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lackadaisical
... those with a more lackadaisical approach to life.
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1. without interest, vigor, or determination; listless; lethargic 2. lazy; indolent:
lad
Inspired by a linguist who brought teaching to the net, And showed this lad, computers had, merits still untapped.
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jovem, rapaz, moço
laden
... filled with papers-- footnote- laden papers. And they had...
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carregado, onerado
laggards
... late majority and your laggards.
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retardatários
lagged
... found that immigrants' wages lagged significantly behind those of...
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atrasar (-se), retardar (-se); ficar pra trás; ir vagarosamente; revestir, forra
lair
Sure, there was the Bad Guy’s ice lair in the James Bond film “Die Another Day,” but that’s just fantasy, right?
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covil
lame
The reasons we give are lame.
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coxo, manco; aleijado; defeituoso /is a slang word meaning stupid, bad or ridiculous (as well as injured or disabled).
lancet
The Lancet, one of the two...
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bisturi
landfall
... storm ever to make landfall.
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desembarque
landlocked
It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to...
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sem litoral
landmark
2009 marks 20 years since the passage of a landmark piece of legislation in the U.S.
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s. marco, baliza, ponto de referência; reconhecimento
landmarks
Watching for landmarks is clearly part of...
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ponto de referencia
landslide
... Democratic candidate won a landslide victory with 52 percent of...
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maioria esmagadora (nas eleições, por exemplo)
languish
... population centers where people languish waiting for the war...
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mofar, penar, arrastar-se
languished
One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
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padecer
lapsing
Our awareness has been lapsing.
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Caducando
lard
Most of it is cooked - it’s not really the healthiest food - a lot of it is cooked in butter, or fried up in lard.
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s. banha de porco
lash
The other thing we do is we lash back.
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chicote
lashed out
lashed out
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atacou
lassitude
... choked by pettiness and lassitude.
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n 1 lassidão, cansaço. 2 fraqueza. 3 tontura.
latch
... started, you want to latch on to things that...
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juntar-se
latched
I latched onto him early on...
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travada
latitude
... alright, there's a certain latitude in terms of usage...
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latitude; excessiva liberdade (fig.); licença (fig); liberdade de opinião (fig.)
lattice
This is why lattice piecrusts were invented: not...
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gelosia, rótula, grade de ripas de madeira cruzadas
lauding
... Border Protection, Ron Vitiello, lauding their scale.
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louvando
launder
The book persuasively illustrates what an ineffectual congressman he was, apart from cozying up to the Koch brothers, Betsy DeVos and other rich Republican donors; the clumsiness and vanity of his one term as governor of Indiana, for which he did som
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lavar
laundromat
Although many thousands of people make their way to the neighborhood laundromat each week with a basket of clothes and a roll of quarters, that’s something we hoped to avoid.
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lavadeira automática
lavish
He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary,...
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pródigo
lavished
During the vice-presidential debate with Tim Kaine, Pence repeated the laughable, ludicrous assertion that Trump would release his tax returns “when the audit is over” and falsely insisted that Trump hadn’t lavished praise on Vladimir Putin’s leaders
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esbanjado
lax
lax
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solto
laying
Geithner noted China’s remarkable record of laying out reform plans and actually delivering on those commitments.
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v. pôr, meter, colocar, estender, enterrar, deitar, acalmar, aquietar, aplacar; ordenar, mandar; traçar, projetar
layover
I can’t remember for what reason, but maybe the layover was longer.
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pequena pausa durante viagem
laypeople
Participants in dream groups are simply laypeople who have learned some basic skills—not professional therapists.
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leigos
lead
... line was made of lead.
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conduzir / sentido de chumbo
leaf
... in the pigments of leaf cells as they age.
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s. folha;
leafing
One day I was leafing through a catalog and I saw something that made my jaw drop: the Fisher Space Pen.
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folheando
leafless
True land plants arose, leafless at first.
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sem folhas
leaflet
... slavery started with a leaflet that I picked up...
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folheto
leaflets
06:20 After hours of speaking to NGO workers, one suggested a fantastic innovative idea of distributing parenting information leaflets via bread wrappers -- bread wrappers that were being delivered to families in a conflict zone in Syria by humanitar
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folhetos
leaned
... were the people who leaned in to relationships, with...
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inclinar, reclinar, apoiar
leaning
I remember I knew about the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, just because it’s a strange tower and it is leaning, and the Great Wall, and maybe the Eiffel Tower, and that’s probably it.
