deck no. 03

Question 1

dotychczas

Answer 1

heretofore

Immediately after the AIG bailout, Paulson announced his federal bailout for the financial industry, a $700 billion plan called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and put a heretofore unknown 35-year-old Goldman banker named Neel Kashkari in charge of administering the funds.

Question 2

implicit

Answer 2

domyślny; niejawny; domniemany

“In the past it was an implicit advantage,” says Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and former official at the International Monetary Fund, who compares the bailout to the crony capitalism he has seen in Third World countries. “Now it’s more of an explicit advantage.”

Question 3

opulent

Answer 3

obfity

It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently appointed wasteland.

Question 4

scrutiny

Answer 4

nadzór; analiza; kontrola

The only foreign invader to have any success here was Genghis Khan – and he wasn’t hampered by things like human rights, economic development and press scrutiny.

Question 5

sławny

Answer 5

notorious

The “Gummo” video launched Hernandez on three parallel trajectories — one that made him famous; one that made him notorious; and one that may end his career.

Question 6

row house

Answer 6

dom szeregowy

One day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, appeared outside a Brooklyn row house to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life.

Question 7

purveyor

Answer 7

dostawca

AIG, a major purveyor of default swaps, approached the New York State Insurance Department in 2000 and asked whether default swaps would be regulated as insurance.

Question 8

to curtail

Answer 8

ograniczyć

He has ordered convoys to curtail their reckless driving, put restrictions on the use of air power and severely limited night raids.

Question 9

uprzejmy

Answer 9

affable

“Wizard” Lee Weinberg is an affable dude from Long Island who runs a ramshackle independent recording studio in Lower Manhattan.

Question 10

rift

Answer 10

rozdźwięk (np. między dwoma zdaniami)

Rumors began to swirl that Zillakami, his friend from S.C.U.M. Gang, had paid a portion of his bail — up to the full $100,000, though Andrew says it was more like two or three grand. A rift opened between the two.

Question 11

impunity

Answer 11

bezkarność

Banks were now free to trade default swaps with impunity.

Question 12

niemile zakoczyć

Answer 12

to blindside

McChrystal and his team were blindsided by the cable.

Question 13

sweeping

Answer 13

ogromny (np. postęp), daleko idący (o zmianach)

Goldman’s role in the sweeping global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace.

Question 14

notorious

Answer 14

sławny

The “Gummo” video launched Hernandez on three parallel trajectories — one that made him famous; one that made him notorious; and one that may end his career.

Question 15

fracas

Answer 15

awantura

In November, three weeks after the fracas at Philippe, Danny announced on Instagram that he was firing his entire management team, meaning Shotti and his entourage, although he never mentioned them by name.

Question 16

to loot

Answer 16

rozgrabić, szbarować

When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his infamous “stuff happens” remark during the looting of Baghdad, McChrystal backed him up.

Question 17

przydział

Answer 17

allotment

If the companies go over their allotment, they will be able to buy “allocations” or credits from other companies that have managed to produce fewer emissions.

Question 18

oczarowany, zachwycony

Answer 18

smitten

Scott was smitten in turn, and at some point, he thinks in early May, after a matter of mere weeks together, they conceived Stormi, who was born last February.

Question 19

to acquiesce

Answer 19

zgodzić się; ustąpić

Grainge was forced to acquiesce. Now all that remained was to shoot the video.

Question 20

tu: kręcić się

Answer 20

to hover

Backstage, Jenner hovered in a fitted black jumpsuit, carrying her and Scott’s infant daughter, Stormi, on her hip.

Question 21

zwolnienie

Answer 21

exemption

It issued the bank a free pass, called the “Bona Fide Hedging” exemption, allowing Goldman’s subsidiary to call itself a physical hedger and escape virtually all limits placed on speculators.

Question 22

to double down

Answer 22

podwoić

Throughout 2017, as his musicianship was improving, Danny doubled down on his already daring social media strategy.

Question 23

deluge

Answer 23

potop

The rain is at deluge levels as Scott points his Lamborghini toward his home in Houston’s northeast suburbs — a 9,600-square-foot mansion he reportedly bought for just under $2 million a couple of years ago.

Question 24

przechwalać się

Answer 24

to brag

Or saw it as bragging. Yeah, I’m trying to learn. I’m upset by that because I think it shuts off something for people in that they won’t try it themselves.

Question 25

dźwięki

Answer 25

strains Against the menacing **strains** of his viral hit "Gummo," he and a crowd of men in red bandannas danced, waved guns and made cryptic symbols with their hands.

Question 26

to hook up

Answer 26

spotkać się; zacząć chodzić (to begin a romantic or sexual relationship) They first **hooked up** at Coachella, where Jenner, smitten, hopped on Scott’s tour bus and followed him on the road.

Question 27

to brag

Answer 27

przechwalać się Or saw it as **bragging**. Yeah, I’m trying to learn. I’m upset by that because I think it shuts off something for people in that they won’t try it themselves.

Question 28

tu: wymiana zdań

Answer 28

back-and-forth Seth Rogen, who was concerned about racists getting verified status on Twitter, tweeted that you do "not seem to give a fuck" about this issue after some **back-and-forth** with you.

Question 29

łaska

Answer 29

clemency In October, Danny made a request for **clemency** at his sentencing hearing.

Question 30

atakować; krytykować

Answer 30

to turn on sbdy Around the time "Gummo" was released, Trippie Redd and 6ix9ine **turned on each other**.

Question 31

to front

Answer 31

być przykrywką The gangster image in his previous videos was a **front**, as fake as pro wrestling. In reality, he was a struggling teenage dad who had earned his money slicing ham at the Stay Fresh Grill.

Question 32

bójka

Answer 32

dust-up There was the April incident at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center where, according to the indictment, Danny and his crew were involved in a **dust-up** with rival rapper Casanova.

Question 33

podziwiać kogoś

Answer 33

to look up to somebody "He started to **look up to** you," Arroyo wrote. McChrystal said he would try to make it down to pay his respects as soon as possible.

Question 34

to stifle

Answer 34

wygasić, stłumić The "69" video didn’t bring the kind of major label attention Danny was hoping for, but it didn’t **stifle** his commitment, either.

Question 35

przekonać kogoś

Answer 35

to overrule somebody But Danny, extending the creative-control clause in his contract, **overruled** him — this was his image, he insisted, and this was his sound.

Question 36

kibicować

Answer 36

to cheer Complicating matters even further was the fact that Goldman itself was **cheerleading** with all its might for an increase in oil prices.

Question 37

ringleader

Answer 37

prowodyr The son of a general, McChrystal was also a **ringleader** of the campus dissidents – a dual role that taught him how to thrive in a rigid, top-down environment while thumbing his nose at authority every chance he got.

Question 38

romans; przygoda miłosna

Answer 38

fling Maybe, like, the first week, you don’t know if it’s real or a **fling**. Then the second week you’re like, ‘Whoa, I’m still talking to her, she’s responding, I’m responding.

Question 39

skarcić

Answer 39

to scold "You better be out there hitting four or five targets tonight," McChrystal will tell a Navy Seal he sees in the hallway at headquarters. Then he’ll add, "I’m going to have to **scold** you in the morning for it, though."

Question 40

to plead

Answer 40

bronić (kogoś); odpowiadać na zarzuty oskarżenia; usprawiedliwiać (się); wstawiać się (za kimś); błagać Clinton’s reigning economic foursome — "especially Rubin," according to Greenberger — called Born in for a meeting and **pleaded** their case.

Question 41

hallway

Answer 41

korytarz "You better be out there hitting four or five targets tonight," McChrystal will tell a Navy Seal he sees in the **hallway** at headquarters.

Question 42

to nail sth

Answer 42

dobrze opanować jakąś umiejętność Danny had not previously shown much interest in rap music, and he was not a natural talent, but he had the attitude **nailed**.

Question 43

to expel from

Answer 43

wyrzucić z Not long after, Danny began acting out, and was **expelled from** the eighth grade.

Question 44

rozczochrać

Answer 44

to dishevel At his arraignment on November 19th, Danny appeared **disheveled** before the judge.

Question 45

przewinienie

Answer 45

demerit He accumulated more than 100 hours of **demerits** for drinking, partying and insubordination – a record that his classmates boasted made him a "century man."

Question 46

to entrance

Answer 46

zachwycić; oczarować Growing up in St. Louis, when was the first time you became **entranced** by the possibility of coding?

Question 47

dobrze opanować jakąś umiejętność

Answer 47

to nail sth Danny had not previously shown much interest in rap music, and he was not a natural talent, but he had the attitude **nailed**.

Question 48

proroczy

Answer 48

prescient The cable was as scathing as it was **prescient**.

Question 49

trap house

Answer 49

melina In February, he traveled with a rapper named Taquan Anderson to a **trap house** in Harlem to shoot footage for a new video.

Question 50

podwoić

Answer 50

to double down Throughout 2017, as his musicianship was improving, Danny **doubled down** on his already daring social media strategy.

Question 51

w najdrobniejszym szczególe

Answer 51

in minute detail McChrystal would later claim he didn’t read the recommendation closely enough – a strange excuse for a commander known for his laserlike attention to **minute details**.

Question 52

tu: zawierający głębokie treści, poważny (np. książka, artykuł); również: gęsty; tępy

Answer 52

dense What I love about walking around New York is it just feels so electric and I feel connected to everything. Even though I’m not talking to anyone, it feels like I’m in a moment that’s super-**dense** and very, very connected.

Question 53

to act out

Answer 53

być niegrzecznym; dokazywać Not long after, Danny began **acting out**, and was expelled from the eighth grade.

Question 54

demeanor

Answer 54

sposób bycia, postawa, zachowanie He wasn’t threatening at all in real life — around five feet six and 130 pounds, with a boyish **demeanor** and an impudent smile.

Question 55

tu: melodia wpadająca w ucho

Answer 55

hook The song contains zero choruses, nothing like a traditional **hook** and three different beats that transition into one another with intentional ungainliness.

Question 56

errand

Answer 56

sprawa do załatwienia Scott’s personal videographer — a mulleted former dishwasher and current part-time model who goes by the nickname White Trash Tyler — films this **errand**, as he does nearly every other seemingly mundane moment of Scott’s existence, the premise being that there’s no such thing as a mundane moment when it comes to Travis Scott.

Question 57

zdenerwowany

Answer 57

upset Or saw it as bragging. Yeah, I’m trying to learn. I’m **upset** by that because I think it shuts off something for people in that they won’t try it themselves.

Question 58

to profess

Answer 58

deklarować Technically, being a **professed** white nationalist isn’t grounds for removal, right?

Question 59

lad

Answer 59

chłopak "The fucking **lads** love Stan McChrystal," says a British officer who serves in Kabul.

Question 60

nieustannie

Answer 60

perpetually It was unclear whether Danny was directly involved in these incidents, but his constant incitements on Instagram created a **perpetually** volatile situation.

Question 61

bustling

Answer 61

ruchliwy; tętniący życiem In two interview sessions — one over dinner (fried chicken, oysters; the day’s only meal on his intermittent fasting regimen) at New York’s Blue Ribbon Brasserie, where he brought his own bottle of organic, low-alcohol wine; the other in a glass-doored conference room in Twitter’s **bustling** San Francisco headquarters — Dorsey addressed those challenges, and talked about his life, work, career and ideas.

Question 62

niespełniający oczekiwań

Answer 62

less-than-ideal Even Team McChrystal privately acknowledges that Karzai is a **less-than-ideal** partner.

Question 63

niewytłumaczalny

Answer 63

inexplicable For his friends, it was an **inexplicable** turn.

Question 64

upset

Answer 64

zdenerwowany Or saw it as bragging. Yeah, I’m trying to learn. I’m **upset** by that because I think it shuts off something for people in that they won’t try it themselves.

Question 65

to dwarf

Answer 65

przyćmić "Oh, it’ll **dwarf** it," says a former staffer on the House energy committee.

Question 66

znaleźć

Answer 66

to retrieve By that point, the feds had already taken an interest in Danny; a search of his residence in September had **retrieved** an illegal firearm and a backpack that had been reported stolen by the victim of an armed robbery.

Question 67

to circulate

Answer 67

rozesłać That May, she **circulated** a letter to business leaders and the Clinton administration suggesting that banks be required to provide greater disclosure in derivatives trades, and maintain reserves to cushion against losses.

