Лексичний мінімум загального курсу англійської мови
Рівень B1
Unit 1: Identity
Family
- a family history - past events that relate to a particular family (its formation, roots etc.)
- a side of the family - the ancestors or relatives of one's mother or father
- an ancestor - a person related to someone who lived a long time ago
- great-grandparents - grandparents of one's father or mother
- a relative - a person connected by blood or marriage
- to be related to - to belong to the same family
- to inherit - to derive (a quality, characteristic, or predisposition) genetically from one's parents or ancestors
- to take after someone - to be similar to an older member of one's family
- roots - family, ethnic, or cultural origins
- an extended family - a family unit that includes grandmothers, grandfathers, aunts and uncles, etc. in addition to parents and children
- an immediate family - someone's closest relations, such as parents, children, a husband or a wife
- in-laws - parents of one's husband or wife or members of his or her family
- a sister-in-law - a sister of one's husband or wife
- an ex-husband - a former husband
- a stepfather - a man who is married to one's mother after the divorce of one's parents or the death of one's father
- a stepdaughter - a daughter of one's husband or wife by a previous marriage
- a fortune - a lot of money
- a gold medalist - someone who won a gold medal in sport
- tragic - extremely sad
- to abandon someone - to leave someone in a bad condition
- to be sentenced - to be given a punishment for a crime
Relationships
- a boss - a person who is in charge of a worker or organization
- an employee - a person who is paid to work for an organization or for another person
- a classmate - a fellow member of a class at school, college, or university
- a partner - a person who takes part in an undertaking with others
- a team-mate - a fellow member of a team
- a member - a person that has joined a group, society or team
- a godparent - a person who promises to help teach and guide someone in religious matters as part of a Christian baptism ceremony
- a mentor - an experienced and trusted adviser
- a fiancé - a man who is engaged to be married
- a fiancée - a woman who is engaged to be married
- to go off something - to begin to dislike something
- to get on with someone - to like someone and have a friendly relationship with him / her
- to do someone a favour - to help someone
Unit 2: Tales
Types of story
- a biopic - a genre of fiction that tells the story of someone's life
- a docudrama - a genre of fiction or a film based on events that really happened
- a disaster - a genre of films that use natural or accidental catastrophe as the mainspring of plot and setting
- a romantic comedy - a film or a play which describes a love affair and is intended to make an audience laugh
- a period drama - a drama set in a particular historical period
- a fantasy / a science fiction - a genre of fiction in which the stories often tell about science and technology of the future
- a psychological thriller - a fictional thriller story which emphasizes the psychology of its characters and their unstable emotional states
- an action / an adventure - a genre of fiction in which an adventure, an exciting undertaking involving risk and physical danger form the main storyline
- a mystery / a crime - a novel, play or film dealing with a puzzling crime, especially a murder
- by mistake - accidentally
- on someone's own - alone, not with other people
- on business - for work
- by chance - unexpectedly, not planned
- by hand - by a person, not a machine
- in the end - finally
- on purpose - intentionally
- on time - not early, not late
- in a moment - in a very short time
- in a hurry - in a rushed manner
- in person - with the personal presence or action of the individual specified
The news
- a crash - a violent collision, typically of one vehicle with another or with an object
- to attack - to act against someone or something aggressively in an attempt to injure or kill
- violent - using or involving physical force intended to hurt, damage or kill someone or something
- a strike - a refusal to work organized by a body of employees as a form of protest
- an earthquake - a shaking of the ground caused by movement of the earth's crust
- a fugitive - a person who has escaped from captivity or is in hiding
- a flood - an overflow of a large amount of water beyond its normal limits
- to destroy - to ruin
- to threaten - to express one's intention to harm or kill someone
- a hostage - a person seized or held as security for the fulfilment of a condition
- to release - to set free
- to be shot - to be killed
- a collapse - a sudden failure of an institution or undertaking
- a suspect - a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offence
- to assassinate - to murder (an important person) for political or religious reasons
Unit 3: Contact
Communication
- to gossip - to talk about other people's behaviour and private lives, often including remarks that are unkind or untrue
- to compliment - to praise someone for something
- to moan - to complain or grumble, typically about something trivial
- to chat - to talk in a friendly and informal way
- to boast - to talk with excessive pride and self-satisfaction about one's achievements, possessions, or abilities
