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término definición
pun
No pun intended but you should dress for a tie.
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trocadilho
punched
... six dots that are punched into paper, and I...
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perfurar, esmurrar
punch line
punch line
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remate
puncture
Puncture his eardrums.
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punção, picada, furo
pundits
We’re not as cynical as the pundits believe.
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especialista, sábio
punk
... opportunity to meet two punk rock legends, Henry Rollins...
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Gíria inglesa que significa madeira apodrecida. O termo é atribuido ao movimento comportamental juvenil que surgiu nos anos 70 e 80. Com roupas e cortes agressivos
puny
And our puny rational faculties have been...
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insignificante, pequeno, franzino, fraco, debil
puppet
I grab a puppet, a puppet I know he loves, Iago, the evil psychic to the villain Jafar in “Aladdin.” You know this character, Gilbert Gottfried.
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fantoche;
purging
Binging and purging.
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v. purgar; purificar; limpar; clarear
purport
... the communities these laws purport to protect.
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propósito
purports
I'm in listening mode.” In an e-mail on Tuesday, Chun told me, “We haven't reached any decisions regarding Yale's policies.”) Some of my classmates who are in DKE, particularly the seniors, now distance themselves from the fraternity, admitting that
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visando, pretende, dar a entender
pursed
Can I get a picture with you?” Dykstra obliges, smiling with his lips pursed to mask the fact that he is awaiting a new set of teeth to replace the ones that he alleges were knocked out by California prison guards, in 2012.
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franziu
pushback
There's already been pushback from Senator Gardner in...
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empurrão
pushup
The pushup bra and the v-...
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flexão
pushy
“They were loud, entitled, pushy, and creepy,” one alumna tweeted.
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que se impõe, controlador
putative
Techniques for getting the CO2 to its putative final resting place (and keeping it there) are in varying stages of experimental development.
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aceito como
put on hold
put on hold
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colocada em espera
puts down a gauntlet
Female 1: It puts down a gauntlet of challenge and inspiration.
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coloca uma luva
puttering
... minutes to an hour puttering around and getting ready...
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vagabundeando
putting me on
putting me on
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me colocando
put up
put up
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levante
puzzled
Whereas watching a cinema and what have you, even though I would look at characters who appear to die in one scene and then later somehow they seem to have reincarnated or something, it always puzzled me.
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confusa
puzzling
... measuring angles, and(most puzzling of all) a tuning...
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adj. complicado
pyongyang's
... Council Resolution 1874, passed after Pyongyang's nuclear weapons test in...
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Pyongyang's
quad
... English major not a Quad so this is anecdotal,...
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Quadrângulo, quadrante, quádruplo
quandary
There is already this quandary, you know, we know the President’s going to ask more about Afghanistan and NATO.
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dilema
quarreled
But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away,...
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brigado
quarters
Steve: Not so much different, except they seem to, you know, live obviously at much closer quarters than we do in smaller accommodations.
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alojamento; aposentos
quartile
... colleagues, found that the quartile that used social media...
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quartil (Na estatística descritiva, um quartil é qualquer um dos três valores que divide o conjunto ordenado de dados em quatro partes iguais, e assim cada parte representa 1/4 da amostra ou população.)
quashed
... retailers have kind of quashed this notion though.
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cassada
quasi
... into a myriad of quasi- police states, they have...
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adv. aparentemente, semi-oficial; adj. parecido com
queer
... Too queer.
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esquisito, extraordinário, raro, misterioso
query
One might query whether it is correct to think of criminal justice as a system for resolving conflicts between “two sides”, when the state both sets the rules of criminal law and also forces everyone to obey them.
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pergunta
quest
We’ll continue our quest in space.
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busca, procura
quetzals
Actually, one interesting thing too, in Costa Rica in the cloud forest and, of course, this is a very old forest, old growth, and we were in there and we saw a couple different types of monkeys and amazing birds, quetzals, which are the national bird
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The national bird of Costa Rica
queues
queues us up for survival has been really helpful for me.
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filas
quibble
Now, tiny little quibble of a footnote: Sonny...
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preocupar-se com ninharias, fazer picuinha; picuinha, ninharia (petty [insignificante] remark objection)
quicken
Somewhere in the book you will find an idea that will quicken your receptive powers, and place at your command, for your own benefit, this same irresistible power.
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Acelerar
quicksand
... got into this legal quicksand because we woke up...
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areia movediça
quicksands
Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood.
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areias movediças
quid
... situations where it's a quid pro quo or that...
