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a happy confluence of beautiful weather and spectacular scenery during our vacation
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1) слияние (рек) ; соединение (дорог)
2) место слияния The city lies at the confluence of three rivers. — Город стоит у слияния трёх рек. 3) стечение, сочетание a happy confluence of weather and scenery — удачное сочетание погоды и окружающего ландшафта 4) скопление, стечение народа, толпа the vast confluence of people — огромное скопление народа 5) сосредоточение, скопление confluence of particles — скопление частиц |
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I'll forgo dessert tonight—I'm trying to lose weight.
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отказываться, воздерживаться от чего-л.
to forgo one's custom — оставить привычку |
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I must die rather than abjure a single article of my creed
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Я скорее умру, чем отрекусь хотя бы от одного из своих убеждений.
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The new advertising campaign is an attempt to allay the public's concerns about the safety of the company's products.
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успокаивать, подавлять (страх, волнение, боль)
Синоним: calm 2) смягчать, ослаблять, облегчать; сокращать, уменьшать Синоним: lessen |
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The rugby player enjoyed the adulation of his fans.
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excessive or slavish admiration or flattery
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She was diffident about stating her opinion.
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1) неуверенный в себе, застенчивый, робкий
Синонимы: timid, shy I 1., modest, bashful 2) недоверчивый Синоним: distrustful 3) скрытный Синоним: reserved |
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I certainly don't abase myself when I do good, honest manual labor
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1) попирать, унижать
2) (abase oneself) а) унизить себя, унизиться to abase oneself so far as to do smth. — докатиться до чего-л. You have abased yourself by stealing from a poor old man. — Вы докатились до того, что обокрали бедного старика. б) заниматься самоуничижением In former times, priests used to abase themselves before the gods. — В прошлом священнослужители выражали свою покорность богам в виде самоуничижения. Синонимы: humble, humiliate, disgrace 3) понижать (в чине, должности) Синоним: disgrace |
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beauty that is as evanescent as a rainbow
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1) исчезающий, испаряющийся, тающий
evanescent wave — физ. волна исчезающая 2) мимолётный; минутный; быстро исчезающий; эфемерный evanescent thoughts — мимолётные мысли 3) незаметный, очень незначительный Синоним: imperceptible 4) мат. бесконечно малый, приближающийся к нулю Синоним: infinitesimal 2. |
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The Internet allows us to disseminate information faster
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to disperse throughout
1) рассеивать, разбрасывать (семена) Синоним: scatter 2) распространять (учение, взгляды) ; сеять (недовольство) |
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They arrogated to themselves the right of approving or rejecting all that was done.
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Они без основания взяли на себя функцию одобрения или порицания всего того, что было сделано.
1) самонадеянно претендовать; нагло требовать 2) без основания приписывать |
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the speaker's discursive style made it difficult to understand his point
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беспорядочный, хаотичный; бессвязный (о речи) ; разбросанный (о мыслях) ; отклоняющийся, отступающий, отвлекающийся (от темы)
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The teacher refused to capitulate: no calculators were to be used during the exam.
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to surrender often after negotiation of terms
b : to cease resisting |
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the results of the DNA fingerprinting were the most cogent evidence for acquittal
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убедительный; неоспоримый, бесспорный; обоснованный
Синонимы: incontestable, irrefutable |
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He made the highly dubious claim that Elvis is still alive and living in Hawaii.
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1) вызывающий сомнения, опасения; сомнительный; неопределённый, неясный; неоднозначный
very dubious company — очень подозрительная компания Синонимы: vague, ambiguous, indistinct, undetermined, uncertain 2) колеблющийся, нерешительный, неуверенный, сомневающийся She raised her eyebrows with a dubious expression. — Она вопросительно подняла брови. |
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the new coworker's rudeness soon began—to use a colloquial expression—to rub me the wrong way
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a : used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; also : unacceptably informal
b : using conversational style |
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rub someone (or Brit. rub someone up) the wrong way:
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irritate or repel someone as by stroking a cat against the lie of its fur.
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I have touched on the subject last term.
