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73 Cards in this Set
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Rant away, shout |
Shout, rant away lads, Nobody is listening |
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Live off |
She's still living off her parents. I hate living from paycheck to paycheck though |
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Genuine=authentic |
He made a genuine attempt to improve conditions |
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Prostate 전립선, Prostrate 엎드리다, lying flat, lying down, Prostitute 창녀 |
For months, he was prostrated with grief. |
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Antipathy, hostility, ill/bad feeling, antagonism 반감 |
Antipathy is a strong feeling of dislike or hostility towards someone or something. |
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Authoritarian, dictatorial |
If you describe a person or an organization as authoritarian, you are critical of them controlling everything rather than letting people decide things for themselves. |
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Hypocritical <> sincere |
If you accuse someone of being hypocritical, you mean that they pretend to have qualities, beliefs, or feelings that they do not really have. |
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Audacious, bold, brave, daring, impudent, shameless |
Someone who is audacious takes risks in order to achieve something. |
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Exhort, urge If you exhort someone to do something. You try hard to persuade or encourage them to do it. |
The party leader exhorted his members to start preparing for government. |
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Forfeit If you forfeit something, you lose it or are forced to give it up because you have broken a rule or done something wrong. |
If you cancel flight, you will forfeit your deposit. |
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Irrevocable, final, irreparable |
If a decision, action, or change is irrevocable, if cannot be changed or reversed. |
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Shun She was shunned by her family when she remarried. |
If you shun someone or something, you deliberately avoid them or keep away from them. |
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Nosedive, plummet Oil prices took a nosedive in the crisis. Building costs have nosedived. |
If prices, profits or exchange rates nosedive, they suddenly fall by a large amount |
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Impede, hinder, hamper The bad weather seriously impeded our progress |
If you impede someone or something, you make their movement, development or progress difficult. |
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Connotes, imply, involve, denote |
If a word or name connotes something, it makes u think of a particular idea or quality |
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Disparate, different, contrasting, dissimilar, unlike |
He had no speech prepaid, so he only made disparate remarks |
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Mishap, accident, problem, trouble, difficulty, adversisty We reached home without mishap They met with a slight mishap on the way |
A mishap is an unfortunate but not very serious event that happens to someone. |
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Onslaught, assault, attack offense |
An onslaught on someone is very violent, forceful attack against them |
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Incarcerate, imprison, confine, detention |
If people are incarcerated, they are kept in a prison or other place. |
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Grapple, wrestle The new government has yet to grapple with problem of air pollution. |
If you grapple with a problem or difficulty, you try hard to solve it. If you grapple with someone, you take hold of them and struggle with them as part of a fight. You can also say that two people grapple |
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Respectively, each, individually, separately 각각 |
Julie and mark, aged 17 and 19 respectively. |
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Reclusive, solitary, secluded, isolated He lived alone in a small apartment and became increasingly reclusive |
A reclusive person or animal lives alone and deliberately avoids the company of others |
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Underlie, underlying These ideas underlie much of his work |
If something underlies a feeling or situation, it is the cause or basis of it. |
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Ration, distribution, allowance, allocation, quota, fixed amount Rations are food which is given to people who do not have enough food or to soldiers. As part of the diet, allow yourself a small daily ration of sugar. |
When something is rationed by a person or government, you are only allowed to have a limited amount of it. Usually because there is not enough it. |
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Vicinity, neighbourhood, nearness, closeness, proximity Surrounding district(area) Crowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar square. |
If something is in the vicinity of a particular place, it is near it. |
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Bigoted She's so bigoted that she refuses to accept anyone who doesn't think like that. |
Someone who is bigoted has strong, unreasonable prejudices or opinions and will not change them even when they are proved to be wrong. |
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Descent, going down, descending downward climb하강<>ascent Ancestry, system 혈통 |
A descent is a movement from a higher to a lower level or position. |
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Aggregate The scores were aggregated with the first round totals to decide the winner. |
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Readily, willingly, freely All ingredients are readily available from your local store. |
If you do something readily, you do it in a way which shows that you are willingly to do it. |
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Inundate, overwhelm, swamp, flood We have been inundated with offers of help |
If you say that you are inundated with things such as letters, demands, or requests, you are emphasising that you receive so many of |
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Discrepancy, inconsistency There were wide discrepancies in the evidence. |
If there is a discrepancy between two things that things ought to be the same, there is a noticeable difference between them |
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Setback차질,failure, breakdown The team suffered a major setback when their best player was injured It's just a temporary setback, so don't let it get you down |
A setback is an event that delays your progress some of the progress that you have made. |
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Unrequited love <> requited love |
If you have ubreqiutes love for someone, they do not love you. |
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Intrigue He was intrigued by her story. |
If you are intrigued by something, especially something strange, it interests you and you want to know more about it. |
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Captivity He was held in captivity for three years |
Captivity is the state of being kept imprisoned or enclosed. |
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Conspicuous, noticeable, outstanding Its yellow skin makes it highly conspicuous |
If someone or something is conspicuous, people can see or notice them very easily |
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Infiltrate The headquarters had been infiltrated by enemy spies |