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libra
quiescent
... the populations were relatively quiescent.
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quiescente, imovel
quills
Jill: Quills.
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pena (de ave ou de escrever); bobina de lançadeira;
quilt
Things you can receive by monthly subscription include: gourmet cheese, minerals (for rock collectors), potato chips, sock-knitting kits, trout flies, tea, jam, pasta, pastries, magic tricks, oysters, candles, condoms, quilt blocks, nesting dolls, so
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coberta; colcha; cobertor; acolchoado
quilted
... get a padded cotton quilted jacket.
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coberto, acolchoado, estofado.
quince
It’s basically a fruit brandy, so the plum version is the most common one because there are lots of plums in Serbia, but you can make it from different fruits as well so we asked the waiter, ‘Which one do you recommend?' and he said, ‘Well, you know,
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marmelo
quintessential
The upshot of this is that unless you live in an area near where truffles are produced, have enough money, and wait for the right time of year, you can’t have the quintessential truffle experience.
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adj. quintessencial, o mais complexo, perfeito
quintessentially
... as what made them quintessentially Canadian.
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super essencial
quirks
... all kinds of structural quirks.
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s. costume diferente, idéia fixa, "loucura";
quirky
... the story of a quirky, long, six- year, difficult...
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peculiar
quivering
headquarters, and created a pulley system into this shaft in this quivering building in the interests of rescuing this person, the person we most need to turn to now, this shepherd, at a time when so many of us feel like we’re lacking guidance.
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trêmulo
quizzical
... there's some silence, some quizzical looks.
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zombeteiro/ confuso
raccoons
... years ago-- all the raccoons and coyotes died.
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guaxinins
racecourse
He lit the flame, which again was a moving experience, but in Sydney he came and I think he was at the racecourse, he was attending some function, and I thought, ‘I’ve got to go,' and I went.
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hipódromo
rack
... pleasure is a good rack of ribs, even at 7:30...
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cabide; prateleira; armário metálico
racking
... for me it's nerve- racking or causing me some...
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causar uma dor física ou mental extrema
racking up
... all-time performance records and racking up awards, including best place...
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compilar, aumentar, construir
racks
... area— things like bike racks, lamp stands, car parts,...
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prateleiras
racy
... home and read a racy novel with a real...
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picante
raft out
raft out
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jangada fora
raged
Many raged against the conduct of that inquiry, accusing Kenneth Starr, the independent counsel, of abusing his powers, but the outcome demonstrated that a White House under investigation is in danger of spiralling into crisis.
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enraivecer-se, enfurecer-se, encolerizar-se
raging
Until we stop armed conflicts raging throughout the world, families will continue to be displaced, leaving children vulnerable.
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furioso
raids
... has been in many raids to capture horses.
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incurções
railway
Before sitting down, he started heading toward the corner of the room, and when someone asked where he was going, he held up his hands and said, “Demunification.” Although I had never heard that word before, I understood immediately what he was sayin
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ferrovia
raisins
... bread, a handful of raisins or a tart from...
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passas de uva
rake
... safeguard against complacency, to rake the muck, to speak...
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ancinho (vassoura de jardineiro) - rastelo
raking
It’s all training; raking the brain; training the brain and so it’s good to vary it in this way and very helpful.
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rake = limpar; raspar; varrer; buscar; atacar; sondar
rallied
This weekend, women rallied across the country and around the world.
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v. reunir; animar; refazer-se; reviver; zombar; ridiculariza
rampage
If the Twentieth Century proved anything, it is that the single greatest danger to human life are the thugs of the centralized political State, who extinguished more than 170 million souls during the bloodiest rampage in recorded history.
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turbulência; enlouquecimento.
rampages
rampages of positivity, you have to make sure that these new thoughts
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rampages
ramped
... and moms— and spending ramped up to underwrite
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v. rebelar-se, sair de controle; posicionar-se de maneira ameaçadora; movimentar-se ou agir furiosamente
rancid
... flies scattering from the rancid pile.
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rançoso
rank
... and of its acknowledged rank as one of the...
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reconhecida
rankles
... idea of progress that rankles the chattering class.
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ulcerar; não cicatrizar
ransack
Another man who was a member of DKE at the time told the student paper, on Wednesday, that his brothers had obtained the underwear “consensually.” But several female classmates suggested otherwise, saying that members of DKE often attempted to ransac
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revistar
ransom
... hostages on payment of ransom, and a catalogue of...