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deal briefly with (a subject) in .. discussion
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He told a few innocuous jokes
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producing no injury : harmless
: not likely to give offense or to arouse strong feelings or hostility innocuous snake — неядовитая змея innocuous creatures — безобидные существа innocuous life — безопасная жизнь |
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the U.S. Congress can abrogate old treaties that are unfair to Native Americans
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отменять, аннулировать; упразднять, делать недействительным (законным порядком)
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a suggestion to go out for pizza that didn't seem to engender any interest
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возбуждать, вызывать, порождать, рождать
Синонимы: beget, give birth |
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Poverty begets hunger, and hunger begets crime
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Бедность влечёт за собой голод, а голод толкает на преступление.
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I was surprised by the censorious tone of the book review
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строгий; склонный осуждать, придирчивый
— censorious remarks Синоним: faultfinding |
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a gregarious child who ran up to every person on the playground and wanted to be their friend
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в) стадный; стайный
gregarious feeling — стадное чувство gregarious instinct — стадность 2) коммуникабельный, контактный, общительный Синонимы: affable, amiable, cordial, friendly, outgoing, sociable, social Антонимы: aloof, hostile, retiring, unapproachable, unsociable, antisocial, introverted |
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I'm trying to avoid circumlocutions in my writing
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: the use of an unnecessarily large number of words to express an idea
: evasion in speech уклончивые речи; околичности |
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The eggs coagulate when heated
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to cause to become viscous or thickened into a coherent mass : curdle, clot
1) сгущать, свёртывать, коагулировать Синонимы: curdle, clot 2., congeal 2) сгущаться, свёртываться |
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She had a surreptitious relationship with her employee.
Glancing at the clock with a surreptitious eye |
Взглянув украдкой на часы.
1) тайный; сделанный тайком Синоним: stealthy 2) неподлинный (о тексте) ; пиратский, изданный без разрешения |
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I took a clandestine peek at the price tag on the diamond necklace
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тайный, скрытый, секретный; нелегальный
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we took a circuitous route to the airport so as to avoid the massive traffic jam on the highway
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кружный, окольный, обходной (о пути)
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He was the target of calumny for his unpopular beliefs
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клевета; ложное обвинение
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They reached an amicable agreement
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1) дружелюбный, дружеский, дружественный, товарищеский
Синоним: friendly 2) мирный, полюбовный |
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The jurors also determined he had aided and abetted an alleged fraud by Goldman.
Wall Street Journal Aug 2, 2013 She was charged with aiding and abetting the burglar because she drove the getaway car. |
To abet is to help someone do something, usually something wrong. If you were the lookout while your older sister swiped cookies from the cookie jar, you abetted her mischief.
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You hear a lot about tech companies shaking up staid industries, pushing past slow, complacent competitors.
Inc Jul 1, 2013 |
The literal meaning of this word's Latin root is "very pleased," but even though complacent people may seem pleased with themselves, we are rarely pleased with them. They are unconcerned by things that should concern them, and they may neglect their duties. A complacent person might be heard saying, "Ehh, don't worry about it!" — when there really is something to worry about.
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Of late, Scotland Yard seems to respond to every newspaper story with surprising alacrity.
The Guardian Jun 17, 2013 |
Someone with alacrity shows cheerful willingness and eager behavior, like a kid whose mother has told him he can buy anything in a candy store.
While the noun alacrity normally refers to someone's peppy behavior, it can also describe a certain mood or tempo of a musical composition, indicating how the music should be played. Alacrity comes from the Latin alacritas, and the Italian musical term allegro is a near relation. |
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Victims are coalescing into an informal student movement joined across campuses with the help of social media.
Time Aug 8, 2013 |
Waiting for a plan to come together? You're waiting for it to coalesce. Coalesce is when different elements of something join together and become one.
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Rich inherited his business acumen from his father, who became a millionaire by setting up an agricultural trading firm after emigrating to the United States.
Reuters Jun 27, 2013 |
The noun acumen comes from the Latin word acumen, meaning “a point,” or “sting.” If you are able to make pointed decisions, if you have a sharp intellect, if you make good strategic moves, if you are successful in your field, or if your business instincts are spot-on, you have acumen. Even if you inherit an entire wholesale furniture dynasty from your grandfather, you could end up with nothing if you don’t have his business acumen.
