Week 5 Flashcards by Elina Valieva

Perfect society where everyone happy

Utopia

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Manage to live or survive
Friendly and harmonious relationship

Get along

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Strange and unusual

Outlandish

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Non-countable

Countless

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Control it by force

Conquer

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Not proud or arrogant

Humble

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Something which is both insignificant yet and somehow important

A gain of sand

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In few words

Cut a long story short

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Copy the way in something is done, something in funny way

Mimic

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Regard with respect or warm approval

Admired around

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Vegetable Porridge

Mushy peas

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Taste of special food

Flavour of certain food

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So that =>

Hence

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Replace ingredients

Substitute ingredients

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Animal that hunts and eats other animals at the top of a food chain

Apex predator

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Feeling of anger or hatred towards someone because of what they did in the past

Grudge

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Expression used to emphasise that something is not true at all

Nothing could be further from the truth

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Expression that situation is very bad and without hope

Doom and gloom

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A serious mental health disorder

Post-traumatic stress disorder

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Low-level distress caused by worrying about climate

Climate anxiety

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Having a harmful or negative effects

Adverse

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Latin - “of itself”

Per se

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Areas in towns and cities which are reserved for parks, trees, wildlife

Urban greenspaces

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Пожар, тепловые удары, наводнения, ураганы, засухи

Fires, heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, drought

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Discover a fact or piece of information

Find out

Экономические последствия

Economic consequences

Нефть, топливо

Fossil fuels

To show the right answer

Time to reveal the answer

Cause something to reach a specific temperature

Bring to

Combine ingredients, often using a spoon

Mix in

Lower a temperature

Cool down

To put a place other than your direct workspace

Set aside

Almost not

Hardly

Plants and animals

Flora and fauna

Dull, colourless in appearance

Drap

The hard, pointer part of its mouth

Beak

Hold on very tightly

Cling on

Generally-determined characteristic

Trait

Зяблики

Finches

Развивает чтобы справляться с

Evolve to cope with

Крепкая хватка

Tighter grip

Go to the toilet

Spend a penny

De Situation in which events that have happened before happen again in the exactly same way

Groundhog Day

Appear everywhere

Ubiquitous

Cause so much excitement about something online that you make websites crush

Break the internet

A problem that does not seem very important when compared to the serious problems faced by people in poorer parts of the word

First-world problem

Give up, surrender

Throw in the towel

to learn a new skill or language by practising it rather than being taught it

Pick up languages

To become sick

Pick up a cold

To take milk

To pick up milk

Sad, disappointed

Gutted

Really, really tired

Knackered

To have no money or very little money

Skint

Very, very rich

Loaded

In particular, in most of all

Especially

For a particular purpose

Specially

A young child with great talent in something

Child prodigy

General understanding of it without details

Gist

Useful pieces of advice about how to do something better

Tips

Very impressed or surprised by something

Blown away

Able to be trained or taught

Trainable

Reason, cause, happening

Occasion

✌🏻

Thumbs up

Lower and raise one's head slightly and briefly in greeting

Nodding

People who want correct spelling and grammar online and criticize those who don't

Grammar police

You only see the negative side because of your own bad experience with it

Jaundiced view of something

A period in history characterized by ignorance and a lack of progress

The dark ages

Something seems likely to be true or it makes sense

It stands to reason

GSOH

Good sense of humour

To be interesting to others

Appear attractive

Making you believe something that is not true

Deceptive

A statement that represents something as better or worse than it really is

Exaggeration

Finding a balance between two opposing ideas or attitudes or between two opposing sides so as not to annoying side

Walking a fine line

Trying to appear more attractive by pretending to be someone else on social media

Catfishing

Someone pretends to share the same options as the person they are attracted to

Wokefishing

Destroy or get rid of something such as social problem or disease

Eradicate

Announce something to be finished before it actually is but it seems good enough

Declare victory

Happening too soon, before the best time to do it

Prematurely

Deliberate refuse to accept the truth about something you find unpleasant

Bury your head in the sand

The punishment of death for commuting a crime or from disease which has no cure

Death sentence

Lasting for a long time

Chronic

Description of the modern world as a connected community in which people communicate across great distances using technology such as the internet and telephone

Global village

Happening suddenly for a short time and not in regular way

Spasmodic

Bad, not able to be trusted

Dodgy

Information passed by people telling each other rather than being written down or sent electronically

Word-of-mouth

Idiom: directly from the most reliable source or from someone who has reliable knowledge of it

Straight from the horse's mouth

Week 5 Flashcards

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