Misc Flashcards
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Незваный гость
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Interloper
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Troublesome and annoying
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Plaguy (en)
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Inauspicious
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Not conducive to success; unpromising •unlucky
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Blasé
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Indifferent to
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Smugness
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excessive pride in oneself or one’s achievements.
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in a way that shows a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper
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Blithely
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Inventiveness
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Ingenuity
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Թբիլիսի՝ վաճառական ◆ Ժամանակով մի շատ մեծ սովդաքյար կար։ (Երվանդ Լալայան) ◆ - Այ տերտեր, ասում եմ, հայ-քրիստոնեի տանը 100 մանեթն ի՞նչ բան ունի, ես սովդաքյա՞ր եմ, վաճառակա՞ն եմ։ (Պերճ Պռոշյան)
Մուշ, Բաղեշ՝ սիրահար
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սովդաքյար
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թառակի, [գոյական]
- (ժողովրդական) Այգիների թաղ, որ ուրիշ թաղերից բաժանված Է փողոցով՝ ճանապարհով:
- Բնակավայրի թաղ՝ թաղամաս:
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թառակ
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a person who behaves in a wild or reckless manner.
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Tearaway
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Smooth and without seams or obvious joints
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Seamlessness
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The continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet or stanza
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Enjambment
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Unconscious, completely lacking sense or reason. lacking physical sensation.
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Insensate
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Prayer, recital
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Litany
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the state of being mental or spiritual rather than physical.
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innerness
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Sharply delineated
severe or bare in appearance or outline.
complete; sheer.
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Stark
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To cause
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To beget
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He that hath all can have no more
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John Donne
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To court
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To woo
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The quality or fact of being very determined
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Tenacity
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Out of the woods
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Out of difficulties, danger or trouble
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Fluke
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an unlikely chance occurrence, especially a surprising piece of luck
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an action or remark that causes outrage or offence.
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affront
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to cause (someone) to stop and think about something carefully or to have doubts about something I was going to ask her for help, but the look on her face gave me pause.
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To give a pause
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a person without professional or specialized knowledge in a particular subject.
layperson
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Primus Latin
Prime, first rank
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Scourge
cause great suffering to.
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Copulation
sexual intercourse
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Fastidiousness
Fastidiousness is a quality of caring a lot about how accurate or tidy things are.
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the practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case.
Hypocrisy
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Paragon
a person or thing regarded as a perfect example of a particular quality.
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tempt (a person or animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward.
To lure
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Deposition
A deposition is a witness's sworn out-of-court testimony
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Triumvirate
A triumvirate (Latin: triumvirātus) or a triarchy is a political regime ruled or dominated by three powerful individuals known as triumvirs (Latin: triumviri). The arrangement can be formal or informal. Though the three are notionally equal, this is rarely the case in reality.
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Adhesion
allegiance to a particular person, party, or set of ideas.
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To exonerate
of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing.
release someone from (a duty or obligation).
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Fifth column
A fifth column is any group of people who undermine a larger group from within, usually in favor of an enemy group or nation.
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Objection to oath
Conscientious scruples
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Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism refers to various theories that emerged in Western Europe and North America in the 1870s that applied biological concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest to sociology, economics, and politics.
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Paramilitary
A paramilitary organization is a semi-militarized force whose organizational structure, tactics, training, subculture, and (often) function are similar to those of a professional military, but is not formally part of a country's armed forces.
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accept (behaviour that is considered morally wrong or offensive).
To condone
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Nemesis
the inescapable agent of someone's or something's downfall.
a long-standing rival; an arch-enemy.
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the jury is out
a decision has not yet been reached on a controversial subjec
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Dendritic
Having a branched form resembling a tree
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Widerlager
Counterfort
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Cylinder
Glan
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to come to a point beyond which there is no further progress
To hit a wall
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Perspicacity
the quality of having a ready insight into things; shrewdness.
