Word_2 Flashcards

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Intuit

You are merely intuiting a truth

He is an intuit

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To know , sense or understand sth by intuitions

He was able to intuit the answer immediately
She intuited a connection btw the 2 crimes

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Quantum

the sum of human knowledge is now so immense that even a highly educated person can hope to absorb only a tiny quantum of it

This quantum improvement was so effective that a very unhappy Barnes & Noble filed a lawsuit three days before Amazon’s IPO, claiming that Amazon was unfairly calling itself a “bookstore” when really it was a “book broker.”

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plural quan·ta\ˈkwän-tə\
1 a : quantity, amount
b : portion, part
c : gross quantity : bulk
2 a : any of the very small increments or parcels into which many forms of energy are subdivided
b : any of the small subdivisions of a quantized physical magnitude (such as magnetic moment)

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Earths largest book store

Question 4

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Holy grauil of

Finding a cure for cancer is the holy grail of medical researchers.
Understanding and learning the structure of data is the holy grail of machine learning.

.“The Holy Grail is within you – find your Inner Treasure”
― Jay Woodman

finding your true SELF is the “holy grail”

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often not capitalized : an object or goal that is sought after for its great significance

something that you want very much but that is very hard to get or achieve

the Holy Grail : the cup that is said to have been used by Jesus Christ and that was sought by knights during the Middle Ages

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gall

This idea galled Einstein because it seemed that this ghostly influence would be transmitted instantaneously between even vastly separated but entangled particles

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make (someone) feel annoyed or resentful.

“it galled him to have to sit impotently in silence”

It was very galling to have a younger brother who did everything better than me. (annoying, bothersome,
irritating)

He found his reduced status galling.

synonyms: irritate , annoy , annoy , vex , make angry, make cross, anger , exasperate , irk , pique , put out, displease , get someone up, antagonize , get on someone’s nerves, rub up the wrong way, ruffle , ruffle, someone’s feathers , make someone’s hackles rise, raise someone’s hackles ; More

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ghostly

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not loud or clear:

a ghostly voice/echo

pale and transparent in a way that does not seem real, like a ghost:

a ghostly figure/apparition

They live in contemplation of a ghostly past.
I have always had great respect for her, and that consoles me a little in my present enforced and ghostly role.

They looked extremely ghostly and frightening as they came through the mist.

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grit

We are always looking for new group members with passion, talent, and grit!

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Courage and resolve; strength of character.

‘I’ve known few men who could match Maude’s grit’

‘I have seldom seen such grit, determination and resoluteness from everyone on a Waterford team.’
‘He showed true grit as he completed the 4.3-mile run in 55 minutes in spite of suffering from prostate cancer.’
‘But Jean showed her true grit and followed the first rule of business which is to learn from your failures.’
‘It is times like these that show the true grit of a team.’

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brimming with sth

in a field brimming with exitements

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brim with (something)

To exhibit something, such as a trait or emotion, to a great degree.

With our trip just days away, the kids are totally brimming with excitement.

This song just brims with emotion.

full of some kind of happy behavior.

The volunteer workers were brimming with goodwill. The smiling children were brimming with joy.

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it is growing in unanticipated way

quatum science

Question 10

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synergy

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If there is synergy between two or more organizations or groups, they are more successful when they work together than when they work separately.

lso called: synergism
the potential ability of individual organizations or groups to be more successful or productive as a result of a merger
2. another name for synergism (sense 1)

The aim is to merge the two and take advantage of the resulting synergies.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
And the signs are that he has the nous to harness a synergy between the two.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Investors have already begun to doubt the potential synergies and question the impact on earnings.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It is a healthy picture and we have done good work on synergies.

Question 11

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“Magic’s just science that we don’t understand yet.”

― Arthur C. Clarke

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― Arthur C. Clarke

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mind-bending

” A mind-bending talk” WWW.TED.COM.

8 Brilliant Mind-Bending Movies That You Need To See .. Sites talking about those movies

mind-bending facts about Quantum mechanics

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: causing changes to the mind or to behavior

: very confusing, exciting, etc.

