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uninitiated
(To 16 the uninitiated, this means that he went to East Orange on a freight train).
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não iniciados
unionised
... the dismissal of a unionised employee is forbidden from...
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sindicalizados
unison
... the cells participate in unison.
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junto, em harmonia, uníssono
unkind
... and negative(though never unkind!)
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grosseiro
unleash
He wrote a book called Unleash the Power Within
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desencadear, desatrelar, pôr em ação
unleashed
And it unleashed a wave of patriotism...
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desatar
unlike
... common at all ages unlike night terrors.
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ao contrário de
unmediated
... the wild for yourself, unmediated by a screen.
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sem mediação
unnerved
... June, Erdogan has further unnerved investors by resisting interest...
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enervado / DEBILITADO, DESANIMAR
unnerving
But that kind of talk is indeed unnerving in South Korea and indeed in North Korea, and could well figure into Kim Jong-un’s own calculations that perhaps this is the time, when he’s also under increasing pressure from sanctions, to try to put out a
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enervante, irritante
unobtrusively
For example, StuffBak sells skinny labels that can fit unobtrusively on eyeglasses and sunglasses, and wrap-around labels that can be affixed to headphone cables, zippers, and other oddly shaped items.
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discretamente
unplug
It takes one second to unplug an appliance.
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desligar
unraveled
... unnamed thing that absolutely unraveled connection in a way...
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Desvendado
unremarkable
... I would live an unremarkable life, small and sad,...
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ordinário, comum
unrequited
Studying the medical records of Presidents since Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Roizen, the chairman of the Cleveland Clinic’s Wellness Institute, has concluded that “unrequited stress”—the absence of peers and friends—takes the greatest toll.
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platônico/não correspondido (amor)
unruly
... also hot, huge and unruly, made up of 17,000 islands,...
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indisciplinado, incontrolável
unsavory
... narcotics trafficking and very unsavory,” she saw merit in...
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desagradável, repugnante, nojento
unsavoury
... he's involved in something unsavoury with his brother?
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repulsivo
unseaworthy
... the treacherous journey in unseaworthy boats.
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incapaz de navegar
unsettled
The constitutional question of whether a President could be impeached for offenses committed before he took office is unsettled, but, as Clinton’s case showed, civil proceedings contain risks whenever a President testifies under oath.
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desordenado, confuso, inseguro, instável, variável (unsettled weather); perturba
unsettling
Very unsettling for people working in...
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perturbador, inquietante
unsightly
... it had left an unsightly yellow ring on the...
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feio, sem graça
unstressed
I mean, when I was there, yeah, you just feel that, that vibe of everybody’s very relaxed, very laid-back, umm, and you just feel kind of comfortable, you know, unstressed and all of that.
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sem acento
unstuck
... really how to get unstuck.
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desencadear
unsung
One of the unsung and untold success stories...
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Desconhecido
unsure
Overwhelmed and unsure of myself.
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inseguro
untamed
And specifically the ruggedness of some untamed wilderness versus the areas in the southern areas of Alberta that are quite well documented, and you know trails are set to hike on and don’t go off of them.
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não domesticado
untenable
If she decided against relocation, her DRO would promptly drop her, since by deciding to live in close proximity with a rogue man, she was exposing herself to an untenable amount of danger (and so the DRO to a high risk for financial loss!).
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insustentável
untimely
Pen-t Up Ambitions Although my dream of traveling into space had met an untimely end, I was still extremely happy to watch other people do it, and I was particularly interested in the paraphernalia of space flight—the spacesuits, the computers, the f
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intempestivo, prematura, fora de hora
untold
When you’re riding a bus or streetcar that’s so crowded you have to stand, you end up holding onto the handrails, which perpetually feel (and probably are) grimy from being handled by untold thousands of people before you.
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incontavel
untrammelled
1 editor in the whole country.” Baseball scouts and managers have long touted Dykstra’s singular talent, as a player, for putting failure out of mind, and plowing forward with untrammelled confidence, and that same trait seems to extend to his daily
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desimpedido
unwieldy
... call this by its unwieldy catalog name, we briefly...
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pesado, incômodo
unwind
have that time to unwind that I can chill out and just be with me.
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soltar, relaxar
unwitting
Even unwitting pawns who don’t know who they serve.
