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Week 5 Flashcards

1
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Perfect society where everyone happy

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Utopia

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2
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Manage to live or survive
Friendly and harmonious relationship

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Get along

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3
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Strange and unusual

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Outlandish

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4
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Non-countable

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Countless

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5
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Control it by force

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Conquer

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6
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Not proud or arrogant

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Humble

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7
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Something which is both insignificant yet and somehow important

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A gain of sand

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8
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In few words

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Cut a long story short

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9
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Copy the way in something is done, something in funny way

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Mimic

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10
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Regard with respect or warm approval

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Admired around

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11
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Vegetable Porridge

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Mushy peas

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12
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Taste of special food

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Flavour of certain food

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13
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So that =>

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Hence

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14
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Replace ingredients

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Substitute ingredients

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15
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Animal that hunts and eats other animals at the top of a food chain

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Apex predator

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16
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Feeling of anger or hatred towards someone because of what they did in the past

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Grudge

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17
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Expression used to emphasise that something is not true at all

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Nothing could be further from the truth

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18
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Expression that situation is very bad and without hope

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Doom and gloom

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19
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A serious mental health disorder

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Post-traumatic stress disorder

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20
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Low-level distress caused by worrying about climate

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Climate anxiety

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21
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Having a harmful or negative effects

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Adverse

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22
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Latin - “of itself”

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Per se

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23
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Areas in towns and cities which are reserved for parks, trees, wildlife

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Urban greenspaces

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24
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Пожар, тепловые удары, наводнения, ураганы, засухи

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Fires, heatwaves, floods, hurricanes, drought

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25
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Discover a fact or piece of information

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Find out

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26
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Экономические последствия

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Economic consequences

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27
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Нефть, топливо

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Fossil fuels

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28
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To show the right answer

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Time to reveal the answer

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29
Q

Cause something to reach a specific temperature

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Bring to

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30
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Combine ingredients, often using a spoon

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Mix in

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31
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Lower a temperature

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Cool down

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32
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To put a place other than your direct workspace

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Set aside

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33
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Almost not

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Hardly

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34
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Plants and animals

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Flora and fauna

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35
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Dull, colourless in appearance

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Drap

36
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The hard, pointer part of its mouth

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Beak

37
Q

Hold on very tightly

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Cling on

38
Q

Generally-determined characteristic

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Trait

39
Q

Зяблики

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Finches

40
Q

Развивает чтобы справляться с

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Evolve to cope with

41
Q

Крепкая хватка

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Tighter grip

42
Q

Go to the toilet

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Spend a penny

43
Q

De

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

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Groundhog Day

44
Q

Appear everywhere

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Ubiquitous

45
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Cause so much excitement about something online that you make websites crush

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Break the internet

46
Q

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

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First-world problem

47
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Give up, surrender

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Throw in the towel

48
Q

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

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Pick up languages

49
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To become sick

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Pick up a cold

50
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To take milk

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To pick up milk

51
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Sad, disappointed

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Gutted

52
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Really, really tired

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Knackered

53
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To have no money or very little money

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Skint

54
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Very, very rich

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Loaded

55
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In particular, in most of all

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Especially

56
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For a particular purpose

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Specially

57
Q

A young child with great talent in something

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Child prodigy

58
Q

General understanding of it without details

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Gist

59
Q

Useful pieces of advice about how to do something better

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Tips

60
Q

Very impressed or surprised by something

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Blown away

61
Q

Able to be trained or taught

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Trainable

62
Q

Reason, cause, happening

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Occasion

63
Q

✌🏻

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Thumbs up

64
Q

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

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Nodding

65
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People who want correct spelling and grammar online and criticize those who don’t

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Grammar police

66
Q

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

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Jaundiced view of something

67
Q

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

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The dark ages

68
Q

Something seems likely to be true or it makes sense

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It stands to reason

69
Q

GSOH

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Good sense of humour

70
Q

To be interesting to others

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Appear attractive

71
Q

Making you believe something that is not true

A

Deceptive

72
Q

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

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Exaggeration

73
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Finding a balance between two opposing ideas or attitudes or between two opposing sides so as not to annoying side

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Walking a fine line

74
Q

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

A

Catfishing

75
Q

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

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Wokefishing

76
Q

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

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Eradicate

77
Q

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

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Declare victory

78
Q

Happening too soon, before the best time to do it

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Prematurely

79
Q

Deliberate refuse to accept the truth about something you find unpleasant

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Bury your head in the sand

80
Q

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

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Death sentence

81
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Lasting for a long time

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Chronic

82
Q

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

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Global village

83
Q

Happening suddenly for a short time and not in regular way

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Spasmodic

84
Q

Bad, not able to be trusted

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Dodgy

85
Q

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

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Word-of-mouth

86
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Idiom: directly from the most reliable source or from someone who has reliable knowledge of it

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Straight from the horse’s mouth

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