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resgate, resgatar
rarefied
... Economic Forum, with a rarefied guest list of business...
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rarefeito
rash
... kidney stones or a rash.
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borbulha, erupação, brotoeja (na pele)
raspberry
... of black currant or raspberry.
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framboesa
rasps
... zipper rasps] Ten days ago, a...
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raspões
rat arsed
rat arsed
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rato arsed
ratchet
A Bounce in Your Step I have always understood that there is some sort of swinging or bouncing mechanism in a pedometer that jiggles each time you take a step, thus causing a ratchet to move (in mechanical models) or incrementing a counter (in electr
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catraca, roquete
ratcheted up lifestyles
... of people living very ratcheted- up lifestyles.
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ratchet sth up/down: to increase/reduce something over a period of time; assim, disse-se que o estilo de vida foi reajustado para cima.
rather bleak
... banana picker is still rather bleak.
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pouco animadoras
ration
... Hershey created its Field Ration“ D,” but that bar,...
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Ração
rattled
... markets were at first rattled by this development, but...
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dar pancadas; tagarelar; bater; agitar; chacoalhar
raucous
The Naples night led me to a raucous student spot where I had the best pizza of my life — though I have no idea whether it was actually that good or whether the excitement of discovering it made it taste better.
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estridente, rouco
ravenous
If you’re not just hungry, you’re very hungry or really hungry, it’s you’re hungrier than just being hungry, but I guess you could choose to use a different word; to say “I’m famished” or “I’m ravenous” or something else instead of using the adverb.
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adj. faminto, devorador.
ravens
... studies show that ravens can plan for future...
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corvo
ravines
... school, across these deep ravines, in an isolated landscape.
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ravinas
raving
... media experience and send raving fans flocking to you.
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delirante, louco; fala fora do norma
rawest
... It taps into the rawest level of their creativity.
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Mais alto
rawness
rawness to the work they were creating.
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s. crueza; falta de experiência, inexperiência
razored
You know, it was very austere, very grey, tunics, razored hair cuts.
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Arrumado
readership
... bring value to your readership, though, because that's just...
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público leitor
readout
readout on your screen.
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(informática) leitura, saída
realising
I would say it without realising it.
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percebendo
realtors
... valuable drawing card for realtors whose property was near.
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corretores de imóveis
rearing
... to start a goat- rearing business, owns his own...
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criação
reasoned
I sort of reasoned that if I went to graduate school, picked up higher degrees and what have you, developed my writing skills, that New York Times or Time magazine would find me irresistible.
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argumentava
reassert
... get them right to reassert your freedom to speak.
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reafirmar
reassures
... nervous, and the pilot reassures you by saying," There's...
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tranquiliza
rebar
... builder attaches a steel rebar framework to the inside...
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vergalhões
rebates
I think that's changing a bit, manufacturers, car manufacturers and dealers, maybe independent dealers, are offering rebates and very low financing options and stuff in Canada to try to keep people here.
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descontos
rebuffed
A retired ballplayer, age fifty-five and dressed in golf attire (sneakers, khakis, cap), approaches the lower tier of seats at Citi Field and is rebuffed by an usher.
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repelido
rebuke
That provoked a rebuke from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
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repreender
rebuked
... British prime minister publicly rebuked Mr. Trump for retweeting...
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repreendeu
recap
... Trump will deliver" a recap about his call for...
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Resumir, recapitular
recasting
... for the citizen by recasting taxation, welfare, education and...
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reformulação
reciprocation
Invoke reciprocation.
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retribuição
reckoning
... there must be a reckoning.
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cômputo
recommit
on believing something, that’s when we have to recommit, to believing
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retomar
reconvene
... end it there andwe'll reconvene on Monday.
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reunir-se novamente
recouped
Long afterward, Mr. Darby recouped his loss many times over, when he made the discovery that DESIRE can be transmuted into gold.
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recuperado
recourse
... the rules relating to recourse to and the conduct...
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recurso
recurrence
... slavery; guard against its recurrence Thursday marks the twentieth...
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recorrencia, regresso
reddish
... not everything that looks reddish has the same composition.
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avermelhado
reddit
... biggest sites such as Reddit and Yahoo Answers.
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Reddit, fazer links de informações
redeem
We grieve for their victims, and we renew our vow to redeem the sacrifice of those victims.
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redimir
redeemable
... you gift, a certificate redeemable for a free head...
