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appease
She claimed that the government had only changed the law in order to appease their critics.
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zaspokoić, zadowolić
vat
a vat of wine/oil
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zbiornik
off-brand
Many teenagers wouldn't consider off-brand sneakers.
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not having a well-known brand name
drill
In some of these schools, army-style drills are used to instil a sense of discipline.
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dryl, musztra
defer
defer a decision/ defer doing sth
My bank has agreed to defer the repayments on my loan.
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odraczać
hooker
informal
Change those clothes -- you look like a hooker.
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prostytutka
lesion
skin/brain lesions
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injury
commencement
also beginning: Would passengers please turn off their mobile phones before the commencement of the flight.
As they like to say in commencement speeches, I I was getting ready to enter the real world.
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graduation
welfare
also physical and mental health and happiness: The police are very concerned for the welfare of the missing child.
Your taxes pay for welfare benefits such as unemployment and sickness pay.; Most of the people in this neighborhood are on welfare. (US)
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opieka społeczna
incarceration
The prisoner was sentenced to five months of incarceration.
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uwięzienie
daybreak
She set off at daybreak.
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świt
hubcap
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kołpak
wand
The fairy godmother waved her magic wand over the cabbages and they turned into horses.
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różdżka
queasy
I started to feel queasy as soon as the boat left the harbour.
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feeling that you want to vomit:
take a pot shot at
to try to shoot a thing or person in a way that is not skilful
Instead of taking pot shots at us, why don’t you make a useful suggestion?
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to criticize someone or something in an unfair way
matriculation
At the matriculation ceremony, we all had to walk through the streets of Oxford wearing short black gowns.
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immatrykulacja
quill
He pulled it farther open and saw that a bunch of quill pens in an elastic band had been moved.
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pióro gęsie
make a pass at sb
It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her.
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to try to kiss or touch another person with the intention of starting a sexual relationship with them
DUI
There were a large number of DUI arrests on New Year’s Eve.
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drive under the influence
green room
As a former actor I must say I have never seen a green room that was green.
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a room, for example in a theatre, where performers can relax
foreman
also: in a court of law, a member of the jury who is chosen to be in charge of the jury's discussions and to speak officially for them:; The jury foreman read the verdict - reached Friday after 15 hours of deliberation - in a Macomb County courtroom.
After four years on the job, he was promoted to foreman.
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szef, nadzorujący
martyrdom
the martyrdom of St. Catherine
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męczeństwo
leverage
also: the action or advantage of using a lever: Using ropes and wooden poles for leverage, they haul sacks of cement up the track.
If the United Nations had more troops in the area, it would have greater leverage.
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power to influence people and get the results you want:
fortitude
formal
I thought she showed remarkable fortitude during that period.
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courage over a long period:
estate
She left her entire estate to her niece.
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majątek
cushion
also verb: The soft grass cushioned his fall.
You should aim to build up a cushion of money in case of emergencies.
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zabezpieczenie, amortyzacja
stage an event
The local drama group is staging a production of the musical "Grease".
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zorganizować wydarzenie
voyeur
disapproving
I felt like a voyeur visiting the war zone and seeing badly injured people being dragged from their bomb-shattered homes.
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podglądacz
mayhem
With 20 kids running around and only two adults to supervise, it was complete mayhem
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chaos, zamęt
debilitating
a debilitating condition/disease
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osłabiający
curfew
also - a time by which a child must be home in the evening (US): You'll be in trouble if you get home after curfew.
He was shot for breaking (= not obeying) the curfew.
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godzina policyjna
booth
also: a phone booth/ a crafts booth
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a partly enclosed place in a restaurant, with a table between two long seats
budka/ stragan
anxious
I'm anxious to get home to open my presents., Developing countries that are anxious for hard currency can rarely afford to protect the environment.
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eager to do sth
try
Because of security implications the officers were tried in secret.
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subject someont to trial in a court
blazer
He wore a navy blue blazer and gray pants.
