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Незваный гость

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Interloper

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Troublesome and annoying

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Plaguy (en)

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Inauspicious

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Not conducive to success; unpromising •unlucky

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Blasé

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Indifferent to

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Smugness

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excessive pride in oneself or one’s achievements.

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in a way that shows a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper

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Blithely

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Inventiveness

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Ingenuity

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Թբիլիսի՝ վաճառական ◆ Ժամանակով մի շատ մեծ սովդաքյար կար։ (Երվանդ Լալայան) ◆ - Այ տերտեր, ասում եմ, հայ-քրիստոնեի տանը 100 մանեթն ի՞նչ բան ունի, ես սովդաքյա՞ր եմ, վաճառակա՞ն եմ։ (Պերճ Պռոշյան)
Մուշ, Բաղեշ՝ սիրահար

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սովդաքյար

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թառակի, [գոյական]

  1. (ժողովրդական) Այգիների թաղ, որ ուրիշ թաղերից բաժանված Է փողոցով՝ ճանապարհով:
  2. Բնակավայրի թաղ՝ թաղամաս:
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թառակ

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10
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a person who behaves in a wild or reckless manner.

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Tearaway

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Smooth and without seams or obvious joints

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Seamlessness

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12
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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza

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Enjambment

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Unconscious, completely lacking sense or reason. lacking physical sensation.

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Insensate

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Prayer, recital

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Litany

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15
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the state of being mental or spiritual rather than physical.

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innerness

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Sharply delineated

severe or bare in appearance or outline.

complete; sheer.

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Stark

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17
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To cause

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To beget

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18
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He that hath all can have no more

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John Donne

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19
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To court

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To woo

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20
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The quality or fact of being very determined

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Tenacity

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21
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Out of the woods

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Out of difficulties, danger or trouble

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Fluke

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an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck

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an action or remark that causes outrage or offence.

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affront

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24
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to cause (someone) to stop and think about something carefully or to have doubts about something I was going to ask her for help, but the look on her face gave me pause.

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To give a pause

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25
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a person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.

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layperson

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Primus Latin

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Prime, first rank

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Scourge

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cause great suffering to.

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28
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Copulation

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sexual intercourse

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29
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Fastidiousness

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Fastidiousness is a quality of caring a lot about how accurate or tidy things are.

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30
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the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.

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Hypocrisy

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Paragon

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a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.

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32
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tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward.

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To lure

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33
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Deposition

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A deposition is a witness’s sworn out-of-court testimony

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34
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Triumvirate

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A triumvirate (Latin: triumvirātus) or a triarchy is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (Latin: triumviri). The arrangement can be formal or informal. Though the three are notionally equal, this is rarely the case in reality.

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Adhesion

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allegiance to a particular person, party, or set of ideas.

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36
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To exonerate

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of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing.

release someone from (a duty or obligation).

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37
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Fifth column

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A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation.

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38
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Objection to oath

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Conscientious scruples

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39
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Social Darwinism

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Social Darwinism refers to various theories that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s that applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics.

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Paramilitary

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A paramilitary organization is a semi-militarized force whose organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not formally part of a country’s armed forces.

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41
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accept (behaviour that is considered morally wrong or offensive).

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To condone

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42
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Nemesis

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the inescapable agent of someone’s or something’s downfall.

a long-standing rival; an arch-enemy.

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43
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the jury is out

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a decision has not yet been reached on a controversial subjec

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44
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Dendritic

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Having a branched form resembling a tree

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45
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Widerlager

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Counterfort

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46
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Cylinder

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Glan

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47
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to come to a point beyond which there is no further progress

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To hit a wall

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48
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Perspicacity

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the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.

