Letter H - * - Hierarchy

terça-feira, 28 de abril de 2009












1- habit = hábito
>>> something you do regularly and often,which is often hard to stop.
**bitting your nails is a bad habit.
**he's making a habit of arriving late for class.
**we've got into/out of the habit of watching tv.
**my brother is a habitual smoker.
>>> to succeed in giving up a habit.
**I must try to break myself of that habit.

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2 -heel = calcanhar
>>> the back part of the foot,below the ankle.
**She had a big blister on her heel,where the back of the shoe had rubbed her foot.
>>> the part of footwear that covers or supports the back of the foot.
**The heel of my sock has got a hole in it.
**She wears high-heeled shoes to look smart.
**Look at how worn down the back of your shoes are - they need to be heeled.
>>> the back or end part of something.
**Always stand the iron on its heel when not in use.
>>> a person's weak or vulnerable point(in the Greek myth,Achilles died from a wound in his heel,the only vulnerable part of his body)
**Vanity is his Achilles heel.

>>> following closely after.
**At the heels of the runaway boy came his father.
**Famine often follows hard on the heels of war.
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3 - Hurtle = colidir,chocar-se
>>>This is a verb which means that something is moving very fast.


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4- Hemorrhage = Hemorragia
>>> Rapid, uncontrollable bleeding.
>>> To lose money, friends etc at an alarming rate or in a seemingly unstoppable cycle.
***His company had hemorrhaged a billion dollars, his furious temper meant he was hemorraging friends at the rate of five a day, so he shot himself and hemorrhaged all over the carpet.(A huge tragedy,isn't it?)

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5- Hyperbole = declaração exagerada
>>>to exaggerate for dramatic effect, usually in speech.
*** I've told you a thousand times to turn that TV off!
*** Elvis and Michael are still alive.

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6- Hierarchy = Hierarquia



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