| Fairy tale | a children's story in which magical things happen |
| amuse | entertain, interest, fascinate |
| universal | worldwide, widespread, general |
| enduring | lasting, continuing, long-term |
| appeal | attractiveness, attraction, influence, fascination >< repulsion |
| due to | because of, owing to, thanks to |
| serious | thought-provoking, important, significant |
| a variety of sth | a lot of things of the same type that are different from each other in some way |
| hood | a part of a coal, jacket etc that you can pull up to cover your head |
| be familiar with sth | to have a good knowledge or understanding of something |
| wolf | a wild animal that looks like a large dog and lives and hhunts in groups |
| run on | go on, continue, keep going |
| dispose of | kill, murder, assassinate |
| get into | to enter a place, especially when this is difficult |
| dress in | put on, wear |
| version | type, kind, form, style |
| swallow up sb/sth | to take someone or something in so that it is destroyed or no longer independent |
| lock sb in (sth) | to prevent someone from leaving a room or building by locking the door |
| cupboard | storeroom, closet |
| get the better of somebody | to defeat someone or deal successfully with a problem |
| on one's own | without anyone's help |
| hunter | a person who hunts wild animals, or an animal that hunts other animals for food |
| woodcutter | someone whose job is to cut down trees in a forest |
| come to the rescue/ somebody's rescue | to save someone who is in a dangerous situation |
| tale | a story about exciting imaginary events |
| attribute sth to sb/sth | to believe or say that a situation or event is caused by something |
| cautionary | warning, deterrent, advisory |
| in the case of sth | an example of a particular situation or of something happening |
| survival | existence >< death |
| relevant | related, applicable >< irrelevant |
| anthropologist | someone who scientifically studies humans and their customs, beliefs, and relationships |
| suggest/ say/ think/ decide etc otherwise | to say, think, or decide something different |
| huge | enormous, vast, gigantic, massive, giant >< tiny |
| gap | a big different between two situations, amounts, groups of people etc |
| prehistory | the time in history before anything was written down |
| storytelling | the activity of writing, telling, or reading stories |
| genre | type, sort, kind, category, field |
| incredibly | extremely, unbelievably, extraordinarily |
| ancient | very old, prehistoric, primeval >< modem, contemporary |
| folklorist | someone who studies folklore |
| academic | educational, scholastic |
| devise | invent, create, think up |
| tẻoy | concept, scheme, idea, belief |
| borrow sth from sb | to take or copy someone’s ideas |
| technique | method, system, procedure |
| evolutionary | relating to the way in which ideas or situations gradually chhange and develop over a long period of time |
| biologist | someone who studies or works in biology |
| work something out | understand, comprehend, make sense of |
| organism | creature, living thing |
| compare | Evaluate, judge, assess |
| characteristic | trait, deature, quality |
| species | class, type, kind, sort |
| process | procedure, progression, course of action |
| phylogenetic | based on natural evolutionary, relationships |
| analysis | examination, study, investigation |
| involve | change, grow, progress, develop >< regress |
| element | part, section, component |
| survive | live, continue, last, persist >< perish |
| variant | alternative, variation, modification |
| similar | alike, comparable >< dissimilar |
| end up with sth | to be in a particular situation, state, or place after a series of events, especially when you did not plan it |
| oral tradition | a system for preserving a group's beliefs, customs, and history, in which parents tell their children about them, and the children tell their children, and so on |
| establish | found, start, create, begin, launch, set up |
| indeed | really, certainly, definitely |
| explore | search, study, investigate, survey |
| alter | change, modify, vary >< maintain |
| test | examine, assess, investigate, analyze |
| assumption | supposition, hypothesis, theory |
| aspect | feature, part, characteristic, piece, trait |
| least | less than anything or anyone else |
| indicate | signify, imply, suggest, reveal, show |
| central | crucial, main, most important >< unimportant |
| character | a person in a book, play film etc |
| relative | a member of your family |
| scary | frightening, creepy, terrifying >< reassuring |
| in disguise | pretending to be somebody else, undercover, imcognito |
