listening Flashcards
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didn´t nip
/nɪp/
to go somewhere quickly or be somewhere for only a short time:
- Can you nip out/round/down to the shop for me?
- Shall we nip in to the café for a bite to eat?
an offensive word for a Japanese person
to press something quickly and quite hard between two objects, especially sharp objects such as teeth or nails:
- Josie’s hamster nipped me.
- The puppy kept nipping (at) her ankles.
homesick
/ˈhoʊm.sɪk/ attention to the u sound
unhappy because of being away from home for a long period: As I read my mother’s letter, I began to feel more and more homesick. Feeling sad and unhappy.
shortage
/ˈʃɔːr.t̬ɪdʒ/
a situation in which there is not enough of something:
- There’s a shortage of food and shelter in the refugee camps.
-The long hot summer has led to serious water shortages
- always when there´s a shortage of water at school they let us go home earlier
crambles
/ˈkrʌm.bəl/
despedaçar,desfarelar
to break, or cause something to break, into small pieces:
She nervously crumbled the bread between her fingers.
The cliffs on which the houses are built are starting to crumble.
- capitalism is crambling
- you crambled my heart
- That old wall is starting to crumble.