Notes

I. QUANTITY
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1. Numbers
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Basics:
account, amount, average, difference, division, figure,
growth, heap, number, rest, result, sum, variety, zero --
to total -- absolute, all, another, any, different, entire,
every, few, final, first, general, half, immense, many,
one, quite, second, several, single, some, total -- about,
almost, below, frequent, further, once, over, very.

Additional vocabulary:
the four rules, addition, substraction, multiplication,
remainder, fraction, even/odd number, cardinal/ordinal
number, surplus, the multiplication-table problem in
arithmetic, dozen/a score, pile, bulk, to substract, to
multiply, to calculate, to compute, to lessen, to
eliminate, to total up, numerous/countless, innumerable,
(in)definite


2. Measurements and Weights
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Basics:
date, depth, detail, distance, end, equality, fortune, hour,
length, load, measure, mile, minute, month, pair, pause,
quarter, surface, year -- to estimate, to thin, to weigh --
deep, distant, equal, even, farther, great, heavy, high,
irregular, less, light, long, more, most, much, narrow,
near.

Additional vocabulary:
measure of length, square/cubic/liquid measure, an inch, a
foot, a yard, a sqare inch, an acre, a square mile, a cubic
foot, a register ton, a pint, a quart, a gallon, a bushel,
avoirdupois, an ounce, a pound, a stone, a hundredweight, a
ton, breadth, burden, contents, capacity, to enlarge, to
widen, to deepen, to shorten


3. Amounts
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Basics:
barrel, basin, basket, bottle, bowl, box, capital, debt,
division, gift, interests, lot, mass, means, part, plenty,
price, profit, quantity, savings, space, value, worth -- to
class, to deal, to distribute, to gain, to gather, to give,
to increase, to leave, to lend, to lose, to receive, to
reduce, to rise, to ruin -- entirely.

Additional vocabulary:
proportion/mixture, trifle, gap, to deprive s.o. of s.th.,
to lower, to diminish, to consume, to contribute (to), to
heap up, sufficient, grave, extremely/compeletely




II. TIME
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4. Points in and spaces of time
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Basics:
age, birth, century, date, death, evening, future, holiday,
moment, morning, past, presence, silence, time, year, youth
-- to begin, to fade, to hurry, to last, to pass -- ago,
ancient, due, early, former, future, immediate, late,
original, present, regular, up-to-date, young -- after,
afterwards, all of a sudden, already, at first, again,
finally, gradually, immediately, now, sometimes, soon,
then, till, when.

Additional vocabulary:
period, duration, eternity, present, instant, posterity,
childhood/old age, to elapse, to linger, to cease, to
resume, durable/eternal, primitive, constant,
instantaneous, simultaneously, instantly, previously


5. Calendar
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Basics:
April, August, autumn, century, Christmas, day, December,
Easter, February, Friday, holiday, January, June, July,
March, May, Monday, month, moon, November, October,
Saturday, September, spring, summer, sun, Sunday, Tuesday,
Thursday, Wednesday, week, winter, year -- always, today,
tomorrow, tonight, yesterday.

Additional vocabulary:
calendar, working-day, week-day, leap-year, decade,
birthday, Whitsuntide (Pentecoste), dusk, dawn, twilight, a
fortnight


6. Time, Clock
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Basics:
afternoon, clock, day, evening, hour, minute, moment,
morning, night, quarter, watch -- to advance, to ring, to
stop -- exact, fast, late, quick, slow -- in the afternoon,
always, this evening, again.

Additional vocabulary:
alarm-clock, (wrist-)watch, dial, long/short hand, sun-dial,
forenoon, quarter of an hour, half an hour, to put back,
a.m./p.m.




III. Outer Space
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7. Space and Sky

Basics:
air, cloud, distance, earth, east, echo, form, heaven,
height, limit, line, material, middle, north, shadow,
shape, sky, south, space, star, sun, surface, temperature,
turn, west, world -- to appear, to light up, to slow up, to
turn -- bright, clear, high, long, natural.

Additional vocabulary:
darnkness, new/full moon, waxing/waining moon, crescent,
sunbeam, eclipse of the sun/moon, sunshine, fixed star,
planet, shooting star, the milky way, celestial body,
pole-star, Charles's wain/The Great Bear, to beam/dazzle,
to revolve (round), to illuminate, to gleam, blazing,
(in)visible, sunburnt


8. Weather
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Basics:
air, blast, cold, degre, drop, fog, heat, ice, rain, shower,
snow, temperature, thunder, weather, wind -- to blow, to
change, to fall, to melt, to rain, to warm, to whistle --
bad, clear, cold, dark, dry, ffine, fresh, hot, rainy,
violent, warm, wet.

