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For each list of verbs. Choose one that is most unlike the others and give your reasons.
- to celebrate , to commiserate, to commemorate, to honour
- to inflame, to douse, to extinguish (to put out) , to smother
- a spirit, a phantom, a ghost , a premonition
- to originate, to terminate, to initiate, to conceive
- to soothe, to startle, to alarm, to frighten
- a rebellion, an insurrection , a mutiny , an assembly
- to ban, to sanction, to outlaw , to prohibit
- a symbol, a sign , a password , a logo
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commiserate to express sympathy to someone about some bad luck
I began by commiserating with her over the defeat.
Ahh never mind, it's not so bad.
Don't worry about a thing, because every little thing, is going to be alright
commemorate verb
/kəmem.ə.reɪtt/ v [T]
to remember officially and give respect to a great person or event,
especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building
Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.
A statue has been built to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the poet's birthday.
premonition noun
/prem.ənɪʃ. ə n/ uS pronunciation symbol, /pri.mə-/ n [C]
a feeling that something, especially something unpleasant, is going to happen
[+ that] He had a premonition that his plane would crash, so he took the train.
She had a sudden premonition of what the future might bring.
phantom noun
/fæn.t ə m/uS pronunciation symbol/-t ̬ ə m/ n [C]
a spirit of a dead person believed by some to visit the living as a pale,
almost transparent form of a person, animal or other object; a ghost
A phantom coach is said to pass through the grounds of this house when there's a full moon.
humorous The phantom wine-drinker has been around - this was almost a full bottle when I
put it in the fridge (= an unknown person has been drinking the wine)!
douse verb
(also dowse ) /daʊz/ v [T]
to make something or someone wet by throwing a lot of liquid over them
We watched as demonstrators doused a car in/with petrol and set it alight.>
to stop a fire or light from burning or shining, especially by putting water on it or by covering it with something
smother verb (COVER)
/smʌð.ə r /US pronunciation symbol /-ɚ/ v [T]
to kill someone by covering their face so that they cannot breathe
They threatened to smother the animals with plastic bags.
To kill something by covering it and preventing it from receiving the substances and conditions it needs for life
Snow soon smothered the last of the blooms.
figurative I tried desperately to smother a sneeze (= I tried not to sneeze) during his speech.
to stop a fire from burning by covering it with something which prevents air from reaching it
I threw a blanket over the cooker to smother the flames.
inflame verb
/ɪnfleɪm/ v [T]
to cause or increase very strong feelings such as anger or excitement
Reducing the number of staff is certain to inflame the already angry medical profession.
pictures of the bombed and burning city inflamed feelings/passions further.
insurrection noun
/ɪn.s ə rek.ʃ ə n /US pronunciation symbol/-sɚ- / n [C or u]
an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence
armed insurrection
revolution noun (CHANGE)
/rev.əlu.ʃ ə n/ n
[C] a very important change in the way that people do things
a technological revolution
penicillin produced a revolution in medicine.
rebellion noun
/rev.əlu.ʃ ə n / n [C or u]
violent action organized by a group of people who are trying to change the political system in their country
The government has brutally crushed the rebellion.
action against those in authority or against the rules or against normal and accepted ways of behaving
a backbench rebellion against the new foreign policy
her teenage rebellion
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