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

accord between the government and the unions is in danger of collapsing / 
collapse.
4 The generals 
signed the armistice at midday on 25 February 1996.
Unit 75
 75.1
1 fish
2 singing
3 paying
4 to
5 take, as
6 shower / heap
7 widely / highly
8 damning
 75.2 
1 d 2 a 3 e 4 f 5 b 6 c
 75.3 
Suggested answers:
1 He’s always 
flattering the boss. (neutral)
He’s always 
licking the boss’s boots. (informal)
He’s always 
making up to the boss. (informal)
He’s always 
crawling to the boss. (informal)
2 I wish she wasn’t so 
slimy. (informal)
I wish she wasn’t 
such a crawler. (informal)
I wish she wasn’t so 
servile. (formal)
I wish she wasn’t so 
obsequious. (formal)
 75.4
verb
noun
adjective
compliment
compliment
complimentary
praise
praise
praiseworthy
laud
laudable, laudatory
flatter
flattery, flatterer
flattering
crawl
crawler
crawling
smarm
smarmy
 75.5
1 complimentary
2 flatterer
3 crawl
4 laudable / praiseworthy (laudable is a little more formal)
5 Flattery
6 laud / praise (laud is a little more formal)
Unit 76
 76.1
1 B
2 B (
swore
, possibly because of its close associations with taboo language, sounds much less formal 
than 
vowed
)
3 A
4 B (because 
New Year’s resolutions
is the standard phrase and such resolutions are perhaps best 
known for being quickly broken, 
vow
sounds much more formal)

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 76.2
1 promised
2 oath
3 best
4 flutter
5 back
6 life
 76.3 
Suggested answers:
1 
Your best bet would be to stay overnight in a hotel near the airport.
2 My father 
swears by these herbal teas.
3 John’s been rather lazy with his homework, but he has promised to 
turn over a new leaf next year.
4 I
 could have sworn I locked the door when I went out.
5 The writer’s new play 
promises to be as good as his last one.
6 
I’d put money on the Democratic Party winning the next election.
7 Do you ever 
have a flutter on the national lottery?
8 Her mother disliked the film because it contained 
so many swear words 
/
 so much swearing.
9 
I
/
We anticipate that the documentary will be controversial.
10 I 
hedged my bets by buying shares in both of the companies that had a serious chance of winning 
the contract.
 76.4 
Suggested answers:
•
Swift is making the point that many people don’t take promises seriously. His point is effective 
because of the comparison of a solemn thing like a promise with such an everyday thing as a 
piecrust, which is of course intended to be broken; it has to be broken for the pie to be eaten.
•
Most people probably do agree with Twain that making someone promise not to do something 
may often serve to put the idea of doing it actually into their head!
Unit 77
 77.1
1 Looking / Thinking 
7 out, touch
2 stands / sticks, out 
8 nostalgia
3 became 
9 came
4 anything of 
10 tinted / coloured
5 look / think, back 11 vague
6 reminisce 
12 recall