Cover of the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 03 - Vocabulary - Headlines for the textbook Cutting Edge Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Sarah Cunningham, Peter Moor and Jonathan Bygrave from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Find words in the headlines which have the same meaning as the words below.
  2. Why do you think the words in the headlines were used instead?

Answer

a)

  1. backs
  2. vows
  3. set to
  4. Death toll
  5. calls

b)

They are shorter and have greater impact.