Entertainment Vocabulary

1. Vocabulary
Unit 1 Outcomes Upper-Intermediate

2. PP.8-9

3. /wɪə(r)d/
• very strange

4. /ˈhevi/
• very serious, depressing or upsetting

5. /dɪˈstɜː(r)bɪŋ/
• upsetting

6. over-the-top
• so extreme that it seems silly

7. /ʌpˈlɪftɪŋ/
• makes you feel happier

8. /hɪˈleəriəs/
• extremely funny

9. /ˈɡrɪpɪŋ/
• extremely exciting

10. /ˈkætʃi/
• easy to remember

11. turn over
• change to a different channel

12. • boring
/dʌl/

13. PP.10-11

14. Product design
• The way a product is presented

15. /ˌænɪˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/
• cartoons

16. /ˈsɒmbə(r)/
• Serious and sad

17. /ˈlaɪfˌlaɪk/
• Very realistic

18. /ˈprɪti/
• Nice and pleasant

19. /drəˈmætɪk/
• Containing a lot of exciting action

20. /ˈdeɪtɪd/
• No longer modern or fashionable
• Out-of-date
• Outdated

21. /ˌætməsˈferɪk/
• Creating a mood of mystery and excitement

22. /ˈæbstrækt/
• Expressing the artist’s ideas or feelings rather
than showing the exact appearance of people
and things

23. /æmˈbɪɡjuəs/
• The meaning is not clear

24. Open to interpretation
• You can understand it in several different ways

25. /ˈɪntɪmət/
• About a person’s private life

26. have/get the impression (that)
• an opinion or feeling that you have about
someone or something
you have seen
but do not know very well

27. /ˈluːsli/
• not in an exact or detailed way

28. PP.12-13

29. Fatal flaws
• Something that makes it completely useless or
wrong (2 words, it’s a collocation)

30. Face a challenge
• To confront a situation (3 words, it’s a
collocation)

31. From rags to riches
• used for describing a situation in which
someone who has been very poor becomes
very rich

32. /ˈbʊli/
• to frighten or hurt someone who is smaller or
weaker than you

33. /ˈraɪv(ə)l/
• A person/team/company that you are
competing with

34. /ˈbreɪkθruː/
• Start being successful at something- or
achieve something

35. /dɪˈspeə(r)/
• the feeling that a situation is so bad that
nothing you can do will change it

36. /kwest/
• a long difficult search

37. /kəˈrʌpt/
• to encourage someone to start doing
dishonest, illegal, or immoral things

38. Resist temptation
• Manage not to do something you want to do,
but which could be bad for you

39. /ɔː(r)ˈdiːl/
• an extremely unpleasant experience,
especially one that lasts for a long time

40. A REVIEW

41. coffee table book
• a large expensive book with a lot of pictures in
it

42. whodunnit
• a book or film usually about a murder, in
which you do not know who committed the
murder until the end

43. farce
• a play or film in which people get involved in
silly or unlikely situations that are intended to
make you laugh

44. set
• a stage or other place where a film or
television programme is made or where a play
is performed

45. playwright
• someone who writes plays, especially as their
job

46. score
• a written copy of a piece of music