Gold Experience B2 unit 4 vocabulary from the reading

bad luck, or an unlucky event or accident

• mishap

• concern

• issue

• dam

Match the following

• someone who lives or stays in a particular place (only for people)

• resident

• one of the people who live in a particular place (both for animals and people)

• pedestrian

• people who are walking, especially along a street or other place used by car

• inhabitant

adj.: a place that is pretty and interesting in an old-fashioned way

Match the following verbs to their definitions

• to include something as part of something larger

• commute

• to make the same journey regularly between work and home

• sprawl

• to cover a large area of land with buildings, especially gradually over a period of time

• incorporate

• to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own

• prevent

• to stop something from happening or someone from doing something

• boast

kept in a good condition

• man-made

• subterranean

• well-preserved

• defaced

adverb: in a way that is certainly true

noun: something that makes a place comfortable or easy to live in

Match the following

• becoming worse

• imposing

• large, impressive and appearing important

• defaced

• the part of a town that  consists of private houses, with no offices or factories

• residential

• damaged on a surface

• thriving

• growing, developing, or being successful

• deteriorating