Cars Flashcards

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To be made redundant

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To lose your job

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Recognizable

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Easy to see or remember

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In charge of

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To be responsible for

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Ambitious

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Wanting to succeed, having goals

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5
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Highway

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Road where many cars can travel at high speeds

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Prediction

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What you think will happen in the future

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Traffic jam

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When many cars are on the road and can only move very slowly, or maybe not at all

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Habit

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Something that one does on a regular basis

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Spacious

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Having lots of room

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Increase

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To get bigger

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Successor

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Something that comes after something else

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12
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Knob

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A small, round gadget in your car that you turn

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Button

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A small, round feature of your car that you push

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14
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Sickness

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Illness, something causing poor health

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Rigid

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Inflexible, not easy to move

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Dependent

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Needing something else in order to work

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Plentiful

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Many

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18
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Invent

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To create something new

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Improve

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To make something better

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20
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Remote control

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Device used to change the channel on your TV, or increase/decrease volume

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Electric kettle

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Device used to heat up water

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Headphones

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Device used to listen to music, watch movies, or have a phone call so that others can’t hear

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23
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Advantage

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A positive thing

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Disadvantage

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A negative thing

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Pollution
What happens when harmful materials are put into the environment
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Brittle
Stiff, easy to break
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Flammable
Easily set on fire
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Required
Necessary
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Shatterproof
Impossible or not easy to break
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Durable
Long-lasting
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Rigid
Hard, tough
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Malleable
Easy to change shape of
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Contemporary
Modern
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Emphasize
To highlight something, to make it stand out
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Constraint
Restriction
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Derivative
Something that is modeled after something that already exists
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Successor
Something which comes after another thing
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Appearance
How something looks
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Drowsy
Sleepy
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Schedule
Calendar of appointments/tasks one must do
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Competitor
Another company in the same market who
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Eco audit
The process a car manufacturer must go through to make sure they are being environmentally friendly
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Unnecessary
Not needed
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Spare tire
Extra tire kept in the trunk of the car
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Rarely
Almost never
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Jumpstart
To make a car's battery that has died work again
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Carry out
To do something
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Occasional
Sometimes
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Rapid
Very quickly
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Modification
To change part of the car such as rims or window tint to make it more unique
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Technique
Way of doing something
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Weight
How heavy something is
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Wide
How far across something is
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To liaise with
To meet or work with someone
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Congested
Having lots of traffic
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Friction
Reibung
57
Deactivation
Abschaltung
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Boom
Ökologischer Aufschwung
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Ease
Leichtigkeit
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Market value
Marktwert
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Interest rate
Zinssatz
62
Financing
Finanzierung
63
Fetch
Abrufen
64
Knock-On
Ansteckend
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Desirable
Erwünscht
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Temporarily
Vorübergehend
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Polluted
verschmutzt
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Sewage
Abwasser
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Obesity
Fettleibigkeit
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Firm
Not hard, not soft
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Interrupt
To stop someone from speaking by speaking over them
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Punctual
Pünktlich