Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate
Table of Contents

Strategies for learning vocabulary
1 Learning vocabulary - general advice
2 Learning vocabulary - aids to learning
3 Organizing a vocabulary notebook
4 The names of English language words
5 Using your dictionary
6 Reviewing vocabulary
7 Formal and informal words

Word formation
8 Suffixes
9 Prefixes
10 Roots
11 Abstract nouns
12 Compound adjectives
13 Compound nouns - combinations of two nouns
14 Compound nouns - verb + preposition
15 Words with interesting origins - people and places
16 Words with interesting origins - from other languages
17 Onomatepoeic word
18 Words commonly mispronounced
19 Homonyms

Connecting and linking
20 Time
21 Condition
22 Cause, reason, purpose, and result
23 Concession and contrast
24 Addition
25 Text-referring words

Countable and uncountable words
26 Uncountable noun
27 Nouns that are usually plural
28 Countable and uncountable nouns with different meanings
29 Collective nouns
30 Making uncountable nouns countable

Topics
31 Countries, nationalities, and languages
32 The weather
33 Describing people - appearance
34 Describing people - character
35 Relationships
36 At home
37 Everyday problems
38 Worldwide problems
39 Education
40 Work
41 Sports
42 The arts
43 Food
44 The environment
45 Towns
46 The natural world
47 Clothes
48 Illness and medicine
49 Transportation
50 Vacations
51 Numbers and shapes
52 Science and technology
53 The media and the press
54 Politics and public institutions
55 Crime
56 Money and finance

Notional concepts
57 Number, quantity, degree, and intensity
58 Time
59 Distances and dimensions
60 Obligation, need, and probability
61 Sound and light
62 Possession, giving, and lending
63 Movement and speed
64 Texture, brightness, density, and weight
65 Success, failure, difficulty
66 Containers and contents

Feelings and actions
67 Belief and opinion
68 Pleasant and unpleasant feelings
69 Likes, dislikes, and desires
70 Speaking
71 The six sense
72 What your body does
73 What animals do

Fixed expressions
74 Idioms and fixed expressions - general
75 Everyday expressions
76 Similies - as...as... / like...
77 Binomials
78 Idioms describing people
79 Idioms describing feelings and mood
80 Idioms connected with problematic situations
81 Idioms connected with praise and criticism
82 Idioms connected with using language
83 Idioms - miscellaneous
84 Proverbs

Phrasal verbs and verb-based expressions
85 Expressions with do and make
86 Expressions with bring and take
87 Expressions with get
88 Expressions with set and put
89 Expressions with come and go
90 Expressions with look
91 Miscellaneous expressions

Special topics
92 Headline English
93 American English and British English
94 Varieties of English
95 Computers and the Internet
96 The language of signs and notices
97 Words and gender
98 Abbreviations and acronyms
99 New words in English
100 Discourse markers