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seniority-based pay scales

compensation systems where employee wages increase automatically based on years of service

To steep tea

means to soak tea leaves, a tea bag, or herbal blends in hot or cold water so that the flavor, color, aroma, and beneficial compounds

Dawn on someone

If a fact dawns on you, you realize or understand it after a period of not realizing or understanding it

Stutter

to speak or say something, especially the first part of a word, with difficulty, for example pausing before it or repeating it several times

Land a job

Secure employment

Through word of mouth

Через сарафанне радіо

Bridge the gap

Make up for something (lost time)

Yield significant benefits

Actions that produce substantial positive outcomes, value, or advantages

To mitigate the impact of

Make the impact of something harmful less severe

To pave the way

Create a favorable environment for growth

In the long run

For the long period of time

Fall short of expectations

Don't live up to expectations

A paradigm change

Dramatic change in the basic concepts

A double-edged sword

Something that has both strong advantages and severe disadvantages

Clutch your pearls

to act overly shocked, scandalized, or morally outraged by something, often exaggerating your reaction to show disapproval хапатись за голову

At your own discretion

Like you want, на твій розсуд

Self-assured

Confident, having firm confidence in your own abilities

Frank

Honest and direct, even though the truth might be shocking

Enquiring

Always wanting to learn new things

Assertive

Behaving or speaking in a strong, confident way, напористий

Obstinate

Not willing to change your ideas or behaviour although you are wrong

Pigheaded

Obstinate, stubborn

Stingy

Unwilling to spend money

thrifty

using money, food, and other resources carefully and wisely to avoid waste and save for the future

Consolidate the material

to review, organize, and reinforce what you have learned so that it becomes stronger, clearer, and permanently established in your memory

Get the hang of it

to learn how to do something, especially if it is not obvious or simple, в’їхати в тему

Irrefutable

Certain

Drag oneself out of bed

to get up with great difficulty, usually because of extreme tiredness

Frizzy hair

Hair that appears dru, rough, puffy, featuring small curles

Lymph nodes

Лімфовузли

To pamper oneself

Used when someone enjoys a relaxing or luxurious experience (like a spa day or massage) побалувати себе

to be spoiled / coddled бути балуваним

My eye is twitching

a common, harmless, and involuntary spasm of the eyelid muscle

exfoliate

to remove dead skin cells from the outer layer of your skin

Unattended

not being watched or looked after

piece-rates

a compensation system where workers are paid a fixed amount of money for each unit of work produced, item made, or task completed,

abolish

to end an activity or custom officially

prodigious

extremely great in ability, amount, or strength:

collision

an accident that happens when two vehicles hit each other with force:

congested

too blocked or crowded and causing difficulties

persist

1. If an unpleasant feeling or situation persists, it continues to exist

2. to try to do or continue doing something in a determined but often unreasonable way

striking

very unusual or easily noticed, and therefore attracting a lot of attention

unsettling

causing worry or anxiety

coincide

to happen at or near the same time
to be the same or similar

fluctuation

коливання

elaborate

containing a lot of careful detail or many detailed parts, detailed

to alter

to change

To scrape through

to succeed in something but with a lot of difficulty

To muddle through

to manage to do something although you are not organized and do not know how to do it

by the skin of one's teeth

barely making it with almost no room to spare

obstruct

o block a road, passage, entrance, etc. so that nothing can go along it, or to prevent something from happening correctly by putting difficulties in its way