Portfolio Flashcards
Vocabulary with its definitions.
To get the wrong end of the stick
To misunderstand someone or something completely.
To shed light on something
To clarify or explain something unknown
Scorn
Feeling of disapproval or disdain
Cheap
Made to feel inferior
Turmoil
A state of confusion or anxiety
To fill somebody in on something
To tell someone about the details of recent events
To fulfil yourself
To feel happy and satisfied with what one is doing or has done
Disarray
A state of confusion and lack of organization in a situation or a place because something unexpected has happened.
Gibberish
Words that have no meaning or are impossible to understand. Nonsense.
Obnoxious
Very rude, offensive, extremely unpleasant
To loathe
To dislike something or somebody very much
To be wrapped up
To think so much about something or somebody that you do not notice anything else
To dump someone
To end a romantic relationship (not in good terms)
To be in two minds
To be unable to decide
To be plagued with something
To cause worry, pain or difficulty over a period of time
To make someone’s day
To make someone happy
Stunned
Felling so surprised or shocked that you are unable to act normally
Gullible
Used for describing someone who trusts people easily
To wind somebody up
To make somebody angry or upset
To get off on the wrong foot
To have a bad start in something
Top notch
Of the highest quality. The absolute best.
To shudder
To shake suddenly with very small movements because of a very unpleasant thought or feeling
At the top of your game
To be performing extremely well, so much so that you could not perform any better.
A crush
A strong but temporary feeling of loving someone
To turn someone down
To reject an offer or application made by someone
To boost someone’s ego
To praise someone in order to raise their morale and make them feel better about themselves
A meltdown
An occasion when a person becomes extremely upset and is not able to deal with a problem or situation
To clear the air
To remove the bad feelings between people
No hard feelings
Used for telling someone that you are not angry with them after an argument or disagreement
To haunt someone
To keep coming to someone’s mind, particularly unpleasant or disturbing feelings or memories
Hectic
Full of busy activity
Understaffed
Not having enough workers and therefore not being able to function well
To tell someone off
To speak to someone angrily for doing something wrong
To play it by ear
To decide how to deal with a situation as it develops instead of planning what to do beforehand
To kid yourself
To trick yourself into believing something that isn’t true
Overwhelming
Very great or very strong; so powerful that you cannot decide how to react
A perk
An advantage, a benefit that you get from a situation
Unsettled
Worried and restless
Dread
A feeling of great fear about something that might or will happen in the future
Puzzled
Unable to understand something, which causes confusion
Excruciating
Used for emphasizing how bad something is. Very unpleasant to experience.
To put someone off
To make someone not like something, or not want to do something
A wreck
Something in a state of ruin or dilapidation
Small talk
Informal conversation about things that are not important
A predicament
An unpleasant situation that must be dealt with
To be shaken
To be frightened because of something that has happened
Thrown
To be surprised or confused because it wasn’t expected
To ditch your plans
To get rid of something, to abandon
A hurdle
Difficulty, part of a process that may prevent you from achieving something
To fall out with someone
To stop being friends with someone because you have had a disagreement with them.