Question 13

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flesh out

The 70-year-old incoming president has a mammoth task of FLESHING OUT his cabinet, as well as steering the complex transition of power,

There is a thriving research community currently fleshing out the notion of entanglement as a new type of physical resource, finding principles which govern its manipulation and utilization

In the 1990s several teams of researchers began fleshing this idea out,

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o provide more information about (something) : 
to make (something) more complete by adding details

You need to flesh out your plan with more details.
She fleshes out the characters in her novels very well.

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profound

profound effect on me and society
This is a scientific discovery of profound significance.

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very great
This is a scientific discovery of profound significance.

showing serious thought and wise ideas

Kafka’s profound insights into human experience

showing a clear and deep understanding of serious matters:

profound truths/wisdom
The review that I read said that it was “a thoughtful and profound film”.
“Dying is easy - it’s living that’s the problem.” “That was very profound of you, Steven.”

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Body bag

They will go back in body bag … el Rufai

Hawkins takes the body bag and departs, leaving the entire watching crowd silent over the loss.
From Wikipedia
Sharif must open the body bag, which contains the bounty.
From Wikipedia
Madison opens his body bag and finds he’s in pieces.
From Wikipedia
America is sending 100,000 body bags.
From the Hansard archive
Teresa ignores him and finds children costumes, plastic body bags, children snuff films and surgical instruments in the playroom closet.
From Wikipedia

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a heavy plastic bag used to transport a dead person, especially a soldier who has been killed in a war

Question 16

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Soul Crashing

Some came to get rich on their wits and intellect, others on their strength and brawn, toiling from dawn to dusk in soul-crushing labors

Oh, it was nothing compared to the immediate, soul-crushing loneliness I’d experienced when Baxter and I had split.

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soul-crushing (comparative more soul-crushing, superlative most soul-crushing)

Demeaning, boring, disheartening.

Question 17

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in a sense not in the sense

also in some sense

Choice A is correct in a sense that it is widely used.
Choice A is correct in the sense that it is widely used.

Do both sentences above sound natural?
If yes, could you please explain the difference

I’m afraid only the second sentence sounds acceptable to native ear

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n a sense
Partly; in some way(s); in a certain way of looking at it. A: “So all you need to do is get married and they’ll let you stay in the country?” B: “In a sense, but there’s a lot more work involved than just that.” In a sense, the book’s story stands as a metaphor for the American dream.

in a sense
in a way; in one way of looking at it. In a sense, cars make life better. But, in a sense, they also make life worse.

in some sense. Sort of, in some ways but not others. For example, In a sense our schools are the best in the state, but the test scores don’t always show that , or In some sense I agree with you, but not entirely. [Late 1500s] Also see in a way.

n a ˈsense, in ˈone sense considered in one way, rather than in other ways: In a sense we are all responsible for the problem of starvation in the world.

Question 18

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Lump together

The fact that us “non-whites” are lumped together into some absurd category of being “people of colour” further reinforces whiteness as the norm. It strips away our individual experiences, and instead decides the colour of our skin is what’s relev

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But how can that be done when we are lumped together as one homogeneous mass? How can police brutality be addressed if those very black men are overlooked?

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People of color or woman of color

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Anyone non white . Especially black

Question 20

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This/That way

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By doing this /that

Question 21

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Go through the roof

My tinnitus will go through the roof

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go through the roof
1. To react to something angrily. Mom will go through the roof when she finds out we disobeyed her again.
2. To increase to a very high level. Once our neighborhood was featured in that popular show, house prices went through the roof.
See also: roof, through

Question 22

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Magic bullet

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a quick and simple solution to a difficult problem:
a magic bullet for sth There is no magic bullet for the water shortage we’re facing.

substance or therapy capable of destroying pathogens (such as bacteria or cancer cells) or providing an effective remedy for a disease or condition without deleterious side effects
2 : something providing an effective solution to a difficult or previously unsolvable problem
a magic bullet to stem voter apathy

Question 23

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It is ok to fail , what is not ok is too

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Fail to fail to raise up after failure

Question 24

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Unsympathetic

There’s nothing quite as unsympathetic as a politician looking for sympathy.’

‘He said it was natural for the public to feel unsympathetic towards prisoners at a time when crime was rampant and prisons overflowing.’

