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Vocabulary: describe and explain

In this lesson, I won't review the very technical vocabulary which is used to describe images, for instance, yet we'll concentrate on words and expressions which will enable you to describe and explain a phenomenon...

To describe=> a description

To elucidate=> elucidation

To shed light on (to shed, I shed, shed)

To clarify=> clarification

To demonstrate=> A demonstration

Inexplicable

Unaccountable

To explain stg to sb		To explain oneself
An explanation		To demand an explanation
To seek an explanation for stg		To give an account of stg
To interpret stg as stg		An interpretation
To misinterpret		To describe/ a description

IMPORTANT LINK WORDS

Because of/ On account of Owing to		from fear/ despair out of fear/ despair
Considering		since
Due to		therefore
In view of		seeing that
Thanks to		for lack of/ for want of
For fear of/ lest		by means of
According to		on (the) grounds of
On financial grounds		on family grounds

- That's why it happened...

- It all arises from the fact that...

- It's all a question of...

- It has to do with...

- The thing is...

- It depends on...

- I reasoned that...

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1. 'Please, can you ? There are so many things I can’t understand.'

2. For some reasons, the suspect refused to confess the murder although the evidence was against him.

3. 'Please, let me a few things in the statement you’ve given to the officer.'

4. 'I’m so disappointed... of money, I won’t be able to take the trip I had been planning for months.'

5. After long discussions of the Board, local training was chosen mainly , but also on practical ones.

6. I thought she was single, but what her friend said, she is divorced and has a kid.

7. He can’t be condemned, what he has done to help the woman and save her finally.

8. ' I’m determined to and to find it! I promise I will. '

9. The picnic was cancelled a storm alert issued on the whole area.

10. 'Alright! you’re so busy, I’ll go shopping and cook for us tonight.'

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