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Question 1

cliques

Answer 1

/klɪk/
panelinha
a small group of people who spend their time together and do not welcome other people into that group:

• Our golf club is run by a very unfriendly clique (of people).
• There’s a clique at work that never talks/who never talk to anyone else.
  Synonym

Question 2

pulls me along behind me

Answer 2

1. To drag, haul, or force someone or something behind one. A noun or pronoun can be used between “pull” and “along.”

• The child pulled the box along behind him, pretending it was a suitcase.
• I took the dog for a walk, but she just pulled me along the whole time.

Question 3

keep it
i was only flipping through the pages of those books

Question 4

whom are we forming an alliance against

Question 5

what gives?

Answer 5

A tradução literal de what gives é “o que dá”. Essa expressão é, na verdade, uma maneira de dizer “o que se passa?”, “o que está acontecendo?”, “qual o problema?”. Menos frequentemente, pode ser apenas uma saudação, um cumprimento amigável — assim como acontece com “o que se passa” em português.

• What gives with you and Martha?
  O que se passa com você e a Martha?
• You’ve been acting weird all week. What gives?
• Not even thirty minutes after leaving the shower, I start getting itches on my head. What gives?

Question 6

tap it against his tigh

Answer 6

/tæp/
to hit something gently, and often repeatedly, especially making short, sharp noises:
- The branches tapped against the window.
- I could hear him tapping his fingers on the desk.

to touch the screen of a phone, tablet computer, etc. in order to give an instruction for something to happen :
- When I tapped on the update button, the screen went blank.