CAE MAIN TIPS ANSWERS AND QUESTIONS SET A+
✔✔to cope with - ✔✔manage/deal with
✔✔to bump into someone - ✔✔meet unexpectedly
✔✔to trigger / spark off - ✔✔to cause (a reaction)
✔✔thin on the ground - ✔✔rare, scarce
✔✔cancel out
make up for - ✔✔compensate for (2)
✔✔throw away - ✔✔dispose of
✔✔use up - ✔✔consume
✔✔wipe out - ✔✔remove completely permanently
✔✔give rise to - ✔✔start
✔✔famine
drought
flooding
tsunami
earthquake
hurricane - ✔✔natural disasters (6)
✔✔rambling on and on - ✔✔blablabla
✔✔supporting act - ✔✔an action which back up something
✔✔to urge - ✔✔strongly encourage
, ✔✔oblivious to - ✔✔unaware of
✔✔ranging - ✔✔going from... to ... (range of numbers)
✔✔assumption - ✔✔supposition
✔✔prior - ✔✔previous
✔✔apparently
presumably
seemingly
ones assume - ✔✔adverbs to distance from what you say
✔✔understandably
annoyingly
naturally
strangely
to be honest
personnaly - ✔✔adverbs to express "emotion" about what you say
✔✔generally speaking
by and large
as a rule
in the main
on the whole - ✔✔general saying
✔✔in comparison to
on the contrary - ✔✔contrast
✔✔to carry out - ✔✔conduct
✔✔to carry on / go on - ✔✔continue
✔✔to alter somebody's mind - ✔✔to persuade, force
✔✔in the limelight - ✔✔in the public eye
✔✔landmarks - ✔✔famous buildings
✔✔take around - ✔✔take somebody sightseeing
✔✔to leap at - ✔✔jump towards
accept/choose eagerly
✔✔to cope with - ✔✔manage/deal with
✔✔to bump into someone - ✔✔meet unexpectedly
✔✔to trigger / spark off - ✔✔to cause (a reaction)
✔✔thin on the ground - ✔✔rare, scarce
✔✔cancel out
make up for - ✔✔compensate for (2)
✔✔throw away - ✔✔dispose of
✔✔use up - ✔✔consume
✔✔wipe out - ✔✔remove completely permanently
✔✔give rise to - ✔✔start
✔✔famine
drought
flooding
tsunami
earthquake
hurricane - ✔✔natural disasters (6)
✔✔rambling on and on - ✔✔blablabla
✔✔supporting act - ✔✔an action which back up something
✔✔to urge - ✔✔strongly encourage
, ✔✔oblivious to - ✔✔unaware of
✔✔ranging - ✔✔going from... to ... (range of numbers)
✔✔assumption - ✔✔supposition
✔✔prior - ✔✔previous
✔✔apparently
presumably
seemingly
ones assume - ✔✔adverbs to distance from what you say
✔✔understandably
annoyingly
naturally
strangely
to be honest
personnaly - ✔✔adverbs to express "emotion" about what you say
✔✔generally speaking
by and large
as a rule
in the main
on the whole - ✔✔general saying
✔✔in comparison to
on the contrary - ✔✔contrast
✔✔to carry out - ✔✔conduct
✔✔to carry on / go on - ✔✔continue
✔✔to alter somebody's mind - ✔✔to persuade, force
✔✔in the limelight - ✔✔in the public eye
✔✔landmarks - ✔✔famous buildings
✔✔take around - ✔✔take somebody sightseeing
✔✔to leap at - ✔✔jump towards
accept/choose eagerly
