Vocabulary Flashcards
Rain unexpected
Flash flood
Vegan
More than vegetarian
Package
A bundle of something
A container, a box or case, in which something is or may be packed.
Utopia
Good place or no place
Turkey
It can be turkey!
Peru
Stop being such a turkey!
= goof=cometer gafe= doing funny things.
Pinta ou topeira
Mole
Spot: maiores
Estrias
Stretch marks
Celulites
Dimples
Bowl
Package, a container, …
Snow in the mountains
Arrego!
Uncle!!
Pester
Implicante To make angry -Stop pestering me! -Don’t pester me with your trivial problems. -Quit/Stop pestering me!
Bug: The bug bugs you
Light bulb
Lâmpada
Dash
-
Underscore: _
Underscore
kezia _cordeiro
Dash: -
Dwellers
Moradores //duelers//
Whereas
-Whereas girls enjoy reading about fiction, boys prefer non-fiction.
Enquanto que
Daunt
To overcome with fear, intimidate, to lessen the courage of, dishearten.
- To daunt one’s adversaries.
- Don’t be daunted by the amount of work still to be done.
- Daunting prospect: hard prospect
Whatsoever
An intensive form of whatever.
- Whatsover it be, in any place whatsover.
To print
- Please print your name
- Fotocopiar
- Xerocar
Propaganda
Advertisements
- Interrupting tv programs
- (Brands)
Marca
Brand
Fama
Ex: Ford Model
Consumer goods
Stuff
Things
Anything you buy
Virtually
Almost not
- Virtually no competition
Crucial
- A crucial element
Market share
- This company has a big market share
- Dos produtos divididos pelas empresas ela tem a maior quantidade.
Product line
Ford focus
Lots of different products
Diverse product mix
Retail outlets
Store
Retailer
Outlets: the building too
Merchandise
The manufactured goods bought and sold in any business
Succeeding
Subsequent,
-Laws to benefit succeeding generations.
Lacked talent
Faltava talento
Produce section
The produce section is where you find your vegetables. //próruce//
Forms of exertion //fórmes ove egzãrchan//
To make an effort//éfort//
- Exertion: esforço
Curling
Cuãralin//
Canadian sport
Energy as a key of life
Virtual to survive
FANBOYS
Coordinating conjunctions: For And Nor But Or Yet So
Good
Positive -The positive sight / point is... -advantage Value SKILLED WRITER: Picoult is a skilled writer* Qualified Worthwhile: que vale a pena
Party
Partido
Education
Student union, computer, black board, materials, literature, subjects, break time, PhD, Master program, master degree, requirements, mult tasking, focus, thesis, IT laboratory, group work, colleague, opportunity, intelligence, reading, writing, departments, ugrades, knowledge, exams, essays, specialization, research, schedules, desk, team work, paper, classes, notebook, technology, kindergarten, primary, secondary, high school, higher education(após high school), further education(um a mais),vocational training, oral presentation, stationary (office supply), backpack, lunchbox, prom, gap year, tuition, fees, scholarship, grands, loans, agenda, labs, refreshment, assignment, upgrade, rubric, samples, due dates, slides, mentor, government investment, headhunter, work force, home education, language courses, exchange programs, internship, family background, books, globalization, philosophy, informal/formal education, professor, campus, Diploma, correspondence course (by far);
Sarcasm
Sarcasmo
Acquired
You acquire Knowledge! (Not achieve).
Day release
Day off
Prisional system
Year off/year gap
State education system
National
State
Municipal
Correspondence course
By far (Letters, e-mail, internet)
Workingman
Trabalhador=esforçado
Womanizer
Mulherengo
Snapshot
An informal photograph,
That was the snapshot.
Informa: a brief appraisal.
Callous
//calessãs// Calo nas mãos ou nos pés de trabalho pesado.
ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- Drugs Ritalin
- The mouth dries, fell lazy, exhausted, depressive,..
