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the length of time that someone can keep their thoughts and interest fixed on something
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Attention Span
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Reinventar
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re-invent
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??
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childhood shrinking
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To make extremely sexual; to accentuate the sexuality of
Empezar a pensar en sexo desde muy joven |
Hypersexualization
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not having or not needing people to operate or work correctly:
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Unmanned
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to start working or dealing with something in an energetic and determined way:
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Something set to
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ordinary, typical, or usual:
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Everyday Adj
Every day Adv |
it is happening now:
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Underway
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a meal cooked and bought at a shop or restaurant but taken somewhere else, often home, to be eaten, or the shop or restaurant itself:
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Takeaway (meal)
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an object or collection of objects wrapped in paper, especially so that it can be sent by post:
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Parcel
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to prevent someone from doing something or to make someone less enthusiastic about doing something by making it difficult for that person to do it or by threatening bad results if they do i
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To deter
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to catch and kill animals without permission on someone else's land:
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To Poach
Poacher |
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Snow leopard
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(of or relating to) a type of popular newspaper with small pages that has many pictures and short, simple reports:
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Tabloid
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to achieve as much as your natural ability makes possible
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Fullfill the potential
He never really fulfilled his potential as a player. |
to suddenly start to be successful or popular:
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Take off
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to make it possible or easier for something or someone to follow:
Preparar el terreno |
pave the way (for something/someone)
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a short road on which vehicles join or leave a main road
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A slip road
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a car that uses more than one means of propulsion that means combining a petrol or diesel engine with an electric motor.
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Hybrid cars
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with the size of a lipstick
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Lipstick-sized
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a small device you use to breathe in particular medicines
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Inhaler
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An action that seems a good idea because is practical
Describe progress in progress |
The way forward
Under way |
The force to stimulate something to flourish
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Driver
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magnetic levitation: an advanced type of transport system in which a train travels on a magnetic track, often at very high speeds:
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Maglev
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a word formed by combining two other words:
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Portmanteau word
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Fila prioritaria
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Priority queuing
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is an airline which tries to keep its prices and fares lower than competitors.
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Budget airlines
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a wide road for fast-moving traffic, especially in the UK, Ireland, and some other countries, with a limited number of places at which drivers can enter and leave it:
Autopista, carretera |
Motorway
Lane |
Kind of services synonyms
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Tiers of services
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a large road vehicle that is used for transporting large amounts of goods:
mula |
Truck
Lorry |
a person who charges very large amounts of money for lending money to someone
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Loan shark
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Options that are friendly to the planet
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Greener options
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unable to leave somewhere because of a problem such as not having any transport or money:
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Stranded
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to move or come together in large numbers:
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Flock
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a description of possible actions or events in the future:
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Scenario
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to become fashionable or popular:
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To catch on
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En el futuro expression
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In the long term
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different in every way:
Ideas totally different |
Disparate
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able to be made, done, or achieved:
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Feasible
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you make sure to know about what is happening (or has happened) to it.
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To keep track of something
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or intuition, is your immediate understanding of something; there's no need to think it over or get another opinion you just know
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Gut instinct
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Activities of the brain
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Brainware patterns
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considered normal, and having or using ideas, beliefs, etc. that are accepted by most people:
common |
Mainstream
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Compare information with a database
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Cross-reference
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the quality of being good and deserving praise:
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Merit
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people that express their opinions and complaints loudly and repeatedly in speech, etc. are made repeatedly and loudly
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Vociferous
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an amount of food or drink that fills your mouth, or that you put into your mouth at one time:
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Mouthful
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the action of eating more food than your body needs, especially so that you feel uncomfortably full:
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Overeating
Gluttony |
a computer program, used especially in business, that allows you to do financial calculations and plans
Hoja de calculo |
Spreadsheet
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To try something, especially something with which one has little or no experience.
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To give something a go
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Something that is difficult to deal with or do because it is complicated and full of problems
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Tricky
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To be even better or greater than somebody or something else
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To surpass
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To organise and manage what another person does every day.
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To run somebody's life
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To discover or explain the real reason for a problem
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To pinpoint the cause of something
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To do something better or more successfully or in greater quantity than somebody else
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To outstrip
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To happen after a period of time
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To come to pass
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To be expected to happen but not having happened yet
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To be yet to happen
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Medical treatment which doesn't involve cutting into the body.