Additional vocabulary:
thermometer, barometer, atmospheric pressure, climate, the
tropics, whirlwind, snow-storm/-flake, hurricane,
weather-forecast/-chart, moisture, dew, thunderstorm/-clap,
hail, frost/hoar-frost, heat wave/cold spell, mist,
raindrop/rainbow, cloudburst, thaw, drought, to splash/to
trickle, to rage, to howl, to shiver, to soak, stormy,
changeable/unsettled, foggy, chilly, sultry, moist, damp,
overcast, hazy


9. Geography and Geology
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Basics:
bank, bay, capital, coal, colony, commerce, cotton, country,
course, crossign, discovery, district, earth, gold, grass,
ground, growth, hill, hole, iron, island, land, length,
life, map, mark, market, merchant, metal, mine, mountian,
mouth, mud, nation, native, neighbour, ocean, origin,
outline, passage, path, people, plain, plant, poool, rail,
range, sand, settlement, slope, soil, spring, square,
state, station, stone, stream, street, trade, traffic,
valley, voyage, water, way -- to cover, to extend, to
flood, to flow, to form, to grow, to separate, to shake, to
stretch, to surround -- broad, clear, commercial, deep,
high, local, low, native, plain, pure, rare -- across,
anywher,e apart, around, aside, away, backwards, behind,
below, beneath, near, next, nowhere, over.

Additional vocabulary:
continent mainland, hemisphere, north/south pole, equator,
horizon, summit, ridge, pass, gorge, landslip, glacier,
lake, canal, cave, pasture, heath, highlands, plateau,
boulder, volcano, eruption, marsh, bog, swamp, whirlpool,
eddy, stagnant water, earthquake, waterfall, clearing,
oasis, dike/dam, straits, beach, gulf, the tides, low/high
tide, breakers, isthmus, sluice, ock, inundation, cliff,
sand-bank, promontory, brook, affluent, tributary,
watershed, divide, ford, to submerge, to overflow, to be
outlined against, to burst forth, steep, shallow, extinct,
earthly, earthen, marshy, boggy, swampy, muddy
Europe (European), Germany (German), the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland (British), England
(English), Ireland (Irish), Scotland (Scottish, Scotch),
Wales (Welsh), Austria (Austrian), Belgium (Belgian), Spain
(Spanish), France (French), Italy (Italian), the
U.S.S.R/the Soviet Union (Soviet-(Russian)), Switzerland
(Swiss), the Netherlands (Dutch), Sweden (Swedish), Denmark
(Danish), Norway (Norwegian), Greece (Greek), Africa
(African), Asia (Asian), China (Chinese), Japan (Japanese),
America (American), The United States of America
(American), Australia (Australian), London, Dublin,
Edinburgh, Vienna, Brussels, Rome, Leghorn, Moscow, the
Hague, Tokyo, Washington, Canberra
the Straight of DOver, the English Channel, the Irish Sea,
the Pennine Chain, the Shetland Islands, the ORkney
Islands, the Isle of Wight, the North Sea, the Atlantic
Ocean, the Mediterranean, the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rocky
Mountains, the Appalachians, the Great Lakes


10. Space, Length in Space
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Basics:
base, bottom, centre, corner, course, crossing, difference,
direction, distance, end, entrance, extension, extent,
front, haste, height, hurry, length, middle, place,
quarter, range, spot, step, surface, zone -- to cover, to
creep, to develop, to distinguish, to divide, to drive, to
drop, to ente,r to escape, to extend, to fall, to fasten,
to find, to flow, to fly, to fold, to follow, to gather, to
handle, to head, to hold, to hurry, to inculde, to jump, to
keep, to lean, to leave, to lie, to lift, to lower, to
pass, to place, to ride, to rock, to roll, to run, to
shake, to sink, to sit, to slide, to slip, to spread, to
stand, to turn, to twist -- aboard, abroad, absent, calm,
different, distant, distinct, empty, flat, high, irregular,
large, left, level, local, long, quick, right, round, wide
-- across, after, against, ahead, around, aside,
backward(s), before, below, beneath, beside, between,
beyond, close, contrary, down, farther, here, inside, of,
under, up, upper, upstairs, upwards, where.

Additional vocabulary:
expanse, dimension, vacuum, extremity, frontier, boundary,
neighbourhood, remoteness, upper part, to expand, to hover,
to soar up, to descend, extensive, widespread, voluminous,
bulky, centrally located, spacious, comprehensive,
far-reaching

IV. The Human
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11. Body
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Basics:
arm, back , bag, basin, beard, belt, blood, body, bone,
bowl, brain, breath, calf, chest, composition, condition,
elbow, eye, face, fat, feeling, finger, fist, flesh, foot,
forehead, hair, hand, heart, heel, joint, look, man,
memory, mind, mouth, muscle, nose, root, shoulder, sight,
spirit, stomach, strenghth, sweat, tongue, tooth, trunk --
to beat, to bend, to bite, to breathe, to cry, to feed, to
feel, to handle, to seize, to sigh, to stretch, to sweat --
bare, female, lean, male, pale -- inside, outside