Perspicacious

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49
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Untimely

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intempestive

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50
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Surface

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La superficie

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51
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points cardinaux

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le nord, le sud, l’est, l’ouest

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52
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Mountain range

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Le massif montagneux

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53
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Privileged

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privilégié

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54
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Thanks to

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Grâce à

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55
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Hill

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La Colline

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56
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Bold and without shame

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Brazen

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57
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(Of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women

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philander

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58
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A person or thing viewed as the model of excellence

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Paragon

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59
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Relating to birds

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Avian, eg avian world

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60
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Furtive

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Attempting to avoid notice or attention

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61
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Wise or attempting to appear wise

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sapient

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62
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A lover esp the illicit partner of a married person

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Paramour

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63
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Polygyny

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Poly (many) gyny (female the same root as vagina)

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Polyandry

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Poly andry ( androgen)

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65
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EPC

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Extra-pair copulation

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66
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Avidity

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Interest or enthusiasm,

Sexual acidity

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67
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A person’s female lover

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inamorata

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68
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A casual romantic or sexual relationship

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dalliance

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69
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Filled with bitter criticism or malice

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vitriolic

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70
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Extremely hot or intense

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searing

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71
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Causing one to feel drained off

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enervating

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72
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Statute Charter - German

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Satzung

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73
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Mud German

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Schlamm

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74
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Self-sufficient German

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autark

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75
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Self-sufficiency

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Autarkie

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76
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Operating expenses short

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opex

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77
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Capital expenditure

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capex

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78
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The place where an object is found

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find-spot

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79
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Supervisory power German

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Kontrolbefugnis

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80
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irritability, excitability, sensitivity
One of the signs of life
German

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Reizbarkeit

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81
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Truly wonderful, someone acts in a truly noble way

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Sublimity

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82
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Uplifted, high or exalted - Latin

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sublimis

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83
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Tissue Greek

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histos histology

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84
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Lehre Wissenschaft Greek

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logos

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85
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Divisible Greek

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meristos Meristem

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86
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the top or highest part of smth 2) climax highest achievement

Latin root

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Apex - apical from apicem

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87
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Bundle Latin

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fascis => fascicle, fascicular

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88
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Womb Latin

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Mater=> matrix

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89
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Network Latin

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reticulum

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90
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Green Greek

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chloro

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91
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Color Greek

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chromo

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92
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Time Greek

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chrono

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93
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Old man + root Greek

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geronto

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94
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Causation, cause Greek

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etio

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95
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White Greek

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leuk => Latinized leuco

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96
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Starch Greek

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amilum => amiloplast

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97
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Oil, oiliness Greek

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Elaeo

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To be turned inside out or folded back on itself to form a cavity or couch

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To invaginate - einstülpen

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99
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Thread Greek

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mit mito => Mitose

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100
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Fat Greek

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lipo

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101
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chosen or designated by oneself

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self-anointed

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102
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by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance

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intrepid

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103
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Snappy

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cleverly concise; neat

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104
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happening as a result of an external factor or chance rather than design or inherent nature.

Coming from outside

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Adventitious

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105
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Tanne

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Fir, pine, soji

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106
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Perfidious

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Deceitful and untrustworthy

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107
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Irascible

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Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered

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108
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Northern bald ibis

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Bird Al Badia

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109
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clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.

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Artifice

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110
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a rowdy or mischievous person, especially a child.

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hellion

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111
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Perfidious

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Deceitful and untrustworthy

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112
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Irascible

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Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered

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113
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Northern bald ibis

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Bird Al Badia

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114
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Illegal hunting

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Poaching

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115
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Spookily

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Latin apis bee , scientific study of honey bees

116
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slevte

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Slender and elegant

117
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Syntropy

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The sentence towards energy concentration, order, organization and life

Influence each other in a positive way

118
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brisk and cheerful readiness.

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Alacrity

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Frenzied eg frenzied pace

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Wildly excited or uncontrolled

120
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Bequest

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A legacy

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Backwardness

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the state of having made less progress than is normal or expected.

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wary

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feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.

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musing

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a period of reflection or thought.

124
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relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake

A region lying along a shore

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littoral

125
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fail to fulfil or justify (a claim or expectation).

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To belie

126
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to read or study (something) very carefully

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To pore over

127
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To barrage

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bombard (someone) with questions, criticisms, complaints, etc.

128
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Salient

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Most noticeable or important 2) of an angle pointing outwards

129
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Attenuated

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Having been reduced in force, effect, or value

130
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Of new Latin

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de novo

131
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expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief).

