The Sweet Smell of Purple

Synaesthesia synaesthetic (n + v) synaesthete (n)

Come in sight You must be psychic czytasz w moich mylach

Come into view Extra-sensory perception zdolnoci pozazmysowe
A keen sense of smell dobrze rozwinity zmys I feel it in my bones czuj to przez skr/mam
powonienia wraenie
Sensation odczucie Telepathic telepatyczny/osoba o zdolnociach
Feeling uczucie telepatycznych
Hearing must be good/poor Intuition intuicja, przeczucie
(after-)taste posmak Instinct instynkt, wrodzona zdolno (for sth/to do
Palate podniebienie sth)
psychic osoba majca podnaturalne zdolnoci

SENSIBLE able to make good judgements based on reason and experience; practical (rozsdny); SENSIBILITY
sensible person/decision/precaution(zabezpieczenie)/answer
I think the sensible (reasonable) thing to do would be to stop now and get a good nights sleep.
SENSITIVE easily upset, offended or annoyed, especially about a particular subject; SENSITIVITY
She is very sensitive on the subject of divorce, so be careful what you say.
SENSATIONAL causing, or trying to cause, a feeling of great excitement, surprise or interest among people;
SENSATION, SENSATIONALISM
sensational event/murder/story/victory/discrace
Ben Johnsons win in the 100 meters in Seoul was a sensational victory, which quickly became an
equally sensational disgrace when it was discovered he had used steroids.
SENSUAL connected with physical or sexual pleasure (zmysowy); SENSUALITY
The cashier at the bank has incredibly sensual hands.
SENSUOUS giving pleasure to the mind or body through the senses (zmysowy), SENSUOUSNESS
She luxuriated in the sensuous feel of the silk sheets.
SENSELESS having no meaning or purpose (bezsensowny); SENSELESSNESS
Its senseless (pointless) trying to argue with him; he never listens to a word what you say.
He was beaten senseless (do nieprzytomnoci)
SENSORY Involving biological senses

a sense of sight/hearing/smell/taste/touch/sixth sense a sense of responsibility/discipline/duty

a sense of optimism/confidence/well-being a sense of accomplishment/pride/achievement
a sense of foreboding (ze przeczucie)/unease/panic a sense of guilt
SENSE a sense of identity/belonging/community a sense of humour
to sense danger (wyczu niebezpieczestwo) to lose ones senses
convey, create, develop, experience, feel, share accepted, broad, fullest, narrow, strict, truest,
wide

to come to the tentative conclusion not being certain (tentatywny, wzgldny)

FLASH a thunderstorm (byska/wieci/miga); sight

CLATTER clearing away cups and saucers, bottles (pobrzkiwa); hearing
GLINT mountain stream in the moonlight; sparkle (byska/skrzy si/iskrzy si); sight
STENCH a fire burning of burning rubber; a smoking compartment in a train after sb gets off; classroom
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THUMP dropping tools on a marble floor; people dancing in the room above you (upa z hukiem/guchy
odgos); hearing
RUSTLE trees in a breeze; a librarian tidying papers in a quiet library (szeleci); hearing
ROAR racing car accelerating; passing through a small town on a fast train (ryk samochodu); hearing
GLIMPSE passing through a small town on a fast train (for a short time); a getaway car driving off and the face of
the thief (mignicie); sight
SNIFF a dog trying to find drugs; wine-tasting (pocignicie nosem/obwchiwa); smell
PEAL church bells; a thunderstorm (bicie/dzwonienie)peal out rozdzwoni si; hearing

SOUR taste unripe fruit (cierpki), milk (kwany, zsiady)

MUSTY smell the air, old books, clothes (stchlizna)
FRAGRANT smell flowers, herbs (pachncy, aromatyczny); fragrant memories (urocze wspomnienia)
BOOMING hearing voice (loud and deep) (gromki, grzmicy)
FLUFFY touch teddy bear, snow, clouds, kitten (puszysty, puchaty, mechaty)
CUDDLY touch toys (przytulanki) (milutki, miciutki)
FUZZY sight image (rozmazany, niewyrany); blurry
RANCID taste butter (zjeczay)
MOULD taste cheese (pleniowy)
PUNGENT smell (very intense) herbs garlic, onion, coffee (ostry, gryzcy)
SQUEAKY hearing voice, room (piskliwy)
DRAB sight grey, unpleasant looking (bury, bezbarwny, szary, ponury)

a. Earthquakes here are rare and this has lulled people into a false sense of security. (upi czyj czujno)

b. You cant take the children out sailing in this weather! Have you completely taken leave of your senses?
(postrada zmysy)

c. He finally came to his senses and gave up his plans to quit his job and become an artist. (opamita si)

d. The shock of the deal falling through brought her to her senses and made her realize how serious the situation
was. (otworzy komu oczy; come becomes brought in passive voice)

e. My best friend talked some sense into me, and I was able to smooth things over with my mom. (przemwi do
rozsdku)

f. I hope that a couple of years in the army will knock some sense into him. (teach him a lesson; nauczy rozumu)

