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• abundant: more than enough
• confidant: a person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others
• periscope: an apparatus consisting of a tube attached to a set of mirrors or prisms, by which an observer (typically in a submerged submarine or behind a high obstacle) can see things that are otherwise out of sight.
• telescope: an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer, containing an arrangement of lenses, or of curved mirrors and lenses, by which rays of light are collected and focused and the resulting image magnified.
• syncope: a short period of time when a person becomes unconscious
• imminent: coming, about to happen very soon
• impending: imminent
• handicap: a disability (offensive meanings), difficulty/to make sth more difficult to do
• exhibit: publicly display (a work of art or item of interest) in an art gallery or museum or at a trade fair
• reconcile: to find a way in which two situations or beliefs that are opposed to each other can agree and exist together.
• be reconciled with: when 2 people are reconciled, they become friendly again after they have argued.
• improvise: to invent or make sth at the time when it is needed without already having prepared/planned it//perform without music or speech, making up the play, music...
• keep your hair on: said to tell sb to stop being angry/upset
• never look a gift horse in the mouth: said to advise sb not to refuse sth good that is being offered.
• get hold of the wrong end of the stick: misunderstand sb's intention
• thick and fast: quickly and in large numbers.
• let up: if bad weather or an unpleasant situation lets up, it stops or improves/to stop doing sth that you have been doing continuously or in a determined way.
• malignant: cancerous, malignant tumour, malignant tumour/having a strong wish to do harm
• reinforce: strengthen sth/provide proofs, support/confirm sth
• reenact: to repeat the actions of an event that happened in the past as a hobby or as a performance
• rejuvenate: to make sb feel/look young and energetic again/to make an organization or system more effective by introducing new methods/ideas/people
• variant: sth that is slightly different from other similar things/a different version of sth (mostly a disease/virus)
• precedent: an action, situation or decision that has already happened and can be used as a reason why a similar action or decision should be performed or made.
• preceding: existing or happening before sth/sb
• stagnation: a situation in which sth stays the same and does not grow and develop/a situation in which a liquid or air does not move or flow.
• come/go with the territory: to be a part of a particular activity.
• rule sth/sb out: to decide or say officially that something is impossible or will not happen, or that something or someone is not suitable
• the pros and cons: advantages and disadvantages of sth