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disheartening
... I admit, is pretty disheartening.
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desanimador
disingenuous
And heaven forbid that one world leader should shake hands with another whose ideology differs deeply, since people on both sides will judge this as a disingenuous move at best, and at worst, a betrayal of the leader’s values.
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insincero; dissimulado; oculto
disk
... and a glowing accretion disk that appeared above, below,...
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disco
dislodge
In one variant of this story, the handshake evolved from an elbow-to-wrist “patdown” to check for hidden knives; in another, the shaking motion was supposed to dislodge any sharp objects that may have been kept in the sleeve. Of course, this exp
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desalojar
dismantled
... this device has been dismantled.
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desmontado
dismayed
If you knew how many messages I get on social media about how people have been sick, saying, ‘What you went through, it gives people hope.’ ” He joked that he was thinking of running for President, as a Libertarian, using the slogan “Vote for me, sin
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apavorada
dismaying
... is surprising and somewhat dismaying, is how little impact...
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desanimadora
dismissive
... was aloof, arrogant and dismissive.
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desprezível, sem honra
dismissively
The German chemist Adolf von Baeyer had already noted that such reactions resulted in a sticky substance that he dismissively called Schmiere (“goo”).
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desdém
dismissiveness
And this dismissiveness towards victims and towards...
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desprezo
disowns
If the PM disowns his brother, he's a...
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Desiludir
disparaged
Johnson, who became President after Lincoln’s assassination, was a combative Tennessean, sympathetic to the Southern states, and was uncomfortable in Washington, which he disparaged as “twelve square miles bordered by reality.” He mocked the legislat
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menosprezou
disparity
Any time any company raises benefits and salary, with the income and economic disparity we have in this country, is good.
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disparidade, diferença
dispatch
... and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks.
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1 despacho, ato de despachar, expedição. 2 nota de deferimento ou indeferimento, missiva, mensagem. 3 rapidez, celeridade, presteza, prontidão. 4 execução da pena de morte, assassínio. vt 1 despachar, expedir, enviar expeditamente. 2 aviar com preste
dispel
However, it’s important to first dispel the notion that the State currently deals effectively with pollution.
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eliminar; dissipar
displeased
... wrote an article that displeased people in the government.
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Descontente
disqualified
... jailed for corruption and disqualified from running in the...
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desqualificado
disregard
So one of the things I took from your talk is this ability to be fearless or you know disregard the risks involved somewhat or at least think that you can go out there and take the risks.
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desprezo
disrepair
After the First World War, new inheritance taxes made it almost impossible for the British aristocracy to maintain their vast estates, and country houses across the land fell into disrepair.
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ruína
dissipated
dissipated your side, you have allowed them to keep yelling, you’re not
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dissipado
distill
... So we had to distill the process of getting...
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destilar
distilled
... it can just be distilled right now.
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destilado
distraught
Steve: So that the procedures at the airport... Yes, undoubtedly, you know, in a way, even though there’s not much sympathy for the police officers, in a way, I feel sorry for them because... I mean, yeah, obviously the mother, the family of this man, ar
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perturbado
distressed
... Mediterranean helping to rescue distressed migrants in the 136- foot...
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angustiado, aflito
districting
A panel of federal judges today threw out a congressional districting plan in North Carolina.
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distringindo
ditched
But it then dawned on them that they could send much more information in a shorter period of time if they ditched the clock and instead constructed a mechanism capable of displaying a variety of visual signals directly.
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descartar, botar fora, abandonar
diversion
... would take a momentary diversion-- maybe a year, maybe...
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desvio, operação para desviar a atenção
diverted
The second agreement permits the United States to ensure that highly sensitive defense technologies bought by India are not diverted to other uses or transferred to third countries.
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desviados
divest
They have launched a divestment campaign that has now convinced, I think, 55 universities in 22 states to divest their holdings of stocks with regard to companies doing business in Sudan.
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despojar, eliminar, livrar-se
divestment
They have launched a divestment campaign that has now convinced, I think, 55 universities in 22 states to divest their holdings of stocks with regard to companies doing business in Sudan.
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desinvestimento
divulge
... we're not going to divulge the details, but we're...
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divulgar, revelar
diy
DIY Neuroscience] 00:36 So this is...
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DIY (do-it-yourself)
dmv
pretty sure that moment is not my best moment and when I’m at the DMV I
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Department of Motor Vehicles
doable
There’s always going to be customers who either A, can’t distinguish because they’re not paying that close attention, or B, are into some of the things that you’re into, and that’s totally doable.
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factível, passível de ser realizado
dodge
Admirers call me “Indiana Joe.” Of course, it’s no big deal, thanks to my super powers that enable me to dodge bullets, read minds, and fly off into the sunset.