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a jacket, sometimes with the special sign of a school, club etc on it
unbeknownst to sb
formal
Unbeknownst to me, he had rented out the apartment while I was away.
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without a particular person knowing:
scones
tea and buttered scones
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bułeczka
turn sb over to sb
He was working here illegally and was terrified that his boss would turn him over to the authorities.
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to take a criminal to the police or other authority:
make one's bones
I made my bones when I was nineteen, the last time the family had a war.
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take actions to achieve sth
haystack
It would be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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a pile of hay
stóg siana
brothel
You promised me brothel, Hiram.
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burdel
pep
informal
That morning she felt full of pep and decided to go for a long walk.
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energia
stilts
We glide past islands with huts on stilts and waving people.
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szczudła, podpory
speakeasy
You know how many speakeasies are there in this one county?
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a place where alcohol was illegally sold and drunk in the US in the 1920s and 1930s
circuit breaker
synonym: fuse
Even when the installation has been undertaken by an expert, the inclusion of a circuit breaker is a wise precaution.
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wyłącznik obwodu, bezpiecznik
banter
He considered himself a master of witty banter.
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przekomarzanie się
suspenders
UK: braces
She was holding a suspender in each hand like she had a skipping rope.
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szelki
bleachers
US
Across the bleachers, the Oregon band puts down its instruments and starts dancing in the aisles.
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trybuny
double down on sth
US
We're doubling down; we're going to keep on going because we've committed too much to stop.
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to continue to do something in an even more determined way than before:
eerie
He had the eerie feeling that he had met this stranger before.
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strange in a frightening and mysterious way:
whisk
I wish you hadn't whisked away my plate from the table like that—I was still eating!; My wife whisked the cat hair off my shoulder before I left for my interview.
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to take something or someone somewhere else suddenly and quickly:
culpable
formal
He was held culpable (= blamed) for all that had happened.
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winny
zasługujący na winę
attain
He has attained the highest grade in his music exams.
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osiągać
scrupulous
also - honest: A scrupulous politician would not lie about her business interests.
The nurse told him to be scrupulous (= extremely careful) about keeping the wound clean.
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skrupulatny
asphyxiation
The cause of death was asphyxiation from smoke inhalation.
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uduszenie się
snort
He did an impression of a horse snorting.; The candidate's speech drew loud snorts of derisive laughter.
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parsknięcie, parskać
sniff
You're sniffing a lot - do you have a cold?
He sniffed his socks to see if they needed washing.
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wąchać
także ciągać nosem
forlorn
This forlorn industrial town has very high unemployment.; She looked a forlorn figure standing at the bus stop.
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opuszczony, nieszczęśliwy
invocate
synonym: invoke
Their sacred dance is performed to invoke ancient gods.
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wywołać
seer
All the seers and prophets saw the world as worthless.
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jasnowidz
doe
stag
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a female deer
an adult male deer
impart
also - to communicate information to someone: to impart the bad news
Use a piece of fresh ginger to impart a Far Eastern flavour to simple ingredients.
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to give a particular quality to something
at the instance of
formal
prosecution at the instance of the police
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at the request or instigation of.
divination
Most clairvoyants restrict themselves to the pictures for divination.
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wróżbiarstwo
intermediary
The police negotiated with the gunman through an intermediary.
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pośrednik
energumen
archaic
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a person believed to be possessed by the devil or a spirit.
preliminary
Preliminary results show that the vaccine is effective, but this has to be confirmed by further medical trials.
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wstępny
ooze
Many millions of years ago, our ancestors climbed out of the primeval ooze onto dry land.
Blood was still oozing out of the wound.
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sączyć się
także szlam
premed
also - a student who is doing a course that prepares him or her for medical school: This is a difficult question to answer for a premed.
Michael decided that premed was no longer for him.
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a college or university course that prepares students for medical school:
all bets are off
All bets are off on the election: it's too close to call.
