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

fatalities 
[dead people]
, 
perished 
[died]
, 
slaughtered 
[violently killed]
legal words: 
the deceased 
[the dead person]
, 
to bequeath 
[to leave something in a will; noun = 
a 
bequest
]
, 
to inherit 
[to receive something from someone who has died; noun = 
an inheritance
]
, to die 
intestate 
[without having made a will]
A
B
C
Language
 
help
Expect 
when it means ‘expect a baby’ is only 
used in the continuous form, e.g. 
Helena and 
her sister are both 
expecting
 (NOT expect).

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Exercises
37
English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
Complete these sentences with words from A opposite.
1 If Liz doesn’t 
soon, she’s going to ask her doctor for a fertility test.
2 Karen went into 
at midnight and gave 
only four hours later.
3 Did Amy have a natural 
or a 
section?
4 The 
provides the baby growing in the mother’s 
with all the food it 
needs.
5 The first test 
baby was born in 1978.
6 As well as helping with the birth, a trained 
usually visits the mother before and aft er 
the birth to check that everything is going well.
7 Laila’s 
a baby – it’s due in the middle of October.
8 During the nine months of 
, the baby developing inside the mother is oft en referred 
to as a 
.
Correct these sentences, which use the vocabulary in B and C.
1 The whole country is in morning aft er the President’s death.
2 I’d like my dust scattered in my favourite forest.
3 My extinct grandfather was a shepherd all his life.
4 I’m afraid her elderly step-mother has just passed off .
5 My car is on its last leg.
6 My father inherited me his gold watch in his will.
7 Mrs Wilson seems to have been at death’s window for years.
8 Over 2,000 people were perished in the earthquake.
9 It was amazing there were no fertilities when the bridge collapsed.
10 My aunt left me a request of £500 in her will.