- to argue - to exchange or express diverging or opposite views, typically in a heated or angry way
- to warn - to inform someone in advance of a possible danger or problem
- to apologise - to express regret for something that one has done wrong
- to change someone's mind about something - to change an opinion or decision about something
- to cope with something - to manage a situation
- nosy - showing too much curiosity about other people's affairs
- a panic - a fear that terrible things might happen
- a rough idea - the most important features of something, without much detail
- last-minute arrangements - plans that you make just before they happen
Future time markers
- a term - a fixed period of time during which someone does something or something happens
- shortly - in a short time, soon
- certainly - definitely, surely
- an intermediary - a person who acts as a link between people in order to try and bring about an agreement
- a barrier - an obstacle
- a thumbprint - an impression or mark made on a surface by the inner part of the top joint of the thumb
- a retina scan - a biometric device that scans a person's or animal's retina in infrared for identification purposes
- straightforward - uncomplicated and easy to do or understand
- on demand - as soon as or whenever required
Idioms
- small talk - a polite conversation about unimportant or uncontroversial matters
- to work against the clock - to work in a great hurry because there is very little time
- on someone's mind - preoccupying someone in a disquieting way
- not one's cup of tea - not what one likes or is interested in
- to be close to someone's heart - to be very important to someone
- to be in hot water - to be in trouble
- to put someone's foot in something - to say or do something tactless or embarrassing
- to run out of time - with no time remaining to continue or complete something
- to keep an eye on someone - to keep under careful observation
- to give somebody a hand - to help in an action or enterprise
- a piece of cake - something easily achieved
- a dark horse - a person about whom little is known
- the rat race - a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power
- to be in two minds - to be unable to decide between alternatives
- to let someone's hair down - to relax and enjoy yourself without worrying what other people will think
- to break the ice - to do or say something to relieve tension or get conversation going
- to travel light - to travel with a minimum load or minimum luggage
- to learn something by heart - to memorize something
- to go window shopping - to spend time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything
Unit 4: Jobs
Millionaires
- competitive - having or displaying a strong desire to be more successful than others
- a good leader - a person who has the qualities to manage a group of people
- indecisive - not able to make decisions quickly and effectively
- hard-working - tending to work with energy and commitment
- a good communicator - a person who can express ideas or feelings clearly to others
- to think outside the box - to have ideas that are original, creative or innovative
- a risk taker - a person who does things which are dangerous
- to be motivated - to have interest in or enthusiasm for something
- ambitious - having or showing a strong desire and determination to succeed
- reliable - able to be trusted
- sensible - possessing or displaying prudence
- easy-going - not easily annoyed, worried or upset
- aggressive - ready or likely to attack or confront
- clever - quick to understand, learn and devise or apply ideas
- bright - intelligent and quick-witted
- honest - free of deceit; truthful and sincere
- lazy - unwilling to work or use energy
- punctual - doing something at the agreed or proper time
- moody - given to unpredictable changes of mood
- independent - capable of thinking or acting for oneself
- a background - a person's education, experience and social circumstances
- to put in the hours - to work long hours
- a bargain - a thing bought or offered for sale much more cheaply than is usual or expected
- to do one's own thing - to do what you want without worrying about what other people think
- a job - a paid position of regular employment
- work - a means of earning income; employment
- to remember - to have in or be able to bring to one's mind an awareness of someone / something from the past
- to remind - to cause someone to remember someone or something
- to leave - to go away from a place without taking someone or something
- to forget - to fail to remember
- to listen - to give one's attention to a sound
- to hear - to perceive with the ear the sound made by someone or something
- fun - enjoyment, amusement or light-hearted pleasure
- funny - humorous
- actually - as the truth or facts of a situation; really
- currently - at the present time
- a career - an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress
- a course - a series of lectures or lessons in a particular subject, leading to an examination or qualification
- to borrow - to take and use something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it
- to lend - to allow a person or organization the use of a sum of money under an agreement to pay it back later