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nie można przewidzieć wyniku danej sytuacji
contractor
a roofing contractor
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kontrahent, zleceniobiorca, wykonawca
rattled
informal
Walter got rattled when they didn’t call.
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worried or nervous
intoxicated
formal
She was charged with driving while intoxicated.
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drunk
DWI
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Driving While Intoxicated
breathalyzer
A breathalyzer test proved negative.
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alkomat
lynching
She wrote about the travesty of racially motivated lynching., At the time, lynchings were commonplace.
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lincz, samosąd
tank (verb)
Car exports in the year to April tanked 23 percent.
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to go down in price, value
treasury
The Treasury estimates that the top 1% of earners will pay about 32.3% of all taxes this year.
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the government department responsible for financial matters such as spending and taxes
void
The ruling party voided elections in 14 cities.
The lawyers declared the contract (null and) void.
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nieważny
unieważnić
cash
Would you cash a cheque for me?
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to exchange a cheque, etc. for cash:
bill
UK: note - a €20 note
a ten-dollar bill
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banknot
orthopedist
It may take six months to see an orthopedist for a hip replacement.
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ortopeda
qualified
There seems to be qualified support for the idea.
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limited:
lowly
He took a lowly job in an insurance firm.
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low in position and importance, or not respected:
bear testimony/witness
She bore witness to his patience and diligence.
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składać świadectwo
output
Last year manufacturing output fell by 14 percent.
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an amount that a person, machine, or organization produces:
standoff
The political standoff led to a six-month delay in passing this year's budget.
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a situation in which agreement in an argument does not seem possible
inscrutable
an inscrutable face/expression/smile
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tajemniczy
vagaries
The success of the event will be determined by the vagaries of the weather.
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kaprysy, wybryki
pat answer
The spokesman came out with a pat answer/response.
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oklepana, niepogłębiona odpowiedź
furnish
They furnished their home with antiques.
Jeanne’s catering company furnished all the food for the party.
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provide sth
put furniture in a place
immensity
formal
The immensity of the task is daunting.
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ogrom
parricide
patricide
The Criminal Code of Japan once determined that patricide brought capital punishment or life imprisonment.
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ojcobójstwo
cultivated
a highly cultivated man
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well educated
circumspect
formal
Officials were circumspect about saying what the talks had achieved.
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ostrożny
endeavor
Engineers are endeavoring to locate the source of the problem.
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strive, try to do sth
dash
Waves dashed against the cliffs.
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to hit with a great force
specimen
a small amount of blood or urine used for testing: They took blood and urine specimens for analysis.
He has a collection of rare insect specimens.
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okaz, egzemplarz
span - verb
An old bridge spans the river just outside the town.
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If a bridge spans a river, it goes from one side to the other:
whim
synonym: caprice - The $300 million palace was built to satisfy the caprice of one man.
Oh for a husband who would indulge my every whim!
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kaprys
farce
The meeting turned out to be a farce since no one had prepared anything.
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farsa
brevity
His essays are models of clarity and brevity.
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zwięzłość
fraternity
a feeling of friendship and support: He described sport as a symbol of peace and a means of promoting fraternity between nations.
He was, as we have seen, already President of his frat (fraternity).
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a social organization for male students at an American or Canadian college
sorority
Can schools prohibit students from belonging to fraternities, sororities, and other undemocratic organizations?
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a social organization for female students at some US colleges
DA (District Attorney)
Since taking over as district attorney last year, he has vowed to vigorously prosecute anyone who violently preys on streetwalkers.
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a lawyer in the US who works for the government in a particular area and who is responsible for bringing people who may be criminals to court
misplace
She misplaced her keys so often that her secretary used to carry spare ones for her.
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zapodziać
liquidate
Investors have started to liquidate their mutual funds.
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zlikwidować (szczególnie firmę, biznes)
streamlined
a streamlined system
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usprawniony
subsist
in philosophy: to have timeless, independent or abstract existence
The prisoners were subsisting on a diet of bread and water.
