NOUNS Flashcards
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‘CAN-DOUR
ˈkandər
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The ability to tell the truth & being honest, esp about an embarrasing subject
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SPEARHEAD
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To lead something as an attack or a course of action
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GRATIFICATION
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Pleasure & satisfaction
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PERSER’VERENCE
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Continued effort to achieve sth, even when it’s difficult or take a long time
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CAMARA’DERIE
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A feeling of friendliness towards people that you work or share an experience with
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MUTINY
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Occasion when a group of people refuses to obey and attempt to take control from the authority
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VERNACULAR
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The form of language that a particular group of speakers use naturally, esp in informal situations
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CORSAGE
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A small, decorative group of flowers that a woman pins to her clothes or ties around her wrist, usually for a special occasion
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SMEAR CAMPAIGN
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A planned attempt to harm the reputation of a person or company by telling lies about them
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‘SEANCE
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A meeting where people try to communicate with the dead
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PRE’PONDERANCE
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the largest or greatest amount
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SCRUTINY
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the careful and detailed examination of sth to get the info about it
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SWEEPSTAKES
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a type of gambling, often a horse race
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PROP
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an object used to support sth by holding it up
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DOWNTURN
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A decline in econ, business, etc
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ALLEGATION
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a claim or assertion that someone has done sth illegal without proof
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IN’DEMNITY
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Protection against possible damage or loss, esp. a promise of payment, or the money paid if there is such damage or loss
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‘LEEWAY
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An allowable margin of freedom and variation
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FELON
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a person who commit a crime
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ACCLAMATION
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loud and enthusiastic apporval, to welcome or honour someone
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ADULATION
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over-admiration, more than it’s deserved
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VERDICT (n)
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someone’s opinion about something after experiencing it, often for the first time
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ACUITY
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sharpness / keeness of sense
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ACUMEN
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skill in making correct decisions and judegements in a particular subject, such as business or politics
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**AGITATION**
a state of anxiety or nervous excitement
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**AGONY**
extreme physical and mental suffering
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**AGGRAVATION**
Exacerbation, deterioration
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**ALCHY**
An alcoholic
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**ALMA MATER**
The official song of a school, college, or university
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**GOON**
Violent criminal who's paid to hurt or threaten people
Silly, stupid person
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**AMALGA'MATION (with)**
The action, process or result of combining or uniting
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**AMBULANCE CHASER**
Lawyer who specializes in bringing cases seeking damages for personal injury
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**AMBULATION**
The ability to walk without the need of any kind of assistance
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**A'NATHEMA**
Sth that someone strongly dislikes
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**ANI'MOSITY**
A feeling of strong dislike, ill-will
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**ANGUISH**
Severe mental or physical suffering
(v) be distressed about something
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**ANOMALY**
A personal thing that is different from what's usual, or not in agreement with sth else and therefore no satisfactory
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**ANTICS**
funny, silly, strange behaviour
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**APATHY**
lack of feeling or emotion
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**ANTI SEMITE**
A person who is hostile to or prejudiced against Jewish people
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**AP'PRAISAL**
A valuation of property by the estimate of the authorized person
(Work) formal opportunity to analyse your performance at work
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**AP'PEASEMENT
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The act of calming things down
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**AS'SAILANT**
A person who attacks another person
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**ASTROLABE**
Circular device used in the ancient time to measure the position of stars and on ships to calculate ship's position
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**ATONEMENT**
Reparation for a wrong or injury
The forgiving or pardoning of sin
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**BACKSIDE**
Reverse or rear side of sth
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**AGENCY**
The ability to take action or to choose what action to take
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**RESTITUTION**
The act of giving back something
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**FOOLPROOF**
So simple and easy to understand that it is unable to go wrong or be used wrongly
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**EMBEZZLEMENT**
the fraudulent taking of personal property
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**FURROWED BROW**
A forehead (= part of the face above the eyes) that has lines in the skin, usually caused by worry
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**PURSED LIP**
To bring your lips tightly together so that they form a rounded shape, usually as an expression of disapprova
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**HOPSCOTCH**
A game played by children, who throw a stone onto a set of joined squares drawn on the ground and jump on one leg and then on two legs into each square to get the stone
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**VEXILLOLOGY**
The study of flags
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**COLIC**
Frequent, prolonged and intense crying or fussiness in a healthy infant
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**ALARMIST**
someone who is considered to be exaggerating a danger and so causing needless worry or panic
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**FROCK**
A dress
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**IMPASSE**
| syn. DEADLOCK
a situation in which no progress is possible, especially because of disagreement; a deadlock.
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**DUEL**
A difficult competition in which both sides show a lot of effort
**in a duel for**
**locked in a duel**
A formal fight using guns or swords, arranged between two people as a way of deciding an argument
**fight a duel over**
**challenged to a duel**
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**MINEFIELD**
An area of land or water that contains mines (= bombs)
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**CREDULITY**
a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true
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**PERISCOPE**
An instrument containing lenses and mirrors by which an observer (as on a submerged submarine) can get a view that would otherwise be blocked
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**HYPHENATE**
Someone who has two or more different jobs, especially in the entertainment industry
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**LICHE**
corpse, dead body
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**AUTOPSY**
a postmortem examination to discover the cause of death or the extent of disease
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**KEISTER**
Buttocks
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**COMMODITY**
a substance or product that can be traded, bought, or sold
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**(IN) PERPETUITY**
Forever
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**CONTUSION**
Medical term for Bruise
Caused by a direct blow to the body that can cause damage to the surface of the skin and to deeper tissues as well depending on the severity of the blow
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**PERUSAL**
the action of reading through something, especially to find the part you are interested in
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**POPPYCOCK**
Nonsense or foolishness
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**BALLER**
A person who plays a ball game, esp basketball really well
A successful person, esp who's rich, lives lavishly
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**BANKROLL**
The money that a person or org possesses
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**BANTER**
Talk, exchange remarks in good humoured teasing way
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**BASSINET**
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**BLASPHEMY**
The act or offense of speaking sacrilegiously about god, profane talk
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**BLIGHT**
A disease that damages and kills plants
Sth that spoils or has a bad effect on sth for a long run
(cast a blight on)
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**BLOC**
A group of countries or people that have similar political interests
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**BLOW'BACK**
Negative reactions or results that were not intended, such as criticism, protest or anger
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**BLUNDER**
(n) a serious mistake, usually caused by not taking care or thinking
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**BIGOTRY**
The fact of having and expressing strong, unreasonable beliefs and disliking other people who have different beliefs or a different way of life
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**BILATERAL TRADES**
The exchange of goods between 2 nations promoting trade and investment
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**BODE WELL**
A sign of good things to come
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**BOGGER**
The toilet
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**BONE FIDE**
In good faith, genuine
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**BROADSIDE AT**
A strong written or spoken attack on someone
With a side facing sth
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**BROKER**
(n) A person who buys and sells goods or assets for others
(v) To arrange sth such as a deal, agreement, between 2 or more groups or countries
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**BROTHEL**
A house where men can visit prostitutes
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**BRUTE**
A rough and sometimes violent man
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**BUNKER**
A shelter, usually underground to protect from bullets and bombs
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**BURNER PHONE**
Inexpensive mobile phone designed for temporary, anonymouse use, after which it may be discarded
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**BYPRODUCT**
Sth that is produced as a result of making sth else, or sth unexpected that happens as a result of sth
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**CA'BAL**
A small group of people who plan secretly to take action, esp political action
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**CADAVER**
A dead human body
| CORPSE, LICHE
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**CADET**
Young trainee in armed service
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**CANKER**
straight calf to the ankle
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**CASCADING FAILURES**
A failure in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of one or few parts leads to failure of other parts, growing progressively as a result of positive feedback
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**CATHOLIC WORK-AROUND**
Catholic bypass
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**CAVEAT**
A warning to consider sth before taking anymore action, or a statement that limits more general statement
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**CAVERN**
A large cave
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**CAPITONYM**
A word change it meaning when it's capitalized
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**CAMA'RADERIE**
Mutual trust & friendship among people who spend lots of time together
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**CELIBACY**
The state of being unmarried and therefore, sexually abstinent - usually in association with the role of a religious official or devotee
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**CESSATION**
Ending or stoping (ie smoking cessation)
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**CENSURE**
(n) strong criticism or disapproval
(v) to express strong criticism or disapproval
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**CHAPERONE**
Older woman who stays and takes care of younger woman
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**CHARADE**
An act or event that is clearly false, although represented as true
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**CHARGEBACK**
Return of funds to a customer's card account after they dispute a card payment on their statement
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**CHASM**
A very deep, narrow opening in rock, ice or the ground
A very large difference between 2 opinions or groups of pepel
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**CHURN**
A move sth, esp a liquid, with great force
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**CLEAVAGE**
A sharp hollow division/split, low cut garment
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**CLEMENCY**
Kindness when giving a punishment
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**HITCHHIKER**
someone who travels by getting free rides in someone else's vehicle
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**CLUNKER**
Old vehicle or machine in bad condition
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**VIEWERSHIP**
An audience of viewers, especially of television, either generally or of a particular kind or program
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**ROUNDHOUSE KICK**
Lift the knee while turning the supporting foot and body in a semicircular motion
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**COMMOTION**
A state of confused and noisy disturbance
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**COMORBIDITY**
Any coexisting health condition
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**APEX 'PREDATOR**
Top predator of the food chain
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**CASCADING FAILURES**
A failure in a system of interconnected parts in which the failure of one or few parts leads to failure of other parts, growing progressively as a result of positive feedback
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**CATHOLIC WORKAROUND**
Catholic bypass
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**CAVEAT**
A warning to consider sth before taking any more action, or a statement that limits a more general statement
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**CELIBACY**
The state of being unmarried and therefore, sexually abstinent - usually in association with the role of a religious official or devotee
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**CESSATION**
Ending or stoping (ie soking cessation)
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**CENSURE**
(n) strong criticism or disapproval
(v) to express strong criticism or disapproval
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**CHARADE**
An act or event that is clearly false, although represented as true
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**CHARGEBACK**
Return of funds to a customer's card account after they dispute a card payment on their statement
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**CHASM**
(GEO) A very deep, narrow opening in rock, ice or the ground
A very large difference between 2 opinions or groups of people
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**CLEVAGE**
A sharp hollow division/split, low cut garment
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**CLAMOR**
(n) a loud complaint about sth or a demand for sth
Loud noise, esp made by people's voices
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**CONTEMPT**
A strong feeling or disliking and having no respect for so or sth
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**CONTINUUM**
To bring together a group of people for a meeting, or to meet for a meeting
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**CONTRAPTION**
A device / machine that looks awkward or old-fashioned
Esp one that you do not know how to use
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**CONVULSION**
A sudden movement of the muscles in your body that you cannot control, caused by illness or drugs
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**CORDON**
A line of police, soldiers, vehicles positioned around a particular area in order to prevent people from entering it
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**CORN-HUSKING
CORN-SHUCKING**
A gathering to husk corn
Peel out corn
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**COUP**
An unexpectedly successful achievement
A sudden illegal, often violent, taking of gov power, esp by part of an army
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**CROAK**
Sounds of frogs or crows, deep rough sound
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**CONVENANT**
a formal agreement or promise between two or more people
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**CRAIC**
News, gossip, fun, enjoyable conversations
(Irish) what's the craic? (=what's up?)
