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er pâté 쑗 He looked at the menu and
or-dered liver and bacon.
living
living / lvŋ/ adjective having the signs
such as breathing or growing of not
rel-atives? 쐽 noun money that you need for
earns his living by selling postcards to
lizard / lzəd/ noun a small animal with a
long tail and rough skin
load
ob-jects which are carried in a vehicle such
bricks 쐽 verb 1 to put something,
espe-cially something heavy, into or on to a
loaded the furniture into the van 2 to
put bullets into a gun, or a film into a
hid behind the wall 3 to put a program
word-processing program before you start
keyboarding.
loaf
round shape, which you can cut into
loaf of bread at the baker’s 쑗 We eat
about 10 loaves of bread per week.
loan
house with a £100,000 loan from the
bank 2 the act of lending something to
three weeks.
local
local / ləυk(ə)l/ adjective relating to a
place or district near where you are or
in the local hospital 쑗 The local paper
comes out on Fridays 쑗 She was
for-merly the headmistress of the local
school.
locate
locate /ləυ ket/ verb to find the position
lo-cate the Spanish galleon.
location
location /ləυ keʃ(ə)n/ noun a place or
location.
lock
con-tainer such as a box, used for fastening
it so that you can only open it with a key
쑗 She left the key in the lock, so the glars got in easily 쑗 We changed the locks on the doors after a set of keys were stolen 쐽 verb 1 to close a door or
I forgot to lock the safe 쑗 We always lock the front door before we go to bed.
sudden-ly locked as he went round the corner.
lock up phrasal verb 1 to close a
al-ways locks up before he goes home 쑗
She was locking up the shop when a
man walked in 2 to put someone in
loft
their loft into a bedroom.
log
brought in a load of logs for the fire.
loneliness
loneliness / ləυnlinəs/ noun 1 a
feel-ing of sadness you can get from befeel-ing
long time to get over his feelings of
lone-liness 2 the state of being alone 쑗 He was attracted by the loneliness of the hotel, all by itself on the top of the cliff.
lonely
lonely / ləυnli/ adjective 1 feeling sad
lonely you can be in a big city full of
people 2 (of a place) with few or no
place at night 쑗 We spent the weekend
in a lonely cottage in the Welsh hills.
long
쑗 a long piece of string 쑗 The Nile is the longest river in the world 쑗 My hair
needs cutting – it’s getting too long 2.
pro-gramme – it lasted almost three hours.
쑗 They’ve been waiting for the bus for a long time 쑗 We don’t approve of long
holidays in this job 3 used for asking
it before your holiday starts? 쐽 adverb
long? 쑗 I didn’t want to wait any longer.
쑗 Long ago, before the war, this was a
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wealthy farming area 쐽 noun a long
She’ll be boss of the company before
long 왍 for long for a long time 쑗 He
wasn’t out of a job for long 쐽 verb to
long-ing for a cup of tea 쑗 Everyone was
longing to be back home 앳 as long as,
so long as provided that, on the
long as it doesn’t rain 앳 no longer not
look at this photograph and tell me if
you recognise anyone in it 쑗 We only
had time for a quick look round the
town 쐽 verb 1 to turn your eyes to see
at this photograph 쑗 Look in the
res-taurant and see if there are any tables
free 쑗 If you look out of the office
win-dow you can see our house 쑗 He
opened the lid of the box and looked
in-side 2 to appear to be 쑗 I went to see
her in hospital and she looks worse 쑗
Those pies look good 쑗 It looks as if it
may snow 쑗 He looks much older than
forty.
look after phrasal verb to take care of
someone or something
look back phrasal verb to turn your
looked back and saw a police car was
following him.
look for phrasal verb to search for
something, to try to find something
look into phrasal verb to try to find out
about a matter or problem
look out phrasal verb to be careful 쑗
Look out! – the car is going backwards!
look out for phrasal verb to try to see
looking out for new offices because ours
are too small 쑗 I’ll look out for his
sis-ter at the party.
look up phrasal verb to try to find
up his address in the telephone book 쑗
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loop
loop /piece of something such as string, which
start by making a loop.
loose
loose /
teeshirt for the dance class (NOTE:
looser – loosest) 2. not attached to
needs tightening 쑗 Once he was let loose, the dog ran across the park.
loosen
loosen /
shoe-laces and relaxed.
lord
lord /
Powerful lords forced King John to sign
the Magna Carta 2 an expression of
realise it was so late!
lost it on the train 쑗 If you lose your
ticket you’ll have to buy another one 2.
