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Puffery

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meaning “an exaggeration or statement that no reasonable person would take as factual.”

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Overlook

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Not giving attention/ chance

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Right under your nose

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something that someone fails to see or notice even though he or she should

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Chump

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A fool

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Consent

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Cram

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Pack to capacity

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Pulsate

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Contract and expand rhythmically

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Underneath

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Pencil in

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Put on schedule

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Irresistible

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Incontrovertible

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When something is incontrovertible, it is undeniably, absolutely, 100 percent, completely true. That rain is wet is an incontrovertible fact.

Impossible to deny or disapprove

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Sincere

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Tolerate

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Lodged in my cleavage

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Moxie

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Determination

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Debatable

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Innate

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In born / natural

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Acquainted

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Means you know each other

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Girdle

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Makes the lower body look firmer and smaller

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Habitually

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Consistently

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Head over heels

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Turn over completely

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Waltz

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Coupe dance - a kind of

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Trifling

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Not worthy considering

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Prima Donna

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Someone who acts like the start of a show.
When you dominate the conversation and interrupts others you are a prima donna

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Pluck

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Cling to a shred of hope losing dignity day by day

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Dignity

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Worthy of self respect

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Juvenile

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Children / young people.

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Spooked

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Frighten

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Sacrilegious

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Sacrilegious means extremely disrespectful towards something considered sacred. An action that causes deep offense to a believer — like burning a religious text, for example — is sacrilegious.

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Sinister

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Evil

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Skirt

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Ignore or,
Go around / past the edge

You skirt on the edge but you really never go over do you.

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Regressed

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Return to a former and less developed state

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Intricate

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Complicated and detailed

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Charade

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Something done for show.

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Lingering

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Compelled

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Rug burn

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Insidious

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Slowly and secretly causing harm.

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Slugger

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Boxer/ person who like to throw hard punches

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Ragged

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Sth that has started to fall apart

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Macking- informal

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Flirting with /

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Groupie

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Enthusiastic young fan

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Get swept up in the spirit

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Has its perks

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Has its benefit

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Burn some bridges

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You do something that forces you to continue with a particular course of action and make it impossible to return to the previous situation or relationship.

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A speedo

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This is a brand of swimwear.

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Knocked up

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Make pregnant/ slang

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Phenomenal

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Extraordinary, exceptional.

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Phenomenon

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Event / situation

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Craftmanship

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Seamstress

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Professional for sewing clothing

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Out of proportion

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Tasteful

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Fastidious

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If you want to describe a person who insists on perfection or pays much attention to food, clothing and cleanliness, the right word is fastidious.

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Tasteful

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Tasteful things are elegant, appropriate, or aesthetically pleasing.

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Classist

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treating someone unfairly or having negative opinions about them based on their social class

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Egregious

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Outstanding bad, horrific

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Damsel

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A young unmarried girl

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I’m throwing caution to the wind

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: to stop being careful and do something that is dangerous or that might result in failure.

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Wee hours

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Early morning immediately after midnight

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Wee hours

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Early morning immediately after midnight

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Demeaning - disrespectful

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Grope

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Feel about or search blindly

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Masochistic

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Sadistic

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abstinent

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Prowl

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Move around relentlessly and stealthily in search of

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Fall off the wagon

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Fall back into doing something you’ve abstained from for a while

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Splurge

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Spend extravagantly/ spend freely

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Vicious

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Deliberately cruel / violent

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Right off the bat

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Repartee

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Tart up

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Dress up / fancy up.

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Straight from the hip

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To speaking in a very direct and honest way.

Blunt

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Revved up

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Very excited

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Stood next to up the last three session

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Unfounded

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Having no foundation or basis in fact.

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Weasel out

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Avoid doing something

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Scuffed up

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Shacking up

Live together - sexual partner before marriage

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Aura

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Atmosphere

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severe mental or physical pain or suffering.

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Anguish

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Rub off your good quality

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Grouchy

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irritable and bad-tempered; grumpy; complaining.

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Quenched

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Satisfy by drinking

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Belittling

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Sassy improperly forward /bold

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Secluded

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Hidden from the general view / use

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Mule

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Donkey / horse has a baby.

