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VOCABULARY AID: Basic and Additional Vocabulary (topics 11 - 15)

From:Carsten Becker <naranoieati@...>
Date:Tuesday, November 30, 2004, 16:40
Hello!

OK, so here's more. Hopefully without typos. And only 5 topics,
because there's still some homeworks left that is due to tomorrow :(

Carsten




IV. The Human
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11. Body
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Basics:
arm, back , bag, basin, beard, belt, blood, body, bone,
bowl, brain, breath, calf, chest, composition, condition,
elbow, eye, face, fat, feeling, finger, fist, flesh, foot,
forehead, hair, hand, heart, heel, joint, look, man,
memory, mind, mouth, muscle, nose, root, shoulder, sight,
spirit, stomach, strenghth, sweat, tongue, tooth, trunk --
to beat, to bend, to bite, to breathe, to cry, to feed, to
feel, to handle, to seize, to sigh, to stretch, to sweat --
bare, female, lean, male, pale -- inside, outside

Additional:
upper arm/forearm, thigh/shank, palm, finger-tip, thumb,
knuckle, shin(-bone), ankle, sole, hip, skeleton, skull,
temple, palate, tip of the nose/tongue, upper/lower jaw,
gum, upper/lower lip, vocal chords, gullet, oesophagus,
eyeball, the pupil of the eye, eyebrow/lash/lid, curl /
parting, waist, backbone, spine, windpipe, belly, abdomen,
navel, kidney, gall-bladder, appendix, bowels, intestines,
circulation of the blood, nervous system, pulse, marrow,
tonsils, spleen, sinew, to pant, to gasp, to weep / to sob,
to wink, to blink, to yawn, to sneeze, to chew, to
perspire, masculine, feminite, corpulent, stout, plump,
meagre, slender, slim, lanky, robust, husky,
long-/short-sighted, beardless


12. Look and movements
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Basics:
activity, address, air, appearance, balance, beauty,
behaviour, charm, colour, dance, expression, movement,
skill, smile -- to act, to cry, to dance, to express, to
frown, to lean, to lie, to move, to please, to smile --
active, beautiful, busy, charming, coarse, handsome, happy,
irregular, lazy, light, merry, nice, regular, rough, ugly

Additional:
complexion, countenance, physique, physical constitiution,
weakness, gait, errand, collision, clash, to conduct
oneself, to weaken, to dangle, to grow pale,
graceful/awkward, attractive, striking, wobbly


13. Senses
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Basics:

ability, anxiety, application, attention, colour, crash,
cruelty, curiosity, eye, face, feeling, hate, heat, sight,
smell, taste -- to astonish, to crash, to fade, to fear, to
flash, to hate, to hear, to heat, to hurt, to regard, to
smell, to taste -- able, afraid, anxious, aware, beautiful,
clear, coarse, cold, cool, cruel, curious, dark, delicate,
dry, dull, faint, fair, fearful, fine, fond, fresh, gentle,
glad, handsome, happy, hard, heavy, hot, lovely, merry,
nervous, nice, painful, pretty, rough, sharp, smooth,
sweet, ugly, warm, weak, wet

Additional:
glance, touch, hearing / sound wave, brightness, perfume,
scent, to behold (beheld, beheld), to gaze, to stare at, to
perceive/to sense, piercing, furtive, deafening, noisy,
delicious, disagreeable, monotonous, slippery


14. Life and death
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Basics:
accident, ashes, being, creature, death, dream, dust, grave,
life, loss, murder, ruin, sacrifice, tear, want -- to bury,
to die, to dream, to drop, to finish, to poison, to remove,
to save, to strike, to suffer, to twist -- asleep, awake,
aware, dead, living

Additional:
burial, funeral, funeral procession, funeral march,
mortality, tomb-stone, grave-stone, tomb, coffin, epitaph,
wreath, grave-yard, cemetery, corpse / ummy, deceased,
cuicide, cremation, urn, to drown, to be drowned, to shed
blood, to embalm, to grow old, to mourn (for), to commit
suicide, gloomy, dismal, dim/mortal

[I thought this topic's name is "*Life* and death"!]


15. Health, disease, cure
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Basics:
attack, bath, blow, care, change, cold, cough, disease,
doctor, faint, fever, fold, growth, harm, health, hunger,
medicine, nurse, operation, pain, patience, poison, remedy,
rest, sympathy, wound -- to apply, to arrange, to bear, to
break, to burst, to catch, to dress, to enjoy, to fade, to
faint, to grow, to hurt, to nurse, to rest, to swallow --
blind, careful, careless, delicate, mad, merry, faint,
full, healthy, hungry, lame, natural, painful, pale,
senseless, sore, tired, unhealthy

Additional:
illness, sickness, infection, contagion, delicacy, injury,
loss of blood, blood transfusion, breakdown, collapse, fit
of apoplexy, exhaustion, indisposition, relapse, recovery,
sleeplessness, cold in the head, whooping-cough,
hoarseness, influenza (flu), swelling, ulcer, fracture,
toothache / headache, cancer, polio(myelitis), pneumonia,
measles, scarlet fever, sunstroke, tuberculosis, dressing /
plaster, cotton wool, injection, prescription, remedy,
ointment, tablet, pill, dispensary, night-duty, patient,
sick person, to ache, to consult, to swell up, to bleed
(bled, bled), to heal, to disinfect, to vaccinate, to
squit, to limp, to stutter, to snore, to recover from,
vigorous, sturdy, robust, sickly, feeble-minded, insane,
hereditary, dumb, mute, deaf, innate, exhausted, drowsy,
unconscious, dizzy, bland-headed, crippled, malignant

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