Question 68

to harp on

Answer 68

przynudzać o; mówić ciągle o Asked why politicians continue **to harp on** things like drilling or hybrid cars, when supply and demand have nothing to do with the high prices, Stupak shakes his head. "I think they just don’t understand the problem very well," he says. "You can’t explain it in 30 seconds, so politicians ignore it."

Question 69

z drugiej strony

Answer 69

on the flip side **On the flip side**, obviously Twitter allows public figures, politicians included, to potentially tell lies to millions of followers, without a filter.

Question 70

whatnot

Answer 70

coś takiego; inne takie There’s a number of people who might come from a similar background as I did and be a little bit weird or odd or **whatnot** and see me as being weird and odd and extra: "Yeah, if you can do it, I can do it."

Question 71

być do kogoś podobnym

Answer 71

bear a resemblance to somebody "Sicko Mode," the biggest single of Scott’s career, had been at Number Two on the pop charts for weeks (and would climb to Number One in early December) — a feat all the more remarkable given that it **bears no resemblance** to a single.

Question 72

namiestnik

Answer 72

viceroy He’s also furious that McChrystal, backed by NATO’s allies, refused to put Eikenberry in the pivotal role of **viceroy** in Afghanistan, which would have made him the diplomatic equivalent of the general.

Question 73

homage

Answer 73

hołd But Astroworld is a **homage** to his hometown above all else, and earlier today his hometown officially reciprocated: Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, invited Scott to City Hall to issue a proclamation naming November 18th "Astroworld Day."

Question 74

on the flip side

Answer 74

z drugiej strony **On the flip side**, obviously Twitter allows public figures, politicians included, to potentially tell lies to millions of followers, without a filter.

Question 75

to foreshadow

Answer 75

zwiastować, zapowiadać His most compelling work was extracurricular: As managing editor of The Pointer, the West Point literary magazine, McChrystal wrote seven short stories that eerily **foreshadow** many of the issues he would confront in his career.

Question 76

podsłuchać

Answer 76

to overhear According to a leaked transcript of the wiretap, Mel Murda, one of Shotti’s associates, was **overheard** suggesting that Shotti "don’t got nothing to lose no more." The FBI offered Danny its protection. He declined.

Question 77

wypaczony, chory, skrzywiony

Answer 77

warped Which is not a horrible way to describe America circa 2018, which may help explain why younger listeners see themselves reflected in his **warped** sound (and why Ellen DeGeneres recently called Scott "the voice of a generation" when she had him on her show).

Question 78

to dye

Answer 78

farbować Then the **dye** job; then the tattoos; then the full Tekashi.

Question 79

potoczyć się; rozegrać się

Answer 79

to play out So the way that this **plays out** on Twitter is that the tweets calling it out as false got more impressions than the original.

Question 80

tranquil

Answer 80

spokojny Addressing that subject in our second meeting was the only time an ounce of irritation broke through his otherwise formidably **tranquil** demeanor.

Question 81

być zdeterminowany

Answer 81

to be intent on His mother worked (and still does) selling phones at an AT&T store, and became the family’s sole provider when his father, **intent on** making it as a musician, stopped working around 2005.

Question 82

stick-up

Answer 82

napad Why on Earth would a platinum-selling recording artist **stick up** some kid on the street for a backpack?

Question 83

to zero out

Answer 83

wyeliminować This is why any corporation with an at least occasionally sober accountant can usually find a way to **zero out** its taxes.

Question 84

promieniować

Answer 84

to give off "The definition of a star is when someone walks in the room and they kind of brighten up the room. It’s an energy they **give off**, that I’m very sensitive towards. He had that."

Question 85

zejść na złą drogę; zacząć wariować (źle się zachowywać); zachowywać się w niekontrolowany i zwariowany sposób

Answer 85

to go off the rails All of this — his supercharged rise from his corroded Brooklyn neighborhood, his extended tangle with the legal system and his eventual arrest by federal agents — took just more than a year, an internet-fueled ride that went **off the rails** almost as quickly as it began.

Question 86

to capture attention

Answer 86

przyciągać uwagę In his brief career, Tekashi 6ix9ine **captured America’s attention** with an escalating series of provocations and controversies.

Question 87

rozklekotany

Answer 87

ramshackle "Wizard" Lee Weinberg is an affable dude from Long Island who runs a **ramshackle** independent recording studio in Lower Manhattan.

Question 88

śmiały

Answer 88

daring Throughout 2017, as his musicianship was improving, Danny doubled down on his already **daring** social media strategy.

Question 89

dense

Answer 89

tu: zawierający głębokie treści, poważny (np. książka, artykuł); również: gęsty; tępy What I love about walking around New York is it just feels so electric and I feel connected to everything. Even though I’m not talking to anyone, it feels like I’m in a moment that’s super-**dense** and very, very connected.

Question 90

prescient

Answer 90

proroczy The cable was as scathing as it was **prescient**.

Question 91

wada wymowy

Answer 91

impediment Yeah, I had an **impediment**. I couldn’t pronounce any of my words. I went to speech therapy for two years. It made me shy.

Question 92

rzeczowy, prozaiczny, praktyczny

Answer 92

matter-of-fact And shit got rough," Scott recalls, his tone **matter-of-fact**. "Can’t afford shit.

Question 93

intermittent

Answer 93

przerywany; okresowy; sporadyczny In two interview sessions — one over dinner (fried chicken, oysters; the day’s only meal on his **intermittent** fasting regimen) at New York’s Blue Ribbon Brasserie, where he brought his own bottle of organic, low-alcohol wine; the other in a glass-doored conference room in Twitter’s bustling San Francisco headquarters — Dorsey addressed those challenges, and talked about his life, work, career and ideas.

Question 94

to recount

Answer 94

opowiadać In his **recounting** to Angie Martinez, he suggested the incident had been an inside job: His car had been rammed from behind, an assailant drew a gun, then forced him into another vehicle.

Question 95

ungainly

Answer 95

niezdarny, niezgrabny The song contains zero choruses, nothing like a traditional hook and three different beats that transition into one another with intentional **ungainliness**.

Question 96

zatrudniony w kilku miejscach; wędrowny

Answer 96

peripatetic His nose ring and voluminous facial hair — which prompted a Republican congressman to inform him last year that he doesn’t look like a CEO — make more sense in light of his **peripatetic** pre-Twitter life, in which he trained as a massage therapist, studied botanical illustration and considered a career in fashion design.

Question 97

atakować się nawzajem

Answer 97

to trade barbs The two got into it, **trading barbs** online, which escalated quickly into threats.

Question 98

undeterred

Answer 98

niezrażony The festival was a hit; 40,000 people came, **undeterred** by ticket prices that started at $150 and got as high as $650 (plus a $104.26 fee).

Question 99

rozbój w biały dzień

Answer 99

daylight robbery You can’t really register the fact that you’re no longer a citizen of a thriving first-world democracy, that you’re no longer above getting **robbed in broad daylight**, because like an amputee, you can still sort of feel things that are no longer there.

Question 100

przechadzka

Answer 100

stroll Then he showed up at Arroyo’s outpost and went on a foot patrol with the troops – not some bullshit photo-op **stroll** through a market, but a real live operation in a dangerous war zone.

Question 101

brawl

Answer 101

awantura There was a video of a **brawl** in the outdoor loading zone at LAX, where a fistfight appearing to involve 6ix9ine spilled out onto a busy street.

Question 102

odgórny

Answer 102

top-down The son of a general, McChrystal was also a ringleader of the campus dissidents – a dual role that taught him how to thrive in a rigid, **top-down** environment while thumbing his nose at authority every chance he got.

Question 103

szczerzyć zęby

Answer 103

to bare one's teeth Hernandez, clad in a green tracksuit, thrashed his rainbow hair and **bared his multicolored teeth**.

Question 104

udar; zawał

Answer 104

stroke She’s had **strokes** and shit. I think she rode her bike into a ditch or something crazy when she was young.

Question 105

to get away with

Answer 105

ujść na sucho, uniknąć kary za, wymigać się od McChrystal **got away with it**, she added, because he was the "golden boy" of Rumsfeld and Bush, who loved his willingness to get things done, even if it included bending the rules or skipping the chain of command.

Question 106

forthright

Answer 106

bezpośredni; szczery I agree, we have been bad at communication, we haven’t been as **forthright** as we need to, we certainly haven’t been as transparent.

Question 107

pogłoska

Answer 107

hearsay Lazzaro also tells me Danny was not, and had never been, a member of the Nine Trey Bloods, that the charges against him were based on "**hearsay**," and that he was willing to fight the racketeering charge all the way to trial.

Question 108

tajemniczy

Answer 108

cryptic Against the menacing strains of his viral hit "Gummo," he and a crowd of men in red bandannas danced, waved guns and made **cryptic** symbols with their hands.

Question 109

to make it down

Answer 109

dać radę dotrzeć "He started to look up to you," Arroyo wrote. McChrystal said he would try to **make it down** to pay his respects as soon as possible.

Question 110

to bail on

Answer 110

olać According to his lawyer, Danny **bailed on** the scene.

Question 111

rów; kanał

Answer 111

ditch She’s had strokes and shit. I think she rode her bike into a **ditch** or something crazy when she was young.

Question 112

affable

Answer 112

uprzejmy "Wizard" Lee Weinberg is an **affable** dude from Long Island who runs a ramshackle independent recording studio in Lower Manhattan.

Question 113

to quash

Answer 113

anulować, położyć kres, unieważnić Danny would **quash** the internet beef, explain that it was all a misunderstanding, and maybe even apologize. Then: lifelong friends.

Question 114

asinine

Answer 114

idiotyczny "But we’re saying that Wall Street can set the tax, and Wall Street can collect the tax. That’s the last thing in the world I want. It’s just **asinine**."

Question 115

wepchnąć

Answer 115

to stuff He clicks on the message and reads the salutation out loud, then **stuffs** the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance.

Question 116

niedola, ciężkie doświadczenia życiowe

Answer 116

hardship That upbeat attitude notwithstanding, Scott tells me there were **hardships** at home.

Question 117

cięty, pogardliwy, uszczypliwy

Answer 117

scathing The cable was as **scathing** as it was prescient.

Question 118

założenie

Answer 118

premise Scott’s personal videographer — a mulleted former dishwasher and current part-time model who goes by the nickname White Trash Tyler — films this errand, as he does nearly every other seemingly mundane moment of Scott’s existence, the **premise** being that there’s no such thing as a mundane moment when it comes to Travis Scott.

Question 119

convoluted

Answer 119

zawiły Once the bailouts were in place, Goldman went right back to business as usual, dreaming up impossibly **convoluted** schemes to pick the American carcass clean of its loose capital.

Question 120

zwrot grzecznościowy; pozdrowienie

Answer 120

salutation He clicks on the message and reads the **salutation** out loud, then stuffs the BlackBerry back in his pocket, not bothering to conceal his annoyance.

Question 121

dust-up

Answer 121

bójka There was the April incident at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center where, according to the indictment, Danny and his crew were involved in a **dust-up** with rival rapper Casanova.

Question 122

daylight robbery

Answer 122

rozbój w biały dzień You can’t really register the fact that you’re no longer a citizen of a thriving first-world democracy, that you’re no longer above getting **robbed in broad daylight**, because like an amputee, you can still sort of feel things that are no longer there.

Question 123

waiver

Answer 123

zrzeczenie się, odstąpienie *visa waiver = zniesienie obowiązku wizowego guarantee waiver = zwolnienie z obowiązku złożenia zabezpieczenia* Friedman was technically in violation of Federal Reserve policy by remaining on the board of Goldman even as he was supposedly regulating the bank; in order to rectify the problem, he applied for, and got, a conflict of interest **waiver** from the government.

Question 124

zawiły

Answer 124

convoluted Once the bailouts were in place, Goldman went right back to business as usual, dreaming up impossibly **convoluted** schemes to pick the American carcass clean of its loose capital.

Question 125

zamiłowanie, skłonność

Answer 125

penchant Displaying a **penchant** for transforming systems he considers outdated, McChrystal set out to revolutionize the training regime for the Rangers.

Question 126

zmierzać do; być w drodze do

Answer 126

be headed to The night of the first conversation, **he was headed** for the airport to kick off a three-week trip to India and Myanmar.

Question 127

to ensue

Answer 127

nastąpić If that happened, prices would be affected by something other than supply and demand, and price manipulations would **ensue**.

Question 128

obfity

Answer 128

opulent It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an **opulently** appointed wasteland.