lost money on the lottery 3 not to win 쑗
We lost the match 10 – 0 쑗 Did you win? – No, we lost (NOTE: loses – los-
ing – lost /lɒst/) 앳 to lose your way
to not know where you are or which
the fog on the mountain.
loss
un-happy at the loss of his house 쑗 The loss of a child is almost unbearable to a
parent 2 money which you have spent
and have not got back through earnings
쑗 Companies often make losses in their first year of operations.
lost
lose
lot
lots of time before the train leaves 쑗
What a lot of cars there are in the car park! 쑗 I’ve been to the cinema quite a
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lot recently 쑗 She’s feeling a lot better
now 쑗 Lots of people are looking for
jobs 앳 the lot everything 쑗 That’s the
lot – there’s nothing left 쑗 There were
old pots and books and newspapers –
we sold the lot for £50 쑗 We picked 2
ki-los of beans and ate the lot for dinner.
lottery
lottery / lɒtəri/ noun a game of chance in
which tickets with numbers on are sold
with prizes given for certain numbers
loud
Can’t you stop your watch making such
a loud noise? 쑗 Turn down the radio –
it’s too loud 쐽 adverb loudly 쑗 I can’t
sing any louder 쑗 She laughed out loud
loudness / laυdnəs/ noun the state of
being loud, being noisy
lounge
lounge /laυnd"/ noun a comfortable
TV in the lounge.
love
his love for his children 쑗 I had never
felt true love like this before 왍 to be in
love to love someone or to love each
love 쑗 I told her I was in love with her.
to feel very strong affection for
some-one 쑗 They fell in love at first sight 2.
(in games such as tennis) a score of
love (6–0) 쐽 verb 1 to have strong
feel-ings of affection for someone or
loves little children 쑗 The children love
their teacher 2 to like something very
seaside 쑗 I’d love to come with you, but
I’ve got too much work to do.
lovely
lovely / d"ɒrti/ noun 1 the larger
members of the club don’t want to
change the rules 2 a number of voters
elected with a majority of 10,000 3 the
age when you become legally adult
make
boat out of old pieces of wood 쑗 These
knives are made of steel 2 to get
Christ-mas cake 쑗 Do you want me to make
some tea? 3 to add up to a total 쑗 Six
and four make ten 4 to give someone a
hungry 쑗 The rough sea made him feel
sick 쑗 Looking at old photographs
made her sad 쑗 He made himself
com-fortable in the armchair 5 to force
made him clean his room 쑗 The teacher
made us all stay in after school 쑗 I
can’t make the car go any faster 쑗 What
on earth made you do that? (NOTE:
makes – making – made /med/) 앳 to
make sense 1. to be understood 쑗 The
message doesn’t make sense 2 to be a
money into your savings account every
week.
make for phrasal verb to go towards a
capital 쑗 As soon as the film started,
she made straight for the exit.
make out phrasal verb 1 to be able to
house in the dark? 2 to claim
English weather isn’t really as bad as it
is made out to be 쑗 She tries to make
out that she’s very poor.
make up phrasal verb to invent a story
쑗 He said he had seen a man climbing
into the house, but in fact he made the
whole story up.
makeup
makeup / mekp/ noun substances,e.g face powder and lipstick, whichpeople put on their face to make it morebeautiful or change their appearance in
from a little eye shadow 쑗 He spent hours over his makeup for the part of the monster.
making
making / mekŋ/ present participle of
make
male
male deer is called a stag (NOTE: Do
not confuse with mail.)
mammal
mammal / mm(ə)l/ noun a type of imal which gives birth to live young andfeeds them with milk
an-man
That tall man is my brother 쑗 There’s a young man at reception asking for Mr Smith (NOTE: The plural is men
manned all day 쑗 She sometimes mans the front desk when the receptionist is ill (NOTE: mans – manning –
manned)
manage
manage / mnd"/ verb to be in charge
of-fices in Europe 쑗 We want to appoint someone to manage the new shop.
management
management / mnd"mənt/ noun 1.
The management has decided to move to
new offices 2. the practice of directing
course in management 쑗 If anything goes wrong now it’s just a case of bad management.
manager
manager / mnd"ə/ noun 1 the
per-son in charge of a department in a shop
wants to talk about your account 쑗 The sales manager organised a publicity campaign 쑗 She’s the manager of the
shoe department 2 a person in charge
sacked their manager.
mane
confuse with main.)
