IELTS Vocabulary: "CONFUSE"

🔹VERB 👉 CONFUSE
✏️ e.g :The information in travel guides sometimes confuses me.

The verb to confuse means to cause a person to be unable to understand something

🔹NOUN 👉 CONFUSION.
✏️ e.g :I missed my irplane flight because of some confusion about the time.

The noun confusion is sometimes used to describe a situation that lacks organization.
In the confusion after an earthquake,many people are separated from their families

🔹ADJECTIVE 👉CONFUSING / CONFUSED
✏️ e.g : The information was confusing.
✏️ e.g : I was confused.

The adjective confusing describes the thing that causes confusion.
The adjective confused describes the way a person feels because of it.

🔸These words also mean ‘’not being able to recognize the difference between two People or things. ‘’

My sons Kyle and Jason are twins. Their friends confuse the two of them.
The boys laugh at their friend’s confusion.

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✅Ways to say “ PLEASE


📘If you would be so kind
Can you pass me that salt, if you would be so kind.

✅If you don’t mind
We’ll start now, if you don’t mind.

✅Kindly
Kindly send your response by the end of the day.

📕If that’s alright with you
We need to finish that in an hour, if that’s alright with you.

📘I’d love it if you could
I’d love it if you could help me here.


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English vocabulary


🔴 *Infallible* :
that never fails, doing what it is supposed to do
*🔴 Cannibal* :a person who eats human flesh
🔴 *Misogynist* :
a person who dislike women
🔴 *Misanthrope* :
a person who hates and avoids other people
🔴 *Inevitable* =that you can't avoid
🔴 *Altruist* :
someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well being
🔴 *Homicide* :
the crime of killing somebody deliberately
🔴 *Nepotism* :
giving unfair advantages to your own family if you are in a position of power especially by giving them jobs
🔴 *Amateur* : a person who likes to take part in a sport
🔴 *Empathy* :
the ability to understand another person's feelings and experience
🔴 *Audible* :
that can be heard clearly
🔴 *Fidelity* =loyalty accuracy
🔴 *Anarchist* :
a person who believes that laws and governments are not necessary

*Recondite* :
obscure ,not easily understand

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*MAKING THE DISTINCTION*

*Quite/ Fairly/Rather/Pretty*


Examples

The exam was *fairly* difficult.
The exam was *quite* difficult.
The exam was *rather* difficult.

QUITE
Quite is a little stronger than *fairly*, and *rather* is a little stronger than quite.

Rather
Rather is not very common in American English.

Pretty
Pretty has the same meaning and this is used in informal BrEng too.
The exam was *pretty* difficult.


In BrEng *quite* has two meaning:
I feel *quite* tired today. (Fairly tired). With adjectives that describes an extreme state. It means completely or absolutely.
Your essay is quite good_ ( fairly good- meaning, it could be better)
Your essay is quite good ( very good, especially when this is unexpected.)

In American English quite usually means something like 'very' not 'fairly' or 'rather'. *Pretty* is used instead for the sense.

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 ♨ get through — phrasal verb
 
💥get through something
1-👉 to use up a large amount of something

▷We got through a fortune while we were in New York!

2-👉to manage to do or complete something

▷Let's start — there's a lot to get through.


💥get through (something)
👉(British English) to be successful in an exam, etc.


💥get somebody through something
👉to help somebody to be successful in an exam

▷She got all her students through the exam.


💥get through (something) | get something through (something)
👉to be officially accepted; to make something be officially accepted

▷They got the bill through Congress.


💥get through (to somebody)
1-👉to reach somebody

▷Thousands of refugees will die if these supplies don't get through to them.


2-👉to make contact with somebody by telephone

▷I tried calling you several times but I couldn't get through.


💥get through (to something)

👉(of a player or team) to reach the next stage of a competition

▷Gulbis has got through to the final.
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🎯 Dogsbody

⇨ A person who is employed to do menial jobs only

▷ I’m sorry, but I won’t let you get away with treating me like your dogsbody any more.

▷ Initially, he was taken on just as a general dogsbody, which is why no-one can get over his promotion to Regional Manager.
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⭕{British English vs American English}:

~I can't find a babysitter for tonight.[US]✔

~I can't find a childminder for tonight.[UK]✔

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🎯 Scapegoat

⇨ A person who is unfairly blamed for everything that has gone wrong in order to satisfy public anger — often used with the verb “to make”

▷ It’s unfair to make the Chancellor the scapegoat for the downturn in the economy; the entire Government has got a lot to answer for.

▷ The police came off very badly in this case, having dithered for what seems an eternity, and now they are looking for a scapegoat.
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🎯To pencil someone/something in

⇨ To make a provisional [something which could be changed later] appointment with someone

▷ I tell you what; I’ll pencil you in for Tuesday the 18th, and in the meantime I’d appreciate it if you could keep me posted as to what’s likely to come up before then.

▷ Things are a little up in the air at the moment. If you pencil the meeting in for Wednesday, I’ll get back to you before packing up tonight on whether I can make it or not.
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♨At stake

⇨ At risk — often money or one’s reputation

▷Lawyer to Client: I’m sorry to be blunt, but it’s not worth putting my career at stake over such a borderline case.

▷Has it dawned on you exactly how much money is at stake here?

