ENGLISH UNIT 1 LS Flashcards

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At the speed of the light

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Icredibly quickly and speedily

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2
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Before our very eyes

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right in front of your eyes

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3
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Confidence
\To have confidence in doing something

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a feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances

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4
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Fascinated

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to command the interest of

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5
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Involuntary

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Done contrary to or without choice

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Objective

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Expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings,prejudices, interpretations

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7
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Potential

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existing in possibility; capable of development into actuality

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8
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Renowned

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Widely acclaimed and highly honored

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9
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Revise

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To look over again in order to correct or improve

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Unconsious

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Unaware; not realizing what are you doing

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Underlying

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Lying beneath or below (The most important part of something that is not easy to discover)

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12
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Unfamiliar

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Not well-known,not well acquainted

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13
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Achievement

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A result gained by effort

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14
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Interact

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To act upon one another,to communicate with or react to

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15
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Myth

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a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone

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Trait

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a distinguishing quality

17
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Versus

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In opposition or contrast to

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Inherit

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To receive from an ancestor as a right or title descendible by law at the ancestor’s death

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Aptitude

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a natural ability

20
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On their own

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Doing smth by oneself

21
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Predisposed

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To make someone feel a particular way towards someone or smth

22
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Inborn

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Existing from birth

23
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Acquire

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Gain ,to get, to come to have as a new characteristic

24
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Influence

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The act or power of producing an efffect without apparent exertion of force

25
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in Actual fact

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Existing fact

26
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Pressure

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the force you produce when you press smth

27
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Take up

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To use or accept smth that has become available for them

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Complex

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Difficult to understand as it have amny different facts

29
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Either /or

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Used to refer to a situation where is a choice

30
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motivate

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to cause someone to behave in a particular way

31
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Heredity

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the process by which characteristics are given from a parent to their child through the genes