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To debunk

132
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100 years old or older person

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Centenarian

133
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Filled to overflowing

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chock-full

134
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How many plant and animal species

How many microbial species

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10 Million

1 trillion

135
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shard

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A piece of broken ceramic metal glass or rock typically having sharp edges

136
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To gain traction

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An Zugkraft gewinnen

137
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Enabling someone to discover or learn smth for themselves

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heuristic

138
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Bona fide

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Latin with good faith

Real genuine

139
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Acerbic

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Sharp and forthright

140
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Excessively fond of drinking

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Bibulous

141
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umpteen

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Indefinitely many

142
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To minimize or omit something in an account in order to obscure, conceal, or diminish the importance of it.

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To gloss over

143
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having an extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one’s own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult.

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agoraphobic

144
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an important or exceptionally able person.

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Hotshot 🔥💉

145
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an informal expression of encouragement or admiration to a man or boy.

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Attaboy!

146
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used to express surprise or alarm.

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Jeepers

147
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Pöckeln

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Pickling

148
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Ermessen

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Discretion, gauge, estimate

149
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Einwand erheben

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Tontaube an objektiven

150
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hingerichtet

A

Executed, put to death

151
Q

Zuchthaus

A

Prison, penitentiary

152
Q

From soup to nuts

A

From beginning to end

153
Q

very unwilling to spend money or use resources.

A

parsimonious

154
Q

a pirate or lawless adventurer.

A

Freebooter

155
Q

noticeable or prominent in an unwelcome or intrusive way.

A

obtrusive

156
Q

Néant

A

Nil, nought

157
Q

Mg

A

Constituent de chlorophyll, s’accumule particulièrement dans la pulpe 50-150mg/l vin

158
Q

Cils et agrafes de palissage

A

Clip

159
Q

Agrafe

A

Clip

160
Q

Phosphate

A

L’excès de phosphate favorisent le casse ferrique

161
Q

oinos logos

A

Vin discours

162
Q

an ancient Celtic fortified town, especially one under Roman rule.

A

oppidum, pl oppida

163
Q

1a : an act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice (as to a deity)
They offered a libation at the temple.
b : a liquid (such as wine) used in a libation
2a : an act or instance of drinking often ceremoniously
a libation to celebrate their anniversary
b : BEVERAGE
especially : a drink containing alcohol
His favorite libation is scotch on the rocks.

A

Libation

164
Q

entreposer

A

To store to stock

165
Q

Wineskin

A

Outre à vin

166
Q

Bucket

A

Le seau

167
Q

Douelle, merrain

A

Stave

168
Q

Plughole, banghole

A

Une bonde

169
Q

aubier

A

white sapwood, sans aubier (for barrels)

170
Q

L’ouillage

A

Topping off

171
Q

La forêt française

A

16 mio ha (4th in Europe after Sweden, Finland, Spain), 3/4 private. 35% oak out of 16 mio ha

172
Q

is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.

A

tundra

173
Q

is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.[

A

Steppe

174
Q

Chênaie

A

Oak wood

175
Q

Quercus suber

A

Thermochimies, héliophile, xérophile

176
Q

Caduque

A

Arbres à feuilles caduques qui tombent en hiver (opposé à persistant).

Quercus pédonculé et sessile sont caduque

177
Q

Q. robur / p.

A

Préfère les milieux frais et humide

178
Q

Q. petrara / sessile

A

Préfères les sols secs

179
Q

guêpe

A

Wasp

180
Q

regurgitate

A 
bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth.
"gulls regurgitate food for the chicks"
Similar:
vomit
bring up
disgorge
regorge
2.
repeat (information) without analysing or comprehending it.
181
Q

L’essaim

A

Swarm

182
Q

100 millions de levures par kilogramme de vendange

A

Levure

183
Q

Ensemencement

A

Sowing, seeding

As well for yeasts …

184
Q

Toutefois

A

Nevertheless, however

185
Q

En dépit de

A

In spite of

186
Q

10-20g/hl LSA

A

5 milliards de levures par litre de moût

187
Q

La piqûre acétique

A

= acescence

Acétobacter et gluconobacter transforment le sucre et l’alcool en acide acétique

188
Q

Redoutable

A

Formidable, fearsome

189
Q

Chaptalisation

A

1.7 kg/hl => 1% alc

190
Q

a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.

