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21 Cards in this Set
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1: You can rest assured that you will be matched with a professional, congenial and effective teacher
2: President, I will begin by saying that, in innumerable areas, the report contains congenial positions, and there is no doubt that it is incredibly well intentioned 3: An exquisite table, magnificent chairs, a congenial atmosphere, as always |
p85: gentleness, fairness and congeniality of spirit
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comprehensive, friendly
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1: The recent Enron debacle offers a sobering lesson in what a lack of transparency could provoke 2: Having said that, I will now concentrate on making a few rather sobering comments 3: Anyone reading today's Herald Tribune will find a sobering report on the transfers of gold to Sudan through channels running from Pakistan and Iran. |
p85: because through intellectual activity you arrive at that sobering possibility |
realistic, sóbrio |
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1: By the time Jenny was in third grade, she was fully included in a class that was team-taught by a regular education teacher, a special education teacher, and an assistant
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p85: no difference between the one with a third-grade education and the one with several doctor degrees |
terceiro ano |
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1: My wife found she had a talent for street salesmanship 2: Is it possible to directly recover my order in the salesman, and thus not to pay carriage costs? |
p85: one of my hobbies is reading books on salesmanship. |
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1: The aviation industry was compelled to recognise this, but was unable to keep pace 2: where U.S. workers are finding it increasingly difficult to keep pace with the rising cost of living, the affordability of health 3:Prior to its implementation, employees of Government agencies themselves often found it difficult to keep pace with changes in regulations and procedures |
p86: the religion fails to keep pace with the population increase of this world. |
follow the rhythm, |
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1: Even so, almost no one was more than a pew or two distant from anyone else 2: But when you're standing one pew apart, the vibe is often more like, "Please don't touch me" 3: Your neighbor is in the pew behind you and in the pew in front of you |
p86:than he slides into the pew and hang his lower lip over the pew in front of him |
church sit |
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1: A possible development is a packaging material that changes colour when the milk in it turns sour or the food in it begins to perish 2: Especially for those countries, the grapes are sour because the benefits of the internal market are not always that evident to them 3: But if securitization is done on a big scale and the wealth turn sour, then problems can spread widely in the financial system |
p86: when you act sour, you are sour |
acid, rot, frustrated, failed |
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p87: you sow a deadpan expression |
without expression |
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1: The quality of project sponsors is of paramount importance to the success of this kind of deal 2: We recognize our people are paramount to the success and longevity of our business 3: Patents, inventions and other expertise are of paramount importance to the future success of the Neumayer Tekfor Group |
p87: but one thing remains paramount in my mind |
of first importance, indispensable |
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1: We have to try hard to enthuse our citizens 2: Does our group have projects, which are sufficiently attractive to enthuse our young people and make them want to become involved? 3: The fact that we enthuse about the Marco Polo programme does not mean that we would not like to make a few minor observations |
p87: Don't speak of a subject where you're not totally enthused |
enjoyed, involved, excited |
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1: Why won't my scanner buttons work after the computer has been sitting idle for several hours? 2: The amount of fixed overhead allocated to each unit of production is not increased as a consequence of low production or idle plant |
p87: their lives become idle, negative and worrisome |
inactive, freeze |
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1: Because the terrain is more flat, the sea could advance more 2: This is a flat of 46 square meters with a bedroom and a bathroom 3: The European Parliament flatly rejects this regulation on possible exceptions 4: Until this point has been clarified and discussed in detail, I flatly refuse to speak about any revision of the Financial Perspective |
p88: but let me state it flatly |
flat -> plain terrain flat -> apartment flatly -> clearly, immediately |
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1: People like Jacob are those who engross Gods righteous love 2: I am engrossed in my thoughts, in my insecurity, and I imagine Petrus must be thinking about his job in Milan 3: This extraordinary partnership is one of the most engrossing and amazing of all the cosmic phenomena of this universe age |
p88: who became so engrossed in their practice that they forgot even to take their meals |
absorb, involve, concentrate |
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1: These children lead a hard, troubled life, devoid of hope, laughter and love 2: These are the dead suns and other large aggregations of matter devoid of light and heat 3: Any other approach would be devoid of any basis in reality |
p88: if you go about your daily business in a spirit devoid of enthusiasm |
empty, less of, without |
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1: Trying to protect low efficiency sectors is clearly doomed to failure. 2: It appeared that Timor-Leste and its People were doomed to a cycle of fire and violence, to be repeated every two years 3: Downstream, the processing industry would also be doomed, for processing imported leaf tobacco in the Community is not economic |
p88: you are doomed to failure |
condemned, fated, bound to |
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1: When products are not labelled, consumers are duped even more. |
p88: thus you become the duped victim of a vicious cycle |
tricked, misled |
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1: In another, a woman in custody hangs upside down, her feet and hands tied to a rod as she cries and screams 2: And the supporting rod is made of seamless steel pipes for good durability
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p88: thrice I was beaten with rods |
metal or wood bar, pauladas |
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1: Our prayers are with those who are still alive but remain in peril 2: As the world becomes increasingly interdependent and fragile, the future at once holds great peril and great promise 3: At least 12 endangered species of snakes have been bred at a center to rescue wildlife in peril operating here in the Honduran capital. |
p88: in peril of waters and robbers |
danger, risk |
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1: It was convenient to combine and to substitute an important heathen festival held on this day. 2:He marveled at the open-air theater and admired the beautiful marble temple dedicated to the worship of the "heathen" gods 3: They assert that the religion of the heathen is superior to our teaching because it inspires to the acquirement
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p89: in perils by the heathen |
pagan |
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1: It is a weariness shared by us all in that we have to return the same issue over and over again 2: Our point of view is: the repatriations that can be taking place in Darién are not voluntary, they are repatriations driven by weariness 3: And once again: "The weariness, persevering effort, constant work and the tiresome attention needed to assist and teach |
p89: in weariness and painfulness |
tiredness, fatigue |
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1: From a political point of view, I always fret when people say, we neither need, want nor can we achieve these things!
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p89: Did he fret? |
desperate, become unquiet |