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**CREDO**
Set of beliefs that influences the way you live
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**CRIPPLE**
An extremely offensive word for a person whose legs or arms don't work in a usual way
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**CULPRIT**
The cause of a problem or defect
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**CYBERNETICS**
The science of communication and control theory
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**DECATHLON**
2-day athletic event (run & jump)
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**DECEPTION**
The act of hiding the truth, esp to get an advantage
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**DEMARCATION**
The marking of the limits / boundaries of sth
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**IN DEFERENCE TO**
Respect and politeness
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**DELEGATE**
A person sent or authorized to represent others
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**DELIBRIUM**
A worsening or change in a person's mental state that happens suddenly over one or two days
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**DEMEANOUR**
A way of looking and behaving
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**DENDRITES**
Short parts like threads at the edge of a nerve cell that carry messages to the cell
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**DENT**
Slight hollow in a hard, even surface made by a blow or exertion of pressure
Mark with dent
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**DESPOTISM**
A ruler with unlimited power, often who is unfair and cruel
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**DEPRAVITY**
The state of being morally bad, wickedness
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**DEPUTY**
A person who is given the power to do sth instead of another person, or the person whose rank is immediately below that of the leader of an org
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**DERISION**
The situation in which someone or sth is laughed at and considered stupid or of no value
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**DETRITUS**
Waste of debris of any kind
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**DEXTERITY**
Skills in performing tasks, especially with the hands
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**DIASPORA**
A group of people who spread from one original country to other countries or the act of spreading in this way
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**DICHOTOMY**
A difference beteween 2 completely opposite ideas or things
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**DIPLOMACY**
The management of relationships between countries
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**DISCIPLE**
A person who believes in the ideas and principles of someone famous and tries to live the way that person does or did
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**DISCERNMENT**
The ability to perceive, understand and judge things clearly although it's not obvious or straightforward
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**DISDAIN**
The feeling of not liking someone or sth and thinking that they do not deserve your interest or respect
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**'DISSIDENT**
A person who publicly disagrees with & criticizes their gov
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**DOWNER**
An event or experience that makes you unhappy
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**DROPSHIPPING**
A company / person sells good online that they don't have in stock. When order is received, they send the orders to another company to ship directly to the buyer (more like midmen)
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**DUI**
Driving under influence
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**ECSTASY**
An overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement
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**ELEGY**
A sad poem or song, esp remembering someone who has died or sth in the past
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**ELATION AT**
Great happiness and exhileration
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**ENGULFMENT**
Become over immersed in a relationship so much that you rely on the other person to meet your needs
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**ENSEMBLE**
A group of things or people acting or taken together as a whole, esp a group of musicians who regularly play together.
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**ENTITILEMENT**
Sth that you have a right to do or have, or the right to do or have sth
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**ENTOMOLOGY**
The scientific study of insects
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**ENTROPY**
The amount of order or lack of order in a system
A measure of the amount of heat energy that is not available to do work
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**ENUCIATION**
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**EMPHYSEMA**
Air sacs of lungs damaged and enlarged - breathlessness
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**EPIPHANY**
Moment when you suddenly feel that you understand, become conscious of sth that is very important to you
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**EPITOME**
A person / thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type
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**EPITAPH**
A short piece of writing or a poem about a dead person, esp one written on their gravestone
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**EPAULET**
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**ESQUIRE**
Tittle added after a man's name on official documents who is a lawyer
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**ESPIONAGE**
The discovering of secrets, especially political or military info of another country or the industrial info of a business
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**'EUPHEMISM**
A word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word
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**EXCRETION**
Process of separating and expelling waste matter
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**EXTORTION**
The practice of obtaining money through forces or threats
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**EXTRAVERSION**
Talkative, energetic, assertive, outgoing
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**FALLOUT**
The radioactive dust in the air after a nuclear explosion
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**FA'NATIC**
A person who is extremely interested in sth, to a degree that some people find unreasonable
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**FAVELA**
Brazillian poor and crowded area
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**FALSEHOOD**
The state of being untrue, a lie
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**FIASCO**
Sth planned that goes wrong and is complete failure, usually in an embarrassing way
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**FIGUREHEAD**
Leader without real power
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**FLARE-UP**
A situation in which sth such as violence, pain, or anger suddenly starts or gets much worse
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**FLEECE**
woolly covering a sheep or a goat
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**FLIMFLAM**
Tallk that is confusing and intended to deceive
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**FORNICATION**
Sexual intercourse
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**FOR-PROFIT COLLEGE**
College owned and operated by private company or business. managed by investors/stakeholders to generate revenue for non-educational purposes
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**FORTITUDE**
Courage in pain / adversity
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**FOUNDRY**
A workshop or factory for casting metal
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**FRAY**
A fight, struggle, or disagreement that involves many people
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**FRECKLES**
A small, pale brown spot on the skin, usually on the face, especially of a person with pale skin
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**FREEBIES**
free things
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**FUGITITIVE**
A person who is running away or hiding from the police or a dangerous situation
(adj) feelings that last only for a short time
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**FURLOUGH**
(n) a period of time that a soldier, worker, or prisoner is allowed to be absent, esp to return temporarily to their own home
(n) a time allowed for a person to be absent, esp. from the army or a prison
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**ENEMA**
Injection of liquid into rectum by anus the cause intestines to empty
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**ENUNCIATION**
Act of pronouncing words or parts of it clearly
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**EXCRETION**
The process of getting rid of material such as solid waste or urine from the bowels
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**GAIT**
Person's manner of walking
Paces of an animal (dog or horse)
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**GAUNTLET**
A long thick glove, worn for protection
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**GENTRY**
| **GENTRIFICATION**
the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.