Question 129

powstrzymać

Answer 129

to rein in There was only one problem with the deals: All of the wheeling and dealing represented exactly the kind of dangerous speculation that federal regulators are supposed to **rein in**.

Question 130

konsekwencja; aluzja

Answer 130

implication When you tweeted your health stats, showing that you get eight and a half hours of sleep a night, people were like, literally, "Well, you shouldn’t be sleeping well at night." The **implication**, again, is that you don’t care.

Question 131

bagno

Answer 131

swamp But the experience was so unsettling to McChrystal that he tried to prevent detainee operations from being placed under his command in Afghanistan, viewing them as a "political **swamp**," according to a U.S. official.

Question 132

to finagle

Answer 132

załatwić He was more impressed that Danny, who’d never had more than a few dollars to his name, managed to **finagle** the Lamborghinis.

Question 133

skończyć

Answer 133

to wind up McChrystal **wound up** ranking 298 out of a class of 855, a serious underachievement for a man widely regarded as brilliant.

Question 134

brat

Answer 134

smarkacz, gówniarz Growing up as a military **brat**, McChrystal exhibited the mixture of brilliance and cockiness that would follow him throughout his career.

Question 135

to be hard-pressed to do something

Answer 135

mieć trudność ze zrobieniem czegoś Even proponents of counterinsurgency **are hard-pressed to** explain the new plan.

Question 136

windować; rozruszać

Answer 136

to jack up It was a repeat of both the Internet craze and the housing bubble, when Wall Street **jacked up** present-day profits by selling suckers shares of a fictional fantasy future of endlessly rising prices.

Question 137

opuszczony

Answer 137

desolate En route, he pulls over at a **desolate** gas station.

Question 138

to indict

Answer 138

oskarżyć; postawić w stan oskarżenia Zillakami, possibly still angry about the bail money, posted about the underage-sex-tape **indictment**, to which Trippie reportedly alerted his millions of followers in a now-deleted video.

Question 139

top-down

Answer 139

odgórny The son of a general, McChrystal was also a ringleader of the campus dissidents – a dual role that taught him how to thrive in a rigid, **top-down** environment while thumbing his nose at authority every chance he got.

Question 140

rozpacz; beznadzieja

Answer 140

despair It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of **despair** and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently appointed wasteland.

Question 141

jakość, polot; wrodzony talent

Answer 141

flair Danny knew many of these artists, and producers began to use his aggressive energy to throw some **flair** on otherwise dull tracks.

Question 142

disparity

Answer 142

nierówność; dysproporcja The other big one changing the world today is economic **disparity**.

Question 143

desolate

Answer 143

opuszczony En route, he pulls over at a **desolate** gas station.

Question 144

soapbox

Answer 144

mównica; podium So if someone gets up on a little **soapbox**, with a megaphone, and starts yelling, a crowd comes around them and listens.

Question 145

wpychać

Answer 145

to jam into The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly **jamming its blood funnel into** anything that smells like money.

Question 146

ukraść (wulg.)

Answer 146

to snatch "Someone please come **snatch** my chain so my project could sell more," he wrote in one caption.

Question 147

rozpowszechnianie

Answer 147

dissemination Then, how do we stop the **dissemination** of misleading information before it reaches significant exposure?

Question 148

tracksuit

Answer 148

dres Hernandez, clad in a green **tracksuit**, thrashed his rainbow hair and bared his multicolored teeth.

Question 149

machinacje (np. biznesowe, polityczne)

Answer 149

wheeling and dealing There was only one problem with the deals: All of the **wheeling and dealing** represented exactly the kind of dangerous speculation that federal regulators are supposed to rein in.

Question 150

sposób bycia, postawa, zachowanie

Answer 150

demeanor He wasn’t threatening at all in real life — around five feet six and 130 pounds, with a boyish **demeanor** and an impudent smile.

Question 151

razem z; wraz z

Answer 151

along with **Along with** his older brother, he worked odd jobs in Bushwick, but was repeatedly sacked.

Question 152

jigsaw

Answer 152

układanka This meant tattoos, lots of them: spiderwebs on his jaw, enormous "69"s on his neck, chest and stomach, and in a Gothic touch, the torture-porn icon **Jigsaw**, from the Saw franchise, on his right cheek.

Question 153

nie przestawać (robienia czegoś)

Answer 153

to keep something going I wish he’d **kept that going**.

Question 154

to pull off

Answer 154

osiągnąć The disconnect between his voicing, the lyrics and the production created a sense of internal conflict, and at his best, Danny **pulled off** one of the hardest tricks in songcraft: He made the listener feel multiple emotions at once.

Question 155

to give off

Answer 155

promieniować "The definition of a star is when someone walks in the room and they kind of brighten up the room. It’s an energy they **give off**, that I’m very sensitive towards. He had that."

Question 156

en route

Answer 156

po drodze **En route**, he pulls over at a desolate gas station.

Question 157

handle

Answer 157

ksywa, nick His rap **handle** was Tekashi69. The "Tekashi" part was inspired by Japanese anime, of which Danny was a big fan. Six-nine was more mysterious — it was the sex number, obviously, but in its interlocking yin-yang digits, Danny had found something deeper that he never fully explained.

Question 158

obszerne

Answer 158

voluminous His nose ring and **voluminous** facial hair — which prompted a Republican congressman to inform him last year that he doesn’t look like a CEO — make more sense in light of his peripatetic pre-Twitter life, in which he trained as a massage therapist, studied botanical illustration and considered a career in fashion design.

Question 159

zjednać sobie; przekonać do siebie

Answer 159

to win over In the first four months of this year, NATO forces killed some 90 civilians, up 76 percent from the same period in 2009 – a record that has created tremendous resentment among the very population that COIN theory is intent on **winning over**.

Question 160

swamp

Answer 160

bagno But the experience was so unsettling to McChrystal that he tried to prevent detainee operations from being placed under his command in Afghanistan, viewing them as a "political **swamp**," according to a U.S. official.

Question 161

zyskać zwolenników

Answer 161

to gain traction The ISAF command has even discussed ways to make not killing into something you can win an award for: There’s talk of creating a new medal for "courageous restraint," a buzzword that’s unlikely to **gain much traction** in the gung-ho culture of the U.S. military.

Question 162

głośno domagać się czegoś

Answer 162

to clamor for something The credit markets were in crisis, and the mantra that had sustained the fantasy economy throughout the Bush years — the notion that housing prices never go down — was now a fully exploded myth, leaving the Street **clamoring** for a new bullshit paradigm to sling.

Question 163

stroke

Answer 163

udar; zawał She’s had **strokes** and shit. I think she rode her bike into a ditch or something crazy when she was young.

Question 164

wyplątać, wybrnąć

Answer 164

to extricate "We will become more deeply engaged here with no way to **extricate** ourselves," Eikenberry warned, "short of allowing the country to descend again into lawlessness and chaos."

Question 165

pod każdym względem; ponad wszelką wątpliwość

Answer 165

by all accounts **By all accounts**, Square runs more smoothly than Twitter.

Question 166

hołd

Answer 166

homage But Astroworld is a **homage** to his hometown above all else, and earlier today his hometown officially reciprocated: Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, invited Scott to City Hall to issue a proclamation naming November 18th "Astroworld Day."

Question 167

to overhear

Answer 167

podsłuchać According to a leaked transcript of the wiretap, Mel Murda, one of Shotti’s associates, was **overheard** suggesting that Shotti "don’t got nothing to lose no more." The FBI offered Danny its protection. He declined.

Question 168

perpetually

Answer 168

nieustannie It was unclear whether Danny was directly involved in these incidents, but his constant incitements on Instagram created a **perpetually** volatile situation.

Question 169

to doctor

Answer 169

fałszować; preparować An interesting case study is the Sarah Sanders video that may have been **doctored** to increase the severity of whatever Jim Acosta did.

Question 170

flair

Answer 170

jakość, polot; wrodzony talent Danny knew many of these artists, and producers began to use his aggressive energy to throw some **flair** on otherwise dull tracks.

Question 171

to jam into

Answer 171

wpychać The world’s most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly **jamming its blood funnel into** anything that smells like money.

Question 172

sprzeczka; skarga

Answer 172

beef Danny would quash the internet **beef**, explain that it was all a misunderstanding, and maybe even apologize. Then: lifelong friends.

Question 173

przynudzać o; mówić ciągle o

Answer 173

to harp on Asked why politicians continue **to harp on** things like drilling or hybrid cars, when supply and demand have nothing to do with the high prices, Stupak shakes his head. "I think they just don’t understand the problem very well," he says. "You can’t explain it in 30 seconds, so politicians ignore it."

Question 174

to concede

Answer 174

przyznawać się "We’ve shot an amazing number of people," McChrystal recently **conceded**.

Question 175

deterrent

Answer 175

środek odstraszający; czynnik powstrzymujący But facts on the ground, as history has proven, offer little **deterrent** to a military determined to stay the course.

Question 176

osiągnąć

Answer 176

to pull off The disconnect between his voicing, the lyrics and the production created a sense of internal conflict, and at his best, Danny **pulled off** one of the hardest tricks in songcraft: He made the listener feel multiple emotions at once.

Question 177

evanescent

Answer 177

krótkotrwały; ulotny It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing **evanescent** thrills in an opulently appointed wasteland.

Question 178

popełnić

Answer 178

to perpetrate His decision to spend time at a grueling silent-meditation retreat in the latter country — where the military is **perpetrating** atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims — sparked a significant backlash.

Question 179

wyobrażenie; mniemanie

Answer 179

notion The credit markets were in crisis, and the mantra that had sustained the fantasy economy throughout the Bush years — the **notion** that housing prices never go down — was now a fully exploded myth, leaving the Street clamoring for a new bullshit paradigm to sling.

Question 180

zrzeczenie się, odstąpienie

Answer 180

waiver *visa waiver = zniesienie obowiązku wizowego guarantee waiver = zwolnienie z obowiązku złożenia zabezpieczenia* Friedman was technically in violation of Federal Reserve policy by remaining on the board of Goldman even as he was supposedly regulating the bank; in order to rectify the problem, he applied for, and got, a conflict of interest **waiver** from the government.

Question 181

awantura

Answer 181

fracas In November, three weeks after the **fracas** at Philippe, Danny announced on Instagram that he was firing his entire management team, meaning Shotti and his entourage, although he never mentioned them by name.

Question 182

to kick in

Answer 182

zacząć działać; dorzucić się It’s not always easy to accept the reality of what we now routinely allow these people to get away with; there’s a kind of collective denial that **kicks in** when a country goes through what America has gone through lately, when a people lose as much prestige and status as we have in the past few years.

Question 183

dissemination

Answer 183

rozpowszechnianie Then, how do we stop the **dissemination** of misleading information before it reaches significant exposure?

Question 184

nierówność; dysproporcja

Answer 184

disparity The other big one changing the world today is economic **disparity**.

Question 185

versatility

Answer 185

wszechstronność; wielofunkcyjność In the months following "Gummo," Danny showed surprising **versatility**, switching from belligerent screaming to a hoarse, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop.

Question 186

smarkacz, gówniarz

Answer 186

brat Growing up as a military **brat**, McChrystal exhibited the mixture of brilliance and cockiness that would follow him throughout his career.

Question 187

arraignment

Answer 187

postawienie w stan oskarżenia At his **arraignment** on November 19th, Danny appeared disheveled before the judge.

Question 188

to underscore

Answer 188

pokreślać, uwypuklać Whatever the nature of the new plan, the delay **underscores** the fundamental flaws of counterinsurgency.

Question 189

to incite

Answer 189

podżegać; podburzać It was unclear whether Danny was directly involved in these incidents, but his constant **incitements** on Instagram created a perpetually volatile situation.

Question 190

cryptic

Answer 190

tajemniczy Against the menacing strains of his viral hit "Gummo," he and a crowd of men in red bandannas danced, waved guns and made **cryptic** symbols with their hands.

Question 191

odrzucić (ofertę)

Answer 191

to turn down Danny, loyal to his "Day Ones," **turned him down**.

Question 192

fałszować; preparować

Answer 192

to doctor An interesting case study is the Sarah Sanders video that may have been **doctored** to increase the severity of whatever Jim Acosta did.

Question 193

wstrętny, ohydny

Answer 193

obnoxious Danny often posted **obnoxious** Instagram content where he displayed his expensive jewelry, including a diamond-encrusted necklace of the Jigsaw marionette, which, he claimed, had cost him $300,000.

