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término definición
foster
It would also benefit the environment, reduce hunger, and foster international cooperation and goodwill.
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promover, fomentar, encorajar, estimular
foul
And then he says, “I love the way your foul little mind works.”
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s. falta, infração v. sujar, poluir
fountains
... reprogrammingmounds of fat into fountains of youthful cells-- cells...
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s. fonte, origem; chafariz; bebedouro; torneira
foursome
... pictured with the" fearsome foursome."
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quarteto
foyer
... sitting in the front foyer.
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sala de espera
frailty
... are not navigating this frailty successfully or sustainably.
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s. fragilidade; fraqueza; debilidade,
framers
Narrator: Many of the framers of the Constitution were reluctant to concentrate too much authority in a central government.
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autores
frantic
... the only thing my frantic seven year- old brain...
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frenético, louco, nervoso, furioso
fraught
... but it's kind of fraught.
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carregado, repleto, cheio
freaking walk in
freaking walk in
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enlouquecendo andar em
freakish
... that came after the freakish success of my last...
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bizarro
freckled
... leaking, and even the freckled kid with glasses, whose...
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sardento
freebie
Czech took a lot longer than Romanian because of the greater complexity and the fact that Romanian has a lot of freebie words from French and Italian and so forth, but it’s the same idea.
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algo distribuído gratuitamente, amostra grátis
freed
Then they were freed to work for themselves.
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v. liberar; livrar; resgatar;
freight
... climbed down from the freight train in Orange, N...
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carga, frete, transporte
frenzied
Frenzied buyers pushed and shoved to grab the chocolate hazelnut paste.
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adj. frenético, nervoso, irascível
frickin
My mom was like, “You are going to be living at home when you’re 35 because you can’t keep a frickin' job!” Thank God that wasn’t the case because I did not know that I was an entrepreneur truly
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maldita
frigate
The thirty-eight-hundred-acre estate reached its height in the first half of the nineteenth century, under the fourth Duke, who planted the longest avenue of lime trees in Europe and kept a forty-ton frigate, the Lincoln, which he liked to sail on th
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fragata
frigility
I worry sometimes that we are creating islands of resilience in seas of frigility.
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frigilidade
fringe
She is an entrepreneur, but only in her spare time, or what she likes to call her ‘fringe hours.'
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orla, margem / franja
frisked
... that were stopped and frisked, 86% of them were black...
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revistado
frisking
... and rubbish- strewn wastelands, frisking and interrogating a succession...
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n. saltando
fro
What if that’s the answer fro me?
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de, a partir de
frogged
... landline grid-- they leap- frogged to the new technology.
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sapo
frogs
Frogs adapted to deserts.
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Sapos
frontrunner
But the far- right frontrunner still looks unlikely to...
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n. leader, one who leads in a race
froth
Then I will make the milk, froth the milk up in the little container and I pour the milk.
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espumar
frothy
Preserve cash: When a startup has unlimited cash (Internet bubbles, frothy venture climate), it
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Espumoso
frowny
... but I included a frowny face and a comment,"...
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carrancudo
frugal
about money and they save their money and they’re very frugal but they
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simples
frugality
In a nod to the frugality of '84, athletes would once again be housed in college dorms.
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Frugalidade, economia, simplicidade - the quality of being economical with money or food; thriftiness.
frustrates
... really like, but it frustrates us that we don't...
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frustra
fudge
Hot chocolate, hot fudge, and chocolate syrup are...
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doces tipo doce de leite, chocolate, etc - Lorota - v. falar besteiras; agir negligentemente; fraudar, falsificar
fulfilling
... can be a self- fulfilling vision, preventing you from...
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realizante
fulsome
... forensics and did a fulsome investigation and found that...
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exagerado
fumbles
... the trash, is nervous, fumbles the bag, spills a...
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handle awkwardly; pegar desastradamente
fumbling
... for most of it, fumbling was a given.
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v. tatear, apalpar; remexer; "errar" o alvo
fungi
Fungi married algae... clinging to...
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Fungos
furs
... of my favorite is furs.
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peles (para adorno);
furthering
... the exclusive purpose of furthering direct negotiations with
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promover
fuse
... have a tendency to fuse together.
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fundir
fuses
Then the machine draws the second layer, which not only hardens but fuses to the first.
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Fundir, unir, misturar, derreter
fussed
... Christmas”, nobody is that fussed about it.
