ACCURATE VOCABULARY

ACCESIBLE (be accessible to): "... should be accessible to girls from an early age".
ACCURATE: "less/more accurate in recognising concrete objects".
ADAPT (adapt for): "We might adapt this proverb for the 16.000 Km Beijin to Paris car
rally".
ADDED: "... with the added precaution of putting ..."
ADJUST (related to size): "Smart shoes that adjust their size throughout the day could
be soon available".
ADMIT : "They don't just admit defeat immediately".
ADVICE: "That is the advice from a friend."
AHEAD (ahead of): "just a few metres ahead of the only car to complete the race".
AIM (aim to): "Our aim is to have a good time".
ALONE: "Few civilians had so much as set food on Egypt, let alone travelled along this
waterway through history"
ALTERING: "... altering the nature of travel forever".
APPROACH (approach of): "approach of communication".
ATTEMPT: "few attempts have been made to investigate the phenomenon scientifically".
ATTENDT: "... and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves".
Attract (attention): "One of these attract a great deal of attention and won an Academy
Award".
AVERAGE (similar to general): "The volume of the average foot can change by as much
as 8%".
BEYOND: "Many people had never ventured beyond the outskirts".
BREAKTHROUGH1: "Gucci's models included also a remarkable breakthrough in the
history of shoe-makers".
BUILT (built up): "Built up a picture of the size", "built up a map", ...
CAPTURE: with a Polaroid, ex: "Taking a photo to capture the moment".
CARRY OUT: "trials carried out worldwide".
CAUSE (cause an illness): "To cause blisters".
CHARACTERISE: "The early humanoids traditionally characterised as ape-like brutes were
deeply emotional beings with high-pitched voices".
CHEATING: "in case there was some cheating going on with the children telling each other
...".
CHECK: "The shoe contains sensors that constantly checks the amount of room".
COME ABOUT: "how the staring effect might actually come about".
COMPARE: COMPARED WITH (ex: "... objects they had photographed compared with
those they only looked at".
CONSIDERABLE: "Considerable luxury".
CONSUMER (consumer goods): "The system couldn't be adapted for use in hundreds of
consumer goods".
CONVINCING: "results are convincing enough to find out..."
CORRECTLY: "The children correctly sensed when they were being watched".
COUNT: Count, counting on something (expression), ex: "Counting on the camera to
record the event".
COURSE (course of ): "The course of history", "the course of the day"
COVERED: "They sat with their eyes covered"; covering a distance (ex: "She flew from
South Africa to Egypt, covering 9.000 miles in three months").
CUT: "Her life was cut tragically"; CUTTING: "... cutting previous journey times by huge
margins".
DAMAGING: Something may be causing a damage, ex: "Drugs are damaging our ability to
remember the past".
DAY: " The great steam locomotives than thundered across the land were the jet airliners
of their day".

1 Un hito (en la historia, sociedad, noticias, en el mundo de la moda, el arte, etc).

DESIRABLE: "Desirable places to spend time between journeys".

Devoted: "At one point in his career, Seuss temporarily gave up writing for children and
devoted his talents to making documentary films"".
DID: (or do more than)."But the railways did more than revolutionise travel".
DISTINGUISH: distinguish from ("The creature that emerges would have distinguished
markedly from humans").
DREAM (an impossible dream): "...is likely to prove an impossible dream".
element (introduce an element of): "... and Horton Hatches the Egg introduces an
element of morality".
ENCIRCLE: "... almost enough rail track to encircle the world covered this small island".
END (end up): "Even girls who end up nowhere near a...".
EVEN: "They may even have sung to each other".
EXPAND: "A tiny valve opens and the shoe expands slightly".
FIGURE: "This figure ( related to a fact: the railway in Britain) has grown to more than
5.000 miles".
FINISHING (the finishing line): "The Italian adventurer crosses the finishing line just a
few metres".
FIT (fit exactly): "These shoes always fit exactly".
FOLLOWED: "Wherever railways were introduced, economic and social progress quickly
followed".
FOREMOST: "Britain's foremost female engineers and scientists".
FORERUNNER: a pioneer (ex:"The forerunner of the modern holiday brochure").
GENUINE: "A genuine sixth sense"
GO: go back (ex: "... a vanished civilization going back thousands of years").
GOLDEN: Golden age of (ex: "The golden age of aviation"), golden years of.
GRASP (a grasp of): "... could benefit from a better grasp of science and technology".
GREATER: "Greater freedom and enlightenment".
HAILED: "The actress was hailed as the nation's sweetheart",
HEIGHT: At the height of (ex: "At the height of her fame, the actress made a new film").
Highly (highly successful): "How the Grinch stole Christmas, was also made into an
ingenuous and highly successful feature film starring Jim Carrey".
HIT: Hit on an idea of +ing (ex: "Then he hit on the idea of using the newly- invented
railway for pleasure trips").
IMPACT: To cause a positive/negative impact on something.
INSPIRED: inspire to (ex: "The Paris Exhibition of 1855 inspired him to create his first
tour, taking in France, Belgium and Germany").
INVOLVED: "The study involved hundreds of children"
JOURNEY: "Every journey begins with a single steps" (saying).
JUDGED (judge by): "previously judged by most researchers".
Lead (to): "The enthusiastic reception of this book delighted Seuss and led him to found
Beginner Books, a publishing company specialising in easy-to-read books for children"
LED: "A group of university students were led on a tour".
LEFT (leave a mark): "They also left a distinctive and permanent mark".
LOCATED (located inside, outside): "It's located inside the shoe".
Look upon: "Many critics look upon it as Seuss' best work".
MAKE (make something): "If twenty-five cars make it to Paris, we'll be doing well"; make
a parachute-jump;
mark: "A late book, McElligot's Pool, marks the first appearance of Seuss' famous fantasy
characters".
MATTER (be a matter of): "It's a matter of giving them experience and confidence with
technology".
MEET (synonym of to find up): "This radical shoe meets a need because the...".
OCCUPY: "The Neanderthals occupied Europe between 200.000 and 35.000 years ago".
OPTION (option at): "options at university this year".
OUT (carry out): "Research recently carried out suggests that scientific and
constructional toys".
PASSES (passes of): "The high mountain passes of the Himalayas".