Question 194

miscue

Answer 194

błąd Despite the tragedies and **miscues**, McChrystal has issued some of the strictest directives to avoid civilian casualties that the U.S. military has ever encountered in a war zone.

Question 195

clad

Answer 195

ubrany (od to clothe) Hernandez, **clad** in a green tracksuit, thrashed his rainbow hair and bared his multicolored teeth.

Question 196

doomed

Answer 196

z góry skazany na przegraną In February, the day before the **doomed** offensive in Marja, McChrystal even drove over to the president’s palace to get him to sign off on what would be the largest military operation of the year.

Question 197

szczerość

Answer 197

candor He speaks his mind with a **candor** rare for a high-ranking official.

Question 198

agresywny

Answer 198

belligerent In the months following "Gummo," Danny showed surprising versatility, switching from **belligerent** screaming to a hoarse, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop.

Question 199

sprawa do załatwienia

Answer 199

errand Scott’s personal videographer — a mulleted former dishwasher and current part-time model who goes by the nickname White Trash Tyler — films this **errand**, as he does nearly every other seemingly mundane moment of Scott’s existence, the premise being that there’s no such thing as a mundane moment when it comes to Travis Scott.

Question 200

matter-of-fact

Answer 200

rzeczowy, prozaiczny, praktyczny And shit got rough," Scott recalls, his tone **matter-of-fact**. "Can’t afford shit.

Question 201

perpetrator

Answer 201

sprawca There was the armed robbery in April near Times Square; the U.S. Attorney’s office claimed that a group of Nine Treys were the **perpetrators** and Danny was outside, filming it all.

Question 202

smitten

Answer 202

oczarowany, zachwycony Scott was **smitten** in turn, and at some point, he thinks in early May, after a matter of mere weeks together, they conceived Stormi, who was born last February.

Question 203

to admit

Answer 203

tu: dopuszczać His class was the last to graduate before the academy started to **admit** women.

Question 204

dres

Answer 204

tracksuit Hernandez, clad in a green **tracksuit**, thrashed his rainbow hair and bared his multicolored teeth.

Question 205

być niegrzecznym; dokazywać

Answer 205

to act out Not long after, Danny began **acting out**, and was expelled from the eighth grade.

Question 206

tu: dopuszczać

Answer 206

to admit His class was the last to graduate before the academy started to **admit** women.

Question 207

to have a lot on somebodys's plate

Answer 207

mieć sporo na głowie **I’ve got enough on my plate**. I think the intention of a lot of people at the company is right.

Question 208

unsettling

Answer 208

niepokojący But the experience was so **unsettling** to McChrystal that he tried to prevent detainee operations from being placed under his command in Afghanistan, viewing them as a "political swamp," according to a U.S. official.

Question 209

to sleep off

Answer 209

odespać Karzai’s staff, however, insisted that the president was **sleeping off** a cold and could not be disturbed.

Question 210

z góry skazany na przegraną

Answer 210

doomed In February, the day before the **doomed** offensive in Marja, McChrystal even drove over to the president’s palace to get him to sign off on what would be the largest military operation of the year.

Question 211

deep-seated

Answer 211

głęboko zakorzeniony Even in his new role as America’s leading evangelist for counterinsurgency, McChrystal retains the **deep-seated** instincts of a terrorist hunter.

Question 212

premise

Answer 212

założenie Scott’s personal videographer — a mulleted former dishwasher and current part-time model who goes by the nickname White Trash Tyler — films this errand, as he does nearly every other seemingly mundane moment of Scott’s existence, the **premise** being that there’s no such thing as a mundane moment when it comes to Travis Scott.

Question 213

seemingly

Answer 213

pozornie Scott’s personal videographer — a mulleted former dishwasher and current part-time model who goes by the nickname White Trash Tyler — films this errand, as he does nearly every other **seemingly** mundane moment of Scott’s existence, the premise being that there’s no such thing as a mundane moment when it comes to Travis Scott.

Question 214

to hover

Answer 214

tu: kręcić się Backstage, Jenner **hovered** in a fitted black jumpsuit, carrying her and Scott’s infant daughter, Stormi, on her hip.

Question 215

to extricate

Answer 215

wyplątać, wybrnąć "We will become more deeply engaged here with no way to **extricate** ourselves," Eikenberry warned, "short of allowing the country to descend again into lawlessness and chaos."

Question 216

disposition

Answer 216

usposobienie Kifano Jordan, 36, was better known as "Shotti." He had a friendly **disposition** — "a real stand-up guy," says a friend of Danny’s, without irony — but he was also allegedly a made member of the Nine Trey Bloods with a record of arrests for drug charges.

Question 217

to get in on the ground floor

Answer 217

angażować się w coś od samego początku, tworzyć coś od samego początku, być jednym z pierwszych The plan is (1) **to get in on the ground floor** of paradigm-shifting legislation, (2) make sure that they’re the profit-making slice of that paradigm and (3) make sure the slice is a big slice.

Question 218

to wind up

Answer 218

skończyć McChrystal **wound up** ranking 298 out of a class of 855, a serious underachievement for a man widely regarded as brilliant.

Question 219

usposobienie

Answer 219

disposition Kifano Jordan, 36, was better known as "Shotti." He had a friendly **disposition** — "a real stand-up guy," says a friend of Danny’s, without irony — but he was also allegedly a made member of the Nine Trey Bloods with a record of arrests for drug charges.

Question 220

odespać

Answer 220

to sleep off Karzai’s staff, however, insisted that the president was **sleeping off** a cold and could not be disturbed.

Question 221

en masse

Answer 221

masowo, gremialnie None of that would have been possible without investment bankers like Goldman, who created vehicles to package those shitty mortgages and sell them **en masse** to unsuspecting insurance companies and pension funds.

Question 222

wyeliminować

Answer 222

to zero out This is why any corporation with an at least occasionally sober accountant can usually find a way to **zero out** its taxes.

Question 223

poddać w wątpliwość

Answer 223

to cast doubt The ambassador offered a brutal critique of McChrystal’s strategy, dismissed President Hamid Karzai as "not an adequate strategic partner," and **cast doubt** on whether the counterinsurgency plan would be "sufficient" to deal with Al Qaeda.

Question 224

wheeling and dealing

Answer 224

machinacje (np. biznesowe, polityczne) There was only one problem with the deals: All of the **wheeling and dealing** represented exactly the kind of dangerous speculation that federal regulators are supposed to rein in.

Question 225

gangsterstwo; wymuszanie okupu; ściąganie haraczy

Answer 225

racketeering On November 26th, he was denied bail; he remains imprisoned today. The mandatory-minimum sentencing for the **racketeering** charges he faces is 32 years.

Question 226

szał, bzik

Answer 226

craze It was a repeat of both the Internet **craze** and the housing bubble, when Wall Street jacked up present-day profits by selling suckers shares of a fictional fantasy future of endlessly rising prices

Question 227

to be intent on

Answer 227

być zdeterminowany His mother worked (and still does) selling phones at an AT&T store, and became the family’s sole provider when his father, **intent on** making it as a musician, stopped working around 2005.

Question 228

nastąpić

Answer 228

to ensue If that happened, prices would be affected by something other than supply and demand, and price manipulations would **ensue**.

Question 229

niedopracowany; nieprzemyślany (np. pomysł)

Answer 229

half-baked Taken together, the numbers show that Goldman essentially borrowed a $5 billion salary payout for its executives in the middle of the global economic crisis it helped cause, using **half-baked** accounting to reel in investors, just months after receiving billions in a taxpayer bailout.

Question 230

severity

Answer 230

powaga An interesting case study is the Sarah Sanders video that may have been doctored to increase the **severity** of whatever Jim Acosta did.

Question 231

mieć opinię na temat kogoś/czegoś

Answer 231

to make of sb/sth What do you **make of** Elon Musk?

Question 232

to skyrocket

Answer 232

wzrosnąć; pójść w górę Oil futures in particular **skyrocketed**, as the price of a single barrel went from around $60 in the middle of 2007 to a high of $147 in the summer of 2008.

Question 233

twardziel

Answer 233

badass Being a highly intelligent **badass**, he discovered, could take you far – especially in the political chaos that followed September 11th.

Question 234

misdeed

Answer 234

zły uczynek, występęk, grzeszek His decision — to ignore Danny’s **misdeeds** in favor of his obvious charisma — was one many in the music industry would repeat in the following years.

Question 235

bona fide

Answer 235

autentyczny It issued the bank a free pass, called the "**Bona Fide** Hedging" exemption, allowing Goldman’s subsidiary to call itself a physical hedger and escape virtually all limits placed on speculators.

Question 236

dać radę dotrzeć

Answer 236

to make it down "He started to look up to you," Arroyo wrote. McChrystal said he would try to **make it down** to pay his respects as soon as possible.

Question 237

ksywa, nick

Answer 237

handle His rap **handle** was Tekashi69. The "Tekashi" part was inspired by Japanese anime, of which Danny was a big fan. Six-nine was more mysterious — it was the sex number, obviously, but in its interlocking yin-yang digits, Danny had found something deeper that he never fully explained.

Question 238

candor

Answer 238

szczerość He speaks his mind with a **candor** rare for a high-ranking official.

Question 239

być przykrywką

Answer 239

to front The gangster image in his previous videos was a **front**, as fake as pro wrestling. In reality, he was a struggling teenage dad who had earned his money slicing ham at the Stay Fresh Grill.

Question 240

korytarz

Answer 240

hallway "You better be out there hitting four or five targets tonight," McChrystal will tell a Navy Seal he sees in the **hallway** at headquarters.

Question 241

przyćmić

Answer 241

to dwarf "Oh, it’ll **dwarf** it," says a former staffer on the House energy committee.

Question 242

to cheer

Answer 242

kibicować Complicating matters even further was the fact that Goldman itself was **cheerleading** with all its might for an increase in oil prices.

Question 243

pustkowie; bezdroże

Answer 243

wasteland It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently appointed **wasteland**.

Question 244

to keep something going

Answer 244

nie przestawać (robienia czegoś) I wish he’d **kept that going**.

Question 245

autentyczny

Answer 245

bona fide It issued the bank a free pass, called the "**Bona Fide** Hedging" exemption, allowing Goldman’s subsidiary to call itself a physical hedger and escape virtually all limits placed on speculators.

Question 246

warped

Answer 246

wypaczony, chory, skrzywiony Which is not a horrible way to describe America circa 2018, which may help explain why younger listeners see themselves reflected in his **warped** sound (and why Ellen DeGeneres recently called Scott "the voice of a generation" when she had him on her show).

Question 247

ugoda

Answer 247

plea deal The arrests violated the terms of the **plea deal** in his sex-tape case; he had also repeatedly failed his GED exam.

Question 248

mieć trudność ze zrobieniem czegoś

Answer 248

to be hard-pressed to do something Even proponents of counterinsurgency **are hard-pressed to** explain the new plan.

Question 249

otherwise

Answer 249

tu: poza tym Danny knew many of these artists, and producers began to use his aggressive energy to throw some flair on **otherwise** dull tracks.

Question 250

błąd

Answer 250

miscue Despite the tragedies and **miscues**, McChrystal has issued some of the strictest directives to avoid civilian casualties that the U.S. military has ever encountered in a war zone.

Question 251

odwzajemnić

Answer 251

to reciprocate But Astroworld is a homage to his hometown above all else, and earlier today his hometown officially **reciprocated**: Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, invited Scott to City Hall to issue a proclamation naming November 18th "Astroworld Day."

Question 252

po drodze

Answer 252

en route **En route**, he pulls over at a desolate gas station.

Question 253

wzrosnąć; pójść w górę

Answer 253

to skyrocket Oil futures in particular **skyrocketed**, as the price of a single barrel went from around $60 in the middle of 2007 to a high of $147 in the summer of 2008.

Question 254

to retrieve

Answer 254

znaleźć By that point, the feds had already taken an interest in Danny; a search of his residence in September had **retrieved** an illegal firearm and a backpack that had been reported stolen by the victim of an armed robbery.

Question 255

mouthpiece

Answer 255

rzecznik As Pentagon spokesman during the invasion of Iraq, the general seemed more like a White House **mouthpiece** than an up-and-coming commander with a reputation for speaking his mind.

Question 256

to trade barbs

Answer 256

atakować się nawzajem The two got into it, **trading barbs** online, which escalated quickly into threats.

