Terror on the football pitch

vocabulary revision


WARNING many lists are of dubious usefulness. Vocabulary should be learnt in context. What follows is just a quick revision list and is no substitute for careful dictionary work and your own notetaking.

Match the key words with their definitions:


1. nerve-racking
2. counterparts
3. ravenous
4. a draw
5. flog
6. sewage
7. confine/detain
8. beat
9. scrutiny
10. elaborate
a. as hungry as a wolf
b. whip
c. people with the same position in different organisations
d. stuff coming out of bathroom waste pipes. Ugh! Smelly!
e. hit
f. when the score is 2-2, 3-3, 4-4, etc
g. making you extremely anxious
h. very detailed
j. keep someone in a place against their will
k. watching/monitoring something



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