K Flashcards
Be on the ball
Able to think or react very quickly
Move the goalposts
Change the rules, make it more harder
Take your eye off the ball
Lose concentration
A level playing field
A fair situation
A whole new ball game
A completely new or different situation
Score an own goal
Do or say something which has the opposite result to your purpose
Start the ball rolling
Start something happening
Agile
To move your body quickly and easily
Courteous
Be polite, respectful to others
To make sacrifices
When you give up something important in order to get something more important
Intensity
Strength
Determined
Refusal to let anything prevent you from doing what you have decided to do
To set someone apart
To make someone different from or better than other people
Obsessive
Thinking about something all the time
Eradicate
Make it disappeared
To be resistant to
Not wanting to accept something, especially changes or new ideas
To be prone to
To be affected by something that such as damage or an illness
Humility
The quality of not being proud because you’re aware of your bad qualities
Versatile
Able to change easily from one activity to another (open minded)
Authoritative
Showing the confidence of having special power or knowledge
Efficient
Working properly and effectively quick
Objective
Based on real facts/ something that you plan to do
Reassuring
Saying good words and comfort someone
Sympathetic
Understand people’s feelings and support them
Terminal
Fatal (it’s totally the end of smth)
Morphine
Обезбол
Complication
An extra medical problem that makes it more difficult to treat an existing illness
Distribute
Spread
Obesity
The state or condition of being very fat or overweight
Focus
On
Succeed
In
Suffer
With
Recover
From
Worry
About
Agree
With
Protect
From
Care
Of
Complain
About
Deal
With
Applied
For
Specialise
In
Rely
On
To take smth up
To begin to do do or to start smth
An amateur
taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job. Opposite: a professional
to be keen on smth (football, sports)
liking somebody/something very much; very interested in sb / smth
to keep one’s eye on the ball
to give your attention to what you are doing at the time
to assault sb
to attack sb violently, especially when this is a crime
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
commitment
desire to work hard and give your energy and time to a job or an activity polite and showing respect
suppleness
the quality of being able to bend easily
to push the limits
to attempt to go beyond what is allowed or thought to be possible
inordinate
far more than is usual or expected
a contribution
an action or a service that helps to cause or increase something, usually something good
outstanding
extremely good; excellent
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.)
ether
Like anaesthesia
resistant to
not affected by something; able to resist something
to contract (an infection)
to get an illness
A few
Small number of smth but enough, countable
Few
Small number of smth, not enough, almost none, countable
A little
A small number of smth, enough, uncountable
Little
Small number of smth, not enough, almost none, uncountable