Question 257

numerous

Answer 257

liczny Here’s how it works: If the bill passes, there will be limits for coal plants, utilities, natural-gas distributors and **numerous** other industries on the amount of carbon emissions (a.k.a. greenhouse gases) they can produce per year.

Question 258

in broad daylight

Answer 258

w biały dzień You can’t really register the fact that you’re no longer a citizen of a thriving first-world democracy, that you’re no longer above getting robbed **in broad daylight**, because like an amputee, you can still sort of feel things that are no longer there.

Question 259

wymyślać

Answer 259

to ideate To me, that’s one of the greatest benefits Twitter provides. Elon does it so well. He works in public. He thinks in public. He **ideates** in public.

Question 260

na poważnie

Answer 260

in earnest It is the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Scott, 26, is in a great mood thanks to the first-ever Astroworld Festival — a celebration that this Houston native has fantasized about throwing ever since his career launched **in earnest**.

Question 261

to overrule somebody

Answer 261

przekonać kogoś But Danny, extending the creative-control clause in his contract, **overruled** him — this was his image, he insisted, and this was his sound.

Question 262

agitation

Answer 262

pobudzenie; wzburzenie How are you not in a constant state of **agitation** that something terrible is going to trend, or that a war or some other calamity is going to start over a tweet?

Question 263

back-and-forth

Answer 263

tu: wymiana zdań Seth Rogen, who was concerned about racists getting verified status on Twitter, tweeted that you do "not seem to give a fuck" about this issue after some **back-and-forth** with you.

Question 264

kierować (np. fundusze)

Answer 264

tu funnel As George Bush’s last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to **funnel** trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street

Question 265

chłopak

Answer 265

lad "The fucking **lads** love Stan McChrystal," says a British officer who serves in Kabul.

Question 266

to go off the rails

Answer 266

zejść na złą drogę; zacząć wariować (źle się zachowywać); zachowywać się w niekontrolowany i zwariowany sposób All of this — his supercharged rise from his corroded Brooklyn neighborhood, his extended tangle with the legal system and his eventual arrest by federal agents — took just more than a year, an internet-fueled ride that went **off the rails** almost as quickly as it began.

Question 267

ruchliwy; tętniący życiem

Answer 267

bustling In two interview sessions — one over dinner (fried chicken, oysters; the day’s only meal on his intermittent fasting regimen) at New York’s Blue Ribbon Brasserie, where he brought his own bottle of organic, low-alcohol wine; the other in a glass-doored conference room in Twitter’s **bustling** San Francisco headquarters — Dorsey addressed those challenges, and talked about his life, work, career and ideas.

Question 268

w dużym stopniu

Answer 268

to a large extent The media, **to a large extent**, have also given McChrystal a pass on both controversies.

Question 269

to cast doubt

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poddać w wątpliwość The ambassador offered a brutal critique of McChrystal’s strategy, dismissed President Hamid Karzai as "not an adequate strategic partner," and **cast doubt** on whether the counterinsurgency plan would be "sufficient" to deal with Al Qaeda.

Question 270

fling

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romans; przygoda miłosna Maybe, like, the first week, you don’t know if it’s real or a **fling**. Then the second week you’re like, ‘Whoa, I’m still talking to her, she’s responding, I’m responding.

Question 271

przesuwać, przekładać (np. spotkanie)

Answer 271

to push back something Scott’s manager says that, during the festival, James Harden hit him up from the Toyota Center, where the Houston Rockets were playing the Sacramento Kings, and asked if Scott could maybe, possibly **push back** his headlining set so that Harden could catch it?

Question 272

up-and-coming

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dobrze się zapowiadający, obiecujący As Pentagon spokesman during the invasion of Iraq, the general seemed more like a White House mouthpiece than an **up-and-coming** commander with a reputation for speaking his mind.

Question 273

hamować

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to hamper This diplomatic incoherence has effectively allowed McChrystal’s team to call the shots and **hampered** efforts to build a stable and credible government in Afghanistan.

Question 274

skontaktować się z kimś

Answer 274

to hit somebody up Scott’s manager says that, during the festival, James Harden **hit him up** from the Toyota Center, where the Houston Rockets were playing the Sacramento Kings, and asked if Scott could maybe, possibly push back his headlining set so that Harden could catch it?

Question 275

lesser man

Answer 275

człowiek słabszy (psychicznie) But it was during his next stint – overseeing the military’s most elite units, including the Rangers, Navy Seals and Delta Force – that McChrystal took part in a cover-up that would have destroyed the career of a **lesser man**.

Question 276

opowiadać

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to recount In his **recounting** to Angie Martinez, he suggested the incident had been an inside job: His car had been rammed from behind, an assailant drew a gun, then forced him into another vehicle.

Question 277

rozpowszechniać prywatne dane do nielegalnych celów

Answer 277

to doxx And yet the **doxxing** of Danny’s child-sex case wasn’t the worst thing to result from the "Gummo" video shoot.

Question 278

notwithstanding

Answer 278

pomimo; mimo wszystko; jednakże; niemniej jednak That upbeat attitude **notwithstanding**, Scott tells me there were hardships at home.

Question 279

olać

Answer 279

to bail on According to his lawyer, Danny **bailed on** the scene.

Question 280

pronounced

Answer 280

wyraźny; widoczny The topics of abuse and our policies have been much more **pronounced** recently.

Question 281

powaga

Answer 281

severity An interesting case study is the Sarah Sanders video that may have been doctored to increase the **severity** of whatever Jim Acosta did.

Question 282

potop

Answer 282

deluge The rain is at **deluge** levels as Scott points his Lamborghini toward his home in Houston’s northeast suburbs — a 9,600-square-foot mansion he reportedly bought for just under $2 million a couple of years ago.

Question 283

coś takiego; inne takie

Answer 283

whatnot There’s a number of people who might come from a similar background as I did and be a little bit weird or odd or **whatnot** and see me as being weird and odd and extra: "Yeah, if you can do it, I can do it."

Question 284

brasserie

Answer 284

knajpka In two interview sessions — one over dinner (fried chicken, oysters; the day’s only meal on his intermittent fasting regimen) at New York’s Blue Ribbon **Brasserie**, where he brought his own bottle of organic, low-alcohol wine; the other in a glass-doored conference room in Twitter’s bustling San Francisco headquarters — Dorsey addressed those challenges, and talked about his life, work, career and ideas.

Question 285

zdobyć

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to garner He’s **garnered** more than 15 million followers on Instagram, and was at one point in the service’s top 100 users.

Question 286

udawać coś

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to make a pretense of Moving around to different bases, McChrystal took solace in baseball, a sport in which he **made no pretense** of hiding his superiority: In Little League, he would call out strikes to the crowd before whipping a fastball down the middle.

Question 287

ułatwić; umożliwić

Answer 287

to facilitate In San Francisco, he wore black jeans, running sandals that **facilitate** his daily five-mile walk to work, and a hooded cashmere sweater that he notes is more than three years old.

Question 288

personable

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ujmujący (o ujmującej powierzchowności) He is, especially judged against certain Silicon Valley stereotypes, highly **personable**; he makes (sometimes very intense) eye contact, laughs easily, has excellent manners.

Question 289

masowo, gremialnie

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en masse None of that would have been possible without investment bankers like Goldman, who created vehicles to package those shitty mortgages and sell them **en masse** to unsuspecting insurance companies and pension funds.

Question 290

otoczenie, krąg (znajomych)

Answer 290

scene According to his lawyer, Danny bailed on the **scene**.

Question 291

zuchwały, bezczelny

Answer 291

impudent He wasn’t threatening at all in real life — around five feet six and 130 pounds, with a boyish demeanor and an **impudent** smile.

Question 292

sprawca

Answer 292

perpetrator There was the armed robbery in April near Times Square; the U.S. Attorney’s office claimed that a group of Nine Treys were the **perpetrators** and Danny was outside, filming it all.

Question 293

rozdźwięk (np. między dwoma zdaniami)

Answer 293

rift Rumors began to swirl that Zillakami, his friend from S.C.U.M. Gang, had paid a portion of his bail — up to the full $100,000, though Andrew says it was more like two or three grand. A **rift** opened between the two.

Question 294

głęboko zakorzeniony

Answer 294

deep-seated Even in his new role as America’s leading evangelist for counterinsurgency, McChrystal retains the **deep-seated** instincts of a terrorist hunter.

Question 295

deklarować

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to profess Technically, being a **professed** white nationalist isn’t grounds for removal, right?

Question 296

wywalić

Answer 296

to toss out But as he moved up through the ranks, McChrystal relied on the skills he had learned as a troublemaking kid at West Point: knowing precisely how far he could go in a rigid military hierarchy without getting **tossed out**

Question 297

offhand

Answer 297

na poczekaniu; od ręki Last year, a staffer for the House Energy and Commerce Committee just happened to be at a briefing when officials from the CFTC made an **offhand** reference to the exemptions.

Question 298

to reciprocate

Answer 298

odwzajemnić But Astroworld is a homage to his hometown above all else, and earlier today his hometown officially **reciprocated**: Houston’s mayor, Sylvester Turner, invited Scott to City Hall to issue a proclamation naming November 18th "Astroworld Day."

Question 299

przerażanie

Answer 299

dismay He finally managed to pull it off yesterday, basically on top of the site of the city’s old Astroworld amusement park, which was shut down, to his **dismay**, in 2005, when he was 13.

Question 300

heretofore

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dotychczas Immediately after the AIG bailout, Paulson announced his federal bailout for the financial industry, a $700 billion plan called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and put a **heretofore** unknown 35-year-old Goldman banker named Neel Kashkari in charge of administering the funds.

Question 301

niezrażony

Answer 301

undeterred The festival was a hit; 40,000 people came, **undeterred** by ticket prices that started at $150 and got as high as $650 (plus a $104.26 fee).

Question 302

pokreślać, uwypuklać

Answer 302

to underscore Whatever the nature of the new plan, the delay **underscores** the fundamental flaws of counterinsurgency.

Question 303

niesamowicie

Answer 303

eerily His most compelling work was extracurricular: As managing editor of The Pointer, the West Point literary magazine, McChrystal wrote seven short stories that **eerily** foreshadow many of the issues he would confront in his career.

Question 304

shorthand

Answer 304

skrót As his career progressed, his visual iconography became cartoon **shorthand** for an emerging demographic.

Question 305

liczny

Answer 305

numerous Here’s how it works: If the bill passes, there will be limits for coal plants, utilities, natural-gas distributors and **numerous** other industries on the amount of carbon emissions (a.k.a. greenhouse gases) they can produce per year.

Question 306

chlać

Answer 306

to guzzle High prices, the bank insisted, were somehow the fault of the piggish American consumer; in 2005, Goldman analysts insisted that we wouldn’t know when oil prices would fall until we knew "when American consumers will stop buying gas-**guzzling** sport utility vehicles and instead seek fuel-efficient alternatives."

Question 307

scene

Answer 307

otoczenie, krąg (znajomych) According to his lawyer, Danny bailed on the **scene**.

Question 308

impudent

Answer 308

zuchwały, bezczelny He wasn’t threatening at all in real life — around five feet six and 130 pounds, with a boyish demeanor and an **impudent** smile.

Question 309

to taunt

Answer 309

dogryzać; drwić Andrew realized that the **taunting** was a kind of immature courtship, and that Danny admired Andrew’s videos and wanted to work with him.

Question 310

spierać się; targować się

Answer 310

to haggle After several hours of **haggling**, McChrystal finally enlisted the aid of Afghanistan’s defense minister, who persuaded Karzai’s people to wake the president from his nap.

Question 311

to grapple

Answer 311

zmagać się Dealing with harassment seems easy compared with **grappling** with the idea of false information.

Question 312

przerywany; okresowy; sporadyczny

Answer 312

intermittent In two interview sessions — one over dinner (fried chicken, oysters; the day’s only meal on his **intermittent** fasting regimen) at New York’s Blue Ribbon Brasserie, where he brought his own bottle of organic, low-alcohol wine; the other in a glass-doored conference room in Twitter’s bustling San Francisco headquarters — Dorsey addressed those challenges, and talked about his life, work, career and ideas.

Question 313

musclehead

Answer 313

osiłek, mięśniak "He’d say, ‘Hey – you fucking **muscleheads** couldn’t find lunch without help.

Question 314

to bare one's teeth

Answer 314

szczerzyć zęby Hernandez, clad in a green tracksuit, thrashed his rainbow hair and **bared his multicolored teeth**.