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involuntário
unwittingly
... very same principle I unwittingly discovered— has reached an...
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inconscientemente, involuntariamente
unwittingly discovered
... very same principle I unwittingly discovered— has reached an exceptional...
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involuntariamente descoberto
unwound
If the decision proves a bad one, it can be unwound in a reasonable period of time.
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Desenrolado
upheaval
... of economic and social upheaval because industrial automation was...
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agitação, convulsão
upkeep
... additional fees for the upkeep of the cow— for...
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s. manutenção
uplift
(“Wives are key, dude.”) That this message of uplift and responsibility was coming from the tobacco-spitting, crotch-grabbing, car-crashing, steroid-abusing antihero known as Nails, of all people, was part of the gonzo charm.
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levantar, levantamento
upon
And so, we’ve come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.
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sob; em; por
upping
... to the egg, thereby upping the odds of conception.
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aumentando, fazendo subir
uprooted
... of Syria is now uprooted, most of them inside...
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desenraizadas
upscale
It is located right next to a local commuter rail on the outskirts of an upscale neighborhood.
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adj. luxuoso, elegante, caro; da alta sociedade, dos ricos
upshot
The upshot of this is that unless you live in an area near where truffles are produced, have enough money, and wait for the right time of year, you can’t have the quintessential truffle experience.
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conclusão
upstander
It sees itself, such as it is, the it, as something that will create the impression that there will be political cost, there will be a political price to be paid, for allowing genocide, for not having an heroic imagination, for not being an upstander
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espectador
upstanding
... the country legally, as upstanding future citizens, for a...
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forte e saudável, honesto, honrado, direto, em pé, ereto
upstate
I went to Upstate New York to a school for a year where I actually got a job working in a pool hall and the owner of of the pool hall was really big into playing poker and I started playing poker with him and a local bookie that ran the books for all
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norte do estado
uptick
... comes amid a recent uptick in violence between rival...
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aumento
uptight
Cause somebody that comes across as being uptight in the interview situation, the interviewer doesn’t know quite how to take that.
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nervoso
up to date
It's, hopefully, up to date.
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em dia; moderno; atualizado
upvotes
You can look at the number of upvotes each question has (bottom left corner of any question) to see if it’s popular.
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votos positivos
upwards
... the government already revised upwards several times its solar...
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para cima
upwind
One day, a plot of land upwind of Achmed’s house comes up for sale.
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contra o vento
usher
A retired ballplayer, age fifty-five and dressed in golf attire (sneakers, khakis, cap), approaches the lower tier of seats at Citi Field and is rebuffed by an usher.
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liderar, conduzir
ushered
... standing ovation, as he ushered in the start of...
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usher: liderar, conduzir
utmost
... things that is of utmost importance is not just...
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superior; mais alto; extremo; maior; mais longínquo
uttered
Moreese Bickham uttered these words upon being...
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expressar, dizer; pronunciar, articular
vagueness
115 6.8 The history of data protection 119 6.9 The Data Protection Act in outline 121 6.10 The Bodil Lindqvist case 122 6.11 Strength through vagueness 124 6.12 The Data Protection Act in more detail 126 6.13 The right to be forgotten 136 6.14 Is the
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imprecisão
vain
... thing you are so vain.
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vão
valet
... took service as a valet here in England.
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criado pessoal, camareiro
valiant
Of course, one needs a sympathetic ear amongst the ladies and gentlemen of the press, those valiant seekers after truth.
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valente
vanity
... achieve perfection, which is vanity and will hinder your...
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vaidade
vanquished
... toil, they have now vanquished the injustices perpetrated on...
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v. conquistar, vencer
variegated
... it refl ects the variegated nature of international law,...
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v. variar, diversificar, variegar
vat
You start with a platform suspended just below the surface of a vat of a special liquid polymer that hardens (or “cures”) when exposed to ultraviolet light.
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s. barril, tonel
vaunted
He said, we live in the vaunted Age of Information - this was in August, 2011.
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alardeada
veal
... the sauces, so chicken, veal and fish stock.
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vitela
veil
We lift the veil, what's really going on.
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véu
velvet
... we bring in the velvet gloves.
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veludo
veneer
... us to the thin veneer of conscious logic.
