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

Unit 71
 71.1
1 fourfold
2 expenditure
3 factor
4 drastic
5 revise
6 correlation
7 GDP / Gross Domestic Product
8 quadrupled
 71.2 
Suggested answers:
1 
There seems to be a discrepancy between the two reports of the accident.
2 Oil prices 
seesawed last year.
3 Monthly average temperatures 
have deviated from the norm this year.
4 The water levels didn’t 
fluctuate as much as we’d expected last year.
5 I don’t need to know all the individual figures – just give me the 
aggregate.
6 His moods 
are erratic – one minute he’s happy, the next he’s depressed.
 71.3
1 b
2 a
3 a
4 at least $1,000
5 55
6 the weather forecast, competing companies’ advertising campaigns
7 girls
8 b

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 71.4
verb
noun
adjective
deviate
deviation
deviant
discrepancy
discrepant
flaw
flaw
flawed
inconsistency
inconsistent
err
error
erratic
multiply
multiplication
multiple
Unit 72
 72.1
1 vetoed
2 condone / countenance
3 acquiesced
4 outlaw / ban
5 authorised / endorsed
6 barred / banned
7 accede
8 clamp down
 72.2
1 Alex parked his car outside the shop regardless of the No Parking sign.
2 The Minister said he would never accede 
to the union’s demands.
3 It’s time the police clamped down 
on cyclists going through red lights.
4 The President has assented 
to the latest world environment plan.
5 The Minister is likely to acquiesce