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to survive
address
She gave an address to the Royal Academy.
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a formal speech
instantaneous
in physics: existing or measured at a particular instant: measurement of the instantaneous velocity
modern methods of instantaneous communication
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occurring or done instantly.
long-lived
Nuclear fusion does not produce long-lived nuclear waste.; Queen Elizabeth is one in a long line of famously long-lived women.
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lasting or living for a long time:
term
In elementary mathematics, a term is either a single number or variable, or the product of several numbers or variables. For example 3 + 4x + 5yzw
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mathematical expression
negative/positive numbers
Two is a positive number.; a negative return on our investment
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liczby ujemne/dodatnie
line of sight
He was trying to keep out of the bird's line of sight.
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linia wzroku, linia widzenia
shift
The wind is expected to shift (to the east) tomorrow... Joe listened, shifting uncomfortably from one foot to another., Give me a hand to shift these chairs.
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przesunąć, przemieścić
serendipitous
Reading should be an adventure, a personal experience full of serendipitous surprises.
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przypadkowy
irradiate
The cells are irradiated so that they cannot reproduce.
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naświetlać, napromieniowywać
fundraiser
also: a person whose job or task is to seek financial support for a charity, cause, or other enterprise. - She was a campaign fundraiser for two former Presidents.
During his US visit, the Prime Minister will attend a $100-a-head fundraiser.
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an event held to generate financial support for a charity, cause, or other enterprise
commissioner
Good evening, commissioner.
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komisarz
ruby
a ring with a large ruby
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rubin
dial
The lighted dial of her watch said 1.20.
Can I dial this number direct, or do I have to go through the operator?; I think I dialed the wrong number.
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wykręcić numer
także: tarcza zegara
brief
Harvey, I know these briefs backwards.
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akta lub streszczenie sprawy
fall guy
informal
Maroni? He's a fall guy. I'm a brain to the organization.
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a scapegoat
hostile witness
- Permission to treat the witness as hostile. - Granted.
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, is a witness at trial whose testimony on direct examination is either openly antagonistic or appears to be contrary to the legal position of the party who called the witness.
nickel
If we don't deal with this, soon, he won't be able to get a nickel for his grandma.
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a coin worth five cents (in US and Canada)
rottweiler
From the sideline it looked like a rottweiler up against a chihuahua.
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rottweiler
fiend
He was portrayed in the media as a complete fiend.
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an evil and cruel person:
pool
Patrick crashed a Ford that he'd borrowed from the car pool at work.
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pula, fundusz
racketeering
disapproving
They have been accused of racketeering.
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kanciarstwo
extortion
He was found guilty of obtaining the money by extortion.
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wymuszenie
to gun for someone
We know all the other teams are gunning for us.
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to make a great effort to defeat or hurt someone:
aggravated assault
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a serious, violent assault on sb
tally
Make sure to keep a tally of the number of customers going in and out.
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rejestr, zapis
squeal
also give information to the police about people you know who have committed a crime: When he finds out who squealed on him, he's going to make them very sorry.
We could hear the piglets squealing as we entered the farmyard.
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piszczeć
complacency
disapproving
What annoys me about these girls is their complacency - they seem to have no desire to expand their horizons.
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samozadowolenie
hearing
A disciplinary hearing will examine charges of serious professional misconduct against three surgeons.; a court hearing
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przesłuchanie, wysłuchanie
to route
Deliveries are routed via/by way of London.
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to send something somewhere using a particular way or direction:
spelunking
Let's go spelunking at the weekend.
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the sport of walking and climbing in caves:
throttle
The engines were at full throttle (=the throttle was open so the engines could go very fast).
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przepustnica
straitjacket
Brody was locked in a padded cell and forced to wear a straitjacket.