A

Debacle

191
Q

Septentrional

A

of the north”, is a Latinate adjective

Septentrionaux

192
Q

Accroître

A

To jncrease

193
Q

Mouillage

A

Jesus units

194
Q

L’inconvenient

A

Disadvantage

195
Q

Néanmois

A

However

196
Q

Cleaves rouges %

A

France 70%

55-60 % au niveau mondial

197
Q

Disposer d’un levier

A

To dispose a lever

198
Q

L’écoulage

A

Drain off, run off

199
Q

effondrer

A

To collapse

200
Q

destemming - crushing

A

Éraflage-foulage

201
Q

Autovidante

A

Self-emptying

202
Q

% des polyphenols initiaux sont extraits?

A

30-60%, 50%

203
Q

MPC

A

Macération préfermentaire chaud

204
Q

Là flash détente

A

Sous l’effet du vide poussé la vendange chaude voit sa température s’abaisser de 50C en une fraction de seconde

205
Q

Inter alia

A

Among other things

206
Q

wary and unwilling to take risks.

A

circumspect

207
Q

(used when comparing two or more cases or situations) making necessary alterations while not affecting the main point at issue.

A

mutatis mutandis

208
Q

une exigence

A

requirement

209
Q

la répartition

A

distribution

210
Q

la pointe

A

Point, tip

211
Q

là gélivure

A

Winter injury

212
Q

briser

A

To shatter to break to smash

213
Q

Houppier

A

Canopy (tree?)

214
Q

France climat

A

Se situe entre le 43 et le 51 * de latitude nord, le 45 passe par Bordeaux et par Valence. Le pays est traversé par l’isotherme 12C, 800mm .

551.000km2, 1000km du nord au sud et a peu près l’équivalent de l’est à l’ouest

215
Q

Presqu’île

A

peninsula

216
Q

Espace ouvert aux influences océaniques

A

Il n’y a en dehors du Massif central, pas d’obstacle aux vents d’Ouest.

217
Q

The verb allay is used when you want to make something better or eliminate fears and concerns.

A

To allay

218
Q

Le littoral

A

Coastline

219
Q

La débourrement

A

Budding?

220
Q

sous abri

A

Under shelter

221
Q

Estival

A

“Estival” traces back to “aestas,” which is the Latin word for “summer” (and which also gave us “estivate,” a verb for spending the summer in a torpid state - a sort of hot-weather equivalent of hibernation).

222
Q

(of an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.

A

Estivate, aestivate

223
Q

Canicule

A

Dog-days, heat wave

224
Q

sciaphile

A

Sciaphile - shade loving shade plant shade tolerant

225
Q

Attenuation

A

the process of making something less or weaker:

226
Q

Cold sedimentation

A

Débourbage au froid

227
Q

Les procédés

A

the production processes

228
Q

Inertage poussé

A

Inertage poussé

229
Q

First wine in neolithique

A

Le rosé de simple foulage est probablement le premier vin élaboré au neolithique à partir de raisins noirs sauvages.

230
Q

Direct pressing

A

Le pressurage direct

231
Q

Overripe Grapes

A

De raisins surmûris

232
Q

nuisible

A

harmful

233
Q

défrichement

A

Land clearing

234
Q

La pâture

A

Pasture

235
Q

La garrigue

A

scrubland

236
Q

Relentir

A

Slow down

237
Q

Oak forests

A

La hausse des températures provoque une augmentation de l’evapotranspiration 40mm/an. La multiplication des saisons sèches ralentit la croissance des arbres, provoque une diminution de leur cime (crown) et multiplie les petites branches, ce qui réduit leurs qualités pour la tonnellerie.

238
Q

Échalas

A

Stakes For support

239
Q

Why did they privilege oak?

A

The wood doesn’t rot

240
Q

Iconoclasm is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.

A

Iconoclasm

241
Q

Law of unintended consequences

A

loi des conséquences imprévues

242
Q

Photosynthesis

A

Optimal 25-30C
45C

Above 50C leaves may die because the proteins in the leaves lose their structure faster than they can be repaired

243
Q

How many H2O molecules are lost for one CO2 molecule?

