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Unit 4: celebrity
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Language - English
11th Grade
06/12/2013
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to succeed
 Definition
to achieve a desired aim
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nothing succeeds like success
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success often leads to further successes
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to beat
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to be better than
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perspiration
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sweat
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to claim
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to ask for, to take as the rightful owner
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to indulge in
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to take pleasure in
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undignified
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indecent
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consistent
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steady, constant, unchanging
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to thrust something upon somebody
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to force, or impose the acceptance of something upon somebody
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rare
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uncommon
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envy
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jealousy
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spite
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ill will or hatred
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reverence
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honour or respect
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to praise somebody
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to glorify somebody (God)
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mercy
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compassion
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to assume something
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to take as granted or true, to suppose
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contempt
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the act of despising
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mighty
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great, powerful
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gruesome
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inspiring horror or repulsion
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a misdeed
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a wrong deed, an offence
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to deem
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to consider
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contemptible
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scornful, contemptuous
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to delve into
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to make a careful or detailed search for information
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to cease
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to stop
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ghastly
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unpleasant
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pursuit > to pursue
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to follow
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pathological
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abnormal
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omnipresence > omnipresent
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present in all places at all times
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insatiable
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unable to be satisfied
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to require
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to need
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a gathering
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assembly, meeting
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a sound bite
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a brief recorded statement broadcast on a television news programme
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to loathe
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to hate
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to curb
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to reduce
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viciousness > vicious
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malicious, spiteful, aggressive
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voyeurism > a voyeur
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a prying observer who is usually seeking the sordid or the scandalous
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to skid
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to slide without rotation
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a write-off
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an elimination of an item from the books of account
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