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

Over to 
you
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Name three things that you loathe doing.
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Are there any ideas that you find abhorrent? Why?
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Have you ever felt an instant antipathy to someone?
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Do you have a pet aversion? If so, what is it?
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English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
Birth and death: from cradle to grave
15
At the beginning
Pregnancy
1
is the nine-month period when a woman is expecting a baby. It begins with 
conception
2
, when the mother’s egg is 
fertilised
3
and an 
embryo
4
implants
5
in the mother’s 
womb, or uterus
6
. Most mothers 
conceive
7
naturally but some are helped by 
fertility drugs
8
or 
other procedures such as 
IVF
9
. As the 
foetus
10
grows, it is fed through the mother’s 
placenta
11
. 
After 40 weeks, the mother usually 
goes into labour
12
. If this doesn’t happen naturally, she may 
be induced
13
. Usually, a mother is helped to 
give birth
14
by a 
midwife
15
. Sometimes a surgeon 
is needed to 
deliver
16
the baby by 
caesarean section
17
.
1
(adj. = 
pregnant)
2
time when sperm and egg meet and a baby starts to form
3
made to start developing 
into new life
4
developing baby
5
fixes itself
6
organ inside the mother where the fertilised egg develops 
into a baby; uterus is a more medical word than womb
7
become pregnant
8
drugs that help a woman 
to become pregnant
9