feast / feat / fist / fix / fizz

feast  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	banquete, festa
feat  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	façanha, feito
fist  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	punho
fix  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	consertar, fixar, colocar, ajustar, apuro, trapaça
fizz  Clique Pronúncia (Merriam-Webster)	efervescer

Pequeno Dicionário de Dicas e Dificuldade

Word of the day: SOP

Sop:  bocado ou pedaço de pão embebido em alguma coisa, calmante, suborno (qualquer coisa dada para apaziguar) embeber, molhar, empapar, ensopar,  absorver (água), enxugar,  estar encharcado, encharcar, molhar

Synonyms:  boodle, cumshaw, fix, bribe

“As a sop to the teachers' union for supporting his reelection campaign, the mayor promised to push for the abolition of the residency requirement.”  (www.merriam-webster.com)

Word of the day: Predicament

Predicament:  apuro, situação desagradável ou difícil
"in a pretty predicament": num apuro tremendo

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

“If you had told the truth in the first place, we wouldn't be in this predicament.” (www.merriam-webster.com)

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word of the day: Predicament

Predicament: situação desagradável ou difícil, apuro

Synonyms: bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

“The governor has gotten himself into quite a predicament.”

“I don't know how to get out of the predicament I'm in.” (www.merriam-webster.com)

“The captain of archers fidgeted and coughed and rolled his eyes at his men, as if such cupidity and dishonor were an inevitable but minor aspect of the human predicament …” (Michael Chabon, New York Times Magazine, 6 May 2007}

Obs.:” in a pretty predicament”: “ num apuro tremendo.”