total mix
It means severe or strong. It is often used with the word "competition".
What's "stiff"?
Team in which individuals cooperate closely with one another
What are close-knit teams?
Wrongful or criminal deception intended to result in financial or personal gain.
What's fraud?
We use this structure to talk about actions that started in the past and continue until the present.
What's Present Perfect?
It means to cease developing; become inactive or dull. Used when describing economic activity.
What means "to stagnate"?
To physically or mentally abuse someone.
What's bullying?
It is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.
What's death penatly/capital punishment?
These are words that frequently appear in a language together, e.g. move forward, stay put, give up.
What's a 'collocation'?
It means to turn to and adopt (a course of action, especially an extreme or undesirable one) so as to resolve a difficult situation.
What does it mean to "resort to"?
A moral problem/issue
What's a dilemma?
it is an agreement made by a couple before they marry concerning the ownership of their respective assets should the marriage fail.
What's a pre-nup (prenuptial agreement)?
It is a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deductible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light )
What's an idiom/idiomatic expression?
Another synonym of a long life.
What's longevity?
To destroy something at en early stage. (idiomatic expression)
What means to "nip something in the bud"?
It is the action or process of inheriting a title, office, property, etc.
What's succession?
We use this structure to speculate about past events, to brainstorm alternative scenarios which did not actually happen. We use Past Perfect and would have V3 to create it.
What's a third conditional?
It is a phrasal verb (2 words). It means to find somebody/something after a long and difficult search.
What means "track down"?
A person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.
Who is a "perpetrator"?
It is the intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part.
What's a "genocide"?
It is a modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every.
What's a determiner?