- The drugs are overused
- to deal in the natural way
To bite your nails
Roer as unhas
Floss
Fio dental
- I gotta floss my teeth
- proper dental hygiene
Newlyweds
The first year of marriage
Bad breath
Mal hálito
Senior citizen
Senhor de idade
-Seniors, senior citizens, elders;
First Nations
Natives
Freezing
Congelante
- It’s too cold! Dress warm!!
Perversion
- The act to perverting
- any of various means of obtaining sexual gratification that are generally regarded as being abnormal.
Agony
-intense physical or mental suffering
Felt smoky
Clod
Incapable
Incapaz
Elderly woman
Senior citizens
Politely
Elegant kind
My birthday boy/girl
Aniversariante
Upside down
Lado avesso
-right-side up
Instinct
Instinto
Surprisingly
Surpreendentemente
Gets old
Ficar mais velho
- No matter how old he gets
Magnificent
Magnifique
Empty
Vide
Thoughtfully
Showing consideration for others
Unless
A não ser que
Unlikely
Not likely to be or occur, improbable;
Interrupt
Interromper
Grossly fat woman
Obesa
Wiseacre
A person who possesses or affects to posses great wisdom
Wildly
Selvagemente
Extremamente
Worthless
Without worth, of no use , importance, or value
Suppose
Supor
To Ruin
Arruinar
-ruin their sons
Assume
Assumir
Commodity
Comodidade
Freedom
Liberdade
Tragedy
Tragedia
Unnoticed
An announcement or intimation of something impending; warning: a day’s notice.
Arteries
Artérias
Attack
Violent, hostile or aggressive way
Amarrar o sapato
His mother is at his feet, tying his shoes.
Endireitar a gravata
His father is at the mirror, fixing his tie.
Smile
The man smiled
Random
-That there are no random acts.
Aleatório
Stupid
It was my stupidity
Ain’t
It ain’t fair
Feelings
Nervousness
Loneliness
Waste
- No life is a waste
- The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.
- Desperdício
Silenciosamente
Silently
Impotente
-fell into impotent posture
Como se
It was as if…
Eddie stands as if being led to his execution
Para com isso!
Knock it off, before I slap both of ya’s!!!
Para frente e para trás
Stepping back and forth
Dance: They join hands and move, swooping up and down in exaggerated circles.
Zona rural
Countryside
Gliding
Deslizando
The plane is gliding
To join
I joined a research club in work psychology at university of Brazil
Exhibition
Collection (artsy (informal word)
Related to art
The concerts catering for a variety of music tastes
Catering: food supply
Homegrown talent
People who grow born in somewhere and become a talent
“He is already taller than his mother by a good six inches, yet she twirls him with easy”.
He’s already outgrown his mother by a bit more than half a foot, but somehow she still spins him around easily
Putting on
Pulling your leg: telling a jockey or lie
- He had to put the brakes on sharply to stop in time
- He’s an excellent student. I’d put money on him getting a first.
Stereotypes
Estereótipos
- The education gender gap
Paralisado
…paralyzed by a feeling that it’s…
Buraco
Hole, gap
Outgrow
Outgrown your family
Too many people living in the same house
Outlive
Time to say bye bye
Old
Outperform
You are outperformed if you get more score than you need
To outstay your welcome
Stayed longer
Outmanoeuvre
President/ political enemies
Outweigh
Prevalecer
Disadvantages
Outnumber
Female graduates
Abstinence
Abstinência
Absenteeism Means being absent from school or work when you should be there.
Double
Means to increase by twice as much
3: treble
4: quadruple
5: 5 times…
Rain forest
Humidity The //longs//of the earth Seaweed: algas To mine( mineração) Layers of a rain forest : Camadas Deterioration Musgos: mosses Regenerate: grow again
FOREST INDUSTRY : they cut trees to have money
Clinging
to cling on for dear life
-Clinging to life
Holding strong
Agarrar
Harming
Damaging
Human activity is harming epiphytes.