Question 315

strains

Answer 315

dźwięki Against the menacing **strains** of his viral hit "Gummo," he and a crowd of men in red bandannas danced, waved guns and made cryptic symbols with their hands.

Question 316

tu: nie licząć

Answer 316

short of "We will become more deeply engaged here with no way to extricate ourselves," Eikenberry warned, "**short of** allowing the country to descend again into lawlessness and chaos."

Question 317

dogryzać; drwić

Answer 317

to taunt Andrew realized that the **taunting** was a kind of immature courtship, and that Danny admired Andrew’s videos and wanted to work with him.

Question 318

to win over

Answer 318

zjednać sobie; przekonać do siebie In the first four months of this year, NATO forces killed some 90 civilians, up 76 percent from the same period in 2009 – a record that has created tremendous resentment among the very population that COIN theory is intent on **winning over**.

Question 319

to make a pretense of

Answer 319

udawać coś Moving around to different bases, McChrystal took solace in baseball, a sport in which he **made no pretense** of hiding his superiority: In Little League, he would call out strikes to the crowd before whipping a fastball down the middle.

Question 320

nadzór; analiza; kontrola

Answer 320

scrutiny The only foreign invader to have any success here was Genghis Khan – and he wasn’t hampered by things like human rights, economic development and press **scrutiny**.

Question 321

awantura

Answer 321

brawl There was a video of a **brawl** in the outdoor loading zone at LAX, where a fistfight appearing to involve 6ix9ine spilled out onto a busy street.

Question 322

demerit

Answer 322

przewinienie He accumulated more than 100 hours of **demerits** for drinking, partying and insubordination – a record that his classmates boasted made him a "century man."

Question 323

hardship

Answer 323

niedola, ciężkie doświadczenia życiowe That upbeat attitude notwithstanding, Scott tells me there were **hardships** at home.

Question 324

in minute detail

Answer 324

w najdrobniejszym szczególe McChrystal would later claim he didn’t read the recommendation closely enough – a strange excuse for a commander known for his laserlike attention to **minute details**.

Question 325

voluminous

Answer 325

obszerne His nose ring and **voluminous** facial hair — which prompted a Republican congressman to inform him last year that he doesn’t look like a CEO — make more sense in light of his peripatetic pre-Twitter life, in which he trained as a massage therapist, studied botanical illustration and considered a career in fashion design.

Question 326

obnoxious

Answer 326

wstrętny, ohydny Danny often posted **obnoxious** Instagram content where he displayed his expensive jewelry, including a diamond-encrusted necklace of the Jigsaw marionette, which, he claimed, had cost him $300,000.

Question 327

człowiek słabszy (psychicznie)

Answer 327

lesser man But it was during his next stint – overseeing the military’s most elite units, including the Rangers, Navy Seals and Delta Force – that McChrystal took part in a cover-up that would have destroyed the career of a **lesser man**.

Question 328

plea deal

Answer 328

ugoda The arrests violated the terms of the **plea deal** in his sex-tape case; he had also repeatedly failed his GED exam.

Question 329

to scold

Answer 329

skarcić "You better be out there hitting four or five targets tonight," McChrystal will tell a Navy Seal he sees in the hallway at headquarters. Then he’ll add, "I’m going to have to **scold** you in the morning for it, though."

Question 330

gangbanger

Answer 330

członek gangu Soon, Danny adopted a strident **gangbanger** image. He began yelling "Treyway" in Instagram posts — a nickname for Shotti’s business platform, but also likely a reference to the Nine Trey nation.

Question 331

racketeering

Answer 331

gangsterstwo; wymuszanie okupu; ściąganie haraczy On November 26th, he was denied bail; he remains imprisoned today. The mandatory-minimum sentencing for the **racketeering** charges he faces is 32 years.

Question 332

ujść na sucho, uniknąć kary za, wymigać się od

Answer 332

to get away with McChrystal **got away with it**, she added, because he was the "golden boy" of Rumsfeld and Bush, who loved his willingness to get things done, even if it included bending the rules or skipping the chain of command.

Question 333

zgodzić się; ustąpić

Answer 333

to acquiesce Grainge was forced to **acquiesce**. Now all that remained was to shoot the video.

Question 334

to snatch

Answer 334

ukraść (wulg.) "Someone please come **snatch** my chain so my project could sell more," he wrote in one caption.

Question 335

impediment

Answer 335

wada wymowy Yeah, I had an **impediment**. I couldn’t pronounce any of my words. I went to speech therapy for two years. It made me shy.

Question 336

in earnest

Answer 336

na poważnie It is the Sunday before Thanksgiving. Scott, 26, is in a great mood thanks to the first-ever Astroworld Festival — a celebration that this Houston native has fantasized about throwing ever since his career launched **in earnest**.

Question 337

zmagać się

Answer 337

to grapple Dealing with harassment seems easy compared with **grappling** with the idea of false information.

Question 338

napięty

Answer 338

strained By far the most crucial – and **strained** – relationship is between McChrystal and Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador.

Question 339

hoarse

Answer 339

zachrypnięty In the months following "Gummo," Danny showed surprising versatility, switching from belligerent screaming to a **hoarse**, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop.

Question 340

to blindside

Answer 340

niemile zakoczyć McChrystal and his team were **blindsided** by the cable.

Question 341

hook

Answer 341

tu: melodia wpadająca w ucho The song contains zero choruses, nothing like a traditional **hook** and three different beats that transition into one another with intentional ungainliness.

Question 342

niepokojący

Answer 342

unsettling But the experience was so **unsettling** to McChrystal that he tried to prevent detainee operations from being placed under his command in Afghanistan, viewing them as a "political swamp," according to a U.S. official.

Question 343

jawny; niedwuznaczny

Answer 343

explicit "In the past it was an implicit advantage," says Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and former official at the International Monetary Fund, who compares the bailout to the crony capitalism he has seen in Third World countries. "Now it’s more of an **explicit** advantage."

Question 344

to facilitate

Answer 344

ułatwić; umożliwić In San Francisco, he wore black jeans, running sandals that **facilitate** his daily five-mile walk to work, and a hooded cashmere sweater that he notes is more than three years old.

Question 345

to dishevel

Answer 345

rozczochrać At his arraignment on November 19th, Danny appeared **disheveled** before the judge.

Question 346

pobudzenie; wzburzenie

Answer 346

agitation How are you not in a constant state of **agitation** that something terrible is going to trend, or that a war or some other calamity is going to start over a tweet?

Question 347

crutches

Answer 347

kule (med.) I’ve never seen her bend her leg — she’s been on **crutches** my whole life.

Question 348

by all accounts

Answer 348

pod każdym względem; ponad wszelką wątpliwość **By all accounts**, Square runs more smoothly than Twitter.

Question 349

to doxx

Answer 349

rozpowszechniać prywatne dane do nielegalnych celów And yet the **doxxing** of Danny’s child-sex case wasn’t the worst thing to result from the "Gummo" video shoot.

Question 350

przyznawać się

Answer 350

to concede "We’ve shot an amazing number of people," McChrystal recently **conceded**.

Question 351

farbować

Answer 351

to dye Then the **dye** job; then the tattoos; then the full Tekashi.

Question 352

wygasić, stłumić

Answer 352

to stifle The "69" video didn’t bring the kind of major label attention Danny was hoping for, but it didn’t **stifle** his commitment, either.

Question 353

odroczyć; odsunąć w czasie

Answer 353

to defer Thanks to our completely fucked corporate tax system, companies like Goldman can ship their revenues offshore and **defer** taxes on those revenues indefinitely, even while they claim deductions upfront on that same untaxed income.

Question 354

zgadywać; zgadywać na chybił trafił

Answer 354

to take a wild guess So what caused the huge spike in oil prices? **Take a wild guess**.

Question 355

to play out

Answer 355

potoczyć się; rozegrać się So the way that this **plays out** on Twitter is that the tweets calling it out as false got more impressions than the original.

Question 356

rank

Answer 356

tu: szczebel But as he moved up through the **ranks**, McChrystal relied on the skills he had learned as a troublemaking kid at West Point: knowing precisely how far he could go in a rigid military hierarchy without getting tossed out.

Question 357

idiotyczny

Answer 357

asinine "But we’re saying that Wall Street can set the tax, and Wall Street can collect the tax. That’s the last thing in the world I want. It’s just **asinine**."

Question 358

knajpka

Answer 358

brasserie In two interview sessions — one over dinner (fried chicken, oysters; the day’s only meal on his intermittent fasting regimen) at New York’s Blue Ribbon **Brasserie**, where he brought his own bottle of organic, low-alcohol wine; the other in a glass-doored conference room in Twitter’s bustling San Francisco headquarters — Dorsey addressed those challenges, and talked about his life, work, career and ideas.

Question 359

tu: poza tym

Answer 359

otherwise Danny knew many of these artists, and producers began to use his aggressive energy to throw some flair on **otherwise** dull tracks.

Question 360

mądrala

Answer 360

smartass "It was just to get my attention," Andrew says. "He was actually just a little **smartass**.

Question 361

along with

Answer 361

razem z; wraz z **Along with** his older brother, he worked odd jobs in Bushwick, but was repeatedly sacked.

Question 362

craze

Answer 362

szał, bzik It was a repeat of both the Internet **craze** and the housing bubble, when Wall Street jacked up present-day profits by selling suckers shares of a fictional fantasy future of endlessly rising prices

Question 363

sprawić by coś funkcjonowało sprawnie i płynnie

Answer 363

to keep things humming After the oil bubble collapsed last fall, there was no new bubble to **keep things humming** — this time, the money seems to be really gone, like worldwide-depression gone.

Question 364

to toss out

Answer 364

wywalić But as he moved up through the ranks, McChrystal relied on the skills he had learned as a troublemaking kid at West Point: knowing precisely how far he could go in a rigid military hierarchy without getting **tossed out**

Question 365

pochodzić z

Answer 365

to hail from Among the first to see Danny’s potential was Elliot Grainge, then 23, the CEO of 10K Projects, the independent label that had signed Trippie Redd. Grainge — tall, polite, English — **hailed from** a royal family of music management.

Question 366

przestępstwo

Answer 366

felony Famous rappers have been charged with serious **felonies** in the past, but the indictment brought against Danny and his crew has no precedent in the history of hip-hop.

Question 367

belligerent

Answer 367

agresywny In the months following "Gummo," Danny showed surprising versatility, switching from **belligerent** screaming to a hoarse, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop.

Question 368

postawienie w stan oskarżenia

Answer 368

arraignment At his **arraignment** on November 19th, Danny appeared disheveled before the judge.

Question 369

zadziwić; zaszokować

Answer 369

to take aback I was not **taken aback** by the focus on meditation versus Myanmar. I was taken aback by people being upset that I did a meditation in the first place.

Question 370

to defer

Answer 370

odroczyć; odsunąć w czasie Thanks to our completely fucked corporate tax system, companies like Goldman can ship their revenues offshore and **defer** taxes on those revenues indefinitely, even while they claim deductions upfront on that same untaxed income.

Question 371

krótkotrwały; ulotny

Answer 371

evanescent It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing **evanescent** thrills in an opulently appointed wasteland.

Question 372

wasteland

Answer 372

pustkowie; bezdroże It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently appointed **wasteland**.

Question 373

układanka

Answer 373

jigsaw This meant tattoos, lots of them: spiderwebs on his jaw, enormous "69"s on his neck, chest and stomach, and in a Gothic touch, the torture-porn icon **Jigsaw**, from the Saw franchise, on his right cheek.

Question 374

wojowniczy

Answer 374

strident Soon, Danny adopted a **strident** gangbanger image. He began yelling "Treyway" in Instagram posts — a nickname for Shotti’s business platform, but also likely a reference to the Nine Trey nation.

Question 375

elegancki, wypasiony

Answer 375

swanky To celebrate, Grainge took Danny out to dinner at Philippe, a narrow, **swanky** Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan, whose private dining rooms often host New York’s athletic and musical celebrities.

Question 376

dowiadywać się (czegoś), szukać informacji (na jakiś temat)

Answer 376

to scout out Having seamlessly navigated the political minefield of the bailout era, Goldman is once again back to its old business, **scouting out** loopholes in a new government-created market with the aid of a new set of alumni occupying key government jobs.

Question 377

zły uczynek, występęk, grzeszek

Answer 377

misdeed His decision — to ignore Danny’s **misdeeds** in favor of his obvious charisma — was one many in the music industry would repeat in the following years.