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resgatável
redeeming
Nick: Umm, and so I guess, you know, in Atlanta (1996) when Donovan Bailey won, that was sort of a redeeming feature for Canada, for sure.
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redimir
redemptive
... to bear, but the redemptive spirit of the people...
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redenção, salvação
redistricting
Republicans have been relatively confident, in part because their redistricting in 2010 tilted the congressional map in their favor.
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redistricting
redolent
It's redolent of James Bond movies...
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fragrante
redress
In theory there are many interesting legal issues about buying and selling internationally, but, as Julia Hörnle (2009: 121) puts it, cross-border litigation and enforcement is so expensive and time consuming that access to redress by conventional co
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reparar
reed
When it does, the magnet swings by a tiny reed switch.
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palheta
reek
DKE, usually pronounced as a single syllable, rhyming with “reek,” was founded at Yale in 1844.
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n 1 cheiro forte, desagradável. 2 fumaça, vapor, neblina. • vt+vi 1 emitir um cheiro forte e desagradável. 2 emitir fumaça ou vapores. 3 estar molhado de suor ou sangue. 4 estar impregnado de qualquer umidade fétida. to reek of cheirar a. to reek wit
reeling
figure and then me also being the emotional child that was reeling against
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cambalear, vacilar; revirar
reel to reel
... got my first Philips reel- to- reel tape recorder, and tape...
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bobina a bobina
referee
Inevitably my husband is expected to be the referee.
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árbitro, juiz, perito
referees
... were blooming, but the referees were not blowing the...
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árbitros
referral
So it`s been relationship driven and referral driven, and each year retention gets higher and higher, and certainly " word of mouth " has been fabulous for us.
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parecer; recomendação, indicação, referência, encaminhamento a especialistas
referrals
They place a greater emphasis on customer acquisition, activation, and referrals.
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referências
refiling
... dismissed without prejudice or refiling in small claims court.
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refluxo
refinements
... come up with further refinements and in fact, if...
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refinamentos
refoulement
... the 1951 Convention is“ non- refoulement”: no refugee should be...
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repulsao
regretted
've never regretted the decision I made a few years ago to live without a car.
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lamentou
rehashing
I don’t believe in rehashing the past over and over again,
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reprocessar material
reigned
and vernacular, confusion reigned.
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reinou
reigns
... digital world where content reigns over all, we all...
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reina
reimbursement
... are linked to hospital reimbursement, hospitals became interested in...
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reembolso
rein
In the two-thousands, funding was cut, and the psychologists who remained seemed to be given free rein.
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frear, apertar o freio; tomar as rédeas; controlar, governar, reinar
reining
... would hobble America without reining in its main rivals.
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controlando - to rein = restringir, controlar
reining in
... would hobble America without reining in its main rivals.
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controlando
reinstated
It also reinstated seven gold medals won...
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reintegrado
rekindle
For the moment, all he can think to do is rekindle the embers of the campaign, to bathe, once more, in the stage light.
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v. reacender, acender de novo, reavivar
relay
Pedroza used to relay messages from Dykstra to the outside world.
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transmissão
relayed
... Shutterstock The American diplomat relayed the request to Washington,...
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recolocar, reestabelecer
relaying
And if you understand this long-distance visual method of relaying information, you’ve grasped the basics of the optical telegraph, which predated the more commonly known electric telegraph by decades.
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divulgar, transmitir
relinquish
Some child soldiers find it difficult to relinquish the idea that violence is a legitimate means of achieving objectives.
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renunciar, abdicar, abandonar
relish
“He doesn’t relish a partisan fight in the same way.
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saborear, tempero, apreciar, gosto, prazer
remainder
... structural support for the remainder of the building process.
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o restante
reminiscing
I was born in 1980, and have become accustomed, throughout my life, to people reminiscing about that Biblical summer whenever it looks like a British heat wave is going to last for longer than a weekend.
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relembrando
remittance
I– to effect a remittance in excess of the...
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remessa
remorseless
... many of its most remorseless tribes, as the dainty...
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Sem remorsos
rend
I usually rend to spend most of my time with
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rasgar
render
... was going to possibly render her blind and leave...
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prestar, tornar, fazer ficar
rendering
This situation is more or less analogous to what happens now – with the not-inconsequential adjustment that, since DROs handle policing as well as restitution, their motive for preventing theft or rendering stolen property useless is higher than
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s. tradução; restituição, emboço, reboco. render / v. fazer; inverter; servir, passar, rebocar; (informática) desenhar, criar de forma automática uma imagem conforme o modelo tridimensional que se encontra no computador
renewed
Among the actions that President Obama supports for the promotion of democracy is an increase in funding for the National Endowment for Democracy and other nongovernmental organizations to support civic education; plus increases in foreign aid, debt
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renovado
rennet
The cheese is made as it has been for centuries from raw, unpasteurized cow’s milk curded by the addition of natural rennet.
