Skill: Vocabulary
Category: General English & Academic English
Level: Upper Intermediate
Positive Redundancy
Part Four
1- To decrease
Go down (phrasal verb) to decrease
Ex:The number of students went down due to a deficiency in the quality of curriculum.
Ex: As a result of striving, the complaints from customer went down by 60%.
Fall / drop (verb) to decrease by a large amount
Ex:In winter, the temperature drops to minus 25 degrees.
Ex: The cost of printing machines fell from $ 450 to $ 405.
Plunge / plummet to decrease by a very large amount rapidly
Ex: Computer prices plunged 40 percent in less than a month.
Ex: Sales of Hawaii cell phones are plummeting.
Halve (Transitive Verb) to decrease by half.
Ex: He wishes that the number of crimes in their country halves by 2021.
Lower (Transitive Verb) to decrease the amount or level of something
Ex: Exercising is used to lower anxiety.
Ex: Colleges ought to lower the admission in order to attract more students.
Cut (Transitive Verb) to reduce prices, time, cost, and money usually by large amount.
Ex: The number of hours has been cut from 12 hours to 9 hours.
Ex: Colleges ought to lower the admission in order to attract more students.
Relieve / ease (Transitive Verb) to make pain or feelings less unpleasant
Ex:Drugs are used to relieve pain.
Ex: Making a compromise with other side eases tensions.
Alleviate (Transitive Verb) to make a problem less serious and to reduce suffering.
Ex:Regular exercises help you alleviate the problems in your bones.
Ex: Eating healthy food can help you to alleviate the symptoms of diseases.
2- Disagreeing
Take issue with: strongly disagree with what someone has said.
Ex:I took issue with her over her the topic of education.
Ex: I feel that I should take issue with the essay you have written.
Dispute: to indicate that you believe something is not correct or true.
Ex:No one can dispute that problem exist.
Be divided / split: If the people in a group split or be divided on something, some of them have one opinion and others have different opinions about one issue.
Ex:Italian doctors remain deeply divided on the issue whether it should be legal for a physician to assist an ill patient to commit suicide.
Be mistaken: showing disagreement with others’ opinion on a topic and thinking their opinion is wrong.
Ex:Your perspective on this topic is seriously mistaken.