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| Question | Answer |
| Esoteric | likely to be understood or enjoyed by only few people with a special knowledge or interest |
| with a fine tooth comb | examine with great care and detail |
| Protege | Men'tor |
| Res integra | an open question, something which has not yet been determined or resolved. |
| Run with the hares, hunt with the hounds | Duplicity Dual nature |
| pa lin drome | Madam, I'm Adam |
| armory for your arsenal | We the teachers at SIS |
| insinuate | to suggest something unpleasant in an indirect way |
| anachronism | something that does not belong to the period of history in which it appears, for example in a book or a film कालदोषयुक्त प्रसंग |
| synergy | the added success, energy, or power gained by two people or organizations working together, which is better than the result achieved by them working separately |
| Those living near airports often miss their flights | analogy |
| serendipity | a blessing in disguise |
| vicarious | felt or experienced by watching or reading about somebody else doing something, rather than by doing it yourself |
| TO ______the circle | square |
| Die Empty | Todd Henry |
| sedition | behaviour to persuade people to oppose government |
| a complain or strong feeling that you are treated unfairly | grievance |
| The act of making sth last longer | prolongation |
| There is no way to know UNLESS you start pushing the envelops..extend your limits | To know is to be free |
| to trick or deceive someone | He was too clever to let them pull the wool over his eyes. |
| end a quarrel or conflict and become friendly | bury the hatchet |
| deal decisively with a difficult or dangerous situation | take the bull by the horns |
| to lead up/down the garden path | To deceive, to trick. |
| to take for a ride | deceived/ tricked |
| western part of the world | The Occident |
| germane | relevant/appropriate |
| present as a natural and permanent part of something | immanent |
| something that is given to try to satisfy | placebo effect |
| to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke | chide/upbraid/berate |
| damage or remove part of the surface of (the skin). | excoriate |
| A pardon extended by the government to a group or class of people, usually for a political offense | Amnesty |
| a complicated irregular network of passages or paths in which it is difficult to find one's way; a maze | Labyrinth |
| the use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one's purpose. | Chicanery..eg. "storylines packed with political chicanery" |
| talkative | loquacious |
| feeling of pleasure for the bad things happened to others | schad-en-freude |
| happening at the same time, one thing is a cause of other | concomitant (Teaching & Learning are concomitant ) |
| out of control with anger or excitement; wild | Go berserk |
| Metonymy | lend me your ears! |
| a man who is extremely interested in his appearance | a fop |
| dressed expensively | dandy |
| start the day in a bad mood, which continues all day long | get out of bed on the wrong side |
| an incorrect understanding of something | You've got (hold of) the wrong end of the stick. |
| Vestido para matar | dressed to kill |
| harm others to gain advantage for yourself | throw sb under the bus |
| carte blanche | complete freedom to do something |
| on eperson should be trated equally as other | What's sauce for the goose is the sauce for the gander. |
| seize the day | carp diem |
| express happiness | as happy as a clam at high tide |
| hit the sack/hay | go to bed to sleep |
| A calm sea... | never made a good sailor |
| get your teeth into sth | to deal with something or become involved in something with great energy and enthusiasm |
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