Additional:
upper arm/forearm, thigh/shank, palm, finger-tip, thumb,
knuckle, shin(-bone), ankle, sole, hip, skeleton, skull,
temple, palate, tip of the nose/tongue, upper/lower jaw,
gum, upper/lower lip, vocal chords, gullet, oesophagus,
eyeball, the pupil of the eye, eyebrow/lash/lid, curl /
parting, waist, backbone, spine, windpipe, belly, abdomen,
navel, kidney, gall-bladder, appendix, bowels, intestines,
circulation of the blood, nervous system, pulse, marrow,
tonsils, spleen, sinew, to pant, to gasp, to weep / to sob,
to wink, to blink, to yawn, to sneeze, to chew, to
perspire, masculine, feminite, corpulent, stout, plump,
meagre, slender, slim, lanky, robust, husky,
long-/short-sighted, beardless


12. Look and movements
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Basics:
activity, address, air, appearance, balance, beauty,
behaviour, charm, colour, dance, expression, movement,
skill, smile -- to act, to cry, to dance, to express, to
frown, to lean, to lie, to move, to please, to smile --
active, beautiful, busy, charming, coarse, handsome, happy,
irregular, lazy, light, merry, nice, regular, rough, ugly

Additional:
complexion, countenance, physique, physical constitiution,
weakness, gait, errand, collision, clash, to conduct
oneself, to weaken, to dangle, to grow pale,
graceful/awkward, attractive, striking, wobbly


13. Senses
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Basics:

ability, anxiety, application, attention, colour, crash,
cruelty, curiosity, eye, face, feeling, hate, heat, sight,
smell, taste -- to astonish, to crash, to fade, to fear, to
flash, to hate, to hear, to heat, to hurt, to regard, to
smell, to taste -- able, afraid, anxious, aware, beautiful,
clear, coarse, cold, cool, cruel, curious, dark, delicate,
dry, dull, faint, fair, fearful, fine, fond, fresh, gentle,
glad, handsome, happy, hard, heavy, hot, lovely, merry,
nervous, nice, painful, pretty, rough, sharp, smooth,
sweet, ugly, warm, weak, wet

Additional:
glance, touch, hearing / sound wave, brightness, perfume,
scent, to behold (beheld, beheld), to gaze, to stare at, to
perceive/to sense, piercing, furtive, deafening, noisy,
delicious, disagreeable, monotonous, slippery


14. Life and death
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Basics:
accident, ashes, being, creature, death, dream, dust, grave,
life, loss, murder, ruin, sacrifice, tear, want -- to bury,
to die, to dream, to drop, to finish, to poison, to remove,
to save, to strike, to suffer, to twist -- asleep, awake,
aware, dead, living

Additional:
burial, funeral, funeral procession, funeral march,
mortality, tomb-stone, grave-stone, tomb, coffin, epitaph,
wreath, grave-yard, cemetery, corpse / ummy, deceased,
cuicide, cremation, urn, to drown, to be drowned, to shed
blood, to embalm, to grow old, to mourn (for), to commit
suicide, gloomy, dismal, dim/mortal

[I thought this topic's name is "*Life* and death"!]


15. Health, disease, cure
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Basics:
attack, bath, blow, care, change, cold, cough, disease,
doctor, faint, fever, fold, growth, harm, health, hunger,
medicine, nurse, operation, pain, patience, poison, remedy,
rest, sympathy, wound -- to apply, to arrange, to bear, to
break, to burst, to catch, to dress, to enjoy, to fade, to
faint, to grow, to hurt, to nurse, to rest, to swallow --
blind, careful, careless, delicate, mad, merry, faint,
full, healthy, hungry, lame, natural, painful, pale,
senseless, sore, tired, unhealthy

Additional:
illness, sickness, infection, contagion, delicacy, injury,
loss of blood, blood transfusion, breakdown, collapse, fit
of apoplexy, exhaustion, indisposition, relapse, recovery,
sleeplessness, cold in the head, whooping-cough,
hoarseness, influenza (flu), swelling, ulcer, fracture,
toothache / headache, cancer, polio(myelitis), pneumonia,
measles, scarlet fever, sunstroke, tuberculosis, dressing /
plaster, cotton wool, injection, prescription, remedy,
ointment, tablet, pill, dispensary, night-duty, patient,
sick person, to ache, to consult, to swell up, to bleed
(bled, bled), to heal, to disinfect, to vaccinate, to
squit, to limp, to stutter, to snore, to recover from,
vigorous, sturdy, robust, sickly, feeble-minded, insane,
hereditary, dumb, mute, deaf, innate, exhausted, drowsy,
unconscious, dizzy, bland-headed, crippled, malignant