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ENSK3ME05 > New York City > Flashcards

New York City Flashcards

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Quintessential

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The perfect example of something

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Metropolis

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A large important city

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Frenetic

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Fast, and not very organized/frantic

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Chaotic

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Where everything is happening in a confused way

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Glamorous

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Attractive, exciting, and related to wealth and success

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Icon

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Symbol

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Aspiration

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Ambition/the wish to achieve something

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Beacon

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Signal, guide

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Huddled masses

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A lot of people, gathering close together

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To disembark

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To go from a ship

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Innately

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You have always had it; from birth

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Cinematic

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Relating to films

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Tapered

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Gradually becoming narrower towards the end

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Skyscraper

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A very high building

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Borough

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District in a city, responsible for its own schools etc.

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Distinct

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Clearly different and seperate

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Up-and coming

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Showing signs of advancement and ambitious development; likely to become successful or popular

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Convoluted

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Complicated; difficult to understand

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Acronym

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A word made up from the first letters of the name of something such as an organization. For example NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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Relentless

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Strict, cruel or determined, without ever stopping

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Gentrification

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A gradual process in which area in bad condition where poor people live is changed by people with more money coming to live there and improving it like a flow of this process that never seems to stop

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Zero tolerance

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No tolerance, won’t accept it

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Epidemic

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A sudden increase in the number of times that something bad happens
A large number of cases of a disease that happen at the same time

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Trans fats

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Trans-unsaturated fatty acids/hard fat

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Edginess

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Nervousness/anxiety/difficult to feel calm because people are angry or upset

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To stake a claim

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To say that it’s yours

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Hip

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Doing things according to the latest fashion; cool

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Gritty

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Showing a difficult or unpleasant situation as it really is; tough

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Astronomical

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Extremely high

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