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C1 Advanced 100-199 Flashcards

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Semisweet

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moderately sweet

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Competence

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Hability to do something

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Turnkey

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Person in charge of the key (jail, …)

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Timber

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Wood use for building (charpente)

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Ramble

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To round about in riding (randonnée)

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Failure

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Being enable to do or become what is wanted or expected

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Animation

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Liveliness

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Archaic

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Out of date

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Heroics

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Word or action with honor but only for a fact

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Blackout

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A temporary failure of memory

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Blameless

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Free from fault

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Snivel

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To cry with sniffling

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Scrawl

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Poor or careless handwriting

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Particule

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A very little bit

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Limitless

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Boundless

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Exhaustion

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Extrem fatigue

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Gloomy

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Full of deep shadow or darkless

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Permanency

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State of being intended to last

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Heartfelt

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with deep feeling

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Premature

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Before the proper time

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Imprint

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Mark made by pressure

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Bewitch

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To put under a spell (enchant)

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Clammy

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Cold or damp

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Periodically

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At regular intervals

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Motto

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Brief sentence adapted as a rule of conduct

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Descriptive

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The act of giving picture with words.

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Keepsake

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Thing, kept memory of the giver

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Closure

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The end

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Lifestyle

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A person or group characteristic manner of living

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Insincerity

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Lack of honesty

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Harsh

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Unpleasant to the touch, hear or sight

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Discontented

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Not happy

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Advisable

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To be recommended

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Simulation

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Imitation of something anticipated or likely to appear

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sinkage

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Act or process of going to falling down

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Icicle

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A pointing, hanging stick formed by the freezing of dripping water.

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Witchery

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Practice of magic

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Humourless

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Without anything funny or amusing

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Severally

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Separately

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Confidence

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Firm, belief or trust

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Phony

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Not genuine

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Insecurity

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Not free of danger or risk

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Abnormality

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A feature, act that are not normal

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Mutant

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Organism product by an iteration

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Poverty

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Condition of being poor

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Repellent

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Disagreeable

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Delegate

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A person giving an authority or act to other.

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Majestic

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Own or having royal dignity

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Occupation

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Business, employment or trade

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Hostage

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Person held by an enemy as a pledge that certain promesse will be carried out.

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Resemblance

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Similar appearance.

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Antlered

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Having horns top of the head

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Banner

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Flag

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Jockey

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Manoeuver so as to get the advantage

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Ally

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A person , nation or group that is united for some cause.

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Seam

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a line along which two pieces of fabric are sewn together

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Graffiti

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writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall

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Inefficient

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Not able to produce on a fact without waste of time or energy.

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Thoughtless

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Without thinking or ideas

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Indecisive

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Having the habits of not settling an issue

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Hive

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A busy swarming place.

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Ruddy

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Red

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Hopeless

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Feeling of having no hope

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Assassin

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A person who kill someone well-known by a secret attack.

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Suffix

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An addition made at the end of a word to form another word with different meaning.

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Fuddle

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Confuse

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Scamp

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An unprinciple person

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Nursery

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Room separate for the use and care for baby

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Pettish

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Peevish, bad-tempered

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Heavyset

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Build heavely

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Exceptional

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Out of the ordinary

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Dashing

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Attractive in a romantic, adventurous way.

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Swimmingly

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With great ease or success

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Blouse

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A garment that cover the top of the body

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Glaring

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Very easyly seen

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Bachelor

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A man who is not married

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Balm

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An oily susbtence use to heal

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Possibility

A

Something that can happen

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Relation

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Act of telling?

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Frequency

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Rate of occurrence

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Bothersome

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Causing troublesome

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Blocage

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The state of being abstracted by something

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Gladsome

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Glad

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Revulsion

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a sense, reaction of disgust

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Dwarfish

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Much smaller than usual

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Shaky

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Shaking

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Consequent

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Following as a result

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Bloodline

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Series of ancestor in a family

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Ravishing

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Unusually attractive

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Grandeloquance

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The use of lofty words

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Shtick

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A comedy act

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Teeming

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Be full of or swarming with

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Childish

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Like a young boy or girl

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Visitant

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A guest

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Alert

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Watch for

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Snooty

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Contempt toward others

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Affair

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In private manner

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Realist

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Person interested by what is real instead of imagine things.

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Insulting

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Something that is said aggressively or offendly

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Obsessive

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Having to do with or causing to be obsessed

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