Perspicacious
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Untimely
intempestive
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Surface
La superficie
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points cardinaux
le nord, le sud, l’est, l’ouest
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Mountain range
Le massif montagneux
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Privileged
privilégié
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Thanks to
Grâce à
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Hill
La Colline
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Bold and without shame
Brazen
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(Of a man) readily or frequently enter into casual sexual relationships with women
philander
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A person or thing viewed as the model of excellence
Paragon
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Relating to birds
Avian, eg avian world
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Furtive
Attempting to avoid notice or attention
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Wise or attempting to appear wise
sapient
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A lover esp the illicit partner of a married person
Paramour
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Polygyny
Poly (many) gyny (female the same root as vagina)
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Polyandry
Poly andry ( androgen)
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EPC
Extra-pair copulation
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Avidity
Interest or enthusiasm,
Sexual acidity
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A person’s female lover
inamorata
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A casual romantic or sexual relationship
dalliance
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Filled with bitter criticism or malice
vitriolic
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Extremely hot or intense
searing
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Causing one to feel drained off
enervating
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Statute Charter - German
Satzung
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Mud German
Schlamm
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Self-sufficient German
autark
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Self-sufficiency
Autarkie
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Operating expenses short
opex
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Capital expenditure
capex
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The place where an object is found
find-spot
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Supervisory power German
Kontrolbefugnis
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irritability, excitability, sensitivity
One of the signs of life
German
Reizbarkeit
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Truly wonderful, someone acts in a truly noble way
Sublimity
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Uplifted, high or exalted - Latin
sublimis
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Tissue Greek
histos histology
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Lehre Wissenschaft Greek
logos
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Divisible Greek
meristos Meristem
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the top or highest part of smth 2) climax highest achievement
Latin root
Apex - apical from apicem
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Bundle Latin
fascis => fascicle, fascicular
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Womb Latin
Mater=> matrix
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Network Latin
reticulum
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Green Greek
chloro
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Color Greek
chromo
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Time Greek
chrono
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Old man + root Greek
geronto
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Causation, cause Greek
etio
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White Greek
leuk => Latinized leuco
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Starch Greek
amilum => amiloplast
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Oil, oiliness Greek
Elaeo
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To be turned inside out or folded back on itself to form a cavity or couch
To invaginate - einstülpen
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Thread Greek
mit mito => Mitose
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Fat Greek
lipo
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chosen or designated by oneself
self-anointed
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by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance
intrepid
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Snappy
cleverly concise; neat
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happening as a result of an external factor or chance rather than design or inherent nature.
Coming from outside
Adventitious
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Tanne
Fir, pine, soji
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Perfidious
Deceitful and untrustworthy
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Irascible
Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered
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Northern bald ibis
Bird Al Badia
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clever or cunning devices or expedients, especially as used to trick or deceive others.
Artifice
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a rowdy or mischievous person, especially a child.
hellion
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Perfidious
Deceitful and untrustworthy
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Irascible
Having or showing a tendency to be easily angered
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Northern bald ibis
Bird Al Badia
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Illegal hunting
Poaching
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Spookily
Latin apis bee , scientific study of honey bees
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slevte
Slender and elegant
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Syntropy
The sentence towards energy concentration, order, organization and life
Influence each other in a positive way
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brisk and cheerful readiness.
Alacrity
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Frenzied eg frenzied pace
Wildly excited or uncontrolled
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Bequest
A legacy
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Backwardness
the state of having made less progress than is normal or expected.
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wary
feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems.
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musing
a period of reflection or thought.
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relating to or situated on the shore of the sea or a lake
| A region lying along a shore
littoral
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fail to fulfil or justify (a claim or expectation).
To belie
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to read or study (something) very carefully
To pore over
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To barrage
bombard (someone) with questions, criticisms, complaints, etc.
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Salient
Most noticeable or important 2) of an angle pointing outwards
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Attenuated
Having been reduced in force, effect, or value
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Of new Latin
de novo
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expose the falseness or hollowness of (an idea or belief).
To debunk
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100 years old or older person
Centenarian
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Filled to overflowing
chock-full
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How many plant and animal species
| How many microbial species
10 Million
| 1 trillion
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shard
A piece of broken ceramic metal glass or rock typically having sharp edges
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To gain traction
An Zugkraft gewinnen
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Enabling someone to discover or learn smth for themselves
heuristic
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Bona fide
Latin with good faith
Real genuine
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Acerbic
Sharp and forthright
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Excessively fond of drinking
Bibulous
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umpteen
Indefinitely many
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To minimize or omit something in an account in order to obscure, conceal, or diminish the importance of it.
To gloss over
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having an extreme or irrational fear of entering open or crowded places, of leaving one's own home, or of being in places from which escape is difficult.
agoraphobic
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an important or exceptionally able person.
Hotshot 🔥💉
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an informal expression of encouragement or admiration to a man or boy.
Attaboy!
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used to express surprise or alarm.
Jeepers
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Pöckeln
Pickling
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Ermessen
Discretion, gauge, estimate
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Einwand erheben
Tontaube an objektiven
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hingerichtet
Executed, put to death
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Zuchthaus
Prison, penitentiary
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From soup to nuts
From beginning to end
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very unwilling to spend money or use resources.
parsimonious
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a pirate or lawless adventurer.
