Exercise 10. Paraphrase the following expressions using the active vocabulary.

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Taster (noun)

Tasty (adjective)

1. She makes really tasty dish with chicken and rice. 2. These cookies are very tasty. 3. These sausages are really tasty - where did you buy them? 4. After putting the dishes together, the editor has a full-course meal-a tasty one, if possible. 5. Ceratopteris is tasty food for aquarium snails.6. Families can drop the custom of serving unappetizing desserts and start tasty new holiday traditions, Eisenberg suggests. 7. Fruits ripened on the vine are tasty but soft and difficult to transport.8. She was chilly and irritable, liked tasty foods and vinegar, and had an aversion to fat, meat and milk. 9. The breakfast is complete and tasty.

1. He is a consummate wine taster. 2. I thought it sounded like a good idea as it would give me a taster.3. One taster remarked that it reminded him of what macaroni and cheese must have tasted like before Kraft.4. So much for the hype ... here's a taster of what the Falcons have in store for the Air Tattoo.5. The challenge attracts hundreds of the world's best wine tasters, including 30 Masters of Wine.6. This recipe produces a cake with a moist, slightly gummy texture, which some of our tasters actually preferred.

A. 1. information that is passed from one person to another about other people's behaviour and private lives, often including unkind or untrue remarks;

2. the way someone feels at a particular time, for example if they are happy or sad;

3. to turn or twist something several times around something else;

4. to remove the skin from fruit or vegetables;

5. to break or to make something break, either so that it gets lines on its surface, or so that it breaks into pieces;

6. the skin of some fruits and vegetables, especially the thick skin of fruits such as oranges, which you do not eat;

7. someone who likes talking about other people's private lives - used to show disapproval;

8. to turn part of a machine around several times, in order to make it move or start working;

9. to make a noise by rubbing roughly against a surface;

10. someone whose job is to test the quality of foods, teas, wines etc by tasting them;

11. a sudden loud sound like the sound of a stick being broken;

12. the feeling that is produced by a particular food or drink when you put it in your mouth;

13. an amount of money that you give in order to help pay for something;

14. an illegal drug that some people take for pleasure;

15. the part of someone that you cannot see, that consists of the qualities that make up their character, which many people believe continues to live after the person has died;

16. a piece of writing, a song, a speech etc that forms part of a larger work such as a newspaper, book, broadcast, recording etc;

17. the kind of things that someone likes;

18. courage, energy, and determination - use this to show approval;

19. a change in someone's voice because they are feeling very upset;

20. made, decorated, or chosen with bad taste;

21. to have a short experience of something that you want more of;

22. to get enough money for a particular purpose, when this is difficult;

23. used to express approval of someone's behaviour or attitude;

B. 1. a thin line on the surface of something when it is broken but has not actually come apart;

2. someone, who is ____, is sensible and you can depend on them;

3. to eat or drink a small amount of something to see what it is like;

4. a hard dry type of bread in small flat shapes, that is often eaten with cheese;

5. a situation in which there are a lot of problems and difficulties, especially as a result of mistakes or carelessness;

6. a creature without a physical body that some people believe exists, such as an angel or a dead person, who has returned to this world and has strange or magical powers;

7. an amount of money that you give in order to help pay for something;

8. to make a quick loud sound like the sound of something breaking, or to make something do this;

9. be excited and happy;

10. someone that you have been having a romantic relationship with for a long time;

11. someone who writes a story, song, speech etc that forms part of a larger work such as a newspaper, book, broadcast, recording etc;

12. food or drink that is ____is unpleasant because it has no particular taste;

13. if your voice ____, it starts to sound different because you are feeling strong emotions; 14. firmly held in a particular position and not moving or shaking;

15. make someone happier;

16. if there is a ____ somewhere or a place is a ____, things there are dirty or not neatly arranged;

17. something that you give or do in order to help something be successful;

18. food that is ____ has a good taste, but is not sweet;

19. (informal) to make people work very hard;

20. to do something badly;

21. a decorated paper tube that makes a small exploding sound when you pull it apart. It contains a small gift, a paper hat, and a joke, and is used at Christmas in Britain.

22. (informal) ____ news, gossip etc is especially interesting and often connected with sex or surprising behaviour;

23. a very narrow space between two things or two parts of something.