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kaftan bezpieczeństwa
plea
also - an emotional request: He made a plea for help/mercy
Mr Wilson entered a plea of not guilty.
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the answer that a person gives in court when they have been accused of committing a crime:
memo
formal: memorandum
Did you get my memo about the meeting?
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notatka
main
The severe cold caused a water main to burst and flood the street.
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a large pipe that carries water or gas
incapacitate
Rubber bullets are designed to incapacitate people rather than kill them.; The accident left me incapacitated for seven months.
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obezwładnić; uczynić niewydolnym
coup
a military coup
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pucz
walk-up
US
He lives on the fourth floor of a walk-up building.
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a tall building with apartments in it that does not have an elevator
reckoning
We know that you will not forget their crimes when their day of reckoning comes.
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rozliczenie, sąd
atrocious
an atrocious film/piece of acting
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of very bad quality:
also: violent and shocking
contain
Farms in the area have been closed off in an attempt to contain the disease.
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zatrzymywać coś szkodliwego
pull (physics)
the gravitational pull of the Moon
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siła, przyciąganie
theorem
a mathematical theorem; Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem
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twierdzenie
come up short
We're so close to getting the job done, but we keep coming up short.
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fail to reach a goal or standard
homogeneity
cultural/racial homogeneity
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jednorodność
beyond
In the distance, beyond the river, was a small town.
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further away in the distance
caveat
He agreed to the interview, with the caveat that he could approve the final article.
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zastrzeżenie
evacuate
Residents were ordered to evacuate the area before the hurricane made landfall.
products that stimulate the bowel to evacuate its contents
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opróżnić
także: ewakuować
concertina
Accompanied by Bert Weald on his concertina, they sang a mixture of country songs and harvest hymns.
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koncertyna (mały akordeon)
obtain
Conditions of extreme poverty now obtain in many parts of the country.
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exist
dissipate
formal
The heat gradually dissipates into the atmosphere.; His anger dissipated as the situation became clear.
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znikać
holdout
It's time to shame holdouts into signing the treaty.; Smaller producers, who would receive less than 20% of the $1.2 billion under the settlement formula, remain holdouts.
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a person, organization, or country that continues to do something, despite other people trying to force them not to:
or continues to refuse to accept sth others have already accepted
spew
The volcano spewed a giant cloud of ash, dust, and gases into the air.; The drains spew (out) millions of gallons of raw sewage into the river.
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wyrzucać, wypluwać
NB (note well)
NB Applications received after the closing date will not be accepted.
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NB (dobrze zanotuj)
anew
The film tells anew the story of his rise to fame and power.
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na nowo
bootstrapping
His success follows the central themes: bootstrapping, ambition, and vision.
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the process of starting and developing a business by using a lot of effort and no investment by outside owners:
nitpicking
informal disapproving
If you spent less time nitpicking, you'd get more work done.
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giving too much attention to unimportant details
ratio
The ratio of men to women at the conference was ten to one/10:1.; The school is trying to improve its pupil-teacher ratio (= the number of teachers compared with the number of students).
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stosunek, proporcja
phenom
US slang
In less than a year, the 21-year-old phenom has become the best player in baseball.
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someone or something extremely successful
to augment
formal
He would have to find work to augment his income.
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zwiększyć
pipe dream
Her plans are not realistic - they'll never be more than a pipe dream.
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an idea or plan that is impossible or very unlikely to happen:
scalar
Velocity is a vector quantity, while speed is the corresponding scalar quantity, because it does not have a direction.
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skalarny
nifty
a nifty little gadget for squeezing oranges
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sprytny, dobrze pomyślany
string together
He can hardly string a sentence together, let alone write poetry!
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to arrange a group of things into a series
salient
formal
The article presented the salient facts of the dispute clearly and concisely.
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istotny
baboon
He's got all this thick black hair like a baboon.
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pawian
curious
usually UK
There was a curious-looking man standing outside.; It’s curious that she left without saying goodbye.
