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describes something which you find unpleasant or immoral, and therefore you dislike |
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to behave with too much respect towards someone to show them that you are very eager to please them |
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the careful use of money, especially by avoiding waste |
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1 a brief smell, carried on a current of air
2 "a whiff of sth" = a slight sign of something |
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1 high
2 lofty ideas etc. are of a high moral standard
3 (disapproving) if you have a lofty attitude etc., you act as if you think you are better than other people |
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1 important and large in degree
2 splendid in style and appearance; attracting admiration and attention
3 excellent; pleasing |
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a feeling of unhappiness and disappointment |
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a noisy or drunken feast or social gathering; revelry |
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showing strong disapproval and not showing respect |
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a false spoken statement about someone which damages their reputation, or the making of such a statement |
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to forcefully or angrily tell someone they should not have done a particular thing and criticize them for having done it |
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1 to give up something such as a responsibility or claim
2 to unwillingly stop holding or keeping something |
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1 things that are muddled are badly organized
2 a person who is muddled is confused |
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1 no longer new or fresh, usually as a result of being kept for too long
2 not fresh and new; boring because too familiar
3 describes someone who has lost interest in what they are doing because they are bored or are working too hard |
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to make someone feel suddenly uncertain and worried |
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calm confidence in a person's way of behaving, or a quality of grace and balance in the way a person holds or moves their body |
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to make a person or an animal react or do something by continuously annoying or upsetting them |
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1 (literary) to keep someone within limits or stop their advance
2 to tie someone to a place by putting chains around their ankles |
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if you are shackled by something, you are unable to do what you want to do because of this thing |
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unfriendly and seeming to consider yourself better than other people |
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unhappy, annoyed and unwilling to speak or smile; sullen |
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angry and unwilling to smile or be pleasant to people |
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to feel or express great pleasure or satisfaction because of your own success or good luck, or someone else's failure or bad luck |
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worthless or of little value |
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excessively particular or fastidious; difficult to please; fussy |
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1 (disapproving) difficult to please
2 needing a lot of attention to detail |
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1 not easily satisfied; having very high standards or very fixed standards about particular things
2 having too much decoration and too many small details, in a way that is not stylish |
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(informal disapproving) unwilling to spend money |
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without money, food, a home or possessions |
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to talk or write a lot without giving any useful information or any clear answers |
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difficult to describe, find, achieve or remember |
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to control the actions or behavior of someone by force, especially in order to stop them from doing something, or to limit the growth or force of something |
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a sudden and usually large increase in something |
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describes a phrase or an idea which has been said or used so often that it has become meaningless or boring |
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1 to choose; select; pick
2 to gather the choice things or parts from
3 to collect; gather; pluck
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2 something culled, esp. something picked out and put aside as inferior |
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| a strong feeling of dislike; hate |
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to suddenly or unexpectedly see something, especially something a long distance away |
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to criticize or complain repeatedly in an annoying way
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a horse, especially one that is too old to be useful |
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something that is considered to be a sign of how a future event will take place |
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a woman whose job is sewing and making clothes |
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giving complete attention, or showing complete involvement, or (of attention) complete |
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1 to defend yourself from a weapon or an attack by pushing the weapon away or by putting something between your body and the weapon
2 to manage cleverly to avoid dealing with a difficult question or some criticism |
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a person who practices the sport of fighting with long thin swords |
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something that is done or said in order to get an advantage, often dishonestly |
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1 to blow the chaff (= the outer coverings) from grain before it can be used as food
2 to reduce a large number of people or things to a much smaller number by judging their quality |
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the outer layer which is separated from grains such as wheat before they are used as food, or dried grass and stems when used to feed cattle |
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1 to spoil something or someone's perfect reputation or purity
2 to make something dirty |
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happy and without worry |
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to damage and spoil the appearance of something by writing or drawing on it |
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to listen to someone's private conversation without them knowing |
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very important because of effects on future events |
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clear or obvious without needing any evidence or proof |
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interested only in your own country or group and not willing to accept different or foreign ideas |
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behaving in a calm manner, often in a way which suggests lack of interest or care |
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angry and unwilling to smile or be pleasant to people |
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1 to defraud; cheat
2 to evade payment of (a debt)
3 to frustrate
4 to escape from; elude
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1 a cheat; swindler
2 a trick; fraud; deceit |
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to stop something from happening or someone from doing something |
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1 likely to change your opinion or your feelings suddenly and without a good reason
2 describes conditions that tend to change suddenly and without warning |
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to pull a plant including its roots out of the ground |
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containing important new ideas and being very influential on later work |
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perfect, or complete in every way
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person whose job it is to buy and sell wine |
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1 a person who sells meat in a shop
2 someone who murders a lot of people, especially in a cruel way |
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1 a standard quantity of paper, consisting of 20 quires or 500 sheets (formerly 480 sheets), or 516 sheets (printer's ream or perfect ream)
2 usually, reams = a large quantity |
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a unit of volume used chiefly for fuel wood, now generally equal to 128 cu. ft. (3.6 cu. m); abbreviation = cd |
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describes people or things that you dislike or oppose because they are so unpleasant or wrong |
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1 the quality or power that something or someone has that makes them attractive
2 an artificial insect or other small animal which is put on the end of a fishing line to attract fish |
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someone who spends a lot of money in a wasteful way |
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1 eating and drinking more than you need
2 using more than you need |
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arguing and complaining a lot |
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(an example of) activity against another person, especially as a punishment by military forces or a political group |
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1 a period of time when a criminal must behave well and not commit any more crimes in order to avoid being sent to prison
2 a period of time at the start of a new job when you are watched and tested to see if you are suitable for the job
a period of probation
3 a period of time in which a student who has behaved badly must improve their work or behavior in order to stay in a school |
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a complaint or a strong feeling that you have been treated unfairly |
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a large farming tool with blades which digs the earth in fields so that seeds can be planted |
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1 a garden tool with a long handle and long pointed metal parts sticking out in a row at the bottom, used for making the earth level or for gathering leaves, etc.
2 a man, especially one who is rich or with a high social position, who lives in an immoral way, especially having sex with a lot of women
3 a slope
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to search in a container by moving the contents around quickly |
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the solid bits that sink to the bottom of some liquids, such as wine or coffee, which are not usually drunk |
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quick and exact either in movement or thoughts |
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1 dark and dirty or difficult to see through
2 describes a situation that is complicated and unpleasant, and about which many facts are unclear |
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to make someone believe something that is not true; to deceive |
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(especially of old people) energetic and in good health |
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(of people or their appearance) very untidy |
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full of anger, arguments and bad feeling |
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1 (disapproving) expressing no emotion or feelings
2 lacking in character and warmth |
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extremely unpleasant, especially because death or blood is involved |
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careless and not doing a duty well enough |
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