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iritar, exagerar - (of a person) feeling concern, distress, or annoyance; having strong feelings about something.
fussy
fussy
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inquieto; difícil; exigente; trapalhão; presunçoso
futile
... later years on a futile search for a unified...
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inútil
fuzziest
... clearest thing to the fuzziest thing.
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nebuloso, obscuro
fuzzy
activities are ad hoc and fuzzy, and seldom have measurable, concrete objectives.
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confuso
gait
President's gait makes that 2 1/2 steps.
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modo de andar
gaiters
People do run and I wear my runners too if I’m running, but it’s nice if you have gaiters to put over them to keep you a little drier or even put some plastic bags over your socks and then put your feet in your shoes and then bring a pair of extra sh
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galocha, perneira, coisa de por em cima dos sapatos para não molhar
gal
The dead guy, or gal, goes... like that.
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moça
gales
... sheltered themselves from the gales of creative destruction.
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s. ventania, tempestade; invasão, revolta; onda (por exemplo, onda de risos)
gall
... really the case that gall bladder surgery and a...
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ousadia, esfolar, escoriar, machucar; irritar, atormentar, amargura, tristeza; rancor; ousadia
galvanized
... outcry over air pollution galvanized China's government, perhaps in...
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galvanizado
galvanizing
Whilst some progress has been made in mobilizing resources, he said that urgent action is needed to drive progress: “that means galvanizing political support across governments and local communities; building momentum for change in corporate boardroo
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[encorajar, estimular] galvanize = to make somebody take action by shocking them or by making them excited
gamut
And, this time, it runs the gamut.
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gama, escala
ganised
ganised from the Korean standpoint.
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Organizado
gargantuan
Such was the case with an ambitious project undertaken by the Allies in World War II: building gargantuan ships out of ice.
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gigantesco; colossal
garment
... a sleeve, of a garment, as she put it...
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traje
garments
Bra- like garments have existed for women...
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vestuário, roupa, traje.
garner
deciding do we want to garner our own respect.
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armazenar; colecionar, juntar; celeiro; acumular, obter, adquirir
garnish
Tête de Moine is often served with fruit or fresh French bread, or simply as a decorative yet edible garnish for a cheese platter. Today, Tête de Moine cheese is still produced by small local dairies near Bellelay.
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Enfeite
gas
gas, spending large sums to...
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também tem o sentido de acelerador
gasbag
... me an idiot, a gasbag or whatever they sometimes...
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balão aerostático
gashes
... comes gushing from your gashes.
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corte, arranhão, corte profundo, machucado, ferida.
gasket
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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vedaçao
gasp
... on you, and tourists gasp and they flock around...
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suspiro
gasps
... pitched ringing][grunts and gasps][groaning and coughing]-[gun...
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suspiros
gassy
gassy
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gasoso
gated
... America-- a bunch of gated communities.
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fechado
gatekeeper
... pocket, you need the gatekeeper.
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guardião, porteiro
gateway
A few years ago, Gateway came out with flat-...
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porta de entrada
gauge
And banks are generally hesitant to provide home loans for dome builders; they’re seen as a risky investment, because there’s no way to gauge their resale value.
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medir
gavels
“If the gavels change hands, it’s a different world.
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martelos
gazebos
There were two temporary gazebos—where the library used to be, and where the billiard room was—to create some shade for the volunteers and for the people who had come to see the parch marks.
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gazebos
gazette
... he published" The Pennsylvania Gazette," to which he contributed...
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Boletim
gazing
... that it was me gazing up at the man...
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olhar, olhar fixo
gee
So what they did is they initially started talking to people and most folks said, "Well gee, can you carry my packages, can you take out the recycling, and all of these were low hanging fruit."
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Caramba
gees
... because sometimes you feel gees, I've been at it...
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(Ai meu Deus!!!)
geiger
ANN GEIGER:" I'm Ann Geiger from...
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GEIGER
genie
... and expansive, like a genie just liberated from her...
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gênio
gentry
We were created to take the part of the poor against the corn-cultivating gentry.
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pequena nobreza
genuflecting
Genuflecting to generals
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Genuflexão - ajoelhar pedindo benção
genuflections
His genuflections to the dictatorship make...
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genuflexões
genus
... lone member of a genus, which is in turn...
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gênero
gerbils
... very few programs about gerbils.
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gerbos
getaway
... groups, often acting as getaway drivers in bombings and...
