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Unit 13. The Modern World Flashcards

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  • To give something, especially money, in order to provide or achieve something together with other people. (Contribuir) - To write articles for a newspaper, magazine or book. (Colaborar, contribuir)
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Contribute

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The size, shape, or level of something. (Proporciones)

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Proportions

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To calculate an amount or number expected in the future from information already known. (Pronosticar, predecir)

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Project

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(Actitud)

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Attitude

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(Expression) To treat a particular event or problem far too seriously.

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Blow something out of proportion

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(Profundo)

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Profound

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(Expression) With the knowledge that experience gives you. (En retrospectiva, con la sabiduría de la experiencia)

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With (the benefit/wisdom of) hindsight

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(Aislamiento, retraimiento)

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Isolation

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A calculation or guess about the future based on information that you have. (Predicción, pronóstico)

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Projection

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To become smaller in size or amount, or fewer in number. (Reducirse, menguar)

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Dwindle

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Information based on a study of the number of times something happens or is present, or other numerical facts.

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Statistics (Informal: Stats)

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To breed and keep particular living things in order to get substances they produce. (Cultivar)

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Culture

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The correct or most attractive relationship between the size of different parts of the same thing or between one thing and another. (Proporción)

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Proportion

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To throw or direct something forwards, with force. (Lanzar, proyectar)

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Project

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(Specialized) Cells, tissues, organs, or organisms grown for scientific purposes, or the activity of breeding and keeping particular living things in order to get the substances they produce. (Cultivo)

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Culture

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(Literary) A piece of burning wood used to give light. (Tizón)

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Brand

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(Disapproving) To try to change or have an influence on things that are not your responsibility, especially by criticizing in a damaging or annoying way. (Entrometerse)

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Meddle

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To make a problem or difficult situation worse. (Agravar)

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Compound

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Charged at a lower rate than usual. (Con precio reducido)

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Cut-rate

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  • A chemical that combines two or more elements. (Compuesto) - (Formal) Something consisting of two or more different parts. - In grammar, a word that combines two or more different words. (Palabra compuesta)
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Compound

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(Phrasal verb) To help to cause an event or situation.

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Contribute to something

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  • If a situation or story _, it develops or becomes clear to other people. (Revelarse, exponerse) - (Formal) To tell someone about something, especially a plan, and explain it in detail.
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Unfold

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(Multicultural)

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Multicultural

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To say that you think someone is as stated. (Calificar a alguien como)

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Brand

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(Expression) To judge correctly its seriousness.

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Keep it in proportion

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To open or spread out something that has been folded. (Desdoblar, desplegar)

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Unfold

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To mix two things together. (Combinar)

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Compound

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A person belonging to an ethnic group. (Miembro de una minoría étnica)

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Ethnic

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Something that projects from a surface or above the edge of something.

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Projection

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A movement of water, air, or electricity in a particular direction. (Corriente)

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Current

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(Escéptico)

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UK: Sceptical US: Skeptical /ˈskep.tɪ.kəl/

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(Productivo)

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Productive

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To mark an animal such as a cow by burning or freezing its skin to show you own it.

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Brand

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A mark that is burned or frozen into the skin of an animal such as a cow to show who owns. (Marca)

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Brand

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A short holiday in the middle of each of the three periods into which the school year is divided.

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UK: Midterm US: Half-term

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(Expression) To sing or speak loudly and clearly.

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Project your voice

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A reporter for radio or television who provides a spoken description of and remarks on an event, especially a sports competition, as it happens. (Comentarista)

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Commentator

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In the middle of a period when a government is in office. (A la mitad del mandato)

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Midterm

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  • To cause a film, image, or light to appear on a screen on other surface. (Proyectar) - (Specialized) To wrongly imagine that someone else is feeling a particular emotion or desire when in fact it is you who feels that way. (Proyectar) - If you _ a particular quality, that quality is what most people notice about you.
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Project

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To surprise or shock someone very much. (Somprender, asombrar)

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Astound

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The act of projecting a film or an image onto a screen or wall. (Proyección)

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Projection

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(Expression) To include something when you are doing a calculation, or when you are trying to understand something. (Tener en cuenta)

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Factor something in / Factor something into something

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  • To stop increasing or stop something from increasing. (Allanar, aplanar, alisar) - (Human resources) To reduce the number of different levels of managers and other employees in an organisation.
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Flatten

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To stick out over an edge or from a surface. (Sobresalir)

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Project

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(an organisation or group that has) complete control of something, especially an area of business, so that others have no share. (Monopolio)

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Monopoly

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  • Consisting of two or more parts. (Compuesto) - Used to refer to a system of paying interest in which interest is paid both in the original amount of money invested (=given to companies hoping to get more back) or borrowed on the interest that has collected over a period of time.
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Compound

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  • An occasion when you seem to suggest something without saying it directly. (Insinuación) - The effect that an action or decision will have on something else in the future. (Consecuencia, implicación) - An occasion when you suggest or show that someone is involved in a crime. (Implicación)
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Implication

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A business activity that two or more people or companies that work together. (Empresa conjunta)

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Joint venture

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(Phrasal verb) To stop rising or falling, and stay at the same level. (Nivelar)

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Flatten off/out

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(Expression) (Monopolizar)

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Have a monopoly (over)

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A particular opinion or feeling that a group of people have. (Corriente)

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Current

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Very surprising or shoking. (Sorprendente, asombroso)

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Astounding

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Of the present time. (Actual)

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Current

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(Expression) The ability to understand what is important and what is not.

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Sense of proportion

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(Globalización)

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Globalisation

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The ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened. (A posteriori, en retrospectiva)

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Hindsight

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  • Relating to getting older. (Envejecido) - Describes a person or thing that is getting old. (Anticuado, viejo)
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Ageing

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  • Relating to a particular race of people. (Étnico) - From a different race, or interesting because characteristic of an ethnic group that is very different from those that are common in western culture. (Étnico, exótico)
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Ethnic

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An area surrounded by fences or walls that contains a group of buildings. (Recinto)

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Compound

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Used with words such as first, second, etc. to show how good you think something is.

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-rate First-rate: Very good Second, third-rate: Not very good

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(Sucesivo)

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Subsequent

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  • The number or amount of a group or part of something when compared to the whole. (Proporción, parte) - The number, amount or level of one thing when compared to another.
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Proportion

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(Modernización)

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Modernisation

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