Prueba Final Flashcards

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Major

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The main subject that a student studies at college or university

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Enroll

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To officially join a school, university or course

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Tunnel vision

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Thinking about one part of a plan or problem instead of considering all the parts

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Shift

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A change

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Drop out

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To leave school before you finish a course

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Strategy

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A planned series of actions for achieving something

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Supportive

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Giving help or encouragment

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Management

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The act of controlling and organizing someon’s work or time

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Bribe

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To offer a person something special in order to make the person do something

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Ultimately

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Finally, after everything else has been done or considered

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Environment

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The situations that affect the way we live and work

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Volunteer

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To do something without expecting money

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Process

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A series of actions done to get a result

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Take a chance

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To do semething risky

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Figure out

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To think about a problem until you find a solution

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Play your cards right

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To do everything necessary to succeed

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Play second fiddle

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To accept that you have a lower position

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Get the lowdown

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To get facts about something

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Get your hands dirty

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To become involved in all aspects of something including work that is unpleasant or less interesting

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Play it by ear

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To act without preparation

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Get out of heand

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To become uncontrolled

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Affect

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To do something that produce an affect or change in something

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Ensure

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To make sure something will happen in the right way

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Facilitator

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Someone who helps a group of people discuss things with each other

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Incarcerate
To put or keep someone in prison
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Move on
To let negativity go and then change and improve your life
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Offender
Someone who is guilty of a crime
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Outcome
The final result of a meeting or discussion
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Restitution
The act of giving something back to the victim of a crime
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Remorse
To feel sorry for something negative that happened
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Tension
A nervous or worried feeling that make it impossible to relax
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Lose it
Become very angry or upset
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Brake the law
Doing something illegal
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Forgive
Stop being angry at someone, although they did something wrong
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Shocked
Surprised and upset by something unpleasant
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Pouring out
Telling someone all your feeling because you are unhappy
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Arrest
Take someone away
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Detain
Stop someone from leaving
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Try
Judge an offender in court
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Convict
Announce that someone may have broken the law
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Sentence
Tell an offender his or her punishment
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Greenhouse gas
A gas specially carbon dioxide (CO2) or methane (CH4), that traps heat above the Earth and causes global warming
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Resource
A supply of something useful such as land , oil or coal
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Transport
To take goods or people form one place to another in a vehicle
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Generation
All people of about the same age
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Collectively
As a group
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Consumption
The use of energy, oil or electricity
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A drop in the bucket
An action that has a little or no effect
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Raised bed
An area in a garden that is used to grow plants
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Solar panel
Equipment that makes energy from the sun
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Dense
Made of a lot of things that are very close together
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Industries
Groups of businesses, each of which makes the same type of product
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Factories
Buildings where products are made by machines
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Energy efficient
Using less of a resource (gas, oil, water)
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Technology
Machines that are based on modern knowledge of science and computers
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Emissions
Gases that go into the air