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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Major

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The main subject that a student studies at college or university

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Enroll

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To officially join a school, university or course

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Tunnel vision

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Thinking about one part of a plan or problem instead of considering all the parts

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4
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Shift

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A change

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5
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Drop out

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To leave school before you finish a course

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Strategy

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A planned series of actions for achieving something

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7
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Supportive

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Giving help or encouragment

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Management

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The act of controlling and organizing someon’s work or time

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Bribe

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To offer a person something special in order to make the person do something

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Ultimately

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Finally, after everything else has been done or considered

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Environment

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The situations that affect the way we live and work

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12
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Volunteer

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To do something without expecting money

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13
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Process

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A series of actions done to get a result

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14
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Take a chance

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To do semething risky

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15
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Figure out

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To think about a problem until you find a solution

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16
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Play your cards right

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To do everything necessary to succeed

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17
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Play second fiddle

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To accept that you have a lower position

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18
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Get the lowdown

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To get facts about something

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19
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Get your hands dirty

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To become involved in all aspects of something including work that is unpleasant or less interesting

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Play it by ear

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To act without preparation

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21
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Get out of heand

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To become uncontrolled

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Affect

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To do something that produce an affect or change in something

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Ensure

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To make sure something will happen in the right way

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Facilitator

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Someone who helps a group of people discuss things with each other

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Incarcerate

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To put or keep someone in prison

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Move on

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To let negativity go and then change and improve your life

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Offender

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Someone who is guilty of a crime

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Outcome

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The final result of a meeting or discussion

29
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Restitution

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The act of giving something back to the victim of a crime

30
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Remorse

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To feel sorry for something negative that happened

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Tension

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A nervous or worried feeling that make it impossible to relax

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Lose it

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Become very angry or upset

33
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Brake the law

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Doing something illegal

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Forgive

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Stop being angry at someone, although they did something wrong

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Shocked

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Surprised and upset by something unpleasant

36
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Pouring out

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Telling someone all your feeling because you are unhappy

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Arrest

A

Take someone away

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Detain

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Stop someone from leaving

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Try

A

Judge an offender in court

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Convict

A

Announce that someone may have broken the law

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Sentence

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Tell an offender his or her punishment

42
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Greenhouse gas

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A gas specially carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4), that traps heat above the Earth and causes global warming

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Resource

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A supply of something useful such as land , oil or coal

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Transport

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To take goods or people form one place to another in a vehicle

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Generation

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All people of about the same age

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Collectively

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As a group

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Consumption

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The use of energy, oil or electricity

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A drop in the bucket

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An action that has a little or no effect

49
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Raised bed

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An area in a garden that is used to grow plants

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Solar panel

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Equipment that makes energy from the sun

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Dense

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Made of a lot of things that are very close together

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Industries

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Groups of businesses, each of which makes the same type of product

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Factories

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Buildings where products are made by machines

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Energy efficient

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Using less of a resource (gas, oil, water)

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Technology

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Machines that are based on modern knowledge of science and computers

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Emissions

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Gases that go into the air

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