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English vocabulary C2

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chalk up

to score points, or to achieve success in a game

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top off

to finish something with a final activity or detail

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lap up

to enjoy something and be keen to get more of it

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drum up

to try to make people support you or buy something from you

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pin down

to understand or describe something exactly

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pass up

to not take advantage of an opportunity

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pull through

to succeed in a very difficult situation, or to help someone to do this

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bow out

to give up a job or position, especially when you have had it for a long time

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biosphere

the parts of the Earth’s surface and atmosphere where plant and animal life can exist

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troposphere

the lowest part of the Earth’s atmosphere, between the surface and a height of 10 km

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recount

say what happened

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splendour

the beautiful and impressive features of something

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hypoxia

a condition in which not enough oxygen reaches the body’s tissues

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impaired

if your body’s ability to do something is impaired, you are not fully able to do it

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frail

weak, helpless physically

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perish

to die, usually because of an illness or something that happens suddenly

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