Vocabulary booster

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• (lat. “id est”) - that is to say; in other words: i.e
• very funny hilarious
• an important food fish of northern Atlantic waters that is close to extinction (“torsk”) cod
• to eat up greedily devour
• far-reaching, deep profound
• an opinion formed beforehand, esp. an unfavourable one prejudice
• on the other hand; by contrast however
• [for a problem] to reach a critical or crucial stage come to a head
• attorney (in Britain) who advises clients on legal matters, represents clients in certain lower courts solicitor
• the outer parts or area, especially of a town outskirts
• a native or inhabitant of Switzerland swizz
• to express polite refusal decline
• a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land (in Britain: land agent) real estate agent
• a leather with a fine velvet-like surface on one side (literally: gloves from Sweden) (mocka) suede
• making claim to distinction or importance (pretantiös) pretentious
• characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable capricious
• a sense of deep regret and guilt for something one did remorse
• alone, single solitary
• a physician who specializes in the care of babies pediatrician
• a situation in which further progress is impossible a dead end
• the usually residential region around a major city suburb
• with bad intent malicious
• blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others bigoted
• bad language in a religious context blasphemy
• a deep to vivid purplish red to vivid red crimson
• a unit of volume the US. customary system (equal to 0.551 litre) and the British imperial system (equal to 0.568 litre). pint
• study of the origin and development of words etymology
• to write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog (verb) blog
• not very noticeable inconspicuous
• a paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem conundrum
• hard-wearing fabric with soft velvety stripes (sv. “manchester”) corduroy
• e edible root of a European plant (am eng. rutabaga, “kålrot”) swede
• first initial
• old, shabby and in bad repair dilapidated
• informal a very hot place furnace
• to make a bad situation worse add insult to injury
• wiped out obliterated
• nearness proximity
• the foreign minister in the US the secretary of state
• gathering of people in a church (sv. “församling”) congregation
• unasked for entry intrusion
• fragments of something destroyed debris
• (chief executive officer) the corporate executive CEO
• hot and airless stifling
• not able to read or write illiterate
• skill and grace in physical movement, especially in the use of the hands (fingerfärdighet) dexterity
• not good enough inadequate
• very clear and detailed vivid
• word used to replace one which has become too negative euphemism
• (Am. E.) an apartment in a building in which each apartment is individually owned (sv “bostadsrätt”) condominium
• to steal (money) that belongs to the company or organization that one works for embezzle
• the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases global warming
• have sex copulate
• uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter anxious
• make peace bury the hatchet
• forcibly remove from power overthrow
• the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions conscience
• a person responsible for handling cash in a bank, shop, or other business (kassör/kassörska) cashier
• idea notion
• unusually large in size, degree, or number vast
• a person who is a citizen of a country other than the one in which he or she lives alien
• using or able to use two languages bilingual
• savagely fierce or cruel ferocious

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