1. March 19 2007
12 ‘Stealing Minutes’
Upstart a person who has risen suddenly to a position of power and behaves
arrogantly, nouveau-riche, arriviste
Telecom Telecommunication
Phreaker A person who makes free long distance phone calls using illegal
methods.
Thriving Prospering, flourishing
Boutique Dress shop
Racket Laud noise, uproar, commotion / fraud
Stung Hurt, wounded
lesion Injury, wound, pathology
19 ‘Right Ideas, Wrong Time’
To sound To address
Ulcer Sore, a corrupting condition or influence. wrzód
To orchestrate To organize, arrange, plan
To spur To stimulate, incite
To fritter away To waste
hapless Unlucky, unfortunate
Tariff Tax, duty
Lopsided Crooked, uneven, unequal
posturing Attitude, stance
Clout Influence, power / hit, punch
29 ‘A Tale of Two Numbers’
Underscore underline, emphasize
Constituent Component, element / voter, elector
Per capita Per person
To trickle down Go downward /to be distributed to someone or something in little bits
at a time
To Enroll To recruit, register
To Incentive To encourage, induce
A time warp distortion
Sensible Reasonable, prudent, wise rozważny
Accountable Responsible, liable, answerable
To jettison Abandon, discard, relinquish, forsake
hurdle Barrier, obstacle
39 ‘While Paris Sleeps’
Premier First, foremost, premiere
Built from scratch From the beginning, especially without relying on resources or other
advantages
Expertise Expertness, skill, knowledge, mastery
Avant-garde radically new or original, innovative, unconventional, vanguard
Fluctuation Change, variation, instability
jittery nervous
38 ‘China Exports Trouble, Too’
Surplus Excess, spare
Awash Flooded, overflowing
Liquidity Liquid state / being in cash or easily convertible to cash; debt
paying ability, exchangeability, fungibility
Bubble House of cards
Asset benefit kapitał
Stock market Stock exchange, securities market Giełda, rynek akcji i
papierów wartościowych
Bond market Debt market, market for trading debt instruments
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2. Outright Absolute, complete
equities Ordinary shares, common shares, common stock
Wake-up call warning
To Cascade To fall, to flood
Aversion Hatred / averting, turning away
To compel To force, to obligate
Sorely Greatly, painfully
Framing formulation of the plans
Reverberation Echo, resonance, resounding
Shakeout elimination of competing businesses or products
Shortfall Shortage, deficit
complacent satisfied, pleased
52 ‘Unlocking Minds’
Pushcart Handcart, cart pushed by hand
Dowser A person who uses a divining rod to search for underground
water, diviner, rhabdomancer
Pendulum Apparatus, a weight suspended so it swings freely under the
influence of gravity / a movement from one attitude or belief
towards its opposite
wachadełko
Inexplicable unexplainable
Array Arrangement, order / poetic – clothing, apparel
Peg Pin, spike, nail
To nudge To push, touch, prompt szturchnąć
Crux Crucial point, core ,essence
assessment Analysis, evaluation
53 ‘Thunder Mountain’
Lush Luxurious, lavish / an alcoholic
Turquoise Aqua, greenish blue
Opulence Luxury, wealth
To Swank To show-off, to boast
Burgeoning To grow, flourish
To spew To eject, vomit, disgorge, discharge
Zoning dividing an area into zones
Texture Consistency, structure, surface
hunk Piece, chunk
54 ‘Sopranos At the Cineplex’
Venue Locale, setting
Bold Brave, daring
To beam To broadcast / to shine, radiate
Barber hairdresser
To munch Chew, crunch , masticate
Intermission Pause, interval
To whisk To rush, hurry
Aria an elaborate song for solo voice in opera
To fidget Move restlessly, fiddle
To slump To fall, decline / to bend
To Conduct To lead, control
Usher Doorkeeper, guide, pilot / to usher sth in – to introduce
Hatchet Axe / bury the hatchet to make peace or resolve a disagreement
To engineer Design, create
To Satellite broadcast or disseminate via satellite
To inaugurate To Begin, open
Plastered Covered, sealed (rozkleic np. Plakaty) / drunk, intoxicated
Glitzy showily attractive, Ostentatious showiness Ostentatious –
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3. wystawny, huczny, na
pokaz, /pretentious
Abridged Shortened, reduced
To spark To stimulate
To procure To obtain
58,59,60 ‘Our Books, Ourselves’
To roll out To flatten, to straighten / here – to release
Riled Annoyed, irritated
To grumble To complain, moan
Typeface Font, a specific size and style of type within a type family
Shorthand Writing rapidly, stenography
Surreptitiously Sneakily, secretly
Plank Board (deska) / policy
Cinder Ash, a piece of burnt coal, wood
To squirm To wiggle , twist Kręcić się, ruszać
To ramble To roam, wander / To babble, speak
outright Absolute, total
A Fresh slate Tabula rasa / slate - tablet
Ubiquitous omnipresent
Plentiful Abundant, copious
Paperback a book with paper covers - książka w miękkiej oprawie
Eclectic Diverse, varied eklektyczny
Droll Humorous, amusing – zabawny / drool – ślinić się
Navel-gazing Complacent self-absorbtion / Navel – bellybutton / centre, middle
Solipsism philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist
Disparate Different, contrasing
Proselytizing Converting / To convert from one belief to another
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