A

Mature leaf ca 200-600

244
Q

Quercus robur

A

=quercus pedunculata

15% de la forêt française

20-35m, commun dans toute la F. sauf Méditerranée et Corse, hygrophile, héliophile. Il s’implante surtout dans les plaines, les collines et jusqu’à la base de l’étage montagnard. Deux tiers de la chaînais. Ils. Besoin de 8C (végétation 13C). Sa souricière est menacé si la température tombe à 5C.

245
Q

Quercus petracea, Quercus sessiliflora

A

Dit aussi chêne du Tronçais ou chêne du centre, 12% de la forêt française, ces glands sont sessiles (qui n’ont pas de pétiole ) , les feuilles reste attachée en l’hiver. 20-40m. Rejette aussi la souche. Absent dans le sud ouest et méditerranéenne. Il résiste mieux à la sécheresse estivale. Une espèce de demi-ombre. Il aime les sols filtrant, épais (trick, heavy), légèrement acides. Grain plus fin, les tannons se libèrent moins vite dans le vin, plus riche en Eugénie et methyl-octalactone. Plus recherché pour les vins fin.

246
Q

Quercus alba

A

Les rhumes sont plus épaisses ce qui permet d’obtenir des fûts étanches même en sciant les billons

247
Q

To sneeze

A

Éternuer

248
Q

soixantaine

A

About si tu

249
Q

Balonge

A

Basket for carrying harvest

250
Q

Benne

A

Harvest bin

251
Q

le coût de production

A

Cost of production

252
Q

Sawing splitting

A

Sciage fendage

253
Q

De la grume au merrain, pus des planches à la douelle, il y a une perte de l’ordre de 80%

A

Waste in oak production

254
Q

5m3 grume

A

1m3 douelles - 10-12 fûts

255
Q

Débittage

A

Cutting sawing

256
Q

Se cintrer

A

To bend

257
Q

Se cintrer

A

To bend

258
Q

Requirement

A

Exigence

259
Q

Liable to decay

A

Putrescible

260
Q

Teuffeau

A

Limestone in Loire

261
Q

Bauernschlau

A

cunnigly

262
Q

Étroite

A

Narrow

263
Q

un brasero

A

Une chaufferette - (tonnellerie)

264
Q

La durée de chauffe - cintrage au feu

A

Environ 30 minutes

265
Q

Cintrage à vapeur ou encore l’immersion des rouelles dans l’eau chaude de 90C à 120C

A

Avant le cintrage pendant 20 minutes afin de les assouplir et de les débarrasser aussi dans les deux cas des composés à caractères amers des tannins âpres, astringents. Cela permet accentuer le fruité par rapport au boisé des vins. Après l’immersion le fût est cintrée puis passé à la flamme

266
Q

Chauffe tonnellerie industrielle

A

Émissions d’onde à infrarouge ou par des résistances électriques

267
Q

Chauffe au gaz

A

Employé surtout pour les barriques destinés à conteneur les alcools

268
Q

À court terme

A

Short term

269
Q

Rayonnement un

A

Influence radiance

270
Q

Un effondrement

A

Collâmes, break-down

271
Q

Antilles

A

French West Indies in the Carribean

272
Q

Abattu

A

Felled (tree)

273
Q

Tarière

A

Auger, drill

274
Q

Le flottage

A

Log driving (wood), floating

275
Q

La fonte

A

Smelting, thawing

276
Q

Puiser

A

Scoop out

277
Q

the writing of the lives of saints.

a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence.

A

Hagiography

278
Q

a weakness, especially in a person’s character; a shortcoming.

A

Failing

279
Q

a secret political clique or faction.

A secret intrigue

A

Cabal

280
Q

make a soft sucking sound such as that made by treading heavily through mud.

A

Squelch

281
Q

a situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible. Draw

A

Stalemate

282
Q

an open rebellion against the proper auth

A

Mutiny

283
Q

Fournisseur

A

Contractor, supplier

284
Q

Entonnage

A

Barreling

285
Q

La floraison la nouaison

A

Flowering, fruit set

286
Q

Maîtriser la maturité

A

Control the maturity

287
Q

La gelée

A

Frost

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