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Fake news/linguistics/BBC Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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To entangle, to catch, as in a net

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To enmesh

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To happen or occur, esp. by chance or fate

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To befall

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Deep, serious

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Profound

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Define, substantial; clear enough or definite to be easily noticed or seen

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Tangible (tangibly, tangibility)

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A reward offered for increased productivity

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Incentive

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To make known by declaration, publish, proclaim formally

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To promulgate

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To have a powerful impact on smb, impress, generate an emotion

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To give chills

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Any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc, esp. the one held as true by members of a profession, group

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Tenet

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To separate things or people that are of high quality or ability from those that are not

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To separate wheat from chaff

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A blow given in return or retaliation, as in boxing

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Counterpunch

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To bring a result opposite to that which was planned or expected

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To backfire

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The desire to harm someone because you hate them or because of hostile impulse

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Malice (malicious, maliciousness, maliciously)

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The act of communicating to a third party false statements about sth

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Defamation (to defame, defamatory)

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To deal with a matter only in the most superficial way, initiate the briefest investigation

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To scratch the surface

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To put down or suppress completely

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To quash

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To understand the truth about sth or smb

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To see through sth

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To manage to spot smb or sth

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To get an eyeball on sth

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18
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A symbol that represents the likelihood of a man-made catastrophe

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Doomsday clock

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To decrease in strenght

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To wane

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To be likely or liable to suffer, do or experience sth unpleasant or regrettable

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To be prone to

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A software application that is programmed to do certain tasks

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Bot

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To combine two or more things to form a single new thing

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To conflate (conflation)

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Take severe measures against smb or sth

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To crack down

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To suppress or prevent sth in an oppressive or harsh manner

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To clamp down

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Confused, uncertain, ill-defined

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Hazy

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Dark and gloomy, obscure or morally questionable

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Murky

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To deceive, hoax, to make fun of

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To spoof

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Excessive

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Replete

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Using a lot of petrol

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Gas-guzzling (to guzzle, a guzzle)

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Very large

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Gigantic

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Not giving a true idea about sth

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Misleading

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Able to be used again

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Renewable

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Relating to power produced by water

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Hydroelectric

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Relating to nature, natural resources

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Environmental

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Relating to water

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Aquatic

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Unwanted escape (of oil)

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Leak

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The amount of sth that is available

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Supply

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The amount of sth that is required

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Demand

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The ability to be done from the practical and financial point of view

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Viability

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The point when the world’s oil production will be at its highest

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Peak oil

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The systems, equipment, etc. needed to do or produce sth

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Infrastructure

42
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The process of sth becoming used up

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Depletion

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The process or a system of organizing things into different groups that show their natural relationships, esp. plants or animals

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Taxonomy

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To do sth because of shock

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To boggle

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A scientist that studies people, their societies, culture, etc

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Anthropologist (anthropology, anthropological, anthropologically)

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To go often or habitually

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To resort

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Not usual or normal in a negative way

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Aberrant (aberration, an aberrant, aberrantly)

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The process of knowing, learning and understanding

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Cognition (cognitional, cognitive)

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Small furry animals that climb trees

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Possums

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Small, terrestrial, nocturnal furry animals

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Bandicoots

51
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Protest against official policy

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Dissidence (dissident, a dissident)

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Complete destruction or obliteration

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Annihilation (annihilate)

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That can work successfully

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Viable (viably, viability)

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To invent a new word or phrase

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To coin (coinage)

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An area of activity, interest, knowledge, esp one that a particular person, organization, etc deals with

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Domain (domanial)

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A natural tendency to behave in a particular way

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Propensity

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Likely to suffer from a particular illness or be affected by a particular problem

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Susceptible (susceptibleness, susceptibly)

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Gradually becoming less or smaller

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Dwindling (to dwindle)

59
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The pieces of sth that are left after it has been destroyed

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Debris

60
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Action to reduce the load on sth, esp the interruption of an electricity supply to avoid excessive load on the generating plant

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Load-shedding

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Not active or growing at the present time but able to be active later

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Dormant (dormancy)

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A large number of similar things that happen in a short period of time, esp bad things

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Spate

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The statistical characteristics of human populations used esp to identify markets

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Demographics (demographic, demographically)

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Lacking physical strength or substance/having little worth

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Flimsy (flimsily)

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A statement that smb has done sth wrong, illegal, etc, but that has not been proved

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Allegation (to allegate)

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To rush about wildly, in a violent way

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To rampage (a rampage, rampageously)

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Very disorganized, confused

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Shambolic

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Helping to commit a crime or do wrong in some way

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Complicit (complicity)

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To work with someone secretly, esp in order to do sth dishonest or illegal

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To collude

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To use sth in a strong or determined way, esp in order to produce a particular effect

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To exert influence over sth

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To change an earlier statement, opinion or promise

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To backtrack

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To say sth in order to try to prove that what someone said was not true or as a reply to sth

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To counter

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To look at or find out about the less noticeable features of sth

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To look under the bonnet

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To take excessive, overcomplicated or extravagant means or force to accomplish sth relatively minor or simple

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To take a sledgehammer to crack a nut

75
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An act intended to make smb believe an unpleasant lie

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Hoax

76
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To become more important, powerful, famous, etc than someone or sth else, so that they are no longer noticed

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To eclipse

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To be so big that other things are made to seem very small

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To dwarf

78
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A noise like the sound of sth being crushed/ a difficult situation caused by a lack of money or time

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Crunch

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To speak with contempt or mockery of

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To pour scorn on sth

80
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To cause smb to be stuck in mud

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To mire

81
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To be very careful in the way you spend money, supplies, etc and not waste any

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To husband

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The deliberate murder of a whole group or race

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Genocide

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The systematic destruction of traditions, values, language and other elements of a group

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Cultural genocide

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