Words P1-50 Flashcards
(125 cards)
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Entice
A
Our special offers are intended to entice people to buy.
SYN - persuade
to persuade someone to do something or go somewhere
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Defacate
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The drug’s side-effects can include involuntary defecation.
stool
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Defacate
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The drug’s side-effects can include involuntary defecation.
stool
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Geyser
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a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
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Buffer[v./n.]
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v. - Consumer spending is buffering the effects of the recession
n. - Eastern Europe was important to Russia as a buffer against the West.
[v.] to reduce the bad effects of something
[n.] PROTECTION
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Toll
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The death toll has risen to 83.
the number of people killed or injured in a particular accident
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Tunnel
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a passage that has been dug under the ground for cars, trains etc to go through
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Pleasantry
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Stephen and Mr Illing exchanged pleasantries.
things that you say to someone in order to be polite
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Branch
A
All branches of government are having to cut costs.
OF GOVERNMENT a part of a government or organization that deals things
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Feud
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The neighboring states are feuding over the rights to the river
argument
fight
quarrel - especially British English
feud /fjuːd/
dispute - a public or legal argument about something, especially one which continues for a long
war/battle of words - an argument in which two people or groups criticize each other continuously in public
shouting match - an angry argument in which people shout at each other: He got into a shouting match with another driver.
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conviction
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1. a very strong belief or opinion
The Dotens have a deep conviction that marriage is for life.
2. the feeling of being sure about something and having no doubts
He was able to say with conviction that he had changed.
*3. a decision in a court of law that someone is guilty of a crime, or the process of proving that someone is guilty *
They had no previous convictions.
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Integrity
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**I am sorrt, are you questioning my intergrity as a scientist? **
* SYN - honest / goodness / virtue / honor
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Asparagus
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a type of green vegetable
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sweet potato
Yam
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American English - a type of sweet potato
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Scenario
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It is difficult to imagine a scenario in which the company will give this information freely.
a written description of the characters, place, and things that will happen in a film, play etc
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Criterion - criteria
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standard / benchmark / principle / rule
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Pip
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the one of most famous and abysmal story was five orange pips
a small seed from a fruit such as an apple or orange
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Distress
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The girl was crying and clearly in distress.
[n.] a feeling of extreme unhappiness:
in distress
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Frastration
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Anger
Annoyance
Irritation
Frustration
Resentment
rancor
spleen
People often feel a sense of frustration that they are not being promoted quickly enough.
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Bear fruit
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But the flow of information is likely to beat fruit in several ways.
to have a successful result
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Vie
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APPs are vying to see if they can diagnose everything from skin cancer and concussion to Parkinson’s disease.
to compete very hard with someone in order to get something
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Pore over
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Data can be pored over by those who are interested.
to read or look at something very carefully for a long time
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Outlet
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▪ shop - especially British English store especially American English
▪ boutique -a small shop that sells fashionable clothes or other objects
▪ department store - a very large shop that is divided into several big parts
▪ grocery store - American English
▪ salon
▪ nursery - especially American English a place that sells a wide range of plants, seeds, and things for your garden
▪ outlet ▪ mall
▪ market ▪ strip mall
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Stigma
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The stigma of alcoholism makes it difficult to treat. / The stigma of mental illness remains healthy.
a strong feeling in society that being in a particular situation or having a particular illness is something to be ashamed of
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**small beer**
Small beer considering the scale of the problems and of the prime minister’s avowed ambition.
*If you say that something is small beer, you mean that it is unimportant in comparison with something else.*
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**Avowed**
*admitted or said publicly*
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**Knead**
▪ grate - *to cut cheese, carrot etc into small pieces by rubbing it against a special tool*
▪ melt
▪ sift - *American English to put flour or other powders through a sieve (=tool)*
▪ chop
▪ dice - *to cut vegetables or meat into small square pieces*
▪ season - *to add salt, pepper etc to food: Season the meat before grilling.*
▪ crush
▪ mix
▪ beat/whisk -*to mix food together quickly with a fork or other tool*
▪ stir
▪ fold something in
▪ knead
▪ drizzle -*to slowly pour a small amount of a liquid onto something*
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Muse
**He mused on how different his life would have been, had he not met Louisa.**
Ponder / comtemplate / consider
*to think about something for a long time*
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Ruminate
He sat alone, ruminating on the injustice of the world.
*to think carefully and deeply about something*
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--**Deliberate** v.
**There was silence while she deliberated on his words.**
*to think about something very carefully*
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**Taxing**
**The job turned out to be more taxing than I'd expected**
*needing a lot of effort*
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Exacting
And since when did being exacting become a health risk?