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inclinando-se
leases
... contracts or long- term leases come to mind– can...
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arrendamentos
leash
If you’ve lived with a dog for a week and find that it doesn’t get along with your other pets, bothers the neighbors with its barking, or causes a severe allergic reaction, it’s nice to know that you can return the dog with no leash attached, so to s
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coleira; atrelar, frear, dominar, unir
least
... was, in short, the least communicative of men.
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mínimo
leatherbacks
Leatherbacks and tuataras are echoes...
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bainhas
leave it up to
leave it up to
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deixá-lo até
lectern
Behind him was a banner: “BUY AMERICAN—HIRE AMERICAN.” For a moment, the President, wearing a red tie, leaning on the lectern, looked as if he were back on the campaign trail.
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púlpito, estante de leitura
ledger
... Barnes in the visitors' ledger?
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registro; livro razão
leeks
which is the leeks, parsley, a little bit...
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alho-poró
leeway
Mark: The issue with boys too is you end up saying we can’t... you’ve got to be a little more careful because, in a way, there’s a little more leeway with girls.
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espaço adicional, dinheiro reserva; espaço de manobra
leftish
... for liberalism— not the leftish“ progressivism” of American university...
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abandonado
leftist
... when I'm a little leftist-- I'm certainly left- handed,...
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Esquerdista
leisure
Based on the findings of the World Game, Fuller determined that the world’s resources are sufficiently vast that every single person on Earth can live comfortably—with adequate amounts of food, personal space, and leisure.
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lazer
lenient
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leniente
lent
It was ceremonially broken on the first Sunday of Lent, so rather than having a merely seasonal symbolism it came to have religious significance as well. From Italy the pignatta spread to Spain, where it took on a more ordinary shape, and appare
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Quaresma: período de 40 dias antes da Páscoa: Christian season [temporada] of fasting
leper
... The Exile of the Leper."
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leproso
lepers
... we patrons, benefactors, or lepers?
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leprosos
lest
... to write it correctly, lest we embarrass ourselves or...
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para que não
lethal
It should be dark, lethal and lifeless.
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letal; mortal
leveled
... Andy Lo's world was leveled.
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aplanar, nivelar; balancear, igualar; destruir, derrubar; apontar, mirar (armas, etc.); ser franco; usar um nível
lever
Hard work is only one lever that you have at your disposal, because you can make your life lucky.
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alavanca
levied
That could lead to back taxes being levied by Tokyo, he...
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declarava - declarar, impor
liability
... directors and whatever, and liability, I might add.
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responsabilidae
liana
... one hand, this woody liana which has in it...
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cipó
lichens
Lichens arose as a co-...
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líquenes
lieutenant
After almost five years he had risen to the rank of lieutenant.
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vice-governador
lifeblood
And so automated payouts based solely on data, is not in the lifeblood of how insurance companies operate.
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energia vital
lifeline
... next 53 days, that narrow lifeline would be the path...
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corda de salvamento;
lifelong
And you will have the lifelong appreciation of a grateful president.
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para toda a vida.
lifespan
Depending on the type of battery and how it’s used, the lifespan can be as little as three to five years.
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expectativa de vida
lightheaded
... she still feels dizzy, lightheaded and weak and this...
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aturdido; tonto; exaltado
lighthearted
It’s called “Welsh rabbit,” even though it doesn’t contain rabbit; the name was intended as a lighthearted dig at our friends from Wales.
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leve, despreocupado, descontraído / alegre, alegremente
lighthouse
acquire early “lighthouse” customers (prominent customers who will attract others).
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farol
likability
So, the basics, the three pillars of enchanting and enchantment is first likability.
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readily or easily liked; pleasing:
like
Textbooks about law like this one tend to contain a lot of discussion of court cases, which can give the reader the impression that law is all about fighting.
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, gostar
like up at
like up at
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Como em
lilies
Water lilies were among the first.
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lirios
lime
Instead of being expelled into the water, the used air is channeled into a “scrubber,” an assembly that uses a chemical such as a soda-lime mixture (sodium hydroxide and calcium hydroxide) to absorb the carbon dioxide.
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cal
limelight
... the shadows into the limelight, giving an ambassador a...
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holofote, centro das atenções
limerick
Everyone who sent him US$1 through First Virtual would receive, for an entire year, a new limerick each day by email.
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poema humoristico
linearly
Our left hemisphere thinks linearly and methodically.
