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1
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Word: No longer existing or functioning.

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Defunct

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Word: Increase rapidly in number

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Proliferate
“the science fiction magazines which proliferated in the 1920s”
“cultured cells often proliferate indefinitely”

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Word: The act of spreading information

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Disseminate. Dissemination

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Expression: Estimere konsekvensen av noe.

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Size the impact.

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5
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Understreke en setning. Jeg er kommet for å si følgende:

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I’ve come here today to tell you this: bla bla bla

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“Jeg skal ta av meg jakken”

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I’ll shed my jacket.

Shed: Leaf falling off plant

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Planten visner…

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The plant is wilting…

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Velformulet (fluent, persuasive)

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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.
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9
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La oss si ting som det er

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Let’s call a spade a space - not a gardening tool. No beating around the bush.

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10
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Hva kan vi slutte ut i fra det?

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What can we infer from that?

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11
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Din forespørsel tatt i betraktning …

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Considering the nature of your query / request

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12
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How to pronounce: Determined

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Ditømind

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13
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Tvilsom på engelsk.

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Dubious, questionable.

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14
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Uforskammet på engelsk.

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Impudent.

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15
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Dristig på engelsk.

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Audacious, bold.

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Engelsk: Det er et tema jeg ikke ønsker å bevege meg inn på.

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I really wouldn’t want to venture into that at this stage.

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Engelsk: Stridens kjerne.

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Key point of contention.

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18
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Kranglevoren person

Omistridt tema

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Contentious person

Contentious topic

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Engelsk: Jeg vanker ikke med kriminelle

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I do not consort with criminals.

20
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Regnskapsår

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Fiscal year (uttales: fiskal)

21
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Uttale: Gauge

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Gaydj

22
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Uttale: legislative body

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Ledjislætiv boddy

23
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Engelsk: Forfengelighet

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Vanity

24
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English: Plan B, C etc.

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Contingecy plans

25
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Pronounce: Malaysia, Indonesia

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Malayzia, Indonesha

26
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Utrykk: Vær påpasselig med hva du bruker energi på.

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Protective of my energy.

27
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Få fart på noen

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Crack the whip on someone.

28
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Word in expression: There are many ways to sequentially organize the blocks of work.

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There are many permutations.

29
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Refusing to be persuaded or to change one’s mind

He is x in his belief that it will not change.

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Adamant

30
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Expression: Get to the point.

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Cut to the chase.

31
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Expression: The major part

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The lions share (of the work / the family wealth etc.)

32
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Prononciation: Idiom

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Iddium
Utrykk = Idiom
Ordtak = Saying

33
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Idiom: Used for saying that something is true, although it is surprising

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It just so happens that I do have a bike to lend you.

34
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Suggest or call attention to indirectly; hint at

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Allude to

35
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Outdated and perhaps old fashioned

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Antiquated

36
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Expression: For a short period of time from now, but not permanently

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For the time being

37
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Misc. how to pronounce

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miscellaneous

misselæiniøs

38
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4 words you can use for understatements (instead of very)

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Fairly, quite, pretty, rather

39
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“I utgangspuntket tenker jeg…”

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My initial inclination would be towards…

40
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“En rød tråd” –> English

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A common thread

41
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“Det faktum at tilsværelsen er midlertidig er for meg den største motivasjon til å gjøre ting.” –> English

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The temporality of human life is for me the greatest motivation to do things.

42
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Word: Suggest or call attention to indirectly

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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.’

43
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Engelsk: Hevert
Utrykk: Illegalt (typisk) tatt penger.

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siphon

‘he’s been siphoning money off the firm’

44
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Schedule (uttale)

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Shed - jul eller skedjule

45
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Beta (uttale)

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Bitæ

46
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I forbindelse med (engelsk)

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In connection with

47
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Vi skal ikke hvile på lauberbladene

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We shall not don’t rest on our laurels!

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