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Non-invasive sugery
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To extract mineral for a mine
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To mine
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Very likely to or certain to
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To bound to
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time you spend at work talking to people directly, not by email, phone, or online:
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Face time
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the money that is used in a particular country at a particular time
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Currency
Monetary unit |
to start working or dealing with something in an energetic and determined way:
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To set to
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To be going to do something immediately
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to be Ready to do something
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an arm or leg of a person or animal: (extremidades)
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Limbs
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an artificial body part, such as an arm, foot, or tooth, that replaces a missing part
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Prosthetic
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an accepted standard or a way of behaving or doing things that most people agree with:
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norm
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something that you get for working, in addition to your pay, that is not in the form of money: (Cesantias)
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Fringe benefits
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likely to change suddenly and unexpectedly, especially by getting worse:
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Volatile
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(the total amount collected of) a plant such as a grain, fruit, or vegetable grown in large amounts:
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Crop
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a form of transport existing only in films and stories, that a person can stand on and that floats a short distance above the ground
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hoverboard
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a brand name for a black material used for building roads, etc., that consists of tar mixed with small stones, or an area covered with this material
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Tarmac
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a humorous and clever remark:
to say something amusingly |
Quip
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to travel on ships for pleasure
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To cruise
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Something that it is difficult to deal with and needs careful attention or skill:
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Tricky
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the beginning of an organization or official activity:
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Inception
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to make a continuous low sound:
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Hum
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in an energetic and continuous way:
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Tirelessly
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all people, considered as a group
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Humankind
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to happen:
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Come to pass
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having important and widely applicable effects
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wide-reaching
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in a way that is clearly noticeable or very definite:
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Distinctly
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heavy and solid in an ugly way:
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Clunky
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Plantas vegetales
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Vegetable plants
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to cause someone to be confused or uncertain over something that is not understood:
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Perplex
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great and pleasant surprise:
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wonderment
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a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder:
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Complacency
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a feeling of great respect sometimes mixed with fear or surprise:
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Awe
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complete or extreme:
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utter
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the fact of something becoming known or starting to exist:
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emergence
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to be or become greater in amount, degree, or success than something or someone:
To go beyond |
outstrips
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something that will solve all problems:
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Panacea
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extremely exciting, beautiful, or surprising:
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Breathtaking
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information that is shown in electronic form, for example on a computer screen:
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Read-out
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to find out or say the exact position in space or time of something:
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Pinpoint
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The size of a needle
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Pinprick-sized
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the complete set of genetic material of a human, animal, plant, or other living thing
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Genome
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a brand name for an electric vehicle with two wheels. The rider stands on a base between the wheels and holds onto a bar at waist height.
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segway
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a person who has had an arm or leg cut off
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Amputee
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very surprising:
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Astonishing
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To catch
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to pick up
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To attach, fasten, or secure someone or something on(to someone or something else).
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To strap on
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More advanced or innovative than is or was typical in a particular era.
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to be ahead of (one's)/its time
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giving a reward, especially by making you feel satisfied that you have done something important or useful, or done something well:
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Rewarding
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useful or convenient:
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handy
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Without any buttons
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Buttonless
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an entrance or passage formed by an arch
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archway
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to cause something that is thin to break suddenly and quickly with a cracking sound:
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snap
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If a threat or doubt hangs over a place or a situation, it exists:
??? |
hang over sth
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To go away from a place or person in order to escape from fighting or danger:
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To retreat
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seeming to be everywhere:
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ubiquitous
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a building where weapons and military equipment are stored:
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Arsenal
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not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it:
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reluctant
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extremely small:
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Teeny-weeny
Teensy-weensy itty-bitty itsy-bitsy |
bored, annoyed, or disappointed, especially by something that you have experienced for too long:
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To be fed up with
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done by a person's husband or wife, or relating to husbands and wives:
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Spousal
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an organization of several businesses or banks joining together as a group for a shared purpose:
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Consortium
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an extremely small robot (= a machine controlled by a computer that can do things automatically)
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Nanobot
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a route that leads from one place to another and is quicker and more direct than the usual route:
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Shortcut
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able to work as intended or able to succeed:
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Viable
Feasible |
to (cause to) travel by an imaginary very fast form of transport that uses special technology or special mental powers
Teletransportador |
Teleporter
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someone who is lazy:
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Lazybones
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is a word, phrase, name, or title (or some combination of these) used to address someone in writing or while speaking
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Term of address
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to force someone to leave a particular place:
to come out of a machine when a button is pressed, or to make something do this: |
To Eject
Ejector |
the door or board at the back of a vehicle that can be brought down to put in goods
to drive too closely behind the vehicle in front |
Tailgate
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a mirror that allows a driver to see what is happening behind their car
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rearview mirror
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to lose something temporarily by forgetting where you have put it:
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Mislay
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added to the beginning of a verb or word formed from a verb, to show that the action referred to by the verb has been done wrongly or badly:
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Mis
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Those objects that you tend to use every day.
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Everyday objects
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to move easily and without interruption backwards and forwards or from one side to the other, especially from a fixed point, or to cause something or someone to do this:
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Swing
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to start to exist suddenly:
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To spring up
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To emerge
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Spring
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quite; to a slight degree:
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Rather
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If something, especially something related to a computer, it is simple for people to use:
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User-friendly
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To begin to move and go away
it starts moving: |
To pull away
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Ticket for a bus
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Bus pass
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included in something at the time that it is created:
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Built in
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something that you say before you say something that is unpleasant but true:
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let's face it
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things that are different from each other<br />
Variar |
To vary
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to become fashionable or popular:
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To catch on
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the part of a main road where vehicles travel at the fastest speed
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Fast lane
Acceleration lane |
very serious and having an important bad effect in the future:
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Fatal
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to admit you were wrong, or to stop supporting a position
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Back off
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Luces direccionales
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Indicators
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Dar rienda suelta a tu imaginacion
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To give free rein to your imagination
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a disadvantage or the negative part of a situation:
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Drawback
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el futuro ( palabra con way)
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The way forward
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a set of similar things:
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To range
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the forces that decide price levels in an economy or trading system whose activities are not influenced or limited by government:
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market forces
UK /ˌmɑː.kɪt ˈfɔː.sɪz/ |
the act of fighting against something that is attacking you, or refusing to accept something:
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Resistance
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Verb
Noun Adjective Boom |
Boom
Boom Booming |
Verb
Noun Adjective Emerge |
Emerge
Emergence Emerging |
Verb
Noun Adjective Expand |
Expand
Expansion Expanding |
Noun
Adjective Potencial |
Potencial in all the ways
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Verb
Noun Adjective Revolutionise |
Revolutionise
Revolution Revolutionary |
Verb
Noun Adjective Sustain |
Sustain
Sustainability Sustainable |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome: a serious disease caused by a virus that destroys the body's natural protection from infection:
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AIDS
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to need a particular thing or the help and support of someone or something in order to continue, to work correctly, or to succeed:
To trust somebody or something or to expect them or to behave in a particular way |
rely on/upon sb/sth
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a sudden clever idea:
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brainwave
brainstorm |
weighing only a little or less than average:
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Lightweight
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a series of pleasant thoughts about something you would prefer to be doing or something you would like to achieve in the future:
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Daydream
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the practice of systematically recording information about one's diet, health, or activities, typically by means of a smartphone, so as to discover behavioural patterns that may be adjusted to help improve one's physical or mental well-being.
