Spanish Meaning 2 Flashcards

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Chicly

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Chinky drinking

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Slash

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cut, cut open, gash, slit, split open, lacerate, knife, hack, make an incision in, score. rip, tear. literary rend. 2’the company was forced to slash prices’

Instantly slashes fuel consumption by 12%

used to link alternatives or words denoting or describing a dual (or multiple) function or nature.
“a fashionable theatre-slash-bar-slash-restaurant”

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Convey

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transmitir
You would convey the elegance that is long gone at the event

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4
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Inflict

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Imponer

impose something unwelcome on.
“she is wrong to inflict her beliefs on everyone else”

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Regain

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Recuperar

obtain possession or use of (something, typically a quality or ability) again after losing it.
“he soon regained his composure”

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6
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More than the most

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Más que la mayoría

Each person is an anachronism in their own era, and monarchs more than most

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Keep calm and carry on

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Mantener la calma y continuar

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Start off

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begin to travel or move.
“we started off on our journey”

Don’t cry you will start me off

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Race ahead

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Race ahead” means, more or less, run or speed ahead of someone or something else, as if in a race. If two competitors are in a race and #1 is ahead at first,
The book seemed to race ahead

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Brittle

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Frágil
hard but liable to break easily.
“her bones became fragile and brittle”

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Despise

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look down on with disrespect or aversion

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12
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Should I might forget about it

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Debería olvidarlo

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Sloppy

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(of a garment) casual and loose-fitting.
“she wore a sloppy sweater and jeans”

careless and unsystematic; excessively casual.
“we gave away a goal through sloppy defending”

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Self satisfied

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Smug/ ful of himself

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