проницательность, сообразительность |
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Yet his dejection had not infected Taylor; the latter’s lips were curved in a faint smile, ironic and saturnine.
Seltzer, Charles Alden |
Medieval alchemists ascribed to the planet Saturn a gloomy and slow character. When people are called saturnine, it means they are like the planet––gloomy, mean, scowling. Not exactly the life of the party.
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Last spring, Martha Foote remembers, her son, an avid Yankees fan, would come home looking sullen after taking standardized tests in school.
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замкнутый, сердитый, угрюмый
Синонимы: morose, gloomy 2) печальный, мрачный; зловещий; гнетущий sullen autumn rain — печальный осенний дождь A bad-tempered or gloomy person is sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps. If someone is dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, or sour, they're also sullen. |
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Analogous challenges may have already been solved by other businesses.
Inc Aug 10, 2012 |
Use the adjective analogous to describe something that is similar to something else and can be compared to another.
Analogous things can be compared to each other, so a near synonym is the adjective comparable. Analogous is a term used in biology to refer to body parts that have a similar function but differ in structure, such as the wings of a bird and the wings of an airplane. Analogous is from Latin analogus, from Greek analogos, meaning "according to a proper ratio or proportion." |
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To which I say: No. "Borat" flies on the wings of effrontery and astonishing satiric extremes, and its pilot is a singular creation.
Seattle Times Oct 23, 2010 |
If you rudely behave as if you have a right to something that you have no right to, you're committing effrontery. When a couple stroll into a crowded restaurant, demand the best table, and threaten the staff unless they're seated right away, that's effrontery.
бесстыдство, наглость, нахальство |
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Persons who have lived long years in amity take offence at one expression.
Holyoake, George Jacob |
The word amity refers to a peaceful, friendly nature, much like the French word for friend — "ami."
From the Latin amicus "friend," amity means "friendly relations." That strong sense of friendship lends irony to the name of the book, and later the movie, called "The Amityville Horror," about a horrifying town with a weirdly cheerful name. In truth, though, amity means mutual understanding and peace. Wouldn't it be nice if all of the world's nations lived in amity? |
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Politicians and countless awards ceremonies extol innovation’s role in economic growth.
Economist May 10, 2012 |
If you have a crush on a guy who likes your best friend, it can be very depressing to listen to him extol your friend's virtues, while you just nod and smile. If you extol something, you praise it very highly.
восхвалять, превозносить, хвалить |
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For these belligerent nationalists, the problem is that there may not be enough children for future national leaders to be sufficiently powerful.
The Guardian Jan 20, 2011 |
If someone is belligerent, they're eager to fight. It's a good idea to avoid hardcore hockey fans after their team loses — they tend to be belligerent.
Belligerent comes from the Latin word bellum, for "war." You can use it to talk about actual wars — the nations taking part in a war are called belligerents — but usually belligerent describes a psychological disposition. If you're running a school for aggressive boys, do plenty of arts and crafts to prevent them from becoming too belligerent. The stress is on the second syllable: bə-LIJ-ə-rənt. |
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Gay men and lesbians should not be relegated to a second-class status, Justice Kennedy declared as he announced the opinion in United States v.
Reuters Jun 27, 2013 |
Relegate means assign to a lower position. If the quarterback of the football team stops making decent throws he might be relegated to the position of benchwarmer, while another kid is given the chance to play.
Relegate rhymes with delegate––both words derive from the Latin legare "send." Relegate means to send someone down in rank. Delegate means to send someone in your place to complete a task. In the workplace, managers who can't figure out how to delegate may get relegated to a lesser rank. |
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"Don't quote such a dreadfully hackneyed sentiment!" said his sister.
Warner, Susan |
Hackneyed is a word for language that doesn't pack a punch since it's overused and trite. "Roses are red, violets are..." — enough already?! That's hackneyed stuff.