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escapar
dodged
I feel resentful of people who didn’t serve and found a way out and dodged the draft.
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esquivou
dodgy
... electricity is a little dodgy.
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arriscado, de má qualidade, pouco confiável, duvidoso, astucioso, manhoso, ladino
d'oeuvre
We talk about the main course, which refers usually to the meat or the fish dish, so the first course might be the soup or a hors d’oeuvre and the third course is the dessert.
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d'oeuvre
dolly
This makes possible shots that could never be achieved with a tripod or dolly, enabling the camera operator to walk among the actors freely while keeping all equipment out of the shot.
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Boneca
dome house
... own a monolithic concrete dome house.
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casa de cúpula
donor
... the traditional sort of donor beneficiary weirdness that can...
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doador
doodle
She is the author and leader of a global campaign for visual literacy called ‘The Doodle Revolution.'
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rabisco, borrão
doodled
Seen from above, the parch marks have a magical quality, as if a giant had doodled them from memory, but they are also disconcertingly real.
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Rabisco. Desenho grosseiro
doofus
Because if you’re in a category that’s growing 100%, even if you’re kind of a doofus, you’re probably going to do pretty well this year.
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(Gíria) pessoa estúpida e incompetente
doohickey
... is a hollow ceramic doohickey(to use a highly...
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coisa, objeto pequeno do qual não o falante não sabe o nome
doom
All is not doom and gloom, immigrants have...
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Destruição, condenação, ruína, morte
doom and gloom
All is not doom and gloom, immigrants have fared much...
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tristeza e melancolia
doomed
This elongation of objects on the horizon may make it appear as if there are turrets or towers rising up from the water, leading to the description of fata morganas as castles in the air. As this effect can occur with ships, making them look hig
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amaldiçoado, condenado
doomsday
... in to all the doomsday networks, anyway.
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Dia do julgamento
doorknob
So he traded the paperclip for a pen, and then he traded the pen for a doorknob, and the doorknob for a Coleman stove.
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maçaneta
doorknobs
... we touched the same doorknobs and stuff, there’ s...
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maçanetas
dope
Then you adjust your dope and you fire again.
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s. droga; informação; tolo, estúpido (gíria); material usado em impermeabilização v. dopar; calcular; perceber; descobrir, deduzir adj. legal, muito bom, excelente, maravilhoso (gíria)
dorky
... was the sort of dorky, nerdy character on the...
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adj. estúpido, bobo
double standard
double standard
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padrão duplo
doublings
... on the order of 30 doublings in computational power since...
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dobramentos
doubtful
... Englishman, it was more doubtful whether Phileas Fogg was...
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duvidoso
doused
... rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on...
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submergir
downfall
That was illegal and unethical, but it did not guarantee Nixon’s downfall, which came about because of two critical mistakes.
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ruína, queda, perdição
downgraded
And I think this... people like that at a reason why so many people don’t want to study a language anymore because they are actually afraid of, of being downgraded, of being like labelled...
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rebaixado
downplayed
It has systematically downplayed the link between what...
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v. subestimar
downpours
... these massive record- breaking downpours.
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aguaceiro (a heavy rainfall)
downright
And I will tell you, when you look at the course of the president’s tweets, they range from being disruptive to downright dangerous.
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francamente / completamente
downstream
Can we find examples in human history of a whole generation consciously doing something for the benefit of more than one generation downstream that doesn’t benefit that generation itself?
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rio abaixo
downtime
... and just have some downtime.
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tempo de inatividade
down to the wire
down to the wire
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até o fio
downtrodden
... the cause of the downtrodden and seek peace in...
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oprimido, humilhdo
downwind
One egregious example often cited is a group of houses downwind from a new factory which works day and night to coat them in soot.
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a favor do vento
dowries
... death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
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dotes
dozing
... up I can keep dozing a little bit, resting...
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cochilar
drafted
Ssali reminds us that America has had its own experience. Shaka Ssali: I went to school in the United States with some guys who had actually been very, very young, had been drafted and gone to fight in Vietnam, had come back to America and had some
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esboçar; deslinear; traçar; destacar tropas
drawback
He said it worked extremely well, the only minor drawback being that it had a relatively small capacity.
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desvantagem
drawbridge
I'll cross that drawbridge when I get to...
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ponte levadiça
drawn back into
drawn back into
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atraído de volta para
dreaded
... sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water,...
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temido
dreadful
If I would have let those fears hold me back, I would still be working a job doing energy audits, is what I did before this, in houses, which is going and checking houses for energy efficiency, and it was just dreadful.
