English Vocabulary in Use: Upper-Intermediate

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Contents
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Introduction
Eective vocabulary learning
1Learning vocabulary
2Organising a vocabulary notebook
3Using your dictionary
4Guessing and explaining meaning
Topics
5Countries, nationalities and
languages
6The weather
7Describing people: appearance
8Describing people: personality
9Idioms describing people
10 Relationships
11 At home
12 Everyday minor problems
13 Global problems
14 Education
15 Higher education
16 Work
17 Business
18 Sport
19 Art and literature
20 Theatre and cinema
21 Music
22 Food
23 Physical geography
24 Environmental problems
25 Towns
26 The natural world
27 Clothes
28 Health and medicine
29 Medicine and technology
30 Health and lifestyle
31 Travel
32 Holidays
33 Science and technology
34 Computers
35 Communications and the Internet
36 Social media
37 The press and the media
38 Politics and public institutions
39 Crime
40 Money
41 Describing objects
Feelings and actions
42 Belief and opinion
43 Pleasant and unpleasant feelings
44 Like, dislike and desire
45 Speaking
46 The six senses
47 What your body does
48 Praising and criticising
49 Emotions and moods
50 Commenting on problematic
situations
Basic concepts
51 Number, quantity, degree and
intensity
52 Numbers and shapes
53 Time
54 Distances and dimensions
55 Obligation, need, possibility and
probability
56 Sound and light
57 Possession and giving
58 Movement and speed
59 Texture, brightness, weight
and density
60 Success, failure and diiculty
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Connecting and linking words
61 Time: connecting words and
expressions
62 Condition
63 Cause, reason, purpose and
result
64 Concession and contrast
65 Addition
66 Referring words
67 Discourse markers in spoken
English
68 Linking words in writing
69 Talking and communicating
Word formation
70 Suixes
71 Prefixes
72 Roots
73 Abstract nouns
74 Compound adjectives
75 Compound nouns 1: noun + noun
76 Compound nouns 2:
verb + preposition
77 Binomials
78 Abbreviations and acronyms
79 Multi-word expressions
Words and pronunciation
80 Words commonly mispronounced
81 Onomatopoeic words
82 Homophones and homographs
Counting people and things
83 Uncountable nouns
84 Words that only occur in the plural
85 Countable and uncountable nouns
with dierent meanings
86 Making uncountable nouns
countable
87 Collective nouns
88 Containers and contents
Phrasal verbs and verb-based
expressions
89 Expressions with do and make
90 Expressions with bring and take
91 Expressions with get
92 Expressions with set and put
93 Expressions with come and go
94 Expressions with other common
verbs
Varieties and styles
95 Formal and informal words 1
96 Formal and informal words 2
97 Similes
98 Proverbs
99 The language of signs and notices
100 Headline English
101 US English
Answer key
Phonemic symbols
Index
Acknowledgements
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