Hackneyed is usually used to describe tired writing, but you can also refer to the hackneyed plots of television sit-coms or the hackneyed jokes of your Uncle Fred. But, most often, you will see hackneyed before the word phrase to refer to a specific cliché that is annoying the heck out of someone. |
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For big flavor, a blend of cumin, chili powder, coriander, cayenne, and black pepper packs a punch.
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to have a powerful effect or influence
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Hollywood often portrays business leaders as stuffed suits, brusque and self-important.
Inc May 17, 2012 |
If you ask a salesperson with help finding something and all you get in response is a brusque "Everything's out on the shelves," you'll probably take your business elsewhere. A brusque manner of speaking is unfriendly, rude, and very brief.
Brush and brusque are not related, but they sound similar––when someone is brusque, you often feel that they are trying to give you the "brush off." Near synonyms for brusque are curt, short, and gruff. Brusque (pronounced "brusk") was borrowed from the French word meaning "lively, fierce," from Italian brusco "coarse, rough." |
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Then the man without these interior resources gives way, breaks down, becomes querulous, fretful, irritable, sour.
Hyde, William De Witt One of the habits I want to get rid of is to be querulous when I'm talking to my parents |
Querulous means “having a tendency to complain” or, more directly put, “whiny.” Sure, no one can be happy all the time, but that’s no excuse for being querulous.
Querulous may remind you of the word query, which means “question.” However, the two words are not closely related. It’s perfectly reasonable to make a query; just don’t be querulous if you don’t like the answer you get. Querulous does share its origins with the word quarrel, which means “argument” -– and that’s what’s likely to happen if you complain too much. капризный, жалующийся, ворчливый, недовольный |
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Once you are all seated, pay most deference to the highest status person there.
Inc Mar 6, 2013 With all due deference to my boss' opinion, I still think that the higher education is very valuable experience and worth pursuing. |
уважение, почтение
Sure you wear ripped jeans to school every day, but you don't wear them to your grandmother's house out of deference to her. When you show deference to someone, you make a gesture of respect. The noun deference goes with the verb defer, which means "to yield to someone's opinions or wishes out of respect for that person." If you and your dad disagree about the best route to the grocery store, you might defer to him, and take his route. You're taking his route out of deference to his opinion and greater experience. |
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That, combined with some trepidation about what the Independent Commission on Banking's interim report might mean for lending, saw the sector's big names nursing losses.
The Guardian Apr 12, 2011 I have a bit of trepidation regarding how I'm going to fund my studies |
1) трепет, дрожь; дрожание
synonym: trembling 2) беспокойство, волнение, тревога When plain old "fear" isn't enough to get across a deep feeling of dread about something on the horizon, use the more formal word trepidation. "It was with a certain trepidation that I attended an advance screening of Rob Zombie's Halloween in Hollywood last night," wrote a film reviewer. Some dictionaries note that trepidation carries connotations of apprehension about an upcoming threat. In most cases, though, you can get by with the simpler word fear — why use three syllables when you could make do with one? The word comes from the Latin verb trepidare, "to tremble." |
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He found ancient prayers and visions completely consonant with electronic sound.
New York Times Dec 7, 2012 Going to ANU MSc in Math is consonant with my big goal to become an important player on world problem's stage |
1) согласный, совпадающий; совместимый, совместный
2) сходный, подобный, созвучный (о словах) |
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“Man, they was asking me some flagrant questions,” Mayweather said.
New York Times May 4, 2013 Still a lot of russian women are wearing clothes in flagrant incompatible colors. Flagrant violation of the rules may put you under the high risk to be deported from Singapore |
1) ужасающий, ужасный, страшный, вопиющий (об обиде, преступлении и т. п.; также. об обидчике, преступнике и т. п.)
3) яркий, кричащий Something flagrant is bad — so bad you can't ignore it. A flagrant foul in sports might send you to the bench, and a flagrant violation of the law might send you to the slammer. The current meaning of the adjective flagrant — "obviously offensive or disgraceful" — is thought to derive from the Latin legal term in flagrante delicto, which literally meant "with fire still blazing" and is used figuratively to describe a situation in which the criminal is caught red handed. Aside from a flagrant abuse of the law, the word can also be used to describe anything that is obviously bad — like flagrant bad taste or flagrant abuse of the rules of grammar. |
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The larger point here is that Eastern and Western cultures are mutually incompatible.
