WORD STUDY

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 348.

Essay writing

Write an essay about any of these ideas.

1) An ethical problem you know about.

2) A memorable ethical event in your life (good or bad).

3) An unusual or memorable experience of your participating in environmental protection.

1. Match the words with their definitions.

INTERMITTENT, CHECK, DEMAND, GOODWILL, FEATURE, GAIN, ITEM, OMIT, PUBLICITY, COUNT

1) The wants of buyers in the market.

2) To get or obtain something wanted.

3) The business of attracting public attention and of encouraging general feelings of goodwill towards a product or service in order to sell it.

4) A single article or class of articles in a list, account, inventory, etc.

5) The advantage possessed by an established business over a new business. The attractive force that brings in customers.

6) Make sure that smth or smb is correct, safe, making progress.

7) Say all numbers one after another up to a particular number.

8) Do not include smth in an activity or piece of work, deliberately or accidentally.

9) Smth happening or appearing occasionally or at regular intervals rather than constantly or continuously.

10) A particular part of smth or characteristic that it has, which you notice because it seems important or interesting.

2. Supply the sentences with the missing words.

1) The amount of fuel is displayed ... on a gauge.

2) I tried desperately to ... his attention.

3) It was considered inappropriate for a former President to ... in commerce.

4) They had to get a job to ... the family income.

5) The Oval Office will be used for ceremonial ... .

6) The business seemed to ... an enormous amount of sales.

7) It turned into a witch-hunt that ... the names of many of the country's intellectuals.

8) He knew this action was necessary for the ... success of the talks.

9) Nothing would budge him from his ... that he could run a newspaper successfully.

TARNISH. CONVICTION, CONVENIENTLY, SUPPLEMENT, INVOLVE, ATTRACT, ULTIMATE, OCCASION. ENGAGE