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Week 9 Flashcards

1
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A healthy balanced diet

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A healthy balanced diet

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To go ON a diet

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To go ON a diet

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To reduce

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To cut down ON sth

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To remove completely

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To cut sth OUT

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5
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Avoir une indigestion

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To have indigestion

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Mener une vie active, sédentaire

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To lead a sedentary, active lifestyle

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7
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A place where you exercice

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A health club

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A doctor, a general practitioner (GP)

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A health centre

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9
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Avoir une attaque

A blood clot in the brain

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To have, suffer a stroke

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10
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You consume what you eat

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You consume what you eat

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11
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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away

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12
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Comme le dit la phrase…

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As the saying goes..

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13
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Many hands make light work

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Many hands make light work

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14
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Too many chefs spoil the broth

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Too many chefs spoil the broth

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15
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Qqn qui reste toute la journée sur le canapé à regarder la télé

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Couch potato

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16
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Little, no belief

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Scant regard

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17
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To help sth grow

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To nurture

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18
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Natural, inherent tendency to do sth

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To have a predisposition TO (verb -ing)

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19
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IN + noun feelings

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IN + noun feelings

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20
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Happens

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To turn OUT

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21
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FOR + time period

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FOR + time period

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22
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No tener ni puta idea

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To know nothing whatsoever about sth

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23
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Goals at certain ages

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A developmental milestone

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24
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Anyone significant to a particular context

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To know who’s who

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25
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To enjoy

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To get a (real) kick OUT OF sth

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26
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Sth that causes counter-productivity

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Hindrance

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27
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To get used to

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To get the hang OF

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28
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Growing from zero, emergent

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Burgeoning

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29
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An idea, invention originated by sb

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A brainchild (N)

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30
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To have, suffer brain damage

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To have, suffer brain damage

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31
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When all the skilled, experienced professionals leave a country to seek better employment

Fuga de cerebros

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Brain drain (N)

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32
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To have, get a brain scan

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To have, get a brain scan

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33
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To brainstorm ideas

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To brainstorm ideas

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34
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A puzzle that involves intelligence, e.g. Sudoku, crossword

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A brain teaser (N)

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35
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When you change the way sb thinks for one’s own benefit

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To brainwash sb

To indoctrinate sb

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36
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To have a sudden great idea

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To have a brainwave (N)

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37
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Confusing

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Mind-boggling

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38
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Sb who has the same idea as you at the same moment

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A mind-reader

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39
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To remove the knots from the hair

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To disentangle

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40
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Don’t worry, it doesn’t matter, it’s not important

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Never mind

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41
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Sth (often advice) that you will take into consideration when you do sth in the future

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To bear/keep sth in mind

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42
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Polite yes to an offer

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I wouldn’t mind (+ sth -ing)

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43
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Stop using colorful language, curse words, vulgar language, profanity

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Mind your language

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44
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I agree with you, but

It’s true what you said but

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Mind you

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45
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Personal, private question

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If you don’t mind my asking

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46
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The organization that is made up of people in one profession all of them as one big entity

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Worker’s union

Teacher’s union

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47
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Showing bad behavior + difficult to control

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Unruly

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48
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Citizen who obeys the law

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Law-abiding citizen

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49
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To create a new law

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To enact

Enactment (N)

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50
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When you play a famous event again

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A reenactment

To reenact an event

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51
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When you don’t show your feeling

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To repress

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52
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Décapiter

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To behead

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53
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Stubborn

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Pig-headed

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54
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Arrogant

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Big-headed

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55
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To make bigger

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To broaden

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56
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a type of allergy caused by pollen

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Hayfever

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57
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when you contemplate doing sth crazy, bad, excessive as a form of complaint, punishment

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To have half a mind to do sth

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58
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to be on the same mind

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To be of these same mind

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59
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mind your own business

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Never you mind

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60
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uncontrollable

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To have a mind of its own (i.e. computer)

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61
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to be focused on the task, not distracted by irrelevant things

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To be in the right frame of mind

To be in the right mindset

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62
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to have a bad memory, to have a goldfish memory

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To have a mind like a sieve

63
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to try and understand sth

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To get my mind round sth

64
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to remove its ability to function

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To disable

65
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unimaginable

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Inconceivable

66
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famous for doing sth wrong, evil e.g. Hitler

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Notorious

67
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To have, get plastic surgery

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To have, get plastic surgery

68
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sth really really really terrible; acts of senseless violence i.e. serial killings, massacre

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Atrocity (N)

Atrocious (adj) behaviour, manners

69
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moves backwards

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To recede (V)

70
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Pendre (peau)

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To sag

71
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to redefine the limits

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To redefine the boundaries

72
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to be savagely attacked by a dog

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To be mauled by a dog

73
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a temporary solution using the resources you have available to you

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A makeshift solution

74
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good times and bad times

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Ups and downs (N)

75
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makes you feel happy as a result of good news

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Heartening (negative : disheartening)

76
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when a larger number of people complain, express their anger publicly about a certain situation

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To cause outcry

77
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stuck, firmly fixed, placed