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linearmente
linen
... and on the finest linen; club decanters, of a...
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linho
lineup
... print out of a lineup.
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alinhar
lineups
There is never any lineups and it’s fine then but, otherwise.
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filas
linger between sleep and wakefulness
As we linger between sleep and wakefulness we are in stage...
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permanecer entre o sono e a vigília
lingered
“I have reason to suspect I am now facing more of the same.”) By the afternoon, a dozen or so demonstrators still lingered in the law school's main hall, wearing black as a sign of solidarity and drinking coffee from paper cups.
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v. demorar; hesitar; prolongar; demorar-se; tardar
lingering
... of the aboriginal peoples, lingering Imperial British attachments, rivalry...
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prologando, persistente, demorando
lingo
But instead of selling them all for a pittance and then weeping over how much money I’ve lost, I’m going to “set them free.” That’s the lingo used by members of a rapidly growing movement known as bookcrossing, which aims to turn the entire world int
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dialeto
linty
I had always assumed that hot, moist, linty air has to come out of a clothes dryer one way or another—it seemed like one of those cosmic truths you just couldn’t get around.
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enfiapado
lionized
Mr. Moro has been lionized by Brazil's right- wing...
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verb. to be made a hero
lip
resentment and anger and frustration, and she’s biting her lip and she is
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s. lábio (singular de lábios); boca; ousadia (gíria); extremo
littered
“Did it really take that long for me to grow up?” he said, acknowledging that as a younger man he would probably have littered.
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adj. sujo, cheio de lixo;
livelihood
... order to create a livelihood for themselves and their...
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sustento
livelihoods
... our retirements, or our livelihoods.
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profissão, meio de vida, sustento
livening
... with people time or livening up a stale relationship...
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animar
livid
I'm livid.
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adj 1 lívido, pálido. 2 arroxeado (cor de hematoma). 3 furioso. // lividly adv lividamente.
lo
And lo and behold, look what...
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olhe! veja!
loafers
I know, getting back to what you were saying earlier about people not being prepared, I mean you see people on there that they are a quarter of the way up and they are there in their loafers and jeans and they have no idea what they were doing and sa
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sapato mocassim
loathsome
Donald Trump’s, the president’s remarks, his despicable and loathsome remarks about people, where they come — the countries they came from, gives the Democrats an opening, an advantage, if not a challenge, to raise this issue.
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repugnante
lob
We’ve broken the world into us and them, only emerging from our bunkers long enough to lob rhetorical grenades at the other camp.
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slang: arremessar
lobbied
Trump has also issued secret waivers to ethics rules, so that political appointees can alter regulations that they previously lobbied to dismantle.
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fiz pressão
locates
... features, the market's existence, locates customers, tests the
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Localiza
lockup
Dykstra spent two years in lockup, emerging not long before Jeter launched The Players’ Tribune, to great success.
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cela, trancar
lodge
... four homes and a lodge- called Whoi- Whoi, meaning"...
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pavilhão, guarita; albergue temporário; hotel em local de veraneio; gabinete
lodging
Rather than lodging power in centralised ministries and unaccountable technocracies, they should devolve it to regions and municipalities.
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alojamento; alojar-se; acomodar
loftier
... instantly set five or 10 loftier ones ahead of us.
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mais elevada
loin
I was a member of one of many groups of young men wearing white shorts or loin cloth, a cotton happi coat and a hachimaki wrapped around my forehead.
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lombo; carne do quadril
londoner
... Phileas Fogg was a Londoner.
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londrino
long face
... shopping she had a long face.
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cara azeda, preocupado, triste
longhand
I never write it out longhand 10 times.
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escrita completa (sem abreviações)
longing
... that I have been longing for", but I could...
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sentindo falta, lembranças nostálgicas
longingly
... gaze is to gaze longingly or lovingly at someone.
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saudosamente
longings
... data, is that our longings and our worries are...
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anseios
longwinded
... anyway, that’ s a longwinded answer to your question.
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cansativo, enfadonho; prolixo; verboso
looming
And that is indeed the huge looming challenge that still remains before us.
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aproximar-se, aparecer nublado; iminente
looms
His comments come as the deadline looms for Britain to exit the European Union on March 29, and amid growing fears that a divorce deal will not be agreed in time.
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emerge
loophole
Nirmala Erevelles, a professor of disability studies at the University of Alabama, told me that, “in general, when it comes to people of color—particularly poor people of color—we choose the most restrictive possibility,” sending students to “the mos
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buraco
loping
... more of a bigger, loping kind of a dog...
