MI2, Chapters 33 to 50
CHAPTER 33
For everyone :
A feeling, sensitive, to feel, composure / to be composed to experience, a mood, to repress sth, to curb sth, to be upset, quietly, to like to be fond of, to be attracted TO s.o. to appeal to, affectionate, to hate, hatred, to curse, a curse, to care for sth / to care for s.o., a blessing, I’d rather do sth / I’d rather you did sth, to be anxious to do sth, eager to do sth, reluctant, dull, boring / to bore s.o. / to be bored / boredom, to yawn, to be weary of sth, sorrow, grief, agony, agonizing, pain, to ache, to moan, to mourn, painful, cheerful, to sob, to cry / to weep, to sigh, to shed tears, to giggle, to grin, glad, to comfort s.o., relieved, relief, to enjoy doing sth, delighted, optimistic / pessimistic (adj.), disappointed / disappointment, what a pity = what a shame, annoyed, a hardship, to complain, an ordeal, to be in trouble, anxiety, miserable, a misfortune, unfortunate, wretched, a wretch, despair, to depress, a hopeless person // a desperate person, astonished / amazed / stunned / astounded, to wonder, to be afraid of, to frighten s.o., fear / fright, appalling, awful, to dread sth, formidable, terrific, to deter / a deterrent, to have sexual intercourse
For Khâgneux only :
To arouse sth, to be composed, to cool off, moved to tears, callous, to be keen on doing sth, to fall for s.o. , to fancy sth, to loathe, to dote on sth, to entice s.o., to hanker after, to yearn for , to crave (for) sth, tedious, to flag, to skip, moody, dismal, lively, to heave (a sigh), to beam at s.o., carefree, trying (adj.), dejected, downcast, dispirited, shattered hopes / blighted hopes, to be staggered by, to be be bewildered by, to shudder, a foreboding, dismayed
CHAPTER 34
For everyone :
proud, pride, self-confident, to boast / to brag, a braggart, humble, mild, meek, gentle, selfish, generous, thrift, a miser / miserly / miserliness / avarice, to save (money, time), to cut down on sth, extravagant, to waste, to squander, greed, greedy, lust, courage / courageous, to dare, a challenge, nerve, to dodge, coward / cowardice / cowardly, lazy / laziness, idle / idleness, careless, to overlook sth, energy / energetic, care, to take care, prudent / cautious, to warn, stern, industrious, steady / steadfast // unsteady, rash, reckless, wayward, a freak, a fit, a whim / whimsical, a prank
For Khâgneux only :
to presume on sth, unobstrusive, diffident, to stint on sth, lavish of sth, pluck, gallantly, to stick it out, challenging, fearless / dauntless, casually, spirit, heedless
CHAPTER 35
For everyone :
to behave, behaviour, morality , morale, evil [i:vl] / good, shortcomings, wicked, loose, outrageous, lofty, responsible for, to indulge s.o., / to indulge in s.o., guilt / guilty of, conscientious, narrow-minded / broadminded, shame, shameful, shameless, remorse, to repent, to make up for sth, to redeem, to criticize s.o / a critic / a criticism / critical of, to disparage s.o., to disapprove of sth, to accuse s.o. of, to despise / to scorn, despicable, contempt, ridiculous, preposterous, to deserve, to praise, to look up to s.o., respect / respectful / respectable, to flatter s.o., to advocate, to commend s.o., to blame, to scold, to slander, worthy (of), to award, to speak ill of, renowned, unknown, spotless / stainless
For Khâgneux only :
to set an example, to own up to sth, to spurn, to run s.o. down, to jeer (at) s.o., entitled to, to overrate / to underrate, to hold it against s.o., to lecture s.o., a scandal monger, to pay s.o. a tribute, disreputable, notorious
CHAPTER 36 (one of the longest ones)
For everyone :
To rule, authority, ambitious / ambition, to rival / rivalry, to compete with s.o., to give in / to yield, to grant, a slave / slavery, unruly, to deny s.o. sth, to allow, to compel / compulsory, to threaten / a threat, to prompt s.o. to do sth, to interfere, to demand / a demand, a bond, embarrassed, shy, to blush, casual, fastidious, I can’t be bothered, a nuisance, to bother, impolite / rude, boisterous, bo worry, to harass, to disturb, inconsiderate, to treat / to ill-treat, saucy / cheeky, formal / informal, sullen, to sulk, a bore / to bore / to be bored, to entertain, to share, honesty / honest, fair / unfair, human / humane, thoughtful / considerate, on behalf of s.o., grateful / ungrateful, thoughtless, to humiliate, to harm, vicious, cruel, to help / helpful, faithful / unfaithful, to back sth/s.o. up, to shelter, to assist s.o., fierce, mischief / mischievous, malice, to commit oneself / commitment, to rely on s.o./sth, reliable / dependable, to betray / a betrayal, treachery / treacherous, to bribe / a bribe, to trick s.o. into doing sth, to deceive / deceptive/deceitful, deception, misleading, unreliable, untrustworthy, a hoax, to pretend, to hide / to conceal, fake, to sham, straightforward, a hypocrite / hypocritical / hypocrisy, cunning (N. / adj.), patient / impatient, I can’t bear / I can’t stand, to put up with sth, indignant, wrath, touchy, to offend / offensive, to