English Vocabulary in Use: Advanced Book with Answers and Enhanced eBook Vocabulary Reference and Practice 3rd Edition

gossip about work when we go out together. 
[talk about people, rumours, etc.]
It took him a long time to realise they were 
winding him up. 
[
/ˈwaɪndɪŋ/
teasing, fooling him; 
informal
; 
noun = 
wind-up
, often used in phrase, a 
complete wind-up
]
I realised she was 
buttering me up. 
[saying nice things because she wanted something from me; negative]
Rick tends to 
exaggerate his problems, so don’t take him too literally. 
[make something seem greater 
than it really is; noun = 
exaggeration
]
Meg is inclined to 
generalise on the basis of her very limited experience. 
[make general statements 
about something; noun = 
generalisation
]
Speech and articulation problems
example
meaning
She speaks with a 
lisp.
She 
lisps: she says ‘thing’ instead of ‘sing’.
difficulty in making an ‘s’ sound and making a ‘th’ sound 
instead
He hates speaking in front of people because 
he’s got a really bad 
stammer. 
speak with abnormal pauses and repetitions
‘I want to t-t-t-tell you something,’ she 
stuttered 
nervously.
repeat sounds at the beginning of words
He was 
slurring his words because he had drunk 
far too much alcohol.
his words had a slow, lazy sound, difficult to understand
I want to tell her I love her, but I 
get tongue-tied. cannot say what I want to say because of nerves, i.e. 
emotional rather than physical problem affecting speech
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