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

Unit 36
 36.1
noun – person
noun –abstract
verb
adjective
adherent
adherence
adhere
convert*
conversion
convert*
converted
radical
radicalism
radicalise
radical
reactionary
reaction
reactionary
fanatic
fanaticism
fanatical
* Note the change in stress.
 36.2
1 seek
2 derive from
3 eradicate
4 proponents
5 campaigned
6 tenet
7 civil disobedience

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 36.3
1 implausible
2 credible
3 benefit
4 subjective
5 presumed
6 salt
7 point of view
8 attributed
 36.4
1 eradicate
2 converts
3 justified
4 subjective
5 adherents
6 attribute
7 objective
8 resistance
9 pinch
Unit 37
 37.1
1 For Christians, Christmas 
celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ.
2 The 
festivities included parades, sports and musical gatherings.
3 There was a 
celebratory feeling about the whole weekend.
4 For people who live in the country, the spring festival 
is a renewal of the fertility of the land.
5 There was 
a ceremonial atmosphere as the military bands paraded around the main square.
6 People were 
in a festive mood when the harvest was successfully completed and a huge feast 
was held in the village.
7 You should go and see the lantern festival. It’s always 
a spectacle.
8 The festival 
always falls on the first Monday in July. It commemorates a famous battle.
9 It was the 
centenary of the founding of the university and the bi-centenary of the city itself.
10 The gymnastic display involving 300 children was 
really spectacular.
 37.2 
Well, it was called the Festival of Flowers, and it was 
associated with the coming of spring, after 
the 
sombre winter months. It was a time of renewal. Its origin can be traced back to the religious 
tradition of taking flowers to offer them to the gods. Spring flowers were the main 
focus of the 
festival, and there was always a big 
parade through the streets. It was all very lively and flamboyant 
and probably rather 
raucous, and it was very atmospheric. The flowers symbolised new life, and 
people thought they would be guaranteed a good harvest later in the year if they were offered to the 
gods. Nowadays, most people 
are not (so) superstitious, but there are still some pagan festivals 
celebrated every year.
Unit 38
 38.1 
Suggested answers:
1 The 
orthography of Burmese / Burmese orthography is quite difficult for a foreign learner.
2 Japanese uses several different writing systems, with hundreds of 
characters.
3 The 
lexicon of a language like English is constantly changing. 
4 Unlike English, some world languages have very few vowel 
phonemes and no diphthongs.
5 This ancient and beautiful alphabet uses 
pictograms to express meaning.
6 
Modality is expressed in different forms in different languages.

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 38.2 
Stressed syllables are shown in bold
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