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Thẩm Tâm Vy, September 09, 2020 ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS 15

ENGLISH CONFUSABLE WORDS 15 tiresome, tiring A person or thing that is tiresome makes you feel annoyed, irritated, or bored. - ...some rather tiresome questions. - He was drumming on his knee in a way which his solicitor found peculiarly tiresome. - Mrs Partridge spoke patiently, as to a tiresome child. A task or a journey that is tiring makes you feel tired. - Our mother said we should have an early night after such a tiring day. - I tried to remember that I had made a long and tiring journey. toilet, lavatory, loo, wc, bathroom In English, there is a wide range of words that refer to the bowl used by people when they want to get rid of waste from their bodies. The same words are used to refer to the room that contains the bowl. The most widely used words in ordinary English are toilet and lavatory. Lavatory is slightly more formal. - He asked to go to the toilet. - To a child, the toilet is the most interesting room in any house. - “Have you been to the lavatory?”, said my wife as we set off for Buckingham Palace. - The lavatories are through that door over there. In conversation, many British speakers use the word loo. - The houses on the estate were clean, centrally heated, with indoor loos. - He absolutely refused (and still does) to clean the loo. The term wc is used mainly in writing when referring to a toilet as a facility, for example in advertisements for houses or hotels, wc stands for ‘water closet’. - All rooms have an en-suite bathroom with wc, wash-basin and bath or shower. - ...one cold water tap outside; outside wc leaks. A bathroom is a room with a bath, washbasin, and often a toilet, but many speakers, especially Americans, talk about going to the bathroom to refer to going to the toilet. - One of the girls left to go to the bathroom. - The kids had to go to the bathroom - you know how it is with kids. In some public buildings, the toilets are called the ‘cloakrooms’. - We went along together to the cloakroom, where there were still two or three girls powdering their noses. - …. the staff Cloakroom. town, city Towns and cities are areas covered in streets where people live and work, and where there are shops, offices, factories, schools, and places for entertainment. Usually towns are smaller than cities, but a large number of people may live there. - Fraserburgh is a bustling fishing town. - 'You know McCarthy?—In this town, everybody knows everybody.' - They aimed to attract industry to the new towns.

Cities are usually large. Officially, a city has a charter which gives it certain privileges. This charter is given by the monarch in Britain, and in America by the state. Most British cities have a cathedral. - Life ỉn a smaller community may suit you better than that in a large city. ...the millions who have migrated to the cities because they could not survive on the land. van, lorry, truck A van is a vehicle that is used for carrying goods on roads. It has a roof, and no windows in the compartment where the goods are kept. Some vans are about the same length as a car. others can be about a metre longer. - Mind the patch of mud near the shed; the baker’s van got stuck in that last night. - Delivery vans could hardly get through the traffic. A lorry is also used for carrying goods on roads. It is larger than a van, and much larger than a car. - Convoy after convoy of giant lorries thunders along the roads. - I almost hit the timber lorry before I even realised it was there. In American English, a vehicle like this is called a truck. - Huge articulated trucks constantly arrive with thousands of turkeys. - He had a fleet of freight hauling trucks that made him a fortune. above, over Above and over are both used to talk about position and height. If something is higher than something else, but an imaginary line joining them is not vertical, you have to use above. - The trees rose above the houses. If you go over something, you cross it and get to …