Advanced English Vocabulary: Medical, Phrasal, and Business Terms

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Unit 5 Vocabulary

Page 40

Clinical: describes medical work.
Conscious / consciousness: awake, thinking, and knowing what is happening around you.
Infect: to pass a disease to another person.
Medic: a doctor or a medical student.
Surgeon: medical doctor trained to perform medical operations.
Surgical: connected with or used for medical operations.
To face up to: to accept an unpleasant fact or situation.
Something becomes apparent to someone: logical, clear, or evident.
Get / have / gain insight into: to gain an accurate and deep understanding of a situation.
Worthwhile: worth doing.
Make up one's mind: decide on.
To be halfway through: in the middle of something.

Pages 42–43

Blister: painful swelling on the skin that contains liquid, caused by rubbing (ampollas).
Conventional wisdom: beliefs that have existed for a long time and that most people agree with.
Dislocate: to force a bone suddenly out of its correct position (dislocar).
Fracture: broken bone (fracturar).
Make a point: to always do something or take particular care to do something.
Needless to say: as you would expect; added to.
On the grounds that: a reason for what you do or say.
Relief / relieve: rest from something difficult.
Sprain: to cause an injury to a joint.
Tear: rasgón.
Twist: rotate around from a stationary point.
Ache: pain.
Bruise: moratón.
Soreness: painful areas.
Strike a balance: accept both parts of an argument.
Swell / swelling: part of your body that has become bigger because of an illness or injury.
Take issue with: to disagree with strongly.
Take note of: to give attention to something.
The odds are against: it is unlikely.
To shorten / to lengthen the odds: to make something less or more likely to happen.
Against all odds: when something happens although it seems impossible.
Comfort / comfortable / uncomfortable / discomfort
Susceptible to something: easily influenced by those things.
To be blunt: to be honest and direct.

Page 44

Competent / competence: the ability to do something well.
Inevitable / inevitably: in a way that cannot be avoided.
Leader / leadership: person who leads or commands a group.
Participate / participant / participation: person who takes part in something.
Point / pointless: something that has no purpose and is a waste of time.
Qualify / qualifications: cualificado / calificaciones.
Skill / skilful: abilities (habilidades); good at doing something.
Specify / specific / specifically: relating to one thing and not others.
Statistic / statistics / statistical: relating to statistics.
Summary / summarise: to express the most important facts or ideas in a short and clear form.
Treat / treatment: give medical care; behave towards in a certain way.
Available / unavailable / availability: obtained or able to be used.
Signify / significant / insignificant: be an indication of.
Notice / noticeable / unnoticeable: observe or pay attention.

Unit 6 Vocabulary

Pages 48–49

Acclaimed: publicly approved and praised.
Anticipate / anticipated: expected.
Appalling: shocking and very bad.
Distinctive: easy to recognise.
Hilarious: very funny.
Imaginative: new, original, and clever.
Overrated: considered better than what it really is.
Tedious: boring.
Unconventional: different from usual.
Utterly: completely.
View: to look at or watch something.
Advantages: pros, benefits.
Disadvantages: cons, pitfalls.
Thrill: joy, pleasure, excitement.
To face: confront, deal with.
Hefty: large in size.
Babble: talk like kids.
Endure: to experience something painful or difficult.
(In) pursuit: following, trying to catch.
Within reach: close by.
Slob: a lazy person.
Ravenous: extremely hungry.
To take something in: to completely understand the meaning or importance.

Page 51

Expose / exposure: something bad made public.
Urge: strongly advise or try to persuade someone to do something.
To renovate: to decorate or restore (the house).
To renew: a licence, ID.
To upgrade: tickets to business class, computer software.
To update: information, updated version of software.
To assess: to judge the importance or quality of something.
To evaluate: assess the results.
To appreciate: to recognize how good something is.
To estimate: to make an educated guess.
Historic: famous or important in history.
Historical: related to the study of history.
Elderly: old people.
Outdated: old-fashioned, obsolete.
To assemble: put together, as in cars or furniture.
To build: construct.
To compose: air is composed of; formed from.
To manufacture: made in a factory.
To assign: to give a duty to each person.
To devote: dedicate time, love, poems.
To allocate: to give something to someone for a specific purpose.
To distribute: to spread, supply, or hand out.

Page 52

Plot: story in a book, film, or opera.
To plot: to conspire against.
Wonder: ask yourself, think.
Thorough / thoroughly: detailed, inside out; completely.
To exhibit / exhibition: to display, show.
To feature: to include as an important part or role.
To lack: to be missing; not have enough of.
Absorbing: very interesting, keeps your attention.
Cannot take my eyes off: cannot stop looking.
Immense: huge, extremely big.
Deprived: not having enough of, living without good conditions.
Simple / simplicity
Utter: complete; to make a sound, to say something.
To yawn: to open your mouth wide out of tiredness.

Unit 4 Vocabulary

Pages 32–33

Back out: withdraw, leave.
Bail out: rescue financially or assist a business.
Splash out on: spend a large amount of money.
Chill out: relax.
Run out of: have no more left of something (e.g., money).
Check out: see or experience something for yourself.
Get out: become public knowledge.
Cut out: stop doing something.
Kick out: expel, dismiss.
Start out: begin as something, but change into something else later.
Sell out: have no items left to sell.
Stall: stand, delay.
Value / valuable / invaluable
To land on one's feet / to fall on one's feet: to find yourself in a good situation, which you think is the result of luck and not your own efforts.
Pay off: worth doing, beneficial, rewarding.
Delight: happiness (e.g., to our great delight).
Gain insight: gain an accurate and deep understanding of something.
Pester: bother, annoy persistently.
Supply / supplier
Tweak: pull, pinch, twist; improve, alter slightly.
Painstaking: thorough, meticulous.
Cast aside: abandon, get rid of, discard.
Tentative: provisional, indefinite.

Pages 34–35

Auction: a public sale driven by offers of money.
Bid / bidder: an offer of money for something.
Deduct: subtract, take away an amount.
Pay-as-you-go: pay for a service as you use it.
Proceed: carry on, continue.
Procedure: a set of actions that is the official or accepted way of doing something.
Transaction: moving money; business deal.
By and large: generally speaking, on the whole.
First and foremost: more important than anything else.
For a start: to begin with.
For good: forever, permanently.
For the time being: for the moment, temporarily.
Let alone: not to mention, much less.
Other than: except for.
Subject to: likely or liable to be affected by something.
With a view to doing something: with the aim or purpose of doing something.

Page 36

Make a loss: lose money in a transaction.
To break even: neither make nor lose money.
Affluent: wealthy, prosperous, rich.
(Un)affordable / to afford: able or unable to bear the cost.
Overdraw: take out more money than is in an account (números rojos).
Interest: amount of money charged or paid for lending funds.
Prosperous: successful, flourishing (próspero).
Bankrupt: unable to pay debts (bancarrota).
Well-off: wealthy, having plenty of money.
Make ends meet: earn just enough money to pay for basic needs.
Gross / net: income before / after taxes.
Savings: money kept safely for the future.
Rip-off: something overpriced and poor value.
Insurance cover: policy protection (asegurados).
Fund: a sum of money saved or intended to be spent on something.

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