Forbes Jul 21, 2013 Working in big companies as a small screw is incompatible with my ambitions to play an important role in the world's future in 3-5 years. |
несовместимый, несовмещающийся, несочетающийся, несовместный
Use the adjective incompatible to describe things or people that are too different to get along. When paired with someone you can't work with, don't criticize or get mad. Just say, "We are incompatible." Put together the prefix in- and the suffix -ible and what do you get? "Not able." The center of incompatible comes from Latin, compati, or "suffer with." So think of incompatible as a way to describe something you simply are not able to suffer — there's too much conflict. Things can be incompatible just like people. Just try hooking up an incompatible piece of hardware to your computer — it won't work because it was designed for a different system. |
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Not getting enough sleep will adversely affect your performance in school.
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it's harmful or negativ
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Your taste in music evolved from the nursery rhymes you loved as a little kid to whatever you like today
I want to evolve in the area of Data Analysis. |
it changes, or develops over time, like your taste in music and clothes
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A morning that starts with me being in a bad mood is anomaly
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is an abnormality, a blip on the screen of life that doesn’t fit with the rest of the pattern.
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My could never stand any attempt to put down her behavior or how she dressed.
Try not put your loved ones down by sharp and angry retorts when you are in a bad mood |
disapprove, criticize
humiliate, squelch |
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I was always squelched when I tried to talk about our future
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а) подавить
б) заставить замолчать, оборвать, осадить |
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I'm waiting the moment when I can plunged into my math courses.
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devote (oneself) fully to
cause to be immersed |
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I need to cease my mood intervening in my daily plans
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get involved, so as to alter or hinder an action, or through force or threat of force
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To choose a movie to see I usually go to movie forums and find which movie was exalted the most recently
To exalt your trainings drink a cup of coffee and eat lots of proteins 2 hours in advance. |
возвышать; возвеличивать; облагораживать
Синонимы: lift up, dignify, ennoble б) превозносить; восхвалять, хвалить; прославлять Синонимы: extol, praise 2) усиливать, повышать; интенсифицировать; стимулировать Синонимы: intensify, heighten |
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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
The Guardian Jul 27, 2013 |
means to leak slowly. When you see the word, imagine water coming in through your sneakers on a rainy day. It's not a lot of water, but your feet still get pretty wet.
falls somewhere between gush and drip on a scale of how liquid flows and suggests a liquid that is thick, and unwanted. In the figurative sense, some things that ..., like bad thoughts that .... into your mind, are also unwanted |
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Sometimes I feel I need time to spend it with myself and detach from the busy world
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1) отделять; отсоединять; отвязывать; отцеплять
Синонимы: separate, unfasten, disconnect, disengage, disunite 2) отделяться; отсоединяться; отвязываться; отцепляться 3) (detach oneself from smb. / smth.) отделяться, отходить, отодвигаться, отстраняться (от кого-л. / чего-л.) |
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Even meretricious Paris sometimes harpoons an honest American heart more deeply than is fit.
Howe, Julia Ward Meretricious red dress is something that attract very dirty looks He got many of his career promotions through meretricious complements |
lacking aesthetic or social taste
lacking sincerity |
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Despite its inherent dangers, alligator hunting has produced just one injury in Mississippi, Flynt said.
Reuters Sep 4, 2013 My inherent curiosity leads sometimes to a new ideas and unforgettable pleasant surprises |
Use the adjective inherent for qualities that are considered permanent or cannot be separated from an essential character.
We use the adjective inherent to describe attributes that are part of the essential nature of something. It's different from you being tall, rather than being a description, it has to be a quality and this quality is unchangeable. So, for example, if you have never been able to eat spinach, you have an inherent dislike of it. |
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In 1990 protesters threw off the yoke of a splintering Soviet Union.
