28.10-04.11 English with Valeria

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to learn by heart
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to rote
ziarno prawdy
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a grain of truth
a member of an armed group formed to fight secretly against an occupying force
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a partisan
prejudiced in favor of a particular cause
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partisan
a strong supporter of a party / person
not a soldier
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a partisan
karłowate
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stunted
karłowatość / zahamowany wzrost
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stunted growth
not clear, difficult to understand or see
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obscure
zaciemniać
These claims ... something far more interesting and far more accurate
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to obscure
annoyingly slow to understand but also an angle between 90 and 180
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obtuse
always being careful to notice things, esp. danger
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vigilant
to make sth stronger or successful again
We are constantly ... by immigrants coming to our country.
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to reinvigorate
to state exactly what must be done / zastrzec
The law ... that new cars must have seat belts.
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to stipulate
to separate things that've become joined or confused / rozwikłać, rozplątać
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to disentangle
a disease or characteristic that can be passed from a parent to a child through the genes (adj.)
Autism is a ... neurological disorder
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heritable
using exactly the same words as were originally used / dosłownie
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verbatim
to drive, push or cause to move in a particular direction, typically forward
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to propel
to make a person or an action seem as if he or it is not important/ bagatelizować
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to belittle
zbagatelizowany
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belittled
a sharp division, a split but also the hollow between a woman's breasts (dekolt)
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a cleavage
having a hole or empty space inside / kotlina, wydrążenie
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hollow
to become weaker in strenght or influence / słabnąć
The cultural image of a blue-collar guy began to ... in '70s
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to wane
pleasant and friendly / sympatyczny
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amiable
representing a particular group or idea, serving as its symbol
This total self-definition in terms of your job is one of the emblematic elements of the elite.
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emblematic
stupid
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dimwitted
not skilled at achieving or not able to produce good results / nieskuteczne
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ineffectual
a remark or action intended to insult or offend someone
So you have this sharp fall from social honor of blue collar men, and it's felt very deeply as a personal...
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an affront
rude and offensive / rough
They are stereotyped as being ugly,...
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coarse
behaviour and opinions that are typical of a snob / snobizm
But that's really a misuse of anti-racism as an excuse for...
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a snobbery
to make sth that's already bad even worse / zaostrzać
To ... a conflict.
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to exacerbate

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