WORK AND EDUCATION
Which phrase you use to mean: the emigration of highly trained or qualified people from a particular country?
Brain Drain
A measurement of the amount of carbon dioxide that one's activities produce.
Carbon Footprint
To decide officially in a law court that someone is not guilty of a particular crime
To acquit
What does IQ stand for? We have seen this in advertising
Intelligence Quotient
Pronounce this word:
Threat
/θret/
Idiomatic expression for:
Graveyard shift
What is the meaning of "To vote with one's feet"?
To show your opinion by leaving an organization or by no longer supporting, using, or buying something: When the price of skiing doubled, tourists voted with their feet and just stopped going.
To take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally
To smuggle
The US word for "Billboard"?
Hoarding
Pronounce these two words:
culture
public
other
/ˈkʌl.tʃər/
/ˈpʌb.lɪk/
/ˈʌð.ər/
First, second and third years at college....
What is the meaning of "having an axe to grind"?
to have a strong personal opinion about something that you wantpeople to accept and that is the reason why you do something:
"Environmentalists have no political axe to grind - they just want to savethe planet."
What is the word for the following crimes:
-the murder of someone famous or important.
-the crime of killing a person when the killer did not intend to do it or cannot be responsible for his or her actions
- Assassination
-the crime of killing a person when the killer did not intend to do it or cannot be responsible for his or her actions
A public statement where someone supports a specific company, product, or service...
Read these words (beware the three have to be pronounced correctly to get all the points:
Purchase
Surface
Cleanse
/ˈpɜː.tʃəs/
/ˈsɜː.fɪs/
/klenz/
How do you call studies that are academic and vocational at the same time in the UK?
Foundational Studies
A word for the following phenomena:
-a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
-a collapse of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff.
Drought
Landslide
What is the difference between burglary and mugging?
Burglary focuses on unauthorized entry, while mugging focuses on the use of force or threat to take property from a person.
Provide a word for the following diseases:
-It usually affects the glands on each side of the face. These glands, called parotid glands, make saliva. Swollen glands may be tender or painful.
-A highly contagious disease marked by an itchy, blister-like rash caused by the varicella-zoster virus
- Mumps
- Chickenpox
Pronunciation for the word: Chamber
/ˈtʃeɪm.bər/
How do you call the metric feet Shakespeare used in his plays and poetry and which resembles most the way we speak nowadays?
Iambic Pentametre
How do you say in English ...ave filamentosa del paraíso?
twelve-wired bird-of-paradise"
Provide a word for each of the following definitions:
-the crime of secretly taking money that is in your care or that belongs to an organization or business you work for.
-the situation in which someone important gives jobs to friendsrather than to independent people who have the necessary skillsand experience
- embezzlement
-cronyism
A medical center that provides healthcare services to individuals regardless of their ability to pay or insurance status.
Safety-net hospital
MEANING AND PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORLD "STIFLE". IN WHICH CONTEXT HAVE WE SEEN THIS WORD LATELY?
/ˈstaɪ.fəl/
to (cause to) be unable to breathe because you have no air
EDUCATION: The school system stifles creativity