Informal. Carrier of illegal drugs.

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Hitch up

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Connect so that it can be pulled - vehicle.

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Fillet

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fillet is a specially cut piece of meat or fish

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Im in a pickle

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Mess or difficult situation.

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Kick it up a notch

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Try or work harder.

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Flaunt

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display (something) ostentatiously, especially in order to provoke envy or admiration or to show defiance.

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Blasphemy

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Showing that you don’t respect god / religion.

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Commotion

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Kickback

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A kickback is a sum of money that is paid to someone illegally

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Fuss

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Showing unnecessary or excessive concern about something

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Nitpicking

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Pointing minor faults

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Scour

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Clean

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You know what happens to the dream deferred

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Break down

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Collapse, stop operating or functioning.
Lose control of one’s emotions

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To begrudge someone for something is to wish them ill for it or to envy them

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Begrudge

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Take precedence over

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Regarded as of higher importance

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Veer

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Change direction suddenly

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Phantom breaking

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Beauty pageant

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Tumble

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Fall with a rolling or bouncing movement.

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Gloat

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Express great satisfaction at the misfortune of others.

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Quandary

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tough situation that will be really hard to resolve.

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Segue

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Uninterrupted transition from one piece of music or film scene to another.

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Wigger

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White people trying to act black

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Pleasantly smooth or soft / free from harshness.

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Mellow

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Arduous

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Hard to accomplish

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Trekking

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Go on a long arduous journey

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Slack

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Someone who avoids work.

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Derogatory

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Showing critical or disrespectful attitude.

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Ding sound

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Oven for example

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Impetuous

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Hastily, done very quickly without thought or care.

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Put your foot in it

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Say something that causes someone to be embarrassed, upset or hurt.

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Prelude

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A event that act as an introduction to a more important event.

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Obtuse

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Annoyingly insensitive/ slow to understand.

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Preaching to the choir

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Presenting an argument or opinion to the people who already agree with it.

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In the hole

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In debt

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I’m over my head

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Get involved in sth that has more difficulties than you can manage.

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Revved up

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Excited

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Rain on someone parade

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Spoil someone pleasure

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Rebuke

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Express a sharp disapproval or criticism

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Take the liberty

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Do something without asking permission

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Initiative

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Ability to assess and initiate things independently

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Ingrate

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Ungrateful person

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Startled

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Feeling or causing sudden shock

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Blew the fuse

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Get very angry or upset.

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Deranged

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Crazy/ insane

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Transgressions

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Acts that goes against the law.

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Hazing

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Slick

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Oil slick.
Smooth and slippery

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Rolodex

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Rotary card index used for holding addresses, names phone numbers

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Clumsy

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Awkward in the moment

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Scattle

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Move quickly in an anxious way

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Tardiness

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Seamstress

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Keep your eyes on the price Kon

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Congenial

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2024 — pleasant and friendly; producing a feeling of comfort or satisfaction: We spent a relaxed evening with congenial friends.

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Tomfoolery

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Silly & ridiculous behavior

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Amenities

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Has gotten possessive of his amenities, since someone has been abusing his hot tab privileges.

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Groaning

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Fiesta

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Celebration or a party

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Tart up

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Procure

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Obtain, acquire

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Lousy

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Presumptuous

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Excessively forward

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Trivial

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Hot tub

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Haggler

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Someone should engages in dispute or argue especially in bargaining. Opposite. Impulse buyer

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Freak

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Very unusual

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Botox

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Scotch tape

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Nary

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Not any, not one.

160
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Bravado

A

Making a bold showy statement

161
Q

Lothario

A

A successful womanizer

162
Q

Tangerine

A

Tone of orange.

163
Q

Suspicious

A

causing one to have the idea or impression that something or someone is of questionable, dishonest, or dangerous character or condition.

164
Q

Drum up

A

To obtain support or business by means of vigorous persuasion.

165
Q

Wear off

A
166
Q

Mull over

A

Ponder, chew over

167
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Hog is a pig that’s kept in the farm

A

You can use the word as a verb, like when you act a greedy hog. Try not to hog the pizza, stick to your allotted portion./ assigned portion.

