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68 Cards in this Set
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The money up front |
الدفع مسبق The worker won't do the job unless the money is up front |
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Coast guard |
خفر السواحل The Coast Guard search for the missing skiff |
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To Rinse |
شطف او مضمضة You should not rinse immediately after brushing your teeth |
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The Italian front |
جبهة الحرب الإيطالية |
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She died during childbirth |
ماتت أثناء الولادة |
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The survival is for the fittest |
البقاء للاقوى |
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It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance |
It is pleasure to meet you |
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Trim your nails |
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Double standards |
ازدواجية المعايير |
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Overhear |
السمع بالمصادفة I overheard a real funny cuss word in the bus this morning. |
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I can't place you |
حاسس حالي شايفك بس مابعرف وين I think we've met before, but I can't remember when |
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To squint |
انك تغمض شوي to almost close your eyes |
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Articulation |
Pronunciation |
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There are two Salient facts |
هناك حقيقتين بارزتين- مهمتين |
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That's a little bit of a stretch/reach |
في شوية كش بالموضوع If someone says he speaks 8 languages, I would say it is a little bit of a stretch |
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Minute ( maaynute) |
Something is extremely small That was a minute moment of acing foolishly |
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Minute ( maaynute) |
Something is extremely small That was a minute moment of acing foolishly |
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Voiced sounds are also |
Lenis sounds |
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Voiceless sounds are also |
Fortis |
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Reckless |
متهور He is so reckless, he drives his car on 180 |
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Collaboration |
التعاون In every field of work, collaboration is needed. |
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To error is human |
كل بني آدم خطاء |
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To whom it may concern |
إلى من يهمه الأمر |
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In the neck of time |
في آخر لحظة |
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Ladle |
كبجاية |
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Foul |
يلوث The oil that is spilled in the river fouled it |
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Credibility |
مصداقية |
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Bibliography |
References المصادر حتى الي قرأتها بدون ماتحط المصدر |
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Appendix |
ملحق Plural : appendices |
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Genocide |
إبادة جماعية Do you know that Israel is committing a genocide in Palestine |
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Disempowered peoples |
شعوب مستضعفة |
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A bandit |
قطاع الطرق One who robs others in lawless areas |
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To alleviate |
تخفيف He swallowed opium to alleviate the fever caused by the wound. |
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A zero sum game |
Someone wins and the other loses |
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Disempowered peoples |
شعوب مستضعفة The people of Palestine are disempowered |
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Dimension |
بُعد Bro was so high. like he was on another dimension |
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What does : In medias res mean |
It means that the story starts from nowhere it starts in the middle you have to build up information and to know about it |
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The difference between ' Idea ' Thought' |
Idea when you think about it and it's crystallised to people Thought : a thought without calculation |
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Envoy |
مبعوث A a person who represents a government or an organization and sent as a messenger to talk to other governments and organizations |
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commingle with |
to mix two or more things together or to be mixed, especially when it is impossible for the things to be separated afterwards يختلط/يمتزج A bottel of acid fell and commingled with the pure water in Africa. This is a crisis. |
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to slumber
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to sleep نائم I didn't want to bother my slumbering wife. |
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hitherto |
until now |
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hurriedly |
in a hurry |
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Perception |
تصور There is a general public perception that standards in schools are falling. |
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Strain |
إجهاد |
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Arthritis |
التهاب المفاصل |
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Wear |
يَبلى gets worse |
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Well |
Use it |
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I came to realize |
أدركت |
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Enormous |
ضخم |
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Nocturnal |
Active at night ليلي An nocturnal animal |
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Succinct |
موجز Being succinct is to give the gist in few word |
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Assert |
يؤكد I assert to you that I will be a good learner |
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Contend |
Assert - insist يؤكد - يصر I contend that I would be trainable |
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To Purport |
يدّعي Is to confirm something although it doesn't sound correct |
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To refute |
يدحض To show something is not true, you're against the idea |
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In/under dispute |
يجادل - ينازع -To discuss something you don't agree on - when two countries are fighting for a place, the place is in dispute. |
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Concur with |
يوافق Means you agree on something |
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Attribute |
صفة - يعزو If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation |
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Maintain |
يقر ب |
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Convoy |
قافلة/ موكب The minister's convoy will be coming here in a minute. |
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Maiden |
عذراء- عانس |
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Ambassador |
سفير |
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Auction |
مزاد |
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A watched pot never boils |
البريق الي بتضل مراقبو بعمرو مابيغلي |
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Each and every mistake |
Use |
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Run as fast as your legs would carry you |
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A figment of imagination |
ضرب من الخيل |