New York Times Aug 3, 2013 To get rid of yoke to be always disappointed with myself, I need to relax, lower expectations, and be consistent. |
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nv support consisting of a wooden frame across the shoulders that enables a person to carry buckets hanging from each end 2 n a connection (like a clamp or vise) between two things so they move together 3 n an oppressive power 4 n fabric comprising a fitted part at the top of a garment |
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I consider a person who is conceit not more than a cowered and fool
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n the trait of being unduly vain ; false pride
Synonyms: conceitedness, vanity Antonyms: humbleness, humility a disposition to be humble; a lack of false pride n feelings of excessive pride Synonyms: amour propre, self-love, vanity Type of: pride, pridefulness a feeling of self-respect and personal worth |
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Their defeat, therefore, had saved not only Mr. Armstrong's, but the other farms from pillage.
Henty, G. A. (George Alfred) Pillage is developing not only because of poverty and greediness, but also because of lack of social stimulus to go and get a decent job. |
steal goods; take as spoils
Synonyms: despoil, foray, loot, plunder, ransack, reave, rifle, strip goods or money obtained illegally Synonyms: booty, dirty money, loot, plunder, prize, swag |
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The gentleman had short, receding black hair, close-set eyes, and a generous round chin.
BusinessWeek Feb 16, 2012 I receded from both of the meetings with her not because I didn't want to see her, but because I was lazy to get out of the house in this rainy weather. |
pull back or move away or backward
Synonyms: draw back, move back, pull away, pull back, retire, retreat, withdraw retreat make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity Synonyms: drop off, fall back, fall behind, lose Antonyms: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win obtain advantages, such as points, etc. |
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I must work expeditiously on my TOEFL and ANU preparation to enjoy social activities.
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If you do something expeditiously, you do it with speed and great efficiency. You might work expeditiously to finish your chores so you can go out with your friends.
The adverb expeditiously can describe something you do quickly and efficiently, but the word has a formal sound to it that makes whatever you’re doing sound fancy. You might do the dishes quickly just to get it over with — but tell your mom you did them expeditiously and she’ll be more impressed. You’ll often hear the word used in formal contexts. A police spokesperson might talk about an investigation that will be handled expeditiously. |
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I need to contemplate what I want to achieve by the end of this year and focus ONLY on that
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If you ... something, you think about it carefully.
think intently and at length, as for spiritual purposes Synonyms: meditate, study reflect deeply on a subject Synonyms: chew over, excogitate, meditate, mull, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over Contemplate is from Latin contemplatus, past participle of contemplari "to gaze attentively, observe," from the prefix com- "together" plus templum "temple." The original meaning of Latin contemplari was "to mark out a space for observing auguries or omens," and the temple was a holy space reserved for this purpose. |
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Learning is retrieving knowledge you already have somewhere deep in your consiousness
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get or find back; recover the use of
Synonyms: find, recover, regain find, regain recall knowledge from memory; have a recollection Synonyms: call back, call up, recall, recollect, remember, think |
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Failure of me receiving Australian Government Scholarship is infinitesimal
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When it's incalculably small, when teensy seems large compared to it, then it is .... "The equipment was so sensitive that even the ... dust molecules that swept in with the open door altered the readings."
... is such an extreme description of a microscopic something that the word is used as an exaggeration more often than to describe something actually quite small. "The chances of Roxy going out on a date with Norbert were .... She barely even knew he existed." Infinitesimal has as its root infinite which usually conjures up thoughts of immeasurably large quantities or sizes. In this case infinite refers to something immeasurably small. |
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Back then fashion models were not deified; gifted people were.
Slate Apr 27, 2012 I have never deified anyone in my life, because I know that anyone can get to the height of popularity by pure chance or hard work. |
When you ... someone, you're paying the highest compliment: you're treating them like a god.
Maybe it's because people like to exaggerate, but we ... all the time. We ... the latest sports stars, singers, and actors. When politicians are popular, we ... them. Great writers and artists of the past — like Shakespeare and Picasso — are .... Anytime we make someone seem so great, so powerful, so wonderful, and so amazing that it can't possibly be true, we're ... them. It's something we just can't help doing when we respect or love someone a lot. |
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This week in Singapore was a week of precipitation.
When I'm excited I should try to avoid acting with precipitation. |
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n the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) 2 n the process of forming a chemical precipitate а) стремительность, торопливость; опрометчивость Синоним: hastiness б) неоправданная спешка, гонка Синоним: inconsiderate haste, rash rapidity |
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It's hard to convey your feelings to a people, the opinion who you highly value.
