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1
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Be on the ball

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Able to think or react very quickly

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2
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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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24
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Sympathetic

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Understand people’s feelings and support them

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25
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Terminal

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Fatal (it’s totally the end of smth)

26
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Morphine

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Обезбол

27
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Complication

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An extra medical problem that makes it more difficult to treat an existing illness

28
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Distribute

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Spread

29
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Obesity

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The state or condition of being very fat or overweight

30
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Focus

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On

31
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Succeed

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In

32
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Suffer

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With

33
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Recover

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From

34
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Worry

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About

35
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Agree

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With

36
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Protect

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From

37
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Care

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Of

38
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Complain

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About

39
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Deal

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With

40
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Applied

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For

41
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Specialise

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In

42
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Rely

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On

43
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To take smth up

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To begin to do do or to start smth

44
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An amateur

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taking part in an activity for pleasure, not as a job. Opposite: a professional

45
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to be keen on smth (football, sports)

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liking somebody/something very much; very interested in sb / smth

46
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to keep one’s eye on the ball

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to give your attention to what you are doing at the time

47
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to assault sb

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to attack sb violently, especially when this is a crime

48
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to instil smth in(to) sb

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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

49
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commitment

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desire to work hard and give your energy and time to a job or an activity polite and showing respect

50
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suppleness

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the quality of being able to bend easily

51
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to push the limits

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to attempt to go beyond what is allowed or thought to be possible

52
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inordinate

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far more than is usual or expected

53
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a contribution

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an action or a service that helps to cause or increase something, usually something good

54
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outstanding

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extremely good; excellent

55
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acupuncture

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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.)

56
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ether

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Like anaesthesia

57
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resistant to

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not affected by something; able to resist something

58
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to contract (an infection)

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to get an illness

59
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A few

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Small number of smth but enough, countable

60
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Few

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Small number of smth, not enough, almost none, countable

61
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A little

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A small number of smth, enough, uncountable

62
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Little

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Small number of smth, not enough, almost none, uncountable

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