- to miss - to be too late to catch a passenger vehicle
- to lose - to be deprived of or cease to have or retain something
Dream job
- brilliant - exceptionally clever or talented; outstanding, impressive
- boiling - extremely hot
- terrible - extremely unpleasant or disagreeable
- furious - extremely angry; violent or intense
- delicious - highly pleasant to the taste
- tiny - very small
- impossible - very difficult to deal with
- exhausted - very tired
- huge - extremely large, enormous
- fascinating - extremely interesting
- freezing - very cold
- beautiful - pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically
- enormous - very large in size, quantity, or extent
- amazing - very impressive; excellent
- regarding - about
Unit 5: Solutions
Machines
- a computer network - a system of computers which are connected and which operate together
- a communications satellite - a satellite placed in orbit around the earth in order to relay television, radio and telephone signals
- 24 / 7 - twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week
- antibiotics - a medicine (such as penicillin or its derivatives) that inhibits the growth of or destroys micro-organisms
- electricity - a form of energy resulting from the existence of charged particles (such as electrons or protons), either statically as an accumulation of charge or dynamically as a current
- a vaccination - the process of giving a vaccine, usually by injection, to prevent people from getting a disease
- nuclear power - electric or motive power generated by a nuclear reactor
- solar power - power obtained by harnessing the energy of the sun's rays
- a motorbike - a two-wheeled vehicle that is powered by a motor and has no pedals
- a vacuum cleaner - an electric machine which sucks up dust and dirt from carpets
- genetic engineering - the science or activity of changing the genetic structure of an animal, plant or other organism in order to make it stronger or more suitable for a particular purpose
- a washing machine - a machine that you use to wash clothes in
- space travel - travel through outer space
- a commercial aeroplane - an aeroplane used for carrying goods or passengers who pay
- however - a word which is used to introduce a statement that contrasts with or seems to contradict something that has been said previously
- as far as I am concerned - a phrase used to indicate that you are giving your own opinion
- to plug something in - to push a plug of a piece of electrical equipment into an electric socket so that it can work
- to have an injection - to have a medicine put into your body by means of a device with a needle called a syringe
- to press the button - to initiate an action
- to run out of something - to use up one's supply of something
- to break down - to suddenly cease to function
- to restart / reboot the computer - to start a computer system again and put it into a state of readiness for operation
- to switch something on - to make something start working by operating a switch
- to switch something off - to stop something working by operating a switch
Ask the experts
- to question - to ask someone questions; to feel or express doubt about something
- to wonder - to desire to know something; to feel doubt
- to discuss - to talk about something with a person or people
- a discussion - the action or process of talking about something in order to reach a decision or to exchange ideas
- to debate - to argue about a subject, especially in a formal manner
- to respond - to say something in reply
- a response - a verbal or written answer
- to reply - to say something in response to something someone has said; to write back in answer to someone
- to research - to investigate systematically
- to investigate - to carry out research or study into a subject or problem, typically one in a scientific or academic field
- an investigation - a formal or systematic examination or research
- to inquire - to ask for information from someone
- an inquiry - an act of asking for information
- to look into - to try to find out the truth about a problem, crime etc; to find the information about something
- to sting - to wound or pierce with a sting
- to run over - to knock someone or something down or drive over them
- a monk - a member of a male religious community that is usually separated from the outside world
- messy - untidy or dirty
- lovable - inspiring or deserving love or affection
- peaceful - free from disturbance; tranquil
- explosive - able or likely to shatter violently or burst apart
- useless - not fulfilling or not expected to achieve the intended purpose or desired outcome
- homeless - without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets
- responsible - having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone, as part of one's job or role
- a loneliness - the unhappiness that is felt by someone because they do not have any friends or do not have anyone to talk to
- an entertainment - the action of providing or being provided with amusement or enjoyment
- a pollution - he process of polluting water, air or land, especially with poisonous chemicals
- a creativity - the use of the imagination or original ideas, especially in the production of an artistic work
- a stupidity - the quality of being stupid
Unit 6: Emotion