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1.
not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy.
“I’m not being unsympathetic, but I can’t see why you put up with him”

1Not feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy.
‘I’m not being unsympathetic, but I can’t see why you put up with him’
More example sentencesSynonyms
2Not showing approval or favour towards an idea or action.
‘they were initially unsympathetic towards the cause of Irish freedom’
More example sentencesSynonyms
3(of a person) not friendly or cooperative; unlikeable.
‘a totally unsympathetic character

Question 25

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Surmise

As you can probably surmise, the closer a country is to one, the more unequal its distribution of wealth.

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surmise
verb [ T ] UK /səˈmaɪz/ US /sɚˈmaɪz/ formal
to guess something, without having much or any proof:
[ + (that) ] The police surmise (that) the robbers have fled the

a guess:
My surmise turned out to be right.
The article is pure surmise and innuendo.

Question 26

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Forbade also forbad

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Past of forbid

Question 27

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Smoking gun

This document is the smoking gun that proves that he was lying

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Definition of smoking gun
: something that serves as conclusive evidence or proof (as of a crime or scientific theory)

smoking gun
noun [ C usually singular ] UK /ˌsməʊ.kɪŋ ˈɡʌn/ US /ˌsmoʊ.kɪŋ ˈɡʌn/
information that proves who committed a crime:
The tape recordings provided prosecutors with the smoking gun they needed to prove he’d been involved in the

clear proof that someone has done something wrong or illegal

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sacrosanct

Moreover, by constant repetition of the brilliance of her work it has become sacrosanct, to the extent that any criticism of it is invariably quashed.
From Cambridge English Corpus
Each of these figures is merely an arbitrary unit; neither is sacrosanct.
From Cambridge English Corpus
We saw in the second part of the paper how the border, once defined, quickly became sacrosanct.
From Cambridge English Corpus
This distinction between a sacrosanct work (words and notes) and its conceptual rendering does not apply so easily to earlier twentieth-century productions.
From Cambridge English Corpus
Is there something sacrosanct about the human life form?
From Cambridge English Corpus
In these circumstances, parental control is rightly not treated as sacrosanct.
Fro

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UK
thought to be too important or too special to be changed:
I’m willing to help on any weekday, but my weekends are sacrosanct.

US
so important that there cannot be any change or question:
His time with his children was sacrosanct

Question 29

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fallen out

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Definition of fallout (Entry 1 of 2)
1a : the often radioactive particles stirred up by or resulting from a nuclear explosion and descending through the atmosphere
also : other polluting particles (such as volcanic ash) descending likewise
b : descent (as of fallout) through the atmosphere
2 : a secondary and often lingering effect, result, or set of consequences
have to take a position and accept the political fallout
— Andy Logan

Definition of fall out (Entry 2 of 2)
intransitive verb

1 : QUARREL
also : to cut off relations over a quarrel
former friends who have fallen out
2 : TURN OUT, HAPPEN
expected to be in the States … , but things fell out otherwise
— Mark Twain
3a : to leave one’s place in the ranks

informal to argue with someone and stop being friendly with them:

He left home after falling out with his parents.
She’d fallen out with her boyfriend over his ex-girlfriend.

Question 30

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to come up trumps

What if the number of reviews is in the hundreds or thousands? It’s just not feasible to go through all those reviews, right? And this is where natural language processing comes up trumps.

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If you say that someone came up trumps, you mean that they did something successfully, often when they were not expected to.

turn/come up trumps
uk

to complete an activity successfully or to produce a good result, especially when you were not expected to:

John’s uncle came up trumps, finding us a place to stay at the last minute.

Question 31

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sparsity

Collaborative !ltering (CF) mainly su”ers from rating sparsity and
from the cold-start problem

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Sparsity is the condition of not having enough of something. You might notice the sparsity of hair on your grandpa’s head — but if you’re polite, you won’t bring it up.

the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness

Question 32

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cold start

So what is the cold start problem? The term derives from cars. When it’s really cold, the engine has problems with starting up, but once it reaches its optimal operating temperature, it will run smoothly.
With recommendation engines, the “cold start” simply means that the circumstances are not yet optimal for the engine to provide the best possible results.

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Cold start is a potential problem in computer-based information systems which involve a degree of automated data modelling. Specifically, it concerns the issue that the system cannot draw any inferences for users or items about which it has not yet gathered sufficient information.

