Week 3 Flashcards
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Talking about salary and remuneration: to proportionate TO sth
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To be commensurate WITH sth
Your remuneration, salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.
2
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To be very sad
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To be/feel downcast (adj) by one’s misfortune
3
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Newborn Baby Infant Toddler (can move around and stuff) Child Tween (11-12; slang) Teenager/adolescent Young adult Adult The elderly
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Newborn Baby Infant Toddler (can move around and stuff) Child Tween (11-12; slang) Teenager/adolescent Young adult Adult The elderly
4
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Behaves like a child but you’re an adult
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Childish (negative)
Puerile
Juvenile
Infantile
5
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Youthful appearance, behaves innocently
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Childlike (positive)
6
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The way sb appears both appearance and behavior
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Demeanour (N)
7
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Too old to be doing what they are doing
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Geriatric (negative)
Aging
8
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Adolescent
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Juvenile
9
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Adult
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Mature
10
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Boyish
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Youthful
11
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To exclude sb from their group
Marginaliser
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To alienate sb
12
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To make fun OF sb/sth
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To make fun OF sb/sth
13
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To cringe (v)
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To cringe
Cringeworthy (adj)
14
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Irritating, annoying
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Irksome (adj)
15
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Really terrible
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Appalled (adj)
Appalling (adj)
16
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Future possibility. It is likely that
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Prospect (n,c)
There is a (very) (real) prospect OF our team winning the match.
What are the job, prospects like in your country?
17
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To make sth serious seem less serious
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To downplay sth (an incident)
18
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Require
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Demand
Need
19
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End
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Conclude
20
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How many of sth is in one specific place
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Concentration
21
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Sb who has the same strength or power or rank as you
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Equals (n,p)
22
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Sb in the same interest/social group as you
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Peers (n,c)
23
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Encourage
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Promote
24
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Sort out
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Sort out
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Beg for the question
Beg for the question
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When 2 parties finish negotiating sth and both are happy
Settle a deal, a contract, an argument
27
Amount + unc
Amount + unc
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Drive sb to do sth
Drive sb to do sth
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Insist ON
Insist ON
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Push sb to do sth
Push sb to do sth
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Result IN
Result IN
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Lead TO
Lead TO
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Proportion OF (%, fraction, 3/4)
Proportion OF
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A number on a page (no meaning, just representation)
Figure
35
Quantity + cont. (not people)
| Think commercial/scientific
Quantity + count.
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Number + count. (Animate / inanimate)
Number + count.
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Espérance de vie
Life expectancy
38
Atteindre un âge
To reach their (90th) birthday
39
A legal document that explains inheritance
| Un testament
A will (N)
40
When you ask for a retrial because you disagree with the verdict
To make an appeal
41
(Adj) complete/without any missing information
Thorough (adj) thoroughly (adv)
- -> knowledge
- -> research
- -> student
- -> worker
Thorough student, worker: Sb who does things COMPLETELY, leaves nothing unfinished
42
Unforgettable knowledge
Unforgettable knowledge
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Vivid imagination
Vivid imagination
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Utter failure
Utter failure
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Considérer que qqn est qqch
To consider sb to be sth
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By using
By means
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A time when
A point at which
| At which point
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Not actively searching for sth, but being aware of it happens
To be ON the lookout FOR sth
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A topic worth discussing
A talking point
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Avoir la chance, l'opportunité de
To have a (good/slim) chance OF doing sth
| To be in with a chance OF doing sth
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In my opinion
My opinion about this is
As far as I am concerned
As far as sth is concerned
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To be about to do sth
To be ON the point OF doing sth
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Faire une impression sur qqn
To make an impression ON sb
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Change
Alter
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Entourer
Encircle sth
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To Update
Amend
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To change to suit a new content
Adapt
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Change sth in a very small way to make sth work
Adjust
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Fermer
To enclose
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Le cours de l'histoire
The course of history
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Sth happened after sth else
Followed
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Succéder (royauté)
Succeed
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Faire - en maths (le contraire d'additionner)
Subtract
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Reduce
Cut
65
Sth is accessible
Sth is within the reach of sb
66
Beaucoup de liberté
Great freedom
67
Symbolise
Represent
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A lot of luxury
Considerable luxury
69
Faire plus que qqch
To do more than sth
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To affect sth in a way that changes it forever
To leave a mark ON sth
71
To grow quickly, suddenly from nothing
To spring up
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Films: exaggerated emotions
Melodrama
73
Films: use humour, irony to make fun of sth
Satire
74
Films: artificial, deliberately created
Contrived
75
Films: complex (negative)
Convoluted
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Films: holds attention, exciting
Gripping
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Films: makes you think
Thought-provoking
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Films: dark
Macabre
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Films: inspires feelings of affection in you
Endearing
80
Films: sb is interesting
Engaging
81
Threatening
Menacing
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Trying to impress others, be sth that you're not
Pretentious
83
Hopeless
Tragic
84
Not appreciated enough
Underrated
85
That you are born with
Innate
86
On the other hand
Conversely
87
Full of
Crammed with
88
Sharp
Acute
89
Clear understanding
Insights
90
Approving of
Sympathetic to
91
Original
Innovative
92
A strong feeling of disappointed/betrayal when sb's promises are not met
Disenchantment (N)
Disenchanted (adj)
The people were disenchanted when they realized their newly elected President failed to accomplish his promises.
