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Understatement |
Subestimación, quedarse corto/ moderación, moderar |
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Caravan |
Caravana o tráiler |
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Halting site |
Caravan site; facility arranged foe the accommodation of travelers |
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Stint (adj) |
Frugal, Economical |
Sting eats a few animals that now are extinct at a time |
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Stint (noun) |
Period of time/ restriction / |
To do one's stint/ |
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Encompass |
To have as a part of something larger / enclose within a circle |
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Stint on (verb) |
Escatimar en algo |
Sting doesn't stint on eating animals that are extinct |
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Crass |
Craso, garrafal/ estúpido/ insensible |
Crassy grim stories |
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Rein (rayn) |
Rienda |
Riding pig to get pork rinds |
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Brunt |
Main impact or burden as of an attack/ lo más fuerte, recio |
Attacking a statue with a brunette doll againts twin towers |
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Berate |
Regañar |
Scolding and a pirating a 3yo little girl so she can be birate |
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Overhaul |
Revissr, replantear, repaso general |
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Brim (over) with sth |
Overflow with sth |
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Chesty |
Having a chest desease |
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Botch/flub |
Perform poorly or ruin through clumsiness. Estropear |
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Tiff |
Petty quarrel |
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Devoid of |
Desprovisto de |
Dinosaurio was invited to draw a mountain on ths board but only drew a triangle with the savoy chocolate bar |
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Deft |
Diestro, hábil |
Wynona Ryder was deft at theft |
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Heinous (hayněs) |
Wicked/ very unappealing |
Sloppy heinous ******** all over the hyena |
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Opinionated |
Obstinado, inflexible |
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Lackluster |
Dull |
Devoid of lust and passion like Lord Voldemort |
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Sewing notions or notions (nôshěnz) |
Set of lightweight household materials such ad threads, cotton and needles. |
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Boon |
Blessing/ benefit bestowed / de gran ayuda/ bendición |
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Plethora |
Abundance or excess or something |
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Bootleg |
Contrabando/ música de piratería/ contrabandear con licor/ grabar y vender música ilegalmente |
People trafficking alcohol concealed in their |
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Harbinger of |
Heraldo, precursor, presagio de algo |
Boulder (hard) coming downhills bringing along an avalanche with hinges joined together at the back of it and the avalange throws a letter saying "here I come" |
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Grin |
Smile broadly because of embarrassment |
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Sheepish |
Embarrased |
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Decry |
Condemn, criticise\ belittle |
Censurar, criticar\ belittle |
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Belittle |
Despreciar |
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Upheaval |
Trastorno, agitación /levantamiento |
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Wane |
To decrease in size, intensity, etc. Like the waning moon |
Wayne's face on the moon start to vanish by bits progressively when it goes to sleep |
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Clout |
Influence, pull \ power, muscle/ tortazo, influencia, palanca |
A guy has the influence of tormenta to take a cloud and force the president out of the parliament |
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Staple |
Productos de primera necesidad\ principle raw material grown or produced in a region |
People looting stationary shops for staples shaped like number one, then leaving all complacent and grinning cause they can live everyday. |
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Gawk |
Mirar boquiabierto, quedar boquiabierto/ gaze |
Gawkú passed us by on his flying cloud and everybody was gawking at him |
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Brick-and-mortar |
Located and serving consumers in a physical facility |
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Lackluster |
Dull, lacking vitality |
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Curtail |
Cut short |
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Hubris (hyoobris) |
Overbearing pride or presumption ; arrogance |
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Overt |
Abierto, manifiesto, público |
I saw an winged egg flying overt an wide open hole on the street |
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Meander |
Wander/ go along winding or turning course |
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Buy into |
*Acquire a stake or interest in *believe wholheartedly or uncritically |
Buy into the store and became owner |
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Muster |
Call troops together, to cause to gather |
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Mendacious |
Lying |
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Veritable |
Genuinely, truely |
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Ream |
Resma (papel)/ adj. A very large quantity (usually reams) |
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Max out |
Reach theax level of sn allowance or credit |
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Bogus |
Not genuine or counterfeit/ uded to xpress disagreement/ disappointing |
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Motley |
Having a great variety of elements or incongruity; heterogeneous |
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Trailblazer |
Innovative leader in a field; one that blazes a trail |
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Re'mit |
Topic a committee or piece of research deals with or has the authority to deal with |
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Cognisant (käg'nězênt) |
Aware of, |
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Fallout |
Particles of debris from explosion falling down slowly/ side effects |
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Abdicate |
Relinquish a high office or responsibility |
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Lax |
Lenient |
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Mis'construe' |
Miss Venezuela building up a house on the stage instead of answering the question. She misinterpreted what she was asked. |
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Bolster |
Prop up with a long narrow pillow called the same name/ to prop up reforzar |
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Racketeering |
To engage in illegal business |
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Subvert |
Overtgrow/ desteoy misconceptions |
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Gimmick |
A device or mechanism used to chear, control gambling apparatus/ gadget/ innovative stratagem or scheme |
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Shrewd |
Marked by artful cunning practices; tricky/ showing clever awareness or resourcefulness especially in practical matters |
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Vexatious |
Annoying, trying to cause trouble or embarrasment/ fastidioso, molesto |
Ver the Asians (Asians asking me to look at them by rubbing my eyelids with feathers) and it annoys me. |
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Hog |
Cerdo-/- Acaparar |
Huge living piggy bank where people try to hide all the food and not leave for others |
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Outlaw |
A fugitive of law/ habitual criminal/ declare illegal/ prohibit or ban |
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Gang up |
To join together to attack or be in opposition/ confabularse |
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Tote |
Carry, deliver |
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Deluge |
Deluvio |
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Innocuous |
Having no adverse effect/ not likely to offens or provoke to strong emotion; insipid. |
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Sleight (slît) |
Deftness; dexterity |
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Uncouth |
Clumsy; ungraceful; awkward; unfamiliar / grosero, inculto, torpe |
A cow with trump's wig cursing a lot and going upstairs getting fatter like a pig and falling back down a bit |
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Clunky |
Clumsy |
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Spoke |
Rod connecting wheel to hub |
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Alacrity |
Celerity; cheerful willingness/ prontitud |
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Lackluster |
Dull |
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Ensue (ensoo) |
To take plaxe afterwards, as a consequence |
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