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verniz
vent at the top
... the bottom and a vent at the top— thus approximating the design...
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ventilação no topo
venues
Dave: Speaking of home, I did go home early from Atlanta because, umm, before we move on, when ... part of the organisational chaos was the transport because you had not just media turning up to the wrong venues but athletes turning up to the wrong tra
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locais de encontro
verbatim
Jill: Except for you also know that with a lot of professors they are just basically verbatim repeating what’s in your textbook so you know you can just go read your textbook and find out all the same information.
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literalmente, textualmente. palavra por palavra
verdant
... appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the...
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verdejante
verge
National economies were bankrupt, civil societies fragile, and social services on the verge of collapse.
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Beira
vernacular
It became common vernacular to discuss business models, but without a standard framework
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vernáculo
verve
... has taken with increasing verve over the last year.
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vigor
vessel
... you're creating a sealed vessel containing a lot of...
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s. vasilhame, recipiente; navio, barco; vaso sangüíneo
vest
To do all this, a steadicam starts with a large, rigid harness or vest worn by the operator.
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Colete
vests
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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coletes
vet
DROs would also rigorously vet their own employees for any unexplained income.
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Veterinário make a careful and critical examination of (something) (examinar)
vetoed
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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vetou
vetted
Frank- I was vetted.
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checado, verificado
vetting
“When I came to this country, if you didn’t have the right visa, if you didn’t have somebody who sponsored you, you were turned back at the airport.” She said there should be a firm vetting process but believes allowances should be made for women, ch
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vet: verificar, checar, examinar
vexing
... he solved the extremely vexing problem of making an...
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vexatório
vexing problem
... he solved the extremely vexing problem of making an accurate...
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problema grave
viands
... soles, who proffered the viands in special porcelain, and...
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mantimentos
vicariously
Jill: We'll live vicariously through Stephen.
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de forma indireta
viceroy
He’s the viceroy.
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vice-rei
vices
06:52 Now, surrounding the Tyrant, Lorenzetti illustrates the vices that animate bad government.
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vícios
vicinity
anywhere within the vicinity, what they say is, "We must go say hello,
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vizinhança
vicious
Loose laces caught in vicious vacuums?
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vicioso, terrível,
vile
... would call her that vile c- word every day.
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vil, desprezível, odioso, torpe
vindictive
Do you want to be vindictive?
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vingativo
vinegar
... out of clay with vinegar and baking soda for...
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Vinagre
virgo
Jessica Rea: I know I’m terrible at it, and because I’m a Virgo and I’m a perfectionist, I’m getting better at it, but one of my goals is to just fail better and faster every single time.
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Virgem (signo do zodíaco)
vitriolic
This vitriolic, global outpouring of the...
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ataques contra
viz
Here take notice of a very significant truth, viz: The business depression started in 1929, and continued on to an all time record of destruction, until sometime after President Roosevelt entered office.
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vocally
She was vocally anti- Walker.
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vocalmente
vogue
... in chief of American Vogue or the CEO of...
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moda
voiceover
Voiceover: Welcome to Hack the Entrepreneur.
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narração
volatile
If the air pollution is particularly complicated, then Reginald’s DRO will place non-volatile compounds into Sally’s smokestacks and follow them to where they land.
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volátil
volley
... when she heard a volley of gunfire and her...
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vôlei / n 1 salva de (tiros). 2 torrente de palavras, palavreado. 3 saraivada (pedras, balas etc.). vt+vi 1 salvar, saudar dando salva. 2 dar uma descarga, estourar.
volleys
... central to fear, initiates volleys of cascades that produce...
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voleias
voluble
Even Mitch McConnell, the voluble Senate majority leader, is mute.
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volúvel
vomiting
... race I was just vomiting.
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Vomitando
vouchers
Tax increases, ban on vouchers, federal oversight How do...
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comprovantes
vow
We grieve for their victims, and we renew our vow to redeem the sacrifice of those victims.
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voto
vying
... to the two factions vying for control of Feira's...
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competir; rivalizar
wackiness
You kind of knew what you were getting in terms of some of the wackiness and also some of the actual issues that people might not agree with him on—trade, immigration—but I think that just the level of chaos, the lack of discipline, was beginning to
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wackiness
wacko
Mainly, any wacko with an email account.