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**GESTATION**
(the period of) the development of a child or young animal while it's still inside its mother's body
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**GIBRALTAR**
a British territory that is a peninsula connected to the south coast of Spain
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**GIST**
essence of a speech = main ideas/themes
Gist with = chat or gossip with
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**GIRTH**
The distance around the outside of a thick or fat object, like a tree or a body
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**GEEZER**
A man often old or unusual in some way
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**GODSEND**
Sth good that happens unexpectedly, esp at a time when it is needed
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**ANALOGY**
A comparison between two things, typically for the purpose of explanation or clarification
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**GOOSE-STEPPING**
military marching
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**GORGE**
A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually formed by a reiver or stream cutting through hard rock
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**GRANDSTANDING**
Acting or speaking in a way intended to attract the good opinion of other people who are watching
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**GRAVEYARD SHIFT**
A period of work that begins late at night and ends early in the morning
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**GRIDLOCK**
A situation where roads in a town become so blocked by cars that it is impossible for any traffic to move
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**GRIMACE**
An expression of pain, strong dislike, etc. in which the face twists in an ugly way
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**GRUDGE**
hold a grudge - huge resentment, ill will, resentfully unwilling to give or allow
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**GULAG**
Prison camp. Bad environment where prisoners are forced to work hard
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**INFIDELITY**
the act or fact of having a romantic or sexual relationship with someone other than one's husband, wife, or partner
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**REVELATION**
A surprising and previously unknown fact, especially one that is made known in a dramatic way
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**GUNS BLAZING**
Lot of force and energy
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**HASSLE**
A situation causing difficulty or trouble
Give someone hassle
All the hassle
Get hassle
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**HATCHET**
Make sth happen sooner or more quickly
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**HENCHMAN**
Someone who does unpleasant of illegal things for a powerful person
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**HERMIT**
A person living in solitude as a religious discipline
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**HIATUS**
Pause / gap in a sequence, series or process
A break from work / activity
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**HOLY GRAIL**
The cup believed to have been used by Jesus at the meal before his death
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**HOMESTRETCH**
The last part of sth that is being done (or a race)
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**HYPERFIXATION**
An intense state of concentration and focus
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**NEUROTICISM**
Trait that reflects person's level of emotional stability
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**HUBRIS**
A way of talking or behaving that is too proud
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**IMPASSE = DEADLOCK**
Situation in which no progress is possible bc of disagreement
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**IMPEACHMENT**
The act of making a formal statement that a public official might be guilty of a serious offence in connection with his or her job, esp in the US
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**IMPOSITION**
Imposing sth or being imposed
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**INDOCTRINATION**
The process of teaching a person or group to accept a set of beliefs uncritically
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**INCARCERATION**
The act of putting or keeping someone in prison or in a place used as a prison
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**INCREDULITY**
The feeling of not wanting or not being able to believe sth
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**INDICTMENT**
Sth that shows a policy, system, society, etc, is bad or wrong
A statement that criticized so or sth strongly for being bad or wrong
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**INFATUATION**
an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something
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**INFANTRY**
Foot / marching soldiers
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**INFIDELITY**
The action/state of being unfaithful to a partner
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**BREVITY**
using only a few words (essay / speech) or lasting only a short time (life)
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**INFLUX**
The fact of a large number of people or things arriving at the same time
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**INFORMATION DISSEMINATION**
info disperse throughout
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**FEMININE HYPERGAMY**
practice of a person dating or marrying a spouse of higher social status or sexual capital
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**HYPOGAMY**
A woman of a higher social class who marries a man of a lower social class
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**INKLE**
(v) undertone communication or whisper to give hint of sth
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**HARROW**
A large piece of equipment that is pulled behind a tractor to break the earth into small pieces for planting
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**HASSLE**
A situation causing difficulty or trouble
Give someone hassle
All the hassle
Get hassle
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**INTERLOPER**
Someone who becomes involved in an activity without being asked or enter a place without permission
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**JUDICIARY**
The part of a country's government that is responsible for its legal system, including all the judges in the country's court
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**JUVIE**
Juvenile dentention centre
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**KNEE JERK REACTION**
A quick reaction that does not allow you time to consider something carefully
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**LARCENY**
theft of personal property
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**LANDSLIDE**
(landslip) A mass of rock and earth moving suddenly and quickly down a steep slope
(election) winning with extremely large number of votes
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**LANTIAN**
Some sort of blue that looks like patina on ceramics
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**LAUREATE**
Present but needing particular conditions to become active, obvious, or completely developed
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**LEARNING CURVE**
The rate of person's progress in gaining experience or new skills
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**LEGISLATURE**
The group of people in a country or part of country who have the power to make and change laws
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**LEEWAY**
Freedom to act within particular limits
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**LEVERAGE**
The action or advantage of using a lever
To use sth that you already have to achieve sth new or better
Power to influence people and get the results you want
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**LIAISON**
Communication or cooperation which facilitates a close working relationship between people or orgs
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**LIBATION**
A drink poured out as an offering to a deity
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**LIMESCALE**
Hard, chalky white deposit that gets left behind on surfaces when hard water evaporates (caco3)
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**LINGO**
A foreign language or local dialect
Way of speaking shared by a group of people
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**LITIGATION**
The process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgement can be made
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**LABYRINTH**
A confusing set of connecting passages or paths in which it is easy to get lost
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**FUMIGATION**
The use of poisonous gas to remove harmful insects, bacteria, disease, etc. from somewhere or something
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**LOCALE**
An area or place, esp one where sth special happens, such as the action in a book or film
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**LOCUS**
The place where sth is situated or occurs
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**LUGER PISTOL**
a toggle-locked recoil-operated semi-automatic pistol
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**MALT**
Grain, usually barley that has been left in water until it starts to grow and is then dried. Used in the making of alcoholic drinks such as beer and whiskey
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**MANDATE**
The authority given to an elected group of people, such as a gov, to perform an action or govern a country
To give official permission for sth to happen
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**MARCHING ORDERS**
If you give someone their marching orders, you ask that person to leave a place or a job because they have done sth wrong
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**MAYHEM**
Violent or damaging disorder, chaos
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**MENAGE**
A group of people living together in the same house
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**MENSES**
An occasion when someone menstruates
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**MISDEMEANOUR**
A minor wrongdoing
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**MODICUM**
Small quantity of particular thing, esp sth considered desirable or valuable
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**MORALE**
the mental and emotional condition (as of enthusiasm, spirit, or loyalty) of an individual or a group with regard to a task or goal to be accomplished
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**MONTROSITY**
Something that is very ugly and usually large
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**MORTAR ATTACKS**
artillery weapon that launches explosive projectiles at high angles
293
**MORTUARY**
Funeral home, morgue
Relating to tombs, burial
294
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**MOTORCADE**
A series of cars that carry someone important/ceremony
295
**MUTINY**
Occasion when a group of people refuses to obey orders and or attempts to take control from people in authority
296
**CUTOVER**
a change from old computer systems, equipment, etc. to new ones