1. They live in woods and rocky places, and spend most of their time in trees, although descending to the ground
in quest of prey = in search of w poszukiwaniu czego

2. This economic proposal seems to accommodate the interest of senior citizens = satisfy zadowoli, uwzgldni
(multiple meaning)

3. Nearly one home in ten across the country is wired up to receive TV via cable = connected podczony do

4. He was drunk maybe not staggering drunk, but drunk enough to impair his judgement = weakened wpyn
niekorzystnie na

5. This inhabitants, who retain many quaint and archaic peculiarities of manner and dress, speak the variety of
Dutch known as Low Frankish = peculiar - osobliwy

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 6. The fact that aircraft dont fall out of the sky always seems to me to defy the law of gravity = challenge

7. The soldier jabbed a rifle into his ribs = poke roughly or quickly dgn

8. The salience of these facts was questioned by several speakers = relevancy, importance wano

9. The company recently unveiled a test version of its new search engine = disclose odson

10. The excitement of starting a new job is always mingled with a certain apprehension = mixed up zmieszny z
czym

BEGET sth produces more of sth (zrodzi, spowodowa)

BRING ABOUT to make something happen, especially to cause changes in a situation
ENGENDER to cause a feeling or attitude to exist (by rdem, zrodzi)
GENERATE to make a lot of people express feelings or opinions about something
INDUCE to cause something, especially a mental or physical change; medical conditions
BREED to make negative feelings or situations develop; sometimes used for saying that something
good develops
SPAWN if one thing spawns something else, it creates it

1a. Hunger begets crime.

1a. Violence begets more violence.
1a. Killings begets more killings.

1b. Hatred engenders violence. (formal)

not: 2b. These social changes were engendered by the war. (formal)
beget 3b. This policy has engendered a lot of controversy. (formal) generate

1c. Pills for seasickness often induce drowsiness.

2c. Patients with eating disorders may use drugs to induce vomiting.
3c. That medicine will induce sleep.

1d. Her latest film has generated a lot of interest/excitement/controversy.

2d. Selling food will increase the clubs ability to generate revenue/income.
3d. Millions of pounds are generated for the arts by the national lottery.

1e. His sudden disappearance spawns many rumours.

2e. Their idea spawned a lot of controversy (controversy -> spawn, generate, engender).
3e. The long lasting tyranny has finally spawn a rebellion/revolt.

1f. The politicians speech brought about a change in public opinion. (informal)
2f. Major spending is required to bring about substantial improvements in housing. (informal)
3f. The new government is expected to bring about a good number of administrative reforms. (informal)

1g. Poor living conditions breed violence and despair.

2g. Favouritism breeds often resentment and breeds success arrogance.
3g. Dirt breeds disease, stagnant water breeds mosquitoes (=the number grows)
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to have a hand in be involved in, be actively engaged in, take part in, partake in sth, participate

HAND(S) to keep sth at hand, hold, press, squeeze, touch, shake, wave, clap, lift, raise, clench, rub, wring,
shake, tremble, fold arms

HAND multiple meaning

(help) need a hand, give a hand, lend a hand, to give a helping hand
hand someone who does physical work
give sb a big hand show that you liked sbs performance by clapping
play your hand (=use your advantages): Everything depends on how the company plays its hand.
(close/near) at hand (pod rk)
by hand using your hands rather than machine
first/second/third hand if you experience something first hand, you experience it yourself. If you
experience something second hand or third hand, someone else tells you about it (informacja z
pierwszej...rki)
get/lay your hands on sth to manage to obtain something: I couldnt lay my hands on a copy of the
book. (znajdowa, dosta co/kogo w swoje rce)
go hand in hand happen or exist together (w parze z czym, jednoczenie)
(be/work) hand in glove with if you work hand in glove with someone, you work very closely with them
(by nierozcznym z kim, wsppracowa)
hand over fist if you make or spend money hand over fist, you earn or spend a lot of it
have a hand in sth to help to make something happen
have sth/smn on your hands to have a person or a problem that you must deal with
have time on your hands to have more time available than you need
get out of hand not well controlled
win sth hands down win sth easily
turn your hand to sth to start doing something new, especially something that involves skill
have/hold/get/gain/take the upper hand control or an advantage over a person or situation

1. The demonstration was getting out of hand = cannot be controlled anymore (wymkn si spod kontroli)

2. Alice decided that she would take the matter in hand = to take control of sth (zapanowa nad czym,
opanowa co)

3. They ran, picking up whatever weapons came to hand = to become available (by pod rk)

4. John tried his hand in poetry = (also: at) to try doing something for the first time (sprbowa swoich si w
czym)

5. Larry is one of those man who can turn their hand to anything = a person could do it well, despite having no
experience of it (mie umiejtno wykonywania czego)

6. You should work at least part-time, just to keep your hand in = to do an activity from time to time so that you
do not forget how to do it or lose the skill (nie wyj z wprawy)

