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

 95.2
1 going
2 dwell
3 press
4 stay
5 caught
6 urge
 95.3
1 Do you think the company will have to lay any staff 
off?
2 I learnt Spanish at school but need to brush it 
up before I go to Spain.
3 Correct
4 If you rush 
into a decision, you may regret it later.
5 We’ll have to call 
off tomorrow’s picnic if the weather is bad.
6 The family soon settled 
in to their new flat in the city.
7 I love the way Katie always throws herself 
into everything she does.
8 Correct

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 95.4 
These verbs can have the particle before or after the object:
to brush up a skill – brush a skill up
to put together a report – put a report together
to lay off staff – lay staff off
to call off a meeting – call a meeting off
to put a plan forward – put forward a plan
 95.5
1 abolish
2 start to work
3 waste time
4 occur
5 delay
6 criticise
7 explode
8 not tell
Unit 96
 96.1
1 No, you wouldn’t.
2 a peacemaker
3 a factory chimney
4 Yes, it’s a compliment.
5 No, you wouldn’t.
6 Yes, as it’s a symbol of good luck.
7 faithfulness
8 No, you wouldn’t. Although super suggests something extra good, shark has a negative meaning in 
a business context.
 96.2
1 c
2 d (also associated with growth, fertility)
3 f (also associated with cheerfulness)
4 e (also associated with fierceness)
5 a (also associated with birth)
6 b (also associated with death, nothingness)
Note that these are not the only associations which these colours have. Blue, green and red, for 
instance, can also be used to refer to different political parties.
 96.3
1 No. If you say someone has a dog’s life, you think they have a difficult life.
2 No. If you call a businessman a snake, you don’t trust him.
3 No. If you say someone’s hair is mousy, you mean it is light brown and not especially striking or 
attractive.
4 Correct.
5 No. If you say someone can be catty, you mean they tend to say unkind things about people.
6 Correct.
7 No. If you call someone a sheep, you mean they just follow others and are not independent at all.
8 No. If you say that someone is hawk-eyed, you mean that they have very sharp eyes.
 96.4 
Possible answers:
(but you may have some better ones!)
Colours
Purple is often the colour of royal robes (and was the colour of the most important Romans’ togas, 
because it was made from an expensive dye).
Green is the colour of new growth and this may suggest inexperience.
Yellow might be seen as the colour white people’s skin goes when they are afraid.
Red is the colour of fire, so may suggest danger.
White is the absence of colour, which suggests purity, a blank sheet.
Black is dark, and seems to suggest things that are hidden and frightening, hence evil.

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Animals
‘A dog’s life’ may come from the idea that a dog is totally under the thumb of its master.
A snake is a creature that many people are afraid of. They know that snakes can be dangerous.
A mouse is usually light brown or grey in colour and it is not generally a popular animal, so it is not 
surprising that ‘mousy’ has negative and dull associations as a hair colour.
Rats generally have very unpleasant associations for most English speakers, so it is not surprising 
that rattiness is a negative quality.
Cats have sharp claws which can scratch and hurt people.
Fish can have a rather unpleasant smell, one that can hang around for a long time, so this may 
suggest something suspicious, i.e. what is causing that unpleasant smell?
Sheep tend to follow one another rather than all acting in an independent way.
As a bird of prey, the hawk needs very sharp eyes.