297
**NECROPHILIA**
Sexual attraction to a dead body
298
**NEGRESS**
A Black woman or girl
299
**NEPOTISM**
practice among those with power & influence of favoring relatives, friends or associate by giving them job
300
**NITPICK**
Find faults in details that are not important
301
**NOVOCAINE**
A drug that causes parts of your body to feel no pain and that is used especially by dentist
302
**OBITUARY**
A report, esp in a newspaper, that gives the news of someone's death and details about their life
303
**OBJECTIVISM**
Any of various theories asserting the validity of objective phenomena over subjective experience
304
**OBLIGATION**
Sth that a person feels morally or legally forced to do
305
**ODOMETER**
Instrument measuring distance traveled by a vehicle
306
**OCTAVE**
The distance between two musical notes that are eight notes apart
307
**OFF-GRID LIFE**
Operate independently without relying on public utilities or resource
308
**OINTMENT**
Smooth oily preparation for medical purposes
309
**ONEIROLOGY**
The study of dream
310
**ORACLE**
A female priest who gave people wise but often mysterious advice from a god, or the advice given
Someone who knows a lot about a subject and can give good advice
311
**OR'DEAL**
An unpleasant and painful or difficult experience
312
**OUTCRY**
A strong expression of anger and disapproval about sth, made by a group of people or by the public
313
**OVERSIGHT**
Unintentional failure to notice, omission or error due to carelessness
314
**OVERTURE**
A piece of music that is an intro to a longer piece
A communication made to someone to offer sth, approach made to someone to discuss or establish sth
315
**PADLOCK**
A type of potable lock with a U-shaped shackle
316
**PEDAGOGY**
Method of teaching, in theory and in practice
317
**PEDIGREE**
A list of parents and other relations of an animal
318
**PERMA SMILE**
The insincerely constant smiling expression on the face of a politician or other performer
319
**PERISCOPE**
Long, vertical tube containing set of mirrors that give you view of what is above you when look through bottom of the tube
320
**PERSPIRATION**
Sweating
321
**PERTURBATION**
Anxiety, mental uneasiness
Small change in regular movement of an object
322
**PERMUTATION**
A way, especially one of several possible variations, in which a set or number of things can be ordered or arranged
323
**POISE**
(n) People with poise can handle pressure without showing it
324
**PHILANTHROPY**
The giving away of money, in large amounts, to orgs that help people
325
**PICKETING**
A form of protest in which people (called pickets or picketers) congregate outside a place of work or location where an event is taking place
326
**PINNACLE**
The most successful or admired part of achievement
327
**PLATITUDE**
A remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning bc it has been said so many times before
328
**PLEA**
Request made in an urgent / emotional manner
329
**PLEDGE PARTY**
Any event that you hold to raise awareness and funds for your crowdfunding campaign
330
**PODIUM**
Platform used to raise something to a short distance above its surroundings
331
**PREDATORY LENDING**
Practice that imposes unfair and abusive loan terms (high interests, high fees and terms that strips borrowers' equity
332
**PRE'DICAMENT**
A difficult, unpleasant or embarrassing situation
333
**PREMONITION**
A strong feeling that sth unpleasant is about to happen
334
**PREFACE**
An intro at the beginning of a book explaining its purpose, thanking people who helped the author
335
**PROLOGUE**
The young or offspring of a person, animal, plant
336
**PROSPECT**
The possibility that sth good might happen in the future
337
**PREAMBLE**
A preliminary / preparatory statement, an intro
(LAW) intro part of a constitution / statue that states reasons for & intent of the law
338
**'PRECINT**
A part of city or a town in which vehicles are not allowed, used for a special purpose, such as shopping
339
**PRE'COCITY**
Exceptionally premature (as of mental powers)
340
**PREPOSITION**
Words, or group of words that indicate spatial relationship
341
**PERSERVERANCE**
Persistence in doing sth despite difficulty or delay
342
**PRICE GOUGING**
The practice of increasing the prices of goods, services, commodities to a level much higher than is considered reasonable or fair
343
**PRICE HIKE**
A sudden increase in prices
344
**PROCESSION**
A series of people or things, one after the other
A line of people who are all walking or travelling in the same direction, esp in a formal way as part of a religious ceremony or public celebration
345
**PRO'CLIVITY**
The fact that someone likes sth or likes to do sth, esp sth considered morally wrong
346
**PRODIGY**
Impressive outstanding of a person, esp young one with exceptional abilities
347
**PROPENSITY**
The fact that someone is likely to behave in a particular way, esp in a bad way
348
**PROPULSION**
A force that pushes sth forward
The force produced by a system for moving a vehicle or other object
349
**'PROWESS**
(n) great ability / skill
Bravery in a battle
350
**PSALMS**
A holy poem or song, esp one of the 150 collected together in the bible
351
**PSYCHOSIS**
A collection of symptoms that affect the mind, where there has been some loss of contact with reality
352
**SMUGNESS**
an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
353
**PUNDIT**
A person who knows a lot about a particular subject and is therefore often asked to give an opinion about it
354
**PUNDIT**
Young person who behaves in a rude, aggressive or violent way
355
**PUGILIST**
A boxer or fighter
356
**PUSHBACK FROM**
Negative reaction to a change or to sth new that has been introduced
357
**QUIP**
A humorous and clever remark
Make a quip
358
**QUIVER**
tremble / shake with a slight rapid motion
359
**RACHET**
A short sudden attack, usually by a small group of people
The act of entering a place by force to steal from it
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**RAID**
a sudden attack on a place by soldiers
361
**RANSOM**
A large amount of money that's demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for an animal
362
**REARING ENVIRONMENT**
The conditions and experiences within a child's home that influence their development and behavior
363
**REAM**
A lot of sth, esp writing
500 sheets of paper
364
**REBUTTAL**
A statement that says sth is not true
365
**'RECOURSE**
Using sth or someone as a way of getting help, esp in a difficult or dangerous situation
366
**REFLEXES**
An action that is performed as a response to a stimulus and without conscious thought
367
**REEK OF**
Stinks, smell strongly and unpleasantly
368
**RELATIVISM**
Doctrine that knowledge are not absolute
369
**RELISH**
Great enjoyment
A condiment
370
**REPARTEE**
Conversation / speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies
371
**REPO**
A repurchase agreement - a form of short-term borrowing for dealers in government securities
372
**REPUDIATION**
The act of refusing to accept sth or someone as true, good, or reasonable
373
**RUMINATION**
the act of thinking carefully and for a long period about something
374
**RAMIFICATION**
the possible results of an action
375
**REPUGNANCE**
Intense disgust
376
**RETAINER**
A thing that hold sth in place
377
**RETRIBUTION**
Deserved and severe punishment
378
**REVELATION**
Surprising and previously unknown fact, one that is made known in a dramatic way
The divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of sth relating to human existence or the world
379
**REVISITATION**
To go to a place again
To examine or consider sth again
380
**REPARATION**
Amend made by payment
381
**REPERTOIRE**
A list or supply of dramas, operas, pieces of parts that a company or person is prepared to perform
382
**REPRESSION**
The use of force or violence to control a group of people
The process and effect of keeping particular thoughts and wishes out of your conscious mind to defend or protect it
383
**RETRIBUTION**
Seek retribution against
Deserved and severe punishment
The act of taking revenge
384
**RICOCHET OFF**
a shot / hit that rebounds
385
**RIVAL**
A person, group, competing with others for the same thing, or in the same area
Rival sth = be as good as sth
386
**RIZZ**
Charm, attractiveness
387
**ROBOCALL**
A telephone call made automatically by a computer, giving a recorded message
388
**RODENT**
Gnawing mammal (rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, etc)
389
**ROTE LEARNING**
Learning sth in order to be able to repeat it from memory, rather in order to understand it
390
**ROUNDHOUSE KICK**
A roundhouse kick (also known as round kick or turning kick) is a kick in which the practitioner lifts the knee while turning the supporting foot and body in a semicircular motion, extending the leg striking with the lower part of the shin and/or the instep
391
**RUBBLE**
Brick waste
392
**RUMINATION**
A deep or considered thought about sth
393
**RUNT**
Small animal in a litter
394
**SAB'BATICAL**
A period of paid leave granted to a university teacher or other worker for study or travel, traditionally, one year for every 7 years worked
395
**SALLY**
A sudden attack on enemy, esp when they're surrounding you
396
**SAVVY**
Practical knowledge and ability
397
**SCEPTRE**
Decorative stick that is carried by a queen / king during official ceremonies as a symbol of their authority
398
**DEMISE**
The end of something that was previously considered to be powerful, such as a business, industry, or system
399
**MEXICAN STANDOFF**
A confrontation where no strategy exists that allows any party to achieve victory. Anyone initiating aggression might trigger their own demise
400
**DIGRESSION**
The action of moving away from the main subject you are writing or talking about and writing or talking about something else
401
**SEPIA**
Reddish-brown color + monochrome photographs of the 19 20th centuries
Reddish brown color
402
**SERVITUDE**
The state of being under the control of someone else and of having no freedom
403
**SHANK**
Long, thin, straight part of particular objects, one that connects the end of a device / tool that you hold that moves or does sth
404
**SILO**
A large, round tower on a farm for storing grain or winter food for cattle
A large underground place for storing and firing missiles
405
**SCOUT**
A soldier sent out ahead of a main force to gather info about enemy's position, strength, movements
406
**SHAKEDOWN**
A radical change of restructuring, particular in a hierarchical organization or group
407
**SHAMBLE**
(slang) one heck of a mess
408
**SHOULDER SEASON**
travel season between peak and off-peak seasons
409
**SIDE HUSTLE**
= side job / side gig
410
**SKOSH**
A small amount, a little
411
**SLATE**
A dark grey rock that can be divided into thin pieces to cover a roof
412
**SLOUGH**
A swamp
(of some animals) to have a layer of skin come off
413
**SALACIOUSNESS**
The quality of causing or showing a strong, often unpleasant interest in sexual matters
414
**SALVO**
A sudden occurrence of applause, laughter from many people
The action of firing guns at the same time, in a war or ceremony
415
**'SOLACE**
| ˈsɑː.lɪs
Help and comfort when you are feeling sad or worried
416
**SORORITY**
A club for women
417
**SEMANTICS**
The study of meanings in a language
418
**SENATE**
One of the two groups of politicians who make laws in some political systems such as in the US, Australia and France. Often having different powers from other group and different rules for members and being elected for a long period.
419
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**SLAPSTICK**
A type of humorous acting in which the actors behave in a silly way, such as throwing things, falling over..
