12.13.2016

CAE - Exercicies - Collocations

From Flo - Joe.

Collocations

Exercice 1

Complete each of the following sentences on the left with one the words on the right.

I'm glad to see that you've recovered from your - ILLNESS

My uncle suffers from heart - DISEASE

She picked up a rather nasty stomach - BUG

She has to take drugs every day for her heart - CONDITION

Vocabulary - From Oxford Dictionaries and Cambridge Dictionary

ILLNESS - A disease or period of sickness affecting the body or mind:

‘he died after a long illness’
‘I've never missed a day's work through illness’

DISEASE - A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury:

‘bacterial meningitis is quite a rare disease’
‘heart disease’

BUG - An illness caused by a microorganism:     

‘he'd just recovered from a flu bug’

CONDITION - An illness or other medical problem:

‘a heart condition’   

RATHER -  Quite - to a slight degree:

it's rather cold today, isn't it?

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