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manner
manner / mnə/ noun a way of
behav-ing 쑗 She has a very unpleasant
man-ner 쑗 The staff don’t like the new
man-ager’s manner.
manufacture
manufacture /mnjυ fktʃə/ verb to
manufacture tractors here.
live on the south coast 쑗 So many
peo-ple wanted rooms that the hotel was
booked up 쑗 She ate twice as many
cakes as her sister did 2. asking a
to France? 쑗 How many passengers
were there on the plane? 쐽pronoun a
students knew the lecturer when he was
a student himself 쑗 Many would say
that smoking should be banned in all
public places.
map
a place, e.g a town, a country or the
Here’s a map of Europe 쑗 The village
where they live is so small I can’t find it
on the map 쑗 Show me on the map
where the mountains are 쑗 They lost
their way because they’d forgotten to
take a map.
marathon
marathon / mrəθ(ə)n/ noun a race,
often run on roads in a city, covering a
train-ing for the New York marathon.
marble
marble /
type of stone which can be polished so
marble floor 쑗 The table top is made
from a single slab of green marble.
march
march /
so that your legs move at exactly the
same times as everyone else’s,
after their long march through the
mountains 쐽 verb 1 to walk in this way
쑗 The guards marched after the band 쑗
We were just in time to see the soldiers
march past 2 to walk in a protest march
쑗 Thousands of workers marched to the
parliament building.
March
March /the year, between February and April
‘March the sixth’ or ‘the sixth of March’
or in US English: ‘March sixth’.)
your comments in the margin 쑗 We left
a wide margin so that you can write notes in it.
made a mark on the tablecloth 쑗 She has a mark on her forehead where she
hit her head 2 the points given to a
What sort of mark did you get for your homework? 쑗 No one got full marks – the top mark was 8 out of 10 쐽 verb 1
to make a mark on something 2 to
teacher hasn’t finished marking our homework 쑗 Has the English exam been marked yet?
market
market /products, e.g fruit and vegetables, aresold from small tables, often in the open
air 쑗 We buy all our vegetables and fish
at the market 쑗 Market day is Saturday,
so parking will be difficult.
marketing
marketing /ods used by a company to encouragepeople buy a product
marriage
marriage / mrd"/ noun 1 the state of
being legally joined as husband and
in divorce 쑗 She has two sons by her
first marriage 2 a wedding, the
simple marriage, with just ten guests.
married
married / mrid/ adjective joined as
single? 쑗 Married life must suit him – he’s put on weight.
marry
marry / mri/ verb 1 to make two
mar-ried in church 2 to become the
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the boy next door (NOTE: marries –
marrying – married) 앳 to get
mar-ried to someone to be joined as
getting married next Saturday.
marsh
marsh /
masculine
masculine / mskjυln/ adjective
very masculine hair style.
mask
mask /
bur-glars wore black masks 쑗 He wore a
mask to go diving.
mass
people went to the exhibition 쑗 A mass
of leaves blew onto the pavement 쑗 I
have a mass of letters or masses of
let-ters to write 2 a Catholic church
serv-ice 쑗 She’s a strict Catholic and goes to
mass every week 쐽 adjective involving
a mass grave on the hillside 쑗 The
group is organising a mass protest to
parliament.
massive
massive / msv/ adjective very large
쑗 He had a massive heart attack 쑗 The
company has massive losses 쑗 A
mas-sive rock came hurtling down the
moun-tainside towards them.
mast
mast /
so strong that it snapped the ship’s mast.
They have put up a television mast on
top of the hill.
master
master /
of TV newscasting 쑗 Although he
passed his driving test some time ago,
he still hasn’t mastered the art of
motor-way driving.
mat
some-thing such as carpet, used as a floor
be-fore you come in.
match
match /mtʃ/ noun 1 a single occasion
when two teams or players compete
the football match on TV 쑗 He won the last two table tennis matches he played.
which catches fire when you rub it
packet of cigarettes and a box of
match-es 쑗 She struck a match and lit a dle 쐽 verb to fit or to go with something
can-쑗 The yellow wallpaper doesn’t match the bright green carpet.
mate
pub with his mates 2 one of a pair of
people or animals, especially where
the result of a donkey mating with a horse.
material
material /mə ...
up his address in the telephone book 쑗
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loop
loop /piece... the
lot – there’s nothing left 쑗 There were
old pots and books and newspapers –
we sold the lot for £50 쑗 We... out phrasal verb to be able to
house in the dark? to claim
English weather isn’t really as bad as it
is made out to be 쑗