English nouns 2 Flashcards

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a very long large tube, often underground, through which liquid or gas can flow for long distances

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a pipeline

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2
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Payage

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Toll

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a violent wind that has a circular movement, especially in the West Atlantic Ocean

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an hurricane

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Entraînement, manoeuvre (mil)

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A drill

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5
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0 émission carbone

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Net O

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Lieu de culte

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Place of worship

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Intéret (banque)

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Yield

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Niche

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Loophole

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Understanding and taking another person’s feelings into account

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Empathy

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10
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conversation that is funny and not serious

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Banter

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the level or point at which you start to experience something, or at which something starts to happen/rez de chaussée

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Threshold

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a situation or relationship that you are involved in and that is difficult to escape from

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Entanglement

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help and advice about how to do something or about how to deal with problems

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Guidance

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anger, argument, and bad feeling

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Acrimony

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15
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Poison

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Venom

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an argument over something that is not important (2)

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Squabble, bickering

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[ usually singular ]
something that shows a policy, system, society, etc. is bad or wrong/ a statement that criticizes someone or something strongly for being bad or wrong:
LAW specialized
the act of making a formal statement accusing someone of something/a formal statement of accusing someone of something

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The charges on the indictment include murder and attempted murder.
The indictment alleges that she did no work for some of these payments.
Pronunciation

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A situation in which someone loses their job because their employer does not need them

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A redundancy.
I live in dread of redundancy.

19
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A deep hole dug by soldiers and used as a place from which they can attack the enemy while being hidden

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A trench, some trenches.

20
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The activity of fighting a war, often including the weapons and methods that are used.

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The warfare.
Guerilla/nuclear/naval/trench warfare.
Warfare is increasingly technological.

21
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Injury to someone caused by severe cold, usually to their toes, fingers, ears, or nose, that causes permanent loss of tissue.

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Frostbite.
To be frostbitten.

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(especially of buildings and air) the fact of being wet, cold, and unpleasant.

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Dankness.

23
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A country that has agreed officially to give help and support to another one, especially during a war.
/!\pronunciation

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An ally (of sby).
NATO allies decided to sent peace-keeping troops to the troubled area.

24
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Someone who helps and supports you the most, especially at work.

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Right-hand man.

25
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The group of people who travel with and work for an important or famous person.

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An entourage.

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A particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a college education.

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A (low/high, annual/monthly/weekly/daily/hourly) wage.
To get/be paid/earn a wage.

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A fixed amount of money agreed every year as pay for an employee, usually paid directly into his or her bank account every month.

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A salary.
=remuneration (formal).

28
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Authority given to a person to act for someone else, such as by voting for them in an election, or the person who this authority is given to.

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Proxy.
A proxy vote/my brother isvoting for me by proxy in the club elections.

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Public support for an idea, plan, or way of doing something

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Advocacy.
A nonprofit advocay organisation.
She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.

30
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A situation or condition that is similar to what is wanted or expected, but is not exactly as hoped for

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A semblance.
He was executed without even the semblance of a fair trial.

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in the past, a large, flat object made of metal or leather that soldiers held in front of their bodies to protect themselves

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A shield.

32
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Unpleasant, immoral and unacceptable.

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Vile.
This vile policy of ethnic cleansing must be stopped.