place or position that is in front of you

Strategies The way you accomplish your task

Suggest To tell someone your ideas about what they should do, where they should go etc

Struggle To try extremely hard to achieve something, even though it is very difficult

Strengthen To become stronger or make something stronger

Student Someone who is studying at a university, school etc

String Together, used for tying or fastening things

Succeed To do what you tried or wanted to do

Suffering Serious physical or mental pain

Supplied An amount of something that is available to be used

Subsequent Happening or coming after something else

Sufficiently As much as is needed for a particular purpose

Substantial Large in amount or number

Surface The top layer of an area of water or land

Survey A set of questions that you ask a large number of people in order to find out about their opinions or behaviour

Sustain To make something continue to exist or happen for a period of time

Tend Tend to do something / often tend to

Swallow To make food or drink go down your throat and towards your stomach

Suspicion A feeling you have that someone is probably guilty of doing something wrong or dishonest

Survive To continue to live after an accident, war, or illness

Threat A statement in which you tell someone that you will cause them harm or trouble if they do not do what you want

Tempted To try to persuade someone to do something by making it seem attractive

Temporarily Continuing for only a limited period of time

Swap To give something to someone and get something in return

Tackle To try to deal with a difficult problem

Tasks A piece of work that must be done, especially one that is difficult or unpleasant or that must be done regularly

Thus As a result of something that you have just mentioned

Throughout In every part of a particular area, place etc

Suitable Having the right qualities for a particular person, purpose, or situation

Tabled Present formally for discussion or consideration at a meeting.

Throat The passage from the back of your mouth to the top of the tubes that go down to your lungs and stomach

Tighten To close or fasten something firmly by turning it

Tension A nervous worried feeling that makes it impossible for you to relax

Timber Wood used for building or making things

Transport A system or method for carrying passengers or goods from one place to another

Tip The end of something, especially something pointed

Ton 1000 kilos

Tone The way your voice sounds, which shows how you are feeling or what you mean

Topic A subject that people talk or write about

Tough Difficult to do or deal with

Tower A tall narrow building either built on its own or forming part of a castle, church etc

Thrill A sudden strong feeling of excitement and pleasure, or the thing that makes you feel this

Towns A large area with houses, shops, offices etc where people live and work, that is smaller than a city and larger than a village

Tracks A narrow path or road with a rough uneven surface, especially one made by people or animals frequently moving through the same place

Travel To go from one place to another, or to several places, especially ones that are far away

Towards Used to say that someone or something moves, looks, faces etc in the direction of someone or something

Transition When something changes from one form or state to another

Trade The activity of buying, selling, or exchanging goods within a country or between countries

Transaction A business deal or action, such as buying or selling something

Treatment Something that is done to cure someone who is injured or ill

Treaty A formal written agreement between two or more countries or governments

Trial A legal process in which a judge and often a jury in a court of law examine information to decide whether someone is guilty of a crime

Undertake To accept that you are responsible for a piece of work, and start to do it

Unfair Not right or fair, especially because not everyone has an equal opportunity

View What you think or believe about something

United Joined or closely connected by feelings, aims etc

Universal Involving everyone in the world or in a particular group

Unknown Not known about

Urban Relating to towns and cities

Urgent Very important and needing to be dealt with immediately

Vacancy A job that is available for someone to start doing

Vacation A holiday, or time spent not working

Vegetable A plant that is eaten raw or cooked, such as a cabbage, a carrot, or peas

Vice Criminal activities that involve sex or drugs

Vote To show which person or party you want, or whether you support a plan, by marking a piece of paper, raising your hand etc

Violence Behaviour that is intended to hurt other people physically

Voluntary Work etc that is done by people who do it because they want to, and who are not paid

Virtues Moral goodness of character and behaviour

Wage Money you earn that is paid according to the number of hours, days, or weeks that you work

Vulnerable Someone who is vulnerable can be easily harmed or hurt

Useful Helping you to do or get what you want

Waiting To stay somewhere or not do something until something else happens, someone arrives etc

Vast Extremely large

Wandered To walk slowly across or around an area, usually without a clear direction or purpose

Warning Something, especially a statement, that tells you that something bad, dangerous, or annoying might happen so that you can be ready or avoid it

Weaknesses A fault in someone’s character or in a system, organization, design etc

Willing Prepared to do something, or having no reason to not want to do it

Wonders To think about something that you are not sure about and try to guess what is true, what will happen etc

Welfare Someone’s welfare is their health and happiness

Who Used to ask or talk about which person is involved, or what the name of a person is

Whom The object form of ‘who’, used especially in formal speech or writing

Witness Someone who sees a crime or an accident and can describe what happened

Worry To be anxious or unhappy about someone or something, so that you think about them a lot

Waste When something such as money or skills are not used in a way that is effective, useful, or sensible

Wild Living in a natural state, not changed or controlled by people

Withdrawal The act of moving an army, weapons etc away from the area where they were fighting

Wrapped (Also wrap up) to put paper or cloth over something to cover it

Yard A unit for measuring length, equal to three feet or 0.91 metres

Wish If you wish to do something or you wish to have it done for you, you want to do it or want to have it done

Wealth A large amount of money, property etc that a person or country owns

Youth The period of time when someone is young, especially the period when someone is a teenager

Whisper To speak or say something very quietly, using your breath rather than your voice

Worth When womething is worth doing, it has substance doing it

Weighing To have a particular weight

Widespread Existing or happening in many places or situations, or among many people

Zone A large area that is different from other areas around it in some way

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