S Flashcards
Stubborn
Intransigent (maintain and intransigent stance/position)
Scare
petrify, intimidate
Small bit/part of sth e.g conversation, news, baseball match
Snippets of
Strange e.g idea, smell, feeling (Taylor Swift)
Peculiar
Serinity (piece in the midts of sth)
“I admire my mothers serenity in the midst of such a chaos”
Tranquility(find, feeling of)
(when one is in a place where there is nothing to disturb him)
“I love the tranquility of our forest,there is nothing to disturb me when I’m running”
Solve (text mainly)
Decipher
-S-mall chance
slim chance
Severe (law, measure, regulations)
(bi-lincsel, nincsen)
Stringent(sztrindzsönt)
“There ought to be more stringent controls on the use of drugs in Hungary”
Significant improvement
Marked improvement
“My reading has shown a marked improvement this year”
(to) shape (meg)old
to mould something
e.g.
-The Statistics will mould the policy.
-I tend to mould people into doing something I want them to do.
Shorten something
Abridge something
e.g. The book is abridged in order to let children understand the whole story and don’t see reading it as a tedious task.
Same
self-same(before nouns)
e.g. Csabi’s father suffered from the selfsame disease as his ancestors(enszesztöz)
Something, showing great skills
e.g. Polished performer
Shape (e.g. a policy)
Mould
Who start one’s interest in ..
Who got one interested
Someone doesn’t mind something
It makes no difference to him
It should have started
It was due to start/begin
e.g. The concert was due to start about 2 hours ago.
Send
Consign
e.g. The lego tree was consigned to András by air freight (légi úton való szállítás)
(-) I refused to be consigned to poverty so I made my own enterprise instead of working for a huge company for low wages.
-The notion of love was consigned into oblivion by 2O8O
Stop something from burning
extinguish
e.g. The fire in the skillet was quickly extinguished by slamming the lid on.
Strong (feeling, experience,
Profound
Stop
Stall
e.g. If a car stalls it stops
-also:conversation, negotiation
satisfaction(stems from achieving something
Acquiring the C1 one level will not give me any tremendous sense of satisfaction, but I have to be aware of it and act accordingly maintaining this level of english.
contentment(noun form of content)
e.g. Find contentment
despite not yet achieving my main goal, I try to live a life of contentment
Sad
Poignant
e.g. Seeing the picture of my dog evokes poignant emotions.
It is especially poignant to see our flat to be
satisfy
court
Courting listeners who don’t like your music for first sight is hard, but far not impossible
2courting approval -puts a dangerous amount of power in the hands of the audience
