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20 Cards in this Set
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Poster child |
Noun A person who is seen as representing a particular quality or activity |
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Quintessence |
The perfect example of sth, essense, the most important feature of sth |
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Propensity |
A tendency to a particular kind of behaviour, inclination |
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Pit |
Verb ph To test sb or their strength intelligence in a struggle or contest against sb / sth else, |
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Sterile |
Infertile Not able to produce children , infertile, not producing any useful results, fruitless |
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Milieu |
Background The social environment that u live or work in |
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Spew |
To flow out quickly or to make sth flow out quickly in large amounts To vomit |
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Sabre rattling |
The act of trying to frighten sb by threatening to use force |
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Assiduous |
Diligent, working very hard and taking great care that every thing is done as well |
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Abase |
To act in a way that shows u accept sb power over you, humiliate |
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Bizarre |
Very strange or unusual, weird |
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Incidence |
The extent to which sth happens or has an effect |
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Prognosis |
An opinion based on medical experience, a judgement about how sth is likely to develop in the future, forecast |
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Crux |
The most important or difficult part of a problem or an issue |
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Symbolism |
The use of symbols to represent ideas in arts and literature |
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Factoid |
Sth that is widely accepted as a fact, although it is probably not true |
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Strip |
Undress, to take off all or most of ur clothes ,to remove |
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Animus |
A storng feeling of opposition anger or hatred |
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Underline |
To emphasize or show that sth is important or true |
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Either |
One or the other side of the two, it does not matter which, u can park on either side of the Street |
