12 Thinking and ee , 2 Vocabulary see page 224 for defntions account account for, (give) an account of, take into account, take account of, on account of, by all accounts, on sb's account associate associate sth with balance (hang) in the balance, strike a balance, upset/alter/ redress the balance, balance betweer/of, on balance, off balance basis basis for, on a dailyAemporany/ete basis, on the basis, ofthat assess (v dilemma (n ideology n) plausible tad) assume (v) discriminate (v) ingenious (ad) ponder () baffie dubious fa) inspiration (n) prejudiced (ad) biased (ad) | estimate v,n) intuition in) presume (v) concentrate (v) faith (n) justify query (vn) consider (v) gather (v) naive (ad) reckon tv) contemplate (v) genius (n) notion (n) | reflect cyrical (ad) rasp) optimistic (ad) | sceptcal/skeptica (ad) deduce (v) uessitork (ni paradox (n) speculate (v) | deliberate 1 hunch (n pessimistic ad) suppose () Pho tae? se age 225 fr definitions academic (n, ad) | graduate ty, a) intensive (ad) seltstudy (a) conscientious (ad) ignorant (ad) knowedgeable (ad) seminar (a) cram (v) | intent a tecture (v, 0) special needs (npr) | curriculum (n) intellectual (n, ac) smock exam {n hr) tution tnd | distance learning (n phe) inteligent (ad) plagiarise (v0 tutorial in Gute ced brush up (on) practise and improve your skits or piece together learn the truth about something by knowiedge of something considering all the separate bits of ‘come (a}round (to) change your opinion or decision because information you have someone has persuaded you to agree | puzzle out solve a confusing or complicated with them: | problem by thinking carefully about it ‘come up with think of something such as an idea or a | read up get information on a particular subject by plan (on/about) reading alot about it face up to accept something and try to deal with it | swot up (on) study something very hard, especialy for figure out be able to understand something or solve en exerr nation) 2 problem; understand what someone is | take Understand and remember something like and wy they behave in the way that you hear or read; accept something they do 2s real or true; trick someone into frit upon suddenly have an idea; discover believing something that is not true something by chance think over consider a problem or decision carefully make out see, hear of understand someone or | think through consider the facts about something in an something wit dificult, suggest, imply ‘organised and thorough way ‘mull over think carefully about something over a | think up invent or imagine something, especially period of time an excuse Phrases, patterns and collocations belief express bets), belie ivthat, contrary to populer belief, beyond belief, n the belef that, popular/videly held/videspread/Arm/strong/growing bekef brain pick sbs brain's), rack your brains), the brins behind, brainless, brainchild (of, brainstorm, brainwash, brainwave conclusion bring sth to 2 conclusion, come to / arrwe at / reach a conclusion, jump/leap to conclusions, in conclusion, conclusion of, logical conclusion, foregone Conclusion|_|... A a Thinking and tearing Unit 2 Phrases, patterns and collocations consideration take into consideration, give consideration to, show consideration for, under consideration, for sb’s consideration, out of consideration for doubt doubt that, have your doubts about, cast doubt on, raise doubts, in doubt, doubt as to / about, beyond (any) doubt, (a} reasonable doubt, without a doubt, open to doubt dream dream of/about/that, have a dream, @ dream to, beyond your wildest dreams, a dream come true, in your dreams, like a dream focus focus on, the focus of/for, in focus, out of focus, focus group, main/primary/maior focus impression have/give the (false) impression that, do an impression (of), create/make an impression (on sb), Under the impression that, frst impressions ‘mental make a mental note (ol/about), mental arithmetic, mental liness, mental age, mental healt ‘mind make up your mind, cross/slip your mind, have/bear in ming, have a one-rack mind, take your mind off, bring to ‘mind, in two minds about, on your mind, state of mind, Narrow/broad/open/absent minded misapprehension under the misapprehension that go to your head ‘you really are have your wits about you in the dark (about) know what's what not have a leg to stand on | view view sth as, take the view that, take a dim/poor view of, if success goes to your head, it makes you think that you are better or more important than be able to think quickly and make sensible decisions at knowing very much about something, because other people are keeping it secret from you know the important facts about a situation nt have any way of proving that you are right about something not see the wood for the trees. used for saying that someone cannot understand wat is important in a situation because they are thinking too much about small details perspective put into perspective, from another / 2 | different / sb / etc perspective, from the perspective of, inperspective, out of perspective, a sense of perspective principle have principles, stand by / stick to your principles, principe of sth, principe that, in principe, @ matter / an issue of principle, against sb’ principles, set of principles question beg the question, raise the question (of), a/no ‘question of, n question, out ofthe question, without ‘question, beyond question, some question over / as, t0/ about, awkward question sense sense that, see sense, make sense (of), have the sense to, come to your senses, 2 sense of, in a/one sense, comimon sense side side with sb, take sides, see both sides (of an argument), look on the bright side, on the plus/minus side, by sb's side, on sb's side, on either side (of) straight set/put sb straight about, set/put the record straight, get/come straight to the point, get sth straight, think/see straight, straight talking, straight answer come into view, in view of, with a view to, view on/about/ that, in sb’s view, viewpoint, point of view _ put two and two together guess what is happening or what something means based on what you have seen or heard quick/slow on the uptake taking. very short/long time to understand cr realise something | ring a bell something that rings a bell sounds familiar to you, although you cannot remember the exact details round the bend crazy split hairs argue or worry about very small details or differences that are not important take stock (of) spend some time thinking about the situation you are in before you decide what to do next assume assumption, assuming, unassuming, assumed believe isbelieve, belief, cisbeliet, (unbetiever, (unbelievable, disbeleving, unbelievably brilliant —bsiliance, briliantly conceive conceptualise, concept, conception, conceptual, (inconceivable, inconceivably confuse confusion, confused, confusing(y) convince corwiction, (unconvinced, (uniconvncingty) decide decision, decider, decisiveness, deciding, (inecisively) define definition, defined, definitively), (indefinitely) doubt —_doubter, doubtfully), undoubtedly), doubtless explain explanation, explanatory, unexplained, (inlexpicable,inexpicably imagine imagination, imaginings, imaginery, (unlimaginativety) judge _judglekment, judiciary, judiciousness, judcious, | judicial, judgemental, judiciously | | gic tlogicaity) opinion opinionated rational rationale, rationalisation, rationalist, rationalism, tnrationaty, ational) reason reasoning, reasonableness, (urieasonable, | reasoned, (unkeasonably sane (n)sarity insanely) sense _(delsensitse, nonsense, sensitivity, sensibly, senselessiness), sensble, nonsensical, sensibly, sensibveliy) think thought, thinker, thinking, thoughtfulness, thoughtlesness, unthinkable, thou), thoughtless) wise wisdom, (unhwsety) | 13ES Unit 2 Vocabulary 16 F Write one word in each gap so that each second sentence has a similar meaning to the first sentence. 1 need to consider your offer very carefully before | make a decision. Ineed to sims VET your offer very carefully before | make a decision 2 Lee had the brillant idea of booking a clown for the endof-term party. Lee came conn ‘minum the brilliant idea of booking a clown for the end-ofterm party 3 It's time you realised that you've got resposiais now Its time you faced... vou the fact that you've got responsibilities now. 4. I'm going to have to improve my spoken German before | go to Munich. im going to have to brush... my spoken German before | go to Munich 5. | didn't ike the idea at first but now | do. I didn't lke the idea at first but Ive FOUND srsrsnsnnnnn ft ROW. 6 It's a general knowledge quiz so you can't do any revision for it. There’s nothing tO SWOE -rwonnn nee nw as it's a general knowledge quiz. 7 We were right at the back of the hall so I couldn't hear what the speaker was saying. | was unable to cow OUt what the Speaker was saying because we were right at the back of the hall 8 We finally thought of a way to get the band into the hotel without the press knowing. We finally puzzled... a way to get the band into the hotel without the press knowing, 91 I've found out a lot of information about the history of English language teaching recently ve been... up on the history of English language teaching recently. Phrasal verbs with out, such as puzzle out, are often connected to the idea of finding information. Which of these phrasal verbs with out are also connected to this idea? Did you find out what time the parents’ meeting is? Ive been checking out whether i's better to go by ferry or plane. Susie reckons she's sussed out a great way to get into the club for free. We all piled out into the playground. | can't figure out how to change my password, The band were completely drowned out by all the screaming fans. Tm going to sound Bob out about tis investing in the company. ‘Two essays really do stand out from the rest Jan's good at keeping secrets, so youll have to worm it out of her! None of us could fathom out why the experiment wasn't working. Sows Hee NH Phrases, patterns and collocations H_ Write one word in each gap. 1 Jim seems to be the misapprehension that tomorrow's a holiday. It isn't 2. These findings cast doubt previous research done in this field. 3 This photo's a litle of focus, but you can still see their faces. LOOK ween the bright side — it's nearly the end of term, 5 I'm not against animal testing principle. 6 I think Ml always associate this song . our holiday in Majorca, 7. You have to bear mind that there'll be quite a few children there. 8 Where did Susan's belief reincarnation come from? 9 Dad said that my borrowing the car tonight was sun OF the question.