Pack 1 Flashcards
(107 cards)
1
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What does ‘good riddance’ mean?
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A feeling of relief at being rid of something unwanted
2
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What is the definition of ‘props’?
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Pay respect, stage props, prop a ladder
3
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What does ‘modifier’ refer to?
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Limiting or adding meaning
4
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Define ‘robust’.
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Healthy animal or unbreakable system, full of flavor
5
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What are ‘munutae’?
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Not important details
6
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What does ‘heyday’ mean?
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Most successful period
7
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What does ‘indifferent’ mean?
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Not interested
8
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What does ‘discourage’ mean?
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Make less confident, prevent something from happening
9
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Define ‘piety’.
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Strong belief
10
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What does ‘itinerant’ mean?
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Traveling
11
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What is a ‘stuffed animal’?
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Cozy toy
12
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What does ‘muster’ mean?
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Encourage support or emotion, come together, group of soldiers
13
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What sound does a sheep make?
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Bleat
14
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What is a ‘sermon’?
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Priest gives a talk, boring talk with advice
15
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What does ‘snug’ mean?
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Warm and protected, small room or area
16
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What is a ‘strand’?
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Thin thread, part that combines with others, shore, beach
17
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What does ‘deceptively’ imply?
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Lying
18
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What does ‘mire’ refer to?
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Involved in difficult situation, deep wet sticky earth
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What does ‘cohere’ mean?
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Hold together as unit
20
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What does ‘wobbly’ describe?
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Moving from side to side
21
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What does ‘nauseated’ mean?
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Ready to puke
22
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What does ‘hefty’ refer to?
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Large
23
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What does ‘utterly’ mean?
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Completely or extremely
24
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What is a ‘treatise’?
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Formal writing
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What does 'revive' mean?
Bring back to life
26
Define 'feud'.
Old argument
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What does 'subvert' mean?
Destroy from inside
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What does 'meticulously' imply?
Attention to detail
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What does 'coveted' mean?
Strongly desired
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What does 'unjust' mean?
Not fair
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What does 'abide' mean?
Accept, live somewhere, lasting for a long time
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What does 'commend' mean?
Formally praise
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What is a 'bête noire'?
Enemy
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What does 'fin de siècle' refer to?
End of the 19th century
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What does 'apprehension' mean?
Worry or fear, arresting criminal, understanding
36
Define 'frailty'.
Weakness
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What does 'sweeping' mean?
Affecting many things, disapproving generalisation, easy win, having great effect
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What is 'immolation'?
Suicide or destroying something by burning
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What is an 'echo chamber'?
People only hear opinions they want to hear
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What does 'moderation' refer to?
Reasonable limits, becoming less
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What does 'deft' mean?
Skilful, clever or quick
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What does 'tackle' mean?
Attack or deal with, equipment for fishing
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Fill in the blank: To _______ means to start holding someone or something.
catch/grab/get/take hold of smn/smth
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What does 'tug' mean?
Pull quickly with force, engine boat to pull ships
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What does 'recapture' mean?
Take into possession again, repeats style, experience that emotion again
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What is a 'hallmark'?
Typical characteristic or feature, bear the hallmarks of, have the hallmarks of, put an official mark in UK on hold or silver
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What does 'meld' mean?
Combine
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What is a 'tribute'?
Show respect formally, pay tribute, be a tribute to - show how cool something is, also showing benefit or positive effect
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What does 'tang' mean?
Strong sharp good taste or smell
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What does 'fathom' mean?
Discover meaning, fathom something out, unit of deep water measurement
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What does 'ludicrous' mean?
Stupid, laughable
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What does 'eminently' mean?
Very, obviously, very well
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What does 'beguile' mean?
Charm sometimes in order to deceive
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What is a 'concourse'?
Large room where people meet or pass through
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What does 'throng' mean?
Crowd, go somewhere in large numbers
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What does 'scuttle' mean?
Move quickly with small short steps, cause to fail, stop happening, intentionally sink own ship
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What does 'furtive' mean?
Done secretly, unnoticed
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What does 'board' mean?
Get on train, stay somewhere, board up - cover up, room and meals provided, above board - legal and honest, across the board - affecting all areas, actively involve, take on board - accept a new idea
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What is a 'quarry'?
Hole for stone dug, something being hunted
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What does 'ease' mean?
Start moving slowly
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What does 'profoundly' mean?
Deeply or extremely
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What does 'faux' mean?
Fake
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What does 'demotic' mean?
Modern Greek, old Egyptian, informal slang of ordinary people, relating to ordinary people
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What does 'mockney' refer to?
