(1) The primary aim of this course is to improve your spoken English.
(2) Our primary concern must be the children.
(3) Good health care is of primary importance.

(1) If I don't get more money I'll quit.
(2) He has decided to quit as manager of the team.
(3) He quit the show last year because of bad health.

(1) to study composition
(2) the chemical composition of the soil
(3) the composition of the board of directors

(1) Oh, Amy, I love you...
(2) We love each other. We want to spend our lives together.
(3) Our love for each other has been increased by what we've been through together.

(1) The company is a leading professionalized power semiconductor parts enterprise.
(2) This paper discussed the emendation of the luminescent spectra of semiconductor films.
(3) DIT basically is at the sale by semiconductor supplier fiducial reach program of national natural resources.

(1) an art gallery/exhibition
(2) a collection of art and antiques
(3) She's good at art and design.

(1) This beautiful old building has been restored to its former glory .
(2) the former world champion
(3) my former boss/colleague/wife

(1) She shrieked in fright.
(2) The audience was shrieking with laughter.
(3) (figurative)The answer shrieked at her (= was very obvious) .

(1) Can I help you, madam?
(2) Dear madam (= used like Dear Sir in a letter)
(3) She's a proper little madam.

(1) a knee injury
(2) I grazed my knee when I fell.
(3) He went down on one knee and asked her to marry him.

(1) pick a number from one to twenty.
(2) She picked the best cake for herself.
(3) He picked his words carefully.

(1) There is a maid to do the housework.
(2) A maid brought me breakfast at half past eight.
(3) Lady ( at party ): Where is that pretty maid who was passing us a while ago?

(1) learning by repetition
(2) We do not want to see a repetition of last year's tragic events.
(3) Today the city government has taken measures to prevent a repetition of last year's confrontation...

(1) ...the twentieth century.
(2) A few twentieths of a gram can be critical.
(3) He dominated the plant taxonomic world at the turn of the twentieth century.

(1) the sun's rays
(2) the rising/setting sun
(3) The sun was shining and birds were singing.

(1) Could you wait a moment , please?
(2) One moment, please (= Please wait a short time) .
(3) He thought for a moment before replying.

(1) tribes living in remote areas of the Amazonian rainforest
(2) He had a sudden outburst against the whole tribe of actors.
(3) a tribe of cats

(1) He's a man of violent passions.
(2) a crime of passion
(3) She argued her case with considerable passion.

(1) economic/moral/urban decay
(2) the decay of the old industries
(3) decaying leaves/teeth/food

(1) a peach tree
(2) ...the romantic Tower Suite, decorated throughout in peach and ivory.
(3) ...a peach silk blouse.

(1) He would doubtless disapprove of what Kelly was doing.
(2) He will doubtless try and persuade his colleagues to change their minds...
(3) doubtless he was justified in some of his criticism of the media...

(1) You wouldn't believe some of the prices they charge; it's daylight robbery.
(2) They left before daylight (= before the sun had risen) .
(3) The street looks very different in daylight .

(1) (literary)The very name of the enemy struck terror into their hearts.
(2) a feeling of sheer/pure terror
(3) Her eyes were wild with terror.

(1) He was not stupid, just lazy.
(2) I was feeling too lazy to go out.
(3) We spent a lazy day on the beach.

(1) She had no comprehension of what was involved.
(2) listening comprehension
(3) a reading comprehension

(1) Nothing, but nothing would make him change his mind.
(2) but that's not possible!
(3) ‘Here's the money I owe you. ’ ‘but that's not right─it was only £10. ’

(1) She is a shining example of what people with disabilities can achieve.
(2) He is a captain who leads by example .
(3) It would be a mistake to follow his example .

(1) The swan flapped its wings noisily.
(2) wing feathers
(3) the east wing

(1) Five pounds doesn't buy much nowadays.
(2) He can't be bought (= he's too honest to accept money in this way) .
(3) Her fame was bought at the expense of her marriage.

(1) She's gone to lunch.
(2) I'm ready for some lunch.
(3) What shall we have for lunch ?

(1) They behave differently when you're not around.
(2) Will you kids just behave!
(3) She doesn't know how to behave in public.

(1) The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality.
(2) Her parents made sacrifices so that she could have a good education.
(3) to make the final/supreme sacrifice (= to die for your country, to save a friend, etc.)

(1) I feel absolutely terrific today!
(2) She's doing a terrific job.
(3) I've got a terrific amount of work to do.

(1) A simple error of judgement meant that there was not enough food to go around.
(2) a grave error (= a very serious mistake)
(3) a glaring error (= a mistake that is very obvious)

(1) after an hour I went home (= when an hour had passed) .
(2) after winning the prize she became famous overnight.
(3) They arrived shortly after 5.

(1) Stop talking in riddles (= saying things that are confusing) ─say what you mean.
(2) to solve the riddle of the Sphinx
(3) the riddle of how the baby died

(1) He can't endure to be defeated.
(2) (formal)a love that endures all things and never fails
(3) a success that will endure

(1) Colin had been put into a bath and been scrubbed from head to foot.
(2) Living with my parents is doing my head in.
(3) Ethiopia, for instance uses the equivalent of just twenty kilos of oil per head a year.

(1) the supreme Commander of the armed forces
(2) the supreme champion
(3) It is an event in which she reigns supreme .

(1) She was sitting at the bar.
(2) (British English)I found David in the bar of the Red Lion (= a room in a pub where drinks are served) .
(3) We met at a bar called the Flamingo.