Coal
Carvão
Fazer a compra
To make the purchase
Enigma
Conundrum
Dilema
Dilemma
Limberness
The limberness was gone! No more childish rubbery sensation. Every muscle he had was as tight as piano wire.
Fraqueza
Weakness
Multidão
Crowd
Amargura
Bitterness
Tiroteio
Shooting
Mais apertado
Mais próximo
Tighter
- His eyes bringing the scene into tighter focus.
Repelir
To repel
—Like a magnet it could repel them.
Honesto
To be honest,…
Onda devastadora de desespero
Sickening wave of despair
alistou-se
“Who had been a chunky kid when he enlisted”
Amplamente
Widely
- Information on famous people is widely available on the internet
Garbage
Rubbish
Dummies
Stupid
Somebody how doesn’t know about something
- Books for dummies
Gênero de livro
Genres:
Crime/Whodunnit, romance, drama, science, cooking, lyrics, action, bibliography, geography, biographies, history, science fiction(science-fi), novels, poems, poetry, mystery, self help, test books, text books, non-fiction, fiction, songbooks, art, coffee table books, animated, dictionary, children’s books, theater, horror, scientific-science, travel-guide, legal books, legal books, photography, reference books, thrillers(suspense), how to book, religion, magazines, suspense, detective, autobiography, gothic, crime/WHODUNNIT, true crime, textbooks, western, bible, how to, fable, fairy tale, books for DUMMIES.
Esporte com prancha
Tobogganing
“Pulling behind the car”
Tv commercial
Advertisement
To clean the snow
Snow shovel
Your job Vocabulary
Jargon
Segregation in prison
Solitary confinement
Euthanasia
Euthanasia consists in killing a human being to save him from suffering.
The opposite of innocent
Guilty
Convicted : verdict to go to jail!
Grinding
Your teeth while you sleep
The grains
Business and industry
Automation(robot),unemployment, inflation, balance of payments, taxation, GNP, interest rates, primary industries, secondary industries, service industries, nationalised industries, monopoly, output, income tax, VAT, deficit, key industries, unskilled labourers, employers/workers/staff, credit, exports, loss, demand for, bust/recession, shop floor, state-owned industries, private, expenditure, lending, net, take on, retail, white-collar.
Average
Média
Drawer
Gaveta
Inflation
A state of economy where prices and wages are rising to keep pace with each other.
Balance of payments
The difference in value between a country’s imports and exports.
-The government is trying to reduce the balance of payments deficit.
Taxation
The action of imposing taxes.
GNP
The value of goods and services paid for in a country, including income earned in other countries.
- Last year’s GNP was close to £25billion.
- Gross net product
Interest rates
The percentage charged for borrowing money.
-The Bank of England has raised interest rates.
Primary industries and secondary industries
Industries involved in the production of raw(vegetables, wood)materials.
-Coal mining is an important primary industry.
Industries involved in the manufacture of goods (secondary industries).
- Secondary industries rely on the ready supply of raw materials.
Service industries
Industries which do not make products but offer a service such a banking.
Income tax
The money that the government takes from your earnings at your job.
Tax: money that the government takes.
Key industry
The most important industries in an country.
Unskilled labourers
Non formal training for career
McDonald’s workers
- opposite: skilled workers.
Staff
Employees, workers, labourers
Demand for
Can replace in the sentence:
A lot of people have benefited from the recent BOOM in the electrical industry.
Bust/ recession
Opposite: boom
Just for industries
VAT
A tax imposed as a percent of the invoice value of goods or services.
In England
GST: Goods and services taxes.
(Chocolate, chips,… apples doesn’t have gps).
Interest rates
Interest rate is the amount charged, expressed as a percentage of principal, by a lender to a borrower for the use of assets.
Property taxes
You pay every year
-GST just when you buy a house.
Shop floor
Opposite meaning of
- A fight broke out in the BOARDROOM over terms and conditions of employment.
Boardroom: where the managers and directors have meetings.
State-owned industries
Opposite of private
Expenditure
Can replace:
Overall REVENUE is down by almost 15%.