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State of deep unconsciousness
Coma
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Funny
Comic
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Usual
Common
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Order
Command
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Express annoyance
Complain
98
Group of people living together
Community
99
Totally
Completely
100
Small room in a railway carriage
Compartment
101
Something adding new difficulties
Complication
102
Including everything special (tests, research, study)
Comprehensive
103
Understandable
Comprehensible
104
Showing sympathy
Compassionate
105
Payment for inconvenience or loss
Compensation
106
Pass on information
Communicate
107
Give a commentary
Commentate
108
A lot of noise and confusion
Commotion (unc)
109
Start (v)
Commence
110
Business organisation
Company
111
Force (v), to compel sb to do sth (strongly persuade sb to do sth, almost force)
Compel
112
,
Comma
113
Thing used to tidy hair, peigne
Comb
114
Anyway
Nonetheless
115
Invest a lot of money in sth
To pour money INTO sth
116
To build, construct
| For structures that need to be assembled
To put UP (a treehouse)
Opposite of to dismantle, disassemble, take sth apart, to pull sth apart
117
take sth apart, to pull sth apart
To dismantle, disassemble
118
When you do a lot of work that is unappreciated
To be taken for granted
119
To have a lot of work to do, so you're too busy to have fun
To be deluged with work
To be snowed under with work
To be up to my ears in work
120
When you want to emphasise that that a task/problem is easy/not complicated (usually said when sb else is having a problem)
Sth isn't rocket science
121
Being able to stay fashionable with technology / what's popular as you and the time progresses
To keep up with the times
122
Susceptible, sth bad happens to you often
To be prone to + infinitive
123
Rappeler, souvenir
To remind sb OF sth, sb
124
( Se retirer, congé )
It's time to call it a day
125
Sth has a negative impact on sth
Sth takes a (terrible) toll on sth
126
- strange, weird, (adj)
- rare, uncommon, doesn't happen a lot
- number 1,3,5,7,9
- chance %
Odd
The odd cold : The cold I get sometimes, rarely
The odds of Tottenham beating Arsenal is next to nothing
127
A time period
Era
128
An old's person home
A retirement home
| A nursing home
129
Sth before my birth
Sth was before my time
130
To be very old
To be as old as the hills
131
A way of
A means of
132
Feels, seems, looks like sth you have seen before
To be reminiscent of sth
133
- sth heavy + uncomfortable that you carry (litt)
- adj
Result : makes you slow, uncomfortable, busy and tired
A burden
134
Reckless + stupid
Foolhardy (adj)
135
Sb who pays much attention to detail in their work
Conscientious (adj)
136
Sth you want to happen, but actually is impossible
Sth is wishful thinking (adj)
137
(Adj) I see what you mean but..
Granted
138
Relaxed, easy-going
Laid-back (adj)
139
Change direction suddenly (accident de voiture par ex)
To veer
140
When the situation is reversed
When the boot is on the other foot