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galopar; movimentar-se a passos longos
lotto
... year after winning the lotto, lottery winners and paraplegics...
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loto
lounging
If others did happen to find me however, they would find me there, on the sofa, lounging in my pyjamas at 11:00 am watching "Divorce Court" or "The People’s Court" or watching Brad trying to court Ashley out of her fortune so that he might have bette
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DESCANSANDO
lout
Bit of a lout.
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grosseiro, rústico, desajeitado
loutish
Since Kavanaugh's time at Yale (where he also belonged to an all-male secret society, Truth and Courage, which was popularly known as Tit and Clit), the prevalence of Greek life on the campus has declined, but DKE, sometimes described as the “white f
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grosseiro, boçal, desajeitado, rústico
low and behold
low and behold
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Baixa e fascinante
lowering
And then maybe lowering people into a hole...
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adj. ameaçador, tenebroso n. redução, diminuição, ato de abaixar
lowly
... though I was a lowly language student, I immediately...
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humilde, modesto
lows
lows us into a sense of security that’s not the purpose of that emotion.
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Baixas
loyalists
I mean the reality is he is governing as if he is the President of a Third World country: power is held by family and incompetent loyalists whose main calling card is the fact that Donald Trump can trust them, not whether they have any expertise.” Ve
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legalista
luckless
... James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him...
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infeliz
lukewarm
These baths consisted of a series of pools: the tepidarium (lukewarm), caldarium (hot), and frigidarium (cold).
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morno
lulled
... say, drivers are easily lulled into an impression that...
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acalmar, aquietar, tranquilizar
lulling
... give you false positives, lulling you into thinking that...
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embalando
lulls
Because a flywheel can build up a good bit of inertia, it can keep a mechanism moving during lulls in energy input.
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aclam, ar tregua, calmaria
lump
... amount of money, a lump sum and, basically, that...
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pedaço, bloco; torrão; inchação; bobo, estúpido
lumped
... of the Cold War, lumped them together, and blew...
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v. agregar, juntar, agrupar
lump it
You don't like it, lump it."
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amontoar
lumpy
is beautiful with all of its imperfections and lumpy places and saggy
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pesado, desajeitado, volumoso, cheio de protuberâncias, grumoso, irregular
lunacy
... days of right- wing lunacy.
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loucura; insensatez
lunge
Let’s focus on what are the legitimate challenges and threats, but not lunge into bad decisions because of a panic, of a fear.
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atirados
lunged
... a car, he suddenly lunged on top of me...
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arremessar, disparar; empurrar, dar bote, se lançou.
lunges
He lunges for his Luger.
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lunge v. arremessar, disparar; empurrar, dar bote s. empurrão, estocada; arremesso; bote
lure
The fata morgana effect was so named for the superstitious belief among sailors that she created illusory visions to lure men into a false port and to their death.
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atrair
lurk
... of this noble idea lurk extraordinarily pesky issues.
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se esconde, espreita
lush
... Canton's many parks was lush and green.
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embriagante, exuberante,
luster
... is slowly losing its luster.
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resplendor, brilho
lynch
... that inspired director David Lynch to make the diner(...
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linchar
lytic
... that we sell a lytic for dissolving blood clot...
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lítica
ma
00:13 So, Ma was trying to explain...
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Ma; Mamãe;
mags
Spanking mags?
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revista (magazine)
maid
... that married the meter maid, or the one who...
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moça, virgem, solteira
maim
... dollars off games that maim and dump women for...
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mutilar
maimed
I mean I enjoy the snow and I love being in the fresh air, but with a bunch of men where I’m probably going to get maimed...
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aleijar, mutilar
maiming
If A maims or defrauds B, then B could prosecute A privately; but the state does not want maiming or fraud occurring, so it prosecutes A on its own behalf.
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Mutilação
mainframe
... television, and eventually the mainframe.
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estrutura principal
mains
Meanwhile, Jackson, Mississippi, faced its own water crisis after more than 100 water mains broke.
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rede de alimentação (de água)
mainstays
... is one of the mainstays, sort of one of...
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pilares
makeshift
... take me to the makeshift operating room.
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improvisado; temporário
malleable
Think about your brain as a very malleable
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maleável
manacles
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination.
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algemas
managerial
A book addressed to IT managers concerned with the interactions between law and practical managerial problems is: Jeremy Holt and Jeremy Newton, eds, A Manager’s Guide to IT Law, 2nd edn, British Computer Society, 2011.
