Back to the grind 3 Flashcards

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Nurse

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Feel an emotion for a long time

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2
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Come up in the world

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Have a better social status than you used to have before

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3
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Bring the house down

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Win great applause

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4
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Go belly-up

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End up being bankrupt

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5
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Go pear-shaped

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Go wrong

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6
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Hail

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Praise publicly

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7
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Revel in

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Enjoy greatly

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8
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Mutilate

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Изуродовать

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9
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Dismal

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Bleak, gloomy, depressing

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10
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Gaunt

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Very thin because of an illness

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11
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Subside

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Abate

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12
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Shroud

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Cover with dirt/hide

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13
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Omen

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Something that heralds a situation

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14
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Contrive

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Bring on by tricking somebody

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15
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Malice

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Wilfulness

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16
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Quel

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To suppress

17
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Vindication

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Support

18
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Turmoil

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Trouble and confusion, calamity

19
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Father

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Conceive

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