Red Box Flashcards
Convoluted
Complicated
Harrowing
Extremely upsetting
Squirming
Awkward movement
Vaguely
Not clearly expressed
Fancies
To want something
Open-mic stand-up evening
Everybody can sing or perform stand-up comedy
Gender-bending
A person who wears the clothes and copies the behaviour of the opposite sex
Thorny
Difficult to deal with
Re-vamped
To change something to improve it
Coup
A sudden illegal taking of government power
Waging
To fight a war
Intervened
To prevent something to happen
Ceasefire
An agreement between two armies to stop fighting and discuss peace
Indicted
To accuse someone of a crime
Collateral damage
During a war, the unintentional death of innocent people and damage that is caused to their homes and lives
Heavy-handed
Using too much force in dealing with someone
Fuelling
To make something worse
Atrocity
An extremely cruel act
Provoked
To cause a negative reaction
To stem
To stop something unwanted from spreading
To take something with a pinch of salt
To not completely believe something that you are told
Precision
Being exact
To bridge
To bring something together
Grievances
Treated unfairly
Entrenched
Old ideas that can’t be changed
Harbouring
To protect someone by providing a place to hide
Tensions
Feeling of fear between two who don’t trust each other
Infested
To be numerous in, as anything undesirable or troublesome
Chronic
Lasting a long time;
Quack
Being a quack
Wheezy
To breathe with difficulty and with a whistling sound
Stem cell
A cell that upon division replaces its own numbers and also gives rise to cells that differentiate further into one or more specialized types, as various B cells and T cells
Slippery slope
A course of action likely to lead to something bad or disastrous
Minefield
A subject, situation, etc, beset with hidden problems
Pave the way for
Make possible
Overreliance
Trusting someone to much
Resistant
Someone who resists
Vivisection
Action of cutting into or dissecting a living body or living animals, in order to learn more about disease and bodily functions
Prone
Having a natural tendency toward something
IVF
In Vitro Fertilization
Cackles
To laugh in this way
Self-deprecating
Undervaluing oneself
Deadpan
Straight-faced
Gullible
Too willing to believe everything
Sniggering
To laugh quietly but disrespectfully
Giggles
A silly, often high-pitched laugh
Peculiar
Strange
Spoof
A lighthearted imitation of someone or something
Slapstick
Comedy characterized by silly, noisy, and physically violent action
Corny
Old-fashioned
Punchline
The point in a joke and is the source of humor
PC
Politically correct
Hysterics
A fit of uncontrollable laughter or weeping
Detained
To keep under restraint
Suspended
Temporarily keeping someone, or a group or team, out of a job, organization, school, etc.
Mitigating
To lessen in force or intensity
Gross
Flagrant and extreme
Misconduct
To misbehave
Libellous
Containing, constituting, or involving a libel
Eminent
High in rank or reputation
Destitute
Without means to live
Clamped
Impose stricter control
Unprovoked
Having no apparent cause or reason
Culprits
A person guilty of an offense or fault, or one accused
Inciting
To stimulate to action;
stir up
Riot
A noisy, violent public disorder
Flab
Unwanted fat
Mind-numbing
Extremely boring and uninspiring
Hail
To cheer, salute, or greet
Banter
Playful teasing
Likelihood
Probability
Devout
Having or showing deep religious feeling or commitment
Lapse
a brief failure of concentration
Moralise
Comment on issues of right and wrong
Merits
The quality of being particularly good
Secular
Not connected with religious or spiritual matters
Sceptical
Not easily convinced
Evangelical
Of or according to the teaching of the gospel or the Christian religion
Reincarnation
The rebirth of a soul in another body
Pagan
A person holding religious beliefs other than those of the main world religions
Dabbled
Immerse (one’s hands or feet) partially in water and move them around gently
Verging
Be very close or similar to
Hubcap
A removable cover for the center of the exposed side of an automobile wheel, covering the axle
Bonnet
An automobile hood
Junction
A place or point where two or more things meet or are joined, such as a station where railroad lines meet, cross, or diverge, or an intersection of roads
Budge
To (cause to) move slightly
Sulk
To keep oneself from normal conversation or apart from others while remaining in a sullen, angry, or offended mood
Xenophobe
A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs
Fleeced
To take money or belongings by dishonesty, fraud, or deception
Clingy
To remain attached, as to a person
Stroppy
Termsbad-tempered or hostile
Earnest
Full seriousness
Dodder
To shake;
tremble
Demographic
A single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths
Scrap-heap
A place for dumping useless things
Livid
Enraged;
furiously angry
Minefield
an area of land or water where mines have been put
Throwaway comment
something that someone says or writes quickly, without thinking carefully about it
Mortified
to humiliate (someone), as by an injury to self-respect
Faux pas
an embarrassing social error
De rigueur
strictly required, as by etiquette, usage, or fashion
Blasé
indifferent to or bored with life
Effing
euphemism for fuck: eff off
Blinding
extremely bright
Blasphemous
(an act of) speaking or acting irreverently or disrespectfully concerning God or sacred things
Dumbing
lacking intelligence or good judgment;
stupid
Dogged
persistent in effort;
refusing to give up
B-movies
a low-budget movie made esp. to accompany a major feature film on a double bill
The rails
begin behaving in an uncontrolled or unacceptable way
Resurrect
to raise from the dead;
bring to life again
Tabloids
a newspaper about half the size of an ordinary newspaper, usually with many pictures and often featuring sensational stories
Sham
a person or thing pretending to be someone or something else;
fraud
Denominator
something shared or held in common;
standard
Injunction
an order by a court requiring a person to do a particular act
