English C2

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• Aloof unfriendly sociable and not
• Tailback line slow stopped traffic
• Well-endowed  receiving lots money gifts
• Gschenktm haul gift horse mouth
• Glashaus sitzt pot calling kettle black
• Auf ersten blick blush at
• Flog whip to
• Rote-learning learning purely repetition by
• Selective comprehensive schooling private elite system scotland
• League tables list unis worst
• System two-tier levels with 2
• Bursaries money pay studies provided basis merit scholarship
• Opposite number job my same
• Rapport communication relationship
• Pecking-order system people benefits/promotions where
• Talk shop work informal to
• Knock finish work inf to
• Stuck rut trapped job escape
• Overworked underpayed idiom and
• Voluntary/compulsory redunancies people losing jobs offering choice
• Skeleton staff minimum number workers
• Cold calling phoning people havent requested sell school
• Loss leader aldi die milch d verboten
• Come/go hammer sold auction to
• Tender put submit win supply written offer job
• Zip energy inf
• Propulsion force pushes sth forward
• Chauvinistic patriotic too
• Placid calm easily excited angry
• Shrewd good judgement having
• Unstinting giving restraint unsparing given
• Dogged showing determination giving easily
• Thrity frugal careful spending money wasting things
• Obstinate stubborn
• Stingy parsimonious thrifty frugal geizig sparsam
• Shrewd astute cunning sly +
• Morose sullen sober serious +
• Pithy witty;  comment piece writing short expressed full
• Terse brusque words polite friendly
• Garrulous talkative
• Scrawny unattractively bony slender and
• Lanky gangly tall thin moving awkwardly
• Stout fat solid body quite
• Stocky short body wide shoulders chest
• Wiry thin strong but
• Well-dressed smart-looking hair place never
• Swarthy dark-coloured skin used about
• Sallow yellowish
• Haggard face looked thin tired
• Pouting positioning lips attractive in
• Taciturn reserved or says very
• Diffident lacks confidence
• Haughty unfriendly thinks and herself
• Conceited thinking wonderful yourself
• Obstinate inwilling change despide persuasion
• Pig-headed brett vorm kopf
• Man/woman heart admire you a
• Rift disagreement divides people serious
• Covet sth possess to you
• Placate stop feeling angry so
• Exultant feeling great pleasure happiness coy success
• Full joys spring happy of
• Offhand show rude lack interest
• Puerile silly childish and
• Fickle change feelings suddenly reasons
• Forlorn sad cared alone and
• Distraught extremely worried upset and
• Doddery weak unable walk coy age inf
• Legs close death refers mashines phone
• Dabbler person activity long who
• Stramash sct disturbance
• Fornication unzucht
• Sruff person dresses untidy who
• Frumpy fashioned boring old and
• Scanty revealing lot flesh clothes
• Skimpy short material clothes using
• Glammed nines dressed fashionably to
• Sth rage fashionable is all
• Hand glove close working relationship
• Sth shoestring spending as to
• Frills simple plain no and
• Put straitjacket restrict freedom to
• Sth draw veil talk to
• Hovel small dirty house bad condition
• Home truths info true pleasant
• Write home special nothing to
• Housewarming hauseinweihungsfeier
• Hobnob friendly important famous negative associations
• I hope im outstaying staying long
• Sth hackneyed boring is done
• Critics panned lauded by vs
• Play bombed london's west end failure
• Inured sth affected to not
• Highbrow/lowbrow inteded educated intelligent people lowbrow
• Peerless run mill better than
• Stew juice worry suffer to
• Teetotal drinks alcohol never
• Pot luck eat eating special
• Achtung straßenschild give-way sign
• Jumping red light stopping a
• Bald tyre platten
• Skid lose control steering tha tthe car slides
• Discerning showing good judgement style quality
• Arid dry
• Fields paddy planted rice growing water
• Cloud be   or   because   you something  the   under
• Uffer palme hit roof the
• Putting roots settling down
• Root idea widespread accepted take
• Nipped bud stopped develops sth
• Weed rid to out get
• Prune back cut limit to
• Withering make recipient feel scorned
• Poacher people hunt animals illegally
• Shoddy poor quality service goods
• Backlog sth number wating dealt
• Traffic wardens people job make drivers leave cars
• Raucous noisy very
• Altenheim age home old
• Tag nicht vor dem abend loben aint till
• Destitute noun destitution money food home possessions
• Hansard official record parliamentary business
• Lodge appeal make official request repeal
• Justice pervert make diffcult to
• Quash conviction change previous official decision guilty
• Lay law to   make   what you   should  this 
•  in law unto  to  is   and not   the 
• Cash strapped inf to be
• Put/leave shade make things insignificant
• Muck-raking collecting scandal
• Doctor locum job ill holiday
• Nip zip whizz fast movement short distance  bus
• Career moving rapidly control to
• Scamper scurry scuttle rapid steps lots small animals
• Totter fairly slow movement unsteady mary tottered road
• Precipitate sth make bad happen suddenly sooner
• Lampoon  somebody/something criticize somebody/something publicly amusing makes ridiculous
• Abstruse difficult tiring theory argument philosopher
• Gruelling extremely tiring difficult journey work match expedition=
• Wayward changeable selfish hard control behaviour child person
• Nuisance drag what a
• Blip temporary change börse
• Ballpark figure guess believed accurate
• Tot add formal everything up
• Acceptable not this is just
• Gripe grouse whinge complain about
• Alibi bombensichere cast-iron
• Extol virtues praise sth highly
• I regret day/the fact rue xx
• Kurze leine sth/so tight reign
• Sth complete shambles totally disorganised chaotic event
• I hope successfully it comes
• Catty-corner(ed opposite a  diagonal  angle something/somebody restaurant catty-corner
• Dumpster uk skip
• Butch men women aggressively masculine behaviours inf

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