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Self-tracking
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the part of a job that involves writing letters and reports and keeping records
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Paperwork
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to chase and try to catch and kill an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit:
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Hunt
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an increase, especially one that is gradual:
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To build up
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a piece of furniture or a small part of a room with a door or doors behind which there is space for storing things, usually on shelves:
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Cupboard
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immediately:
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straightaway
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to obtain knowledge of something, or to obtain knowledge of someone's activities, esp. dishonest ones:<br />
descubrir algo |
find out (something)<br />
I just found out that he was cheating on the test. |
in total:
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Altogether
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a small problem or fault that prevents something from being successful or working as well as it should:
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Glitch
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to start a new business:
To arrange a situation so that somebody is blamed for doing something especially something illegal |
Set up
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to produce a copy of a computer document from a printer
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To print out
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a copy of information held on a computer that is stored separately from the computer:
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Back up
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to vomit:
To show something |
throw (sth) up
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To scan again
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Rescan
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finding out of the best way to reach a desired result or a correct solution by trying out one or more ways or means and by noting and eliminating errors or causes of failure also :
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It's a process of trial and error
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to not be important or popular any longer:
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be (as) dead as a/the dodo
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a device for keeping a door or gate closed, consisting of a metal bar that fits into a hole and is lifted by pushing down on another bar<br />
Piece of metal<br /> Pestillo |
Latch<br />
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stuck and unable to move, or stuck in something:
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jammed
adjective US /dʒæmd/ |
a legible version of a piece of information not printed on a physical medium, especially as stored or displayed on a computer.
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Soft copy
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information from a computer that has been printed on pape
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Hard copy
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being the first one after the present one or after the one just mentioned:
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Next to (it)
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i'll explain as we go<br />
f they're teaching you how to do something they go step by step as you go instead of all at once. |
I'll talk you through it
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(of a computer) to switch off and then start again immediately, or to make a computer do this:
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To reboot
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in a very bad situation that is difficult to fix:
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in dire straits
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a small device or machine with a particular purpose:
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Gadget
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the number of jobs that are available in a particular place or for a particular type of work:
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The job market
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Ask for directions
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To ask the way
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To go ahead/ first
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To lead the way
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To discover the route somewhere
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To find the way
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To be familiar with the route somewhere
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To know the way
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To arrive soon
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To be on the way
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To have things as you want them
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To have your own way
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To block the path
To stop blocking the path |
Get in the way
Get out of the way |
a storm with thunder and lightning and usually heavy rain
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Thunderstorm
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a person who works for different organisations, rather than working all the time for a single organisation.
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Freelancer
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severely damaged by a long war, especially between different groups from the same country.
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War-torn
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Reversed (word with way)
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The wrong way round
The wrong way up |
Much too (big) word with way
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Way too much bigger
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To take extra trouble to do something
(word with way) |
To go out of your way
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Absolutely not ( word with way)
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No way
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La mejor manera
Odio la manera (words with way) |
The best way
I hate the way |
to move down the screen (for example when using a smartphone)
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To scroll down
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it stops working because its parts have become stuck and can no longer move:
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To freeze
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A machine that sometimes works and sometimes does not:
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Temperamental
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To press a combination of words
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To hold down
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Apagar o prender algo
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Turn something off
Turn something on |
a result or effect of an action, situation, etc.:
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outcome
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he money that you pay for sending letters and parcels through the post:
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Postage
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a long, thin mark that is easily noticed because it is very different from the area surrounding it:
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Red streaks
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a service providing advice and comfort to worried or unhappy people on the phone:
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Helpline
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in the correct way or at the correct time; as expected:
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Duly
I duly did |
large:
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Sizeable
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it is unsuccessful or produces nothing of value:
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Fruitless (hours)
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to pay back money to someone who has spent it for you or lost it because of you:
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reimburse
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to experience something, usually something unpleasant, as a result of actions you have taken:
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To incur
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a person or company that takes messages, letters, or parcels from one person or place to another:
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Courier
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Opposite
Get better |
Get worse
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Opposite
Deteriorate |
Improve
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Opposite
Increase |
Decrease
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Opposite
Rapidly |
Slowly
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Opposite
Blurred |
Clear
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Opposite
Longer and longer |
Shorter and shorter
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Opposite
More and more |
Less and less
or Fewer and fewer |
a rapid increase in activity or popularity a sales
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massive boom
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to achieve as much as your natural ability makes possible
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To fulfil your potential
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Somebody who works hard doing practical things to achieve social or political change
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Activist
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To be no longer seeing, talking to or living with a husband /wife or relative
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To be estranged
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To be the victim of a dishonest plan that is intended to trick somebody
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To be set up by
(informal) |
To stop accusing somebody of a crime
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To drop charges
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To have a guilty verdict changed so that it becomes the opposite of what it was before
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To have a conviction overturned
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To secretly join an organisation or enter a place in order to find out information about it or harm it
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To infiltrate
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To make sure nobody else finds out who somebody is
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To protect somebody's identity
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To give secret information to somebody about a foreign government, military or criminal plans.
