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Intermediate BBC Flashcards

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Consolation

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Comfort received by a person after a loss or dissapointment

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Lashing

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When rain is lashing, it is failing very heavily often with a lot of wind

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Moor(land)

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Large open area of land with very few trees or plants and very few buildings

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Queer

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Strange, unusual

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Inn

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Pub where people can stay overnight

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Coach

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Form of transport that is pulled by horses and was used in the past

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Past it

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(informal) too old or out-of-date to be interesting or useful

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Shake-up

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A complete reorganization

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Temperamental

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Having a mood that can change quickly and unreasonably

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Auditions

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Short performances, usually by actors, musicians or dancers, to show that they are right for a particular play, film or show.

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Contestant

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Someone who takes part in a compitition

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Nippy (informal)

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Cold

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Knock the judges socks off (idiom)

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Really impress the judges

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Stardom

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The state or status of being a famous or exceptionally talented performer in the world of entertainment or sports

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Versatile

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Able to change easily

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Timbre

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The quality of the music sound

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Ear for (something)

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Able to recognize, appreciate and produce sounds, especially music

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On a par with (sth)

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At the same level as (sth)

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Quality pleasures

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Things that a person likes, even though they are not considered to be very good or fashionable

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Curl

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Sth having a spiral or inwardly curved form especially a lock of hair

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Whimper

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A low feeble sound expressive of fear or pain

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Stains

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Dark marks

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Pet hates

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Minor or small things or habits that a person finds particularly annoying, usually more than for other people

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Curse

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Evil influence

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Bare

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Basic with very little equipment

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Creep

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Move very carefully and secretly so that nobody sees you

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Wodge

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A large amount of sth

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Make do

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Manage in a situation even if you don’t have a lot of resources or help

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Pale

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Light in color or having little color

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Content

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Happy

Instead children were content to play with things they found

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Child mortality

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Number of children between 1 month and five years of age who die

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The rat race

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The competitive and stressful world of work

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Suffocate

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Die because you cannot breathe

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Posh

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Elegant or stylishly luxurious

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Wardrobe

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A large, tall cabinet in which cloths may be hung or stored

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Root around

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Look around

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Transforms

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Changes

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Scarcity

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Not having enough

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39
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Decidedly

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Absolutely

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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

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Mental illness caused by stressful or frightening events

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Correlation

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Connection

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Grave

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Death (here)

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Heather

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A wild plant with small purple flowers that grows on hills and in wild places

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Chronic fatigue

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Illness where you feel tired

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Marsh

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Area of soft wet land

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Abudance

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Having enough or too much

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Be damned

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Slang expression meaning you do not care about sth at all

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Bear

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Continue to accept a bad or difficult situation

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Break up

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End a relationship

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Break down

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(Of a car or vehicle) To stop working

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51
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Mortality

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Death

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52
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To break out

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To escape from prison

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To break in

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To use force to enter a place

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To break off

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To separate sth from sth else

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To see (sth/sb) off

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To go to a place that someone is leaving to say goodbye

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To touch down

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After flying to touch a ground again

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To set off

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To begin a journey

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58
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Dump

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Suddenly end a relationship

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Put (sth) up

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Make ( sth) available

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Auction

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A public sale in which goods or property are sold to the highest bidder

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Overwhelmed

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Very impressed

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Look up

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Improve, Going well

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Jilted

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Rejected by a lover or partner

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Pull out

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Not complete sth that was promissed

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Blossom

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(Here) develop in a pleasing or promising way

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Thoroughly

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Very much

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Not on the cards (idiom)

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Not possible or likely

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Desperate

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Having a great need or desire for sth

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Desperate

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Ready to behave in a dangerous or violent way, to escape from a very bad situation

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Magistrate

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A person who decides in a law court if someone is guilty of a minor crime

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Disgrace

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In very bad situation

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To lead by example

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To behave in a way that you would expect others to

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Unstuck

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Doesn’t work, fails

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Open-plan offices

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Offices that have large rooms with few or no dividing walls to make smaller rooms

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Downside

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Disadvantages

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Disruptive

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Causing trouble so that others cannot continue what they are doing

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Draw

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Attraction that lots of people are interested in

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Get away with

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Escape punishment for

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Irritate

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Make someone annoyed, impatient, or angry

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Gripe

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Complaint

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Personal hygiene

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Keeping your body clean

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Etiquette

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A set of rules that control behaviour in certain situations and by certain group