Question 33

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unknown unknwons

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There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know. Donald Rumsfeld
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/donald_rumsfeld_148142

Question 34

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Tan

She finds her male partner, who is inexplicably fit and tan for a guy who works fourteen hours a day in a basement computer lab,

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of a yellowish-brown color.
"a tan baseball cap with orange piping"
2.
NORTH AMERICAN
(of a pale-skinned person) having golden-brown skin after exposure to the sun.
"she looks tall, tan, and healthy"

Question 35

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Goatee

He runs his fingers through his neatly trimmed goatee,

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a small pointed beard (= hair growing on a man’s face) that is grown only on the chin

A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on a man’s chin but not his cheeks. The exact nature of the style has varied according to time and cultur

Question 36

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Reinventing the wheel in paralllel in data scienc

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Lingo

There is Lingo for data science

‘In the technical lingo, connecting programs in this way is often called systems integration.’
‘Well, one might say that such a lingo is spoken only by teenagers and young adults, but is it really so?’
‘While we’re on the subject of units, it’s important to understand that construction measurement has a language and lingo all its own.’
‘He should bounce back, as we say in the medical lingo, within a few days, I think.’
‘I guess economists can be a bit specialized but I was once a High School economics teacher so I speak the lingo, as it were.’

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the vocabulary or jargon of a particular subject or group of people.
“computer lingo”

1A foreign language or local dialect.
‘it doesn’t matter if you can’t speak the lingo’
More example sentencesSynonyms
1.1 The vocabulary or jargon of a particular subject or group of people.
‘computer lingo’

Question 38

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Like to hear one self talk

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like to hear oneself talk
like to hear (oneself) talk
To be self-absorbed and self-important in one’s speech, without having much or any regard for those to whom one is talking. I learned pretty quickly that the boss just likes to hear herself talk, and she’ll find any excuse to give you a long-winded lecture about something you already know. Political blowhards like these just like to hear themselves talk—they couldn’t give a fig for the people who actually have to live with these policies.

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Untoward

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unexpected and inappropriate or inconvenient.
“both tried to behave as if nothing untoward had happened”
synonyms: unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unpredictable, unpredicted; More

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Uncanny

uncanny ability for remembering people’s names.

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Strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way.
‘an uncanny feeling that she was being watched

strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way.
“an uncanny feeling that she was being watched”
synonyms: eerie, unnatural, preternatural, supernatural, unearthly, other-worldly, unreal, ghostly, mysterious, strange, abnormal, odd, curious, queer, weird, bizarre, freakish; More

Question 41

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belabour

Don’t belabour the obvious. In many cases, the type of a variable is clear from context;

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Argue or discuss (a subject) in excessive detail.

‘there is no need to belabour the point’

‘He got his point across early but yet he belabored it.’
‘At the risk of belabouring the point, let me cite just one other publication dealing with this question.’
‘I don’t want to belabor the mercury discussion, but I’d like to point out why the hazards are not exaggerated.’
‘But to his credit, it should be emphasized, he does not belabor any theme too much.’
‘Jokes are laboured and belaboured; situations are overindulged and run to exhaustion before they end.’

‘Now, I don’t want to belabor this point, but there is something remarkably obvious that needs to be said.’
‘I fear that to make this statement is to belabor the obvious.’
‘I have my own opinions on the matter, obviously, and I’ve belabored the board sufficiently with them.’
‘Not to belabor the issue, the question is: why is it so difficult today to resist those pressures?’
‘There many other projects and forms of aid which can be cited and there is certainly no need to belabour the point.’
‘Rather than belabor the point, I will simply assume the following.’

Question 42

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data sciencing

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doing data science

Question 43

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mislay

looked over his bills, found one that had been mislaid,

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past tense: mislaid; past participle: mislaid
unintentionally put (an object) where it cannot readily be found and so lose it temporarily.
“I seem to have mislaid my car keys”
synonyms: lose, misplace, put in the wrong place, lose track of, miss; drop, forget, be unable to find, be unable to lay one’s hands on, forget the whereabouts of, forget where one has put something
“I seem to have mislaid my driving licence”

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Unheard off

It was unheard-of for an unmarried couple to live together.

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unheard-of

adjective UK /ʌnˈhɜːd.ɒv/ US /ʌnˈhɝːd.ɑːv/
surprising or shocking because not known about or previously experienced:

Question 45

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Crosss

He get cross if we are late

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Starting with an adjective that is heard mainly in UK English, cross simply means ‘angry about something’. Children often use this adjective about adults: Mr Walker gets cross if we’re late.