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To provide intelligence
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To find a way in which two ideas, situations or facts can both be true or acceptable.
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To reconcile (two things)
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Working secretly in order to catch criminals or find out information.
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Undercover
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to hate someone or something:
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To can't stand the sight of somebody/something
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become fatter (or thinner).
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put on (or lose) weight
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you speak without trying to be polite or considering other people's feelings:
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Blunty
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an unofficial interesting story or piece of news that might be true or invented, and quickly spreads from person to person:
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Rumour
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illegal or disapproved of by society:
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Illicit
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to tell someone about something again:
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To retell
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to make something more beautiful by adding something to it:
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To embellish ( the facts)
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To have an incorrect image of something
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To be under false impression
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To testify in court and promise to telling the truth.
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To testify under oath
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to escape blame or punishment when you do something wrong, or to avoid harm or criticism for something you did:
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To get away with ( something)
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not known to many people:
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Obscure
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books that are no longer available to buy because new copies are no longer being produced:
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Out of print
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to try to make others believe that someone or something is something other than what the person or thing is:
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To pass something off as something
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To give or be given from one person to another or to move from one place to another
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To go round
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false, not real, or not legal:
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Bogus
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A situation in which someone is tricked into doing something or is made to seem guilty of something they did not do
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To set up
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To deceive or trick someone
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To take in (Someone)
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To finally be in a particular place or situation
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To end up
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a true but unpleasant fact about yourself that another person tells you:
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Home truth
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a plan to deceive someone, such as telling the police there is a bomb somewhere when there is not one, or a trick:
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A Hoax
to carry out a hoax |
an illegal copy of a document, painting, etc. or the crime of making such illegal copies:
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Forgery
To commit a forgery |
you secretly have a sexual relationship with someone else that is not your couple
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Cheating on someone
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the process or practice of using another person's ideas or work and pretending that it is your own:
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Plagiarism
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To tell a lie that not cause harm
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To tell a fib
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To make someone believe something false so that the person will give you their money possessions.
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To con people /out of money)
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To tell lies in court when you have promised to tell the truth
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To commit perjury
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To gossip about another person's secrets or wrongdoings
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To tell tales
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to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is
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To exaggerate
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a false reason that you give to explain why you do something:
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To make an excuse
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the ability to say or do the right thing without making anyone unhappy or angry:
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Tactful
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to persuade someone that something false is the truth, or to keep the truth hidden from someone for your own advantage:
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To deceive
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morally wrong, or outside society's standards of acceptable, honest, and moral behaviour:
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Immoral
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behaving in a way that is dishonest or unfair in order to get what you want:
|
Unscrupulous
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To change someone's point of view
To cause to turn over To change a legal decision If you vote with many people that are agree you defeat the other that are against you |
To overturn
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To give something to a person or legal authority
|
To turn something over to somebody/something
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different from what is usual or from the way most people do things:
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Unconventional
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the areas that form the edge of a town or city:
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Outskirts
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a person who sells illegal drugs:
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Drug dealer
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an informal name for someone or something, especially a name that you are called by your friends or family, usually based on your real name or your character:
|
Nickname
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used to describe someone who shows, especially by what they say, that they understand and care about someone else's suffering:
Agreeing with or supporting |
Sympathetic
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To move someone by force
|
To push forward
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A small stick or rod
|
Police baton
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to suddenly become involved in a situation or discussion:
|
To jump in
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A situation with too much noise
|
Confusion
|
To find a way in which two situations or beliefs are opposed to each other can agree and exist together.
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Reconcile
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it is lucky:
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It is a good thing
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the time at the beginning of the day when light first appears.
|
Dawn
daybreak Example: The boats set off at dawn. / I was up at the crack of dawn to get the plane.) |
According to legend
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Legend has it that...
(Example: Local legend has it that the island was the original Garden of Eden.) |
thin in an attractive or graceful way
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Slender
Example: She’s slender and stylish. / Beatrice’s tall, slender figure. |
to force yourself to stop behaving in a nervous, frightened or uncontrolled way
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Pull yourself together
Example: With an effort Mary pulled herself together. / Just pull yourself together — there’s no point crying about it.) |
to defend someone who is being criticised, especially when nobody else will defend them.
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Stick up for somebody
Example: With an effort Mary pulled herself together. / Just pull yourself together — there’s no point crying about it.) |
a small piece of metal, plastic, cloth, etc with words or a picture on it, that is pinned or sewn to your clothing, often to show your support for a political organisation or belief, or your rank, or membership of a group, etc
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Badge
(Example: Everyone at the conference wore a badge with their name on.) |
a man who is employed to take the place of an actor when something dangerous has to be done in a film
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Stunt man
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said when it’s raining very heavily
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It’s tipping it down Example: It was absolutely tipping it down.)
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A member of senior management in any organisation. Field officer, a military officer usually of the rank of lieutenant commander, major, squadron leader or above.
a rank in the prison services of the United Kingdom and other countries. |
Senior officer
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The lastest problem in a series of problems that makes situations impossible to accept
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The last straw/ the final straw
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If a business or a large piece of equipment do that it stops operating:
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To shut down something
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finding it difficult to choose between two possibilities:
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To be torn
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not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it:
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Reluctant
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to suddenly start doing something
To break open or apart suddenly or to make something do this |
To burst into
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To be out of control
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To be out of someone's hands
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break up, come apart, or disintegrate.