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fuga
ghastly
- Ghastly people.
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apavorante
ghosts
... lots of stories about ghosts and spirits hanging around...
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fantasmas; ESPÍRITOS; espectro; ALMAS PENADAS. APARIÇÃO; Sombra
giblets
Whether TripAdvisor reviews are helpful or hogwash is subjective, but either way, doesn’t a meal of giblets in West Africa make for a better story if you stumble upon it serendipitously rather than seek it out upon the advice of Chantal J. from Marse
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miúdos
giddy
She was a little bit giddy.
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tonto
gifted
... and seeming as if gifted with a sort of...
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talentoso, dotado
gig
Also, I had a classic entrepreneurship problem that some people have faced in that I had a pretty good gig as a non-entrepreneur.
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show, espetáculo, emprego temporário, bico
gills
packed to the gills that was the
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brânquias brânquias
gimmick
Old-fashioned and counterintuitive, this marketing gimmick is still going strong. Razor-Thin Profit Margins Around 1900, a salesman named King Camp Gillette dreamed up the idea of disposable razor blades.
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n. artifício, efeito (progapanga) - gíria;
ginger
... such as nuts and ginger) alongside commercial chocolate bars.
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gengibre
girdle
... focuses on his shoulder girdle and his arm.
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cinto
girlie
Being considered a "ladies' man," in the topsy-turvy logic of preteen boys, was considered being a "girlie man."
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mocinha
glad handing
... much deeper than just glad- handing people and calling them...
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Glad-hand - to talk to or welcome people in a very friendly way, especially when this is not sincere
glare
... headed out into the glare.
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brilho; claridade
gleams
Or it may be that we continue to be enamored of our castles in the air, despite the knowledge of their illusory nature, as the last stanzas of Longfellow’s poem conclude: So I wander and wander along, And forever before me gleams The shining
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brilhar, resplandecer
glean
Because maybe we can glean information, not just how...
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v. colher (informação); juntar
glide
could just glide along.
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deslizar, escorregar
glider
He died a few months before this was published, because he got on a plane or a glider that wasn’t built right and crashed, irony.
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planador
glimmer
You don’t see any movement, any glimmer, positive glimmer there at all?
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vislumbre
glimpse
Before there was a glimpse of a breakthrough, President Mubarak stood for reconciliation.
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vislumbre, visão rápida
glistening
In early June, when the heat was getting serious, John stopped me in the street, his brow glistening, and said, “It’s going to be like 1976!” I waved him away.
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reluzindo, brilhando
gloat
... to you the word“ gloat”, what do you think...
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regozijar
gloating
Gloating is something you do...
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to gloat = to feel or express great, often malicious, pleasure or self-satisfaction
gloom
... swirl and twirl and gloom and doom forever, or...
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s. obscuridade (no céu); trevas; melancolia; tristeza; aborto v. tornar sombrio; tornar-se sombrio; entristecer; entristecer-se
gloomier
When it’s rainy it’s just darker and gloomier, so I would prefer that we got more snow and less rain.
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gloomy adj. triste; deprimido; obscuro; sombrio
gloomy
... actually don't buy this gloomy narrative, and I don't...
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triste
glossies
... two gorgeous eight- by-10 glossies of meaningful things to...
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a photographic print on smooth, shiny paper
glum
... feeling a little bit glum and you buy a...
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triste, melancólico; mal-humorado, aborrecido
glumly
... paper after paperwhere we glumly had to conclude that...
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melancolicamente, com tristeza, com mau-humor
glummer
... too have gotten steadily glummer.
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melancólico
gnawing
mouse is gnawing on the vine to which she is clinging.
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mordida, mordisco; o ato de roer
gnomes
... you can also find gnomes, chess pieces, and a...
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gnomos
goalpost
... you just changed the goalpost of what success looked...
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traves
goatee
With his neatly- trimmed goatee and well- tailored suits,...
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cavanhaque
gobble
gobble
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tragar, engolir; devorar
gobbling
... looking for food, and gobbling down food all day...
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devorando
godly
... Christi Americana, as" a godly, learned Englishman," if I...
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piedoso
godmother
... I am the proud godmother to her 14 year- old...
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madrinha
godspeed
Godspeed and thank you very...
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(antiquado) Deus te acompanhe!, boa viagem!, felicidades!
going
The going was hard, but his lust for gold was definite.