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coalho
repays
... monitors your progress and repays the money to you...
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reembolsa
repel
... they're far apart but repel each other when they're...
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repelir
replenish
So we need to replenish power if we’re going to go for the long-term.
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reabastecimento
replenishing
it’s a way of replenishing your strength, and especially when you look
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Recompor
replenishment
Well, it’s about time for another round of debookifying (followed, of course, by a small, ritual replenishment at my favorite bookstore), and this time, I’ll include the latest couple of books I’ve written, since I got more free copies from the publi
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reabastecimento, renovação
reprisals
And it’s very possible that ordinary people could face sort of reprisals from this as well.
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represálias
repurpose
Essentially, Lo wants to repurpose securitization for cancer cures,...
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Reutilizar
repurposed
In the early days, a blog was nothing more than a personal journal repurposed for the web.
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reaproveitado
reruns
evolve by sitting, watching reruns.
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reprises
rescind
And he was able to rescind 15 actions that President Obama had taken in the regulatory front.
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rescindir, anular
resettle
body and so we have to kind of resettle it in in saying well, is being
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Reassentar
resigned
My German is natural and fluent, but I am resigned to the fact that I am not perfect in German grammar. I never had to pass a test in German, but I have done business in that language.
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estar conformado com algo/em fazer algo
resonance
... the Roman Empire. The resonance of M. Pasqua's statement...
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ressonância, repercussão
resonate
It didn't resonate with them, and that's...
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agree
resort
We will defeat those who resort to terror.
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utilizar-se
resorted
... prosecutorial team, who have resorted to taping and leaking...
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recorrer
resorting
... even though the workers resorting to the strike are...
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recorrer; utilizar
resort to
... of diplomatic immunity, the resort to and conduct of war...
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recorrer a
resounding
What I have found is that the answer is usually a resounding yes.
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retumbante
resourcefulness
... is never resources; it's resourcefulness.
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desenvoltura
respite
No respite from the deep freeze today.
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trégua; pausa; adiamento; descanso
restated
... Peru and Ecuador, and restated Colombia's commitment to helping...
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reapresentadas
resumed
... when I still hadn't resumed my project, my mother...
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retomar, reiniciar, renovar
resurface
... she added,“ these scourges resurface at regular intervals in...
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ressurgir
resurfacing
... familiar stories that kept resurfacing about individuals.
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RECAPEAMENTO
retest
iterate or pivot, and retest to see if the new approach improves the results.
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retestar
retire
... exactly midnight, only to retire at once to bed.
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retirar-se, deixar; despedir; pedir demissão; ir dormir
retorted
"I’ll not do it," the uncle retorted, "Now you run on home."
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replicou
retreating
retreating into ourselves.
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retreat: escapar, fugir, refugiar-se
retrieval
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recuperação
retrieve
Any DRO will naturally ensure that its contracts include penalties for violent crimes – so if you steal a car, your DRO has the right to use force against you to get the car back – and probably retrieve financial penalties to boot.
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v. devolver; retomar, resgatar, restaurar; encontrar; salvar
retroactively
15:50) content and enjoyed it, I would have no hesitation in giving him some points retroactively like a thank you; like sending someone flowers or a box of chocolates because I thought he did a great job and I had, you know, hours and hours and hour
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retroativamente
retrofit
... funds to help owners retrofit older engines or buy...
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reformar
retrofitted
The beauty of elevated monorail-based systems is the relative ease with which they can be retrofitted into an existing urban environment.
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adaptados
retrofitting
For one thing, an ideal implementation of Crawford’s design would require a new city to be built from scratch; retrofitting an existing city with the necessary infrastructure to avoid the need for cars is a shockingly difficult proposition—not only b
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aperfeiçoamos
rev
... just every time they rev their engines, and a...
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embalar o motor
revolve
There are a number of answers to this question, but generally they tend to revolve around three central points:
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giram
revolves
... thought that the sun revolves around the earth and...
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gira em torno de
rewind
... how, we need to rewind to the year 2000, when...
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rebobinar
rewinding
... brain went on automatic, rewinding quickly the life I'd...
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rebobinando

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