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casuistry: specious or deceptive reasoning, esp. in questions of morality.

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Scots are drinking far more than people in the rest of the UK. Figures from NHS Health Scotland show that adults bought 24 per cent more alcohol than in England, Wales and Northern Ireland — the equivalent of 100 extra pints of beer each a year.

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"I was shocked by his naivety and ignorance of international affairs."

transmogrify: to change somebody/something completely...

Welcome back to Business Skills 360 – the podcast that looks at the other side of Business English.

This is the fourth and final part in our 360 series on your first job interview. Today we’re going to tackle a few of those really tough questions that interviewers like to ask.

Getting ready. That’s the key. You need to spend time preparing for your interview and crafting good answers to the questions you’re going to face. I’ll go through five common ‘difficult questions’ today and you can prepare your answers.

Is there a good and a bad smile? Yvonne and Kate discuss their own smiles and agree that Yvonne probably has what is called 'the enthusiast'. But is this a good thing? 6 Minute English, 29 July 2010

1. Effusive; lavish. 2. Excessive to the point of being offensive.

This resource takes the approach of providing essential English skills for specific industries - in this case for the food service industry. It provides examples of phrases that will be necessary and links to grammar resources to help study the forms.

English for the Food Service Industry originally appeared on About.com English as 2nd Language on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 at 07:38:42.

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busticate: to break into pieces.

* an anagram * a mnemonic * a metaphor * an algorithm

"Stieg Larsson has sold more than a million e-books"

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"I soon realized I had to surmount the language barrier if I wanted to get a good job."

sunflower: a very tall plant with large yellow...

A passenger plane with more than a hundred and fifty people on board has crashed as it was coming in to land at Islamabad airport. The plane came down in torrential rain in the Margalla hills overlooking the capital. Words in the News, 28 July 2010