If people infiltrate a place or organisation, or infiltrate into it, they enter it secretly in order to spy on it or influence it. |
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Shortcoming, failing, fault, weakness flaw |
Someone's or something's shortcoming are the faults or weakness which they have |
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Lurking 숨어있는 Why are you lurking around outside my house? |
A crocodile was lurking just below the surface. |
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Accomplice 공범 |
Someone's accomplice is person who help them to commit a crime |
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Conceivable,imaginable, thinkable It is conceivable that I'll see her tomorrow. |
If something is conceivable, you can imagine it or believe it |
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Ardent, fervent, passionate |
Ardent is used to describe someone who has extremely strong feelings about somewhere or someone. |
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Nimble, agile You need nimble fingers for that job |
Someone who is nimble is able to move their fingers, hands, or legs quickly and easily. |
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Catharsis, abreaction Music is a creative outlet through which I can Express myself and gain some sense of catharsis. |
Catharsis is getting rid of unhappy memories or strong emotions such as anger or sadness by expressing them in some way. |
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Misgiving, qualms, doubt I had grave misgiving about making the trip |
If you have misgivings about something that is being suggested or done, you feel that it is not quite right, and are worried that it may have unwanted results. |
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Articulate, express, vervalize She struggled to articulate her thoughts. |
If you describe someone or something as articulate, you mean they are able to Express their thoughts and ideas easily and well |
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Revere, idolize, respect,look up to We revere him as the greatest leader. |
If you revert someone or something, you respect and admire them greatly. |
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Severity, harshness 격렬,혹독 |
Several drugs are used to lessen the severity of the symptoms. |
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Opacity <> transparency |
Opacity is the quality of being difficult to see through. |
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Forbearance, patience, endurance, generosity, pardon forbear |
If you say that someone has shown forbearance, you admire them for behaving in a calm and sensible way about something that they have a right to be very upset or angry about. |
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Aforementioned, aforesaid, above-mentioned |
If you refer to the aforementioned person or subject, you mean the person or subject that has already been mentioned. |
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Unleash, let loose, release,set free |
The government's proposals unleashed a storm of protest in the press. |
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Petrified, terrified, frightened I'm petrified of snakes |
If you are petrified, you are extremely frightened, perhaps so frightened that you cannot think or move |
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Shattered, exhausted, devastated, knackered, worn out The experience left her feeling absolutely shattered. |
If you are shattered by something You are extremely shocked and upset about it |
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Ravenous, starving What's for lunch I'm absolutely ravenous. |
If you are ravenous, you are extremely hungry |
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Covet, want, desire, be desirous of, |
If you cover something, you strongly want to have it for yourself. |
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Covet, want, desire, be desirous of, |
If you cover something, you strongly want to have it for yourself. |
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Adjacent, neighbouring, nearby our farm land was adjacent to the river. |
If one thing is adjacent to another, the two things are next to each other. |
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Improbable, unlikely, impossible <-> probable, likely It seems improbable that the current situation will continue |
Something that is improbable is unlikely to be true or to happen |
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Primacy The government insisted on the primacy of the citizen's rights. |
The primacy of something is the fact that it is the most important or most powerful thing in a particular situation. |
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Untenable, indefensible, undefendable, insuperable, unarguable <-> tenable His position had become untenable and he was forced to resign. |
An argument, theory, or position that is untenable cannot be defended successfully against criticism or attack. |
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Imperative, vatal It is imperative to continue the treatment for at least two months |
If it is imperative that something is done, that thing is extremely important and must be done. |
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Imperative, vatal It is imperative to continue the treatment for at least two months |
If it is imperative that something is done, that thing is extremely important and must be done. |
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Canvass, drum up, 선거운동하다 canvas 천 The party needs to canvass the uncommitted voters. |
If you canvass for a particular person or political party, you go around an area trying to persuade people to vote for that person or party. |
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Stronghold, bastion The southern part of the United states is the Republican stronghold. |
If you say that a place or region is a stronghold of a particular attitude or belief, you mean that most people there share this attitude or belief. |
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Motif, theme We chose some curtains with a flower motif. |
A motif is a design which is used as a decoration or as part of an artistic pattern. |
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Dispersed, scattered The seed are dispersed by the wind. |
Things that are dispersed are situated in many different places, a long way apart from each other. Police dispersed the protesters with tear gas. |
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Reinstate, restore, recall, return to a former position,return to power There have been repeated calls to reinstate the death penalty. |
If you reinstate someone, you give them back a job or position which had been taken away from them. |
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Wane, decrease, fade Her enthusiasm for the whole idea was waning rapidly. |
If something wanes, it becomes gradually weaker or less, often so that it eventually disappears. |
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Solitary, single, isolated Solidarity, unity, unite,(bind, band) together |
Demonstrations were held as a gesture of solidarity with the hunger strikes. A solitary seagull winged it's way across the bay |
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Placid, calm, tranquil, peaceful, quiet |
The atmosphere seemed placid. |
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Hiatus, pause, break, gap, rest The miners' strike caused a hiatus in coal production. |
A hiatus is a pause in which nothing happens, or a gap where something is missing |
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Intact, undamaged, Most of the house remains intact even after two hundred years |
Something that is intact is complete and has not been damaged or changed. |