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Advanced Vocabulary 11

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    Vocabulary for C1
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  • to stay somewhere for a period of time - If you s______ a______ after the concert and you might meet the band.
    stick around
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  • causing little damage to something so it lasts a long time - We need to find more s______ sources of fuel.
    sustainable
  •  20
  • to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts - In a long relationship, you have to t____ the r______ with the smooth.
    take the rough with the smooth
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  • a large uncountable amount of something - He received a t_____ of abuse from the crowd.
    torrent
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  • a journey to a place that nobody knows about - Their expedition was a real v______ into the u______.
    voyage into the unknown
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  • inside the range of distance where you can hear something or someone - Make sure the children are playing w_____ e______.
    within earshot
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  • to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush - We had to s___________ the pot really hard to remove the black burn marks from the fire.
    scrub
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  • trying to make yourself seem less important - She wrote a wonderful book but she is so s______ - d______ that she feels like it was not good enough.
    self-depreciating
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  • to move quickly, and almost or just touch the surface of something - These boats go so fast that they literally just s______ the surface of the water.
    skim
  •  15