Fool is a countable noun and refers to a person who lacks good judgment; a silly or stupid person: ‘You are making yourself look like a fool.’

The adjective is foolish:  ‘It was foolish of me to lend him money.’ ‘A foolish decision can ruin everything.’

Fire = (1) catch fire: ‘One of the engines had overheated and caught fire.’ ‘If there is a gas leak, the house could catch fire.’ (2) the event of something burning (often destructive): ‘They lost everything in fire.’ (3) a fireplace in which a relatively small fire is burning: ‘They sat by the fire and talked.’

Few is used with plural countable nouns: ‘very few cars’. Little is used with uncountable nouns: ‘very little traffics’. ‘He had very little money, just a few coins.’

A few= not many: ‘I saw her just a few days ago.’ Few = hardly any: ‘Few people die of smallpox nowadays.’

When someone feels rather ill and their body is hotter than usual, they have a (high) temperature: ‘I feel as if I’ve got a temperature.’ ‘She’s in bed with a high temperature.’

A fever usually refers to a (dangerously) high body temperature, or the disease that produces this: ‘In the streaming jungle he had contracted a fever.’ ‘It seemed as if the fever would shake him to pieces.’

Be/feel afraid/frightened/scared (NOT feel/have fear): ‘Don’t be afraid. ‘The dog won’t hurt you.’ ‘There’s nothing to be scared of.’

Have a fear of something (= be afraid of something for a long time or all your life): ‘I’ve always had a fear of heights.’

Far is mainly used in questions and negative sentences: ‘How far is it to the station?’ ‘Oxford isn’t far from London.’

In affirmative sentences, people usually say a long way: ‘Their house is a long way from the town centre.’

Extreme is mainly used to describe situations, behavior, opinions and beliefs of the greatest possible degree, extent or intensity; to an utmost degree: ‘extreme poverty’, ‘extreme caution’, ‘extreme views’, and ‘extreme disappointment’.

When you are talking about a change or development, use words such as great/major/important/considerable/dramatic: ‘Without these major changes, the company would have collapsed.’

Expose = (1) make accessible to some action or influence: ‘Expose your students to music.’ (2) make known to the public information that was previously unknown or hidden: ‘The crime branch exposed the evidence of the murder case.’ (3) Uncover, expose to view: ‘The curtain rose to expose a stunning set.’ (4) Remove all or part of one’s clothes to show one’s body: ‘The man exposed himself in the subway.’

Display/exhibit a work of art: ‘The gallery exhibits mainly contemporary sculpture and photography.’

Expand = become (or make something become) larger in size, volume, area or activity: ‘Metals expand when they are heated.’ ‘Within three years, his small business expanded into a chain of department stores.’

Increase = become (or make something become) larger in number, amount, cost, etc.: ‘The university increased the number of seats in science stream by 50%.’

Exception = (1) Be no exception is an affixed phrase (An instance or a case that does not conform to a rule or generalization): ‘I never go out on Sundays, and this Sunday is no exception.’ ‘Every major city keeps changing and Lisbon is no exception.’ (2) A deliberate act of omission; exclusion: ‘There will be no exception to this rule.’