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40 Cards in this Set
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gate entrance |
portal |
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eat food swallow food |
chow down on something |
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(of writing) of many pages long |
ream(s) of something |
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a group or collection of things or people, often one that is large or impressive (many items of different kind) |
array of something |
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a large number of things falling or coming quickly at the same time |
a cascade of |
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a person or group that begins an activity or leads an attack against somebody or something |
spearhead something |
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a strong, violent attack |
onslaught ...against ....of something - negative |
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becoming greater, worse, more serious |
escalation |
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careful when dealing with somebody or something because you think that there may be a danger or problem |
wary to be wary of something /of doing something/of somebody keep a wary eye on someone |
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live under the same roof |
room with |
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making something better / more effective (eg. taste) |
adjuvant |
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not harmful or dangerous, not intended to offend anyone (to human health especially) |
innocuous |
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series of things or people that come closely one after another |
a string of |
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something that is possible or likely to be achieved |
feasible (eg. solution) |
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something being very common at a particular time or place |
prevalence |
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showing or feeling opposition |
antagonistic |
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soldier whose task is to guard something |
sentinels |
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something that causes stress |
stressor |
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the process of carefully considering or discussing something |
deliberation |
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the state of being in a place or situation where there is no protection from something harmful or unpleasant |
exposure to |
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tired and almost asleep |
drowsy |
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to affect something so that it becomes more regular, slower |
modulate |
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to become tighter or narrower to make something tighter or narrower |
constrict |
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to begin an actiity or lead an attack against somebody or something |
orchestrate |
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to connect to join |
dock on something |
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to cover with a thick layer of substance |
slather something |
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to discuss something with somebody, in order to exchange opinions or get advice |
confer |
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to give or to provide something, especially in a formal way |
administer |
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to give somebody, especially a government or a committee, the authority to do something, to order something, somebody to behave in a way |
mandate somebody to do something |
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to increase the amount, value or volume of something |
pump something up |
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to kill somebody to make omebody very tired to be very tired |
do somebody in |
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to make changes to change |
alter |
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to make it difficult for something to continue in the normal way |
disrupt something |
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to prevent somebody or something from growing as much as they should |
stunt |
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to show that somebody is right or something is true |
bear out |
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to spend time trying to find out information or the meaning of something, especially when this is complicated or difficult |
tease out |
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to stop working |
shut down |
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to stop to make somebody or something stop |
hault |
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to treat somebody or something so that they will stop being sensitive to physical or chemical changes, or to a particular substance |
desensitize |
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weird, strange, unusual(of a person)
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oddball (adjective) |