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

Match up the words to make compound nouns.
1 bullet 
6 quotation 
a marks 
f commas
2 type 
7 block 
b typing 
g case
3 inverted 
8 lower 
c point 
h brackets
4 square 
9 touch 
d heading 
i face
5 font 
10 chapter 
e capitals 
j size
Fill the gaps in these sentences with a word from the opposite page.
1 It’s better to be more formal when you write an academic essay and not use such a 
style.
2 I think you should 
your CV differently if you want it to look good when it’s printed 
out.
3 She works in the museum, conserving ancient 
.
4 Dima got into trouble with the teacher because his essay was a cut-and- 
job straight 
from the internet.
5 You waste so much time typing with just two fingers – you really should learn to 
.
6 I’ll 
a letter of complaint to the restaurant, but I’d like you to check it before I finalise 
it.
7 Mrs Ward taught the children to 
the first line of each paragraph when they wrote 
stories.
8 My PhD thesis was called 
Socialisation through children’s literature
and its 
was 
The 
Soviet example
.
81.1
81.2
81.3
81.4
1 
title
2 
subtitle
3 
chapter heading
4 
sub-heading (within a chapter)

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Whatchamacallit: being indirect
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Vague and general words
In informal speech, we make frequent use of rather vague words and words with many different or 
rather general meanings, like 
thing or get. 
That’s 
one of the things I want to talk to him about. 
[thing = subject]
Laura