Question 378

to haggle

Answer 378

spierać się; targować się After several hours of **haggling**, McChrystal finally enlisted the aid of Afghanistan’s defense minister, who persuaded Karzai’s people to wake the president from his nap.

Question 379

tu: urządzony

Answer 379

appointed It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently **appointed** wasteland.

Question 380

hearsay

Answer 380

pogłoska Lazzaro also tells me Danny was not, and had never been, a member of the Nine Trey Bloods, that the charges against him were based on "**hearsay**," and that he was willing to fight the racketeering charge all the way to trial.

Question 381

napad

Answer 381

stick-up Why on Earth would a platinum-selling recording artist **stick up** some kid on the street for a backpack?

Question 382

podżegać; podburzać

Answer 382

to incite It was unclear whether Danny was directly involved in these incidents, but his constant **incitements** on Instagram created a perpetually volatile situation.

Question 383

rzecznik

Answer 383

mouthpiece As Pentagon spokesman during the invasion of Iraq, the general seemed more like a White House **mouthpiece** than an up-and-coming commander with a reputation for speaking his mind.

Question 384

scathing

Answer 384

cięty, pogardliwy, uszczypliwy The cable was as **scathing** as it was prescient.

Question 385

potwierdzić

Answer 385

to corroborate Grainge was eager to **corroborate** the story. "He’s been to the recording studio maybe 15 times, never for more than an hour or so," Grainge says. "And he’s got 15 hits!"

Question 386

implication

Answer 386

konsekwencja; aluzja When you tweeted your health stats, showing that you get eight and a half hours of sleep a night, people were like, literally, "Well, you shouldn’t be sleeping well at night." The **implication**, again, is that you don’t care.

Question 387

wyczerpujący

Answer 387

grueling His decision to spend time at a **grueling** silent-meditation retreat in the latter country — where the military is perpetrating atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims — sparked a significant backlash.

Question 388

bezpośredni; szczery

Answer 388

forthright I agree, we have been bad at communication, we haven’t been as **forthright** as we need to, we certainly haven’t been as transparent.

Question 389

wtrącić się; przeszkodzić

Answer 389

to interject And I trust them to make decisions without me having to **interject** or oversee them at all.

Question 390

środek odstraszający; czynnik powstrzymujący

Answer 390

deterrent But facts on the ground, as history has proven, offer little **deterrent** to a military determined to stay the course.

Question 391

to turn on sbdy

Answer 391

atakować; krytykować Around the time "Gummo" was released, Trippie Redd and 6ix9ine **turned on each other**.

Question 392

eerily

Answer 392

niesamowicie His most compelling work was extracurricular: As managing editor of The Pointer, the West Point literary magazine, McChrystal wrote seven short stories that **eerily** foreshadow many of the issues he would confront in his career.

Question 393

inexplicable

Answer 393

niewytłumaczalny For his friends, it was an **inexplicable** turn.

Question 394

oskarżyć; postawić w stan oskarżenia

Answer 394

to indict Zillakami, possibly still angry about the bail money, posted about the underage-sex-tape **indictment**, to which Trippie reportedly alerted his millions of followers in a now-deleted video.

Question 395

to interject

Answer 395

wtrącić się; przeszkodzić And I trust them to make decisions without me having to **interject** or oversee them at all.

Question 396

explicit

Answer 396

jawny; niedwuznaczny "In the past it was an implicit advantage," says Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and former official at the International Monetary Fund, who compares the bailout to the crony capitalism he has seen in Third World countries. "Now it’s more of an **explicit** advantage."

Question 397

zachwycić; oczarować

Answer 397

to entrance Growing up in St. Louis, when was the first time you became **entranced** by the possibility of coding?

Question 398

to take aback

Answer 398

zadziwić; zaszokować I was not **taken aback** by the focus on meditation versus Myanmar. I was taken aback by people being upset that I did a meditation in the first place.

Question 399

to hail from

Answer 399

pochodzić z Among the first to see Danny’s potential was Elliot Grainge, then 23, the CEO of 10K Projects, the independent label that had signed Trippie Redd. Grainge — tall, polite, English — **hailed from** a royal family of music management.

Question 400

ubrany (od to clothe)

Answer 400

clad Hernandez, **clad** in a green tracksuit, thrashed his rainbow hair and bared his multicolored teeth.

Question 401

to gain traction

Answer 401

zyskać zwolenników The ISAF command has even discussed ways to make not killing into something you can win an award for: There’s talk of creating a new medal for "courageous restraint," a buzzword that’s unlikely to **gain much traction** in the gung-ho culture of the U.S. military.

Question 402

marny, kiepski

Answer 402

tin-pot The need to build a credible government puts us at the mercy of whatever **tin-pot** leader we’ve backed – a danger that Eikenberry explicitly warned about in his cable.

Question 403

odsunąć od siebie; nie dopuścić do zdobycia punktów; uniemożliwić dostęp

Answer 403

to shut out The job instead went to British Ambassador Mark Sedwill – a move that effectively increased McChrystal’s influence over diplomacy by **shutting out** a powerful rival.

Question 404

dismay

Answer 404

przerażanie He finally managed to pull it off yesterday, basically on top of the site of the city’s old Astroworld amusement park, which was shut down, to his **dismay**, in 2005, when he was 13.

Question 405

kałuża

Answer 405

puddle "Hey, Travis, I could get a picture? I make music too, bro," says a dude standing in a **puddle** in a pair of house slippers, going for his phone.

Question 406

pozornie

Answer 406

seemingly Scott’s personal videographer — a mulleted former dishwasher and current part-time model who goes by the nickname White Trash Tyler — films this errand, as he does nearly every other **seemingly** mundane moment of Scott’s existence, the premise being that there’s no such thing as a mundane moment when it comes to Travis Scott.

Question 407

to hit somebody up

Answer 407

skontaktować się z kimś Scott’s manager says that, during the festival, James Harden **hit him up** from the Toyota Center, where the Houston Rockets were playing the Sacramento Kings, and asked if Scott could maybe, possibly push back his headlining set so that Harden could catch it?

Question 408

spotkać się; zacząć chodzić (to begin a romantic or sexual relationship)

Answer 408

to hook up They first **hooked up** at Coachella, where Jenner, smitten, hopped on Scott’s tour bus and followed him on the road.

Question 409

half-baked

Answer 409

niedopracowany; nieprzemyślany (np. pomysł) Taken together, the numbers show that Goldman essentially borrowed a $5 billion salary payout for its executives in the middle of the global economic crisis it helped cause, using **half-baked** accounting to reel in investors, just months after receiving billions in a taxpayer bailout.

Question 410

to take a wild guess

Answer 410

zgadywać; zgadywać na chybił trafił So what caused the huge spike in oil prices? **Take a wild guess**.

Question 411

menacing

Answer 411

groźny He produced the crowd of **menacing** young men in the video, and in time would become Tekashi’s unofficial manager.

Question 412

pomimo; mimo wszystko; jednakże; niemniej jednak

Answer 412

notwithstanding That upbeat attitude **notwithstanding**, Scott tells me there were hardships at home.

Question 413

spokojny

Answer 413

tranquil Addressing that subject in our second meeting was the only time an ounce of irritation broke through his otherwise formidably **tranquil** demeanor.

Question 414

to rein in

Answer 414

powstrzymać There was only one problem with the deals: All of the wheeling and dealing represented exactly the kind of dangerous speculation that federal regulators are supposed to **rein in**.

Question 415

to sign off on something

Answer 415

podpisać się pod czymś; zaakceptować coś na piśmie He **signed off on** a falsified recommendation for a Silver Star that suggested Tillman had been killed by enemy fire.

Question 416

mieć sporo na głowie

Answer 416

to have a lot on somebodys's plate **I’ve got enough on my plate**. I think the intention of a lot of people at the company is right.

Question 417

be headed to

Answer 417

zmierzać do; być w drodze do The night of the first conversation, **he was headed** for the airport to kick off a three-week trip to India and Myanmar.

Question 418

viceroy

Answer 418

namiestnik He’s also furious that McChrystal, backed by NATO’s allies, refused to put Eikenberry in the pivotal role of **viceroy** in Afghanistan, which would have made him the diplomatic equivalent of the general.

Question 419

to jack up

Answer 419

windować; rozruszać It was a repeat of both the Internet craze and the housing bubble, when Wall Street **jacked up** present-day profits by selling suckers shares of a fictional fantasy future of endlessly rising prices.

Question 420

tu funnel

Answer 420

kierować (np. fundusze) As George Bush’s last Treasury secretary, former Goldman CEO Henry Paulson was the architect of the bailout, a suspiciously self-serving plan to **funnel** trillions of Your Dollars to a handful of his old friends on Wall Street

Question 421

absurdalny

Answer 421

preposterous "At that moment, I knew there was no turning back." Just a few months before, 6ix9ine had still been Danny the deli clerk, with mostly unmarked skin, black hair and **preposterous** dreams of stardom.

Question 422

to corroborate

Answer 422

potwierdzić Grainge was eager to **corroborate** the story. "He’s been to the recording studio maybe 15 times, never for more than an hour or so," Grainge says. "And he’s got 15 hits!"

Question 423

domyślny; niejawny; domniemany

Answer 423

implicit "In the past it was an **implicit** advantage," says Simon Johnson, an economics professor at MIT and former official at the International Monetary Fund, who compares the bailout to the crony capitalism he has seen in Third World countries. "Now it’s more of an explicit advantage."

Question 424

dom szeregowy

Answer 424

row house One day in the summer of 2017, Daniel Hernandez, better known as the rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine, appeared outside a Brooklyn **row house** to shoot the video that would make him a star, and eventually ruin his life.

Question 425

melina

Answer 425

trap house In February, he traveled with a rapper named Taquan Anderson to a **trap house** in Harlem to shoot footage for a new video.

Question 426

zagrażać; narażać na szwank; narażać na niebezpieczeństwo

Answer 426

to jeopardise "It **jeopardizes** the mission," says Stephen Biddle, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations who supports McChrystal.

Question 427

ograniczyć

Answer 427

to curtail He has ordered convoys to **curtail** their reckless driving, put restrictions on the use of air power and severely limited night raids.

Question 428

to shut out

Answer 428

odsunąć od siebie; nie dopuścić do zdobycia punktów; uniemożliwić dostęp The job instead went to British Ambassador Mark Sedwill – a move that effectively increased McChrystal’s influence over diplomacy by **shutting out** a powerful rival.

Question 429

despair

Answer 429

rozpacz; beznadzieja It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of **despair** and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently appointed wasteland.

Question 430

to clamor for something

Answer 430

głośno domagać się czegoś The credit markets were in crisis, and the mantra that had sustained the fantasy economy throughout the Bush years — the notion that housing prices never go down — was now a fully exploded myth, leaving the Street **clamoring** for a new bullshit paradigm to sling.

Question 431

na celowniku, grożąc bronią

Answer 431

at gunpoint In July 2018, he was kidnapped **at gunpoint**, beaten and robbed.

Question 432

swanky

Answer 432

elegancki, wypasiony To celebrate, Grainge took Danny out to dinner at Philippe, a narrow, **swanky** Chinese restaurant in midtown Manhattan, whose private dining rooms often host New York’s athletic and musical celebrities.

Question 433

short of

Answer 433

tu: nie licząć "We will become more deeply engaged here with no way to extricate ourselves," Eikenberry warned, "**short of** allowing the country to descend again into lawlessness and chaos."

Question 434

to look up to somebody

Answer 434

podziwiać kogoś "He started to **look up to** you," Arroyo wrote. McChrystal said he would try to make it down to pay his respects as soon as possible.

Question 435

angażować się w coś od samego początku, tworzyć coś od samego początku, być jednym z pierwszych

Answer 435

to get in on the ground floor The plan is (1) **to get in on the ground floor** of paradigm-shifting legislation, (2) make sure that they’re the profit-making slice of that paradigm and (3) make sure the slice is a big slice.

Question 436

tu: szczebel

Answer 436

rank But as he moved up through the **ranks**, McChrystal relied on the skills he had learned as a troublemaking kid at West Point: knowing precisely how far he could go in a rigid military hierarchy without getting tossed out.

Question 437

zacząć działać; dorzucić się

Answer 437

to kick in It’s not always easy to accept the reality of what we now routinely allow these people to get away with; there’s a kind of collective denial that **kicks in** when a country goes through what America has gone through lately, when a people lose as much prestige and status as we have in the past few years.

