Essential Vocabulary. Vocabulary Notes words

Tee, v, n exultation, n

Preliminary, adj birdie, v

Waggle, n, v occur, v

Rapid(ity), adj(n) peer, v

Soar, v distinctly, adv

Bunker, n furze, n

Mashie, adj hack, n

Scud, v bugbear, n

Solitary, adj chasm, n

Manifest, v skirt, v

Merely, adv scramble, v

Utter, v hurl, v

Decidedly, adv athletic, adj

Ejaculation, n ominous, adj

Amiable, adj bundle, n

Eminently, adv familiar, adj

Mutter, v conscious(ness), adj(n)

Dejectedly, adv pallor, n

Swing, n, v sinewy, adj

Eloquent, adj shot, n

Succeed, v resonant, adj

Equally, adv queer, adj

Niblick, n shudder, v

Vocabulary notes

1. Tee (n, v)

a) Noun

1) A cleared space on a golf course, from which the ball is struck at the beginning of play for each hole. Syn: teeing ground.

■ a small peg with a concave head which can be placed in the ground to support a golf ball before it is struck from a tee. [Origin: late 17th cent. (originally Scots, as teaz): of unknown origin].

2) A mark aimed at in bowls, quoits, curling, and other similar games. [Origin: late 18^th cent. (originally Scots): perhaps the same word as tee 1.].

b) Verb (tees, teeing, teed)

1) [no obj.] place the ball on a tee ready to make the first stroke of the round or hole

■ (tee off) begin a round or hole of golf by playing the ball from a tee

■ (tee off) make a start on something

– to tee up

■ [with obj.] place (something) in position, especially to be struck

A wary man tees up the rest of the coconuts

2) [with obj.] (tee someone off) make someone angry or annoyed

Tommy was really teed off at Ernie.

2. Waggle (n, V)

a) Verb: move or cause to move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down: [no obj] His arm waggled | [with obj.] Mary waggled a glass at them. Syn: to wave, to sway (to and fro)

-to waggle one’s head

■ [with obj.] swing (a golf club) loosely to and fro over the ball before playing a shot

b) Noun: an act of waggling.

3. Succeed (V)

a) [no obj.] achieve the desired aim or result he succeeded in winning a pardon | a mission which could not possibly succeed

-the generation that succeeds us

■ attain fame, wealth, or social status. Syn: to progress, to make progress, to attain sth, to achieve sth.

The management and business skills you need to succeed.

-to succeed in life/sport/business/doing sth

b) [with obj.] take over a throne, office, or other position from.

He would succeed Hawke as Prime Minister.

■ [no obj.] become the new rightful holder of an office, title, or property

He succeeded to his father's kingdom.

■ come after and take the place of her embarrassment was succeeded by fear

N: success – nothing succeeds like success. Derivatives: succeeder. Origin: late Middle English: from Old French succeder or Latin succedere “come close after”, from sub – “close to” + cedere “go”.

4. Occur (V)

Verb (occurs, occurring, occurred) [no obj., with adverbial] happen; take place. Syn: to happen, to befall, to appear, to take place.

The accident occurred at about 3.30 p.m

■ exist or be found to be present in a place or under a particular set of conditions

Radon occurs naturally in rocks such as granite

■ (occur to) (of a thought or idea) come into the mind of: [with clause]

It occurred to him that he hadn't eaten. Origin: late 15^th cent.: from Latin occurrere “go to meet, present itself”, from ob – “against” + currere “to run”.