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This flashcard set helps learners of English at the secondary school level expand their vocabulary. The vocabulary flashcards focus on phrases, adjectives, and nouns, such as "untapped potential," "restrictive," and "melting pot." The platform supports backward learning, allowing users to reverse the learning direction from the target language to the source language. Ideal for students and travelers, these flashcards aid in improving fluency and communication skills, catering to intermediate learners seeking to enhance their English proficiency.
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making decisions for which you accept responsibility, phrase

accountable decision-making

to be true, phrase

be the case
skilled and educated people who emigrate in an other country for work, noun

brain drain

used to be polite when you say not to like so., phrase

Don't get me wrong

to feel a personal emotion with a person or place, phrase

feel special ties

a feeling that you are not safe or pretected, phrase

feeling of insecurity
to feel that you belong to a particular group, phrasal verb

fit in

to communicate ideas to other people, phrase

get ideas across

to have a different opinion or a different way of thinking about sth., phrase

have a different take on sth.

the difficulty of communication between people who don't speak the same language, phrase

language barrier
to think that so. is less important or intelligent than you, phrasal verb

look down on so.

to succeed and become rich, phrase

make good

to change from one situation to another, phrase

make the transition

to combine different things successfully so that they work well together, phrasal verb

marry up
a place where people of many different races and from different countries live together, noun

melting pot

a marriage between people of different races, phrase

mixed marriage

not as important as other things, adj.

peripheral

an idea or opinion formed without enough information to be accurate, noun

preconception
limiting the amount or freedom of sth., adj.

restictive

to start living in a place where you intend to stay for a long time, phrasal verb

settle down

a person or thing that has a very strong influence and makes sth. Happen, phrase

the driving force

the most important part of the character of sth., phrase

the essence of sth.

sth. That could be useful but that is not being used, phrase

untapped potential

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