Cancer: Medical Vocabulary

The following are terms that you might hear during the diagnosis and treatment of cancer:
Adjuvant therapy: Chemotherapy, radiotherapy or hormone therapy used to kill remaining cancer cells left behind after surgery.

Learn English Vocabulary

Here are just some examples of words coming into English from other languages phrase meaning word Language An amber necklace Yellow-orange precious stone Amber Arabic The cooking rooster List of people's turns for jobs Roster Dutch Our old tabby Female or stripy cat Tabby Farsi Advertising gimmicks Frivolous way of attracting attention gimmick German Take a tonic Medicine to make you feel more lively Tonic Greek Sleep in a cot Child's bed to make with high vertical sides cot Hindi Wear a turban Type of men's headwear turban Turkish

Collocations with Equipment

An important step to improving your vocabulary is to not only learn the appropriate terms, but to learn the words that commonly go together with those terms. These word combinations are often, adjective + noun, verb + noun, and noun + verb pairs. Each of these collocation sheets provide collocations for commonly used words arranged into categories. Each collocation is illustrated with an example sentence.

Adjectives + "Equipment" 

Advanced Vocabulary List part 7

incite
(verb) to stir up or encourage (violent or unlawful behavior)
Max incited the other students to rebel against the teacher.

polarize
(verb) to divide or cause to divide into two sharply contrasting groups
The issue polarized the public.