420
**SNAG**
A sharp, angular or jagged projection
Problem, difficulty or disadvantage
421
**SOLICITATION**
A request for money, info or help
422
**SOLILOQUY**
A speech in a play that the character speaks to himself or to the other people watching rather than to the other characters
423
**SOLUBILITY**
The ability to be dissolved, or the degree to which sth can be dissolved
424
**SMUGNESS**
=conceitedness
Excessive pride in one's achievement
425
**SOUL FOOD**
Food of a kind traditionally associated with African American of the southern US
426
**SPAT**
A brief petty quarrel
427
**SPEARFISH**
Fish by using spear
428
**SPECULATION**
The activity of guessing possible answers to a question without having enough info to be certain
429
**SPHCINTER**
A muscle that surrounds an opening in the body and can tighten to close it
430
**SPLINTER**
A small, sharp, broker piece of wood, glass, plastic etc
431
**SQUABBLE**
An argument over sth that is not important
432
**STAG**
Adult male deer
433
**STASH**
A store of supply that's kept hidden
434
**STASH HOUSE**
A house where money and drugs are kept
435
**STALEMATE**
A situation in which need a group involved in an argument can win or get an advantage, and no action can be taken
436
**STEEPLECHASE**
Long race that requires jumping over fences
437
** STICKLER (n) + FOR**
A person who insists on a certain quality or type of behavior
438
**STICK-UP**
Rob at gunpoint
439
**STILLBIRTH**
Death or loss of a baby before or during delivery
440
**STING OPERATION**
Deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime
441
**STIPEND**
Fixed regular income that is usually not based on an amount of work done
An amount of money that is paid regularly to someone, especially for work or training that is usually unpaid
442
**STIPULATION**
A rule that must be followed or sth that must be done
443
**STUTTER-STEP**
A momentary hesitation or false step by a runner done to fake a defender out of position
444
**THROW-DOWNS**
A competition, an argument with someone, or a fight involving physical violence
445
**'SUCCOTASH**
Veggie dish that consists of cooked maize kernels and butter beans mixed together
446
**HOOCH**
Strong alcohol, especially whisky
447
**SECOND BASE**
touching above the waist
448
**BOOGER**
dried nose mucus
449
**'SUM-MIT**
| ˈsʌmət
(n) the highest point of a hill / mountain
Highest possible degree / state - peak / climax
A meeting between heads of government
450
**'SUP-PLE-NESS**
| ˈsʌp.əl.nəs
The quality of being able to bend easily or be bent easily
451
**'SUR-RO-GA-CY**
| 'sur-uh-guh-see
A process in which a woman carries and delivers a child for a couple or individual
452
**'SYN-TAX**
| ˈsinˌtaks
The grammatical arrangement of words in a sentence
453
**TAG TEAM**
A pair of wrestlers who fight as a team. One member fights at a time, the 2nd member can't start until the first member has touched him or her
454
**'TA-XI-DER-MY**
| ˈtæk.sɪ.dɝː.mi
The art of preparing, stuffing and mounting skins of animals esp vertebrates
455
**TEMPERAMENT**
A person's / animal's nature that permanently affects their behaviour (4 types: sanguine, choleric, melancholic, phlegmatic)
The adjustment of intervals in tuning a piano / musical instrument to fit the scale for use in different keys
456
**TE-'NA-CI-TY**
| təˈnasədē
Quality of fact of being able to grip sth firmly
Determination
Persistence
457
**TES-TI-'MO-NIAL**
| ˌtes.təˈmoʊ.ni.əl
A statement about the character or qualities of someone or something
458
**'TIN-DER-BOX**
| ˈtɪn.dɚ.bɑːks
A dangerous or uncontrolled situation in which violence is likely to happen
459
**'TI-RADE**
| ˈtaɪ.reɪd
A long, angry speech of criticism or accusation
460
**TAFFY**
Insincere flattery
461
**TENURE**
Being the legal owner of a land, a job or an official public position or the period of time which you own it
462
**'THE-O-REM**
A formal statement that can be shown to be true by logic
463
**THROES**
Experience or do sth that is difficult, unpleasant or painful
464
**'TIN-GLE**
A feeling as if a lot of sharp points are being put quickly and lightly into your body
465
**'TIZ-ZY**
A temporary state of worry and confusion
466
**TOR-'PE-DO**
Long thin bomb travels underwater to destroy ships
467
**TOUCHE**
Used to admit that someone has made a good point against you in an argument or discussion
468
**PAN-DE-'MO-NI-UM**
A situation in which there is a lot of noise and confusion because people are excited, angry, or frightened
469
**CLAN**
A large family, or a group of people who share the same interest
470
**IN-FAN-TI-LI-'ZA-TION**
Infantilization is the prolonged treatment of one who is not a child, as though they are a child
471
**TRANS-'GRES-SION**
The act or process of breaking a law or moral rule, or an example of this
472
**PAWNSHOP**
A store that lends money in exchange for a valuable thing that they can sell if the person leaving it does not pay an agreed amount of money by an agreed time
473
**'TRA-VES-TY**
| ˈtræv.ə.sti
A false, absurd, or distorted representation of sth
Something that fails to represent the values and qualities that it is intended to represent, in a way that is shocking or offensive
474
**'TREA-SON**
(the crime of) showing no loyalty to your country, esp by helping its enemies or trying to defeat its government
475
**TRE-PI-'DA-TION**
Fear or worry about what is going to happen (apprehension)
476
**TRI-'BU-NAL**
A special court chosen, especially by your government to e retribution, meaning examine a particular problem
477
**TRI-BU-'LA-TION**
A problem or difficulty
478
**TRIST**
Romantic relationship
479
**'TRU-AN-CY**
The action of staying away from school without good reason
Absenteeism
480
**TRUCE = CEASEFIRE**
A short interruption in a war or argument, or an agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period of time
481
**TRU-'ISM**
A statement that is obviously true and says nothing new or interesting
482
**TUG OF WAR**
Type of sport in which 2 teams pull against each other at the opposite ends
483
**'TUN-DRA**
| ˈtʌn.drə
(part of) the very large are land in north asia, NA and NE where bc its cold, trees don’t grow and ground below the surface is permanently frozen
484
**'TU-TE-LA-GE**
| ˈtuː.t̬əl.ɪdʒ
Help, advice, or teaching about how to do something
485
**UL-TI-'MA-TUM**
A threat in which a person or group of people are warned that if they do not do a particular thing, something unpleasant will happen to them. It is usually the last and most extreme in a series of actions taken to bring about a particular result
486
**USE CASE**
Specific situation
487
**'VAR-SI-TY**
| ˈvɑːr.sə.t̬i
The principal team representing a high school or college in sport or other competition
488
**VEN-TRI-'LO-QUISM**
The ability to speak without moving your lips so your voice seems to coming from someone else - a way of entertaining people
489
**VER-'BO-SI-TY**
the quality of being verbose (= using too many words)
490
**'VER-DICT**
| ˈvɝː.dɪkt
Opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, esp one made at the end of the trial
491
**'VER-MIN**
| ˈvɝː.mɪn
An offensive word for people who are unpleasant in harmful to society
Small animals and insects that are harmful or annoying and that often difficult to control
492
**'VER-TI-GO**
Sensation of motion or spinning that is often described as dizziness
493
**'VES-TIGE**
A small part or amount of something larger, stronger, or more important that still exists from something that existed in the past
494
**'VOO-DOO**
Characterized by deceptively simple, almost as if magical, solutions or ideas
Magic or a curse (=magic words that are intended to bring bad luck to someone)
495
**'VOR-TEX**
| ˈvɔːr.teks
A dangerous or bad situation, in which you become more and more involved, and from which you cannot escape
A whirlpool
496
**WAD**
A number of usually flat or small objects pressed tightly together
497
498
**WALKIE-TALKIE**
A small portable radio
499
**'WAR-RANT**
To make a particular activity necessary
Used to say that you are certain about sth
500
**WEASEL WORD**
Sth that someone says either to avoid answering a question clearly or to make someone believe that sth that is not true
501
**WHIFF**
A slight smell, carried on a current of air (catch a whiff of)
502
**WHIRRING SOUND**
Sound of sth in rapid motion
503
**'WIST-FUL-NESS**
A slightly sad feeling caused by thinking about sth that you would like to have, sth in the past that you no longer have
504
**'WRAN-GLE**
An argument, esp one that continues for a long time
505
**XE-NO-'PHO-BIA**
| ˌzen.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə
Showing an extreme dislike or fear of people from foreign countries
506
**ZETZ**
A strong blow / bunch (boxing)
507
**CLOAK-AND-DAGGER**
Used to describe an exciting story involving secrets and mystery, often about spies, or something that makes you think of this
508
**A TRIN-KET**
A small decorative object, or a piece of jewellery that is cheap or of low quality
509
**KER-'FUF-FLE**
| kɚˈfʌf.əl
Noise, excitement, and argument
510
**DE-BAU-CHE-RY**
Extreme indulgence in bodily pleasures and especially sexual pleasures : behavior involving sex, drugs, alcohol, etc. that is often considered immoral
511
**BE-'FOUL-MENT**
The act of making something dirty or foul; the state of being soiled or defiled
512
**LAUGHINGSTOCK**
Someone or something that seems stupid or silly, especially by trying to be serious or important and not succeeding
513
**'ES-CA-PADE**
| ˈes.kə.peɪd
An act involving some danger, risk, or excitement, because it is different from usual or expected behaviour
514
**'JUG-GER-NAUT**
| ˈdʒʌɡ.ɚ.nɑːt
A very large, heavy truck
