Lengua Especializada 2
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To do something without anyone else telling you or asking you to do it | To do sth off your own bat |
To interpret an event to make it seem favorable or beneficial to oneself or one´s cause | To put a spin on sth |
Out of control | Runaway (adj) |
To rely on someone or someone of something for success | To hitch one's wagon to sb or sth |
An area that looks extremely unpleasant, especially because everything there has been destroyed | Hellscape |
Unwilling, reluctant | Grudging |
To give someone too much care or protection | Mollycoddle |
A bad situation or habit that, after it has started, is likely to get very much worse | A slippery slope |
To attack or criticize someone in a less powerful position | To punch down on sb |
It means that the conclusion being described as “__________” is not warranted based on the currently known information | For sth to be a stretch |
A specific online community, and the posts associated with it, on the social media website Reddit. | Subreddit |
A contribution to public moral discourse that is significantly motivated by the desire that others think one is morally respectable. | Moral grandstanding |
A synonym for 'on the other hand'. Basically, it's a way to describe the other side of something: situation, experience, offer. | On the flip side |
A very big change in something | A sea change |
To be very upset and not know what to do, because you have tried everything possible to solve a problem | To be at your wit's end |
Certain to succeed | Sure-fire |
To change something slightly, especially in order to make it more correct, effective, or suitable | Tweak |
A small group of people standing close together | Knot of people |
An actor (often humorous) | Thespian |
Very hot, very exciting | Sizzling |
An extremely dense, compact star composed primarily of neutrons, esp. the collapsed core of a supernova. | Neutron star |
A person who does not like to spend money. | A cheapskate |
A weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted | Strawman |
The phenomenon of the interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields | Electromagnetism |
A distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust | Gaseous nebulae |
A nonspecific, potentially preventable, and often reversible disorder of impaired cognition, which results from various causes in ICU patients. | Intensive care unit delirium |
Specialist hospital ward that provides treatment and monitoring for people who are very ill. | Intensive care unit |
Having a balanced and sensible outlook on life | A grounded person |
The practice of registering a trade mark as a domain name with the intention of later selling it to the rightful owner | Cybersquatting |
Property without physical existance, like patents, trade names, copyrights, etc | Intangible property rights |
Refers to the intellectual property of a business which does not want others to know about | Trade secret |
Exclusive right granted to authors of creative works to control the use of their original works | Copyright |
A note which unconditionally promises in writing to pay a sum of money to a party either on demand or at a time in the future | Promissory note |
If sth is freely available to all and not protected by intellectual property | To be within the public the public domain |
Intellectual property right which lacks physical existance | Intangible rights |