Lending
Opposite of borrowing.
Net
Can replace:
-Our GROSS profits are up by almost 150% on last year.
Net: after taxes
Gross: before taxes
The value of your income without the government taxes is the gross.
Take on
The opposite of : lay off
-If this continues, we will have to LAY OFF members of staff.
Retail
Can replace :
The WHOLESALE market has experienced a downtown since the recession began.
Wholesale: atacado
Retail: varejo
White-collar
Opposite of blue-collar //calar//
- Blue-collar workers across the country are demanding improved working conditions.
Recollection
Ré//
This is my last recollection.
Recordação
Redeeming
This is for you to redeem yourself.
Handful
He grabbed a handful of chips and ate them all.
He is going to be a handful (kid who you have to take care all the time)
Blame
Accuse
Accusing
Owl
An owl is a kind of bird that sleeps in the day and hunts at night.
//áuol//
Plow
Pláu//
The farmer will plow his field before planting the crop.
Cow
Cáu//
A cow is a female animal kept for its milk.
Yawn
Most people yawn when they’re tired.
Ión//
Oar
The oar to the boat is broken
Cheer
We heard the people cheer when the goal was scored
Chie(ä)r//
Tear
The sad movie brought a tear to my eye.
Tier//
Elbow
I hurt my elbow when I fell.
Cotovelo
Rib
John has one broken rib.
Costela
Rob
To rob his body.
Toe
Tol//
A toe is part of the foot
Dive
Dáive//
John will dive into the water carefully.
Bark
Bark at them
Dig
You can dig a hole with this shovel
On the sand
Sore
Cory’s shoulder is sore.
Mask
Mésk//
A mask is a covering for the face.
Masks (plural)
…sooner rather than later..
Melhor tarde do que nunca
Hey!! I yelled at the top of my lungs.
Gritei com toda a força
Overweight
45% of the American population is overweight
Endangered languages
Línguas ameaçadas de extinção
Knee
I hurt my knee when I fell.
Nii//
Roll
Please roll the ball to me.
Roæol//
Ankle
Tornozelo
Collision
Two cars were involved in the collision with the bus.
Côlígion//
Lí: stressed
Needle
Agulha
To screw up
In the last time I was here I screwed everything up
Mourning
For somebody who died
Accurate
It’s just not very accurate
Beyond
Beyond our imagination
Surreal
Surreal feeling
Exhilarating
It’s quite exhilarating definitely
Empolgante, emocionante
To have pity on somebody
May the Almighty God to have pity on you
Parir
Sophie had borne her first son
Perambulando
Unlike Long years of my ancestors in their wanderings
Pecuária
Livestock
Herança
Inheritance
Colo
Lap
frogs, gnats , locusts
Sapos, mosquitos, gafanhotos
Stubborn
Teimoso
Trovão e granizo
Thunder and hail
Tolos
Fools
I made fools of the Egyptians when I performed the miracles
East
Passover
It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the Lord.
He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.
Ser despertado
They were awakened during the nights
To make sure someone or something has the most recent information
Update
Collect
Pick up
Prepare yourself
Get ready
The work involved in taking care of a home such as cleaning and washing clothes
Housework
Work that involves documents, letters, filing, etc.
Paperwork
A work of art that is a solid figure or object
Sculpture
An event which shows works of art to the public
Exhibition
A usual day like any other
A typical day
The journey that parents make to take their children to school or to bring them home again
The school run
A device to operate a machine from a distance
A remote control
The amount of information which can be kept on a computer
The storage capacity
A plan of a journey including the routes and places to visit
A travel itinerary
A system which activates a device from the sound of your voice
A speech recognition system
To win something in a good position
Triumphantly
Faz tudo valer a pena
That makes everything worthwhile!
To Thrill
He trills me when he gives me flower
Eureka moment
- I had an Eureka moment yesterday!
- The Eureka rebellion is remembered as a great democratic moment in Australia.
