to make an effort to improve your performance
прикладывать усилия, чтобы улучшить свою производительность (prikladyvat' usiliya, chtoby uluchshit' svoyu proizvoditel'nost')
"You need to pull your socks up if you want that promotion."
"Тебе нужно потрудиться, если ты хочешь эту должность." (Tebe nuzhno **potruditsya**, esli ty khochesh' etu dolzhnost'.)
a secret agreement made by powerful people
to easily understand someone's thoughts and intentions
To suddenly think of something.
to continue progressing without slowing down
a method of hacking that tries all possible combinations of...
to do something to show you are sorry