Dictionary Flashcards
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Shpellar - Troglodyte
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Ha si derr -eat with porcide abandon
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Përçarë - fissiparous = inclined to cause or undergo division into separate parts or groups.
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Sympathises with their nationalist growing-pains
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= a 1930s English observation of nationalist views in Persia😀
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A sounder of pig = a group of pigs
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Glissade of shale= rreshqitje në guralecë
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If they could swap him for small pox they would
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(relevant for some Albanian politians)
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Peace had been established on the exhaustion of cruelty.
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Seneca
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We sluiced ourselves with water from a pail. U lamë me kovë
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Ribaldry = përqesh në mënyrë vulgare
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When did dad become hench = kur qenka bere trup babai? (observation from Seb)
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Mind-forged manacles
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Mëllenjë = blackbird
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Luaresha = skylark
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Shkurtëza = common quail
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Dallendyshe nate = nightjar
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Epicathic fold = An epicanthal fold is a skin fold of the upper eyelid covering the inner corner of the eye. It is often seen as a normal finding in very young children and is also common in people of Asiatic decent.qepallë dyfishe e syrit
karakteristike e aziatikëve
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Obstreperous = mistrec zhurmaxhi
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It’s better to lose time than temper in negotiations - Thomas Rowe
first English ambassador to Mogul India in 17th century
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Etiolate = zvenit (of plants
become pale through lack of sunlight) etiolate a historical experience
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Lee of a hill = shpati i kodres prapa eres
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Obsequious servant = sherbetor servil
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Bosky landscape = covered in trees or bushes
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Every age is a Golden Age for those who have the gold. Bettany Hughes
Seven Wonders if the Ancient World
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Suppurating wellspring of shame= gurre e pashtreshme turpi te qelbosur
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Chesterton fence = Do not remove a fence until you know why it was put up in the first place
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Dissonant question
lacking in harmony with other questions. Pyetje pa vend?
