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to sizzle

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To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat/skwierczeć

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to thud

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To make a heavy, dull sound/walić

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to tick

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To emit recurring clicking sounds/tykać

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to slam

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To shut with force and loud noise/trzaskać

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to tinkle

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To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell/brzęczeć

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to rumble

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To make a deep, long, rolling sound/huczeć

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to chime

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To produce a sound with or as if with a bell or bells/wydzwaniać

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to crunch

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To produce or emit a crushing sound/chrupać

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to babble

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To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds/bełkotać

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to crackle

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To make a succession of slight sharp snapping noises/trzaskać

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to bang

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To make a sudden loud, explosive noise/wybuchać

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to bubble

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The sound made by the forming and bursting of bubbles/bulgotać

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to whine

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To produce a sustained, high-pitched, plaintive sound, as in pain, fear, or complain/skomleć

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Booming voice

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A very loud voice/donośny głos

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Gruff voice

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Hoarse; harsh/gburowaty

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Stony silence

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Under the breath

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With low voice; very softly

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To utter a word

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To pronounce a word/wypowiedzieć

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Husky voice

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Low and rough, often thought to be attractive

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Stangle cry

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Weak and high sound made by an extremely fightened person/zduszony płacz

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Hoots of laughter

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Sound of loud laughter/śmiać się głośno

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Chuckle

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To laugh quietly or to oneself/chichotać

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To gleam

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To shine with brief beam or flash of light (np. the moon)/błyszczeć

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To shimmer

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To shine with a light that seems to be moving slightly (np. gold, water)/mienić się

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To glow

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To shine while producing heat (np. face, cigarette)/jarzyć się

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To glint

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To shine in small bright fliashes (np. metals, błysk w oku)/migotać

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To glimmer

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To shine in a weak, fainting and unsteady way/migotać

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To glitter

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To shine with lots of bright point of light/błyszczeć

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29
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Faction

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A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group/odłam

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Fraction

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A disconnected piece; a fragmen/ułamek

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Fracture

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A break, rupture, or crack, especially in bone or cartilage/złamanie, pęknięcie

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Friction

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The rubbing of one object or surface against another/tarcie

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Fiction

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The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact/fikcja

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Statue

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A three-dimensional form or likeness sculpted, modeled, carved, or cast in material such as stone, clay, wood, or bronze/statua

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Status

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Position relative to that of others; standing/status

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Statute

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A law enacted by a legislature/statut

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37
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Clap of thunder

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A sudden, loud noise made by thunder/grzmot

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38
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Deathly hush

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Extreme silence/grobowa cisza

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Incessant noise

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A sound which never stops/nieustanny hałas

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to reign

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To dominate/królować

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Soft whisper

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A gentle and delicate way of speaking/delikatny szept

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Silence descends

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When silence occurs/cisza opada

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Distant echo

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Repetition of a sound by reflection of sound waves from a surface in the idistance/odległe echo

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Let out a cry

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To shout/wydać krzyk

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Sound travel

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When a sound moves in air

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46
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to buzz

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To make a low droning or vibrating sound like that of a bee/brzęczeć

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47
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to sniff

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To inhale forcibly through the nose/pociągać nosem

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to giggle (at)

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To laugh in a silly way/chichotać

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To whisper to (sb)

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To speak, very quietly so that other people can’t hear what you are saying/szeptać

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To mumble

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To speak or say something in a quiet voice in a way that it’s hard to undertand/mamrotać

51
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To stammer

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To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions/jąkać się

52
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To sob

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To cry noisly, taking sharp breaths/szlochać

53
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Hiccup

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A spasm that is connected with rapid, involuntary inhalation which leads to a sharp sound/czkawka

54
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To burp

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To make a brief sharp sound/bekać

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To murmur

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To mutter

56
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To screech

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To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice/piszczeć

57
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To shriek

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To make a sound similar to a shout or a fanatic cry/wrzeszczeć

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To grunt

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To utter a deep guttural sound, as a hog does/burknąć

59
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To grumble

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To rumble or growl/burczeć

60
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Bite somebody’s head off

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Scold or speak very angrily to someone/naskoczyć na kogoś

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To chant

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To speak monotonously, to shout/monotonnie śpiewać, skandować

62
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To pant

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To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion/sapać

63
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To wheeze

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To make a sound resembling laborious breathing/dyszeć

64
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To snigger

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A sly or disrespectful laugh, esp one partly stifled/podśmiewać się z czegoś