*demanding a lot of effort, careful work or skill*
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**Torrent**
**That man tortured me with a torrent of nonsense.**
a torrent of something - a lot of words spoken quickly, especially in order to insult or criticize someone
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Slay - slew - slain
**Two teenagers were slain in the shootings.**
*to kill someone*
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**Intently**
**He gazed intently at his watch.**
having the mind, attention, or will concentrated on something or some end or purpose
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Vulgar
These types of programs are often vulgar, tasteless and base.
*not behaving politely in social situations*
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**Intoxicating**
**the intoxicating combination of her beauty and wit**
*making you feel happy, excited, and unable to think clearly*
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Rampant
Abuse of power among senior officials is said to be rampant
*if something bad, such as crime or disease, is rampant, there is a lot oRampantf it and it is very difficult to control ⇨ rife, widespread*
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**Adamant**
She begged me to change my mind, but I remained adamant.
SYN - determined / fixed / stubborn
*determined not to change your opinion or a decision that you have made*
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**Furrow**
**Quin’s brow furrowed in concentration.**
*to make the skin on your face form deep lines or folds, especially because you are worried or thinking hard*
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**Livestock**
**She kept some livestock in the barn, including her pet pig, Misery.**
*animals such as cows and sheep that are kept on a farm ⇨ **cattle***
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**Furtive**
**Many try to hide their surprise, but their furtive glances say it all.**
*behaving as if you want to keep something secret*
SYN secretive
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**Shuttle**
SYN commute
**Susan shuttles between Rotterdam and London for her job.**
| to travel frequently between two places
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Jeer
SYN - Gide
**The President fired his secretary who jeered the party in parliament.**
*to laugh at someone or shout unkind things at them in a way that shows you do not respect them*
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Stifle
OPP encourage
SYN suppress / silence / stop
**rules and regulations that stifle innovation**
| to stop something from happening or developing
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**Turn down**
Modern day, lots of Britain students choose to turn down the Cambridge, then go to the Ivy League in United States.
| to refuse an offer, request, or invitation
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**Exorbitant**
SYN
expensive
pricey
costly
cost a fortune
exorbitant
astronomical
overpriced
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Sketch
SYN
draw
sketch - *to draw a picture of something or someone quickly and without a lot of detail*
illustrate - *to draw the pictures in a book*
doodle - *to draw without really thinking about what you are doing*
scribble - *small children do this before they have learned to draw or write*
trace - *to copy a picture by putting a piece of thin paper over it and drawing the lines that you can see through the paper*
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Verge
be on the verge of something
*to be at the point where something is about to happen*
**We live in a world on the verge of XXX. / Doge looked to be on the verge of tears.**
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**Scuffle**
**Scuffles broke out between rival supporters during the match.**
▪ fight
▪ battle
▪ scuffle - *a short fight that is not very violent*
▪ brawl - *a noisy fight between a group of people*
▪ altercation formal
▪ riot - *a fight involving a large number of people, especially people who are protesting*
| a short fight that is not very violent
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Brink
the brink (of something)
a situation when you are almost in a new situation, usually a bad one
**The company had huge debts and was on the brink of collapse.**
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Sneaker
**a pair of white sneakers**
a type of light soft shoe with a rubber sole (=bottom), used for sports
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Cannon Fodder
ordinary soldiers whose lives are not considered to be very important, and who are sent to fight where they are likely to get killed
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**Palpable**
obvious; clear; evident; manifest; visible
**When she encountered a like-minded voter, her relief was palpable.**
a feeling that is palpable is so strong that other people notice it and can feel it around them
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**Accusation**
His administration now faces accusations of corruption.
*a statement saying that someone is guilty of a crime or of doing something wrong*
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Allegation
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Indictment
*especially American English law an official written statement charging someone with a criminal offence*
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Scorching
**a scorching hot day**
extremely hot
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Quell
SYN calm / pacify / mollify / assuage
**Twice Monday President Trump tweeted to try to quell shortage fear.**
| to reduce or stop unpleasant feelings such as fear, doubt, or worry
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Flock
**People have been flocking to the exhibition.**
if people flock to a place, they go there in large numbers because something interesting or exciting is happening there
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**Foment**
SYN stir up = incite = provoke
**That could actually foment violence. So the stakes are very very high.**
*to cause trouble and make people start fighting each other or opposing the government*
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Uphold
**The conviction was upheld by the Court of Appeal**.
*if a court upholds a decision made by another court, it states that the decision was correct*
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Proliferation
**The proliferation of global media networds.**
a sudden increase in the amount or number of something
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**Meager**
**a relatively meager piece of this pie**
*a meagre amount of food, money etc is too small and is much less than you need* ⇨ substantial
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-- **Fabrication**
the process of making or producing something
SYN - **manufacture**
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Myraid
**the myraid causes of homelessness**
*very many*
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-- **Wake**
**Famine followed in the wake of the drought.**
in the wake of something
*if something, especially something bad, happens in the wake of an event, it happens afterwards and usually as a result of it*
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Futility
*the injustice and futility of terrorism.*
Futility is a total lack of purpose or usefulness.