Feeling stressed
- annoyed - fairly angry about something
- relaxing - pleasant and helps you to relax
- bored - tired and impatient
- frightened - afraid or anxious
- worried - unhappy because you keep thinking about problems that you have
- embarrassed - feeling or showing embarrassment (shame)
- exhausted - very tired
- confusing - unclear and difficult to understand
- shocked - feeling surprised and upset by something very unexpected and unpleasant
- satisfying - giving fulfilment or the pleasure associated with this
- exciting - causing great enthusiasm and eagerness
- terrified - having a feeling of extreme fear
- astonished - very surprised about something
- tired - in need of sleep or rest; weary
- fascinating - extremely interesting
- disappointed - sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfil one's hopes or expectations
- disgusted - feeling a strong sense of dislike and disapproval at something
- frustrating - annoying or making someone angry
- depressed - in a state of unhappiness or despondency
- interested - showing curiosity or concern about something or someone
- distress - extreme anxiety, sorrow or pain
- joy - a feeling of great pleasure and happiness
- disgust - a feeling of revulsion or strong disapproval aroused by something unpleasant or offensive
- a lump in somebody's throat - a feeling that you want to cry
- therapy - treatment of a physical or mental illness, often without the use of drugs
- to chat someone up - to talk to someone that you like so that they will like you
- to get on - to have a good relationship / to like each other
- to settle down - to start living a quiet life in one place
- to go off someone / something - to stop liking someone / something
- to scroll up - to move the computer mouse to see earlier pages
- to click on - to put the computer mouse on a specific place and press
- to log off - to exit from a website
- to shut down - to stop operating / to make something stop operating
- to dress up - to dress in smart or formal clothes
- to dress down - to dress informally
- to try on - to put a piece of clothing on to see if it fits you or if it looks nice
- to take off - to remove (clothes)
- to cut off (about the telephone) - the line is suddenly disconnected and you can no longer speak to the other person
- to call off something - to cancel something
- to put something off - to delay doing something
- to check out - to get more information about something
- to stand out - to be easily noticeable
- to work out a solution - to manage to find the solution by thinking or talking about it
- to look after someone - to take care of someone
- to take after - to resemble a member of one's family in appearance, behaviour or character
- to fill in - to write the necessary information in an official document
- to let someone in - to allow someone to come in
The people watchers
- to watch a programme - to watch an item broadcast between stated times on radio or television
- to hold a sale - to organize an event during which a shop sells goods at reduced prices
- to do experiments - to perform scientific procedures, especially in a laboratory, to determine something
- to jump a queue - to move to the front of a queue and be served or dealt with before it is your turn
- to raise money - to ask people for money which you collect, usually on charity
- to get a seat - to get a place to sit in a public vehicle
- to persuade - to induce someone to do something through reasoning or argument.
- charity - the voluntary giving of help, typically in the form of money, to those in need
- to pretend - to behave as if something is true when in fact you know it is not in order to deceive people or for fun
- a badge - a piece of metal or cloth which you wear to show that you belong to an organization or support a cause
Unit 7: Success
Being successful
- to work hard (at something) - to work with a lot of effort.
- to have a natural talent - to have a natural aptitude or skill.
- to focus on - to think only about one objective
- to get better at - to improve
- to have an opportunity to do something - to have a chance to do something
- to believe in yourself - to be sure about your ideas / abilities
- to practice something - to do something again and again
- to be a high achiever - to be successful at your work or studies
- a failure - a lack of success
- to be on a shortlist - to be named in a list to be considered for a prize or a job
- to come first - to win
- to reveal - to make previously unknown or secret information known to others
- to share - to give a portion of something to another or others
- obvious - easily perceived or understood; clear, self-evident, or apparent
- to be nominated - to be officially suggested as a possible prize winner
- to be awarded - to be given an official prize / money
- to win a medal - to receive a valuable piece of metal because a success in a competition
- to win an award - to receive a prize / money because of an achievement
- to be on the winning team - to be part of a group that wins a competition / game
- to be a runner up - to come in second place in a competition, race, etc
- to get an "A" - to get the highest grade for a piece of academic work
- to win a prize - to get something because you are successful in a competition, race, etc.
