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21 Cards in this Set
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an important person or thing |
A big-shot company |
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the act of working with another person or group of people to create or produce something |
The new plane was a triumph of European industrial and technical collaboration. |
It was a collaboration that produced extremely useful results. |
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the character and atmosphere of a place |
the relaxed ambience of the city |
low lighting for added ambience |
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to make something flat by pushing something over it |
Roll out the pastry. |
Thinly roll out a little icing of each colour. |
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to make a new product, service, or system available for the first time: |
The government plans to roll out a series of tax cuts over the next few years. |
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an amount of money that is paid to somebody for the work they have done |
Generous remuneration packages are often attached to overseas postings. |
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to earn money from something, especially a business or an asset (= something that a business owns) |
Newspapers try to monetize their online content in several ways. |
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to arrange for yourself or for somebody else to officially join a course, school, etc. |
You need to enrol before the end of August. |
to enroll in a course |
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(especially of an excuse, a lie, etc.) that you can easily see is false; allowing you to see the truth easily [Obvious] |
a transparent attempt to buy votes |
Am I that transparent? (= are my intentions that obvious?) |
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a man’s personal servant who takes care of his clothes, serves his meals, etc. |
His valet brought him his letters. |
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the act of doing or saying something deliberately in order to make somebody angry or upset; something that is done or said to cause this |
He fired a shot without any provocation. |
They seem ready to fight at the slightest provocation. |
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seeming or likely to be wrong, illegal or dishonest [suspicious] |
There's something fishy going on here. |
I don’t know what they’re up to. It sounds a distinctly fishy business. |
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to say or prove that a statement or criticism is false |
an attempt to publicly rebut rumours of a divorce |
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part around the neck of a shirt, jacket or coat that usually folds down |
I turned up my collar against the wind (= to keep warm). |
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an extremely unpleasant or horrible person |
A slimeball |
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the area around a particular place |
Crowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square. |
There is no hospital in the immediate vicinity. |
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to deliberately hit somebody hard with your head |
He was sent off for headbutting the goalkeeper. |
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to talk in a way that other people think is silly and annoying |
What was she blabbering on about this time? |
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to give up some of your demands in order to reach an agreement after disagreeing with somebody |
After much argument, the judges finally compromised on (= agreed to give the prize to) the 18-year old pianist. |
They were unwilling to compromise with the terrorists. |
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a woman who works as a prostitute |
The whore doesn't seem to be okey |
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piece of glass in a window |
The windowpane on the driver's side was already rolled down |
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