Week 5-6 Flashcards
Adjourn
Atidetas
I suggest that the meeting be adjourned.
Intriquing
Interesting but strange and surprising
Squander
Carelessly waste
Randomly
Without any definite plan
To come ip
Think of an idea
Clear-cut
Easy to be certain about
This time the relationship between social soending and happiness was much more clear-cut
On two counts
In two ways
Most were wrong on two counts: firts and second.
A call
Demand
There is clearly a call for teaching people
Serious misgivings
To have doubts about future
Important Misconceptions about what counts as a natural high
Poor judgement or reasoning
Misprint
Typing error
Mistrustfull
Nepasitikintys
Some people are mistrustful of conventional medicine but are happy to try a strangest natural renedies
Misantrope/ pic
Someone who does not like people, avoids them
Unassuming
Showing no desire to be noticed or given special treatment
He is quite unassuming and never seems to want any credit for all the wonderful work he does
Inadvertently
Without realising what you are doing
I inadvertently picked up someones elses suitcase
Insipid
Without much taste
I never liked watermelon juice- it is rather insipid if you ask me
Nondescript
Very ordinary and not interesting on unusual
He was such nondescriptive little man that no one would ever have imagined him capable of painting surrealistic masterpieces
Nonchalant
Behaving calmly and not seeming interested in anything or worried about anything
She asked trying to look nonchalant as she could
Disgruntled
Annoyed or disapointed, especially because things have not happened in the way you wanted
A group of disgruntled students occupied the man administration block
Corps
Dead body
Tailor-made Holiday Trip Course Suit Service
Specificaly made for you
Consumer-driven lifestyle
Fashion
Technology
Design
Vartotojiskas gyvenimo budas
Authenticity
Autentiskumes
Inauthentic world
Neautentiskas pasaulis
High- minded Cause Person Ambition Reason Principle
Having high moral standard
Custom-made house
Padarytasvray
Forebears
Proteviai
Sham
Klastote, fiktyvu
Long - dead relative
Seniai mires giminaitis
Portrayal
Vaizdavimas, aprasymas, piesimas
Portray- vaizduoti
Portrait- portretas
Dispute
Gincytis, gincas
Diskutuoti, aptarti
Whereabouts
Buvimo vieta
Carry out
Conduct,obey,
carry away
To move or excite greatly: was carried away by desire.
carry forward
Accounting To transfer (an entry) to the next column, page, or book, or to another account.
carry off
1. To cause the death of: was carried off by a fever.
2. To handle successfully: carried off the difficult situation with aplomb.
carry on
1. To conduct; maintain: carry on a thriving business.
2. To engage in: carry on a love affair.
3. To continue without halting; persevere: carry on in the face of disaster.
4. To behave in an excited, improper, or silly manner.
carry out
1. To put into practice or effect: carry out a new policy.
2. To follow or obey: carry out instructions.
3. To bring to a conclusion; accomplish: carried out the mission successfully.
Conclusive
Serving to put an end to doubt, question, or uncertainty; decisive: conclusive evidence.
Itikinami, galutiniai
Hoarder
- A supply or store of something held or hidden for future use.
- A collection or supply, as of memories or information, that one keeps to oneself for future use.
v. hoard·ed, hoard·ing, hoards
v. tr. - To accumulate a hoard of: hoarded his money in a box under the bed.
- To accumulate as much of (something) as one can, as when fearing a shortage.
- To keep hidden or private: “the impulse to hoard the raw material of experience and turn it into art”
Flank
Sonas,
Sparnas
Prieiti is sono
Prosaic
Kasdieniskas
- commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact; unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
- of or like prose rather than poetry.
Bulge
- A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
- Nautical A bilge.
- A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.
v. bulged, bulg·ing, bulg·es
v.intr.
To swell, protrude, or curve outward: a wall bulging after a flood; muscles bulging under a shirt.Pampti
a wallet bulging with money; a clown’s pants that ballooned at the waist; a sail bellying in the wind; a boulder jutting from the hillside; a deck that projected from the house in back; eyes protruding from their sockets in astonishment.
Bizarre
Very strange or unusual, especially in a striking or shocking way
Menangerie
Zverynas
a. A collection of live wild animals on exhibition.
b. The place where such animals are kept.
Mouldy
Old and rotting
- (Botany) covered with mould
- stale or musty, esp from age or lack of use
- slang boring; dullOld and rotting
Stockpilling
the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
Stockpile - supply stored for future use
Kaupimas
Redundant
- Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
- Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.
- Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
- Chiefly British Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
- Electronics Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
- Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.
- Genetics
Eccentricity
Ekravagantiskumas
Ekscentriskas
Compel
- To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain: The court compelled the company to pay full restitution. My conscience compels me to speak out. See Synonyms at force.
- To necessitate or require, as by force of circumstance; demand: Growing riots compelled the evacuation of the embassy.
- To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway: “The land, in a certain, very real way, compels the minds of the people” (Barry Lopez).
Overflowing
- To flow or run over the top, brim, or banks: The river overflowed and flooded surrounding neighborhoods.
- To be filled beyond capacity, as a container or waterway.
- To have a boundless supply; be superabundant.
Overflowing garages
Lifelong
Continuing for a lifetime.
Impassable
Imposable to go through
Commandeered
- To seize for military or police use; confiscate.
- To take arbitrarily or by force: “He was at Columbia when students commandeered buildings and the police sprayed the protesters with tear gas”
Pasisavinti
Clutter
- A confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble: sorted through the clutter in the attic.
- A confused noise; a clatter.
v. clut·tered, clut·ter·ing, clut·ters
v. tr. - To fill or spread over in a disorderly manner: Boxes cluttered the garage.
- To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects: I cluttered up my desk with old memos.
Griozdai, netvarka
Accomodate
Sutalpinti
Evidently
Matyt, aiskiai, neabejotinai
Intruder
Isibrovelis
Dusmental
Ismontuoti, isardyti
Ubiquitous
Common place, happening everywhere
Glimpse
To see smth very quickly, unintentional To catch a glimpse of smth Glanse- intentional To glance over ines shoulder To get a whiff of smth- short, quicke inhalation
To raise objections to smth the proposal to build..
To complaint
Posses a risk
Smth is potentialy dengerous
Contented
Happy
Satisfied with things as they are; content:
As tv is broken you jave to content yourself with listening to the radio
Indulge in
o engage or take part in something, especially freely, avidly, and for one’s own sake or pleasure:
Pataikauti, nuolaidziauti, megautis
- to take pleasure in doing something; to do something habitually. No, I don’t indulge in contact sports anymore. We don’t indulge in strenuous activity.
- to choose to eat a certain food or drink something, usually alcohol. I don’t usually indulge in hard spirits, but just this once. I indulge in chocolate until I can’t hold any more.
Inclined
Linkes
To cause (someone) to have a certain tendency: dispose: “His active, daring temperament little inclined him to patient, quiet study” (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
2. To dispose (someone) to have a certain preference or opinion or to take a course of action: I’m inclined to agree with you. Are you inclined to go to out tonight?
3. To cause to lean, slant, or slope: “Galileo … inclined the plane and rolled brass balls down it” (George Johnson). See Synonyms at slant.
4. To bend or lower in a nod or bow: I inclined my head in acquiescence.
v.intr.
1. To be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action: Some researchers incline toward a different view of the problem.
2. To deviate from the horizontal or vertical; slant: When the path inclined steeply, it became difficult to continue hiking.
3. To lower or bend the head or body, as in a nod or bow.
Definitively
Galutinai
Envious
Pavydus
Envy- pavydas
1. a feeling of grudging or somewhat admiring discontent aroused by the possessions, achievements, or qualities of another
2. the desire to have for oneself something possessed by another; covetousness
3. an object of envy
Plausible
Tiketinas, mokantis itikinti
- Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
- Persuasive or ingratiating, especially in an effort to deceive.
Rature
Susizavijimas, extaze
- the state of mind resulting from feelings of high emotion; joyous ecstasy
- (often plural) an expression of ecstatic joy
- the act of transporting a person from one sphere of existence to another, esp from earth to heaven
Delight
Malonumas, gerejimasis, zavejimasis
- Great pleasure; joy: The proud parents’ faces beamed with delight.
- Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment: The vacation was a delight for the whole family.
Clergyman
Dvasininkas
The body of people ordained or recognized by a religious community as ritual or spiritual leaders. Dvasininkas
To be reliant on
Dependant
Comprehensive test/ research
Complete, through
Invariably
Always happens the same way
Console
Guosyi, raminti
Solaced
Paguosti, nuraminti, pralinksminti
Pavement
Saligatvis, grindinys
Decisive
Lemiamas
Conusive
Necessiate
Reikalauti, priversti
To deceive
Apgauti, apdumti, buti neistikimam , tureti iliuziju
