Portuguese to English Dictionary (Dicionário Português-Inglês)

Furrow

A long, narrow trench made in the ground by a plow, especially for planting seeds or irrigation.

Gauche

Lacking ease or grace; socially awkward and unrefined.

Great millet

A tall cereal grass (Sorghum bicolor) widely cultivated for its grain and as livestock feed, also known as sorghum.

Guinea corn

A tall cereal grass (Sorghum bicolor) widely grown in warmer parts of the world for its grain and as fodder.

Hidden agenda

A secret or undisclosed motivation, plan, or purpose behind a stated action or policy.

Holy See

The episcopal jurisdiction of the Pope in Rome, constituting the central government of the Roman Catholic Church.

Imposter syndrome

A psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a fraud.

Leech

An aquatic or terrestrial annelid worm that has a sucker at each end and feeds on the blood of vertebrates.

Money-pit

A place or enterprise that consumes vastly more money than it is worth or than was anticipated.

Overpower

To defeat or gain control over someone or something by superior force, strength, or numbers.

Oversample

To sample at a rate significantly higher than the Nyquist rate in signal processing, or to survey a larger or disproportionate number of respondents from a specific demographic group in statistics.

Oversight

The action of overseeing something; supervision or management.