Red Box Flashcards
(114 cards)
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Convoluted
A
Complicated
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Harrowing
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Extremely upsetting
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Squirming
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Awkward movement
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Vaguely
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Not clearly expressed
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Fancies
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To want something
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Open-mic stand-up evening
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Everybody can sing or perform stand-up comedy
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Gender-bending
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A person who wears the clothes and copies the behaviour of the opposite sex
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Thorny
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Difficult to deal with
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Re-vamped
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To change something to improve it
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Coup
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A sudden illegal taking of government power
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Waging
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To fight a war
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Intervened
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To prevent something to happen
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Ceasefire
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An agreement between two armies to stop fighting and discuss peace
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Indicted
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To accuse someone of a crime
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Collateral damage
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During a war, the unintentional death of innocent people and damage that is caused to their homes and lives
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Heavy-handed
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Using too much force in dealing with someone
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Fuelling
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To make something worse
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Atrocity
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An extremely cruel act
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Provoked
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To cause a negative reaction
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To stem
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To stop something unwanted from spreading
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To take something with a pinch of salt
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To not completely believe something that you are told
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Precision
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Being exact
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To bridge
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To bring something together
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Grievances
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Treated unfairly
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Entrenched
Old ideas that can’t be changed
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Harbouring
To protect someone by providing a place to hide
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Tensions
Feeling of fear between two who don’t trust each other
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Infested
To be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome
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Chronic
Lasting a long time;
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Quack
Being a quack
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Wheezy
To breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound
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Stem cell
A cell that upon division replaces its own numbers and also gives rise to cells that differentiate further into one or more specialized types, as various B cells and T cells
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Slippery slope
A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous
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Minefield
A subject, situation, etc, beset with hidden problems
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Pave the way for
Make possible
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Overreliance
Trusting someone to much
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Resistant
Someone who resists
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Vivisection
Action of cutting into or dissecting a living body or living animals, in order to learn more about disease and bodily functions
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Prone
Having a natural tendency toward something
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IVF
In Vitro Fertilization
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Cackles
To laugh in this way
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Self-deprecating
Undervaluing oneself
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Deadpan
Straight-faced
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Gullible
Too willing to believe everything
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Sniggering
To laugh quietly but disrespectfully
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Giggles
A silly, often high-pitched laugh
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Peculiar
Strange
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Spoof
A lighthearted imitation of someone or something
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Slapstick
Comedy characterized by silly, noisy, and physically violent action
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Corny
Old-fashioned
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Punchline
The point in a joke and is the source of humor
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PC
Politically correct
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Hysterics
A fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping
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Detained
To keep under restraint
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Suspended
Temporarily keeping someone, or a group or team, out of a job, organization, school, etc.
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Mitigating
To lessen in force or intensity
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Gross
Flagrant and extreme
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Misconduct
To misbehave
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Libellous
Containing, constituting, or involving a libel
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Eminent
High in rank or reputation
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Destitute
Without means to live
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Clamped
Impose stricter control
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Unprovoked
Having no apparent cause or reason
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Culprits
A person guilty of an offense or fault, or one accused
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Inciting
To stimulate to action;
| stir up
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Riot
A noisy, violent public disorder
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Flab
Unwanted fat
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Mind-numbing
Extremely boring and uninspiring
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Hail
To cheer, salute, or greet
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Banter
Playful teasing
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Likelihood
Probability
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Devout
Having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment
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Lapse
a brief failure of concentration
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Moralise
Comment on issues of right and wrong
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Merits
The quality of being particularly good
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Secular
Not connected with religious or spiritual matters
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Sceptical
Not easily convinced
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Evangelical
Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion
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Reincarnation
The rebirth of a soul in another body
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Pagan
A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions
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Dabbled
Immerse (one's hands or feet) partially in water and move them around gently
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Verging
Be very close or similar to
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Hubcap
A removable cover for the center of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle
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Bonnet
An automobile hood
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Junction
A place or point where two or more things meet or are joined, such as a station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge, or an intersection of roads
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Budge
To (cause to) move slightly
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Sulk
To keep oneself from normal conversation or apart from others while remaining in a sullen, angry, or offended mood
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Xenophobe
A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs
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Fleeced
To take money or belongings by dishonesty, fraud, or deception
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Clingy
To remain attached, as to a person
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Stroppy
Termsbad-tempered or hostile
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Earnest
Full seriousness
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Dodder
To shake;
| tremble
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Demographic
A single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths
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Scrap-heap
A place for dumping useless things
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Livid
Enraged;
| furiously angry
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Minefield
an area of land or water where mines have been put
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Throwaway comment
something that someone says or writes quickly, without thinking carefully about it
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Mortified
to humiliate (someone), as by an injury to self-respect
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Faux pas
an embarrassing social error
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De rigueur
strictly required, as by etiquette, usage, or fashion
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Blasé
indifferent to or bored with life
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Effing
euphemism for fuck: eff off
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Blinding
extremely bright
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Blasphemous
(an act of) speaking or acting irreverently or disrespectfully concerning God or sacred things
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Dumbing
lacking intelligence or good judgment;
| stupid
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Dogged
persistent in effort;
| refusing to give up
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B-movies
a low-budget movie made esp. to accompany a major feature film on a double bill
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The rails
begin behaving in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way
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Resurrect
to raise from the dead;
| bring to life again
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Tabloids
a newspaper about half the size of an ordinary newspaper, usually with many pictures and often featuring sensational stories
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Sham
a person or thing pretending to be someone or something else;
fraud
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Denominator
something shared or held in common;
| standard
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Injunction
an order by a court requiring a person to do a particular act
