New vocabulary and collocations

Week 09/12/15.

To have a quandary

To depict

Expressions from exercise:

To get carried away = to go over the top

What’s more = In addition

At your own risk

At the same time

To raise your voice

To meet with your approval = To approve

To be lost for words = so shocked you cannot speak

To show your appreciation for somebody/something = To thank someone for doing something

To put somebody in a difficult position

To be in a quandary = To have a dilemma

So as to show their appreciation for my fiancée meeting with their approval, my parents threw a party. However, my father got rather carried away and I was lost for words and left in a quandary.

To dispel = to get rid of/to disprove

To run out = to be in low supply

Coarse = opposite of rough

To have a vast impact ON something

To put something to use

To dispel a notion of something

Moreover = what’s more

Raw materials

To run short

The disposal of waste

You encounter a problem – A problem confronts you

Reassuring signs