Question 46

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pistol-whip

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verb
past tense: pistol-whipped; past participle: pistol-whipped
hit or beat (someone) with the butt of a pistol.
“armed robbers pistol-whipped two postal workers”

Question 47

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live up to sth

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to be as good as something:

The concert was brilliant - it lived up to all our expectations.

He never managed to live up to his parents’ expectations.
David’s cooking was brilliant - we’ll never live up to that.
I feel it’s impossible to live up to his mother.
The Niagara falls lived up to all the publicity.
Did the holiday live up to your expectations?

Question 48

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vantage

The star rating is primarily an indicator of the speaker/author vantage point.

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a place or position affording a good view of something.
“from my vantage point I could see into the front garden”

synonyms: point of view, viewpoint, standpoint, stance, stand, view, opinion, position, way of thinking, frame of mind, outlook, perspective, angle, slant
“from our vantage point it remains a pretty hot issue”

Question 49

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eyeballing

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eyeball….eyeballing

look or stare at closely.

“we eyeballed one another”

to look closely at someone:

He eyeballed me across the bar.

Question 50

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Unsung

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Unacknowledged, unapplauded, , uncelebrated, unhailed ,unpraised

Not celebrated or praised

He is one of the unsung heroes in the country.

Question 51

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Wrap ones head around

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To find a way to understand or accept something

I just could not wrap my mind around what happened

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Wrap ones head around sth

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wrap (one’s) head around (redirected from wrap your head around)
wrap (one’s) head around
To comprehend something that one considers challenging, confusing, or a foreign concept. Kate is willing to pay full price for an expensive handbag, but I just can’t wrap my head around that. Sam tries to wrap her head around snow and freezing temperatures, but she’s always lived in Florida, so real winter is not something she has experienced.

Question 53

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Take sth with a grain of salt
Or take sth with a pinch of salt

To accept it while maintaining a degree ofsceptism about its truth .

This is to be taken with grain is salt

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To understand sth with is likely to be untrue or incorrect

I have seen it , which I take with grain of salt
Take this ranking with a grain of salt

Question 54

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Crass

‘It is very often cheesy and crass, and is completely pretentious from start to finish!’
‘Yet I am not advocating a crass rationalism in which reverence, empathy and love have no place.’
‘Some of the songs were straight from the top of the genius pile, while others were just crass, crude and downright stupid.’
‘There’s nothing wrong with a healthy spirit of crass commercialism, or even a whiff of naked greed these days, is there?’
‘For them, the West was crass, materialistic and, of course, morally rotten.’

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stupid and without considering how other people might feel:

a crass remark
crass behaviour/ignorance
a crass error of judgment
He made crass comments about her worn-out clothes.

offensive in manner or style:
I don’t know anyone who would speak in such a crass manner.

Question 55

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Be a lamp , a lifeboats or a ladder

Question 56

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Entwine

Their arms were entwined

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Intertwine , interweave , criss-cross,

Unable to be separated

My fate is entwined with his

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Digital native and digital immigrants

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Person who grew up using digital tech and person grew up in era without digital tech

Question 58

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prolly?

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“you prolly know this already”…probabbly
‘you prolly know this already’
‘I am prolly the last person he should be asking for advice’

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Add insult to enjury

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but to add insult to injury,

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genial

‘We had a genial / helpful waiter who led us capably through the menu.’

‘She was the most companionable, genial and impressionable member of the team, always bubbling with enthusiasm and high spirits.’

‘He’s a smart, genial fellow but he seems more like a sympathetic bank manager than a king of comedy.’

‘In addition to gaining seriousness, the genial, good-natured boy becomes a sarcastic and bitter man

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Friendly and cheerful.

‘our genial host’

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foolhardy

‘The swings were made out of the hardest substances known to man, and could decapitate anyone foolhardy enough to walk past.’
‘Those who would be foolhardy enough to actually take any of this seriously would do better to steer clear of this film.’
‘Earl shouted, bravely standing up to his Superiors, something few Villagers had ever been foolhardy enough to do.’
‘That includes digging a hole in the ice for those brave or foolhardy enough to take a very chilly dip.’

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Recklessly bold or rash.