To experience serious emotional problems that make you unable to think or act in usual way |
To fall apart
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To leave somewhere
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To get out
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a building or room where people perform their jobs, or these places generally:
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Workplace
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Something that you remember very clearly
To seem untruthful or insincere |
To ring hollow in one's ears
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It becomes knownn publicly after it has been kept secret
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To come out
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extremely sad:
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Heartbroken
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A change from supporting to opposing someone or something
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To turn against someone
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To be completely done with something
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To burn a bridge
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(especially in Christianity) an occasion when someone is saved from evil, suffering, etc.
The act of paying back a loan |
Redemption
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To ending the process of a business, system, industry etc
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To close down
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The bad things that happen in a particular event
The radioactive dust in the air after a nuclear explosion |
Fallout
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To discover the facts about something bad that has happened
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Inquiry
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A feeling of extreme worry, sadness or pain
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Distress
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The result or effect of an action or situation
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Outcome
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A person who is large and strong.
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Well-built
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planned in an effective way:
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Well-thought-out
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Mucho antes del amanecer
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Well before dawn
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A long way behind
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Well behind us
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Interesting and helpful
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Well worth doing
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Muy consciente
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Well aware
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Used many times before and known to be effective
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Well tried
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A person who is calm and reasonable and shows good judgement
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Well-balanced
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To behave correctly
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Well-behaved
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Carefully chosen
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Well-chosen
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Wearing attractive and stylish clothes
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Well-dressed
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Deserved for your achievements
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Well-earned
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Having a good education
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Well-educated
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Written in an effective or interesting way
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Well-written
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Having a lot of information about a particular subject
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Well-informed
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Having lot to eat
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Well-fed
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Known or recognised by many people
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Well-known
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???
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Well-laid-out
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Bien cuidado
Somebody especially children who are taken care by social services or somebody |
Well-looked-after
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Bien pagado
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Well-paid
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Made ready for use with care or effort
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Well-prepared
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Someone who has learned a lot of infomation on different subjects by reading
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Well-read
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A perfect husband
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Potential husband
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the quality of being honest and not containing or telling any lies:
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truthfulness
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To enter a place
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To go in
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in a way that is honest and does not contain or tell any lies:
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Truthfully
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To become fixed
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Stick
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a piece of electronic equipment used to try to discover if someone is telling lies
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Polygraph
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The meassuring of electrical conductivity of the skin and emotional responses
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Electrodermal
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relating to the production of medicines:
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Pharmaceutical
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using a system of radio signals rather than wires to connect computers, mobile phones, etc. to each other:
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Wireless
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informal for microphone
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Mike
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a very small device fixed on to a phone or hidden in a room, that allows you to listen to what people are saying without them knowing
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Bug
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??
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Halfrings
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To improve
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To pick up
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the action of keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage:
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deceitfulness
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the fact of being present but needing particular conditions to become active, obvious, or completely developed:
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Latency
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To become redder or darker
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Blushing
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To cause something to start
A part of a gun that causes something Something that causes somebody gets anger or sad because it remember something bad in the past To cause a strong emotional reaction or fear or shick anger etc |
Trigger
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To plan something in detail
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To map something out
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Detector de calor
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Heat-sensing
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threats used to force a person to do something:
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Duress
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To reduce the amont of applications for a position and focus only in the applicants that are qualified for that position
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To screen job
To subject job |
the way in which the sound of your voice changes during speech, for example when you emphasize particular words:
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Inflection
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attracting a lot of attention and interest from the public and newspapers, television, etc.:
Famous, prominent |
High-profile
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To tell people something secret often without intending to
To give something to somebody without asking a payment To tell a secret or show your feelings unintentionally To supply something at no charge |
To give away
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To get rid of something that is not useful or wanted often using its parts in a new way
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To sell something for scrap
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Relating to a house or flat and the people who live there
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Household
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Insurance that you buy to protect your home or things inside it
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Home insurance
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Having finished training course or having skills
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Qualified
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a worker trained with special skills, especially in science or engineering:
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technician
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Skilled
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Accomplished
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To use a keyboard without looking at the keys
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Touch-type
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the job of being an accountant:
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Accountancy
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General Certificate of Secondary Education: a system of public exams taken in various subjects from the age of about 16, or one of these exams, or a qualification from this system:
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GCSE
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To ask a dog to walk near to you
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Heel
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a type of paint
acrilico |
Acrylic
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a strong, light material made by twisting together small threads of glass and plastic, used especially for structures such as cars and boats, or one of these small threads
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Fibre glass
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Limar
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To buff ( the nails)
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Resina pegante
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Resin
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To teach new skills or prepare smeone to reach a new ability
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To train someone up
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Using for telling someone that they have had all of something and there will be no more
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That's your lot
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Having no firm ideas
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Wishy-washy
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To admire
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To go for something
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I don't think it is true
Expression |
I don't buy
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Expensive and luxurious
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Opullent
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Llav del baño
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Tap
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To make a continuous sound
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To rumble
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To discover an ilicity activity
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Rumble
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Victoria limpia
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A clean sweep
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A saying when you get caught doing something wrong and you agree that you were wrong
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It's a fair cop
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Extremely dissapponted and unhappy
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Gutted
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The early hours of the morning between 12 and 6 a.m
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Wee small hours
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To go somewhere quickly
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Dash
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Following, pursuing someone
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On one's trail
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A person who asks for something they believe belongs to them or have the right to
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Claimant
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A particular type of animal or plant
A type of a person or a thing To keep animals for the purpose of producing young animals in a controlled way |
Breed
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To claim at an object or place and move directly to it
Focus attention to a problem |
To home in on something
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To put down or drop something in a careless way
to get rid of something unwanted, especially by leaving it in a place where it is not allowed to be: to suddenly end a romantic relationship you have been having with someone: a place where people are allowed to leave their rubbish: |
To dump
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Closed-circuit television
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CCTV
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An object has been designed so that it can be held and used easily with one or two hands:
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Hand-held
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To find out information illegaly
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To hack into
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To connect a machine to a power supply to another machine or to connect a person to a piece of medical equipment
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To hook something/someone up
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??
