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Week 3 Flashcards

1
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Talking about salary and remuneration: to proportionate TO sth

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To be commensurate WITH sth

Your remuneration, salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.

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To be very sad

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To be/feel downcast (adj) by one’s misfortune

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Newborn 
Baby 
Infant
Toddler (can move around and stuff)
Child
Tween (11-12; slang)
Teenager/adolescent 
Young adult 
Adult
The elderly
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Newborn 
Baby 
Infant
Toddler (can move around and stuff)
Child
Tween (11-12; slang)
Teenager/adolescent 
Young adult 
Adult
The elderly
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Behaves like a child but you’re an adult

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Childish (negative)
Puerile
Juvenile
Infantile

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Youthful appearance, behaves innocently

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Childlike (positive)

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The way sb appears both appearance and behavior

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Demeanour (N)

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Too old to be doing what they are doing

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Geriatric (negative)

Aging

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Adolescent

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Juvenile

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Adult

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Mature

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10
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Boyish

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Youthful

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11
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To exclude sb from their group

Marginaliser

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To alienate sb

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12
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To make fun OF sb/sth

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To make fun OF sb/sth

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13
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To cringe (v)

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To cringe

Cringeworthy (adj)

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Irritating, annoying

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Irksome (adj)

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15
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Really terrible

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Appalled (adj)

Appalling (adj)

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16
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Future possibility. It is likely that

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Prospect (n,c)
There is a (very) (real) prospect OF our team winning the match.
What are the job, prospects like in your country?

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17
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To make sth serious seem less serious

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To downplay sth (an incident)

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18
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Require

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Demand

Need

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19
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End

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Conclude

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20
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How many of sth is in one specific place

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Concentration

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21
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Sb who has the same strength or power or rank as you

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Equals (n,p)

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22
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Sb in the same interest/social group as you

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Peers (n,c)

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23
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Encourage

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Promote

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24
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Sort out

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Sort out

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25
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Beg for the question

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Beg for the question

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26
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When 2 parties finish negotiating sth and both are happy

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Settle a deal, a contract, an argument

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27
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Amount + unc

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Amount + unc

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28
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Drive sb to do sth

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Drive sb to do sth

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29
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Insist ON

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Insist ON

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30
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Push sb to do sth

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Push sb to do sth

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31
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Result IN

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Result IN

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32
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Lead TO

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Lead TO

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33
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Proportion OF (%, fraction, 3/4)

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Proportion OF

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34
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A number on a page (no meaning, just representation)

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Figure

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35
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Quantity + cont. (not people)

Think commercial/scientific

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Quantity + count.

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36
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Number + count. (Animate / inanimate)

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Number + count.

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37
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Espérance de vie

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Life expectancy

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38
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Atteindre un âge

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To reach their (90th) birthday

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39
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A legal document that explains inheritance

Un testament

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A will (N)

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40
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When you ask for a retrial because you disagree with the verdict

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To make an appeal

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41
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(Adj) complete/without any missing information

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Thorough (adj) thoroughly (adv)

  • -> knowledge
  • -> research
  • -> student
  • -> worker

Thorough student, worker: Sb who does things COMPLETELY, leaves nothing unfinished

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42
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Unforgettable knowledge

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Unforgettable knowledge

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43
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Vivid imagination

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Vivid imagination

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44
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Utter failure

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Utter failure

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45
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Considérer que qqn est qqch

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To consider sb to be sth

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46
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By using

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By means

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47
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A time when

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A point at which

At which point

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48
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Not actively searching for sth, but being aware of it happens

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To be ON the lookout FOR sth

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49
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A topic worth discussing

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A talking point

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50
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Avoir la chance, l’opportunité de

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To have a (good/slim) chance OF doing sth

To be in with a chance OF doing sth

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51
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In my opinion

My opinion about this is

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As far as I am concerned

As far as sth is concerned

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52
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To be about to do sth

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To be ON the point OF doing sth

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53
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Faire une impression sur qqn

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To make an impression ON sb

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54
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Change

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Alter

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55
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Entourer

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Encircle sth

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56
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To Update

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Amend

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57
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To change to suit a new content

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Adapt

58
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Change sth in a very small way to make sth work

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Adjust

59
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Fermer

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To enclose

60
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Le cours de l’histoire

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The course of history

61
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Sth happened after sth else

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Followed

62
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Succéder (royauté)

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Succeed

63
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Faire - en maths (le contraire d’additionner)

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Subtract

64
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Reduce

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Cut

65
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Sth is accessible

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Sth is within the reach of sb