‘it would be foolhardy to go into the scheme without support’

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sine qua non

‘grammar and usage are the sine qua non of language teaching and learning’

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An essential condition; a thing that is absolutely necessary.

necessity, essential item, necessary item, prerequisite, requisite, requirement, need
fundamentals, basics, rudiments, principles, first principles, foundations, preliminaries

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infamy

‘Still, I will settle for the infamy, if that is the price to pay for honest and forthright expression.’

“ Among his peers, however, Knuth also maintains an aura of infamy for his approach to electronic communication.”

Excerpt From: Cal Newport. “Deep Work”. Apple Books.

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The state of being well known for some bad quality or deed.

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Ballismo

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[Italian} meaning: Very Beautiful

Answer 61

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Richard Feynman

Answer 62

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to leave a place or begin a journey:

I’d love to stay longer but I must be hitting the road.

“Everyone into the car; let’s hit the road! We don’t want to be late to Grandma’s house”

hit the road jack
Slang for get out of here

Wife: i’m getting a divorce so hit the road jack and I don’t want to see you again

Husband: fine, I will leave

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hit the jackpot

To win a large amount of money, especially in a lottery. Stop wasting your money on lottery tickets—it’s not like you’ll ever hit the jackpot.
To acquire or come into possession of something very beneficial or perfectly suited for one. Marcy hit the jackpot with her new job—it’s basically her dream job, plus a huge salary. When it comes to boyfriends, Tina hit the jackpot—Dean is basically the perfect guy.
To find exactly what was sought or desired, especially in a large quantity. We needed poster board and hit the jackpot at the art supply store down the street.

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boring, ordinary, and not original:
He just sat there making banal remarks all evening.
banal pop songs
Synonyms
commonplace

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To have a secret plan, idea, or advantage that can be utilized if and when it is required. A reference to cheating at a card game by hiding a favorable card up one’s sleeve. I have a few tricks up my sleeve if he decides to pursue legal action against me. She has a card up her sleeve if they ever try to fire her, since she knows about the boss’s unscrupulous business practices.

have/keep something up your ˈsleeve (informal) have a good idea, plan or piece of information which you are not telling anyone about now, but which you intend to use later: John was smiling to himself all through the meeting; I’m sure he’s got something up his sleeve.

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To separate what is useful or valuable from what is worthless . When it comes to book , time will separate the wheat from chaff . Good books will have lasting appeal and the rest will be forgotten .

Answer 67

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Richard Feyman

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If you say that you are between the devil and the deep blue sea, you mean that you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action.

between equally unpleasant alternatives

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What does this saying mean to you, “Life is a marathon not a sprint”?

It means that life is a long and arduous ordeal, so you need to pace yourself.

If you try to take on too much at one time, you will burn out and fail completely.

Likewise, in a race, you can sprint and go really fast for short distances, but try to sprint for too long and you will run out of energy and not reach the finish.

Life consists of long-term goals that you strive for that are more meaningful and fruitful than short-term goals/thinking.

In other words, long-term thinking gets you much farther then constantly thinking short-term.

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Nigerian Blunders

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/əˈblʌɪdʒ/

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There is very little to distinguish it from hundreds of other websites

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It is not possible to know

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Involving math

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Not able to be denied or disputed

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dog +‎ eared

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dogeared (comparative more dogeared, superlative most dogeared)

(US, of a book) Having many pages with corners that have been

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A street market, particularly in Arabic- and Somali-speaking countries; a place where people buy and sell goods; a bazaar.

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Drop-in replacement is a term used in computer science and other fields. It refers to the ability to replace one hardware (or software) component with another one without any other code or configuration changes being required and resulting in no negative impacts. Usually, the replacement has some benefits including one or more of the following:

increased security
increased speed
increased feature set
increased compatibility (e.g. with other components or standards support)
increased support (e.g. the old component may no longer be supported, maintained, or manufactured)

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surly
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adjective
bad-tempered and unfriendly.

