Week 11 vocabulary

"Distorted" means altered from the original form in a way that is clear and accurate.

• True

• False

The programme was deliberately slanted to make the home team look good. Slanted means

• biased

• buried

• proud

Democrats have been worried about being cast as the party of the poor. Cast means...

• suggest they are that thing

• drift away suddenly

• incorporate a new group

When people or animals creep somewhere, they move quietly and slowly.

• False

• True

"To Bury" means to ​ (a)   something with material such as sand or ​ (b)   so that it is completely ​ (c)   .

• cover
• snow
• enclosed

Why would someone flatter you?

• It means some information or feelings cause them to be known or understood by someone

• They praise you in an exaggerated way that is not sincere, because they want to persuade you to do something

Match the following

• Fluff information

• A person who has seen something happen, especially a crime or an accident

• Eyewitness

• to say or shout rude and insulting things to them

• To Jeer at someone

• Entertainment or writing perceived as trivial or superficial.

• To convey, reveal

• He also communicated his views and the views of the bureaucracy

I'd rather ​ (a)   a documentary ​ (b)   than this romantic ​ (c)   .​

• watch
• fluff
• film

‘Without ​ (a)   very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary ​ (b)   can be ​ (c)   ’ (Wilkins)

• nothing
• conveyed
• grammar

The report ​ (a)   the ​ (b)   to make it look more ​ (c)   to the party's views.

• slanted
• favourable
• data