Unit 3 Flashcards
innocent as a child
Naive (Elena)
an adult who trust people too much
Gullible (Elena)
able to be trusted
Reliable (Elena)
showing agreement and giving encouragement
Supportive ( Elena)
believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere
Cynical (Elena)
someone who is willing to accept someone else’s beliefs or way of life
tolerant (paula)
someone who have doubts about something that other people think is true or right
sceptical (paula)
someone you can trust to do what you expected
trustworthy (paula)
aim to do
set out (paula)
keep doing
stick at (paula)
Not pay for doing something bad
Get away with (Silvia)
Take revenge or repay a loan
Pay back (Silvia)
See in public doing something
Going around (Silvia)
Do something planned
Carry out (Silvia)
Ask for
Called for (Silvia)
Tolerate or accept
Put up with (Balza)
Invent
Make up (Balza)
To “say goodbye”
See off(Balza)
Check something
Go over(Balza)
To invent an explanation for something
Make up (Jimena)
To depend or rely on
Count on(Balza)
To accept something you do not like in a patient way
Put up with (Jimena)
Something you do not believe it is correct because it does not match other information you know
Add up (Jimena)
To go somewhere like an airport to say goodbye to them
See off (Jimena)
To escape with something, especially something stolen
Make off with (Jimena)
Happen, take place
Come about (Jose)
toavoid(duty, a task, etc.) bysneaking
Get away from (Jose)
to be lessactiveandrelaxmore
Slow down (Jose)
a dishonest scheme, a fraud
Scam (Jose)
make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features
Embellish (Jose)
to escape with something, especially something stolen.
Get away with (Amaya)
Stop doing smth (maybe do it again in the future)
Give up (Javier Caña)
The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise
Dawn (Amaya)
Stop doing smth (with intencion of never do it again)
Give in (Javier Caña)
to depend on someone to do what you want or expect them to do for you.
Count on (Amaya)
To tolerate smth (for example someone’s attitude)
Put up with (Javier Caña)
strong hostility
Animosity (Amaya)
a tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle
Axe (Amaya)
The first time in the day when the sun appears
Dawn(Javier Caña)
Not habitated
Uninhabitated (Javier Caña)
To make more effective
Reinforced (Miguel)
To make more beautiful by decorating
Embellish (Miguel)
spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.
Pervasive (Miguel)
A false argument
Fallacy (Miguel)
Money
Currency (Miguel)
Something not normal, ie: an issue or problem.
Anomaly (Julian)
Appear or come out
Emerge (Julian)
when a volcano becomes active or something suddenly occurs.
Erupt (Julian)
Rot or decompose
Decay (Julian)
Political Advertising
Propaganda (Julian)
Causing dismay or horror
appalling (Sara)
A dead body, usually of a human being
corpse (Sara)
having a pleasantly soft, rounded body or shape
plump (Sara)
A travel or passage or a journey, esp. a long journey by water to a distant place
voyage (Sara)
To support or bear up from below;
bear the weight of
sustain (Sara)
Contiunuing for a long time
Sustained (María)
A piece of clothing
Garment (María)
To improve the quality of something by adding something else
Enrich (María)
Something very bad
Appalling (María)
Present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place
Pervasive (María)
take care of
look after (Antonio)
continuing for a extended period or without interruption
sustained (Antonio)
a cylindrical container bulging out in the middle
barrel (Antonio)
make something more attractive by the addition of decorative details
embellised (antonio)
refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes
artistic licence (antonio)
When a bad smell starts to disapear
Go off (Francisco )
Turn on a machine
Go off(Francisco)
When you are ill and your body wants to have free the stomach
Throw up (Francisco)
Strange things
Anomalies (Francisco)
Getting bigger and bigger
Increase (Francisco)
something that has been or may be inherited by legal descent or succession.
heritage(kaixuan)
a woman advocate of female suffrage.
suffragette(kaixuan)
subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.
sensationalist(kaixuan)
past; gone by; earlier; former:
bygone(kaixuan)
Cause something or someone to be questioned.
cast doubt on(kaixuan)