168
Q

The opposite of love isn’t hate it’s indifference

A

Not concerned or interested

169
Q

Lax not sufficiently strict, severe or careful.

A
170
Q

Apprised

A

Informed or tell.

171
Q

Have not kept apprised to the latest technological advances

A
172
Q

Delinquent - past due

A

Deliquescence - absorb moisture from atm. Have a tendency to become liquid.

173
Q

Run up a tab

A

Accumulate charges

174
Q

Embroidered

A

Sewn on cloth with thread.

175
Q

Lickety-split

A

With great speed

176
Q

Hype

A

Publicize or promote often with exaggeration

177
Q

Senile

A

Showing attributes of old age, having poor mentor ability brought by old age.

178
Q

Affable

A

Friendly, congenial

179
Q

Complimenrary

A

Given or supplied for free of charge.
Expressing a compliment, appraisal, approval.

180
Q

Complimenrary

A

Given or supplied for free of charge.
Expressing a compliment, appraisal, approval.

181
Q

Cut yourself a switch

A

Go outside and literally cut a branch of tree

182
Q

Encyclopedic

A

Comprehensive

183
Q

Ragamuffin

A

Person typically a child in ragged dirty clothes

184
Q

Mange

A

Skin disease

185
Q

Pheromone

A

Substances secreted by organism to affect the receiving one’s behavior

186
Q

Awning

A

Roof like covering

187
Q

Mesmerized

A

Hold attention

188
Q

If it’s any consolation

A
189
Q

Prosecute me for having a life, so what is this big surprise,

A
190
Q

Migraine

A
191
Q

Loquacious

A

A person who talks a lot, often about stuff they only think is interesting.

Full of trivial conversation. Gabby, tally, talkative.

192
Q

Discourse

A

Formal and intense discussions.

193
Q

Dogmatic

A

To follow a set of rules no matter what.
Can be religious, constitutional etc

194
Q

Pompous

A

Arrogant

195
Q

Pontificate

A

To pontificate is to talk in a dogmatic and pompous manner. To pontificate properly, you need to be a know-it-all with very strong opinions and the urge to share them.

196
Q

Sizzling like bacon

A
197
Q

Beautiful, stunning, exquisite

A
198
Q

Frigid

A

Extremely cold.

Can also mean.
Sexually unresponsive.

199
Q

Scrumptious

A

If you describe something as scrumptious, you’d probably like to eat every last crumb. Can I have another slice of that scrumptious pie? Please?

200
Q

Flaws

A
201
Q

Startling

A

Surprising, astonishing or remarkable.

202
Q

Pore

A

Can mean.

But when used as a verb, to pore means to concentrate your attention on or devote hours of focus to something:

203
Q

Captivating

A

Attract and hold interest and attention of

204
Q

Profound

A

Very great and intense

205
Q

Mope around

A

wander around there not doing anything, looking and feeling unhappy.

206
Q

Impound

A

Legally take it away from its owner.

207
Q

Arduous

A

Describe an activity that takes a lot of effort.

208
Q

Tenacious

A

Use tenacious to mean “not easily letting go or giving up,” like a clingy child who has a tenacious grip on his mother’s hand.

209
Q

Cherishes

A

Protect and care for.

210
Q

Clinch

A

Settle or confirm

What clinched it.

211
Q

Grievous

A

Very Severe or serious.

212
Q

Ultimatum

A
213
Q

Get on someone’s nerves

A
214
Q

Notwithstanding

A

In spite of

215
Q

Plastered

A

Very drunk

216
Q

Camaraderie

A

mutual trust and friendship among people who spend a lot of time together.

217
Q

Indiscretion

A

indiscretion you are doing something wrong that shows a lack of judgment.

218
Q

Drive a wedge

A
219
Q

Amicable

A

Friendly “”

220
Q

Pull the wool over someone’s eyes

A

To pull the wool over someone’s eyes is to fool them, especially by pretending to be friendly while actually cheating or stealing from them.

221
Q

Janky

A
222
Q

Fuss over

A

Treat with excessive attention or affection

223
Q

Candle lit picnic

A

And just talk.

