Unit 3 Flashcards by Encarna Gonzalez

innocent as a child

Naive (Elena)

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an adult who trust people too much

Gullible (Elena)

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able to be trusted

Reliable (Elena)

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showing agreement and giving encouragement

Supportive ( Elena)

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believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere

Cynical (Elena)

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someone who is willing to accept someone else’s beliefs or way of life

tolerant (paula)

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someone who have doubts about something that other people think is true or right

sceptical (paula)

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someone you can trust to do what you expected

trustworthy (paula)

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aim to do

set out (paula)

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keep doing

stick at (paula)

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Not pay for doing something bad

Get away with (Silvia)

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Take revenge or repay a loan

Pay back (Silvia)

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See in public doing something

Going around (Silvia)

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Do something planned

Carry out (Silvia)

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Ask for

Called for (Silvia)

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Tolerate or accept

Put up with (Balza)

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Invent

Make up (Balza)

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To “say goodbye”

See off(Balza)

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Check something

Go over(Balza)

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To invent an explanation for something

Make up (Jimena)

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To depend or rely on

Count on(Balza)

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To accept something you do not like in a patient way

Put up with (Jimena)

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Something you do not believe it is correct because it does not match other information you know

Add up (Jimena)

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To go somewhere like an airport to say goodbye to them

See off (Jimena)

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To escape with something, especially something stolen

Make off with (Jimena)

Happen, take place

Come about (Jose)

to avoid (duty, a task, etc.) by sneaking

Get away from (Jose)

to be less active and relax more

Slow down (Jose)

a dishonest scheme, a fraud

Scam (Jose)

make (something) more attractive by the addition of decorative details or features

Embellish (Jose)

to escape with something, especially something stolen.

Get away with (Amaya)

Stop doing smth (maybe do it again in the future)

Give up (Javier Caña)

The first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise

Dawn (Amaya)

Stop doing smth (with intencion of never do it again)

Give in (Javier Caña)

to depend on someone to do what you want or expect them to do for you.

Count on (Amaya)

To tolerate smth (for example someone's attitude)

Put up with (Javier Caña)

strong hostility

Animosity (Amaya)

a tool used for chopping wood, typically of iron with a steel edge and wooden handle

Axe (Amaya)

The first time in the day when the sun appears

Dawn(Javier Caña)

Not habitated

Uninhabitated (Javier Caña)

To make more effective

Reinforced (Miguel)

To make more beautiful by decorating

Embellish (Miguel)

spreading widely throughout an area or a group of people.

Pervasive (Miguel)

A false argument

Fallacy (Miguel)

Money

Currency (Miguel)

Something not normal, ie: an issue or problem.

Anomaly (Julian)

Appear or come out

Emerge (Julian)

when a volcano becomes active or something suddenly occurs.

Erupt (Julian)

Rot or decompose

Decay (Julian)

Political Advertising

Propaganda (Julian)

Causing dismay or horror

appalling (Sara)

A dead body, usually of a human being

corpse (Sara)

having a pleasantly soft, rounded body or shape

plump (Sara)

A travel or passage or a journey, esp. a long journey by water to a distant place

voyage (Sara)

To support or bear up from below; | bear the weight of

sustain (Sara)

Contiunuing for a long time

Sustained (María)

A piece of clothing

Garment (María)

To improve the quality of something by adding something else

Enrich (María)

Something very bad

Appalling (María)

Present or noticeable in every part of a thing or place

Pervasive (María)

take care of

look after (Antonio)

continuing for a extended period or without interruption

sustained (Antonio)

a cylindrical container bulging out in the middle

barrel (Antonio)

make something more attractive by the addition of decorative details

embellised (antonio)

refers to deviation from fact or form for artistic purposes

artistic licence (antonio)

When a bad smell starts to disapear

Go off (Francisco )

Turn on a machine

Go off(Francisco)

When you are ill and your body wants to have free the stomach

Throw up (Francisco)

Strange things

Anomalies (Francisco)

Getting bigger and bigger

Increase (Francisco)

something that has been or may be inherited by legal descent or succession.

heritage(kaixuan)

a woman advocate of female suffrage.

suffragette(kaixuan)

subject matter, language, or style producing or designed to produce startling or thrilling impressions or to excite and please vulgar taste.

sensationalist(kaixuan)

past; gone by; earlier; former:

bygone(kaixuan)

Cause something or someone to be questioned.

cast doubt on(kaixuan)

Unit 3 Flashcards

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