Freebooter
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noticeable or prominent in an unwelcome or intrusive way.
obtrusive
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Néant
Nil, nought
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Mg
Constituent de chlorophyll, s’accumule particulièrement dans la pulpe 50-150mg/l vin
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Cils et agrafes de palissage
Clip
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Agrafe
Clip
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Phosphate
L’excès de phosphate favorisent le casse ferrique
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oinos logos
Vin discours
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an ancient Celtic fortified town, especially one under Roman rule.
oppidum, pl oppida
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1a : an act of pouring a liquid as a sacrifice (as to a deity)
They offered a libation at the temple.
b : a liquid (such as wine) used in a libation
2a : an act or instance of drinking often ceremoniously
a libation to celebrate their anniversary
b : BEVERAGE
especially : a drink containing alcohol
His favorite libation is scotch on the rocks.
Libation
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entreposer
To store to stock
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Wineskin
Outre à vin
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Bucket
Le seau
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Douelle, merrain
Stave
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Plughole, banghole
Une bonde
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aubier
white sapwood, sans aubier (for barrels)
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L’ouillage
Topping off
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La forêt française
16 mio ha (4th in Europe after Sweden, Finland, Spain), 3/4 private. 35% oak out of 16 mio ha
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is a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons.
tundra
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is an ecoregion characterized by grassland plains without trees apart from those near rivers and lakes.[
Steppe
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Chênaie
Oak wood
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Quercus suber
Thermochimies, héliophile, xérophile
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Caduque
Arbres à feuilles caduques qui tombent en hiver (opposé à persistant).
Quercus pédonculé et sessile sont caduque
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Q. robur / p.
Préfère les milieux frais et humide
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Q. petrara / sessile
Préfères les sols secs
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guêpe
Wasp
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regurgitate
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bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth.
"gulls regurgitate food for the chicks"
Similar:
vomit
bring up
disgorge
regorge
2.
repeat (information) without analysing or comprehending it.
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L’essaim
Swarm
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100 millions de levures par kilogramme de vendange
Levure
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Ensemencement
Sowing, seeding
As well for yeasts …
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Toutefois
Nevertheless, however
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En dépit de
In spite of
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10-20g/hl LSA
5 milliards de levures par litre de moût
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La piqûre acétique
= acescence
Acétobacter et gluconobacter transforment le sucre et l’alcool en acide acétique
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Redoutable
Formidable, fearsome
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Chaptalisation
1.7 kg/hl => 1% alc
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a sudden and ignominious failure; a fiasco.
Debacle
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Septentrional
of the north", is a Latinate adjective
Septentrionaux
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Accroître
To jncrease
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Mouillage
Jesus units
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L’inconvenient
Disadvantage
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Néanmois
However
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Cleaves rouges %
France 70%
| 55-60 % au niveau mondial
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Disposer d’un levier
To dispose a lever
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L’écoulage
Drain off, run off
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effondrer
To collapse
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destemming - crushing
Éraflage-foulage
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Autovidante
Self-emptying
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% des polyphenols initiaux sont extraits?
30-60%, 50%
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MPC
Macération préfermentaire chaud
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Là flash détente
Sous l’effet du vide poussé la vendange chaude voit sa température s’abaisser de 50C en une fraction de seconde
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Inter alia
Among other things
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wary and unwilling to take risks.
circumspect
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(used when comparing two or more cases or situations) making necessary alterations while not affecting the main point at issue.
mutatis mutandis
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une exigence
requirement
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la répartition
distribution
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la pointe
Point, tip
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là gélivure
Winter injury
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briser
To shatter to break to smash
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Houppier
Canopy (tree?)
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France climat
Se situe entre le 43 et le 51 * de latitude nord, le 45 passe par Bordeaux et par Valence. Le pays est traversé par l’isotherme 12C, 800mm .
551.000km2, 1000km du nord au sud et a peu près l’équivalent de l’est à l’ouest
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Presqu’île
peninsula
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Espace ouvert aux influences océaniques
Il n’y a en dehors du Massif central, pas d’obstacle aux vents d’Ouest.
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The verb allay is used when you want to make something better or eliminate fears and concerns.
To allay
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Le littoral
Coastline
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La débourrement
Budding?
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sous abri
Under shelter
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Estival
"Estival" traces back to "aestas," which is the Latin word for "summer" (and which also gave us "estivate," a verb for spending the summer in a torpid state - a sort of hot-weather equivalent of hibernation).
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(of an insect, fish, or amphibian) spend a hot or dry period in a prolonged state of torpor or dormancy.
Estivate, aestivate
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Canicule
Dog-days, heat wave
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sciaphile
Sciaphile - shade loving shade plant shade tolerant
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Attenuation
the process of making something less or weaker:
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Cold sedimentation
Débourbage au froid
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Les procédés
the production processes
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Inertage poussé
Inertage poussé
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First wine in neolithique
Le rosé de simple foulage est probablement le premier vin élaboré au neolithique à partir de raisins noirs sauvages.