A literal or metaphorical force regarded as merciless, destructive, and unstoppable
515
**EM-'BEL-LISH-MENT**
| ɪmˈbel.ɪʃ.mənt
something added to make another thing more beautiful or interesting, or the process of doing this
516
**'NE-ME-SIS**
| 'nem.ə.sɪs
Someone's nemesis is a person or thing that is very difficult for them to defeat
(A cause of) punishment or defeat that is deserved and cannot be avoided
517
**'LI-TUR-GY**
A set of words, music, and actions regularly used in religious ceremonies
518
**'MA-TRI-MO-NY**
| ˈmæt.rə.moʊ.ni
the state of being married
519
**'GAU-DI-NESS**
| ˈɡɑː.di.nəs
The quality of being unpleasantly bright in colour or decoration
520
**'E-CHE-LON**
| ˈeʃ.ə.lɑːn
A particular level or group of people within an organization such as an army or company
A special arrangement of soldiers, aircraft, or ships
521
**'RE-VE-RENCE**
| ˈrev.ɚ.əns
A feeling of respect or admiration for someone or something
522
**RA-MI-FI-'CA-TION**
The possible results of an action, decision or action
523
**'SO-NO-GRAM**
An image, especially of a baby that is still inside the womb, that is produced by ultrasound
524
**STANDOFF**
A situation in which neither of two opposing groups or forces will make a move until the other one does something, so nothing can happen until one of them gives way
525
**'PRO-GE-NY**
The young or offspring of a person, animal, or plant
526
**AP-PA-'RA-TUS**
| ˌæp.əˈræt̬.əs
A set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose
527
**PRE-'CA-RI-TY**
| prɪˈker.ə.t̬i
The state of being uncertain or likely to get worse
528
**IN-TE-RO-'CEP-TION**
| ˌɪn.t̬ɚ.rəˈsep.ʃən
the collection of senses providing information to the organism about the internal state of the body
529
**'O-VER-TONE**
| ˈoʊ.vɚ.toʊn
Something that is suggested, but is not clearly stated
530
**'SI-BI-LANCE**
| ˈsɪb.ɪ.lənts
The fact of making a "s" or "sh" sound
531
**SPO-LI-'A-TION**
To steal goods violently from a place, especially during a war
To steal or remove something precious from something, in a way that does not consider moral laws or is more severe than it needs to be
532
**LI-TI-GA-TION**
| ˌlɪt̬.əˈɡeɪ.ʃən
The process of taking a case to a court of law so that a judgment can be made
533
**SHAKEDOWN**
The activity of getting money from someone by threatening or tricking them
A careful search in order to find things that are stolen or illegal
534
**'BULL-DOZ-ER**
| ˈbʊlˌdoʊ.zɚ
A heavy vehicle with a large blade in front, used for pushing earth and stones away and for making areas of ground flat at the same time
535
**'TRE-MOR**
A slight shaking movement in a person's body, especially because of nervousness or excitement
A slight earthquake
536
**DIS-'PEN-SA-RY**
A place where medicines are prepared and given out, often in a hospital
537
**'E-DI-FICE**
| ˈed.ə.fɪs
A system that has been established for a long time
538
**ZING**
A quality that makes something interesting or exciting; enthusiasm or energy
539
**'O-RI-FICE**
| ˈɔːr.ə.fɪs
an opening or hole, especially one in the body, such as the mouth
540
**NIGHT-CAP**
A drink, sometimes an alcoholic drink, that someone has just before going to bed
541
542
**'RE-GI-MEN**
| ˈredʒ.ə.mən
Any set of rules about food and exercise that someone follows, especially in order to improve their health
543
**AP-PA-'RA-TUS**
| ˌæp.əˈræt̬.əs
A set of equipment or tools or a machine that is used for a particular purpose
544
**BICKERING**
Arguments about things that are not important
545
**'PLE-THO-RA**
A very large amount of something, especially a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with
546
**'DOO-ZY**
Something special or unusual, especially something unusually bad
547
**LILT**
A gentle and pleasant rising and falling sound in a person's voice
548
**'PE-DI-GREE**
A person's family history, education, and experience, or the history of an idea or activity
549
**BODY DYS-'MOR-PHI-A**
a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance
550
**TRANS-'GRES-SION**
The act or process of breaking a law or moral rule, or an example of this
551
**EM-'BO-DI-MENT**
Someone or something that represents a quality or an idea exactly
552
**NON-CONFORMITY**
The quality of living and thinking in a way that is different from other people
553
**LI-'NEAGE**
The members of a person's family who are directly related to that person and who lived a long time before him or her
All the living things that are related directly to the same living thing that existed long ago
554
**'AL-LY-SHIP**
The quality or practice of helping or supporting other people who are part of a group that is treated badly or unfairly, although you are not yourself a member of this group
555
**'COM-MEN-TA-RY**
A spoken description of an event on the radio or television that is broadcast as the event happens, or the action of providing this description
556
**STANCE**
A way of thinking about something, especially expressed in a publicly stated opinion
A way of standing
557
**SOCIAL MOBILITY**
Movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society
558
**REVILE**
| rɪˈvaɪl
To criticize someone strongly, or say unpleasant things to or about someone
559
**'SUB-TER-FUGE**
| sʌb.tɚ.fjuːdʒ
A trick or a dishonest way of achieving something
560
**PRE-'PON-DE-RANCE**
A superiority in weight, power, importance, or strength
A superiority or excess in number or quantity
561
**FIGMENT**
Something that seems real but is not
562
**FIB**
unimportant lies
563
**'TID-BIT**
a small piece of info
a small dish of pleasant-tasting food
564
**ALLUSION**
sth said / written to make you think of a particular thing/person
565
**'PRE-JU-DICE**
| ˈpredʒ.ə.dɪs
unfair or unreasonable opinion, judgement formed without enough thought and knowledge
566
**OB-'SCE-NI-TY**
| əbˈsen.ə.t̬i
offensive or sexually shocking word / saying
567
**'JAR-GON**
technical terminology
568
**PA-RA-PHER-'NA-LIA**
objects needed for or connected with particular acitivity
569
**A-'DORN-MENT**
decor
570
**AVALANCHE**
| ˈæv.əl.æntʃ
A large amount of ice, snow, and rock falling quickly down the side of a mountain
571
**EU-'GE-NICS**
- scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of "racial improvement" and "planned breeding".
- popular in the early 20th century, with the belief of being able to perfect human beings eliminate social ills through genetics and heredity
572
**IMMENSITY**
Unusual largeness in size or extent or number
573
**QUANDARY**
(about/over) a state of not being able to decide what to do about a situation in which you are involved
574
**'BI-O-PIC**
| ˈbaɪ.oʊ.pɪk
A film about the life of a real person
575
**BE-'HE-MOTH**
| bɪˈhiː.mɑːθ
something that is extremely large and often extremely powerful
576
**'BO-ROUGH**
A town, or a division of a large town
577
**FECUNDITY**
noun of FECUND
578
**ASPHYXIATION**
The state or process of being deprived of oxygen, which can result in unconsciousness or death; suffocation
579
**CREED**
A set of guiding principles or beliefs
580
**MONOTONY**
A situation in which something stays the same and is therefore boring
581
**XEROX**
a copy of a document
582
**ANTITHESIS**
A contrast between two things
583
**TRINKET**
knick-knacks
584
**QUANDARY**
A state of not being able to decide what to do about a situation in which you are involved
585
**PRE-'DI-CA-MENT**
An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of
586
**PA-'RI-AH**
Outcast
587
**'NUI-SANCE**
Something or someone that annoys you or causes trouble for you
588
**SPECTROGRAPH**
An instrument for dispersing radiation (as electromagnetic radiation or sound waves) into a spectrum and photographing or mapping the spectrum
589
**ENCROACHMENT**
The act of gradually taking away someone else's rights, or taking control of someone's time, work, etc
590
**MOXIE**
Courageous spirit and determination; perseverance
591
**HEMATOLOGY**
Study of blood and blood disorder
592
**BENDER**
A period in which a large amount of alcohol is drunk
593
**CON-'GLO-ME-RATE**
a company that owns several smaller businesses whose services and products are different
594
**O-'BLI-TE-RATE**
| əˈblɪt̬.ə.reɪt
Remove all signs of sth, either by destroying or covering it
make an idea or feeling disappeared completely
595
**WACKINESS**
The quality of being unusual in a funky, silly, pleasant way
596
**TAILSPIN**
A situation in which a plan turns round and round as it falls quickly towards the ground
A situation in which sth starts to fail or lose value and gets more and more out of control
597
**EXORCISM**
The process of forcing evil spirit to leave a person by using prayers or magic
The act of removing bad effects of an upsetting events
598
**DIATRIBE**
An angry speech or writing to criticize someone severely
599
**POLYAMORY**
Romantic relationships that have more than one partners at the same time, with the informed consents of all partners involved
600
**CRAP WEASEL**
sneaky, untrustworthy, insincere person
601
**COTILLION**
a large formal occassion where people dance
602
**'PHI-LIS-TINE**
people who are anti-art and culture
603
**SMIDGE**
Small amount
604
**'DO-MO-CILE**
| ˈdɑː.mə.saɪl
The country in which a person or company lives or does business and has their legal address
A dwelling place
605
**CADET CORPS**
program in which cadets / young trainees are trained and preapared for military life
606
**RESPITE**
A pause or rest from sth difficult or unpleasant
a useful delay before sth unpleasant happens
607
**LOONEY BIN**
an offensive word for a pyschiatric hospital
608
**MILI'EU**
| miːlˈjɜː
the social environment in which someone acts or llives
609
**THE PLIGHT OF**
An unpleasant condition, esp a serious, sad or difficult one
610