The ship will convey the heaviest of my things from Singapore to Australia. |
When you ... something, you carry or deliver it. Little Red Riding Hood ...ed a basket of muffins to her grandmother. Your sad smile might ... more about your feelings than words ever could.
You can also ... a message or information, which means that you communicate it to someone directly or indirectly through your words or actions. In law, the word ... means to transfer or pass property to someone. |
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Our views on how to start the negotiations collided.
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be incompatible; be or come into conflict
Synonyms: clash, jar Type of: conflict be in conflict |
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The smell of his cologne permeated around the room and made me feel like I want to dissolve in the his arms.
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When you live in a big city like New York, you know all too well how the smells of spices and cooking meats can ... a hallway, easily passing through those thin apartment doors to make your mouth water.
The verb ... literally means to "pass through." It's often used to describe smells or liquids that not only pass through, but also spread to fill an entire area. When you bake cookies, you'll notice that the rich, sweet smell of those cookies isn't confined just to your oven — it ...s the entire kitchen and even the whole house. In science class, you might have learned about a permeable membrane — a thin material that is porous enough to let liquids or gases to pass through. |
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To much sweets can corrode your brain cells.
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... means to eat away at and cause to deteriorate, like rust slowly taking over an old bike left out in the rain.
Stemming from a Latin word that means "to gnaw away,"... is a verb that usually describes destroying a metal by oxidation or by some other kind of chemical action. Acid is particularly corrosive, or able to ... things easily. The word ... can also be used figuratively. Way back when, the grandmas of the world thought rock music would ... the minds of young people. Thank goodness that didn't really pan out. |
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I really hope my idea with becoming one of the greatest data scientists in the world will pan out
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преуспевать; удаваться, устраиваться
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There is a very noisy construction adjacent to my house.
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... means close to or near something. You may consider the people up and down your street to be neighbors, but your next door neighbor is the person who lives in the house or apartment ... to yours.
... can refer to two things that touch each other or have the same wall or border. And the adjective is often followed by the preposition to: Her office is ... to mine. |
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My boss' style of management will soon deplete my patience and I will leave the job.
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To ... is to use up or consume a limited resource. Visiting relatives might ...your refrigerator of food, or a pestering friend might ... your patience.
The verb ... is used like “to drain.” A long, exhausting day can ... your body of energy and a summer drought can ... a region’s water supply. If you ... your body of hydration after a lot of exercise, be sure to replete yourself with a nice glass of water. use up (resources or materials) Synonyms: consume, eat, eat up, exhaust, run through, use up,wipe out |
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Early detection of a storm cloud in the sky can save you from soaking to the skin under the rain when you are considering going for a walk.
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the perception that something has occurred or some state exists
Synonyms: sensing Type of: perception the process of perceiving n the act of detecting something; catching sight of something |
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drive with abandon
acting with abandon |
drive recklessly
they have let go of restrictions or inhibitions |
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Sometimes it is good to be reckless and follow your heart.
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marked by lack of proper caution : careless of consequences
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Attainment of a skill of "work hard, play hard" wasn't easy and took a while, but it's totally worth it.
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the act of achieving an aim
Type of: accomplishment, achievement the action of accomplishing something n an ability that has been acquired by training |
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Annihilate a habit of overeating I need to stop eating while watching movies alone.
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a : to cause to be of no effect : nullify
b : to destroy the substance or force of 2 : to regard as of no consequence 3 : to cause to cease to exist; especially : kill |
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Very few things come easy in this world, for the rest - just be sure what you want exactly and persevere with the routine to achieve the goal.
If you persevere with / in your search for a job, you are sure to find something suitable. |
So, today, the connotation of the word is to persist in a methodical way despite obstacles or distractions.
be persistent, refuse to stop Synonyms: hang in, hang on, hold on, persist |
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I need to retain as many English words at the disposal so my speaking language doesn't sound dull and monotonous.
The landlord retained the security deposit” |
keep in one's mind
secure and keep for possible future use or application |
