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Question 1

right out of the gate

Answer 1

immediately or from the start
Thanks to all who showed support right out of the gate.
Right out of the gate she shared a quote I think we can all relate to.

Question 2

on the backburner

Answer 2

em segundo plano, de lado

We’ve all had to put our plans on the back burner for a while.

Question 3

consentimento

Answer 3

consent

Question 4

laranja (pessoa)

Answer 4

straw-man

Question 5

ficar de quatro

Answer 5

to be on all fours

Question 6

dar em cime de alguem

Answer 6

hit on someone

Question 7

é bem mais desagradável (3)

Answer 7

is much/far/way more unpleasant

Question 8

hit the jackpot

Answer 8

to suddenly get or win a lot of money

to have a big success or make a big profit, usually through luck:
He seems to have hit the jackpot with his new invention.

Question 9

Go over the top

Answer 9

passar dos limites, exagerado

Some performances go over the top

Question 10

condomínio (prédio)

Answer 10

complex

Question 11

viajar no tempo

Answer 11

to time travel

Question 12

gout

Answer 12

gota (doença), um tipo de artrite causada pelo acumúlo de ácido úrico nas articulações (normalmente no pé)

Question 13

flair

Answer 13

talento

natural ability to do something well:

He has a flair for languages.

Question 14

indictment

Answer 14

acusação

Question 15

da sua escolha

Answer 15

of your choice

Question 16

Botch

Answer 16

to spoil something by doing it badly:
We botched (up) our first attempt at wallpapering the bathroom

Estragar

Question 17

Fazer prancha

Answer 17

Plank

a long, narrow, flat piece of wood or similar material, of the type used for making floors:
oak/concrete planks
a plank of wood
We used a plank to cross the ditch.

Tabua

Question 18

Ledge

Answer 18

Parapeito

a narrow, flat area like a shelf that sticks out from a building, cliff, or other vertical surface:
a window ledge

Question 19

To inveigle

Answer 19

Induzir, convencer

to persuade someone to do something in a clever and dishonest way, when they do not want to do it:

Her son tried to inveigle her into giving him the money for a car.

Question 20

Raiment

Answer 20

Vestimenta

And Paul encouraged Timothy to be content with food and raiment (I Tim 6:8).

Question 21

Uxoricide

Answer 21

the crime of murdering your wife:
Younger women, relative to older women, are at higher risk of uxoricide - being murdered by their husbands.

Question 22

Easel

Answer 22

a wooden frame, usually with legs, that holds a picture, especially one that an artist is painting or drawing

Cavalete

Question 23

To loot

Answer 23

(usually of large numbers of people during a violent event) to steal from shops and houses:
During the riot shops were looted and cars damaged or set on fire.

Saquear

Question 24

Derelict

Answer 24

Abandonado

Derelict buildings or places are not cared for and are in bad condition:
a derelict site

The theatre has been left to stand/lie derelict.

Question 25

To stoop

Answer 25

Se inclinar, curvar-se

to bend the top half of the body forward and down:
The doorway was so low that we had to stoop to go through it.
Something fell out of her coat pocket and she stooped down and picked it up.

Question 26

Raft

Answer 26

Jangada

a flat floating structure for travelling across water, often made of pieces of wood tied roughly together and moved along with a paddle (= pole with a flat end):

We lashed together anything that would float to make a raft.

Question 27

To grouse

Answer 27

Resmungar

She’s always grousing about how she’s been treated by the management.

Question 28

To sully

Answer 28

Denegrir, manchar

His reputation, he said, had been unfairly sullied by half-truths and innuendos.

to make something dirty:
No speck of dirt had ever sullied his hands.

Question 29

Prig

Answer 29

a self-righteously moralistic person who behaves as if superior to others.
“she was religious but not a prig”

Moralista, pedante

Question 30

Udder

Answer 30

Teta de vaca

Question 31

To chivvy

Answer 31

Convencer, pressionar

I had to chivvy him into writing the report.

Question 32

Midriff

Answer 32

the part of the human body between the chest and the waist:

She wore a short T-shirt that revealed her midriff.

Question 33

Dirge

Answer 33

a slow sad song or piece of music, sometimes played because someone has died

Question 34

Redolant

Answer 34

smelling strongly of something or having qualities (especially smells) that make you think of something else:
The album is a heartfelt cry, redolent of a time before radio and television.
The mountain air was redolent with the scent of pine needles.

Impregnado

Question 35

Tawdry (adjetivo)

Answer 35

looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality:
Their ugly front garden and tacky, tawdry lights fail to reflect our village image.
A lot of the city’s housing consists of nondescript houses and some districts are downright tawdry.

De mau gosto, espalhatoso

Question 36

To extol

Answer 36

to praise something or someone very much:
His book extolling the benefits of vegetarianism sold thousands of copies.
She is forever extolling the virtues of her children.

Exaltar, enaltecer

Question 37

desgastante (3)

Answer 37

tiring, draining, exhaustive

Question 38

estereótipo

Answer 38

stereotype

Question 39

to be carried away

Answer 39

se deixar levar,
entusiasmar-se

to be so excited about something that you cannot control what you say or do:
There’s far too much food – I’m afraid I got carried away!

Question 40

merenda escolar

Answer 40

school meal

Question 41

horrível (4)

Answer 41

terrible, awful, horrible, hideous

Question 42

privar

Answer 42

deprivar

Question 43

serendipity

Answer 43

the fact of finding interesting or valuable things by chance

ao acaso

Meeting her like that, and there of all places, was true serendipity!

Question 44

curveball

Answer 44

Coisa inesperada

The financial crisis has been an economic curve ball with global impact.

Question 45

left field

Answer 45

unusual and different from what is normally seen, said, or done:
The festival will showcase left-field acts that are not often seen in mainstream theatres.

Most of your ideas are out of left field.

inconvencional, excentrico

Question 46

dip your toe

Answer 46

to start very carefully to do or become involved in something that you are not experienced at

I’m not sure I want to join, but I’d like to dip a toe in the water