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 The man who heard his paintbox hiss

new-fangled (showing disapproval) used for describing things that you do not like because they are very
modern and complicated (nowomodny)

PAINTERLY with a style or appearance that reminds you of a painter or painting (malarski, artystyczny)
to have a painterly eye artystyczne oko, spojrzenie
PICTORIAL using picture, paintings: dictionary, music (obrazkowy)
PICTURESQUE pleasant to look at, charming, pretty: landscape, place (malowniczy)

The meaning of the prefix CROSS:

mixing of sth, mingling, mixture of qualities

through (from one side to another)

CROSS-CULTURAL (midzykulturowy) studies, relations, influences, experience, exchange, communication

CROSS-BORDER (transgraniczny, przygraniczny) services, trade, business
CROSS-COUNTRY race, road, contest, skiing, racing, concert tour / sports, contests, travelling

CROSSBREED mixing different breeds

From the experiments of Mendel and others, we now know that crossbred animals and
plants may present all the characters of one of their pure-bred parents.
CROSS-EXAMINE legal term (przesuchanie)
The witness was cross-examined for an hour.
CROSS-REFER cross-references; using references from different sources
It's a good idea to cross-reference the source.

CROSS-DRESSING the activity of wearing clothes designed for the opposite sex, especially for sexual pleasure
CROSSFIRE to be/get caught in the crossfire znale si pod presj;
angry words or actions between two people that may accidentally affect other people who
are not directly involved: Kids often get caught in the crossfire when parents are divorcing
to get caught in the crossfire of questions/criticism;
bullets coming from two different directions
CROSS-PURPOSES conflict of interests, have different expectations
CROSS-SECTION the inside of an object (przekrj)
a group that contains an example of all or most types of people or things

STUDIOUS spend a lot of time studying

hard-working, diligent, industrious (formal) assidious

ROBED clad, wearing, clothed, dressed

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a. winter/summer wardrobe a set of clothes meant to be worn during different seasons (garderoba)

b. basic necessities such as food and clothing, a change of clothing, light clothing, warm clothing, waterproof
clothing, sports clothing, clothing industry clothes that people wear collectively (odzie, ubranie)

c. dresses, suits and other garments; choosing a garment for my child, outer/upper garment a piece of clothing
(element odziey, cz garderoby)

d. business attire, appropriate attire for a wedding formal, specific outfit (strj)

e. a new outfit for a party, a vampire outfit for Halloween, a cowboy outfit (strj)

f. evening/casual/leisure wear, footwear, menswear in shops, parts of shops

TO FURTHER Develop, promote, expand, broaden

DISMISS verb, transitive: to refuse to regard/consider sth as necessary or true

AFFLICTION noun, countable/uncountable, formal: the cause of persistent pain or distress; great suffering

ACCOMPLISHED jobs, esp. artistic jobs, or ex. lawyer

successful, well-known, famous, skilful, talented, gifted (znakomity, utalentowany)

meaning of the FORTH:

soon to come, likely to happen soon (event/election/concert)

refers to people straightforward, direct, honest (bezporedni)

He was fined 40$, with 28 days imprisonment if the money was not produced forthwith.
Any official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith.

His forthright manner can be mistaken for rudeness.

Its sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offence.
a forthright comment/statement/apology

Despite his theories that the universe was in thrall to supernatural vibrations, auras and thought-forms, many
of which came from arcane, quasi-religious movements...

TO BE IN THRALL TO STH to control someone completely, or to have all of their attention (ulec, podda si
czemu)

ARCANE, QUASI-RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS mysterious, resembling religious movements

QUASI- partly; pretending to be
quasi-scientific, quasi-legal, quasi public, quasi-judicial

LIKENESS the quality of being similar to someone or something else; a picture, model etc of someone,
especially one that is thought to look just like them
Like, likeable (sympatyczny), likelihood,(un)likely, like-minded (having similar ideas and interests; o
podobnych zainteresowaniach), likewise

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SWIRLING a pattern or object formed by something moving in a circle
SWATCHES a large area of land

SONIC Sth that is connected to sound (dwikowy)

SONOROUS Refers to volume, voice (dwiczny), pleasant

HARMONIC (opp. disharmonic) pleasant to the ear

HARMONIOUS (opp. inharmonious) pleasant to the ear, relationship peaceful, no fighting, disagreements

GRAMMAR SPOT

1.

The man who heard his paintbox hiss. The man who heard his paintbox hissing.

The man whose paintbox was heard to hiss. The man whose paintbox was heard hissing.

2. Wassily Kandinsky is widely credited with making the worlds first truly abstract painting.

The worlds first truly abstract paintings are widely credited to Wassily Kandinsky.

credited with sth credited to sb

ascribed with sth ascribed to sb
attributed with sth attributed to sb

3. To have painted the largest work he ever made, Composition VII, in just three days, shows that this language
was quite internalised.

His having painted the largest work he ever made, (...)