Fake cockney
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What does 'wary' mean?
Untrusting
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What is 'privet'?
Evergreen hedge
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What does 'bulbous' mean?
Fat and round body part
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What does 'punctuate' mean?
Interrupt something repeatedly
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What does 'decent' mean?
Being related to a particular person, group of people arrives suddenly, movement down, a surface that slopes downwards, like hills
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Once in a blue moon, the twelfth of never
Once in a hundred years, date that will never come
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Aposiopesis
Not finished sentence, because author shows he doesn't want to finish
72
Cram
• force a lot of people or things into a small space
• to do many things in a short period of time
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Moulder
• decay slowly
• to be left somewhere and not used or cared for
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Quietude
State of being calm
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Stultify
To prevent something from developing or prevent someone from developing new ideas
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Affluence
State of having a lot of money or owning many things
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Squalor
The condition of being extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of lack of money
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USP
Unique selling point feature of a product that makes it different from and better than other similar products and that can be emphasized in advertisements for the product
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Emphasize
• to show that something is very important or worth giving attention to
• to make something more obvious
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Novelty
• the quality of being new and unusual
• a cheap unusual object such as a small toy, often given as a present
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Wear off
Feeling or the effect of something wears of, i.e. gradually disappears
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i.e
id est, Latin for that is
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Wind
• breath or ability to breathe
• words that do not mean anything and false statements (it's just wind)
• gas in the bowels or in a baby's stomach, especially when it's uncomfortable
• wind section - woodwind instruments in orchestra
• to turn or to cause something to turn (wound the handle)
• wind up/down - cause the window to open/close by turning a handle
• wind back - the noise you can hear is the tape winding back
• wind up - make clock to work by turning a key
• if a road, path, river winds, it follows a route that turns repeatedly in different directions
• wrap something around an object several times (wound a scarf around her neck)
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Faucet
• device that controls the flow of liquid, especially water, from a pipe
• something that allows a supply of something such as money, information, or people to flow
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Vulture
• large bird with no feathers on head that eats flesh of dead animals
• a person or organization that is eager to win an advantage from other people's difficulties or problems
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Eager
• wanting very much to do or have something, especially something interesting or enjoyable
Eager for
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Pancy
Small garden plant that has flowers of many different colors these rounded petals
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Peddle
• sell things, especially by taking them to different places
• peddle stories - spread them by telling different people
• try to influence people's opinions or make them believe something
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Expose
• remove what's covering something so that it can be seen
• allow light to shine on photographic film, as part of producing an image or in a way the destroys an image
• put something at risk from something harmful or unpleasant
• make public something bad or dishonest
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Searing
• feeling, temperature that's extreme
• very powerful, especially of a criticism or story, emotional, criticizing someone very strongly
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Divvy
• stupid person
• dividend, part of the profit of a company that is paid to the shareholders
• share something between different people or groups (divvies up)
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Two-bit
Worth very little, or not very important
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Crook
• very dishonest person, especially a criminal or a cheat
• bend, the inside part of arm where it bends
• long stick with a curved end, especially one carried by a shepherd or a bishop
• bad or ill
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Lousy
• very bad
When you feel insulted by something
Lousy with - full of something, has too much of it
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Precinct
• part of a city in which vehicles are not allowed, used for a special purpose, such as shopping
• area around building, especially with a wall around it
• part of a city protected by police that's used for voting purposes
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Soused
• fish that's preserved in salty water or vinegar
• drunk, old-fashioned
• put something into a liquid, or to make something completely wet
97
Schmuck
Mainly US informal, stupid or silly person
98
Deadbeat
• US informal, a person who is not willing to work, doesn't behave in a responsible way, and doesn't fit into ordinary society
• person/company that's not willing to pay debts or accept responsibility
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Tush
• old use exclamation, when something is stupid or not true
• US informal, the part of body that you sit on, bottom
100
Elocution
Art of careful public speaking, using clear pronunciation and good breathing to control the voice
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Commemorate
Remember officially and give respect to a great person or event, especially by a public ceremony or by making a statue or special building
102
Inamorata
A woman someone is in love with
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Salvage yard
• place where old machines and cars are taken apart so the metal and other parts they contain can be used again
• salvage - save good from damage or destruction, especially from a ship that has sunk or being damaged or a building that has been damaged by fire or a flood
• try to make a bad situation better
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Take apart
• separate into different parts
• defeat someone easily in a sport
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Idiosyncratic
Having strange or unusual habits, ways of behaving or features
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Ingenuity
Someone's ability to think of clever new ways of doing something
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Capricious
Changing mood or behavior suddenly and unexpectedly
