How to win friends and influence people ?

Question 1

Climax

Answer 1

Culminating moment

Question 2

Weary

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Physically or mentally tired

Question 3

Gnawing

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continuously causing you pain or worrying you Physically painful and describing pain:achy, acute, agonising.

Question 4

Unflatering

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Making someone seem unpleasant or not attractive Ex : The book paints an unflattering picture of the former president. A dress that was distinctly unflattering

Question 5

A Bait

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food used for attracting and catching fish, birds, or animals

Question 6

to escape from a boring situation

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• To get out of a rut - “After ten years working in the office, he decided to get out of the rut.”

Question 7

to change, improve, or make additions to something such as a book, law, or piece of writing

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• to revise something - “The text has been revised and published in a new edition.” - “a revised draft of the treaty”

Question 8

interesting or attractive with a slightly strange and old-fashioned quality

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• Quaint
• “We will spend the night at Mammoth Lakes, a quaint little town close to Mammoth Mountain Ski area.”
• “This man is perceived not as a threat, but as something quaint.”

Question 9

to touch something that you should not touch, and to change it in some way, often because you want to spoil it

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• To tamper with something
• “It was clear that someone had tampered with the computer.”
• “the possibility that evidence might be tampered with”
• “the book was revised without tampering with its content”

Question 10

happy, excited, and full of energy

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Exuberant

an exuberant crowd

Question 11

used in informal conversation rather than in writing or formal language

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colloquial

• “The crux of the matter - to be colloquial - is who needs to

know what, and why.”

Question 12

1) to improve a skill or talent that is already well developed
2) to make the blade of a knife sharp by rubbing it on a special stone

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• to hone

“expression : hone something to a razor’s edge = to improve significantly, to sharpen something to a fine edge”

Ex: Shreyansh put his father’s words to good use and honed his cricketing skills to a razor’s edge to find a place in the national team.

(français : affûter)

SYNONYME : to polish

Question 13

1) to eat or drink something until it is finished
2) to defeat or kill someone

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• To polish off
  1) Well, it didn’t take us long to polish off the ice cream.
  2) The climb up to the front door nearly polished me off.

Question 14

something useful that brings great benefits or makes your life easier

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• a boon for/to
• “Falling PC prices are a boon for consumers, but bad news for manufacturers.”

Question 15

• the period of time when a person, idea, or object is most successful or popular

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• the heyday = (les beaux jours)
• “In his heyday his face was on every magazine cover.”

Question 16

• une vision panoramique/d’ensemble

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• a bird’s eye view
• a view from a very high place that allows you to see a large area
• “Climb to the top of the Eiffel Tower if you want a bird’s eye view of Paris.”
• “They allow investigators a bird’s eye view of crime scenes

and are a very effective tool in tracking fleeing suspects.”

• “Second, by providing the Commission with an up-to-date bird’s eye view of the different strands (= aspects) of the investigations, the exercise has allowed the Commission to effectively prioritize the use of its limited resources in the months to come.”

Question 17

a sharp piece of broken glass, metal, or other hard substance

Answer 17

Shard

Question 18

1) a single thin piece of something, for example wire, cotton, or hair
2) one of the different aspects of something

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strand

1) She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear.
2) The reader’s job is to unravel the strands of the mystery.

There are many different strands within feminist thought.