Interchange Third edition is a four-level series for adult and young-adult learners of English from the beginning to the high-intermediate level.
The Interchange Third Edition Workbook has six-page units that follow the same sequence as the Student’s Book, recycling and reviewing language from previous units. It provides additional practice in grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing. In the article below Interchange 3A Glossary is provided. All difficult words of each units are explained with parts of speech and meaning to be useful for the people learning this book.
Interchange 3A Glossary
Unit-1 (That’s what friends are for!) PAGE-1
- Snapshot (n) a quick view of information that tells you a little about what someone or something is like.
- Perspective (n) understanding of relative importance of things.
- Potential (adj) having the capacity to develop into something in the potential.
- Sensitivity (adj) quick to detect, be effected by slight changes
- Humor (n) the quality of being funny
- Organize (v) make arrangements or preparations for
- Considerate (adj) careful
- Ungenerous (adj) not kind
- Encourage (v) give confidence, support, or hope to
- Unpredictable (adj) changeable or unreliable
- Accomplishment (n) something that is achieved successfully
- Easy going (n) the state of being relaxed under pressure
- Temperamental (adj) moody
- Unreliable (adj) not trust-able
- Embarrass (v) to make someone feel confused or foolish
- Variety (adj) changes
- Casual (adj) happening by chance
- Acquaintance (n) knowledge about something
- Companionship (n) a good feeling which comes with someone existance
- Track (n) way
- Neglect (v) ignore
- Flexibility (adj) capable of bending
Unit-2 (Career moves)
- Enterprise (n) a business organization
- Fascinate (v) to make interesting
- Gossip (n) false stories
- Awful (adj) bad
- Veterinarian (n) animal doctor
- Orchestra (n) group of people who plays music in an event
- Figure (v) find out
- Aerobics (n) exercise, often done by people while music is played
- Counsel (n/v) advice or to give advice
- Psychiatrist (n) a person who knows mental disorder
- Follow-up (v) to follow
- Gossip column (n) a column in newspapers to write gossip in
- Landscaping job (v) a job to improve the appearance of the land
- Intern (n) a graduate student who works to get experience
- Amusement (n) entertainment
- Interior (adj) located inside of something
- Decorator (n) a person who makes things more beautiful
- Choir (n) a group of singers who mostly sing in church
- Conductor (n) a person who the orchestra
- Pros and cons (n) advantages and disadvantages
- Criteria (n) a standard on which a judgment or decision may be based
- Terrible (adj) extremely bad
- Contrary (n) opposite in meaning
- Cutbacks (n) a decrease in amount of something
- Workforce (n) the people available for work
- Distinguish (v) to differentiate
- Praise (v) to say good things about someone or something
- Superiors (adj) greater than
Unit-3 (Could do me a favor?) PAGE-2
- Complicated (adj) difficult to understand
- Borrow (v) to take something from someone for a time before returning it.
- Roommate (n) a person who shares room with someone
- Wonder (v) to think surprisingly
- Lend (v) to give something to someone for a period of time and then return
- Pie (n) a desert consisting of fruit in a pastry
- Espresso (n) a strong coffee
- Cues (n) signal
- Favor (n) a kind or helpful act you do for someone
- Decline (v) to become lower in amount or in condition
- Apology (n) a sorry
- Deny (v) refuse to accept
- Compliment (n) to praise
- Spill (v) to cause something to fall
- Rephrase (v) to express the same message in different ways
- Stuffed (adj) filled with something
- Cabbage (n) a plant eaten as a vegetable having thick green or purple leaves
surrounding a spherical heart or head of young leaves - Assume (v) to guess whether something is true or false.
- Indicate (v) to show
Unit-4 (What a story!)