- to have a lot in common with someone - to have many things belonging to or shared by two or more people
- to have access to something - to have the opportunity or right to see it or use it
- to be a world-class at something - to be one of the best in the world at something
- to put in time - to spend time doing something
- to pick up on something - to become aware of; to notice something
- to have a talent for something - to have a natural ability to do something well
Ability
- to be an expert in - to be very knowledgeable about or skilful in a particular area
- to be gifted at - to have exceptional talent or natural ability
- to have an ability - to have talent, skill or proficiency in a particular area
- skilful - able to do something very well
- to have an aptitude for - to have a natural ability to do something
- talented - having a natural aptitude or skill for something
- to be hopeless at - to be very bad or incompetent at something
- to be useless at - to have no ability or skill in a specified activity or area
- autistic - having a mental condition that makes it hard for someone to understand other people and form relationships
- accurate - correct in all details; exact
- outstanding - exceptionally good
Unit 8: Communities
Getting on
- to get on well with - to have good relationships with someone
- to get on someone's nerves - make someone feel annoyed or nervous
- to ask a favour - to ask someone for a service
- to mind one's own business - to be doing the things you normally do, without affecting what other people are doing
- to invite someone over - to invite someone to your house, for example for a meal
- a nuisance - a nuisance
- to get to know someone - to find out what someone is like by spending time with him / her
- to disturb someone - to interrupt the sleep, relaxation or privacy of someone
- to make friends with someone - to begin a friendship with someone
- to keep oneself to oneself - to avoid contact with others
- to do a favour - to do someone a service
- nosy - showing too much curiosity about other people's affairs
- helpful - giving or ready to give help
- to borrow - take and use something belonging to someone else with the intention of returning it
- to lend - grant to someone the use of something on the understanding that it shall be returned
- to gossip - to talk informally, especially about other people or local events
- to pop over - to come to one's house (informally)
Compound nouns
- a main road - an important road that leads from one town or city to another
- window shopping - a kind of spending time looking at the goods in the windows of shops without intending to buy anything
- traffic jam - a long line of vehicles that cannot move forward because there is too much traffic
- traffic lights - a set of automatically operated coloured lights, typically red, amber and green, for controlling traffic at road junctions, pedestrian crossings and roundabouts
- car park - an area or building where cars or other vehicles may be left temporarily
- car rental - an activity of paying someone for the use of a car
- housing estate - a residential area in which the houses have all been planned and built at the same time
- industrial estate - an area of land developed as a site for factories and other industrial businesses
- a terraced house - one of a row of similar houses joined together by their side walls
- a semi-detached house - a house that is joined to another house on one side by a shared wall
- a duty-free shop - a shop where you can buy goods at a cheaper price than usual because no tax is paid on them
- a primary school - a school for children between the ages of about five and eleven
- an outdoor market - a market in the open air
- high street - the main street of a town, especially as the traditional site for most shops, banks, and other businesses
- one-way street - a street where vehicles can only travel along in one direction
The internet
- a personal homepage - a script language and interpreter that is freely available and used primarily on Linux Web servers
- a blog - a website containing a diary or journal on a particular subject
- a corporate website - an informational website operated by a business or other private enterprise such as a charity or nonprofit foundation
- a search engine - a program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found
- a rating site - a site with a classification or ranking of someone or something based on a comparative assessment of their quality, standard or performance
- a photo sharing website - a website used to store and share photos
- a social networking site - a website that enables users to create public profiles within that website and form relationships with other users of the same website who access their profile
- a travel site - a website on the world wide web that is dedicated to travel
- a dating site - a personal introductory system whereby individuals can find and contact each other over the internet to arrange a date, usually with the objective of developing a personal, romantic or sexual relationship
- a news site - a website with information about recent events or happenings
- wiki - a website that allows anyone visiting it to change or add to the material in it
Unit 9: History
Events in history
- a revolution - a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system
- a turning point - a time at which an important change takes place which affects the future of a person or thing
- a development - the process of developing or being developed
- a spread - the fact or process of spreading over an area
- an advance - a development or improvement
- a movement - a campaign undertaken by a group of people working together to advance their shared political, social or artistic ideas
- an invention - something, typically a process or device, that has been invented
- a foundation - an underlying basis or principle
- a discovery - the action or process of discovering or being discovered
- progress - development towards an improved or more advanced condition
- leap - a forceful jump or quick movement
- mankind - human beings considered collectively; the human race
