Cea Result - Unit 11 Words

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a crazy person

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nutter

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to quickly push your finger or some other pointed object into something or someone

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poke

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old and in bad condition

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battered

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continuing, developing

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ongoing

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art in which the main aim of the artist is to show an idea rather than to represent actual things or people

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conceptual art

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the time when someone or something was most popular, successful, or powerful

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heyday

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not good or favourable; противен, вреждебен

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adverse

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feeling associated with action, idea, or the external expression of such a feeling

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affect

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an action or event that is a signal for something else to happen; a long straight wooden stick used in billiards and pool

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cue

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to have no money because you have had a lot of bad luck over a long period of time

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be down on your luck

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making you feel that something bad is going to happen

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omnious

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a place where an organized even takes place

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venue

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a place, building, or object that is easy to get into

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accessible

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in a way that shows no emotion, understanding or interest

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blankly

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a way of organizing something that involves everyone who will be affected

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participatory

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feeling friendly towards a person or positive about an idea or plan

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well-disposed

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to become difficult to see or to make something difficult to see because the edges are not clear; to make difference between two ideas

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blur

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the way in which someone speaks in public

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delivery

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behaviour, speech or writing that is not natural and is intended to make people admire you; used in order to show disapproval

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mannered

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extremely painful; extremely unpleasant

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excruciating

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needing a lot of effort or stress; active and determined

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strenuous

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with hard parts that stick out from under the surface of something

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knobbly

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if someone or something entrances you, they make you give them all your attention because they are so beautiful, interesting

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entrance

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to speak quickly in a way that is difficult to understand or sounds silly

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babble

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to make the sound that a sheep or goat makes; to complain in a silly way

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bleat

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usually tall and thin, and not able to move gracefully

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gangling

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to be much less attractive, good than something or someone else

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not be a patch on somebody/something

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a small area of something that is different from the area around it; small piece of fabric that is sewn onto something to cover a hole on it

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patch

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to make a mistake in reporting what someone else has said

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misquote

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a wooden frame that you put a painting on while you paint it

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easel

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strong cloth that is used to make bags, tents etc; a painting done with oil paints, or the piece of cloth it is painted on

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canvas

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a simple, quickly-made drawing that does not show much detail; a short written or spoken description

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sketch

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a thin, curved board that an artist uses to mix paints, or the colours in a particular painting

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palette

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extremely attractive or beautiful; very surprising or shocking

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stunning

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the final practice of a play, opera etc

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dress rehearsal

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careful, thorough, and exact; very strict or severe

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rigorous

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full of unwanted wild plants; physically weak or having a weak character

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weedy

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something important or useful, or you gain something from it

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worthwhile

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to frighten or threaten someone into making them do what you want; to make someone feel worried and not confident

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intimidate

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to combine together to form something

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make up something

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to continue to do something that in a way annoys someone

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go on

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to keep asking someone to do something, or to keep complaining about their behaviour in an annoying way; to make someone feel continuously worried or uncomfortable

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nag

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extremely full of people; having everything you need for going somewhere

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packed

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to find something and bring it back; to get back information that has been stored in the memory of a computer

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retrieve

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literary famous and often mentioned in traditional stories

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fabled

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to appear suddenly in large numbers; start to grow, producing shoots,

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sprout

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one of the long thin parts of a sea creature such as an octopus which it used for holding things; (plural) the influence or effect that something has on other people or things - used to show disapproval

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tentacle/tentacles

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there are a lot of insects in one place and they usually cause damage

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infest

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someone, especially a woman who is sexually attractive; something very interesting and attractive to you, in a way that persuades you to do something you wouldn't normally do

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seductive

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to deliberately make someone seem guilty when they are not

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frame

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extremely good; not yet done, solved or paid; very great or clear

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outstanding

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not caring that other people are suffering

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callous

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not very good; посредствен

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mediocre

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extremely unlikely to be true or happen

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far-fetched

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to offer help to someone or offer to do something

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come forward

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a natural ability to attract and interest other people and make them admire you

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charisma

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a door, gate shuts with a loud noise; to put something on or against a surface with a fast violent movement; to hit or attack someone with a lot of force

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slam

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London's main theatre district.....

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theatreland

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a remark that criticizes someone or something very severely

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scathing

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determined to get what you want and you don't care if you have to hurt other people in order to get it

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ruthless

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cruel and not having pity

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heartless

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when you consider that two things are similar or connected; in maths two amounts are the same

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equation

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to make a sound like something being crushed; eat hard food in a way that makes noise

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crunch

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to do a lot of calculations in order to find an answer

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crunch (the) numbers

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extremely great or surprising

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staggering

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having a strong influence or effect; showing strong serious feelings; showing great knowledge and understanding; complete; far below the surface of something

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profound

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to give something to people, especially in fixed amounts; to officially provide something for people

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dispense

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feeling angry and upset about something that you think is unfair

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resentful

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not good, or not as good as someone else; lower in rank

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inferior

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a set of beliefs that form an important part of a religion or system of ideas

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doctrine