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To stamp down on
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??
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To some extent
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A watch kept over a person
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Surveillance
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great danger, or something that is very dangerous:
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peril
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by which way or method:
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whereby
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the basic and most important part of something:
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Core
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to make something certain to happen:
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Ensure
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knowing a lot about modern technology, especially computers:
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Tech-savvy
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If a light or a machine it stops working:
it explodes: it is not good to eat or drink any more because it is too old: |
To go off
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a lie that is told in order to be polite or to stop someone from being upset by the truth
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White lie
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An iliness that is usually not serious and is caused by bacteria or a virus
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Stomach bug
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Illegal or disapproved of by society
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Ilicit
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A sexual relationship, especially a secret one.
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Affair
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in every part, or during the whole period of time:
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throughout
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to take care of someone and provide a place in your home for them:
to cause someone to believe something that is not true, or to trick or deceive someone: |
To take somebody in
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to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong:
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To tell somebody off
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intended to harm or upset other people:
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malicious
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the fact of officially being found to be guilty of a particular crime, or the act of officially finding someone guilty:
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Conviction
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a long piece of cloth with words written on it, sometimes stretched between two poles and carried by people taking part in a march:
an idea, principle, or belief that is strongly supported by someone: |
Banner
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to take legal action against a person or organization, especially by making a legal claim for money because of some harm that they have caused you:
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Sue
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Bien respetado
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Well-respected
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The fact of liking or enjoying something
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A taste for something
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used to refer to someone who has the same job or interests as you, or is in the same situation as you:
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Fellow
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Very drunk
Covered with a mixture of flour eggs and milk before being cooked Hurt by being repeatedly beaten |
Battered
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emotionally hurt as a result of a bad experience:
having bruises: |
Bruised
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a factory where substances in their natural state, such as oil or sugar, are made pure:
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Refinery
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the area just inside the main entrance of a house, apartment, or other building that leads to other rooms and usually to the stairs:
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Hall
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To destroy one's path, connections, reputation, opportunities
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To burn someone's bridges
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to escape by running away, especially because of danger or fear:
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Flee
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A question
An official process to discover the facts about something bad that has happened |
Enquiry
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a line of words printed in large letters as the title of a story in a newspaper, or the main points of the news that are broadcast on television or radio:
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Headline
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Planned in an effective way
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Well-though-out
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To arrange something on a flat surface
To spend money especially in a large amount To explain something clearly usually in writing |
To lay something out
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an occasion when someone interrupts someone else, or the interruptions themselves:
a word or phrase that is used as a short, sudden expression of emotion: |
Interjection
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To say something quickly and angrily
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To spit something out
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Used to tell somebody to start speaking or to speak more quickly, when they are unwilling to speak or are speaking slowly
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To spit it out
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To examine somebody or something to discover if there is anything wrong with her mind
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Screen
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An idea or theory on which a statement or action is based
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Premise
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the action of keeping the truth hidden, especially to get an advantage:
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Deceitfulness
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able to be trusted
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Trustworthy
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Relating to the human body
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Bodily
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Escape running away or avoiding something
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Flight
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the act of expressing or feeling opposition to or dislike of something or someone:
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Objection
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an organization or a business that collects or provides information:
a piece of furniture with a lid that opens to form a writing surface |
bureau
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the Federal Bureau of Investigation: one of the national police forces in the US controlled by the Federal government
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The FBI
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the Central Intelligence Agency: a US government organization that secretly collects information about other countries
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The CIA
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seeming likely to be true, or able to be believed:
A plausible person appears to be honest and telling the truth, even if they are not: |
Plausible
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To make something continue at its present level and not aloww it to fail
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To keep something up
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the job or activity of keeping an exact record of the money that has been spent or received by a business or other organization
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Book keeping
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having the highest rank, level, or importance:
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Supreme
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not difficult to see through:
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Thin
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Taking seriously because of being powerful important or good
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To be reckoned with
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to be equal to someone else in ability or in a particular skill:
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To be up there with somebody or something
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An action movement or sound that gives information, a message or warning or an order
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Signalling
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to relax into a comfortable position:
to reach a decision or an agreement about something, or to end a disagreement: |
Settle
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expensive and luxurious:
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Opulent
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Other than or except for
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Outside of
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to arrest someone for a crime:
to receive or obtain something: to take or hold: |
Cop
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not loud, bright, noticeable, or obvious in any way:
achieved in a quiet way that does not attract attention to itself and is therefore good or clever: not loud, bright, noticeable, or obvious: |
Subtle
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pleasant or enjoyable:
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Lovely
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To take an exam
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Sit an exam
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involving, using, or relating to computers, especially the internet:
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Cyber
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dishonest and illegal:
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Fraudulent
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to not continue with a system or plan:
to get rid of something that is no longer useful or wanted, often using its parts in new ways: to have a fight or an argument |
Scrap
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Used parts of cars that are selled
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For a scrap
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the crime of illegally entering a building and stealing things
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Burglary
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the crime of getting money by deceiving people:
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Fraud
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, it is real and exactly what it appears to be:
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Genuine
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in the middle of or surrounded by other things:
happening or being included as part of a group of people or things: |
Amongst
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making you feel that something illegal is happening or that something is wrong:
feeling doubt or no trust in someone or something: |
Suspicious
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To show that somebody is doing wrong
To trick somebody into making a mistake To put somebody in a difficult situation |
To catch somebody up
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the activity of meeting people who might be useful to know, especially in your job:
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Networking
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the speed at which someone or something moves, or with which something happens or changes:
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Pace
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the possibility that something good might happen in the future:
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Prospects
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to find someone or something that was lost:
to find the origin of something: to describe the way in which something has developed: |
Trace
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to happen in a particular way or to have a particular result, especially an unexpected one:
to be known or discovered finally and surprisingly: |
To turn out
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To discover somebody is doing something wrong
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To find somebody out
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existing or happening in many places and/or among many people:
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Widespread
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a word or action in a play or film that is used as a signal by a performer to begin saying or doing something
a signal for someone to do something: |
Cue
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To take notice of somebodys' words or behaviour so that you know what you should do
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To take your cue from somebody
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to make something happen:
to make someone decide to say or do something: |
Prompts
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To make somebody decide to do something or say
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Prompt somebody to do something
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to not include someone or something:
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To leave somebody out
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Public relations men
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PR Men
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having or expressing more than one possible meaning, sometimes intentionally:
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Ambiguous
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To weight
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To tip the scales at
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the punishment of being put in prison for a very long time without an arranged time for release or, in the US, until death
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Life imprisonment
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To know someone when you're not planning to
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To bump into something
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to destroy something, esp. a building:
to earn an amount of money: |
To pull down something
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an opinion or decision made after judging the facts that are given, especially one made at the end of a trial:
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verdict
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a request to the public for money, information, or help:
a request made to a court of law or to someone in authority to change a previous decision: to make a serious or formal request, especially to the public, for money, information, or help: |
Appeal
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According to the legend
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Leyend has it that
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The start of a period of time or the beginning something new
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The dawn of something
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To careful watching of a person or place especially by the police or army because of a crime that has happened or experienced
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suivellance
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to sleep at someone's house for one night:
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To stay over
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a path through a countryside, mountain, or forest area, often made or used for a particular purpose:
he smell or series of marks left by a person, animal, or thing as it moves along: various pieces of information that together show where someone you are searching for has gone: |
Trail
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To appear suddenly
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Flash up
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To make a hole in something of a lack of something
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To knock a hole in something
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Something that is very dangerous
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Perits
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of people or things is a very large number or great variety of them.
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Myriad
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the last in a series of unpleasant events that finally makes you feel that you cannot continue to accept a bad situation:
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The fast straw/ the final straw
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Relating to the skin
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Dermal
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to test or examine someone or something to discover if there is anything wrong with him, her, or it:
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Screen
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to avoid something
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Shun
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someone who is old-fashioned and too serious and avoids enjoyable activities:
A person who resists changes |
To be stick-in-the-mud
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To care for something or someone
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To Tend
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Una pocilga
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Pigsty
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in sports such as football and baseball, a substitute who rarely plays
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Benchwarmer
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to hate someone or something:
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Loathe
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to try to do something:
a hard attempt to achieve something |
Endeavour
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The toilet (informal)
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Bog
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Hedor o fetidez
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Stench
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a type of poison made from a plant with small white flowers and divided leaves,
Cicuta |
Hemlock
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to feel a strong dislike for someone or something because you think that that person or thing is bad or has no value:
Desprecio |
Despise
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to balance one influence against an opposing influence, so that there is no great difference as a result:
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Offset
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a set of rules or suggestions that are considered to be suitable for a particular activity, industry, or job:
Libro de jugadas |
Playbook
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to open the mouth wide and take a lot of air into the lungs and slowly send it out, usually when tired or bored:
Bostezar |
Yawn
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to hope very much that something or someone will help you to achieve what you want
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To pin your hopes on sth/sb
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Informal way to referring a girl
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Gal
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extremely hungry:
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Famished
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is easily changed into a new shape:
Maleable|| |
Malleable
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If a theory or argument is in that way, it cannot be supported or defended against criticism.
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Untenable
Insostenible |
A person or thing that occupies the position or place of another person or thing
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Placeholder
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to make unpleasant feelings less strong:
Calmar ( algun dolor) |
Assuage
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to leave secretly:
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Slip away
Escabullirse o escurrirse |
|not thinking or worrying about any pain caused to others; cruel:
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Ruthless
Despiadado |
a small, usually black or brown creature with a long, soft body and no arms or legs, like a snail but with no shell
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Slug
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a short interruption in a war or argument, or an agreement to stop fighting or arguing for a period of time:
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Truce
Tregua |
To increase and become more obvious
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To bubble up
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an owner of a particular building or piece of land
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Freeholder
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used to describe something that sticks onto someone or something tightly:
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Clingy
Pegajoso |
without injuries or damage being caused:
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Unscathed
Ileso |
to behave in a way that expresses your confidence, importance, or power and earns you respect from others:
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Assert
Afirmar o hacer valer |
unwilling or unable to stay still or to be quiet and calm, because you are worried or bored:
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Restless
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to cause difficulty to someone, or to cause someone to feel angry, annoyed, or upset:
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Vex
Fastidiar |
Buñuelos de New Orleands
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Beignet
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On the top of
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Atop
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skill at making things:
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Craftsmanship
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a tool with a long handle and two or three large points used for moving hay (= cut dried grass) or straw (= cut dried stems of crops)
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Pitchfork
El verbo es clavar o catapultar algo |
to delay taking action or avoid giving an answer in order to have more time to make a decision or get an advantage:
To delay or put off action |
To stall
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offer people things in order to persuade them to do something and punish them if they refuse to do it.
