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53 Cards in this Set
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Bid |
An attempt to achieve or get sth |
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Bypass |
To omit, to go around, to go past (usu sth inconvienient or otherwise bothersome) |
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Clout |
Pull, influence (political clout) |
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Coup |
A brilliant, sudden, and usu highly successfull stroke or act |
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Consolation |
Sth that makes someone who is sad or disappointed feel better |
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Death knell |
A warning of the end of sth |
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Dent |
A small hollow mark in the surface of sth, caused by pressure or by being hit |
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Doomed |
Certain to fail, die, or be destroyed |
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Flee |
To escape by running away, esp. because of danger or fear |
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Harbour |
To think about or feel sth, usu over a long period of time |
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Mediocrity |
The quality of being not very good |
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Nourish |
Feed, to furnish or sustain with nutriment |
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Overthrow |
To cause the downfall of sth |
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Put sth down to sth |
To say or think that sth happened because of sth |
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Raid |
An occasion when the police enter a place suddenly in order to find someone or sth |
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Ramification |
The possible result of a decision or action |
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Sack |
The possible result of a decision or action |
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Scholarship |
An amouny of money given by school, college, university, or other organization to pay for the studies for a person with great ability but little money |
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Shrine |
A place or object hallowed by its associations |
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Succession |
The order in which or the conditions under which one person after another succeeds to a property, dignity, title, or throne |
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Sufficiently |
To an adequate degree, enough |
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Trek |
To walk a long distance, usu over land such as hills, mountains, or forests |
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Anarchism |
The political belief that there should be little or no formal or official organization to society but that people should work freely together |
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Bias |
The action of support ing or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgement |
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Blundering |
Making or chatacterized by stupid or careless mistakes, clumsy |
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Brainwashing |
A forcible indoctrination to induce someone to give up basic political, social or religious beliefs and attitudes and to accept contrasting refiment ideas |
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Broadsheet |
A newspaper with a large format, regarded as more serious and less sensationalist than tabloids |
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Dissidence |
Protest against official policy |
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Distortion |
A change to the intended or true meaning of sth |
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Influential |
Having a lot of influence on someone or sth |
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Lust for life |
A strong desire to live a full and Rich life |
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Overthrow |
To replace/remove a person/ppl in power |
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Peasant |
A person who owns or rents a small piece of land and grows crops, keep animals, etc. on it, esp. one who has a low income, very little education, and a low social position. This is usu used of someone who lived in the past or of someone in a poor country. |
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Propaganda |
Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
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Refine |
To improve an idea, method, system, etc. by making small changes |
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Retract |
Take back, withdraw |
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Rule out |
Exclude, eliminate |
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Servile |
Very obedient and trying too hard to please someone; submissive |
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Sheltered upbringing |
A life in which someone has been too protected by their parents from difficult or unpleasant experiences |
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Sleaze |
Activities, esp. business or political, of a low moral standard |
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Substantiate |
To show sth to be true, or to support a claim with facts |
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Suppress |
To end sth by force |
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To be (as) dead as a/the dodo |
To not be important or popular any longer |
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To champion |
To support, defend, or fight for a person, belief, right, or principle enthusiastically |
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To fall into disfavour |
To lose one's influence; to be preferred less and less |
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To inundate |
To flood an area with water |
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To relegate |
To move someone or sth to a less important position |
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Underdog |
A competitor thought to have little chance of winning a fight or contest |
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Scrape through/Scrape by |
To manage or survive with difficulty, to succeed in with difficulty or by a narrow margin |
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Trudge |
To walk slowly and with heavy steps, typically because of exhaustion or harsh conditions |
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Pun |
A joke exploiting the different possible meanings of a word or the fact that there are words which sound alike but have different meanings |
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Hand |
The particular cards which you dealt in a card game |
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Meddling |
The act of trying to change or have an influence on things that are not your responsibility, esp. by criticizing in a damaging or annoying way |