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To titter

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To laugh in a restrained, nervous way/chichotać

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To chatter

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To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects/paplać

67
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To chew

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To bite and grind with the teeth/żuć

68
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To gargle

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To force exhaled air through a liquid held in the back of the mouth, with the head tilted back, in order to cleanse or medicate the mouth or throat/płukać gardło

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To gasp

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To inhale quickly/dyszeć

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To groan

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To make a long, low sound, becuase you are in pain of unhappy/jęczeć, skrzypieć

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To gulp something down

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To eat or drink something really quickly

72
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To hum

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To sing a tune with your mouth closed/nucić

73
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To lick something

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To move your tounge across the surface of something/lizać

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To moan

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To make a low sound of pain and unhappiness/jęczeć

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To moan about something

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To complain/marudzić

76
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To puff

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To breath loudly and quickly after a lot of physical effort/sapać

77
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To be puffed out

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To be physically exhausted

78
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To sigh

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To let out a deep breath expressing happiness, pleasure, disappointment/wzdychać

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To sip

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To take a quick, short drink of something/popijać

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To snore

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To make a loud noise when you breath while sleeping/chrapać

81
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To yawn

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To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom/ziewać

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To backfire

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To make a sudden, loud voice/strzelać

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To bleep

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To make a short, high-pitched, electronic sound/przerywany dźwięk

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To clatter

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To make a rattling sound/grzechotać

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To hiss

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To make a sharp sibilant sound similar to a sustained s/syczeć

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To howl

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To make a long, loud cry/wyć

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To patter

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To make a quick succession of light soft tapping sounds/stukać

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To rustle

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To make the soft, dry sound made by leaves when the move/szeleścić

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Stature

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An achieved level/renoma

90
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Stratum

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A horizontal layer of material, especially one of several parallel layers arranged one on top of another/warstwa

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State

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A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances/stan

92
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To glare at

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To look angrily at something/gniewne spojrzenie

93
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To stare at

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To look at directly and fixedly/gapić się

94
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To gaze at

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To look as if you weren’t here/wpatrywać się

95
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To peep at

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To look through a whole/zerknąć

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To peer at

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To look with bad eye sight/przyglądać się

97
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To glance at

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To have a quick look/rzucić okiem

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To glimpse

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To see something not deliberately and for a moment/mignąć

99
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Pretty pass

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A particularly difficult, troublesome, or bad state or situation/Zła sytuacja (Jak to przetłumaczył pons - niezły bigos)

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Paragon of virute

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A person that is perfect that people should look up to/wzór cnót

101
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Panacea for all evils

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A solution to every problem/lek na całe zło

102
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Hackneyed pharse

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Overused phrase/oklepana fraza

103
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Call a spade a spade

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Call something by it’s real name/nazywać rzecz po imieniu

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Broaching the subject of

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To prolong a speech about something/przedłużać temat

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Dotage

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In a state of senility or mental decline due to old age/słabość umysły

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Extenuating circumstances

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Special (but otherwise unspecified) circumstances that account for an irregular or improper way of doing something/okoliczności łagodzące

107
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Alias

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Another name for something/inaczej zwany

108
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Plain sailing

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Something easy/Całkiem proste

109
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Sitting on a fence

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Not to state your opinion

110
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To purr

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To make a sound like cat/mruczeć

111
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To jingle

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To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound/brzdąkać

112
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To whistle

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To produce a clear musical sound by forcing air through the teeth or through an aperture formed by pursing the lips/gwizać

113
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To plop

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To fall with a sound like that of an object falling into water without splashing/pluskać

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To grate

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To cause to make a harsh grinding or rasping sound through friction/zgrzytać

115
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To spalsh

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To produce a sound or sight associated with spilling water/pluskać

116
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To pop

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To make a short, sharp, explosive sound/wystrzeliwać

117
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To jangle

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To make a harsh metallic sound/brzęczenie, terkot

118
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To click

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To produce a brief, sharp sound/klikać

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To rattle

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To make or emit a quick succession of short percussive sounds/grzechotać

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To squeal

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To give forth a loud shrill cry or sound like a pig/kwiczeć

121
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To squeak

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To give forth a short, shrill cry or sound like a mouse/piszczeć

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To swish

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To rustle, as silk/świstać, szeleścić

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To crack

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To make a sharp snapping sound/pękać

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To drip

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To make a sound made by liquid falling in drops/kapać

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