[6:11] Basic English Listening: Mastering the Question Words Who, What, Where and Why

noun

1. thought that makes something comprehensible

2. a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.

e.g. the explanation was very simple
I expected a brief account

Synonym: account

3. the act of explaining
making something plain or intelligible

e.g. I heard his explanation of the accident

noun

1. a human being

e.g. there was too much for one person to do

Synonym: individualsomeonesomebodymortalsoul

2. a human body (usually including the clothing)

e.g. a weapon was hidden on his person

3. a grammatical category used in the classification of pronouns, possessive determiners, and verb forms according to whether they indicate the speaker, the addressee, or a third party

e.g. stop talking about yourself in the third person

noun

1. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale

e.g. what level is the office on?

Synonym: floorlevelstorey

2. a piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events

e.g. he writes stories for the magazines

3. a record or narrative description of past events

e.g. a history of France
he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
the story of exposure to lead

Synonym: historyaccountchronicle

4. a short account of the news

e.g. the report of his speech
the story was on the 11 o'clock news
the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious

Synonym: reportnews reportaccountwrite up

5. a trivial lie

e.g. he told a fib about eating his spinach
how can I stop my child from telling stories?

Synonym: fibtaletarradiddletaradiddle

6. a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events
presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program

e.g. his narrative was interesting
Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children

Synonym: narrativenarrationtale

noun

1. a separate and self-contained entity

2. an action

e.g. how could you do such a thing?

3. an artifact

e.g. how does this thing work?

4. an entity that is not named specifically

e.g. I couldn't tell what the thing was

5. any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence

e.g. the thing I like about her is ...

6. a vaguely specified concern

e.g. several matters to attend to
it is none of your affair
things are going well

Synonym: matteraffair

7. a special abstraction

e.g. a thing of the spirit
things of the heart

8. a special objective

e.g. the thing is to stay in bounds

9. a statement regarded as an object

e.g. to say the same thing in other terms
how can you say such a thing?

10. an event

e.g. a funny thing happened on the way to the...

11. a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion

e.g. he has a thing about seafood
she has a thing about him

12. a special situation

e.g. this thing has got to end
it is a remarkable thing