**STUBBLE**
short hairs when not shaved recently
611
**DAGGER**
a short, pointed knife, used as weapon in medieval
612
**SNOOZEFEST / SNOREFEST**
An extremely boring event or period of time
613
**SQUEEGEE**
bathroom scraper
614
**RETRIBUTION**
punishment
615
**CARTHASIS**
The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
616
**RANSOM**
A large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone who has been taken prisoner, or sometimes for an animal
617
**CONCESSION**
Something that is allowed or given up, often in order to end a disagreement, or the act of allowing or giving this
618
**GOOD DEEDS**
do ethical, moral things
619
**PROCLIVITY**
The fact that someone likes something or likes to do something, especially something considered morally wrong
620
**LITANY**
A long list of unpleasant things, especially things that are repeated
621
**'PE-TU-LANCE**
| ˈpetʃ.ə.ləns
The quality of being easily annoyed and complaining in a rude way like a child
622
**TAPESTRY**
A piece of cloth with a pattern or picture that is created by sewing or weaving different coloured threads onto a special type of strong cloth
623
**SLEET**
Rain that freezes or partly freezes as it falls from the sky
624
**INFIRMARY**
hospital, nurse room in school or college
625
**AGEISM**
The stereotypes (how we think), prejudice (how we feel) and discrimination (how we act) towards others or oneself based on age
626
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**INFANTICIDE**
the killing of a young child
627
**SQUALL**
sudden strong wind, short storm
628
**LINGO**
a way of spekaing that's shared by particular group of people
629
**E-VA-'NE-SCENE**
the condition of lasting for a short time, then disappear quickly and get into the oblivion
630
**GOOD RIDDANCE**
A welcome and positive loss or departure
631
**I-NUN-DA-TION**
a flood of things
632
**HY-PER-TRO-PHY**
an increase in size, structure and function
633
**SPOOF**
a funny piece of writing, music, play,etc to mimic the style of orginal work - a parody
634
**HOOT**
short, loud, high sound
635
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**DELIVERANCE**
the state of being saved from painful and bad experience
636
**FOREBODING**
A feeling that something bad will happen
637
**'PO-PU-LACE**
the ordinary people who live in a particular country or place
638
**'TI-RADE**
| ˈtaɪ.reɪd
A long, angry speech of criticism and accusation
639
**MAELSTROM**
powerful whirlpool in the sea
state of confused movement or violent turmoil
640
**FIDELITY**
A state of being faithful or loyal
641
**INSIGNIA**
An object to show that person belongs to a particular group, with a particular rank
642
**HODGEPODGE**
a confused mixture of different things
642
**DISCRETION**
ability to behave without causing emberassment, keeping secret
643
**DURESS**
threats used to force someone to do sth
644
**PUTSCH**
An attempt to remove a government by force
645
**REVERSAL**
The act of making sth change to the opposite
646
**EMBLEM**
A picture of an object used to represent a particular person
647
**VANITY**
the over pride for your achievements and apperance
the quality of being worthless and futile
648
**LIGATURE**
A thread or wire used for tying sth , esp a blood vessel
649
**PLEDGE**
A promise made to give money, a sign that you make promise
**MAKE PLEDGES:** promise to donate, or promise to do good deeds
650
**CON-GE-NI-'A-LI-TY**
| kənˌdʒiː.niˈæl.ə.t̬i
the quality of being friendly and pleasant
651
**COMMISSARY**
a gov official with particular responsibility
652
**PURGATORY**
an extremely unpleasant experience that cause suffering
653
**WICK**
Piece of string in the middle of the candle, fueling the flame
654
**SHAKEDOWN**
Getting money by threatening from someone by tricking them
Test or launch new equipment
A period which people getting used to new technology
Stock market prices going down
655
**CRUNCH TIME**
a point at which sth difficult to be done
656
**PEDIGREE**
A family tree
657
**EXPENDITURE**
total amount of money a gov or person spends
the act of speanding, money, energy, or time
658
**UPSHOT**
sth that happens as a result of other actions, events or decisions
659
**ZITS**
pimples
660
**RIFT**
a split in relationshipss bc of disagreement
661
**BLOWBACK**
unintended negative reactions or results (criticism, protest, anger)
662
**CALAMITY**
A serious accident or bad event causing damage or suffering
663
663
**DOMICILE**
a dwelling place
664
**HOAX**
A trick to deceive someone
665
**GAG**
a piece of cloth put in a person's mouth to stop them from talking
opening jokes from comedians
666
**VO-TECH**
vocational technical
667
**WHATNOT**
similar things
668
**LARK**
an activity you take for fun and not taking it seriously
669
**DEUCE**
what's the deuce you think you're doing?
Express anger or surprise
670
**CAKEWALK**
easy to achieve
671
672
**CONTRITION**
feeling sorry and guity for what you've done
673
**GOOMBAH**
a closed friend, who acts as an advisor
674
**CONJECTURE**
a guess based on how it seems but not on proof
675
**REFUSE**
unwanted waste material
676
**BETTERMENT**
improvement
677
**CLOCKWORK**
work smoothly, same thing everday
678
**QUANDARY**
| in a quandary about / over
A state of not being able to know what to do in the situation you're in
679
**PHILANDERING**
have lots of sexual partners with no emotional attachment
680
**SIDELINE**
Activity you do as your main job
681
**DENOMINATION OF**
a unit of value, esp money
682
**DENOMINATION FOR**
a particular name for sth
683
**DENOMINATION**
religious groups that are under one same roof of religion but share different beliefs
684
**ADAGE**
a proverb, a wise saying
685
**CRANK CALLS**
someone makes unpleasant calls to people they don't know
686
**ENORMITY**
Noun form of **Enormous**
an extremely evil act / quality of being evil
687
**RED HERRINGS**
something that takes your attention away from a more important subject
688
**CLIFFHANGER**
story or situation that is exciting because of its uncertain ending
689
**ALFRESCO DINING**
outdoor dining
690
**CONCOTION**
sth put togehter from several things
691
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692
**CHILD-REARING**
the upbringing of a child
693
**ALCHEMY**
Middle Age chemistry process that turns metal into gold
694
**PORTERAGE**
job of carrying thing to other people, esp at railway stations, etc or money paid for it
695
**BUSLOADS**
a bunch of thing
696
**PENDULUM**
a change, esp from one opinion to an opposite one
a clock's device that swing side to side
697
**BAROMETER**
sth that can show how particular situation is developing, and how's people opinions on the matter changing
698
**STINT**
a fixed or limited period of time spent doingg particular activity
699
**VENTURE**
a new business that involves risk or uncertainty
700
**CONVOY**
a group of vehicles and ships traveling together for protection
701
**DOWNPOUR**
a heavy rainfall
702
**MUGSHOT**
photo portrait of person who is arrested
703
**ABRIDGMENT**
the act of reducing one's freedom, rights, etc
| in the abridgment of freedom / liberty
704
**OMEN**
sth that is considered to be a sign of how the future will happen
an event that has clues of what will happen in the future
705
**COFFEE-BADGING**
An action of badging in the office just to meet required hybrid hours then finish work at home
706
**RECOMPENSE**
a present given to someone as a thank, or a reparation for damage
| **in recompense for**
707
**SCHTICK**
one's special traits / interests that they're known for
a bit of sth
708
**PROPENSITY**
the fact that people are likely to act in particular way, but in a bad way
709
**RELISH**
enjoyment or delight
710
**REPENTANCE**
the fact that you're very sorry for the wrongdoings from the past and wish you hadn't done it
711
**RECURSION**
the practice of describing numbers and expressions
712
**RE-'PEN-TANCE**
the action of repenting, regret or remorse
713
**HEURISTICS**
mental shortcuts for solving problems quickly to get sufficient result in given time constraints
714
**INCUBATOR**
a container that has contraolled air and temperature conditions in which newborn babies are kept
715
**LUMINARY**
A person who is famous and important in a particular area and activity
716
**CON-'TRI-VANCE**
| kənˈtraɪ.vəns
The act of intentional arranging for sth to happen by clever planning or sth that is arranged in this way
A clever device / object that has been invented for a particular purpose
717
**UTTERANCE**
the act of saying sth out loud
718
**GRIPE**
a strong complaint
719
**APPENDAGE**
sth that exists as a smaller and less important part of sth larger
| **A mere appendage of**
720
**TRANCE**
A mental state between sleeping and walking, in which a person does not move but can hear and understand what is being said
mental condition in which someone is not completely conscious or in control of himself
721
**MISANDRY**
feelings of hating men
721
**INJUNCTION**
an official order given by a law court to stop someone do sth
722
723
**MISOGYNY**
hatred against women
724
**ATROCITY**
extremely cruel, violent, shocking act
725
**OSTRACISM**
excluding one out of a community intentionally
726
**INDIVIDUATION**
Individuating
727
**REGRESSION**
return to the worse state
728
**REGRESSION**
return to the worse state
729
**TRAVESTY**
sth that fails to represent / achieve what it’s intended for and seems ridiculous
730
**FACTION**
a group within the larger group, especially with slightly different ideas from the main group
731
**BRAWL**
noisy, rough, uncontrolled fight
732
**APTITUDES**
A natural ability or skill
733
**VICINITY**
The area around place where the speaker is
734