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terrível, temeroso
dredge
Exhibits also show the machinery and techniques used to dredge the sand and solid waste from the channels and the computerized monitoring system, and of course restrooms are conveniently provided at the end so visitors can try out the system personal
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escavar, cavar, escavadeira
drenched
(In the satirical biopic “W.,” about the life of the younger Bush, the head of the fraternity is shown telling incoming freshmen, during a beer-drenched initiation ritual, “Delta Kappa brothers are men of honor, decency, and God-given character.
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ensopado, encharcado, saturado
dressers
We can fit, you know, one or two really narrow like 18 inch wide dressers or something in there and that’s it, nothing else.
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penteadeira
drifted
But then I immediately drifted right back out into...
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ser levado
driftwood
... planetary system, some celestial driftwood.
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troncos
drilling
He speaks for all the language learners who suffer through years of formal classroom language teaching, memorizing, drilling, answering questions, studying for tests- and yet do not achieve fluency.
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fazendo exercícios, treinando
drizzly
On one particularly drizzly day, we found a flyer for The Bakelite Museum.
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garoa
droopy
But if you sound gloomy and droopy to me, I’m unlikely to say Steve, you look like you’re miserable today.
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adj. recurvado; delibitado, enfraquecido; inclinado para baixo
dropouts
... income of all the dropouts from Stanford graduate programs.
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desistências
droves
Online, customers should engage and interact, spend time on it or with it, appear in droves,
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[rebanho] [in droves = em massa] drove - a large number of people or animals, often moving or doing something as a group
drown
... the stars if you drown them out with light.
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afogar; afundar; inundar
drowned
... starved to death and drowned during the journey and...
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afogado
drowning
... an account of the drowning of Captain Worthilake, with...
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drown: afogar, inundar, afundar
drowns
... sputters, and process often drowns energy.
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afoga
drudgery
drudgery for me.
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trabalho penoso; lida, labuta
drum
... I played synthesizers and drum machines.
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tambor
drummer
... who was the original drummer for the Beatles, until...
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Baterista
dubbed
... or its allies and dubbed the country's leader Kim...
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apelidado
ducking
... international protection, they are ducking their responsibility to protect...
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esquivando
due date
... six weeks before their due date or some people even...
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Data de Vencimento
dulling
Remember it’s not just dulling your negative emotion, it’s also dulling any
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embotamento
dulls
It dulls thinking and blocks creativity.
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embota
duly
... my climbing journal, I duly noted my free solo...
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devidamente, pontualmente
dumb
There was a fellow there who was Japanese and who was deaf and dumb and he could write I mean fluently.
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mudo; tolo, idiota, burro, lerdo
dumber
This is just dumber than dirt but it...
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mais burro
dumbstruck
Both my neighbors were dumbstruck by the spectacular start to the event, even though they got little of the provocative Trump.
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estupefato, chocado
dumbwaiter
He is also responsible for the swivel chair (a descendant of which I’m now sitting on), an improved version of the dumbwaiter, the hideaway bed, and even the machine used to make macaroni.
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mesa de refeiçao giratoria
dumping
... of carbon we are dumping into the air.
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atirar, jogar fora; esvaziar; desfazer-se de-; terminar um relacionamento (informal)
dumpster
There were no trash cans nearby, and he appeared for a moment to consider dropping it on the ground, before deciding to backtrack half a block to a dumpster.
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lata de lixo grande
dungeon
08:51 And so, I heard all these stories about this grotesque dungeon that Ferguson was operating for its debtors, and when it came time for me to actually see it and to go visit Ferguson’s jail, I’m not sure what I was expecting to see, but I wasn’t
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calabouço
dusk
... gift of life at dusk.
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anoitecer, por do sol
dwelleth
... our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.
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habita
dwindled
... connected to the plan dwindled from a high of...
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diminuído
dwindling
... demonstrations in Basra over dwindling public services in the...
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diminuindo
dyad
... well as the other dyad.
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díade
dyes
Furthermore, different types of powder and binding agents can produce products with a variety of characteristics—and by adding dyes to the binding agents, these machines can even produce solid objects in full color.
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colorir, tingir
earbuds
Back when Apple introduced an iPod, you saw lots of people carrying this white thing around with earbuds.
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fones de ouvido
ear buds
ear buds
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fones de ouvido
eardrums
... you, they're hitting your eardrums, and then your brain...
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tímpanos
earnest
I kept thinking of a moment, which I hadn’t written about, where Dykstra, upon learning that I was sick and in a foreign country, immediately shed the dude-bro tone and asked in earnest if I had access to adequate doctors.
