I.
noun
1 solid thing
ADJECTIVE
▪ inanimate
▪ solid , three-dimensional
▪ large , small
▪ heavy , sharp , etc.
▪ egg-shaped , V-shaped , etc.
▪ man-made
▪ common , everyday , familiar , household
▪
Her paintings are of ordinary everyday ~s.
▪ decorative
▪ flying , moving
▪ stationary
▪ distant
▪ material , physical
▪ sacred
▪ foreign
▪
people who claim to have found foreign ~s in cans
▪ sex , sexual
▪
He regards women as nothing more than sexual ~s.
2 purpose
ADJECTIVE
▪ main , primary , principal
▪ sole
▪
My sole ~ is to get to the bottom of this mystery.
OBJECT + NOUN
▪ lesson
▪
The plans are an ~ lesson in how to ruin a city.
PHRASES
▪ the ~ of the exercise ( esp. BrE ), the ~ of the game
▪
The ~ of the game is to score as many points as possible.
▪
It would defeat the ~ of the exercise if we paid someone to do it for us.
II.
verb
ADVERB
▪ strenuously , strongly , vehemently
VERB + OBJECT
▪ can hardly
▪
It was your own idea in the first place, so you can hardly ~ now.
▪ be entitled to ( esp. BrE ), have a/the right to
PREPOSITION
▪ to
▪
a petition ~ing to the plan
PHRASES
▪ ~ on the grounds that …
▪
I ~ed on the grounds that it was unkind to the animals.