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Direct pressing
Le pressurage direct
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Overripe Grapes
De raisins surmûris
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nuisible
harmful
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défrichement
Land clearing
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La pâture
Pasture
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La garrigue
scrubland
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Relentir
Slow down
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Oak forests
La hausse des températures provoque une augmentation de l’evapotranspiration 40mm/an. La multiplication des saisons sèches ralentit la croissance des arbres, provoque une diminution de leur cime (crown) et multiplie les petites branches, ce qui réduit leurs qualités pour la tonnellerie.
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Échalas
Stakes For support
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Why did they privilege oak?
The wood doesn’t rot
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Iconoclasm is the social belief in the importance of the destruction of icons and other images or monuments, most frequently for religious or political reasons.
Iconoclasm
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Law of unintended consequences
loi des conséquences imprévues
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Photosynthesis
Optimal 25-30C
45C
Above 50C leaves may die because the proteins in the leaves lose their structure faster than they can be repaired
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How many H2O molecules are lost for one CO2 molecule?
Mature leaf ca 200-600
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Quercus robur
=quercus pedunculata
15% de la forêt française
20-35m, commun dans toute la F. sauf Méditerranée et Corse, hygrophile, héliophile. Il s’implante surtout dans les plaines, les collines et jusqu’à la base de l’étage montagnard. Deux tiers de la chaînais. Ils. Besoin de 8C (végétation 13C). Sa souricière est menacé si la température tombe à 5C.
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Quercus petracea, Quercus sessiliflora
Dit aussi chêne du Tronçais ou chêne du centre, 12% de la forêt française, ces glands sont sessiles (qui n’ont pas de pétiole ) , les feuilles reste attachée en l’hiver. 20-40m. Rejette aussi la souche. Absent dans le sud ouest et méditerranéenne. Il résiste mieux à la sécheresse estivale. Une espèce de demi-ombre. Il aime les sols filtrant, épais (trick, heavy), légèrement acides. Grain plus fin, les tannons se libèrent moins vite dans le vin, plus riche en Eugénie et methyl-octalactone. Plus recherché pour les vins fin.
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Quercus alba
Les rhumes sont plus épaisses ce qui permet d’obtenir des fûts étanches même en sciant les billons
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To sneeze
Éternuer
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soixantaine
About si tu
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Balonge
Basket for carrying harvest
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Benne
Harvest bin
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le coût de production
Cost of production
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Sawing splitting
Sciage fendage
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De la grume au merrain, pus des planches à la douelle, il y a une perte de l’ordre de 80%
Waste in oak production
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5m3 grume
1m3 douelles - 10-12 fûts
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Débittage
Cutting sawing
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Se cintrer
To bend
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Se cintrer
To bend
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Requirement
Exigence
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Liable to decay
Putrescible
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Teuffeau
Limestone in Loire
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Bauernschlau
cunnigly
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Étroite
Narrow
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un brasero
Une chaufferette - (tonnellerie)
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La durée de chauffe - cintrage au feu
Environ 30 minutes
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Cintrage à vapeur ou encore l’immersion des rouelles dans l’eau chaude de 90C à 120C
Avant le cintrage pendant 20 minutes afin de les assouplir et de les débarrasser aussi dans les deux cas des composés à caractères amers des tannins âpres, astringents. Cela permet accentuer le fruité par rapport au boisé des vins. Après l’immersion le fût est cintrée puis passé à la flamme
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Chauffe tonnellerie industrielle
Émissions d’onde à infrarouge ou par des résistances électriques
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Chauffe au gaz
Employé surtout pour les barriques destinés à conteneur les alcools
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À court terme
Short term
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Rayonnement un
Influence radiance
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Un effondrement
Collâmes, break-down
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Antilles
French West Indies in the Carribean
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Abattu
Felled (tree)
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Tarière
Auger, drill
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Le flottage
Log driving (wood), floating
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La fonte
Smelting, thawing
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Puiser
Scoop out
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the writing of the lives of saints.
| a biography that treats its subject with undue reverence.
Hagiography
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a weakness, especially in a person's character; a shortcoming.
Failing
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a secret political clique or faction.
| A secret intrigue
Cabal
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make a soft sucking sound such as that made by treading heavily through mud.
Squelch
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a situation in which further action or progress by opposing or competing parties seems impossible. Draw
Stalemate
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an open rebellion against the proper auth
Mutiny
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Fournisseur
Contractor, supplier
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Entonnage
Barreling
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La floraison la nouaison
Flowering, fruit set
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Maîtriser la maturité
Control the maturity
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La gelée
Frost
