Strategies

Guessing meaning:

1. Tome = Book
2. Treacherous = Dangerous
3. Vanished = Disappeared
4. Anticipating = Thinking ahead, expecting
5. Appease = Satisfy
6. Dispute = Argument, debate
7. Sapped = Take away, drain
8. Obscures = To hide, conceal
9. Chattering = Talking
10. Giggle = Laugh

Prefixes

1. Arch-
Starting tomorrow, I am your arch-ennemy.

2. Mis-
No more misbehaving in here... let's be a wee bit civilized!

3. Pre-
Did you pre-order your copy of her upcoming album?

4. Out-
I'm not really an outgoing person, you know.

5. Dis-
Come on, McGyver! Dismantle this bomb using what you always have in your pockets!

6. Post-
I'd like to postpone my meeting with Mr. Yamasaki.

7. Un-
What you're saying is unbelievably accurate!

8. Self-
Your gesture is an act of utter selflessness.

9. Crypto-
Cryptozoology is still a pretty controversial field of study.

10. Under-
Her talk left me underwhelmed.

Suffixe

1. -ful
Her merciful behavior will serve her later!

2. -ness
Blindness is quite a hard disability to overcome.

3. -less
He was left powerless by the situation.

4. -ism
As you know, canibalism still exists in remote areas of the world!

5. -ly
She's an overly protective mother.

6. -ise/ize
The teacher never ceased to emphasize on the important parts of the lecture... You are a clueless chump if you failed the exam, my dear!

7. -ive
God, you are expressive!

8. -al
Their father is in pain! He's in the final stage of cancer. Poor man!

9. -able/ible
No, that sentence was bloody unintelligible! You, aussie blokes, should know that the proof of what you're saying is in the pudding!

10. -fy
I'm going to exemplify my point using this figure.

Collocations

1. Step up
My students will have to step up their game if they want to succeed.

2. Dress up / dress down
What's wonderful with jeans, is that you can alway dress them up, or dress them down!

3. Get going
We should get going, or else, we'll be late for our flight!

4. Get wet
Then, she told me: ''I'm getting wet at all the right places!'' I looked at her, a bit uneasy, and turned away.

5. Step back
I once met a old and wise man. He was always saying ''Step back, and let yourself be seduced.''

6. Pay attention
Pay attention, you little bastards!

7. Get lost
How can you get lost in Bandol? That's unbelievable!

8. Come under attack
This city came under attack in the middle of the 13th century.

9. Save someone a seat
I saved someone a seat in the theatre... Some people weren't too happy about it though... That's their problem!

10. Break the ice
That incident broke the ice between us two! What a relief!