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sympathy

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Understanding and care for someone else’s suffering
Ex: The president has sent a message of sympathy to the relatives of the dead soldiers.
I don’t have much sympathy for her. I think she’s brought her troubles on herself

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Empathy

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The ability to share someone else’s feelings or experiences by imaging what it would be like to be in their situation

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Huge

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Rio janeiro (pronunciation)

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Christmas eve

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Christmas evening

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Pick

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Choose - Pick a card from a pack
Remove - Machines pick the fruit ( from/off the trees)
Chato

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Latest

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Most recenty

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Naturally

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Naturalmente

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Unless

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A menos que

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Make a fus

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Fazer confusão

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To withdraw

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Sacar

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Sorrow

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To feel a great sadness

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Teem

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  1. To be full of things; abound or swarm:

A drop of water teems with microorganisms.

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Putsch

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Golpe
Takeover
Ex: A sudden attempt by a group to overthrow a government.

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Scrooge

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A mean-spirited miserly person; a skinflint.

Ex;The old scrooge was married to his money, and spending a penny was, to him, as traumatic as divorce.

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Lifelike

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Free from artificiality
Synonyms: natural
Usage: The mannequin’s appearance is so lifelike that customers often mistake it for a salesperson.

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Demigod

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Superman

  1. Mythology
    a. A male being, often the offspring of a god and a mortal, who has some but not all of the powers of a god.
    b. An inferior deity; a minor god.
    c. A deified man.
  2. A person who is highly honored or revered.
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The leading edge is the bleeding edge

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A ponta é a borda do sangramento