- Editorial (n) people who edit
- Classify (v) to arrange in groups
- Comic (n) relating to comedy
- Attempt (v/n) to try or a try
- Poodle (n) an intelligent dog
- Shipwreck (n) a destroyed ship
- Coral (n) a hard material formed on the bottom of the sea by the skeleton of sea animals
- Reef (n) sand just below or surface of the sea
- Hop (v) get into (a vehicle)
- Patrol (v) to move around through an area for safety
- Intonation (n) ups and downs of voice
- Broadcast (v) a radio or television program
- Illusion (n) something which is false but seems true
- Freeway (n) a wide highway that is built for fast travels
- Coincidence (n) the occurance of two or more things at the same time
- Predicament (n) difficult situation
- Triumph (n) victory
- Tabloids (n) newspaper with half size pages
- Sensation (n) general feeling of excitement
- Newsworthy (n) something which is able to be brought into news
- Off-limits (adj) out of boundary
- Withstand (n) to face
- Preserve (v) to maintain the condition
- Gigantic (adj) extremely big
- Suck up (v) to eat
- Flew off (v) run away
- Astound (v) to cause a feeling of great surprise
- Retell (v) to tell again
Unit-5 (Crossing culture) PAGE-3
- Anxious (adj) worried
- Insecure (adj) nervous
- Enthusiastic (adj) interested
- Curious (adj) interested to know
- Depress (v) to make someone feel sad
- Homesick (adj) a person who is sad because he is away home
- Customs (n) tradition
- Weave (n) to interlace threads into cloths
- Pamphlet (n) a page having particular information about something
- Temple (n) a place for religious practice
- Excerpts (n) a small part of a longer written work
- Window-shop (v) to walk by the shops and look at the materials with buying
- Blurt out (v) say something without thinking
- Tend (v) to pay attention
Unit-6 (What’s wrong with it)
- Shrinks (v) to become smaller in amount or size
- Complaint (n) expression of dissatisfaction
- Landlord (n) a person who owns land or property
- Catalog (n) list of items arranged in alphabetical order
- Lining (n) a covering for the inside surface of something
- Chipped (adj) having small piece missing
- Stain (n) a dirty mark
- Tenant (n) a person who gives rent to use of land
- Elicit (v) to make, to generate
- Remodel (v) to change
- Handyman (n) a man who does small tasks
- Reveals (v) to make known, to show, to display something which was hidden
- Realistic (adj) true
- Beforehand (adj) in advance
- Cramp (v) uncomfortably small and crowded
Unit-7 (The world we live in) PAGE-4
- City council (n) group of elected people who works for the interests of residents
- Fumes (n) a dangerous gas to inhale
- Overbuilding (n) the making of building on building
- Overcrowd (v) to fill unlimitedly, with people, animal, objects or information
- Conserve (v) to save for late use
- Contaminate (v) to introduce impurities
- Drug-trafficking (n) drug smuggling
- Famine (n) shortage of food
- Global warming (n) increase in temperature of the earth
- Inflation (n) increase in price of something
- Political unrest (n) a state of dissatisfaction of people with politics
- Executive (adj) a person who has the power to decide in an organization
- Chronicle (adj) a written form of important events
- Poppies (n) a plant having red and yellow flowers and rounded see capsules
- Opium (n) a drug obtained from the poppy plant
- Scattered (adj) separated into different direction
- Tide (n) change of the sea level
- Fate (n) result, consequence
- Industrialize (v) to make something on industrial level
Unit -8
- Nutrition (n) a process of absorbing food and use it for growth
- Survey (n) observation, view
- Counselor (n) advisor
- Stick (v) to attach
- Native (adj) belonging to one by birth
- Pal (n) friend
- Courtesy (n) polite behavior
- Creativity (n) the quality or ability to create or invent something
- Perseverance (n) continuing in a course of action in spite of failure
- Tolerance (n) the ability to allow the existence in spite of dislikes and disagreement
- Illustration (n) explanation
- Grasp (v) hold firmly
- Kinesthetic (n) related to the perception of body movement
- Intrapersonal (adj) existing in the mind
- Strategy (n) a plane designed to achieve something
- Comprehend (v) understand
- Associate (v) have dealings with