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maluco
wacky
By inference, their inventor is sometimes regarded as a wacky innovator who was perhaps out of touch with reality. But Fuller’s career involved a great deal more than domes.
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maluco
wade
People wade through law all day...
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vadear
wading
... as they flee, whether wading through the river that...
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vadear; caminhar; avançar; prosseguir com dificuldade
wafers
They can't etch wafers that well.
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bolachas
waged
So they waged their war with extraordinary...
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travada
wagging
... fish swim by quickly wagging their tails to propel...
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abanando
waging
They view the Kurdish factions that are in control in Northern Syria as being one in the same as with the same PKK terrorists who have been waging the campaign against the Turkish state.
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travando
wagon
... one person get a wagon and head west.
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vagão, carrinho, carroça (amer)
wags
... amazing-- the long tail wags the dog in large...
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mexer, sacudir
wail
... my sister's face, this wail of pain and suffering...
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gemido
wailed
Many have wailed and sobbed at one...
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choramingar, lamentar, prantear, gemer
wailing
... dramatic music][siren wailing]-[indistinct voice over radio]-...
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lamentação
waive
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renunciar
waivers
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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renúncias
walkthroughs
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instruções passo a passo
walled
the data existed in “virtual silos,” with each functional system walled off from the other.
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murado; cercado; fortificado
wallow
I was really set to just wallow in my sorrows all by myself with this failure, and it actually didn’t happen.
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projetar-se para diante; dedicar-se inteiramente a algo; rolar na sujeira (sujar
wall to wall
wall to wall
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de parede a parede
waltzing
... say," Imagine a jellyfish waltzing in a library while...
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waltzing
wand
You could just magic wand
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varinha
wander
Some scientists suspect that, as climate change has warmed the Arctic, the temperature difference has reduced, causing the jet stream to weaken and wander.
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perambular, vagar
waning
When we notice that we’re waning
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decrescente, minguante (a lua); esvanecente, esvaecente, que desaparece; que se aprofunda; que se aproxima de seu fim ou término
wanton
Wanton destruction of decorative objects with full parental consent: good.
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brincalhão, maldoso
warden
And many miles away, on the top of the nearest mountain, a beacon-warden would notice this fire and light one of his own.
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guardião; diretor penitenciário
warheads
We know the Russians don’t want the Iranians to have nuclear capabilities in the form of missiles and nuclear warheads.
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ogivas
wariness
... a little bit of wariness.
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cautela
warlords
... forces and selfish local warlords, while fighting off foreign...
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comandante militar; déspota
warp
... need to travel at warp speeds to see other...
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entortar / distorcer
warped
... and that sort of warped my framework.
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torcido, entortado; deturpado
warps
It just completely warps and distorts egos, and...
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entorta, deforma
warrant
... are several factors that warrant tears to fall and...
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autorização, permissão; justificação;
warring
The businessmen were earning large profits by transporting and supplying the warring armies.
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guerreando
wary
... will soon become as wary of immigrants as many...
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cuidadoso, cauteloso
washed out
... snapshot, and it looks washed out, you can barely see...
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deslavado
watchdog
Other DROs will fund“ watchdog” organizations which regularly rate...
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cão de guarda
watchword
And now, let our watchword be this.
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palavra de ordem
water
It is structurally really, really hard to do, as the Bush administration rightly does, which is to denounce genocide on a Monday and then describe water boarding on a Tuesday as a no-brainer and then turn up on Wednesday and look for troop commitment
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água
waterborne
... suddenly treated to a waterborne kaleidoscope of ocean freighters,...
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transportador por via maritima
watershed
... of the mind, a watershed, a thought, an ecosystem...
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marco decisivo
wavering
... it through,' rather than wavering for months at a...
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vacilante, vacilando
waxed
The tip of the piston has a small indentation or hole, and just behind the tip is usually a gasket of some kind to ensure an airtight seal—perhaps a rubber O-ring or simply some waxed string.
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encerar; depilar-se com cêra; crescer, encher (a lua etc); gravar, fazer uma gravação; iluminar-se
waylaid
I find that many people start off with an idea that they’re really passionate about, but then that passion tends to get waylaid or put on the backburner or somehow superseded either by life or a steady diminishment of the passion that got them there
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armar ciladas; surpreender alguém; assaltar
way that breeds
... at it in a way that breeds
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maneira que gera
wearable
... Tech, with Thad Starner's wearable computing group, to build...