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administrativo
mane
(It was my first glimpse of that now all too familiar oil slick of a mane.)
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juba
maneuver
(Warner’s spokesperson said that the Senator was “not referring specifically to the Russia investigation, but rather the totality of challenges the President is currently facing.”) In a gesture intended to convey transparency, Jared Kushner and Trump
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manobra
mangoes
... in the foreground are mangoes.
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mangas
manhandled
... When women get manhandled, we start to rationalize,...
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maltratado
mannered
... will be a nice mannered, well tempered child.
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educado
manpower
... huge amounts of resources, manpower and money to build...
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força de trabalho
mantelpiece
A photograph of the Duke looked out from the mantelpiece, over elderly couples eating their lunch in silence and parents feeding their babies.
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prateleira sobre a lareira
mar
... erstwhile owner of the Mar T Cafe(now called...
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estragar
marksmanship
We had targets that would run down a cable and different ways to challenge the kids with marksmanship.
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pontaria
marquee
... has some sort of marquee on it with information-...
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marquise
marred
But my joyful periodwas marred by solemn and morbid...
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arruinado
marsh
... drainage of a tidal marsh.
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pântano
marshal
Let me marshal the evidence here.
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organizar, preparar, orientar, manobrar; marecha; organizador de cerimônias
marshes
In any case, this method is still widely used today, even though the water table has dropped considerably over the past two centuries as nearby marshes and swamps were drained.
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pântanos
martha
wasn't even, it was Martha Beck's training but she...
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Martha
martyrs
... after two early Christian martyrs”– that's not very nice–“...
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mártires
mashed
The sweet potato boy mashed his fists into his...
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amassado
mashup
... they're emulating the original mashup.
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mistura
masonry
In order to reduce the weight of the masonry pillars, they were built wider at the bottom than at the top, allowing the aqueduct to reach a great height.
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alvenaria
masquerading
He was Bobby Kennedy-like because in some ways one could never tell if he was a realist masquerading as an idealist or an idealist masquerading as a realist, as people always wondered about Bobby Kennedy and John Kennedy in that way.
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mascaramento
massif
... into an isolated volcanic massif that soars above the...
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maciço
masts
... find the pillowcase's sailing masts.
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mastros
match
So truffle aficionados are always careful to match recipes to the available truffle varieties.)
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competição
matched
... when the sound exactly matched that of the tuning...
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combinado
maze
Bruneseau was the sewer inspector Napoleon commissioned to explore the tunnels and create an exhaustive map of the sewers as they existed in the early 1800s—until that time, the sewers had been assembled bit by bit, without a plan or written record,
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labirinto, confusão
mburugu
Charles Mburugu can help you find...
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mburugu
meager
When their meager harvest came in, desperate...
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enfurecido, magro, miserável
mealymouthed
And he’s sending a very clear signal that there’s not going to be room for some kind of a mealymouthed negotiation that’s going to let Kim Jong-un walk away with his weapons at some point.
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not brave enough or honest enough to say clearly and directly what you really think
meandering
There’s not a lot of meandering...
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divagação, sinuosidade, meandros?
meanness
It was a performance that didn’t show a meanness and was obviously intended to rebut the charges in the Wolff book that he was totally out of touch.
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mesquinharia
mean that you condone it or approve
doesn't mean that you condone it or approve of it.
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significa que você aceita ou aprova
measles
... he said, noting that measles and diphtheria outbreaks have...
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sarampo
measuring angles
... with a rotating mirror, measuring angles, and(most puzzling of...
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ângulos de medição
meatloaf
... the almost three- pound meatloaf that everybody here has...
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rolo de carne
meekly
Meekly, the child replied," My...
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mansamente
meis
... want you to promise meis that you'll always do...
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eu é
mekong
... mining, fishing, on the Mekong you still see women...
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Mekong
meld
And we had some colonies in those days that later became states — we had 13 of them and the problem was how to meld together the colonies, each of which had features of independence — into one functioning national unit.
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mellow
... we're just kind of mellow.
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suave, melodioso, límpido, agradável
meme
Clearly, this was a meme worth investigating.
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idéia, prática social
memes
What’s both funny and sad about this is that the joke was not merely lost in the process, but turned against the non-Welsh users of the term. The Slippery Slope of Hypercorrection Although the issue of hypercorrection is covered at great lengt
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prática social

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