Words Flashcards
Word: No longer existing or functioning.
Defunct
Word: Increase rapidly in number
Proliferate
“the science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s”
“cultured cells often proliferate indefinitely”
Word: The act of spreading information
Disseminate. Dissemination
Expression: Estimere konsekvensen av noe.
Size the impact.
Understreke en setning. Jeg er kommet for å si følgende:
I’ve come here today to tell you this: bla bla bla
“Jeg skal ta av meg jakken”
I’ll shed my jacket.
Shed: Leaf falling off plant
Planten visner…
The plant is wilting…
Velformulet (fluent, persuasive)
Eloquent (eloqunetly, elequency) Professor Hobby eloquently explains his position. I'm sure he phrased it rather more eloquently. The bus journey alone is eloquent of class inequality.
La oss si ting som det er
Let’s call a spade a space - not a gardening tool. No beating around the bush.
Hva kan vi slutte ut i fra det?
What can we infer from that?
Din forespørsel tatt i betraktning …
Considering the nature of your query / request
How to pronounce: Determined
Ditømind
Tvilsom på engelsk.
Dubious, questionable.
Uforskammet på engelsk.
Impudent.
Dristig på engelsk.
Audacious, bold.
Engelsk: Det er et tema jeg ikke ønsker å bevege meg inn på.
I really wouldn’t want to venture into that at this stage.
Engelsk: Stridens kjerne.
Key point of contention.
Kranglevoren person
Omistridt tema
Contentious person
Contentious topic
Engelsk: Jeg vanker ikke med kriminelle
I do not consort with criminals.
Regnskapsår
Fiscal year (uttales: fiskal)
Uttale: Gauge
Gaydj
Uttale: legislative body
Ledjislætiv boddy
Engelsk: Forfengelighet
Vanity
English: Plan B, C etc.
Contingecy plans
Pronounce: Malaysia, Indonesia
Malayzia, Indonesha
Utrykk: Vær påpasselig med hva du bruker energi på.
Protective of my energy.
Få fart på noen
Crack the whip on someone.
Word in expression: There are many ways to sequentially organize the blocks of work.
There are many permutations.
Refusing to be persuaded or to change one’s mind
He is x in his belief that it will not change.
Adamant
Expression: Get to the point.
Cut to the chase.
Expression: The major part
The lions share (of the work / the family wealth etc.)
Prononciation: Idiom
Iddium
Utrykk = Idiom
Ordtak = Saying
Idiom: Used for saying that something is true, although it is surprising
It just so happens that I do have a bike to lend you.
Suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at
Allude to
Outdated and perhaps old fashioned
Antiquated
Expression: For a short period of time from now, but not permanently
For the time being
Misc. how to pronounce
miscellaneous
misselæiniøs
4 words you can use for understatements (instead of very)
Fairly, quite, pretty, rather
“I utgangspuntket tenker jeg…”
My initial inclination would be towards…
“En rød tråd” –> English
A common thread
“Det faktum at tilsværelsen er midlertidig er for meg den største motivasjon til å gjøre ting.” –> English
The temporality of human life is for me the greatest motivation to do things.
Word: Suggest or call attention to indirectly
Allude to / norsk: hentyde eller henspeile
‘we will allude briefly to the main points’
‘he alluded to the fact that…’
‘He did not mention or allude to the exhibition again.’
Engelsk: Hevert
Utrykk: Illegalt (typisk) tatt penger.
siphon
‘he’s been siphoning money off the firm’
Schedule (uttale)
Shed - jul eller skedjule
Beta (uttale)
Bitæ
I forbindelse med (engelsk)
In connection with
Vi skal ikke hvile på lauberbladene
We shall not don’t rest on our laurels!
