Word skills Flashcards

1
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Kind and showing you understand sb’s problems

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Sympathetic

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2
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Read sth carefully from beginning to end

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Go through sth
Look through
Flick through

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3
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The general meaning but not all the details

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Gist j

Get the gist

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4
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Very interested in sth or excited by it

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Enthusiastic
Enthusiasm N.
I’m full of enthusiasm. سرشار از اشتياقم!
She tried not to convey her enthusiasm. بروز دادن

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5
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Making you annoyed because you cannot do sth u you want to

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Frustrating
Frustration
Frustrated درمانده

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6
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Argue with sb and stop being friendly with

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Fall out with sb over sth

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7
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Meet

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Come across
Encounter
Confront

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8
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Write sth down to help u remember it

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Keep a record of sth

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9
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Write sth down quickly

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Make a note of sth

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10
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Chance

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Take a chance on something: Take a risk
When you are working with electricity don’t take a chance it’s dangerous!

Have a chance
I didn’t have the chance to talk to him.

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11
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Conversation
have a chat
discussion
argument

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A conversation is a talk between two or more people.
have a chat with somebody is a friendly informal conversation .
A discussion about something is when you talk about something seriously.
An argument is a discussion in which people disagree often angrily.

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12
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Revise sth

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Do revision on something

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13
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Opportunity

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Get an opportunity فرصت بدست اوردن
I didn’t get the opportunity to talk to her.

Take an opportunity از فرصت استفاده كردن
I want to take the opportunity and thank my
Colleagues.

At the earliest opportunity
as soon as possible

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14
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try something to see what result it has

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Experiment with sth

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15
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A way of doing something

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Apply /adopt a method

Unorthodox method

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16
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Find

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Find sth/sb +adj

Found the pronunciation difficult

17
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While

After a while

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After a period of time

After a while my pronunciation improved.

18
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While

While back

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For a short time

The problem started while back.

19
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While

For a quite a while

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I haven’t seen him for a quite a while.

20
Q

While

All the while

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All the time (مدت زمان)

We were together last night and she was laughing all the while

21
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While

Once in a while

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I go to gym once in a while

هر از گاهي

22
Q

While

A little while

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زود برمي گردم

I’ll be back in a little while.

23
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You really want to do something

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Motivated 
motivation 
have motivation 
lose motivation 
generate motivation
24
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Become better

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Improve 
get better
 make progress 
improvement 
something require improvement 
something make improvements 
something yield (result) improvement
My En is getting better = I make progress.
25
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Keep the Hope and makes you want to continue

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Encouraging
encourage
encouragement
Give encouragement # get encouragement

26
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Know about it

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Be aware of sth
Become aware of sth
Make sb aware of sth

27
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Goal

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Set a goal
Work toward a goal
Achieve a goal