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Lodged

78
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Être précipité à l’hôpital

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To be rushed to hospital

79
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Être admis à l’hôpital

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To be admitted to hospital

To check in to a hotel

80
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Dédier sa carrière à

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To dedicate your career TO sth

81
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to do sth for the first time

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An unprecedented event (never happened before)

To make (medical) history

82
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Harmful

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Malign

83
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Related

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Pertaining

84
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Impressionable

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Malleable

85
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Answer

A

Antidote

86
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Persistent

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Relentless

87
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Short-lived

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Fleeting

88
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Superficial

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Cursory

89
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desperately looking for an answer in your brain; other people can see your struggling

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To rack one’s brain to do sth

90
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imagine a post it more for your brain. Use it for very simple information, e.g. A meeting time + place

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To make a mental note OF sth

91
Q

a simple, quick solution to a not so big problem (sth -> typically a pronoun : that)

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Sth should do/does the trick

92
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I forgot (to do sth)

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Sth (completely) slipped my mind

93
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to create an image in your mind, to imagine sth, to envisage sth

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To conjure UP a mental image of sth

94
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to mix up a lot of information, e.g. John 19th sep Paris, Adam 21st July London, etc etc etc

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To muddle sth UP

95
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Se fouler la cheville, le poignet, la hanche

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To sprain/twist ankle/wrist

96
Q

Un bleu

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A bruise (N)

To bruise one’s leg

97
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Se casser un os

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To break (n,v) bones, leg (bone in your leg)

98
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Une luxation

Se luxer

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Dislocation (N)

To dislocate (v) shoulder, hip (hanche)

99
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femme avec grosses cuisses

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Thunder thighs

100
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Égratigner

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To graze (n,v) skin, my knee

101
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To pull a muscle

To tear a muscle

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To pull a muscle

To tear a muscle

102
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the person who experiences a rejection process

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To undergo rejection process

103
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to prove that sth is false

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To disprove

104
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stay, keep a drug regime

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To stick to a drug regime

105
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what’s coming on in the future, sth that will come, appear in the future

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To lay ahead

106
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results, outcomes (neutral)

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Implication (N)

107
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to fail to see, notice sth

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To overlook sth

108
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open to attack, not protected

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Vulnerable

109
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Conduire une recherche complète, minutieuse

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Conducted extensive tests, research

To do, conduct, carry out research

110
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Comprehensive

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Extensive

111
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Foulure

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Sprain

112
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Cheville

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Ankle

113
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Poignet

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Wrist

114
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Menton

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Chin

115
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Cuisse

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Thigh

116
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Mâchoire

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Jaw

117
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Petit juif

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Funny bone

118
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Égratignure

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Graze

119
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Tibia

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Shin

120
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Mollet

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Calf

121
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Le postérieur

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Backside

122
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Aine

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Groin

123
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it’s very possible that sth will happen

Courir le risque de

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To run the risk of sth, doing sth

124
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exhausted because you’ve worked so hard for a long time

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To feel run DOWN

125
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sleepy as a result of medication

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Drowsy (adj)

126
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sad and depressed

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Dreary

127
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cautious, very careful

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To be wary OF sth

128
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to involve

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To entail

129
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Maladie dégénérative

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Degenerative disease

130
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to destroy completely

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To disintegrate

131
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to suggest sth to sb

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To put across TO

132
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to make less, to reduce pain

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To relieve pain, pressure

133
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to drink a lot very quickly

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To guzzle

134
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gargariser

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To gargle

135
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to look (a bit) pale

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To look off colour

136
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taking into consideration

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In view of

137
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to be recovering

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To be on the mend

138
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a really painful headache

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A splitting headache

139
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the chances of, that

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The odds of sth happening are 1000 : 1, against sth happening

140
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lacking courage and determination, a coward

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Spineless

141
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to carry a burden or responsibility (heavy load)

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To shoulder responsibility, the burden of responsibility

142
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the person in charge of a particular organization

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Head

143
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a person’s way of expressing their opinions and feelings about other people, sb who speaks aggressively, unkind

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Sharp-tongue

144
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sth that is the strongest part of an organization, the most essential part of an organization

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Backbone

The autoworkers form the backbone of Ford car company

145
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lacking in sympathy

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Cold-hearted

146
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a group of people who have joined together

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Body

Governing, teaching, student, independent body

147
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sth reduced to the bare essentials, the most basic, reduced

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Skeleton

Skeleton staff

148
Q

an organization that works properly because it is powerful and effective, sb who is not afraid to take risks in order to succeed

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With teeth

A leader, an organization with teeth

149
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used in the negative to show that you find it hard to accept sth, this disgusts you, you find it very difficult to accept

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Not be able to, can’t stomach sth, the fact that, the idea that

150
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to be eloquent, to speak beautifully

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To have a silver tongue

151
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shallow and trivial topics, not serious topics

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Light-hearted

152
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unsympathetic

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Cold-hearted

153
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kind, generous, nice

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Warm-hearted

154
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when you only use 50% effort to complete sth

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Half-hearted attempt, try

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