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s. ida, partida; saída; andar, passo; andamento
goldilocks
It's a Goldilocks- type problem, and it's...
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cachinhos dourados
gonzo
(“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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Gonzo
goo
... a pocket full of goo).
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meleca
gooey
As the tide goes out all the clams and sand dollars and gooey ducks which are a kind of oyster all kind of …I think people… we’ve gone out digging for them before when we’ve been there, have we not?
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gosmento
gooseberry
... by a company called Gooseberry Natural Resources.
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groselha
gords
Mark: No offense to any “Gords” who happen to be listening out there.
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Amigos
gorge
So, I don’t want to be dangling from something over a gorge or whatever.
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desfiladeiro
gorging
He was tub inside gorging cake, No mistake gorging...
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empanturrando
gown
... and take somebody else's gown, cut off three inches...
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toga, beca, bata, roupão, túnica, vestido
grading
... had worked at lumber grading and quality for his...
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avaliação
graft
... like a split liver graft, to a relative or...
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enxertar, suborno
grafts
... to be used as grafts for burn patients using...
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enxertar
grainy
... a bit dry and grainy, but still delicious— and...
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granulado
granularity
The more granularity you add to a
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granularidade
grappa
... liquor like vodka, aquavit, grappa, calvados, the pure liquor...
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aguardente de bagaço de uva (bagaceira)
grapple
... did not have to grapple with this serious philosophical...
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agarrar
grappled
If liberal ideas do not underpin the world, geopolitics risks becoming the balance-of-power, sphere-of-influence struggle that European statesmen grappled with in the 19th century.
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combater (mentalmente)
grappling
17:30 I want to wrap up, but I want to close with what I take to be the four lessons from Sergio’s life on this question of how do we prevent evil from prevailing, which is how I would have framed the question. Here’s this guy who got a 34-year head s
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lutar; combater; agarrar (com disputa)
grassroots
Well, organizers say this is an example of a battleground state that has had successful grassroots organizing.
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de base, básico, fundamental
grating
In order to read all the signs describing the timeline of sewer construction, visitors have to stand on a metal grating over an active sewer channel; this arrangement serves to keep traffic moving at a lively pace.
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grade
gratuitous
... you, which would be gratuitous and intrusive, I thought...
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gratuito
gravel
It could be liquid fuels, plastics or even synthetic gravel.
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cascalho; pedras
gravelly
... then I heard this gravelly voice saying," Hey, is...
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empedrado, encascalhado
gravely
... wedding bands, cautioned us gravely,“ Avoid electrified salt solutions.”...
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seriamente.
gravest
... was served by the gravest waiters, in dress coats,...
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mais grave
graveyard
... had to pass a graveyard, so these two guys,...
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cemitério
grease
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engordurar, untar, ensebar
greasy
Although some designs are better than others, over- or undershooting your desired gear is common, and if you’re pedaling too fast or under too heavy a load, the chain can easily slip off the gears entirely, requiring a greasy manual adjustment.
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gorduroso, engordurado, oleoso
greens
Dusty: And then, there’s also things like collard greens, yams, mashed potatoes - a lot of things you see all the time - biscuits.
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verduras
gregarious
He - by nature, Ronald Reagan was very gregarious, liked people, tried to be warmhearted.
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gregário, sociável
gridlock
By itself, the recognition that we have common hopes and dreams won’t end all the gridlock, resolve all our problems or substitute for the painstaking work of building consensus and making the difficult compromises needed to move this country forward
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impasse
grids
Such has been the case with one of Fuller’s most ambitious ideas, that of interconnecting the world’s electrical energy grids. The World Game In order to explain what a global energy network means and why it is such a good idea, I should take
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s. grelha; rede (para a pesca de peixes); agulha; rede elétrica
grievance
Unions use grievance processes, and a plethora of other specialists in dispute resolution have sprung up to fill in the void left by a ridiculously lengthy, expensive and incompetent State court system.
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queixa
grilling
... him to explain Twitter, grilling him on Christmas.
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ato de assar, ato de tostar
grimy
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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sujo
grin
The rest of the year we just kind of grin and bear it until it gets nice again.
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dar risada; forçar um riso
grin and bear
grin and bear
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sorriso e urso
grind
Mark: I thought actually you were telling me earlier you were hiking yesterday, or not really hiking, doing the Grouse grind which I would assume most of our listeners would not be familiar with.