PLACE (find a place): "This system will find a place in other household items"; (take
place): "The first Beijing-Paris car rally took place in 1907".
PRECISELY: "enough to find out through further experiments precisely how the staring
effect might actually come about"
PRESENTED (be presented with): "They are presented with a situation requiring some
know-how".
PREVENTED: "This prevented the possibility of..."
process (in the process): "A cat wearing a tall hat arrives to entertain them, wrecking
their house in the process".
Put (put an object together to something): "During a long sea voyage in 1936, Seuss
amused himself by putting together a nonsense poem to the rhythm of the ship's engine".
Quite (Quite by chance): "Theodor Seuss, better known as Doctor "Seuss", began
writing for children quite by chance".
RATE (a high drop-out rate):"Everybody is prepared for the worst and expects a high
drop-out rate".
REACH: " within the reach of ordinary people".
reception (of): "The enthusiastic reception of this book delighted Seuss and led him to
found Beginner Books, a publishing company specialising in easy-to-read books for
children".
REGARDED (regarded as): "At the time, his achievement was regarded as comparable
to Marco Polo".
RELATE (relate with): "Mithen's work relates with the first detailed study of ...").
REPRESENTED: "The railway in Britain represented something more than just the
business of...".
RESULT (resulted from): "This new image has resulted from two studies".
RIGHT: "Right in front of..." (expression).
ROLES (noun + roles): "... otherwise the result is socialisation into stereotypically female
roles".
ROOM (there is enough-no- room): "The amount of room left in it".
ROUGH (rough roads): "Rough roads and high altitude are a..."
RULES (according to the rules): "According to the rules..." ,
SAME: be "never the same again" (expression).
SAY: Sth could be said to... (ex:"Thomas Cook could be said to have invented the global
tourist industry").
SCHEME: "Neanderthals seem to have an extremely powerful scheme and no waist".
SENSE (a sense of...): "A sense of adventure is essential"
SEPARATED: "separated from the starers by the windows".
SET (set out): "From China, several hundred courageous men and women will set out for
Paris".
SEVERE (adj): "A severe test of both the cars and the drivers".
SHAPED (shaped by): "Careers shaped by the toys they played".
SPRANG (spring up): "Whole towns and industrial centres sprang up2 around major rail
junction".
STAGE (order number + stage): "First stage".
STAND (stand in good stead): "The expertise he has gained from this stood him in good
stead when it came to organising a fantastic journey along the Nile in 1869".
SUFFER: Suffer and accident.
TELL: "able to tell when they were being stared at".
Temporarily: "At one point in his career, Seuss temporarily gave up writing for children
and devoted his talents to making documentary films"".
TO (when it comes to" 3 + object): "When it comes to technology /having a nice day/
etc.

2 Spring up: levantarse, surgir, saltar como un resorte o muelle de repente.

3 When it comes to: cuando se trata de... (expresin).

TOTAL: "In a total of more than 18.000 trials..."

TRANSMITTED: ""sound been transmitted between the children".
TURN (with a turn of): "Every rally begins with a turn of a wheel".
USE (first use): "That's why the first use for the system is likely to be in a sport shoe".
VERSION: "A commercial version may be in production".
WORLD: the world of fashion, music, arts... (ex: "Cook organised the first conducted world
tour and the world of travel has not been the same since").