12 OPTIMISE YOUR VOCABULARY | Higher B2

Easily-confused words 5 Sylvia honoured her promise and took me out

to dinner like she’d said.
1 Complete the sentences with the words in 
the box. There are two extra words you do 6 Greg was going to ask his boss for more money
not need. but he became afraid.
achieve | earn | effort | failed | famed 
infamous | job | lose | missed | work
Unit round-up
1 I’m looking for a part-time        to make
some money. 5 Choose the best answer (A, B or C) to
2 It took a huge        to finish all this work complete the text.
in time.
3 Joe never        a single day of school.
Inventive women
4 The story was about the life of a(n)       
Here are a few relatively (1)    women who have
killer.
contributed to our quality of life.
5 Oh no! I’ve        my exam!
Have you ever lost your (2)    because of a sink
6 Roald Dahl was a(n)        writer. full of washing up? How many arguments in the
7 The first thing Carla did when she left school home are (3)    off by the disagreement over
was to look for       . whose turn it is to wash the dishes? If you’ve got
8 Sue would do anything to        her an automatic dishwasher, you have Josephine
ambition. Cochrane to thank for this peaceful solution to
the problem.
2 Write sentences to show the meanings of Do you suffer from a lack of space? In 1885, Sarah
the words you did not use in Exercise 1. E. Goode (4)    in solving that problem when
 she invented a desk which could be turned into a
 bed. Just think how much more you could
(5)    if you never left your office!
Phrasal verbs On the road now – before 1903, if there was rain
or snow on your car windscreen, you would have
3 Match to make sentences. had to get out and (6)    it off – that was until
1 I think he’d look better if    Mary Anderson invented a method for doing this
2 When you log off, it means   
from inside the car. It was powered by hand until
Charlotte Bridgwood finished (7)    the design
3 The price rise sparked    by inventing an automatic windscreen wiper.
4 You’d better wipe the chocolate    Drivers in cold countries should also be grateful for
5 The town was cut    the (8)    of Margaret A. Wilcox, who designed
the first car heater.
a) off after the river flooded.
Around 1902, Elizabeth Magie devised a board
b) he shaved his moustache off. game called The Landlord’s Game. Initially, the
c) off an angry response from shoppers. game (9)    to capture the imagination of the
d) no-one else can access your files. public and sadly, when Magie sold the rights to
e) off your face before you go out!
the game to a company, it (10)    her just $500.
Later, the game was redesigned and renamed. The
new name? Monopoly – the fifth biggest-selling
Idioms with keep and lose board game of all time.
4 Replace the words in bold with the correct
form of an idiom with keep or lose. 1 A famed B infamous C unknown
1 Ben forgot about the time so he was late 2 A time B temper C nerve
meeting his friend.
3 A shaved B roped C sparked

4 A achieved B succeeded C managed
2 When Marcia told her dad about the money, he
5 A achieve B succeed C empower
got angry.
6 A cut B wipe C set

7 A off B over C on
3 Remember what you want to achieve in life.
8 A work B job C word

9 A failed B missed C lost
4 As long as you stay calm, you can win this match.
10 A succeeded B earned C achieved


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