prep

Question 1

He crept in _______ (in order to prevent) his parents should wake up.

Answer 1

lest

Question 2

to be offended or made angry by something or someone

Answer 2

take exception to sth or someone

• Why did you take exception to what he said? He was only joking.
• I take great exception to the implication that I was not telling the truth.

Question 3

1. rozległość (np. wiedzy, zainteresowań)

2. szerokość, rozpiętość

Answer 3

breadth

• He escaped by a hair’s breadth
• The length of this box is twice its breadth.
• a swimming pool with a breadth of 10 metres and a length of 50 metres
• The breadth of her knowledge is amazing.
• Where will we find someone with her breadth of experience?

Question 4

a company that does most of its business on the internet

Answer 4

dotcom

Question 5

gromadzić

Answer 5

to amass

-In the course of his long life in business George G. Matthews amassed a substantial fortune.

Question 6

to formally praise someone or something:

Answer 6

to commend

• The judge commended her for/on her bravery.
  For a low-budget film, it has much to commend it (= it deserves praise).
• Not many people are good at assessing their own abilities and Mark must be commended for recognising that he would never become a great musician.

Question 7

klin

Answer 7

wedge

Question 8

1. having lost your job because your employer no longer needs you:
2. (especially of a word, phrase, etc.) unnecessary because it is more than is needed:

Answer 8

redundant

• Serena is still blissfully ignorant of the fact that she is about to be made redundant.
• New technology often makes old skills and even whole communities redundant.
• In the sentence “She is a single unmarried woman”, the word “unmarried” is redundant.

Question 9

1.an event, or the 2. rate at which something happens:

częstość, częstotliwość, zasięg (występowania)

Answer 9

incidence

• There have been quite a few incidences of bullying in the school this year.
• an increased incidence of cancer near nuclear power stations
• Do you have any figures showing the incidence of left-handedness is in the general population?

Question 10

koniec, rezultat, wynik, skutkek

Answer 10

upshot

• The _______ of things was that he was sacked from a job that he had held for over twenty years.
• The upshot of the discussions is that there will be no layoffs.