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**Tedious**
SYN
boring
not very interesting
dull = bland
tedious
mundane
**The work was tiring and tedious.**
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-- **Booster**
**a dance organized by the school’s booster club**
| someone who gives a lot of support to a person, organization, or idea
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**Bludgeon**
*1. to hit someone several times with something heavy:*
**He was bludgeoned to death with a hammer.**
*2. to force someone to do something by making threats or arguing with them*
**I won’t let myself be bludgeoned into marriage.**
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Belligerent
SYN aggressive
**a belligerent attitude**
*very unfriendly and wanting to argue or fight*
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Roll out
**The company expects to roll out the new software in September.**
to make a new product available for people to buy or use
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**Lessen**
**I know in my bones that these sentiments lesseen the pain of grief.**
*to become smaller in size, importance, or value, or make something do this*
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**Aver**
SYN declare
**He avers that chaos will erupt if he loses...**
| tosay something firmly and strongly because you are sure that it is true
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Perpetrator
**The he argued that dietary fat was fingered for decades as the perpetrator of obesity, diabetes and heart disease.**
someone who does something morally wrong or illegal ⇨ culprit
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**Abet**
**Abetted by an industry that funded scientific research liking fat with coronary disease.**
***Aid and abet** -- We are not aiding and abetting the criminal.*
to help someone do something wrong or illegal
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Wanting
**Because research specific to sugar’s deleterious effects is wanting, the science, Mr. Taubes concedes, is not definitive.**
something that is wanting lacks or misses something that it needs or something that you expect it to have
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**Inmate**
prisoner
convict - *especially written Convict is used especially about someone who is sent to prison for a long time. It is more commonly used in historical descriptions*
inmate
captive - *especially literary someone who is kept somewhere and not allowed to go free, especially in a war or fighting.*
hostage
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**Evict**
**They were unable to pay the rent and were evicted from their home.**
—eviction noun
**The family now faces eviction from their home**.
| tell someone legally that they must leave the house they are living in
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Sentiment
**Similar sentiments were expressed by many politicians.**
REGISTER
In everyday English, people usually say feeling rather than sentiment
*formal - an opinion or feeling you have about something*
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**Confiscate**
**The police said the cad had been confiscated from the criminal**.
to officially take private property away from someone, usually as a punishment
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Formidable
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**Formidable**
*1. very powerful or impressive, and often frightening*
**The building is grey, formidable, not at all picturesque**.
*2. difficult to deal with and needing a lot of effort or skill*
formidable task/challenge
**the formidable task of local government reorganization**
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-- **Film**
**a film of oil on the surface of the water**
*a very thin layer of liquid, powder etc on the surface of something*
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Wary
**I’m a bit wary of driving in this fog**.
someone who is wary is careful because they think something might be dangerous or harmful
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**Shun**
= avoid / keep away from
**Because a study finds that people shun group members who are overly generous**.
| to deliberately avoid someone or something
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**Immersion**
**my immersion in black music and culture**
*the fact of being completely involved in something you are doing*
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Hibernate
if an animal hibernates, it sleeps for the whole winter
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Gilded
**Harry was facing a mirror over the fireplace, a great gilded thing in a frame.**
| covered with a very thin layer of gold
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**Consulate**
**Embassy / envoy / messenger**
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**Scrape**
* **injury**
* **wound** - *an injury, especially a deep cut in your skin made by a knife, bullet*
* **cut** - *a small injury*
* **bruise**
* **graze/scrape** - *a small injury that marks your skin or breaks the surface slightly*
* **gash** - *a long deep cut*
* **bump** - *an area of skin that is swollen because you have hit it against something*
* **sprain** - *an injury to your ankle, wrist, knee etc, caused by suddenly twisting it*
* **strain** - *an injury to a muscle caused by stretching it or using it too much*
* **fracture** - *a crack or broken part in a bone: a hip fracture*
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Nimble
**nimble fingers**
*able to move quickly and easily with light neat movements*
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Agile
**Dogs are surprisingly agile.**
nimble
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**Wade**
**walk**
**wander**
**stride** - *to walk with long steps in a determined, confident, or angry way*
**pace** - *to walk first in one direction and then in another many times, especially because you are nervous: Nick was pacing up and down, waiting for the phone to ring*
**march** - *to walk quickly with firm regular steps*
**wade** - *to walk through deep water: We had to wade across the river.*
**stomp** - *to walk putting your feet down very hard, especially because you are angry: She turned and stomped off without looking back.*
