Exercises

If you find these sentences difficult, it may mean that you need to practice
using a dictionary more often, or you need to buy yourself a better dictionary.
3.1 Use the dictionary to find/check the answers to the questions
1. What does dreadful mean?
The meaning of dreadful is inspiring dread, bad, awful, frightful, shocking;
terrible.2. How do you pronounce lose? (Is it the same as choose or chose?)
lt is pronounce as lose. Is it the same as choose.
3. What part of the speech is choose?
Choose is a verb.
4. What part of the speech is homesick?
Homesick is an adjective.
5. Homework and chaos are both nouns, but what type of noun are they?
Homework and chaos are both nouns and are common , abstract and
uncountable.6. What adjectives are often used before chaos? (give two
examples).
Bad, horrible, dreadful are the adjectives used before chaos.
7. What two prepositions are often used after choose?
To, between,from are the preposition used after choose.
8. Write down a sentence example of choose used with a preposition.
Between a river or beach, I choose beach because is more funny.

3.2 When you look up a word, you can also use your dictionary to increase your
vocabulary by learning related words and phrases. Find out if your dictionary
helps you to answer these questions, also about words from the opposite page.
1. Choose is a verb, but what is the noun with the same meaning?
Choice is the noun with the same meaning.
2. Advice is a noun, but what is the verb with the same meaning?
The verb with the same meaning of advice is advise.

3. Advice is also uncountable, but you can make it countable using another
word. Can you complete the sentences: He gave me a very useful piece of
advice
4. What adjective is formed from chaos?
The adjective formed from chaos is chaotic.
5. What the opposite of dirty?
The opposite of dirty is clean.
6. What is the difference between homework and housework?
The difference between homework and house work is:
-Homework refers to task assigned to students by teachers to be completed
mostly outside of class, and derives its name from the fact that most students
do to majority of such work at home.
-Housework refers to domestic household chores suck as cleaning and cooking.
7. What is the opposite of lose a game?
The opposite of lose a game is win a game.
8. What is the opposite of lose weight?
The opposite of lose weight is gain weight.
9. Law often appears in the phrase law and What is the missing word?
The missing word is order.
10. If you want to sit at a table in a cafe and you see that one person is sitting
there already, but another scat is empty, what can you say to the person sitting
down?
I say to the person: the seat is occupied? Can I sit here?

3.3 In the word island, the letter s is silent (= not pronounced).

Knife: the letter k is silent
Bomb: silent letter the lastb
Psychology: silent letter p,s, y
Receipt: silent letter p

Castle: silent letter t, e

Doubt: silent letter b
Wrist: silent letter w
Calm: silent letter l
Students often ask if the letter t is pronounced in often. Some people
pronounce it, others dont. What does your dictionary say?
My dictionary say the letter t is not pronounced in often.

3.4 Look at the entry for suit on the right, the match the definitions with the
sentences on the left.

1. Im afraid black doesnt suit me my hair is the wrong color.

2. A: Im not going, so dont ask me again.
B: OK. Suit yourself.
3. If we have the meeting this afternoon, would 2.30 suit you.

1. The answer is number 2.

2. The answer is number 3.
3. The answer is number 1.

How to use the dictionary?

All entries appear in alphabetical order and are printed in bold type.

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabetic) is used for all phonetic

transcriptions, including American pronunciations.

The sign
Roman numerals
Feminine forms of nouns and adjectives
Angle brackets
Arabic superscripts
English phrasal verbs

introduces a
are used
are
used
indicate

directly after the base verb

Come
block of the set expressions, idioms and proverbs.
For the grammatical divisions of a Word, and arabic numerals for sense
divisions.
shown unless they are identical to the masculine form.
to show irregular plural forms and, forms of irregular verbs and adjectives.
homographs.

signalled
example
example
example

example
example

Bring: /br/ <brought, brought> vt 1.(come with, carry) traer bring about vt
1. (cause happen provocar 2.(achieve)lograr
example

Using the dictionary

The definition or definitions of the word or phrase. Generally dictionaries group
the definitions according to a word's use as a noun, verb, adjective, and/or
adverb.
The word or phrase with the pronunciation indicated through the use of
diacritical marks - marks that indicate the vowel sounds such as a long vowel
or a vowel affected by other sounds; accent marks, a mark called the schwa
that tells you that the vowel is in an unaccented syllable of the word.
The origin, or etymology, of the word or words, such as from the Latin, Old
French, Middle English, Hebrew, the name of a person. Some dictionaries use
the symbol < to mean "came from.".
Related forms of the word, such as the plural form of nouns and the past tense
of verbs.
The part or parts of speech the word functions

The word or phrase broken into syllables.

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AERONAUTIC ENGINEERING

USING THE DICTIONARY

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