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strange and unusual:
help yourself to sth
also to steal sth: Obviously he had been helping himself to the money.
Please help yourself to some cake.
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to take something for yourself:
chain mail
also mail
Within a space of some twenty years, chain mail virtually replaced a variety of earlier forms of armour.
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kolczuga
gal
informal
She’s a great gal.
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dziewczyna
to flounder
Although his business was a success, his marriage was floundering.
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to experience great difficulties or be completely unable to decide what to do or say next:
pellet
food pellets for rabbits
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kulka, granulka
immemorial
formal
She said it was the immemorial custom of the villagers to have a feast after the harvesting.
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existing or traditional for an extremely long time:
masonry
Masonry: The museum will be a public face of Masonry.
His masonry company in Payson is gone./ Several of the firefighters were injured by falling masonry.
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kamieniarstwo/ materiały budowlane
Masoneria
dearth
formal
a dearth of new homes in the region
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brak
verbatim
adverb, adjective
She had an amazing memory and could recall verbatim quite complex conversations.; a verbatim account
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dosłownie
co do słowa, dokładnie
adduce
None of the evidence adduced in court was conclusive.
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cite as evidence
fable
the fable of the tortoise and the hare
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bajka
epitomize
This building epitomizes the spirit of the nineteenth century.
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być przykładem
annotation
The revised edition of the book includes many useful annotations.
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adnotacja
rudimentary
Some unusual fish have rudimentary legs./ She has only a rudimentary grasp of the language
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prymitywny/ basic
bifurcation
formal
The French thinkers underscored the bifurcation between truths of reason and truths of faith.
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podział
trickle
A trickle of melted butter made its way down his chin.
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strużka
chasten
He was chastened by the defeat and determined to work harder.
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skarcić, "utemperować"
otiose
The use of the word "recumbent" is otiose after the word "recline".
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zbyteczny
see to sth
formal
Please see to it that no one comes in without identification.
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to do sth that has to be done
proffer
I didn't think it wise to proffer an opinion.; Sarah took the glass proffered by the attendant.
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przedstawić, przedłożyć
laden
theory-laden observation; He always comes back from France laden with presents for everyone.
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obciążony, zapełniony
vitiate
formal
He said that American military power should never again be vitiated by political concerns.
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to destroy or damage something:
to intimate
She has intimated that she will resign if she loses the vote.
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dać do zrozumienia
corollary
formal
Unfortunately, violence is the inevitable corollary of such a revolutionary change in society.
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następstwo
concession
the import/export concessions that had been granted to the island
Both sides involved in the conflict made some concessions in yesterday's talks.
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ustępstwo
także: koncesja
interposition
He obtained the post through the interposition of a friend.; So the regular order of nature proves the existence and attributes of God, and miracles prove the interposition of God into the regular order in which he acts.
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wtrącenie, interwencja
amply
adverb
They face a difficult task, as yesterday's discussions amply demonstrated.
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wystarczająco, obficie
propensity
She's inherited from her father a propensity to talk too much.; He's well-known for his natural propensity for indiscretion.
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skłonność
impede
formal
Although he's shy, it certainly hasn't impeded his career in any way.
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utrudniać, zapobiegać
toothpick
Bake for about 35 minutes or until the center is springy and a toothpick comes out clean.
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wykałaczka
controvert
also: deny the truth of sth - This theory was subsequently controverted by several researchers in the same field.
Sobel’s rendering of “the falsehood of the testimony” as Pr(not-M&E|B) is controverted,
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spierać się
a function of
Height is a function of age in children.
His success is a function of his having worked so hard.
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something that results from something else
sth that is related and changes with sth else
detritus
The streets were foul with detritus.
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waste or debris
to pooh-pooh
informal
Some seemingly reasonable people go on holiday and pooh-pooh the idea of wearing sunblock.
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wyśmiewać
ovum (egg cell)
If two ova are fertilized at the same time, the mother will have twins.
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