Week 5-6 Flashcards
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Adjourn
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Atidetas
I suggest that the meeting be adjourned.
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Intriquing
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Interesting but strange and surprising
3
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Squander
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Carelessly waste
4
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Randomly
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Without any definite plan
5
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To come ip
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Think of an idea
6
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Clear-cut
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Easy to be certain about
This time the relationship between social soending and happiness was much more clear-cut
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On two counts
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In two ways
Most were wrong on two counts: firts and second.
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A call
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Demand
There is clearly a call for teaching people
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Serious misgivings
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To have doubts about future
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Important Misconceptions about what counts as a natural high
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Poor judgement or reasoning
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Misprint
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Typing error
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Mistrustfull
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Nepasitikintys
Some people are mistrustful of conventional medicine but are happy to try a strangest natural renedies
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Misantrope/ pic
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Someone who does not like people, avoids them
14
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Unassuming
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Showing no desire to be noticed or given special treatment
He is quite unassuming and never seems to want any credit for all the wonderful work he does
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Inadvertently
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Without realising what you are doing
I inadvertently picked up someones elses suitcase
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Insipid
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Without much taste
I never liked watermelon juice- it is rather insipid if you ask me
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Nondescript
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Very ordinary and not interesting on unusual
He was such nondescriptive little man that no one would ever have imagined him capable of painting surrealistic masterpieces
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Nonchalant
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Behaving calmly and not seeming interested in anything or worried about anything
She asked trying to look nonchalant as she could
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Disgruntled
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Annoyed or disapointed, especially because things have not happened in the way you wanted
A group of disgruntled students occupied the man administration block
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Corps
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Dead body
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Tailor-made Holiday Trip Course Suit Service
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Specificaly made for you
22
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Consumer-driven lifestyle
Fashion
Technology
Design
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Vartotojiskas gyvenimo budas
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Authenticity
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Autentiskumes
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Inauthentic world
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Neautentiskas pasaulis
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High- minded
Cause
Person
Ambition
Reason
Principle
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Having high moral standard
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Custom-made house
Padarytasvray
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Forebears
Proteviai
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Sham
Klastote, fiktyvu
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Long - dead relative
Seniai mires giminaitis
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Portrayal
Vaizdavimas, aprasymas, piesimas
Portray- vaizduoti
Portrait- portretas
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Dispute
Gincytis, gincas
| Diskutuoti, aptarti
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Whereabouts
Buvimo vieta
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Carry out
Conduct,obey,
carry away
To move or excite greatly: was carried away by desire.
carry forward
Accounting To transfer (an entry) to the next column, page, or book, or to another account.
carry off
1. To cause the death of: was carried off by a fever.
2. To handle successfully: carried off the difficult situation with aplomb.
carry on
1. To conduct; maintain: carry on a thriving business.
2. To engage in: carry on a love affair.
3. To continue without halting; persevere: carry on in the face of disaster.
4. To behave in an excited, improper, or silly manner.
carry out
1. To put into practice or effect: carry out a new policy.
2. To follow or obey: carry out instructions.
3. To bring to a conclusion; accomplish: carried out the mission successfully.
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Conclusive
Serving to put an end to doubt, question, or uncertainty; decisive: conclusive evidence.
Itikinami, galutiniai
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Hoarder
1. A supply or store of something held or hidden for future use.
2. A collection or supply, as of memories or information, that one keeps to oneself for future use.
v. hoard·ed, hoard·ing, hoards
v. tr.
1. To accumulate a hoard of: hoarded his money in a box under the bed.
2. To accumulate as much of (something) as one can, as when fearing a shortage.
3. To keep hidden or private: "the impulse to hoard the raw material of experience and turn it into art"
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Flank
Sonas,
Sparnas
Prieiti is sono
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Prosaic
Kasdieniskas
1. commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact; unimaginative: a prosaic mind.
2. of or like prose rather than poetry.
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Bulge
1. A protruding part; an outward curve or swelling.
2. Nautical A bilge.
3. A sudden, usually temporary increase in number or quantity: The baby boom created a bulge in school enrollment.
v. bulged, bulg·ing, bulg·es
v.intr.
To swell, protrude, or curve outward: a wall bulging after a flood; muscles bulging under a shirt.Pampti
a wallet bulging with money; a clown's pants that ballooned at the waist; a sail bellying in the wind; a boulder jutting from the hillside; a deck that projected from the house in back; eyes protruding from their sockets in astonishment.
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Bizarre
Very strange or unusual, especially in a striking or shocking way
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Menangerie
Zverynas
a. A collection of live wild animals on exhibition.
b. The place where such animals are kept.