💥dawn on somebody
⇨ [no passive] if something dawns on you, you begin to realize it for the first time
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🎯To get going

💥1.☜To get a move on; to hurry up and leave/start; to get something started

♨Note that “to get a move on” is preferred to “to get going” for use in the imperative
— See 3rd example below.

▷I’m not trying to drop you a hint, but you’d better get going if you want to dodge the rush hour traffic.

▷Let’s get this meeting going before we wind up having to stay the night here.

▷Get a move on! We’ll never clear this backlog at this rate.


💥2.☜To become or make something more lively, e.g. a party — Colloquial

▷ Conversation:
A: I might have known you’d turn up late!
B: Oh sorry, but we thought the party wouldn’t really get going until midnight.

▷We could have done with a live band to get the wedding reception going but we had to make do with background classical music instead.

⚡️ make do with sth ⇨ to manage with something that is not really good enough


💥3.☜To wind somebody up; to tease — Colloquial

▷It’s so easy to get your brother going; I never knew he was so touchy.
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Which of these is more usual: A or B?

A- It says in the instructions that you need two 9-volt batteries.
B- It's saying in the instructions that you need two 9-volt batteries.

😊) A
😁) B

Which question is the more likely response: A or B?

Jake's just phoned in to say he's ill.

A) So who's going to teach his class this afternoon?
B) So who's teaching his class this afternoon?

😉) A
😃) B

♥️ *WIND UP*

*Meaning:*

- If you wind up in a certain place or situation, you find yourself there by chance or because of unexpected events.

- To find yourself in an unexpected and usually unpleasant situation, especially as a result of what you do

*For example:*

*WIND UP*
- If the economy doesn't improve, more and more people could wind up jobless and homeless and living on the streets.

*WIND UP DOING SOMETHING*
- After missing the last train, we wound up staying the night in a hotel near the station.

- If he keeps doing stuff like that he's going to wind up in prison!

- You don't want to wind up homeless, do you?

⚠️ *Note:* "wind" is pronounced as in "wind the clock", not as in "the wind blew"

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♥️ *Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned*

*Possible interpretation:*
A woman rejected in love can be very angry and dangerous.

⚠️ *Note:*

- hell (noun): (according to various religions) a place of suffering where bad people go after death
- hath (verb): [old English] has
- fury (noun): violent anger; (Fury) in Greek mythology a female spirit of punishment
- scorn (verb): to reject contemptuously

⚠️ *Origin:*

This saying is based on lines from The Mourning Bride by William Congreve (1670-1729):
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

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♥️ *Cross the stream where it is shallowest*

To do things in the easiest possible way.

- Let’s just cross the stream where it is shallowest and find a spot that you can pull right in to—don’t worry about parallel parking.

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♥️ *TOTAL*
_American and Australian English_

*Meaning:* to completely destroy, to wreck

*For example:*

➖My son was in an accident last night, and thankfully he wasn't hurt. He totalled our car, though.

➖Mandy's car was totalled when a huge tree fell on it in the hurricane.

⚠️ *Variety:*
This slang term is typically used in American and Australian English but may be used in other varieties of English too.

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♥️ *OWN UP*

*1. To admit that you have done sth bad or embarrassing*

- Come on,own up. Who broke it?

- No one owned up to breaking the window

*2. To tell the truth or to admit that you are responsible for something*

- A young nurse looked at the two men and waited for one of them to own up.

- No one has owned up to stealing the money.

♥️ *APOSTROPHES*

*Example Mistake:*

- A womans hat was left on the bus.

- Two dogs use the dish. It is the dogs’s dish.

⚠️ *Tip:* Apostrophes indicate that a noun owns something.

There are no apostrophes in the first sentence, even though you’re talking about the hat which is owned by the woman.

In the second sentence, there is more than one dog, but the apostrophe is not used correctly. Singular nouns will always add ‘s when you’re indicating possession, even if the noun ends with “s.”

Plural nouns that do not end in “s” also take an ‘s. However, plural nouns that end with “s” have an apostrophe added after the “s.”

⚠️ *Correction:*

- A woman‘s hat was left on the bus.

- Two dogs use the dish. It is the dogs’ dish.

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♥️ *DATING UP* is scoring someone "better" than you. Dating down is typically apt when a man or woman dates someone else who is considered "not good enough" for them.

♥️ A *NEG* is a backhanded compliment, usually said by a man to a woman, to surprise and/or annoy her so she does a double take and tries to prove her value to the man.

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Here are some general rules which might help you choose which to use:📃
✏️With an adjective, they can both mean 'more than normal' but especially is much more common. In informal English, you can use that. For example:
📍This vocabulary isn't especially/specially/that difficult.

✏️Use especially with a noun to mean 'particularly' (or 'more than other things'). It is usually used after a comma.
📍I love watching films, especially/particularly thrillers.

✏️Use specially to mean 'for this particular purpose'. It is often used with a passive verb structure.
📍These houses were specially built for small families.
📍It's Halloween, so I rented this horror film specially (for this occasion).

#Note: We don't usually use especially or specially at the start of a sentence. Instead, use in particular at the start of a second sentence to give a 'more than other things' example.
📍I love watching films. In particular, I really like horror films.

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