annoy, to quarrel, pleasant / unpleasant, to make up for sth, to apologise / an apology, sympathy / sympathetic, to pity s.o., to revenge oneself / to avenge s.o., to bear s.o. a grudge, articulate, to mention, to hint (at sth), to urge s.o. to do sth, to advise / advice, a clue, to hush sth, flawless, an issue, logic / logical, to miss the point, to make one's point, to take sides with s.o., to explain sth / an explanation, a ground / groundless, to imply sth, to agree, to acknowledge, to qualify / a qualification, to clash, to object to sth, to be mistaken, to challenge sth, to dare s.o. to do sth, to state sth, to prove / a proof, evidence, to testify to sth / a testimony, to witness / a witness, to swear, to stress sth / to emphasize sth, to insist on sth
For Khâgneux only :
Patronizing, to abide by sth, to back out of sth, to comply with sth, to stand up to sth, exacting, to get along with s.o., bashful, easy-going, to make a fuss (about sth), particular (about sth), off-hand, to poke one’s nose into sth, prim, crooked, dubious, to meddle with, to fall for s.o., to fall for sth, sly, to decoy s.o. into sth, to infuriate s.o., to resent sth / resentful, to have an argument / to have a row, to nag at s.o., to make it up with s.o., ruthless, relentless / unrelenting, to get away with sth, out of spite, to hold it against s.o., to come to a deadlock, challenging, to contend that, a show-down, to explode sth // to expose sth, to get the better of s.o., to coax s.o., to wheedle s.o.
CHAPTER 37 (one of the longest ones)
For everyone :
Versatile, a genius, gifted, clever, bright, lively, wit / witty, an insight, dull, stupid, a fool / foolish, absent-minded, mad / madness, a lunatic, insane, wise / wisdom, to pay attention to sth, to draw attention to sth, reasonable = sensible, nonsense, to grasp sth, to make a mistake, to be mistaken, to mistake sth/s.o. for sth/s.o., to realize, to be aware of th, to notice, to take sth into account, curious, curiosity, inquisitive, to check sth, to inquire, to discover /a discovery, a clue, to seek, to change one’s mind, on second thoughts, to consider sth, to contemplate sth, to occur to s.o. that / to dawn upon s.o. that, learned, shallow, knowledge, to hear about / to hear of, a scholar, to wonder, to work wonders / a wonder, to guess, to solve a riddle, to puzzle s.o., to record sth, to remember sth // to remind s.o of sth // a memory, a mystery / mysterious, to conjure sth up, to forget, unforgettable, to dream of/about, a nightmare, fancy / to fancy (=1 imaginer, 2= bien aimer), imaginary, to make sth up, to foresee sth / to predict sth, to wait for sth // to expect sth, to doubt sth, suspicious, to assume / an assumption, to believe / a belief, gullible = credulous, in my opinion = to my mind, to draw a conclusion = to come to a conclusion, a prejudice, to be prejudiced / biased, to qualify sth / a qualification, to mean / a meaning / meaningless, particularly, especially, a characteristic, typical of
For Khâgneux only:
Keen, shrewd, a craze, to dote on sth, to see to it that, look out! / watch out!, to gather that, unawares, to probe into sth, to pry into sth, to hit upon sth / to come across sth, to think twice, to give sth a second thought, to think better of it, to ponder over, to brood over, to be at a loss, oblivion, to forecast, to question sth
CHAPTER 38
For everyone :
To need / a need, necessary / unnecessary, to require sth, unavoidable, to aim at sth, to be meant to do / to be meant for sth, a purpose / on purpose, to hesitate, to withdraw, to make up one’s mind, to make arrangements, to carry out an experiment, to design sth, able to / unable, ability to / inability to, capable of / incapable of, I can’t afford to, helpless, power / powerful / powerless, a means, there is no way, a policy, a process, a method, to train / training, available, spare (adj.), to warn, occasionally, chance, efficient, a drawback, to act, to accomplish, an achievement / an accomplishment, an attempt / to attempt, an endeavour / to endeavour, a deed, to improve / an improvement, to fail / failure, to worsen, damage, a feat, to look after s.o., to undertake sth, busy, leisure, work / a job / work, , to manage to / to succeed in
For Khâgneux only :
To shun s.o./sth, to give up, to get rid of / to dispose of, to be of use, to resort to sty, to make the most of sth, convenient, handy, to have the edge over sth, a profit / profitable, an asset, to strive, a strain, to be overcome, to remove, to get over sth, to hinder, tricky, intricate, trying [adj.], ease, smooth, a hazard, harmful / harmless, to rescue, a narrow escape
CHAPTER 39
For everyone :
To yield / to give in, stubborn, to volunteer, self-control, to be at liberty to do, to pull oneself together, to curb sth, to be in the habit of, I can’t help +V-ing, to be used / accustomed to V-ing, I can’t help it, peculiar, as usual, addicted to, commonplace, an oddity, to be familiar to s.o. ≠ to be familiar with sth
For Khâgneux only :