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Mouldy
Old and rotting
1. (Botany) covered with mould
2. stale or musty, esp from age or lack of use
3. slang boring; dullOld and rotting
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Stockpilling
the activity of acquiring and storing a large quantity of something
Stockpile - supply stored for future use
Kaupimas
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Redundant
1. Exceeding what is necessary or natural; superfluous.
2. Needlessly wordy or repetitive in expression: a student paper filled with redundant phrases.
3. Of or relating to linguistic redundancy.
4. Chiefly British Dismissed or laid off from work, as for being no longer needed.
5. Electronics Of or involving redundancy in electronic equipment.
6. Of or involving redundancy in the transmission of messages.
7. Genetics
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Eccentricity
Ekravagantiskumas
| Ekscentriskas
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Compel
1. To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain: The court compelled the company to pay full restitution. My conscience compels me to speak out. See Synonyms at force.
2. To necessitate or require, as by force of circumstance; demand: Growing riots compelled the evacuation of the embassy.
3. To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway: "The land, in a certain, very real way, compels the minds of the people" (Barry Lopez).
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Overflowing
1. To flow or run over the top, brim, or banks: The river overflowed and flooded surrounding neighborhoods.
2. To be filled beyond capacity, as a container or waterway.
3. To have a boundless supply; be superabundant.
Overflowing garages
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Lifelong
Continuing for a lifetime.
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Impassable
Imposable to go through
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Commandeered
1. To seize for military or police use; confiscate.
2. To take arbitrarily or by force: "He was at Columbia when students commandeered buildings and the police sprayed the protesters with tear gas"
Pasisavinti
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Clutter
1. A confused or disordered state or collection; a jumble: sorted through the clutter in the attic.
2. A confused noise; a clatter.
v. clut·tered, clut·ter·ing, clut·ters
v. tr.
1. To fill or spread over in a disorderly manner: Boxes cluttered the garage.
2. To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects: I cluttered up my desk with old memos.
Griozdai, netvarka
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Accomodate
Sutalpinti
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Evidently
Matyt, aiskiai, neabejotinai
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Intruder
Isibrovelis
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Dusmental
Ismontuoti, isardyti
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Ubiquitous
Common place, happening everywhere
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Glimpse
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To see smth very quickly, unintentional
To catch a glimpse of smth
Glanse- intentional
To glance over ines shoulder
To get a whiff of smth- short, quicke inhalation
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To raise objections to smth the proposal to build..
To complaint
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Posses a risk
Smth is potentialy dengerous
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Contented
Happy
Satisfied with things as they are; content:
As tv is broken you jave to content yourself with listening to the radio
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Indulge in
o engage or take part in something, especially freely, avidly, and for one's own sake or pleasure:
Pataikauti, nuolaidziauti, megautis
1. to take pleasure in doing something; to do something habitually. No, I don't indulge in contact sports anymore. We don't indulge in strenuous activity.
2. to choose to eat a certain food or drink something, usually alcohol. I don't usually indulge in hard spirits, but just this once. I indulge in chocolate until I can't hold any more.
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Inclined
Linkes
To cause (someone) to have a certain tendency: dispose: "His active, daring temperament little inclined him to patient, quiet study" (Harriet Beecher Stowe).
2. To dispose (someone) to have a certain preference or opinion or to take a course of action: I'm inclined to agree with you. Are you inclined to go to out tonight?
3. To cause to lean, slant, or slope: "Galileo ... inclined the plane and rolled brass balls down it" (George Johnson). See Synonyms at slant.
4. To bend or lower in a nod or bow: I inclined my head in acquiescence.
v.intr.
1. To be disposed to a certain preference, opinion, or course of action: Some researchers incline toward a different view of the problem.
2. To deviate from the horizontal or vertical; slant: When the path inclined steeply, it became difficult to continue hiking.
3. To lower or bend the head or body, as in a nod or bow.
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Definitively
Galutinai
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Envious
Pavydus
Envy- pavydas
1. a feeling of grudging or somewhat admiring discontent aroused by the possessions, achievements, or qualities of another
2. the desire to have for oneself something possessed by another; covetousness
3. an object of envy
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Plausible
Tiketinas, mokantis itikinti
1. Seemingly or apparently valid, likely, or acceptable; credible: a plausible excuse.
2. Persuasive or ingratiating, especially in an effort to deceive.
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Rature
Susizavijimas, extaze
1. the state of mind resulting from feelings of high emotion; joyous ecstasy
2. (often plural) an expression of ecstatic joy
3. the act of transporting a person from one sphere of existence to another, esp from earth to heaven
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Delight
Malonumas, gerejimasis, zavejimasis
1. Great pleasure; joy: The proud parents' faces beamed with delight.
2. Something that gives great pleasure or enjoyment: The vacation was a delight for the whole family.
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Clergyman
Dvasininkas
| The body of people ordained or recognized by a religious community as ritual or spiritual leaders. Dvasininkas
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To be reliant on
Dependant
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Comprehensive test/ research
Complete, through
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Invariably
Always happens the same way
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Console
Guosyi, raminti
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Solaced
Paguosti, nuraminti, pralinksminti
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Pavement
Saligatvis, grindinys
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Decisive
Lemiamas
| Conusive
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Necessiate
Reikalauti, priversti
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To deceive
Apgauti, apdumti, buti neistikimam , tureti iliuziju
