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

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English Vocabulary in Use Advanced
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1 g Dracula was a blood-drinking vampire in a famous 19th-century novel of the same name, who 
comes to Whitby in north-east England from Transylvania. ‘Bad blood’ is also an expression used 
to mean bad feelings between people. There will probably be bad blood between the vicar of 
Whitby and the people who are making a profit from the Dracula connections of the town.
2 e School days are often referred to as the ‘happiest days of your life’.
3 b ‘Shell-shocked’ means traumatised or in a state of great shock. It describes how soldiers in 
the trenches in World War I felt after they had been subjected to shells or bombs for a long time. 
Terrapins and tortoises have shells and they would certainly be shocked (in the medical sense) by 
falling from such a height.
4 a Dentists make impressions of teeth and ‘false impressions’ is a common collocation used to 
mean incorrect impressions created by a person.
5 d This is meant to recall the phrase ‘happy hunting’. ‘Haunting’, however, is what a ghost does. An 
‘apparition’ is a kind of ghost.
6 h ‘Hopping mad’ is a collocation meaning extremely cross. It is appropriate here as toads and frogs 
hop along the ground. Hopping mad is also no doubt how the police felt when they discovered 
they had been called out by a toad.
7 f Toilets ‘flush’ [water passes through them]. ‘Flushed’ also means to be red in the face. It 
collocates strongly with the phrase ‘with success’; the people who have sold the toilet for such a 
large sum of money are likely to feel successful.
8 i ‘Highly embarrassed’ means extremely embarrassed. It is doubly appropriate here as the man 
is so high up the tree that he has to be rescued by the fire brigade – certainly an embarrassing 
situation.
9 c Sheepdogs ‘round up’ sheep. They are a kind of dog and it is suggested that they should round 
up the children.