Dogged, perverse, willing, on an impulse, deliberate, to shake off a habit, quaint
CHAPTER 40
For everyone :
To involve, to be due to, to lead to, the outcome, a tendency, to be likely to, likely / unlikely, luck / lucky, chance, by chance, random, actual, to attend sth, to lack sth, to appear / appearance / apparently, to disappear / to vanish, eventually, to occur, to prove, an event, to remain, to balance / a balance, to make up for sth, to withdraw, a link, to refer to, to fit // to suit, to match, to agree with, to compare / a comparison, to contain / the content(s), to blend, relevant / irrelevant, equal to, different from, to differ, as opposed to, on the contrary, opposite
For Khâgneux only :
To chance upon sth, to come across sth, to run out of sth, to turn out to be/do, to include, to enclose, to overlap, a pattern, to set sth off
CHAPTER 41
For everyone :
To matter, never mind, to value, worth / value, to be worth sth, to measure, to prevail, extensive, faint, main, mere, plain, scarce, sheer, obvious, slight
For Khâgneux only :
A trifle, to make much of sth, comprehensive, utmost
CHAPTER 42
For everyone
Domestic violence, child labour, to be mugged, to stab (= donner un coup de couteau), to carry out a threat, a slaughter (= massacre), looting, a bloodshed, to blackmail s.o., a ransom, abduction, to be held hostage, a sex offender, a sexual assault, to file a complaint, theft, bribery, embezzlement, to swindle / to con, crime figures, handcuffs
For Khâgneux only
Battered wives, ruthlessness, looting = ransacking, to run amok, to spill blood, shoplifting, bag-snatching, tax evasion, to indict s.o., a rioter, a pimp, to be jostled
CHAPTER 43
For everyone
Addictive, tobacco, a gambler, drug trafficking, to launder money
CHAPTER 44
For everyone
To turn s.o. into sth, to undergo a change, miscellaneous, to evolve, to rise ≠ to raise, to decrease // to increase, to alter = to change, to switch (from sth to sth), a shift, to substitute / to replace, temporary, to postpone / to put off, to carry on = to go on = to continue, to resume, to survive, a process, to delay, to linger, steady, to hasten / haste, current / currently, remote, previous, former, to overlap, to decay, to fade
For Khâgneux only
To dwindle away, to curtail, provisional, ceaseless, to subside, to come to a standstill, to span (twenty years), to dally (= to linger), fitful, to be out of date // to be up to date, to draw near = to approach, to keep pace with
CHAPTER 45
For everyone
A search warrant, foul play (= qqch de mal, d’illégal), an arson / an arsonist, law-abiding
CHAPTER 46
For everyone
A soldier, a private, a corporal, a sergeant, headquarters, to enlist, a volunteer, a barracks, a sentry, a helmet, a stripe, ammunition, a bullet, a sword, the blade, a shell, a bomb, a sailor / a seaman, a rocket, a submarine, a plane, the target, a shelter, to bale out, a parachute, to wage war / to make war, to invade, a victory / a defeat, to conquer, to withdraw, a siege, to surrender, to plunder, to escape, casualties, a ransom, a spy, a mole, intelligence, a truce, UNO, NATO, to negotiate,
For Khâgneux only
A squad, an NCO / an non-commissioned officer, a fatigue dress / fatigues, the sheath, a report, to defuse a bomb, a fleet, a torpedo, the booty, to lay waste, disabled ex-servicemen, to set free, to hold hostage, a civilian
CHAPTER 47
For everyone
A church, a cathedral, an abbey / an abbot, the congregation, the altar, the choir, stained glass windows, the steeple, a tower, to believe / belief, to worship, a pagan / the heathens, a monk / a friar, a god / a goddess, Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, faith, a Christian, the Lord, the Almighty, a martyr, a pilgrim, to pray, the Gospel, pious, to bless, heaven, an angel, hell, the devil, a fiend, the seven deadly sins, a bishop, a parish, the vicar, a churchgoer, the Pope, a nun, to go to mass, a Freemason
For Khâgneux only
The nave, a pillar, a column, a pew, the pulpit, a spire, a shrine, doomsday, a psalm, collection, dissenters, a denomination, a convent
CHAPTER 48
For everyone
Politics, political, policy, a citizen, an opinion poll, allowances and benefits, social inequalities
For Khâgneux only
Canvassing, a constituency, the incumbent president, a tramp / a hobo, deprivation, to live below poverty line
CHAPTER 49 (one of the longest ones)
For everyone :
a playwright a play
the plot stage directions
characters the director
the hero, the heroine
to act (a part) an actor, an actress
props an aside
a tragedy, tragic
a comedy, comic
a musical
the main plot, a subplot
the climax, the anticlimax
a twist the denouement
a happy ending
a novel, a novelist
a short story, a tale, a fairy tale
a romance, romance
a detective story
the narratee, a narrative
an embedded narrative, a third-person narrator
omniscient, the point of view
to depict, to describe
to convey
a poet, a poem, a rhyme
a line, a stanza
rhythm
a epic, epic (adj), a fable
a myth, mythical
a literary genre
a utopia, utopian
a excerpt, an extract
a passage drawn from...