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Less carrot more stick
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to lose strength or purpose and stop, or almost stop:
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Falter
Desfallecer |
(of something bad, such as damage, cruelty, waste) extreme and showing no care at all:
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Wanton
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to pretend to have a particular feeling, problem, etc. :
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Feign
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to repeat something you have heard, or to broadcast a signal, message, or programme on television or radio:
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Relay
Retransmitir |
A toilet brush is a tool for cleaning a toilet bow
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Toilet scrubber
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an amount of money that you risk in the hope of winning more, by trying to guess something uncertain, or the agreement that you make to take this risk:
|
Wager
Apuesta |
to spoil something that is pure or someone's perfect reputation:
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Sully
Manchar |
To get into a vehicle
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To hop in
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a valuable object that has been given by older members of a family to younger members of the same family over many years:
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Heirloom
Reliquia familiar |
a small card for recording the score while watching or taking part in a game, race, or competition
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Scorecard
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to be friendly towards someone:
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Befriend
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to make someone feel angry, upset, embarrassed, etc
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To struck a nerve
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someone who does unpleasant or illegal things for a powerful person:
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Henchman
Secuaz |
to make someone weaker or take away strength or an important quality from someone, especially over a long period of time:
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Sap
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someone whose job is to speak on radio or television programmes:
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A news anchor
A news presenter A news broadcaster |
someone who is sent as a representative from one government or organization to another:
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envoy
Enviado |
a strip of cloth that covers someone's eyes and stops them from seeing
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Blindfold
Venda ojos |
to walk slowly with a lot of effort, especially over a difficult surface or while carrying something heavy:
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Trudge
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to remove the stomach and bowels from a dead animal, or to kill a person in this way, especially in the past as a punishment
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Disembowelment
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to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck:
|
Gloat
Relamerse |
When you arrest someone you put them
|
Manacle
Esposas |
it becomes less strong or extreme:
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Subside
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considered to be holy and deserving respect, especially because of a connection with a god:
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Sacred
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If a piece of knitted or woven cloth, a knot, or a mass of thread unravels, it separates into a single thread, and if you unravel it, you separate it into a single thread:
|
Unravel
Desenredar |
Paleta de hiello
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Popsicle
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A person who is unpleseant
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Bad penny
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the most important male servant in a house, usually responsible for organizing the other servants
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Butler
Mayordomo |
an animal or plant that is a mixture of breeds and is therefore a new variety (= type of plant or animal)
|
Cross-breed
Hibrido Mestizo perro |
the smallest and weakest animal of a group born at the same time to the same mother
|
Runt
redrojo |
having a lot of trouble with something, or having to deal with a lot of something that causes problems:
|
Beset
Acosar / Asaltar |
again or one more time, especially in a different way:
|
Anew
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an established standard or principle by which something is judged:
|
Touchstone
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to prevent someone from seeing or understanding something.
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Blind somebody to something
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a large pile of wood on which a dead body is burned in some parts of the world:
|
Pyre
Pira |
having a small distance between two opposite sides:
|
Thin
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If a cut or other injury festers, it becomes infected and produces pus:
|
Fester
Enconarse |
to do something that involves risks that might result in loss of money or failure, hoping to get money or achieve success:
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Gamble
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a climbing plant with flowers that smell sweet
|
Honeysuckle
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to exist in an unpleasant or unwanted situation, often for a long time:
|
Languish
Languidecer |
a long, narrow space between rows of seats in an aircraft, cinema, or church:
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Aisle
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A way to ask god to come by a place
Come by here |
Kumbaya
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a person employed to take care of a large building, such as a school, and who deals with the cleaning, repairs, etc.
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Janitor
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Batido
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Milshake
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either of the two occasions in the year when the sun is directly above either the furthest point north or the furthest point south of the equator that it ever reaches. These are the times in the year, in the middle of the summer or winter, when there are the longest hours of day or night:
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Solstice
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To calm down or become less ardent
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To cool off
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weak and without energy, strength, or power:
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Feeble
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any of the large, sloping pieces of wood that support a roof
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Rafter
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a dark grey rock that can be easily divided into thin pieces, or a small, thin piece of this used to cover a roof
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Slate
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to throw something with a lot of force, usually in an angry or violent way:
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Hurl
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a useful or valuable quality, skill, or perso
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Asset
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covered in scabs or scab:
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Scabby
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to push a finger or other pointed object quickly into someone or something:
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Poke
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to grow, develop, or be successful:
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Thrive
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to throw several objects up into the air, and then catch and throw them up repeatedly so that one or more stays in the air, usually in order to entertain people:
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Juggle
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a person whose behaviour is unusual and strange
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Oddball
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To establish an expected, required, or desired (but ultimately constrictive) standard of quality.
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Lowbar
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to increase because of something, or to use something to succeed or get advantages:
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feed off/on something
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to get pregnant. (phrasal verb)
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to get knocked up
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having two opposing feelings at the same time, or being uncertain about how you feel:
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ambivalent
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fail to keep an appointment with someone.
ignore or dismiss someone or something. |
to blow off someone
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quickly finish or consume something.
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to polish off
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