All of these words appear in unit 1.

Make sure that you know how to pronounce them correctly.

1. Consult a good dictionary (copy a word and paste it into a search box in an online dictionary).
2. Listen to the preferred pronunciation (British / American / Australian). Remember to be
consistent with it.
3. Pay attention to the word stress in each of the words.

This list is by no means finite, but I’ve chosen the words which are commonly mispronounced

1. advantageous 30. minimalist (style of writing)

2. amateur 31. mischievous
3. anachronism 32. monstrous
4. anarchy / anarchical 33. negligible (damage)
5. armoured 34. occurred (to me)
6. authority 35. parliamentary (debate)
7. bomb 36. posture
8. cleanse / cleansing 37. pleasing
9. colleague 38. privacy
10. conceivable 39. profund (words)
11. corporate 40. rivalry
12. development 41. scowling
13. emphasise / emphasis / emphatic / 42. seething (with anger)
emphatically 43. sociological
14. ferocious (pace of growth) 44. strenuous (climb)
15. figures 45. subsidised (by the government)
16. fungal (expansion) 46. subtleties (of the language)
17. gigantic (network) 47. technique
18. grimace 48. technologies
19. growling 49. technophobe
20. inaugurated 50. tedious (calculations)
21. indestructible 51. thoroughly (planned)
22. industrialisation 52. thriving (business)
23. inferior / inferiority 53. torturous (day)
24. informative (report) 54. tough (competition)
25. interpreted 55. traumatic (experience)
26. launch (a campaign) 56. unanswered (call)
27. long-winded (speech) 57. undoubtedly (true)
28. lounge suit 58. versatile
29. mere