K Flashcards

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Be on the ball

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Able to think or react very quickly

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Move the goalposts

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Change the rules, make it more harder

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3
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Take your eye off the ball

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Lose concentration

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4
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A level playing field

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A fair situation

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5
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A whole new ball game

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A completely new or different situation

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6
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Score an own goal

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Do or say something which has the opposite result to your purpose

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7
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Start the ball rolling

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Start something happening

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8
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Agile

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To move your body quickly and easily

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9
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Courteous

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Be polite, respectful to others

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10
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To make sacrifices

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When you give up something important in order to get something more important

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11
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Intensity

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Strength

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12
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Determined

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Refusal to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do

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13
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To set someone apart

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To make someone different from or better than other people

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14
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Obsessive

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Thinking about something all the time

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15
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Eradicate

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Make it disappeared

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16
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To be resistant to

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Not wanting to accept something, especially changes or new ideas

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17
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To be prone to

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To be affected by something that such as damage or an illness

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18
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Humility

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The quality of not being proud because you’re aware of your bad qualities

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19
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Versatile

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Able to change easily from one activity to another (open minded)

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20
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Authoritative

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Showing the confidence of having special power or knowledge

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21
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Efficient

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Working properly and effectively quick

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22
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Objective

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Based on real facts/ something that you plan to do

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23
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Reassuring

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Saying good words and comfort someone

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Sympathetic

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Understand people’s feelings and support them

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Terminal
Fatal (it’s totally the end of smth)
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Morphine
Обезбол
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Complication
An extra medical problem that makes it more difficult to treat an existing illness
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Distribute
Spread
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Obesity
The state or condition of being very fat or overweight
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Focus
On
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Succeed
In
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Suffer
With
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Recover
From
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Worry
About
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Agree
With
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Protect
From
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Care
Of
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Complain
About
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Deal
With
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Applied
For
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Specialise
In
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Rely
On
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To take smth up
To begin to do do or to start smth
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An amateur
taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job. Opposite: a professional
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to be keen on smth (football, sports)
liking somebody/something very much; very interested in sb / smth
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to keep one’s eye on the ball
to give your attention to what you are doing at the time
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to assault sb
to attack sb violently, especially when this is a crime
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to instil smth in(to) sb
put an idea or attitude into somebody's mind; to make somebody feel, think or behave in a particular way over a period of time
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commitment
desire to work hard and give your energy and time to a job or an activity polite and showing respect
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suppleness
the quality of being able to bend easily
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to push the limits
to attempt to go beyond what is allowed or thought to be possible
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inordinate
far more than is usual or expected
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a contribution
an action or a service that helps to cause or increase something, usually something good
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outstanding
extremely good; excellent
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acupuncture
a method of treating pain and illness using special thin needles that are pushed into the skin in particular parts of the body (I'm having acupuncture for a bad back.)
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ether
Like anaesthesia
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resistant to
not affected by something; able to resist something
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to contract (an infection)
to get an illness
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A few
Small number of smth but enough, countable
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Few
Small number of smth, not enough, almost none, countable
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A little
A small number of smth, enough, uncountable
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Little
Small number of smth, not enough, almost none, uncountable