66
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Beaucoup de liberté

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Great freedom

67
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Symbolise

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Represent

68
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A lot of luxury

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Considerable luxury

69
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Faire plus que qqch

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To do more than sth

70
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To affect sth in a way that changes it forever

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To leave a mark ON sth

71
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To grow quickly, suddenly from nothing

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To spring up

72
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Films: exaggerated emotions

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Melodrama

73
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Films: use humour, irony to make fun of sth

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Satire

74
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Films: artificial, deliberately created

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Contrived

75
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Films: complex (negative)

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Convoluted

76
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Films: holds attention, exciting

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Gripping

77
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Films: makes you think

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Thought-provoking

78
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Films: dark

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Macabre

79
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Films: inspires feelings of affection in you

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Endearing

80
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Films: sb is interesting

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Engaging

81
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Threatening

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Menacing

82
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Trying to impress others, be sth that you’re not

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Pretentious

83
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Hopeless

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Tragic

84
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Not appreciated enough

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Underrated

85
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That you are born with

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Innate

86
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On the other hand

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Conversely

87
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Full of

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Crammed with

88
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Sharp

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Acute

89
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Clear understanding

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Insights

90
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Approving of

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Sympathetic to

91
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Original

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Innovative

92
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A strong feeling of disappointed/betrayal when sb’s promises are not met

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Disenchantment (N)
Disenchanted (adj)

The people were disenchanted when they realized their newly elected President failed to accomplish his promises.

93
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State of deep unconsciousness

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Coma

94
Q

Funny

A

Comic

95
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Usual

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Common

96
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Order

A

Command

97
Q

Express annoyance

A

Complain

98
Q

Group of people living together

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Community

99
Q

Totally

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Completely

100
Q

Small room in a railway carriage

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Compartment

101
Q

Something adding new difficulties

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Complication

102
Q

Including everything special (tests, research, study)

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Comprehensive

103
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Understandable

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Comprehensible

104
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Showing sympathy

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Compassionate

105
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Payment for inconvenience or loss

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Compensation

106
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Pass on information

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Communicate

107
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Give a commentary

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Commentate

108
Q

A lot of noise and confusion

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Commotion (unc)

109
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Start (v)

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Commence

110
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Business organisation

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Company

111
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Force (v), to compel sb to do sth (strongly persuade sb to do sth, almost force)

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Compel

112
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,

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Comma

113
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Thing used to tidy hair, peigne

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Comb

114
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Anyway

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Nonetheless

115
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Invest a lot of money in sth

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To pour money INTO sth

116
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To build, construct

For structures that need to be assembled

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To put UP (a treehouse)

Opposite of to dismantle, disassemble, take sth apart, to pull sth apart

117
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take sth apart, to pull sth apart

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To dismantle, disassemble

118
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When you do a lot of work that is unappreciated

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To be taken for granted

119
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To have a lot of work to do, so you’re too busy to have fun

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To be deluged with work
To be snowed under with work
To be up to my ears in work

120
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When you want to emphasise that that a task/problem is easy/not complicated (usually said when sb else is having a problem)

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Sth isn’t rocket science

121
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Being able to stay fashionable with technology / what’s popular as you and the time progresses

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To keep up with the times

122
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Susceptible, sth bad happens to you often

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To be prone to + infinitive

123
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Rappeler, souvenir

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To remind sb OF sth, sb

124
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( Se retirer, congé )

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It’s time to call it a day

125
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Sth has a negative impact on sth

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Sth takes a (terrible) toll on sth

126
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  • strange, weird, (adj)
  • rare, uncommon, doesn’t happen a lot
  • number 1,3,5,7,9
  • chance %
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Odd

The odd cold : The cold I get sometimes, rarely

The odds of Tottenham beating Arsenal is next to nothing

127
Q

A time period

A

Era

128
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An old’s person home

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A retirement home

A nursing home

129
Q

Sth before my birth

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Sth was before my time

130
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To be very old

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To be as old as the hills

131
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A way of

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A means of

132
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Feels, seems, looks like sth you have seen before

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To be reminiscent of sth

133
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  • sth heavy + uncomfortable that you carry (litt)
  • adj

Result : makes you slow, uncomfortable, busy and tired

A

A burden

134
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Reckless + stupid

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Foolhardy (adj)

135
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Sb who pays much attention to detail in their work

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Conscientious (adj)

136
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Sth you want to happen, but actually is impossible

A

Sth is wishful thinking (adj)

137
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(Adj) I see what you mean but..

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Granted

138
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Relaxed, easy-going

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Laid-back (adj)

139
Q

Change direction suddenly (accident de voiture par ex)

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To veer

140
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When the situation is reversed

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When the boot is on the other foot

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