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Definance
**Running away was an act of defiance against his parents**.
behavior that shows you refuse to do what someone tells you to do, especially because you do not respect them ⇨ defy
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Given
**Given the circumstances, you’ve done really well.**
**Given that the patients have some disabilities, we still try to enable them to be as independent as possible.**
considering
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Herald
*[v.]1. to be a sign of something that is going to come or happen soon*:
**Flashing blue lights heralded the arrival of the police.**
*[n.]2. herald of something a sign that something is soon going to happen*
**the first bright heralds of spring**
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Complexion
**Drinking water is good for the complexion.**
pale/fair/ruddy etc complexion (=a pale, fair, red etc face)
[countable] the natural color or appearance of the skin on your face:
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**Incinerate**
**The dead birds used to be incinerated; now they come here.**
*to burn something completely in order to destroy it*
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**Char**
**A record summer fire season has charred 12 million acres, destroyed 1400 homes, and left 17 people dead.**
*to burn something so that its outside becomes black*
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Paranormal
**ghosts and other paranormal phenomena, like Deja vu**
paranormal events cannot be explained by science and seem strange and mysterious ⇨ supernatural
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**Glean**
**Additional information was gleaned from other sources**
*to find out information slowly and with difficulty*
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Stub
**I throw the chalk stub into the trash and then open question to students**.
the short part of something long and thin, such as a cigarette or pencil, that is left when the rest has been used
*a pencil stub / ticket stub / check stub*
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Overrun
**The final speaker overran by at least half an hour.**
*to take more time or money than intended*
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Atheist
**The - God**
theology
= nonbeliever
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**Beam**
**Sherman looked at his sons and beamed proudly**.
smile
grin - *to give a big smile: The two boys were grinning at each other.*
beam - *to give a big happy smile for a long time, because you are very pleased or proud*
smirk - *to smile in an unpleasant way, for example because you are pleased about someone else’s bad luck or because you know something that someone else does not know*
| to smile very happily
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**Self-conscious**
**Jerry’s pretty self-conscious about his weight.**
*worried and embarrassed about what you look like or what other people think of you*
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-- **File**
**We began to file out into the car park. / Student are filing out the classroom**.
*if people file somewhere, they walk there in a line*
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Dovish
**So we saw a big reaction in the Treasury market with investors betting on a slightly more dovish fed on maybe less aggressive pace of rate hikes**.
*preferring peace and discussion to war*
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**Quilt**
**The way the light shined on her skin as she sewed the quilt emphasized the details of every wrinkle, burn and cut.**
*a warm thick cover for a bed, made by sewing two layers of cloth together, with feathers or a thick material in between them*
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Intruder
**The police think the intruder got in through an unlocked window**.
*someone who illegally enters a building or area, usually in order to steal something*
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--**Commitment**
**Thanks for making this commitment.**
*the hard work and loyalty that someone gives to an organization, activity etc*
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**Grieve**
**We grieve with the people of Republic of Korea and send our best wishes for a quick recovery to all those who were injured.**
SYN mourn / lament / regret / weed
*to feel extremely sad, especially because someone you love has died*
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**Cripple** v. /n.
*1. someone who is unable to walk properly because their legs are damaged or injured – now considered offensive ⇨ disabled*
**It is considered impolite to call someone a cripple**.
*[v.]to damage something badly so that it no longer works or is no longer effective*
**A industry crippled by the coronavirus.**
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-- **Lame** adj. / v.
*[adj.] unable to walk properly because your leg or foot is injured or weak = crippled*
**a lame dog**
*[v.]to make a person or animal unable to walk properly*
SYN cripple
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Incumbent /ɪnˈkʌmbənt/
**Frontrunner Joe Biden says he can beat incumbent Trump.**
[n.] someone who has been elected to an official position, especially in politics, and who is doing that job at the present time
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Derail
**Negotiators say the bombers are trying to derail the talks**.
to spoil or interrupt a plan, agreement etc
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Commotion
**What’s all this commotion? Said another familiar voice**
*sudden noisy activity*
**com(together) + motion(to move)**
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Clan
**the entire extended clan was left destitute as a result.**
a large group of families who often share the same name
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Cast a vote/ballot
**Four years ago, the French electorate cast a ballot for change**.
to vote in an election
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-- **Prior** n.
**Don’t pull over, honey!! I had prior!! Remember the park ticket.**
*a previous occasion when someone was found guilty of a crime*
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**Edible**
**It's definitely real and definitely not edible, so do not eat this**.
*something that is edible can be eaten
OPP inedible*
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Erotic
an erotic book, picture, or film shows people having sex, and is intended to make people reading or looking at it have feelings of sexual pleasure
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**Caliber**
**But I worked my life to get to a place of this caliber.**
the level of quality or ability that someone or something has achieved
