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Remember remember something, not effort involved
Recall try to bring sth to mind, more effort involved.
Recollect remember sth by making an effort (formal)
Remind sb makes you remember sth
Look Back On remember think about the past
Think Back think about an event in the past
Bring Back make sb think about the past
Stir Up cause or provoke trouble or bad feeling
Blot Out try to forget sth
Evoke to remember one thing reminds you of something else
Reminisce (about sth) to remember and talk about a memory
Suppress to block unpleasant memories
Flood Back suddenly come into someone's mind
Drop out abandon school
Pass it on inherit something to the next generation
Come across meet by chance
Stand out distinguish
Blend in to fit, be similar as the rest
Put up with it to tolerate
Walk out on to leave
Stand up to defend yourself
Went for choose an option
Look into to research
Turn out happen as a result
Play up misbehave
Sign up to enrole
Account for give the reason for sth
Go down decrease
Fit in be part of sth
Turn down reject
Make up to invent
Come down to be the reason of sth to depend
get away with escape without punishment
Put someone off to dislike someone
Bring about to produce
Hand over to return
Take after to resemble
Look up to have respect for sb
Catch on become popular
See off to say somebody in an airport or something like that
Fall out to fight
To ring a bell sth reminds you of something, but you cannot remember exactly what it is
To jog your memory makes you to remember sth
To take you back to remind/cause someone remember an earlier time or experience.
A trip down memory lane to remember happy times in the past
To come flooding back suddenly remember a feeling/emotion very clearly
To know by heart to know something perfectly
To have a memory like a sieve you forget things very easily
To rack your brain think very hard to remember something
Mind you pay attention to something
To have a dim, distant, abiding lasting, clear, enduring, strong, pleasant, bitter, painful, traumatic memory ---
To follow a different path do sth different you're expected to
A kick in the teeth very shocking and disappointing
To set on the right track progress in a way that is likely to result in success.
A cloud hanging over my future: something you know it will affect your future
To go off the rails you lose control of your life
Bunch/tons/loads/heaps ways of saying lots
Stream small river
get my tounge around cannot say sth perfectly
been mugged attack/rob sb in a public place
idle lazy
a blurry/distant/hazy/vague memory -
A row to have an argument
A rip-off sth more expensive than it should be
Out-break beginnig of sth suddenly
Out-come end of sth
Setback: a problem or obstacle
Upbringing: the treatment received during childhood
Runaway: a person who has escaped (specially from their home)
Turn-around: a change of luck/big improvement
Breakdown a sudden collapse or crisis in your health
Breakthrough a sudden and significant improvement
Stand-off a confrontation between two opponents
Call round: to go/appear in a place
To do something "for good" forever
To do something "for the better" para mejor
Economic related to Economy
Economical sth that is cheap (e.g. an economical car)
Mean: rata
Stingy: synonym of mean
Tight fisted: synonym of mean
thrifty: its like you don't want to pay because you are careful about your money
Pitch in to join in and help with an activity, by giving money, advice
Outgoing sb who likes to meet new people
Easygoing sb who doesn't worry at all
Close/narrow minded sb who doesn't accept new ideas
Created by: wxnda
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