Vocabulary 2 Flashcards

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Step down )from)

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کناره گیری

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To stand out

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to be very easy to see or notice
The outlines of rooftops and chimneys stood out against the pale sky.
She always stood out in a crowd.
I am sure illnesses stand out in all childhood memories.
=To be noticable

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To urge

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توصیه کردن شدید مجبور کردن

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Amid

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Tesla launched its new car amid a lot of publicity
while noisy, busy, or confused events are happening – used in writing or news reports
The dollar has fallen in value amid rumors of weakness in the US economy.
Demonstrators ripped up the national flag amid shouts of ‘Death to the tyrants!’
2 literary among or surrounded by things
He sat amid the trees.

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Encompass (v)

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to include a wide range of ideas, subjects, etc
The study encompasses the social, political, and economic aspects of the situation.
2 to completely cover or surround something
The houses encompassed about 100 square metres.

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Meticulous
Meticulously

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very careful about small details, and always making sure that everything is done correctly
He kept meticulous accounts.
Their planning and preparation wer
The entire project was meticulously planned

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Expose

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افشا کردن
The recent time report exposed government corruption.
Ahigh-profile corruption case that alleges Qatar bribed European lawmakers to sway policy has rocked the European Parliament

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Pitch

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To share an idea or plan in a persuasive way
We pitched them our strategy for how to deploy the resources.

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Decimat
Decimated

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to destroy a large part of something
The population has been decimated by disease.
—decimation

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Successor

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New leader
Elon Musk Says He Will Resign As Twitter CEO After Securing Successor

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Foolish

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Be foolish to do sth
It was foolish of me….

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To Take up sth

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To use a specific amount of time,space or resources

  • This new software takes up so much space
  • This new project that I took on is taking up all of my time!
    My coach takes up too much space
    You don’t have any room on your hard drive?
    Nope, this program took it all up
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Put away

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Put aside

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Grown- up

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adult

If you say that someone is grown up, you mean thatthey are an adult or that they behave in a responsible way: He seems very grown up for a ten-year-

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To be on the right track

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We haven’t solved the problem yet, but we are on the right track

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To be a given!

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If you want to speak fluently English, you have to read a lot
That is a given!
=It’s a fact

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Fascinating
Fascinated
Be fascinated by…

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Extremely interested

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Growing push (to)

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In our company,there is a growing push to work in office
There is a growing push to eliminate single_use bag that typically used once and then discarded

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Switch

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change from doing or using one thing to doing or using another
switch to
She worked as a librarian before switching
I think I might switch from Android to apple

20
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……-intensive

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Time_intensive
Carbon-intensive=require a lot of carbon

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To come through

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To Do successfully or complete sth that you have promised to do
Examples: I was worried about my thesis , but I came through in the end

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Go over sth

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Look at the details
Can you go over this for me?

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Room for growth

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24
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Sign of

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Approve
I want to save my vacation leaves for summer but my boss must sign off on this.

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Crackdown

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series of severe measures to restrict undesirable or illegal people or behaviour.
“a crackdown on car crime”

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Pull off a task

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To successfully competed a difficult task
Don’t worry I know you pull it off
I can’t believe we pulled it off
I don’t know how to pull this off!

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To branch out

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To expand
Let’s branch out into new market if we want to increase our profit

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To drop in

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To visit