Week 3 Flashcards
Talking about salary and remuneration: to proportionate TO sth
To be commensurate WITH sth
Your remuneration, salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.
To be very sad
To be/feel downcast (adj) by one’s misfortune
Newborn Baby Infant Toddler (can move around and stuff) Child Tween (11-12; slang) Teenager/adolescent Young adult Adult The elderly
Newborn Baby Infant Toddler (can move around and stuff) Child Tween (11-12; slang) Teenager/adolescent Young adult Adult The elderly
Behaves like a child but you’re an adult
Childish (negative)
Puerile
Juvenile
Infantile
Youthful appearance, behaves innocently
Childlike (positive)
The way sb appears both appearance and behavior
Demeanour (N)
Too old to be doing what they are doing
Geriatric (negative)
Aging
Adolescent
Juvenile
Adult
Mature
Boyish
Youthful
To exclude sb from their group
Marginaliser
To alienate sb
To make fun OF sb/sth
To make fun OF sb/sth
To cringe (v)
To cringe
Cringeworthy (adj)
Irritating, annoying
Irksome (adj)
Really terrible
Appalled (adj)
Appalling (adj)
Future possibility. It is likely that
Prospect (n,c)
There is a (very) (real) prospect OF our team winning the match.
What are the job, prospects like in your country?
To make sth serious seem less serious
To downplay sth (an incident)
Require
Demand
Need
End
Conclude
How many of sth is in one specific place
Concentration
Sb who has the same strength or power or rank as you
Equals (n,p)
Sb in the same interest/social group as you
Peers (n,c)
Encourage
Promote
Sort out
Sort out
Beg for the question
Beg for the question
When 2 parties finish negotiating sth and both are happy
Settle a deal, a contract, an argument
Amount + unc
Amount + unc
Drive sb to do sth
Drive sb to do sth
Insist ON
Insist ON
Push sb to do sth
Push sb to do sth
Result IN
Result IN
Lead TO
Lead TO
Proportion OF (%, fraction, 3/4)
Proportion OF
A number on a page (no meaning, just representation)
Figure
Quantity + cont. (not people)
Think commercial/scientific
Quantity + count.
Number + count. (Animate / inanimate)
Number + count.
Espérance de vie
Life expectancy
Atteindre un âge
To reach their (90th) birthday
A legal document that explains inheritance
Un testament
A will (N)
When you ask for a retrial because you disagree with the verdict
To make an appeal
(Adj) complete/without any missing information
Thorough (adj) thoroughly (adv)
- -> knowledge
- -> research
- -> student
- -> worker
Thorough student, worker: Sb who does things COMPLETELY, leaves nothing unfinished
Unforgettable knowledge
Unforgettable knowledge
Vivid imagination
Vivid imagination
Utter failure
Utter failure
Considérer que qqn est qqch
To consider sb to be sth
By using
By means
A time when
A point at which
At which point
Not actively searching for sth, but being aware of it happens
To be ON the lookout FOR sth
A topic worth discussing
A talking point
Avoir la chance, l’opportunité de
To have a (good/slim) chance OF doing sth
To be in with a chance OF doing sth
In my opinion
My opinion about this is
As far as I am concerned
As far as sth is concerned
To be about to do sth
To be ON the point OF doing sth
Faire une impression sur qqn
To make an impression ON sb
Change
Alter
Entourer
Encircle sth
To Update
Amend
To change to suit a new content
Adapt
Change sth in a very small way to make sth work
Adjust
Fermer
To enclose
Le cours de l’histoire
The course of history
Sth happened after sth else
Followed
Succéder (royauté)
Succeed
Faire - en maths (le contraire d’additionner)
Subtract
Reduce
Cut
Sth is accessible
Sth is within the reach of sb
Beaucoup de liberté
Great freedom
Symbolise
Represent
A lot of luxury
Considerable luxury
Faire plus que qqch
To do more than sth
To affect sth in a way that changes it forever
To leave a mark ON sth
To grow quickly, suddenly from nothing
To spring up
Films: exaggerated emotions
Melodrama
Films: use humour, irony to make fun of sth
Satire
Films: artificial, deliberately created
Contrived
Films: complex (negative)
Convoluted
Films: holds attention, exciting
Gripping
Films: makes you think
Thought-provoking
Films: dark
Macabre
Films: inspires feelings of affection in you
Endearing
Films: sb is interesting
Engaging
Threatening
Menacing
Trying to impress others, be sth that you’re not
Pretentious
Hopeless
Tragic
Not appreciated enough
Underrated
That you are born with
Innate
On the other hand
Conversely
Full of
Crammed with
Sharp
Acute
Clear understanding
Insights
Approving of
Sympathetic to
Original
Innovative
A strong feeling of disappointed/betrayal when sb’s promises are not met
Disenchantment (N)
Disenchanted (adj)
The people were disenchanted when they realized their newly elected President failed to accomplish his promises.
State of deep unconsciousness
Coma
Funny
Comic
Usual
Common
Order
Command
Express annoyance
Complain
Group of people living together
Community
Totally
Completely
Small room in a railway carriage
Compartment
Something adding new difficulties
Complication
Including everything special (tests, research, study)
Comprehensive
Understandable
Comprehensible
Showing sympathy
Compassionate
Payment for inconvenience or loss
Compensation
Pass on information
Communicate
Give a commentary
Commentate
A lot of noise and confusion
Commotion (unc)
Start (v)
Commence
Business organisation
Company
Force (v), to compel sb to do sth (strongly persuade sb to do sth, almost force)
Compel
,
Comma
Thing used to tidy hair, peigne
Comb
Anyway
Nonetheless
Invest a lot of money in sth
To pour money INTO sth
To build, construct
For structures that need to be assembled
To put UP (a treehouse)
Opposite of to dismantle, disassemble, take sth apart, to pull sth apart
take sth apart, to pull sth apart
To dismantle, disassemble
When you do a lot of work that is unappreciated
To be taken for granted
To have a lot of work to do, so you’re too busy to have fun
To be deluged with work
To be snowed under with work
To be up to my ears in work
When you want to emphasise that that a task/problem is easy/not complicated (usually said when sb else is having a problem)
Sth isn’t rocket science
Being able to stay fashionable with technology / what’s popular as you and the time progresses
To keep up with the times
Susceptible, sth bad happens to you often
To be prone to + infinitive
Rappeler, souvenir
To remind sb OF sth, sb
( Se retirer, congé )
It’s time to call it a day
Sth has a negative impact on sth
Sth takes a (terrible) toll on sth
- strange, weird, (adj)
- rare, uncommon, doesn’t happen a lot
- number 1,3,5,7,9
- chance %
Odd
The odd cold : The cold I get sometimes, rarely
The odds of Tottenham beating Arsenal is next to nothing
A time period
Era
An old’s person home
A retirement home
A nursing home
Sth before my birth
Sth was before my time
To be very old
To be as old as the hills
A way of
A means of
Feels, seems, looks like sth you have seen before
To be reminiscent of sth
- sth heavy + uncomfortable that you carry (litt)
- adj
Result : makes you slow, uncomfortable, busy and tired
A burden
Reckless + stupid
Foolhardy (adj)
Sb who pays much attention to detail in their work
Conscientious (adj)
Sth you want to happen, but actually is impossible
Sth is wishful thinking (adj)
(Adj) I see what you mean but..
Granted
Relaxed, easy-going
Laid-back (adj)
Change direction suddenly (accident de voiture par ex)
To veer
When the situation is reversed
When the boot is on the other foot
