Unit 1: Active Topical Vocabulary List

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 441.

(Here is the list of words you're mostly welcome to use in your speech, but don't forget about the recognition vocabulary which was discussed too)

/Part 1/

Crucial

Indispensable

Put too much pressure on

Permissive

Neglectful

Form one's own identity

Peer pressure

Masculinity

Distortion in personality

Grow up in moral vacuum

Drudgery

Interfere with

Pacifier

Moderation

Inculcate into minds

Inquisitive

Easier said than done

To set food or bad examples

We are no saints

What matters most

To take away one's initiative

To disengage from parents influence

To fall in once duty

To roam

Mob frenzy

Destructive act

To prove one's masculinity

To think somebody a coward

Free-floating anger

To be notorious

A distortion in personality development

To go wild to escape boredom

To find blame (виновного) everywhere but in themselves

To be taught the good values of life

A moral vacuum

To build up good communication

A couple of tips

To use independent judgement

To build children inside the home

To avoid turning their leisure time into duties and drudgery

To learn to be other-centered, not self-centered

To be in this world not for their own satisfaction but primarily to serve others

/Part 2/

Be in disgrace, fall from grace

Flawlessness - безупречность

To impress on smb

Stretch of imagination

Obstinacy

Immense power of concentration

Tempt smb / to resist the temptation

Be in a tight corner

To come up to smb's expectations

Indulge

Frivolous

Curiosity - любопытство

/Part 3/

The brain's wiring

To be mired / be in the mire

Tune out and cringe from the interaction

Bridge the information gap

To empathize

Be subjected to

Rear the child / infant

/Part 5/

Enfeebling

Fend for oneself

To exert influence on

The plight of

To drift away

Hand pick

Vital (choice)

Misconception

Indecisiveness

A crippling fashion

To mould

Sound (views)

Be exposed to

Exercise total control over smb/smth

Tough

A gift of reassurance

To wrap smb in clean surroundings

To watch out for

Corporal punishment - телесные наказания