224
Q

Confetti

A

Small colored papers thrown during a celebration such as a wedding

225
Q

Grab straws

A

To guess randomly or pursue any apparent option, due to a lack of clear choices or information.

226
Q

Noble

A
227
Q

Voracious

A

having a very eager approach to an activity.

Voracious reader.

228
Q

Gerbils

A

Muscle like animal often kept as a bet

229
Q

Litigious

A

Tend to do people often excessively

230
Q

Commendable

A

worthy of high praise

231
Q

Grassroots

A
232
Q

Obscenity

A

Indecency

233
Q

to pay attention to everything that is happening around you and to what people are saying

A

Keep your ear to the ground

234
Q

Innocuous

A

Not harmful / offensive

235
Q

Weather something

A

to bear up against and come safely through

236
Q

Panoramic view

A

as from an altitude or distance

237
Q

Mesmerizing

A

Hold attention

238
Q

Conscience

A

A built in sense of what’s wrong and what’s right.

239
Q

Take the edge off

A

to make something unpleasant have less of an effect on someone: Have an apple - it’ll take the edge off your hunger. His apology took the edge off her anger …

240
Q

Slandering

A

Make false statements. That damages someone’s reputation

241
Q

Scrimped and saved

A
242
Q

Save face

A

Retain respect avoid humiliation

243
Q

I’m not emotionally equipped to handle your denial, now go on.

A
244
Q

To relate an amusing anecdote with

A

Anecdote - short amusing and interesting story

245
Q

Prudent

A

If you show good and careful judgement when handling practical matters.

246
Q

Cogent

A

Powerfully persuasive

247
Q

Glamour

A
248
Q

Perverse

Perverse pleasure of sticking my it to me.

A

Deviate from what is considered proper, moral or good right.

249
Q

Acerbic

A

Sour or bitter in taste.

Harsh or corrosive in tone.

250
Q

Hostile

A
251
Q

Resent her success

A
252
Q

Exude

A

Make apparent by one’s mood or behavior

253
Q

Tizzy

A

Nervous and agitated

254
Q

Blabbing

A

Tell others about something secretive

255
Q

Confide in each other about everything

A
256
Q

Naturally your loyalties will lie with him.

A
257
Q

Groping

A
258
Q

There is new restaurant on 3rd have been dying to try

A
259
Q

Earnest

A

characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

260
Q

Waged

A

Carried on

261
Q

Dilly dally

A
262
Q

Define / defund

A
263
Q

You are not a walk in the park

A
264
Q

I’m going to have united nation all over my house

A
265
Q

Mascot

A
266
Q

Be a one board

A

Be completely honest/ straightforward.

267
Q

Gullible

A

Credulous

Easily persuaded to believe something

268
Q

Crunch

A

Crash the food loudly between the teeth.

Other meaning.

269
Q

Awning

A
270
Q

Be under someone spell

A

Be strongly attracted by someone and influenced by them.

271
Q

Follow your bliss

A

Trusting that things will work out, even if they are not completely perfect.

272
Q

Could be fate

A
273
Q

Coy - don’t be coy

A

Reluctant to give details esp. about something regarded as sensitive.

274
Q

Turd

Dig pop

A

A lump of excrement / feces/ waste matter discharged from the bowel.

275
Q

Transgressions

A

The act that goes against the laws.

276
Q

Mired in debt.

A
277
Q

Lethal

A
278
Q

Appraised

A

Assess the value or quality of

279
Q

Read me the riot act

A

To speak angrily to someone about something they have done and warn the person that they will be punished if they don’t again.

280
Q

Downturn

A

A decline in economic business other activities

281
Q

Slump

A

Downturn/

Fall or slouch down.

282
Q

Snoop

A
283
Q

Rugged

A

having a broken, rocky and uneven surface.

284
Q

Knock the boots

A

Having sexual intercourse.

285
Q

Succubus

A

Female demon

286
Q

Foot funk

A
287
Q

Cadavers

A

Corpse

288
Q

Bumming

A

Informal
Get by begging or by asking

289
Q

Run amuck

A
290
Q

Drab

A

Dull

291
Q

Pecking order

A

Hierarchy of status

292
Q

Wassail

A

drink plentiful amounts of alcohol and enjoy oneself with others in a noisy, lively way.

