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27 Cards in this Set
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affluent |
wealthy |
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unscathed |
not harmed (people) |
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intact |
not broken (things) |
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cumbersome |
difficult to move, to operate |
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hence |
for this reason |
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to rinse |
to use water to clean the soap or dirt from something |
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to play havoc with |
to cause problems, to damage something |
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contraption |
a machine or object that looks strange or |
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to console sbd |
to comfort, to make sbd less tense |
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to be laden with |
full of sth, heavy |
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to acquit |
to free sbd of blame |
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acquittal |
when a court of law decides that someone is not guilty of a crime |
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profiteer |
a person who takes advantage of a situation in which other people are suffering to make a profit, often by selling goodsthat are difficult to get at a high price |
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to taper |
to become gradually narrower at one end |
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to tuck |
(behind) (into) to push a loose piece of clothing or material somewhere to make it tidy |
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to superimpose |
to put sth on top of sth else, so that a part of the 1st thing is still visible |
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to outstretch |
to spread sth out |
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a wealth of folclore/detail |
a lot of sth |
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pedigree |
someone's family history, or their education and experience a list of the parents and other relatives of an animal |
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the main thrust of sth |
the main part |
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a cut-off point |
point in which sth is ended |
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pervasive |
seeming to be present everywhere |
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infantile |
childlish |
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to pester |
to bother sbd, to nag, to ask for sth annoyingly and repeatedly |
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to blank out |
to obscure, to erase, to make it difficult to undersand |
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to impinge on |
to have an effect on sth |
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myriad(s) |
an uncountable number of sth |