- an invasio - an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force
- a colonisation - a process of establishing political control over an area or over another country and sending your citizens there to settle
- a democracy - a system of government in which people choose their rulers by voting for them in elections
- a liberation - a movement in Christian theology that emphasizes liberation from social, political and economic oppression
- a leadership - the action of leading a group of people or an organization
- politics - the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society
- an independence - the fact or state of being independent
- a bestseller - a book of which a great number of copies has been sold
- verse - writing arranged with a metrical rhythm, typically having a rhyme
- to land - bring an aircraft or spacecraft to the ground or the surface of water in a controlled way
Periods of time
- a decade - a period of ten years
- a millennium - a period of a thousand years
- an era - a long and distinct period of history with a particular feature or characteristic
- a century - a period of one hundred years
- a quarter century - a period of twenty-five years
- a fortnight - a period of two weeks
- an age - a distinct period of history
- the nineteen-seventies - a period from 1970 to 1979
- the seventies / eighties - the numbers from seventy to seventy-nine (from eighty to eighty-nine), especially the years of a century or of a person's life
- a generation - the average period, generally considered to be about thirty years, in which children grow up, become adults and have children of their own
- to reject - to dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable or faulty
- to appeal to someone - to be attractive or interesting for someone
Collocations
- to come back - to return
- to come by car - to travel by car
- to come first - to win
- to come nearer - to move towards
- to come in blue - to be produced in blue colour
- to come over - to visit
- to give instructions - to say what to do
- to give a talk - to make a speech
- to give someone a call - to phone someone
- to give directions - to say where to go
- to give permission - to allow
- to have a good time - to enjoy yourself
- to have the same dream - to have future ambition
- to have trouble - to have problems
- to have a break - to relax for a short time
- to have 100 calories - to contain 100 calories
- to have ideas - to have thoughts about something
- to have a chance - to have an opportunity
- to make a decision - to choose
- to make a mess - to make a place untidy or dirty
- to make progress - to improve
- to make a profit - to get more money than you invested
- to make a film - to produce a film
- to make an attempt - to try
- to make an agreement - to collaborate
- to make a living - to get money
Unit 10: World
The environment
- to pre-prepare - to prepare or produce something, especially food, in advance
- to process - to perform a series of mechanical or chemical operations on something in order to change or preserve it
- organic - produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides or other artificial chemicals
- energy-saving light bulbs - a type of light bulbs that help to economise energy
- to insulate - to protect something by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound
- double-glazed - a kind of windows that have two layers of glass which keeps the inside of the house warmer and quieter
- to leave on standby - to leave in the state of readiness for duty or immediate deployment
- a packaging - the container or covering that something is sold in
- a secondhand item - an item which has had a previous owner; not new
- to recycle - to convert waste into reusable material
- global warming - the gradual rise in the earth's temperature caused by high levels of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere
- pollution - the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects
- to protect - to keep safe from harm or injury
- an aerosol can - a container that holds a substance under pressure and that can release it as a fine spray usually by means of a propellant gas
- factory smoke - white, grey or black gas that is produced by the factory
- industrial waste - the waste produced by industrial activity
- a natural recourse - something, such as a forest, a mineral deposit, or fresh water, that is found in nature and is necessary or useful to humans
- to destroy - to end the existence of something by damaging or attacking it
- the environment - the natural world, as a whole or in a particular geographical area, especially as affected by human activity
- harmful - causing or likely to cause harm
- environmentally friendly - products that are environmentally friendly do not harm the environment when they are made or when you use them
- car exhaust fumes - gases ejected from a car as waste products
- destruction - the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired
- an impact - a marked effect or influence
- nightmarish - terrible
- a heatwave - a period of very hot weather
- to get rid of - to take action so as to be free of a troublesome or unwanted person or thing
- to put a family through hell - to make a family go through a bad experience
- to be compelled - to be forced to do something
- unreal - imaginary or illusory
- to reuse - to use again or more than once
- to disobey - to fail to obey rules, a command, or someone in authority
- to misunderstand - to fail to interpret or understand something correctly
- to overcook - to cook too much or for too long
Reporting verbs
- to offer - to present or proffer something for someone to accept or reject as desired
- to warn - to inform someone in advance of a possible danger, problem, or other unpleasant situation
- to refuse - to indicate or show that one is not willing to do something
- to explain - to make an idea or situation clear to someone by describing it in more detail or revealing relevant facts
- to promise - to commit oneself by a promise to do or give; pledge: left but promised to return
- to invite - to make a polite, formal, or friendly request to someone to go somewhere or to do something
- to suggest - to put forward for consideration