Convene for a little wassail afterwards.

293
Q

Fate trumps psychic

A
294
Q

Trifling

A

Having little meaning or seriousness.

I don’t know why I’m friends with her, you preaching to the choir.

295
Q

Callous

A

Insensitive or emotionally hardened person.

296
Q

Grand

A

Large and impressive

297
Q

Anyone living with that delusions that grand is in constant pain.

A
298
Q

Profound

A

Great and very intense.

You suffer from profound narcissistic personality disorder.

299
Q

Sanitary

A

Very clean.

Free from filth and pathogens. Pathogens are organisms / bacteria that could harm the health human beings.

300
Q

Puffing

A

The act of forcible exhalation.
Huffing.
Could also mean to blow cigarette smoke out in the air.

301
Q

Stick it out

A

Persevere or put up with something difficult or disagreeable.

302
Q

Quilt

A
303
Q

Besmirch

A

Damage the reputation of someone or others in the opinion of others.

304
Q

Blatant

A

Done openly and unashamedly.

Blatant lies.

Very obvious. Not subtle.

305
Q

Flaunt

A

Show off.

306
Q

Ta-ta

A

Goodbye.

307
Q

Contemplate

A

Think about something carefully.

308
Q

Frisking

A

Searching someone for weapons or illegal drugs..

309
Q

Acquainted

A

As long as long know someone or something fairly well, you are acquainted with it.

310
Q

Hobble

A

Walk in an awkward way.

311
Q

Savage

A

Cruel or brutal

312
Q

Ferocious

A

Cruel, violent, savage.

313
Q

Fierce

A

Having or showing ferocious aggressive.

314
Q

Frolic

A

Play and move about cheerfully, excitedly and energetically.

315
Q

Reenacting

A

Acting again and again.

316
Q

Arduous

A

An activity that takes alit of effort.

317
Q

Quest

A

A long and arduous search of something.

318
Q

Dues

A

Things that are due are owed

That only applies to the girlfriends who pay their dues.

319
Q

Convalescent

A

A person who is recovering from illness is called convalescent.

320
Q

Triumphant

A

Having won a battle, victorious

321
Q

How long it took to go out with you.
Almost gave up trying to win you over.

A
322
Q

Rowdy

A

Loud and disorderly.

323
Q

Flip me the bird

A

Stick one’s middle finger up.

324
Q

Punk

A

Deceived or trick

325
Q

You just tossed it down the disposal like rancid taco meat.

A
326
Q

I’m nothing if not authentic

A
327
Q

Harass

A
328
Q

Decorum

A

Behave in a calm / proper and polite way.

329
Q

Commensurate

A

Corresponding in size and degree; in proportion.

You must behave in degree decorum commensurate with our positions.

330
Q

Indulgent

A

Lenient and overly generous.

Self indulgent person give themselves a lot of treats.

331
Q

Extravagant

A

Recklessly wasteful

332
Q

Decadent

A

Wasteful indulgence and extravagance.

Decadent can also mean state of moral or artistic decay.

333
Q

Benevolent

A

Well meaning and kind.

334
Q

Delirious

A

Uncontrollably excited or a bit crazy.

335
Q

Wrangle

A

Argue or dispute; tend or round up - cattle / livestock

336
Q

Propensity

A

Natural tendency or inclination towards

337
Q

Jilt

A

Suddenly reject or abandon

338
Q

Pine away

A

To become thin and weak because of sadness or a loss

339
Q

Perverse

A

Contrary to the accepted standards or behaviors,

340
Q

Rally

A

Reassemble

341
Q

Mobilizing for a common cause.

A

Rallying

342
Q

Mendacity

A

Untruthful, lying

343
Q

Overtly

A

Without concealment or secrecy, openly.

344
Q

Covertly

A

Secretly

345
Q

Bizarre

A

Strange and unusual

346
Q

Kafkaesque

A

People use it to describe interactions that are unnecessarily bureaucratic and complicated.

Long strange bizarre experience.

347
Q

Fervent

A

Having or showing intense passion

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