**PETRICHOR**
the smell produced when rain falls on dry ground
735
**PROPINQUITY**
Kinship, proximity
736
**STENOGRAPHY**
Shorthand writing
737
PREDICAMENT
An unpleasant situation that is difficult to get out of
738
WAGER
An amount of money that you risk in the hope of winning more, by trying to guess the uncertainty, or the agreement that you make to take this risk
739
GALL
Has the gall to V = has the guts to
Rudeness and the quality of being unable to understand that your behavior of what you say is not acceptable to other people
740
IMPUDENCE
Shamelessness
741
DRIVEL
Nonsense, or unnecessary info
742
CONTEMPT
Strong feelings of dislike or no respect for sth
743
INQUITITIES
Immorality
744
APPROBATION
Approval or agreement, often given by the official group
745
RUNDOWN
A report summarizing main points
746
TAUNT
Unkind remarks made to upset someone
747
CHALICE
Christian decorative silver cup
748
IMPOVERISHMENT
Loss of wealth, becoming poor, deterioration
749
CANDID PHOTOGRAPHY
photography captured without a posed appearance
750
WEAK TIES vs STRONG TIES
people you know but not very well or very well
751
VIRTUE vs VICE
Morality and immorality
752
TUNNEL VISION
The fact that someone considers only one part of the problem or perspective
753
DELUGE
A large amount of rain or water
A deluge of some thing = a lot of something
754
GUFFAW
Roar of laughter, hoot of laughter
755
HUSK
The dry outer covering seeds
756
DALLIANCE WITH STH
An interest or involvement in an activity or belief that only lasts for very short period
757
ADROGYNY
the quality of state of being neither specifically feminine nor or masculine
758
BOUDOIR
A woman’s dressing room
759
AXIOM
Statement or principle that is generally accepted to be true
760
AXIOM
Statement or principle that is generally accepted to be true
761
MANOSPHERE
Website and Internet description concerned with men’s interest and right as opposed to women’s, often connected with misogyny
762
INANITY
The quality of being extremely silly or having no real meaning or importance
763
MOON-LANDING INNOVATION
Spacecraft innovation
764
PANACEA
cure-all, remedy
765
PUTTY (in one's hand)
a person who's easily influenced or persuaded
766
LEPRECHAUN
a mischievous elf
767
HYPOTENUSE
the longest side of a triangle
768
MIND-MELDING
telepathic union
769
PURVEYOR
a business that provides goods and services
770
CELIBACY
the sate of being unmarried
771
MANURE
dung, solid waste from animals to nourish plants
772
EXCREMENT
feces
773
QUALM
an uncomfy feeling when you doubt if you are doing the right thing
774
INTERJECTION
an occasion when someone interrupts someone else, the interruptions themselves
775
776
SOVEREIGNTY
the power of a country to control its own government
777
SOVEREIGNTY
the power of a country to control its own government
778
LIFEBLOOD
The thing that is most important to the continuing success and existence of sth else
779
PIPE DREAM
an idea or plan that is impossible or very unlikely to happen
780
SPITBALL
A piece of paper that has been chewed and then rolled into a ball to be thrown or shot at someone
781
DELUGE
A large amount of rain or water
782
A DELUGE PF STH
A lot of sth
783
MEANDER
A journey that has no particular direction
784
OBSOLESCENCE
The state of being obsolete
785
ANNALS
The record or an activity arranged yearly.
History that covers long period of time.
786
CONGREGATION
A group of people coming together in a religious building to worship
787
DISSONANCE
Lack of harmony.
Combination of two disharmonious elements.
788
HEEDED CALLS
requests, warnings or advice being paid attention to or followed
789
INTERLOPER
An uninvited person who intrudes in an event, group or activity without permission
790
OFF-THE-RACK
off the peg, made in standard sizes for everyone
791
HARNESS
belts and straps for safety
792
PROWESS
great ability or skill
793
SPECTACLE
unexpected events or performances that attract attentions
794
COMEUPPANCE
a person’s bad luck that is considered to be a fair and deserved punishment for sth bad they’ve done
795
LINEAGE
Ancestor
796
LINEAGE
ancestor
797
APOPLEXY
Outrage, fury
798
PROPRIOCEPTION
Body awareness to sense its location, movement and action
799
HEGEMONY
The position of being the strongest and most powerful to control the others
800
GODSEND
sth good happening unexpectedly, esp when you need it
801
PRECURSOR
thing that happened / existed before another thing, esp if it developed or had influence on the latter
802
EFFICACY
ability to produce the intended result
803
PROPONENT
Advocate, supporter
804
CONVALESCENCE
time spent recovering from an illness or medical treatment
805
DAMPENER
sth that makes sth less active, less exciting and less enjoyable
806
FRAZZLE
state of being tired or anxious
807
HUMANOID
a machine or creature with the appearance and qualities of a human
808
COFFEE ENEMA
colon cleansing through injection via the anus
809
EAGLE EYE
Close watch
810
AUSTERITY
The condition of living without unnecessary things and without comfort, with limited money or goods, or a practice, habit, or experience that is typical of this.
A difficult economic situation caused by a gov reducing the amount of money it spends
811
AUSTERITY
The condition of living without unnecessary things and without comfort, with limited money or goods, or a practice, habit, or experience that is typical of this.
A difficult economic situation caused by a gov reducing the amount of money it spends
812
RETENTION
The continued use, existence, or possession of sth or someone
The ability to keep or continue having sth
The continued use or possession sth or someone
813
DERIVATIVE
A form of sth made or developed from another form
814
DERIVATIVE
A form of sth made or developed from another form
815
GALLANTRY
Polite and kind behaviour towards women, esp when in public
The quality of being brave when sth is difficult or dangerous
816
GALLANTRY
Polite and kind behaviour towards women, esp when in public
The quality of being brave when sth is difficult or dangerous
817
GUILE
clever but sometimes dishonest behaviour that you use to deceive someone
818
COPPER (slang)
Police, cop
819
A CORNERSTONE
Sth of great importance that everything else depends on
820
ABSTINENCE
the fact of not doing sth pleasurable, such as sex or alcohol
821
BACKLASH
A strong feeling among a group of people in reaction to a change or recent events in society or politics
A strong, negative reaction to sth, esp. to change
822
REVOLT
An attempt to get rid of a gov by using violence
823
FALLACY
an idea that lots of people think is true but is in fact false
824
HIGHFLYER
someone who has a lot of ability and a strong wish to be successful and is therefore expected to achieve a lot
825
PROPOSITION
an offer or suggestion, usually in business
826
PROPOSITION
an offer or suggestion, usually in business
827
PARLANCE
a group of words or style of speaking used by a particular group of people
828
TEMPERANCE
The habit or practice of avoiding extremes of behaviour especially not drinking too much alcohol
Control of your own behaviour, such as not drinking or eating too much
829
SOMERSAULT
roll or jump, either forwards or backwards, turning over completely, with body over your head and finish with your head on top again
= flip, cartwheel
830
CULVERT
a waste pipe under roads, railways, etc
831
HERALD
signal
832
'HARBINGER
a person or thing that shows that sth is going to happen soon
833
AUSTERITY
the condition of living without unnecessary things and without comfort, with limited money or goods
the quality of being austere in appearance or manner
834
(MENTAL) ABERRATION
a temporary change from the typical or usual way of behaving
835
ALACRITY
speed and eagerness
836
ENMITY
a feeling of hate
837
(MAKE) LANDFALL
the first land that is reached or seen ath the end of a journey across the sea
838
MANTRA
a world or phrase that is often repeated and that expresses sth that people believe in
839
FACTOID
an interesting piece of info
840
RIDDLE
a type of question that describes sth in a difficult and confusing way and has a clever of funny answer, often asked as a game
sth that is confusing, or a problem that is difficult to solve
841
FANFARE
great attention to and interest in sth
showy activity meant to draw attention to sth
842
ADO
a lot of activity, worry or excitement that is unnecessary or greater than the situation deserves
843
GRIDLOCK
a situation where roads in a town become so blocked by cars that it is impossible for any traffic to move
a situation in which no progress can be made
844
HIGH JINKS
energetic an excited behaviour in which people do funny things or play tricks on someone
845
RURAL FLIGHT
Rural exodus
846
GEOPOLITICS
the study of the effects of geography on politics and international relations
847
ECTASY
a state of extreme happiness, esp with pleasure
848
INNUENDO
the remarks of sth sexual or unpleasant but do not refer directly
849
HELIOTROPISM
The tendency of a creature to move toward light
850
RURAL EXODUS
tendancy of moving from rurals to urbans
851
ACRIMONIOUS
Sounds angry and bitter
852
MUSINGS
Your thoughts or comments on something you have been thinking about carefully and for a long time
853
SCHLEP
Something takes a lot of effort to do
854
HAZING
The activity of playing tricks on someone especially a new person
855
MONIKER
nickname or name
856
IRREVERENCE
The quality of not showing the expected respect for official, important or holy things
857
MALFEASANCE
an example of dishonest and illegal behaviour, esp by a person in authority
858
EXONERATION
The act of showing a stating that someone something is not guilty of something
859
PRONATALISM
encourage high birth rate
860
NATALISM
Promotion for childbearing
