Pack 2 Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Bait

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• small amount of food on a hook to attract a fish or an animal
• smth offered to people to make them react
Take the bait
• make dogs to attack an animal for fun

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2
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Tops

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• the best, most excellent
• maximum

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3
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Get ahold of

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Communicate by phone

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4
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Reside

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To live, have your home, stay in a place

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5
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Tear down

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Intentionally destroy building

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6
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Regalia

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• traditional formal clothes
• any set of special clothes

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7
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Fat chance

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Never happening

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Chalk smth up

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Achieve smth, a victory, to score points in a game

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9
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Deploy

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• use in effective way
• move soldiers to where they can be used when needed

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10
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Task force

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Group of people brought together to do a particular job, military group with an aim

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Crepe

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• thin light pancake
• thin cloth with a surface with wrinkles
• strong type of rubber on shoes

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12
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Bass

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Fish in rivers that’s eaten as food

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13
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Conveyor belt

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Continuous moving strip/surface for transporting objects

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14
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Premise

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An idea or theory on which a statement or action is based

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15
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Glazed

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• made of or containing glass
• eyes still and not showing any emotion because you are bored or tired
• shiny surface by putting liquid and leaving it or heating to dry

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16
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Indelibly

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• impossible to remove by washing
• impossible to forget, permanent influence or effect

17
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Audacious

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Willingness to take risks or offend people

18
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Hinterland

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• land behind the coast, area of country that’s far away from cities
• area surrounding a big city of port on which the city or port depends for economic growth

19
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Avid

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Extremely eager or interested

20
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Languid

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Moving or speaking slowly with little energy (or lacking enthusiasm), often in an attractive way

21
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Jiggle

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Move from side to side or up and down with quick short movements, or to make something do this

22
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Storm

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• take smn/smth by storm - be suddenly extremely successful
• attack by entering suddenly in great numbers
• express anger in loud and uncontrolled way
• storm in/into/our - enter or leave showing that you’re angry

23
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Taxi rank

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Place where taxis wait for customers

24
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Recede

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• move further away into the distance, to become less clear or less bright
• get lower in value, amount, or number

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Skirt
• cow meat part • to go around the edge of smth (also skirt round) • avoid discussing because you don't want to deal with it
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Briskly
In a quick energetic way
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Tempt
• make smn do smth wrong • be tempted - want smth
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Guise
Appearance of smn or smth, especially when intended to deceive In the guise of Under the guise of
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Lingering
Lasting a long time Linger - take a long time to leave or disappear
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Defiantly
• proudly refuse to obey • not willing to accept criticism or disapproval
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Comprise
Have things/people as parts/members, consist of
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Vault
• type of arc that supports a roof • room with a strong door in a bank • room in cemetery • jump over by first putting your hands on it or by using a pole • move smn or smth suddenly to a much more important position