ENGLISH VOCABULARY 2º TRIMESTER!!!!!!!!



To ask for the moon means to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
 
When you hold the fort it means that you take care of a place when the person normally in charge is away.
 
Under the table is a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggestion corruption or illegality.
 
To horse around means to behave in a silly way, making noise and caussing disruption.
 
When you say someone has chickened out of something you mean they have failed to do something or they haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
 
When you say someone is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life. 

A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night.  

When you say someone is in safe hands you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled. 

A safe pair of hands is a similar expression it refers to someone who can be to do a good job avoiding mistakes.

If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying. 

If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it and you can easily see what you think is right and wrong. 

Money doesn't grow on trees means you must not spent to much money as there is a limited amount of it. 

Money is not object means that you have a lot of money available to spend. 

Let the chips fall where they may means to allow things to happen no matter what the consequences are. 

When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it is very cheap. 

If you are chasing your tail you are very busy doing a lot of things but not achieving very much.

  THE LOST WORLD GLOSSARY!!!!!!!
 

• To argue: To present supporting or opposing reasons or cases in a dispute.
• Branch: A secondary woody stem arising from the trunk or bough of a tree or the main stem of a shrub.
• Bush: A dense woody plant, smaller than a tree, with many branches arising from the lower part of the stem.
• Clerk: A worker, in an office, who keeps records, files, etc...
• To embrace: To take or clasp (another person) in the arms.
• Hatchet: A short axe used for chopping wood, etc...
• Journey: A travelling from one place to another; trip or voyage.
• Liar: A person who has lied or lies repeatedly.
• Nod: To lower and raise (the head) briefly, as to indicate agreement, invitation, etc...
• Path: A road or way, esp a narrow trodden track.
• Plateau: A wide mainly level area of elevated land.
• Shake (the head): To move or cause to move up and down or back and forth with short quick movements; vibrate.

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 GEOGRAPHY GLOSSARY!!!!!!!!
   
    UNIT FIVE

• National sovereignty: It guarantees that all Spanish citizens elect the members of the following bodies of government every four years.
• Constitutional Monarchy: A system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government.
• The Crown: The part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king.
• Arbitrator: A person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences.
• Decentralised Government: A system of government in which decision making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.
• Motion of no confidence: If the Cortes Generales do not agree with the government's politics, they can pass it to force the president to resign.
• Ministers: Government officials that make up the Spanish cabinet.
• Municipality: The most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory.
• Town Council: The organisation taht governs each municipality in Spain.
• Mayor: The chairman and civic head of a municipal corporation in many countries.
• Councilors: Government officials that make up the town council.
• Province: A territory governed as a unit of a country or empire.
• Self-government: The government of a country, nation, etc, by its own people.
• Statute of Autonomy: A law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.
• Subsidiarity: The principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level.
• Autonomous Community: One of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government.
• Exclusive authority: The local government has it over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, helath care and education.
• Share authority: The local government and the state has it over laws related to transport or the labour market.
• Post-industrial society: A society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.
• Well-being: The level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, health care, live expectancy and consumption.
• Life expectancy: The numbers of years a person or population is expected to live.
• Extended family: Grandparents, parents and children.
• Nuclear family: Parents and children.
• Single parent family: A father or a mother and children.
• Same sex marriages: Two mans or two womans.