Question 438

to scout out

Answer 438

dowiadywać się (czegoś), szukać informacji (na jakiś temat) Having seamlessly navigated the political minefield of the bailout era, Goldman is once again back to its old business, **scouting out** loopholes in a new government-created market with the aid of a new set of alumni occupying key government jobs.

Question 439

to garner

Answer 439

zdobyć He’s **garnered** more than 15 million followers on Instagram, and was at one point in the service’s top 100 users.

Question 440

ramshackle

Answer 440

rozklekotany "Wizard" Lee Weinberg is an affable dude from Long Island who runs a **ramshackle** independent recording studio in Lower Manhattan.

Question 441

clemency

Answer 441

łaska In October, Danny made a request for **clemency** at his sentencing hearing.

Question 442

prowodyr

Answer 442

ringleader The son of a general, McChrystal was also a **ringleader** of the campus dissidents – a dual role that taught him how to thrive in a rigid, top-down environment while thumbing his nose at authority every chance he got.

Question 443

smartass

Answer 443

mądrala "It was just to get my attention," Andrew says. "He was actually just a little **smartass**.

Question 444

to perpetrate

Answer 444

popełnić His decision to spend time at a grueling silent-meditation retreat in the latter country — where the military is **perpetrating** atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims — sparked a significant backlash.

Question 445

popierać kogoś

Answer 445

to have someone's back "Hillary **had Stan’s back** during the strategic review," says an adviser. "She said, ‘If Stan wants it, give him what he needs.’ "

Question 446

to a large extent

Answer 446

w dużym stopniu The media, **to a large extent**, have also given McChrystal a pass on both controversies.

Question 447

zachrypnięty

Answer 447

hoarse In the months following "Gummo," Danny showed surprising versatility, switching from belligerent screaming to a **hoarse**, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop.

Question 448

rozesłać

Answer 448

to circulate That May, she **circulated** a letter to business leaders and the Clinton administration suggesting that banks be required to provide greater disclosure in derivatives trades, and maintain reserves to cushion against losses.

Question 449

tin-pot

Answer 449

marny, kiepski The need to build a credible government puts us at the mercy of whatever **tin-pot** leader we’ve backed – a danger that Eikenberry explicitly warned about in his cable.

Question 450

ogromny (np. postęp), daleko idący (o zmianach)

Answer 450

sweeping Goldman’s role in the **sweeping** global disaster that was the housing bubble is not hard to trace.

Question 451

to turn down

Answer 451

odrzucić (ofertę) Danny, loyal to his "Day Ones," **turned him down**.

Question 452

kule (med.)

Answer 452

crutches I’ve never seen her bend her leg — she’s been on **crutches** my whole life.

Question 453

exemption

Answer 453

zwolnienie It issued the bank a free pass, called the "Bona Fide Hedging" **exemption**, allowing Goldman’s subsidiary to call itself a physical hedger and escape virtually all limits placed on speculators.

Question 454

podpisać się pod czymś; zaakceptować coś na piśmie

Answer 454

to sign off on something He **signed off on** a falsified recommendation for a Silver Star that suggested Tillman had been killed by enemy fire.

Question 455

to denounce

Answer 455

potępiać, piętnować Then, in June 1998, Rubin went public to **denounce** her move, eventually recommending that Congress strip the CFTC of its regulatory authority. In 2000, on its last day in session, Congress passed the now-notorious Commodity Futures Modernization Act, which had been inserted into an 11,000-page spending bill at the last minute, with almost no debate on the floor of the Senate.

Question 456

groźny

Answer 456

menacing He produced the crowd of **menacing** young men in the video, and in time would become Tekashi’s unofficial manager.

Question 457

daring

Answer 457

śmiały Throughout 2017, as his musicianship was improving, Danny doubled down on his already **daring** social media strategy.

Question 458

stroll

Answer 458

przechadzka Then he showed up at Arroyo’s outpost and went on a foot patrol with the troops – not some bullshit photo-op **stroll** through a market, but a real live operation in a dangerous war zone.

Question 459

grueling

Answer 459

wyczerpujący His decision to spend time at a **grueling** silent-meditation retreat in the latter country — where the military is perpetrating atrocities against minority Rohingya Muslims — sparked a significant backlash.

Question 460

zwiastować, zapowiadać

Answer 460

to foreshadow His most compelling work was extracurricular: As managing editor of The Pointer, the West Point literary magazine, McChrystal wrote seven short stories that eerily **foreshadow** many of the issues he would confront in his career.

Question 461

parlor

Answer 461

salon Armed with the semi-secret government exemption, Goldman had become the chief designer of a giant commodities betting **parlor**.

Question 462

to keep things humming

Answer 462

sprawić by coś funkcjonowało sprawnie i płynnie After the oil bubble collapsed last fall, there was no new bubble to **keep things humming** — this time, the money seems to be really gone, like worldwide-depression gone.

Question 463

wyrzucić z

Answer 463

to expel from Not long after, Danny began acting out, and was **expelled from** the eighth grade.

Question 464

bear a resemblance to somebody

Answer 464

być do kogoś podobnym "Sicko Mode," the biggest single of Scott’s career, had been at Number Two on the pop charts for weeks (and would climb to Number One in early December) — a feat all the more remarkable given that it **bears no resemblance** to a single.

Question 465

członek gangu

Answer 465

gangbanger Soon, Danny adopted a strident **gangbanger** image. He began yelling "Treyway" in Instagram posts — a nickname for Shotti’s business platform, but also likely a reference to the Nine Trey nation.

Question 466

osiłek, mięśniak

Answer 466

musclehead "He’d say, ‘Hey – you fucking **muscleheads** couldn’t find lunch without help.

Question 467

less-than-ideal

Answer 467

niespełniający oczekiwań Even Team McChrystal privately acknowledges that Karzai is a **less-than-ideal** partner.

Question 468

w biały dzień

Answer 468

in broad daylight You can’t really register the fact that you’re no longer a citizen of a thriving first-world democracy, that you’re no longer above getting robbed **in broad daylight**, because like an amputee, you can still sort of feel things that are no longer there.

Question 469

przyciągać uwagę

Answer 469

to capture attention In his brief career, Tekashi 6ix9ine **captured America’s attention** with an escalating series of provocations and controversies.

Question 470

ujmujący (o ujmującej powierzchowności)

Answer 470

personable He is, especially judged against certain Silicon Valley stereotypes, highly **personable**; he makes (sometimes very intense) eye contact, laughs easily, has excellent manners.

Question 471

allotment

Answer 471

przydział If the companies go over their **allotment**, they will be able to buy "allocations" or credits from other companies that have managed to produce fewer emissions.

Question 472

na poczekaniu; od ręki

Answer 472

offhand Last year, a staffer for the House Energy and Commerce Committee just happened to be at a briefing when officials from the CFTC made an **offhand** reference to the exemptions.

Question 473

penchant

Answer 473

zamiłowanie, skłonność Displaying a **penchant** for transforming systems he considers outdated, McChrystal set out to revolutionize the training regime for the Rangers.

Question 474

to make of sb/sth

Answer 474

mieć opinię na temat kogoś/czegoś What do you **make of** Elon Musk?

Question 475

felony

Answer 475

przestępstwo Famous rappers have been charged with serious **felonies** in the past, but the indictment brought against Danny and his crew has no precedent in the history of hip-hop.

Question 476

anulować, położyć kres, unieważnić

Answer 476

to quash Danny would **quash** the internet beef, explain that it was all a misunderstanding, and maybe even apologize. Then: lifelong friends.

Question 477

wyraźny; widoczny

Answer 477

pronounced The topics of abuse and our policies have been much more **pronounced** recently.

Question 478

wszechstronność; wielofunkcyjność

Answer 478

versatility In the months following "Gummo," Danny showed surprising **versatility**, switching from belligerent screaming to a hoarse, emotional whisper to AutoTuned Spanish-language pop.

Question 479

ditch

Answer 479

rów; kanał She’s had strokes and shit. I think she rode her bike into a **ditch** or something crazy when she was young.

Question 480

salon

Answer 480

parlor Armed with the semi-secret government exemption, Goldman had become the chief designer of a giant commodities betting **parlor**.

Question 481

to ideate

Answer 481

wymyślać To me, that’s one of the greatest benefits Twitter provides. Elon does it so well. He works in public. He thinks in public. He **ideates** in public.

Question 482

mównica; podium

Answer 482

soapbox So if someone gets up on a little **soapbox**, with a megaphone, and starts yelling, a crowd comes around them and listens.

Question 483

dobrze się zapowiadający, obiecujący

Answer 483

up-and-coming As Pentagon spokesman during the invasion of Iraq, the general seemed more like a White House mouthpiece than an **up-and-coming** commander with a reputation for speaking his mind.

Question 484

badass

Answer 484

twardziel Being a highly intelligent **badass**, he discovered, could take you far – especially in the political chaos that followed September 11th.

Question 485

niezdarny, niezgrabny

Answer 485

ungainly The song contains zero choruses, nothing like a traditional hook and three different beats that transition into one another with intentional **ungainliness**.

Question 486

preposterous

Answer 486

absurdalny "At that moment, I knew there was no turning back." Just a few months before, 6ix9ine had still been Danny the deli clerk, with mostly unmarked skin, black hair and **preposterous** dreams of stardom.

Question 487

rozgrabić, szbarować

Answer 487

to loot When Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his infamous "stuff happens" remark during the **looting** of Baghdad, McChrystal backed him up.

Question 488

załatwić

Answer 488

to finagle He was more impressed that Danny, who’d never had more than a few dollars to his name, managed to **finagle** the Lamborghinis.

Question 489

notion

Answer 489

wyobrażenie; mniemanie The credit markets were in crisis, and the mantra that had sustained the fantasy economy throughout the Bush years — the **notion** that housing prices never go down — was now a fully exploded myth, leaving the Street clamoring for a new bullshit paradigm to sling.

Question 490

strident

Answer 490

wojowniczy Soon, Danny adopted a **strident** gangbanger image. He began yelling "Treyway" in Instagram posts — a nickname for Shotti’s business platform, but also likely a reference to the Nine Trey nation.

Question 491

beef

Answer 491

sprzeczka; skarga Danny would quash the internet **beef**, explain that it was all a misunderstanding, and maybe even apologize. Then: lifelong friends.

Question 492

to push back something

Answer 492

przesuwać, przekładać (np. spotkanie) Scott’s manager says that, during the festival, James Harden hit him up from the Toyota Center, where the Houston Rockets were playing the Sacramento Kings, and asked if Scott could maybe, possibly **push back** his headlining set so that Harden could catch it?

Question 493

at gunpoint

Answer 493

na celowniku, grożąc bronią In July 2018, he was kidnapped **at gunpoint**, beaten and robbed.

Question 494

appointed

Answer 494

tu: urządzony It is a melancholy LP — a nostalgic, narcotized mix of despair and hedonism — about chasing evanescent thrills in an opulently **appointed** wasteland.

Question 495

uklęknąć

Answer 495

to take a knee "You’d be out in Somewhere, Iraq, and someone would **take a knee** beside you, and a corporal would be like ‘Who the fuck is that?’ And it’s fucking Stan McChrystal."

Question 496

to take a knee

Answer 496

uklęknąć "You’d be out in Somewhere, Iraq, and someone would **take a knee** beside you, and a corporal would be like ‘Who the fuck is that?’ And it’s fucking Stan McChrystal."

Question 497

to guzzle

Answer 497

chlać High prices, the bank insisted, were somehow the fault of the piggish American consumer; in 2005, Goldman analysts insisted that we wouldn’t know when oil prices would fall until we knew "when American consumers will stop buying gas-**guzzling** sport utility vehicles and instead seek fuel-efficient alternatives."

Question 498

puddle

Answer 498

kałuża "Hey, Travis, I could get a picture? I make music too, bro," says a dude standing in a **puddle** in a pair of house slippers, going for his phone.

Question 499

peripatetic

Answer 499

zatrudniony w kilku miejscach; wędrowny His nose ring and voluminous facial hair — which prompted a Republican congressman to inform him last year that he doesn’t look like a CEO — make more sense in light of his **peripatetic** pre-Twitter life, in which he trained as a massage therapist, studied botanical illustration and considered a career in fashion design.

Question 500

skrót

Answer 500

shorthand As his career progressed, his visual iconography became cartoon **shorthand** for an emerging demographic.