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moer
grinds on
grinds on
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mói em
grinned
Then he said, “This is a tremendous honor for me,” and tried his joke again: “The only question is, who gets the pen?” He held up the signed order to the cameras, as always, pivoting left, then right, and grinned broadly.
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dar risada; forçar um riso
grisly
The idea that society can only survive in the absence of a centralized State is the greatest lesson that the grisly years of the Twentieth Century can teach us.
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macabro
grist
If information was once grist for ideas, over the last decade it has become competition for them.
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grãos (de trigo, de cevada, de centeio) para moagem
grit
grit to stay committed to this new belief system and know that you will be
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brita; fortitude and determination;
gritted
seethed behind my gritted teeth.
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cerrar os dentes, trincou
gritty
If the usher is aware of any of this, the latest in a decade-long string of tabloid episodes that have made the former All-Star and gritty fan favorite a cautionary tale, he doesn’t let on.
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arenoso, corajoso
groaned
One of my students suddenly groaned "Merde, I have been studying English for ten years and I still do not understand a thing!"
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gemeu
groaning
Groaning, laughter)
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gemendo, suspirando, grunindo
groggy
I don’t need to think about it as I’m waking up and being groggy, and that sort of thing.
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adj. instável; fracassado; fraco, debilitado
groomed
Most of us were groomed not only on images of nuclear catastrophe, but also on images and knowledge of the Holocaust.
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cuidado, tratado, preparado
grooming
I’d never expect to rent a car for a weekend and then be asked to take it in for an oil change or a tune-up; and when borrowing or renting a dog, you don’t worry about grooming, bathing, or veterinary care.
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aparencia, tratar de animais
groove
You’ve got to groove; you’ve got to groove that connection that you’ve made.
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s. canal, caminho, via; ranhura; entalhe, fenda, sulco v. encaixar, entrilhar, sulcar
groovy
... was even kind of groovy.
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excelente!
groping
... came forward with her groping case for one dollar.
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tateando
grossed out
Jill: They were grossed out too I guess.
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extrapolados para fora, "ficar enojado"
grouchy
... just a little bit grouchy.
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nervoso
grounders
Sometimes it’s easy to pop up the ball or hit grounders, whatever, but at any rate, there’s a lot of action for the defensive team as well so as you said, everybody gets into the game and as you also said a big part of it is the social aspect.
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rasteiras
grouper
If a grouper chases a fish into...
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Garoupa
grouse
It is quite possible to sail or play tennis in the morning and then just 20 minutes away, at Cypress Mountain, or Grouse Mountain, enjoy skiing in excellent Alpine conditions.
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Lamentação
grower or a shower
... penises as either a grower or a shower.
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produtor ou um chuveiro
growls
... laughter][wolf snarls and growls][wolf whines] Easy, easy.
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rosnar
grownup
grownup and not making excuses and showing up and doing the work, so
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crescer, tornar-se um adulto
grownups
If we had like a Dwight Eisenhower or Franklin Roosevelt, they would just say, OK, let’s get in a room, we will figure it out, and they would act like grownups.
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adultos
grub
... wretched stuff, in the Grub- street- ballad style; and...
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larva, gíria para comida
grubbers
You know Genghis Khan is glorious because he killed lots of people, but the merchants are just money-grubbers.
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adj / acumuladores de dinheiro
grubby
... in all of the grubby compromises and petty humiliations...
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sujo
grudge
You can never hold a grudge in Silicon Valley.
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rancor
grudges
... people who hold the grudges.
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rancores
grueling
... day of work in grueling conditions.
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cansativo; duro;
grumbling
... heard people mumbling and grumbling--" I have heard it...
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resmungando; reclamando
grungy
... on a pair of grungy jeans and a T-...
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bagunçado, sujo, imundo; de ou relativo ao estilo "grunge" de música e moda
grunt
He seldom slept, for one thing, and he had that peculiarly American ability to exhibit contempt for the working class while also resonating powerfully with it—in his case as a self-made grunt, a latter-day Pete Rose.
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roncar (porco); gemer; rosnar; resmungar
grunts
grunts][both grunting][dart gun...
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grunhidos
gubernatorial
By Judith Thurman During their Democratic gubernatorial face-off, both Andrew Cuomo and Cynthia Nixon described politics as the process of hiring a chief executive.
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governamental
guesthouse
I don't own a guesthouse.
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pousada
guild
The following year, The Literary Guild—another variation on the same theme—started business.
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grêmio

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