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sério, sincero
earnestly
And so Ann and I join with you to earnestly pray for him and for this great nation.
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seriamente; ardentemente
earthen
... you said, this, uhh, earthen, uhh, part of the...
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feito de cinzas, feito de terra
earthlings
Now of course, as earthlings, we know the reason...
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terráqueos
easygoing
... nephew was always really easygoing and he still is...
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sossegado, calmo, sereno
eavesdropping
watching your own mind to eavesdropping on it, you realize that you aren’t
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espionagem
edged out
... Jeremy Corbyn's Labour almost edged out the Tories in the...
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contornado
edgy
... up as opinions-- maybe edgy opinions, maybe sort of...
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tenso, nervoso, ansioso, irritável
edible
... which only some are edible, and an even smaller...
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comestível
edutainment
Oli Gardner: Yeah, edutainment is everything to us.
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edutainment
eel
... Tou(steamed bread) and eel soup.
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enguia
eels
Jill: Yeah, yeah, they can but they’re pretty docile, generally, and they sort of stay back and there are moray eels and it was fantastic.
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enguias
effaced
... were interlined and afterward effaced.— B.
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apagados
egotistical
... sounds like the most egotistical request you could make,...
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egoísta
egregious
One egregious example often cited is a group of houses downwind from a new factory which works day and night to coat them in soot.
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flagrante, escandaloso
ejaculate
... one said," Yield: one ejaculate."
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ejacular
eked
... the library that just eked out free WiFi out...
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aumentar
elated
It’s like getting upset about things — like really, truly just knocked over by stuff — and then really elated by other things.
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exaltado, entusiasmado
elation
The elation was short-lived.
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exaltação
elders
... creatures we call the Elders. We call them the...
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ancião, sabigueiro
electoral
America. gov recently spoke with Vasu Mohan, deputy director for the Europe and Asia program of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, a nongovernmental organization that runs democracy projects in 30 countries.
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eleitoral
elk
There’s moose, elk, white-tail and mule deer, black bear, grizzly bear, any kind of bird anywhere, just about, and then lots of fish as well.
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alce
elongation
This elongation of objects on the horizon may make it appear as if there are turrets or towers rising up from the water, leading to the description of fata morganas as castles in the air. As this effect can occur with ships, making them look hig
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alongamento
embalming
From there, the inevitable next step was to human corpses, and sure enough, a Swedish company recently announced plans to offer just such a service, which they claim is much more environmentally friendly than either embalming or cremation.
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embalsamamento
embarrass
... it correctly, lest we embarrass ourselves or betray a...
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V. embaraçar, envergonhar, constranger
embellish
How do you embellish your truth and write...
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v. embelezar, enfeitar
embellished
Spirits and Spooks The typical tour guide spiel includes a heavily embellished history of a building’s former owner, the events leading up to the significant deaths, and anecdotes about recent sightings of ghosts, mysterious sounds, or curses that ha
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embelezado
embellishing
Tour guides are fond of explaining (and sometimes embellishing) the practice to shocked tourists.
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embelezando
embellishment
... adding an element of embellishment.
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embelezamento
ember
Within less than a second, the temperature at the tip of the piston can reach more than 800°F (about 425°C)—enough to turn the tinder into a glowing ember.
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Brasa
embers
... of trance handling burning embers with impunity, a rather...
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brasas
embezzled
We blame the person that embezzled money from us.
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desviados
emboldened
We can’t rely upon our institutions to do the work of necessarily talking to adversaries on their own without us creating a space for that to happen, for having respect for dignity, and for bringing that combination of humilityand a sort of emboldene
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encorajado
emboldens
At worst it emboldens far-right authoritarians.
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Encoraja
embroidered
Had my breakfast, which was the first muesli I’ve had in a few weeks, so I was quite enjoying that, and then I went to Ikea of all places and done a spot of shopping and bought like really cool cushion with embroidered birds on it, and then I went fo
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bordado
emoting
not talking about emoting.
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emoting
empath
... the era of the empath.
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empata
enablers
... to turn bystanders and enablers into allies.
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Capacitadores
enacted
... public spending and has enacted various changes to labor...
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v. decretar, promulgar; representar; cumprir, executa
enamel
Snap-on’s headquarters, a gleaming expanse of stainless steel, chrome, and enamel, provided a fine backdrop for muscular American manufacturing, though in fact the firm closed its Kenosha factory more than a decade ago.
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s. esmalte; adorno
enamels
So without dyes, paints, enamels, or any other materials...
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esmaltes
encloses
... this type of building encloses a large amount of...
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inclui
encroach
... is finally beginning to encroach on that fundamental human...
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invadir
encroaching
... to, and the EU encroaching them, just wait until...