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vestível
we are stamped by our
We are stamped by our native culture but this...
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nós somos carimbados por nossos
weary
... rhetoric has impressed violence- weary voters.
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cansado, esgotado
weasel
... it faster than a weasel on ball bearings.
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escapar, doninha
weathering
On Tuesday, after weathering a self- inflicted wound...
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arejar, expor ao ar; agüentar (um temporal); superar a-, resistir a-; vencer (dificuldades); navegar na direção do vento
weave
At any rate, yeah, she gave us like a copper... it looks like a basket-weave type of copper thing.
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tecer
wedge
A wedge—excuse me—just won’t cut it. Tête de Moine cheese needs a Girolle, and a Girolle needs Tête de Moine—no other cheese has just the right characteristics to make this sort of cheese flower.
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cunha, fatia (de torta)
wee
I’m recording this in the wee
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quantidade pequena; curto espaço de tempo
weed out
... good way also to weed out the sort of unmotivated...
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extirpar
weep
... VCs, read this and weep."
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chorar, choro (mais forte e formal do que cry)
weeping
... curved Chinese roofs and weeping willow trees.
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chorando
we got pulled over
... red and of course, we got pulled over, and all it took...
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nós fomos parados
welds
... are individually, but that welds us back into the...
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soldas
well
... mean, peering into a well.
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bem/ poço
we'll hit up
We'll hit up on situations early on...
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nós vamos bater
well meaning
well meaning
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bem intencionados
well pressed
well pressed
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bem pressionado
wells
The first wells were drilled into the Ogallala during the drought years of the early 1930’s.
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poços
went off the charts
When PM 2.5 levels went off the charts in 2012, or" crazy bad,"...
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saiu das paradas
wept
I guess I wept deeply with joy.
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v. lamentar, chorar; lacrimejar; gotejar, pingar; derramar-se
westward
We made our way westward up to Bayview Drive.
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ocidental
whack
your priorities are out of whack like that you can do crazy things to
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pancada
whale
... Ahab and the white whale and it was a...
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baleia
whammy
It’s this double whammy.
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an event with a powerful and unpleasant effect; a blow.
what does that stand for
And I said," What does that stand for?"
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O que isso representa
whatnot
whatnot.
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tudo o mais, etc; não sei o quê
wheat
We’re selling three crops today, it’s an unusual talk but for us a product is a crop, corn and wheat and soybeans.
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Trigo
wheeled
... When my parents wheeled me out of the...
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com rodas
whereby
This eventually resulted in me starting my own company, whereby I was able to achieve a certain degree of financial independence. I do not know what path I would have followed if I had gone to Beijing after all.
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através do qual; pelo qual
whew
Even as I say it I’m like whew.
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Ufa! quê!, ah! (indica surpresa, alívio, etc)
which ate into my private life
which ate into my private life
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que comi na minha vida privada
whiff
The whiff of elite self- dealing...
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sopro; ligeiro perfume; uma inspiração; uma expiração; uma ligeira explosão (de
whig
... are a practitioner of Whig history, a naive optimist,...
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A supporter of the war against England during the American Revolution.
whines
... snarls and growls][wolf whines] Easy, easy.
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choramingar
whining
I catch myself acting like a whining, screaming
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choramingando, reclamando
whip
... a lowly house majority whip.
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chicote
whir
... it kind of goes: whir, whir, whir!
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chiar
whirl
... been giving it a whirl.
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rodar, dar voltas, movimentar-se rapidamente
whirling
... solar masses, that were whirling around at a ratecomparable...
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rodopiando
whirlwinds
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
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redemoinho de vento
whirring
... memory, LIGO heard this: 07:43[Whirring sound] 07:46 So if you...
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zumbido
whisk
plan vacations and surprise me and whisk me off to wonderful enchanted
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Bater, Misturar; *Mover rapidamente; Dar uma espanada; Transportar (rapidamente). Batedor; Movimento leve e rápido
whisker
Back In By A Whisker.
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bigode
whist
... the papers and playing whist.
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uíste
whistle
Jim likes to whistle and he whistles all the
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buzina... apito, assobiar

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