an essay
to comment on sth
commitment, committed, uncommitted
a classic
romanticism, realism, realistic
a portrayal, an analysis
detailed, shallow
verisimiltude
.... permeates the story
pathetic, pathos
bombastic, highflown
a discrepancy irrelevant
nonsense, nonsensical
preposterous
to rephrase
down-to-earth accurate, inaccurate
colloquial loose
bawdy ludicrous
coarse
the content, the table of contents
the overall pattern
a preface a chapter
an allusion, a hint
to allude to
a reference to to quote from / a quotation from
to state sth / that
to stress sth, to lay stress on sth
to point out that an explanation
to tackle an issue, to address an issue
to avoid an issue
to sum up = to summarize, a summary
clumsy, awkward
to focus on exciting
amusing to heighten he tension
to enhance sth to throw sth into relief
to dwell on/upon sth
a satire, satirical wit, witty
to make fun of to entertain the reader
sarcasm, sarcastic
humour, humorous
irony, ironical
a pun = a play on words
stylistic devices a metaphor
an onomatopeia
lyricism, lyrical
an oxymoron, a chiasmus, a metonymy, a hyperbole
an exaggeration
a paradox, paradoxical
a thesis, a hypothesis, an antithesis
clarity lofty
jarring (sound effects)
far-fetched a commonplace / commonplace
comma, colon, semi-colon, full stop, dash, hyphen, a sentence, a clause
a critic, a criticism, a critique, critical
derogatory to distort s.o.'s views
to qualify a statement
to neglect
For Khagneux only
to cast s.o. in the part of
to stage a character
to play the leading role, the lead
a confidant a cue
dramatic slapstick
to rant a playlet
a whodunit
to unravel a mystery instalments
a ditty to taunt s.o.
subtle a thorough analysis
minute lively
inconsistent apt
cunning hackneyed
subdued maudlin, mawkish
entangled ponderous
a cock-and-bull story
peculiar trite
curt tedious
drab groundless assertions
stilted affected
antiquated an underlying theme
a purple patch to expound one's views
the core, the gist pithy
terse at a breathtaking pace
to ease off the tension
lengthy to evince sth
to harp on sth racy
a quip outstanding
a malaproprism an understatement
a plain style overwrought
to plagiarize lenient
eulogy to lavish praise on
a vexed question to be partial to sth
one-sided to overlook
CHAPTER 50
For everyone :
mathematics a line
straight, curved
a square, a circle
physics, a law, a property
a lens to weigh, scales
heavy, light
length, an inch, a foot, a yard, a mile, to measure, short, long, high, height, deep, depth, wide / broad, width / breadth
size, tall, shallow, narrow, thick // thin
the area an event
a century decay
a conspiracy, a plot
a riot a war
the Middle Ages, a crusade
a knight, chivalry
a castle, a tower
slave, slavery
a democracy
to paint, a painting, a masterpiece
a canvas, a brush
garish
the foreground / the background
a drawing, to draw, a sketch
to carve to play an instrument
in tune // out of tune a key, a keyboard
the strings, a trumpet, a drum, a choir
a tune, an air
the chorus, a burden in chorus
For Khâgneux Only :
a test-tube, a magnet, to magnify
anounce, a pound, a stone
a ruler
a pint, a gallon
a statesman, a warrior, the ancient world, a tournament, the keep, the battlements, the moat, a drawbridge, a dungeon, U.N.O., a dictatorship, the Third World, developed countries, less developed countries, a clash
a hue, a tint, to sit for s.o., a still-life, to stand out against, an outline
marble
a composer, to beat time, a chord
a cello, the brass, a horn, the bagpipe(s), an organ, to set to music