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intruso / passar os limites
encumbrances
The encumbrances of their dress did little to deter the spirited adventurers who steadily visited the bridge.
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obstáculos
endangering
I think if I were from one of Washington DC’s poor communities of color, and they thought I was endangering officers' lives, things might’ve ended differently.
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pôr em perigo
endeared
The forceful action endeared him to America, which...
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encantou
endearingly
Notwithstanding the fact that I write a ___-of-the-day column, I find the notion of monthly subscription clubs strangely appealing—in an endearingly retro sort of way.
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com carinho
endeavor
... mean, the life science endeavor, not my lab.
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esforço
endeavour
To succeed in any endeavour requires enthusiasm and hard work.
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empenho, esforço
endowed
... assumption however a well- endowed man may find many...
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dotado
endowment
Among the actions that President Obama supports for the promotion of democracy is an increase in funding for the National Endowment for Democracy and other nongovernmental organizations to support civic education; plus increases in foreign aid, debt
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dotação, dote
engorge
... have the ability to engorge with blood make up...
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engorge; absorver; engolir; devotar
engrafting
... to celebratory joy at engrafting the gift of life...
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enxerto
engraved
... you can have it engraved with whatever you want.
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gravado
engrossing
... making rambling yet oddly engrossing speeches has also invited...
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cativante, que mais prende a atenção
engulfed
e war that’s kind of engulfed it. ¶ Wendy: Umm-hmm. And actually protecting the gorillas and the other animals that liv e in the park, uhh, in addition to, you know, protecting the people who live around there as well.
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engolfado; afundado; engolido
enheartened
"With apologies, I must state that the suggestion, if acted upon, will mean several years of labor and responsibility for you, but I am enheartened to make the suggestion, because I know your great love for rendering useful service.
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nutrido
enlarger
... sinks, an 8 x 10 bed enlarger that moved up and...
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ampliador
enlisted
I enlisted the help of my friend, the Cantonese speaking Vancouver journalist Gabriel Yiu, but really did not make much progress. I suppose I understood about ten percent of what was said in conversation or on the radio.
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recorrer: person to help; contratar: services, help; alistar-se: serviço militar.
ennobling
... and by doing so, ennobling the language and ennobling...
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enobrecedor
enraged
Do you want to be enraged?
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enfurecidos
enrages
But it also enrages and motivates people to...
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enfurecer, irritar
ensue
They would be understandably confused and caught off guard, but then a conversation would ensue.
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acontecer, sobrevir, suceder
ensued
But that, by and large, broke up as the following years ensued.
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seguiu
ensuing
The ensuing rapid expansion of irrigation agriculture, especially from the 1950’s onward, transformed the economy of the region.
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subseqüente, seguinte, posterior
entailed
... imposed on Eritrea“ have entailed considerable economic damage to...
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implicava. envolver, exigir, requerer
entails
Crime entails labour, and if most people could make more money working honestly for the same amount of labour, there will be far fewer criminals.
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v. conferir ou transmitir por herança; obrigar, exigir; s. herança, supor, envolver
entangling
... they did not foresee, entangling them in difficulties out...
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emaranhado
enterprises
Economic programs have supported privatization, fiscal and tax reform, environmental protection, and the development of banking and financial services, small enterprises and energy.
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empresa
entice
entice me to deny this moment in sake of that one I’m like, aha, I’m onto
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atrair, seduzir, instigar, incitar
entity
We have the chemical entity.
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entidade
entourage
He ended up bringing an entourage of people to the area who knew... He brought the president of the country and 2,500 other people.
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ambiente, comitiva, séquito
entrainment
... call this effect" neural entrainment."
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arrastamento
entrant
newest entrant in the online grocery business.
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participante
entrench
... sure, and acts to entrench and perpetuate certain power...
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v. entrincheirar, cavar, trincheiras
entrenched
... of rivalry with the entrenched French speaking Catholic society...
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bem estabelecido
entwined
Co- evolution entwined insects and birds and...
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entrelaçados
enumerated
He enumerated a list of“ forces...
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enumerado
envoy
UN Syria Envoy warns of potential‘ perfect...
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enviado
envoys
... treaties and receiving foreign envoys.
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Enviados
envy
So the questions go like, are we in the high-growth categories or do we have category envy?
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inveja
eons
It hasn't flowered in eons, some of its droopy...
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largo periodo de tempo
epigenetic
... produce what are called epigenetic changes, permanent, in some...
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epigenética
epitomize
... I'm pretty sure you epitomize the global standard of...
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epitomizar/ resumir
epitomized
... pride. This spirit was epitomized by a single wall...
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