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Inane

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Stupid and boring

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Irrelevent

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Not important

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Dignity

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State of keeping your respect

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Storm out

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Leave a room quickly and angrily

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Sacks

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Large strong bags which are used to store things

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Pony

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Small horse

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Drown

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Die under water because you cant breathe

90
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Chills me to the bone

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Frightens me very much

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Detox

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Removing harmful substances from your body by eating particular foods

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Dyslexia

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Condition that makes reading and spelling difficult

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Dyspepsia

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Medical condition that means the body does not digest food properly causing pain and discomfort

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Riddle

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Puzzle

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Breeding

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The mating and production of offspring by animals

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Species

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A group of animals or plants that are similar to each other

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Spot (verb)

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See after looking hard

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Dating

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Finding out the age of

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Volcanic ash

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The powder left after rock and gasses are found out of a mountain

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Monumental

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Very large amount of time

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Crumbs

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Very small pieces of food from bread or biscuits

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Lure

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To tempt someone to go to a place they may not wish to go

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Wreck

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A ship that is destroyed at sea

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Soaked

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Very wet

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Wrecker

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A person who makes a ship crash onto rocks in order to steal the goods it’s carrying

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Smokeless

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Not producing any smoke

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Car-free

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Cars are not allowed

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Carefree

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Without worries or anxiety

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Smoke-free

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In which no one is smoking or smoking is not allowed

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Grovelling

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Giving someone too much respect in order to please them

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Pride ourselves

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Feel good about our standards

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Excelled at

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Was good at

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Grand Slam

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One of the four biggest tournaments in tennis: Australian Open, French Open, US Open and Wimbledon

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Commentator

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Someone who describes a sports events on TV or radio

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Gutsy

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Brave and determined

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Nonetheless

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Nevertheless; in spite of that

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Conviction

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(Here) determination

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Move sideways

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To move into a new job at the same level

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Internship

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Period of time spent doing a job to get experience often with little or no pay

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Haunt

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Stay in your mind and make you upset

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Misty

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With a tiny fog

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Tide

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Daily change in the level of the sea which makes the water move higher or lower on the shore

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Pounce

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Jump quickly onto someone or sth

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Beast

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An animal especially a large or dangerous four-footed one

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Moth

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An insect like a butterfly that flies at night and is attracted to light

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Fainted

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Become unconscious

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Sensible

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Acting with good judgement

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Hardly

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Barely, only a liitle

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Lately

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Recently

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Highly

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Favourably

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Urinal

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A type of toilet for men which is fixed to a wall

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Appalled

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Very shocked by sth you don’t agree

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Vulgar

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Rude and upsetting

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Playful

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Not serious; funny

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Interact

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Move and Communicate with

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Spiralling

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Going downwards in a curve

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Goggles

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Special glasses to protect the eyes

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Funfair

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Entertainment area with rides and games

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Profound

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With deep meaning

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Clinking of cups

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The sound of glasses touching each other

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Chaotic

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Confused and without order

It’s a chaotic scene

142
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Outlines

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The main edges of sth

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Deranged

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Mad

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Flamboyantly

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In a confident and bright way

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Garish

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Bright in an unpleasant way

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Ruffled

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Not smooth

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Droopy

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Hanging low

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Slumber

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Sleep

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Creepy

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Scary and strange

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Mischievous

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Behaving in a slightly bad way

151
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Plough (us plow)

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To prepare a field for planning by cutting long straight lines

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Through like
Thorough like
Plough like

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Like true
Like Edinburgh
Like now

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Stabbed

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Hurt with a knife

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Shiver

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To Shake from fear

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Congregation

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A group of people who pray in a church or other religious place

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Startle

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To surprise someone

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Lame

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Unable to work properly (anımal)

158
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Blacksmith

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A person who makes and repairs horseshoes

159
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Pants

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Means trousers in American english and underwear in UK english

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Cushion

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A bag of cloth stuffed with a mass of soft material used as a comfortable support for sitting or leaning on

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Loanwords

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Words from one language used in another language

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Cognates

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Words in different languages that have the same origion

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False friends

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Words which look similar or the same in two languages but have different meanings

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Sacked

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Removed from your job

165
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Accounted for

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Give a satisfactory record of

I had to account for every penny I spent

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Sinister

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Related to evil things that might happen

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Welfare benefits

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Payments that people receive from the state to help raise their standard of living

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Obstinate

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Not wanting to do sth even though it may be the right thing to do

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