Vocabulary Flashcards
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Release or free someone from a situation: E_____
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Extricate
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Obstruct or impede (Estorbar): E_____
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Encumber
3
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Happily: Gle____
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Gleefully
4
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Confused or disconcerted: Disc____
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Discomfited
5
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Not talkative: Ta____
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Taciturn
6
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Very annoying and irritating: Nee____
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Needling
7
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One of the parts of a money award: S____
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Share
8
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En qüestió: In ____
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In question
9
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Something usual or expected: A matter ____ ____
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A matter of course
10
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Whatever happens or may have happened: In any ___
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In any event
11
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Something that people who are able to understand how someone feels have: E_____
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Empathy
12
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Caring about someone’s problems: S___
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Sympathy
13
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Separate or different (An amount of ___ cases): D___
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Discrete
14
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Something which is illegal: Il____
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Illicit
15
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The action of evoking an answer from someone: El____
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Ellicit
16
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One out of two: Al_____
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Alternately
17
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Used to give a second option: Alt____
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Alternatively
18
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Something which hasn’t been noticed: Un____
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Unnoticed
19
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Someone sensible and calm: Level___
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Level-headed
20
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Crutches in Catalan
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Muletes
21
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Something acceptable or convenient for someone: S____
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Suited
22
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Used to describe something which is firm and good: S___
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Sound
23
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Change something slightly: Ad____
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Adjust
24
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Something fair: Re_____
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Reasonable
25
Something which is not worth: W____
Worthless
26
The equivalent of something from another place: Counter_____
Counterpart
27
Advice on how to do something: Guide___
Guideline
28
Someone chosen to speak publicly for an organization: Spokes____
Spokesperson
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A meeting of a group of people who learn something through discussion: Work_____
Workshop
30
When something stops working: Break___
Breakdown
31
Something being told with very little advancing or warning: At short ___
At short notice
32
Availability of employment and labour: Labour ____
Labour market
33
Something you say about someone's badly spoken language: S____
Spoiled (English, Spanish, Catalan)
34
Get money from a bank: Wi____
Withdraw
35
Used to say that a temperature is going down very fast: P____
Plunge
36
Feasible means: P____
Possible
37
A dramatic increase: L____
Leap
38
Be going to happen: Lie ___ ___
Lie far ahead
39
Phone notification: P____
Ping
40
Relaxing and disconnecting from work or stress: Un____
Unwind
41
The appearance of sudden courage: Br____
Bravado
42
Trick intended to embarrass someone: Prac____ ____
Practical Joke
43
Serralada o cresta in English: R_____
Ridge
44
Something to be ashamed of: S____
Stigma
45
Someone afraid of something bad happening: Ap_____
Apprehensive
46
Something that you are worried about or afraid of dealing with: D____
Daunting
47
A object which is just used temporarily: Make____
Makeshift
48
Lose a lot of money because you have paid too much for an object or service: Be s____
Be stung
49
To estimate a quantity: G___
Gauge
50
Going AWOL: Go ______
Go missing
51
Have a word with someone: _______
Talk with someone
52
Give your word: _____
Promise
53
Being taken to court for something you have done: P_____
Prosecuted
54
Make a great effort to do or achieve something: S____
Strive
55
A reversal on progress: Set____
Setback
56
How long you live: Life ____
Life span
57
Destined: B_____
Bound
58
Complain about something: M____
Moan
59
Solve a problem: F____ a problem
Face a problem
60
How long you live: Life s____
Life span
61
Destined: B____
Bound
62
Be motivated about something: Get a ____ from something
Get a buzz from something
63
Culprit: ______
Culpable
64
Be packed: _______
Crowded
65
What's more: ____
A de més
66
A group of people who like to do things together: C____
Close-knit
67
Try to meet new people: N_____
Network
68
Work or be together with a group of people: L____
Liaise
69
Person who owns a land: L_____
Landowner
70
Affluent: ___
Rich
71
A way of living: A ____ of life
A walk of life
72
Like something: ____ your attention
Grab your attention
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Gut feeling: ______
Pressentiment
74
Mentida piedosa: ____ lie
White lie
75
Be annoyed: Do your ____ ____
Do your head in
76
A punt de saber algo: On the ___ of my ____
On the tip of my tongue
77
Misunderstand something: Get the wrong end of the ____
Get the wrong end of the stick
78
Pronunciate: Get your ____ ____
Get your tongue round
79
Don't understand each other: Talk at _____ purposes
Talk at cross purposes
80
Pay a bill: ___ a bill
Foot a bill
81
Get very angry: Get beyond ___
Get beyond belief
82
Do something without having eaten: Do something ___ an empty ___
Do something on an empty stomach
83
Get angry: Lose your ___
Lose your cool
84
Barely anything: Next to ___
Next to nothing
85
An assset: ___
A valuable person or thing
86
Allocate
Assignar
87
Rechazar una idea: ___ an idea
Dismiss an idea
88
A liability
A responsibility
89
Rampa de sortida dels avions
Tarmac
90
Get nervous about something: Get into a ___
Get into a flap
91
Lorry
Camió
92
Halo
Anell dels àngels
93
To prompt something
To encourage something
94
Assert
Afirm something
95
Query
Ask for confirmation
96
Feel uneasy
Feel anxious
97
Take (great) pains to doing something
Put a lot of effort into doing something
98
Baixa paternal
Paternity leave
99
Be entitled to something
Have the right to receive something
100
Smokes from cars and factories
Fumes
101
Synonym of trash
Rubbish or litter
102
Synonym of contaminant
Polluted
103
Sequera
Drought
104
Fam
Famine
105
Cultius
Crops
106
Ampli
Broad
107
Dos punts
Colon
108
Become scarce
No haver-hi prou d'algo
109
Compel someone to do something
Oblige someone to do something
110
Go to shop and just looking
Browse
111
Be off the beaten track
Do the opposite of what everyone does
112
Play truant
Fer campana
113
Seldom
Not often
114
For something to be looming
For something to be coming (Negative context)
115
Vigilar
Invigilate
116
Strongly desire something
Crave
117
Enquire
Ask for information
118
Eager
Someone who strongly wants to do something
119
Dwell
Live somewhere
120
Hasty
Something done with excessive speed
121
Hoyo
Rut
122
To be a means to end
To be something done to fulfil a desire
123
Thrive on
Do well in a particular situation
124
Take at face value
Accept something without thinking about it
125
Face the music
Accept the consequences of something
126
Feel frail
Feel weak (Ill context)
127
Ethos
Esperit
128
Rapport
Harmony
129
Zancada
Stride
130
Be uptight
Be tense
131
A notice
Anunci
132
Canvi (Diners)
Loose change
133
Toe the line
Follow what the authorities tell you to do
134
What turns the wheels
What makes progress
135
Take the plunge
Start an adventure
136
Rack my brains
Thing very hard about something
137
Salat
Savoury
138
On reflection
Pensant-ho millor
139
Infer
Guess something is true based on the information you have
140
Assure
Make someone else not worry
141
Ensure
Make sure about something
142
Awe-inspiring
Something that leaves a lasting impression
143
Wind up (Synonym)
End up
144
Bypass a problem
Avoid a problem
145
Make someone redundant
Fire someone
