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CONSPIRACY THEORY Flashcards

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CONSPIRACY THEORY

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Is a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators, a secret of great importance is being kept from the public

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PLOT

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A secret plan made by a group of people to do something wrong or illegal

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ESTIMATED

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Roughly calculated or approximate

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HYPOTHESES RANGE

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An idea for something that is based on known facts but has not yet been proved

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MONARCHY

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System that has a queen or a king

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PRESTOLONASLEDNIK

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Heir to the throne

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MI6

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British secret intelligence

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FARCE

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A situation that is very badly organized or unfair

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FIENDISH

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Evil, cruel and unpleasant

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ELABORATE

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Containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts

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HOAX

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A plan to deceive someone, especially something unpleasant; a trick
Example: to tell the police there is a bomb where there’s not one

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ELABORATE HOAX

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Carefully prepared and organized attempt to make people believe something that isn’t true

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BLISSFUL

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Extremely or completely happy

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INTRUSIONS

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When someone goes into a place or situation where they are not wanted or expected to be

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TO INVADE SOMEBODY’S PRIVACY

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To stick your nose somewhere it doesn’t belong

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SATELLITE

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A device sent up in space to travel arount the Earth for collecting information or communicating

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CONFERENCING

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The activity of talking to people in different places using a phone or computer systems

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HATCHED BY

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To make a plan (secret plan)

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TO BUY INTO SOMETHING

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To completely believe in a set of ideas

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FED UP

NAVELIČAN

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Bored, annoyed, especially by something that you have experienced for too long

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TO SUFFER

TRPETI

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Experience or be subjected to something bad or unpleasant

Example: She suffered from a serious head trauma (head injurys.

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PREDICT

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To say an event or action will happen in the future, especially as a result of knowledge or experience

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DEVISE

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Plan or invent by a careful thought

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INTERFERE

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Intervene in a situation without invitation or necessity

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CAR BRAKE

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A device (a pedal) in a car that makes the car slow dowm or stop

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TEMPERED

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To make something less strong, extreme

Example: He has tempered the strong drink with water

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ARBITRARY

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Based on a chance reather than being planned or based on reason

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MUNDANE

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Very ordinary, therefor not interesting

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BEARABLE

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If an unpleasant situation is bearable, you can accept or deal with it

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FEED THE GLOBAL PARANOIA

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A web page that updates often to show the latest information, a strong tendency to feel that you cannot trust other people or that other people have a bad opinion of you

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CIRCULATING RUMOURS

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An unofficial interesting story or peace of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person

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GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND

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To make a large jump

To do something extraordinary (remarkable) for humanity

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ASSERT

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To say that something is certainly true

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SPACE RACE

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20th-century competition between USSR and USA to achive superior spaceflight capability

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HIGH POINT

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The best part of an experience

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ALLEGED

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Said or thought by some people to be the stated bad or illegal thing, although you have no proof

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STAGED IN THE FILM STUDIO

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To arrange and preform a play or show

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PLANTED ON THE SURFACE

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To put something firmly and strongly in a particular olace

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FLUTTERING

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To make a series of quick delicate movements from side to side

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BREEZE

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Light and pleasant wind

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ARRAY

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A large number of products of a similar type

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NEVERJETEN PRIZOR ZVEZD NA NEBU

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A stunning array of stars on view

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LIGHT SOURCE

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A place something comes from or starts at, the cause of light

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TELL-TALE

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Gives away information often about something bad, that would otherwise not be noticed
Example: Only occasionally did the tell-tale redness around his eyes betray the fatigue that he was suffering

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ALIEN LIFE FORCE

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Coming form a different planet, country, race or group

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A FILM PROP

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An object that helps actors to perform

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COUNTER-THEORY

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A contrasting theory put forward as a response to another theory

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UNANIMOUSLY

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Is a way that is agreed or supported by everyone in a group

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TO BE SUBJECTED

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To cause to experience, undergo, or be acted upon

Example: The rocks were subjected to repeated geological testing

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GEOLOGICAL

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Relating to geology

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ANALYSIS

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To examine something

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MILLENNIA

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A period of thousand of years

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WIDESPREAD EVIDENCE

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Existing or happening in many places or among many people

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CONCEAL FROM THE PUBLIC

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To prevent something from being seen or known about

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EXHIBITION

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A public display of works of art or items of interest

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AN ARGUMENT

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An exchange of diverging or opposite views, typically a heated or angry one

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DOMISLITI

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To think up

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PRIPRAVITI, NAREDITI

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To set up

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OD DO

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range from

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PRETVARJATI SE

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To fake

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UMEŠAVATI SE (NA SLAB NAČIN)

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To be tempered with

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IZVEDETI

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Feed the paranoia

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IZPOSTAVLJEN

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To be subjected to

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SKRITI PRED

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To conceal from

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RAZKRINKATI

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Debunking

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GROZOVITA DEJANJA

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Horrendous deed

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