New words

Question 1

to flatline

Answer 1

być stale na niskim poziomie,
umrzeć

• informal
• to remain at a continuous low level
• stop increasing but not decrese

Question 2

to crowdsource advice on

Answer 2

• pozyskać porade o
• to outsource work to an unspecified group of people, typically by making an appeal to the general public on the internet
• crowdsource knowledge
• You really need to crowdsource ideas.

Question 3

to clear the arteries of

Answer 3

oczyścić arterie

• remove unnecessary stuff from the inner workings
• deleting my old photographs cleared the arteries of my computer

Question 4

an artery

Answer 4

tętnica, ale także arteria (droga/dopływ)

• [c]
• plural arteries
• Clarence Street was one of the north-bound arteries of the central business district.
• …the point where the Ohio River, itself a great artery, joins the Mississippi.

Question 5

extraneous

Answer 5

• nieistotny, poboczny
• obcy, zewnętrzny
• not relevant or related, not essential
• Extraneous things are not relevant or essential to the situation you are involved in or the subject you are talking about
• It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information
• the simple design avoided extraneous elements that would detract from the clean look

Question 6

to detract from

Answer 6

ujmować, umniejszać (coś), szkodzić (czemuś), odrywać uwagę, narusza

*If one thing detracts from another, it makes it seem less good or impressive

• His bad acting detracted from the movie
• the building detracts from the beauty of the area
• This, however, does not detract from the fact that new regulations in this area may inevitably cause tension (Wszelako nie umniejsza to faktu, że nowe regulacje we wspomnianej dziedzinie mogą wywołać nieuniknione napięcia)
• Whilst Community law does not detract from the power of the Member States (Podczas gdy prawo wspólnotowe nie narusza praw państw członkowskich)

Question 7

to distract sth from sth

Answer 7

rozpraszać, dekoncentrować

*If something distracts you or your attention from something, it takes your attention away from it

• Don’t let yourself be distracted by fashionable theories.
• A disturbance in the street distracted my attention

Question 8

stem the inflow

Answer 8

powstrzymać napływ

• reduce the inward movement
• the recycling campaign has helped to stem the inflow of waste into our local landfill site

Question 9

landfill site

Answer 9

wysypisko śmieci

*a place where rubbish is buried in a large deep hole

Question 10

to nest

Answer 10

chować jedno w drugie

• to fit one into another
• the bowls are three different sizes so they nest, making them easy to store

Question 11

to stack / to pile

Answer 11

układać w stos(jedno na drugim)

• syn: pile
• If you stack a number of things, you arrange them in neat piles (porządny stos)
• if you pile things somewhere, you put them there so that they form a pile.
• He was piling clothes into the suitcase.
• A few newspapers and magazines were piled on a table
• they are stacked neatly in piles of three

Question 12

to store

Answer 12

przechowywać

• When you store things, you put them in a container or other place and leave them there until they are needed.
• some types of garden furniture must be stored inside in the winter

Question 13

be wide awake

Answer 13

byc całkowicie obudzonym

• completely alert
• someone who is wide awake is fully awake and unable to sleep
• syn: fully awake
• he was wide awake
• I could not relax and still felt wide awake

Question 14

to nod off uncontrolably

Answer 14

przysypiać, przysnąć

• fall asleep when you don’t mean to
• If you nod off, you fall asleep, especially when you had not intended to.
• The judge appeared to nod off yesterday while a witness was being cross-examined.
• she began to nod off uncontrolably

Question 15

to sleep on it

Answer 15

przespać się z czymś aby podjąć decyzję

*If you are trying to make a decision and you say that you will sleep on it, you mean that you will delay making a decision on it until the following day, so you have time to think about it.

• Sleep on it and talk about it.
• I will have to sleep on it and see where we are.

Question 16

to drift off to sleep

Answer 16

• powoli zasypiać
• If you drift off to sleep, you gradually fall asleep.
• It was only when he finally drifted off to sleep that the headaches eased
• Pop this calming eye mask on and you’ll drift off in minutes.

Question 17

to not sleep a wink

Answer 17

• nie zmrużyć oka
• If you say that you did not sleep a wink or did not get a wink of sleep, you mean that you tried to go to sleep but could not.
• I didn’t get a wink of sleep on the aeroplane.
• he didn’t sleep a wink
• I hardly slept a wink

Question 18

to oversleep

Answer 18

*zaspać

• wake up later than you mean to
• If you oversleep, you sleep longer than you should have done

-she has a tendency to oversleep

Question 19

a pile of sth

Answer 19

stos

• [c]
• A pile of things is a mass of them that is high in the middle and has sloping sides
• A pile of things is a quantity of things that have been put neatly somewhere so that each thing is on top of the one below
• a pile of boxes.
• We sat in Sam’s study, among the piles of books.
• The clothes were folded in a neat pile

Question 20

to make the assumption about sth

Answer 20

*założyć, zakładać

• If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
• form an opinion that something is true without proof

-when I heard his accent, I made the assumption that he was from India

Question 21

przypuszczenie, założenie

Answer 21

an assumption

• [c]
• make; base something on; challenge common assumptions
• on the assumption that; assumption about

-We are working on the assumption that everyone invited will turn up
It was impossible to make assumptions about people’s reactions

Question 22

to immigrate to

Answer 22

imigrować DO

• If someone immigrates to a particular country, they come to live or work in that country, after leaving the country where they were born.
• a Russian-born professor who had immigrated to the United States

Question 23

to emigrate from

Answer 23

emigrować Z

• If you emigrate, you leave your own country
• My grandparents emigrated from Vietnam to the US in the 1980s.

Question 24

to do a very good imitation of

Answer 24

kopiować / imitować

• copies
• My brother does a very good imitation of Bruce Lee’s way of moving

Question 25

1. imitacja [c] | 2. naśladowanie [uc]

Answer 25

* countable noun An imitation of something is a copy of it. *uncountable noun Imitation means copying someone else's actions. - the most accurate imitation of Chinese architecture in Europe - Molly learned her golf by imitation

Question 26

tonal language

Answer 26

toniczny *where meaning is related to the high or low quality of sound - Chinese is a tonal language, which means the rising (wschodzący) and falling (schodzący) of the voice is important - he then explained the tonal differences between male and female voices are very different and distinct (odmienny)

Question 27

authenticity of

Answer 27

autentyczność, oryginalność * the quality or state of being authentic; reliability; genuineness * truth, genuineness (autentyczność, prawdziwość) -I doubted the authenticity of his accent