A Fast

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A Fast Memorization of New Words And
Expressions
Producer Zhang Shaolin
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• to volunteer for a project
• to profess to have done sth
• to feign sleep
• to feign agreement with
• to take ones preoccupation with
• casual use of prevarication
• the Institute of Ethics
• serial liars
• a political pundit

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• public relations consultants
• to tell fibs
• to discover the deceit
• social lubricant
• to weave a tangled web
• to wear down
• to coarsen ones skin
• ones perception of
• tone perception
• to warp in the humidity
• a warp in time 
• the initial deceit

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• the endless proliferation
• to encourage a cynicism
• to falter and collapse
• a close associate
• associate professors
• to undermine one's health
• a rule of thumb
• to confound ones enemies
• to astound ones friends

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• brutal news
• to uphold a promise
• to be guided by a precept
• benevolent deception
• to transcend the virtue of
• to befall patients
• lack of credibility
• a spiral of black smoke
• an eloquent sermon
• to refrain from
• to erode trust

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• to make a claim
• to pretend to have
• moral principles
• an expert
• a small lie
• disorderedness
• to become weaker
• to twist out of shape
• a rapid increase
• belief that people are selfish

• profess
• feign
• ethics
• pundit
• fib
• tangle
• wear down
• warp
• proliferation
• cynicism

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• the ability to see
• lose power in an uneven way
• colleague
• to damage gradually
• to confuse
• to make surprised

• perception
• falter
• associate
• undermine
• confound
• astound

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• to keep diaries
• six residents
• to be supportive of a spouse
• one interactions with others
• to spare the others feelings
• for self-promoting reasons
• to admit having lied
• despite these admissions
• 91 percent of respondents
• to specialize in sth
• to shape or spin the truth
• to become ubiquitous

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• a corporate executive
• to dislike sth intensely
• from ones point of view
• to blurt out the truth
• to compliment people on sth
• well-intended lies
• seemingly harmless falsehoods
• unforeseen consequences
• to put sb on a slippery slope
• psychological barriers

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• to think highly of sb
• the initial deceit
• forgivable lies
• long-term trust
• a rule of thumb

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