CPE Objective Proficiency

a personal stake or involvement in something, often financial

• to have no qualms

• to be gratuitous

• to have a vested interest in

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to fall suddenly and steeply

• to strive

• to plummet

• to churn out

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to hold and use a weapon or tool effectively

• to wield

• to relish

• to whisk off

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to enjoy greatly; to savour or appreciate

• to relish

• to fend smth off

• to strive

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a large number or variety of things or people

• a contraption

• a host of

• a vested interest

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to defend oneself against something threatening or harmful

• to churn out

• to strive

• to fend smth off

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to produce large quantities of something quickly and often with little care or attention to quality

• (to be left) high and dry

• to plummet

• to churn out

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to feel no hesitation or doubt about doing something

• to be hard pushed to

• to have no qualms

• to begrudge

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to find it difficult or almost impossible to do something

• to be gratuitous

• to relish

• to be hard pushed to

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to envy someone for their possessions or achievements; to resent giving or sharing

• to begrudge

• to whisk off

• to be hard pushed to

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