“the porter left with a surly expression”
synonyms: bad-tempered, ill-natured, grumpy, glum, crotchety, prickly, cantankerous, irascible, testy, ill-tempered, short-tempered, ungracious, splenetic, choleric, dyspeptic, bilious, crusty, abrupt, brusque, curt, gruff, blunt, churlish, ill-humoured, crabbed, crabby, uncivil, morose, dour, sullen, sulky, moody, moping, sour, unfriendly, unpleasant, scowling, unsmiling; More

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Woman genital brish slang

North America person buttock

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fanny about" or "around
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informal 
Mess around and waste time.
‘they were fannying about in the street’

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expunged
Erase or remove completely

Obliterate or remove completely (something unwanted or unpleasant)
‘the kind of man that could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory

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spin quickly and lightly round, especially repeatedly.
“she twirled in delight to show off her new dress”
synonyms: spin (round), pirouette, whirl, turn (round), wheel, gyrate, pivot, swivel; More
noun
noun: twirl; plural noun: twirls
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an act of spinning.
“Kate did a twirl in front of the mirror”
synonyms: pirouette, spin, whirl, turn; More

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Without any exaggeration; to put it plainly or mildly

Not to exaggerate,

used to show that what you are describing is in fact much more serious or important than you have suggested:

It’s going to be awkward, to say the least.

to not describe something in the strongest way you could, often in order to be polite:
The dinner was not tasty, to say the least.

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autodidact
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noun
a self-taught person.

a person who teaches himself or herself, rather than being taught by a teacher

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usually in phrase make headwaymass noun Forward movement or progress, especially when this is slow or difficult.

‘the ship was making very little headway against heavy seas’
‘they appear to be making headway in bringing the rebels under control’
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2The average interval between trains or buses on a regular service.
‘a six-minute headway’

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used to emphasize that you can make it easy for someone to do something, but you cannot force them to do it

you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink
You can give someone an advantage or provide them with an opportunity, but you can’t force them to do something if they don’t want to. A: “I just don’t understand. We’ve given him the very best education and introduced him to the right people, but he just won’t pursue a meaningful career.” B: “Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”

Even favorable circumstances won’t force one to do something one doesn’t want to, as in We’ve gotten all the college catalogs but he still hasn’t applied-you can lead a horse to water . This metaphoric term dates from the 12th century and was in John Heywood’s proverb collection of 1546. It is so well known that it is often shortened, as in the example.

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Intensely painful.
‘excruciating back pain’
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Very embarrassing, awkward, or tedious.
‘he explained the procedure in excruciating detail

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Become discourage

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Concerned with or comprehending only what is apparent or obvious; not deep or penetrating emotionally or intellectually • a superficial mind • his thinking was superficial and fuzzy • only superficial differences • superficial knowledge • superficial similarities • the superficial report didn’t give the true picture
≈ apparent, careless, cavalier, dilettante, dilettanteish, dilettantish, facile, fluffy, frivolous, glib, looking, ostensible, outward, sciolistic, seeming, shallow, skin-deep, sounding
◑ profound

Of little substance or significance • a few superficial editorial changes =	trivial ≈	insignificant, unimportant

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Of superficial relevance if any • a tangential remark
= digressive
≈ beside the point, irrelevant

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Of something or someone ordinary or unexpectional , represented as it appearing more elevated or special thatn is the case

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Having or revealing a tendency to be easily shocked by matters relating to sex or nudity; excessively concerned with sexual propriety.
‘the prudish moral climate of the late 19th century’

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running text
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the body of text in a newspaper, magazine, or the like, as distinguished from the heads, illustrations, etc.

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verb: quell; 3rd person present: quells; past tense: quelled; past participle: quelled; gerund or present participle: quelling

put an end to (a rebellion or other disorder), typically by the use of force.
“extra police were called to quell the disturbance”
synonyms: put an end to, stamp out, put a stop to, end, finish, get rid of, crush, put down, check, crack down on, curb, nip in the bud, thwart, frustrate, squash, quash, subdue, suppress, repress, quench, extinguish, stifle, abolish, terminate, beat, overcome, defeat, rout, destroy, demolish, annihilate, wipe out, extirpate; More
antonyms: bring about, prompt

subdue or silence (someone).
“Connor quelled him with a look”

suppress (a feeling).
“she quelled an urge to race up the stairs”
synonyms: calm, soothe, pacify, settle, quieten, quiet, put at rest, lull, silence, put behind one, rise above, allay, appease, stay, assuage, abate, deaden, dull, tranquillize, mitigate, moderate, palliate

“he managed to quell his initial misgivings”
antonyms: succumb to

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