Short test Flashcards
to sizzle
To make the hissing sound characteristic of frying fat/skwierczeć
to thud
To make a heavy, dull sound/walić
to tick
To emit recurring clicking sounds/tykać
to slam
To shut with force and loud noise/trzaskać
to tinkle
To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell/brzęczeć
to rumble
To make a deep, long, rolling sound/huczeć
to chime
To produce a sound with or as if with a bell or bells/wydzwaniać
to crunch
To produce or emit a crushing sound/chrupać
to babble
To utter a meaningless confusion of words or sounds/bełkotać
to crackle
To make a succession of slight sharp snapping noises/trzaskać
to bang
To make a sudden loud, explosive noise/wybuchać
to bubble
The sound made by the forming and bursting of bubbles/bulgotać
to whine
To produce a sustained, high-pitched, plaintive sound, as in pain, fear, or complain/skomleć
Booming voice
A very loud voice/donośny głos
Gruff voice
Hoarse; harsh/gburowaty
Stony silence
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Under the breath
With low voice; very softly
To utter a word
To pronounce a word/wypowiedzieć
Husky voice
Low and rough, often thought to be attractive
Stangle cry
Weak and high sound made by an extremely fightened person/zduszony płacz
Hoots of laughter
Sound of loud laughter/śmiać się głośno
Chuckle
To laugh quietly or to oneself/chichotać
To gleam
To shine with brief beam or flash of light (np. the moon)/błyszczeć
To shimmer
To shine with a light that seems to be moving slightly (np. gold, water)/mienić się
To glow
To shine while producing heat (np. face, cigarette)/jarzyć się
To glint
To shine in small bright fliashes (np. metals, błysk w oku)/migotać
To glimmer
To shine in a weak, fainting and unsteady way/migotać
To glitter
To shine with lots of bright point of light/błyszczeć
Faction
A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group/odłam
Fraction
A disconnected piece; a fragmen/ułamek
Fracture
A break, rupture, or crack, especially in bone or cartilage/złamanie, pęknięcie
Friction
The rubbing of one object or surface against another/tarcie
Fiction
The category of literature, drama, film, or other creative work whose content is imagined and is not necessarily based on fact/fikcja
Statue
A three-dimensional form or likeness sculpted, modeled, carved, or cast in material such as stone, clay, wood, or bronze/statua
Status
Position relative to that of others; standing/status
Statute
A law enacted by a legislature/statut
Clap of thunder
A sudden, loud noise made by thunder/grzmot
Deathly hush
Extreme silence/grobowa cisza
Incessant noise
A sound which never stops/nieustanny hałas
to reign
To dominate/królować
Soft whisper
A gentle and delicate way of speaking/delikatny szept
Silence descends
When silence occurs/cisza opada
Distant echo
Repetition of a sound by reflection of sound waves from a surface in the idistance/odległe echo
Let out a cry
To shout/wydać krzyk
Sound travel
When a sound moves in air
to buzz
To make a low droning or vibrating sound like that of a bee/brzęczeć
to sniff
To inhale forcibly through the nose/pociągać nosem
to giggle (at)
To laugh in a silly way/chichotać
To whisper to (sb)
To speak, very quietly so that other people can’t hear what you are saying/szeptać
To mumble
To speak or say something in a quiet voice in a way that it’s hard to undertand/mamrotać
To stammer
To speak with involuntary pauses or repetitions/jąkać się
To sob
To cry noisly, taking sharp breaths/szlochać
Hiccup
A spasm that is connected with rapid, involuntary inhalation which leads to a sharp sound/czkawka
To burp
To make a brief sharp sound/bekać
To murmur
To mutter
To screech
To cry out in a high-pitched, strident voice/piszczeć
To shriek
To make a sound similar to a shout or a fanatic cry/wrzeszczeć
To grunt
To utter a deep guttural sound, as a hog does/burknąć
To grumble
To rumble or growl/burczeć
Bite somebody’s head off
Scold or speak very angrily to someone/naskoczyć na kogoś
To chant
To speak monotonously, to shout/monotonnie śpiewać, skandować
To pant
To breathe rapidly in short gasps, as after exertion/sapać
To wheeze
To make a sound resembling laborious breathing/dyszeć
To snigger
A sly or disrespectful laugh, esp one partly stifled/podśmiewać się z czegoś
To titter
To laugh in a restrained, nervous way/chichotać
To chatter
To talk rapidly, incessantly, and on trivial subjects/paplać
To chew
To bite and grind with the teeth/żuć
To gargle
To force exhaled air through a liquid held in the back of the mouth, with the head tilted back, in order to cleanse or medicate the mouth or throat/płukać gardło
To gasp
To inhale quickly/dyszeć
To groan
To make a long, low sound, becuase you are in pain of unhappy/jęczeć, skrzypieć
To gulp something down
To eat or drink something really quickly
To hum
To sing a tune with your mouth closed/nucić
To lick something
To move your tounge across the surface of something/lizać
To moan
To make a low sound of pain and unhappiness/jęczeć
To moan about something
To complain/marudzić
To puff
To breath loudly and quickly after a lot of physical effort/sapać
To be puffed out
To be physically exhausted
To sigh
To let out a deep breath expressing happiness, pleasure, disappointment/wzdychać
To sip
To take a quick, short drink of something/popijać
To snore
To make a loud noise when you breath while sleeping/chrapać
To yawn
To open the mouth wide with a deep inhalation, usually involuntarily from drowsiness, fatigue, or boredom/ziewać
To backfire
To make a sudden, loud voice/strzelać
To bleep
To make a short, high-pitched, electronic sound/przerywany dźwięk
To clatter
To make a rattling sound/grzechotać
To hiss
To make a sharp sibilant sound similar to a sustained s/syczeć
To howl
To make a long, loud cry/wyć
To patter
To make a quick succession of light soft tapping sounds/stukać
To rustle
To make the soft, dry sound made by leaves when the move/szeleścić
Stature
An achieved level/renoma
Stratum
A horizontal layer of material, especially one of several parallel layers arranged one on top of another/warstwa
State
A condition or mode of being, as with regard to circumstances/stan
To glare at
To look angrily at something/gniewne spojrzenie
To stare at
To look at directly and fixedly/gapić się
To gaze at
To look as if you weren’t here/wpatrywać się
To peep at
To look through a whole/zerknąć
To peer at
To look with bad eye sight/przyglądać się
To glance at
To have a quick look/rzucić okiem
To glimpse
To see something not deliberately and for a moment/mignąć
Pretty pass
A particularly difficult, troublesome, or bad state or situation/Zła sytuacja (Jak to przetłumaczył pons - niezły bigos)
Paragon of virute
A person that is perfect that people should look up to/wzór cnót
Panacea for all evils
A solution to every problem/lek na całe zło
Hackneyed pharse
Overused phrase/oklepana fraza
Call a spade a spade
Call something by it’s real name/nazywać rzecz po imieniu
Broaching the subject of
To prolong a speech about something/przedłużać temat
Dotage
In a state of senility or mental decline due to old age/słabość umysły
Extenuating circumstances
Special (but otherwise unspecified) circumstances that account for an irregular or improper way of doing something/okoliczności łagodzące
Alias
Another name for something/inaczej zwany
Plain sailing
Something easy/Całkiem proste
Sitting on a fence
Not to state your opinion
To purr
To make a sound like cat/mruczeć
To jingle
To make a tinkling or ringing metallic sound/brzdąkać
To whistle
To produce a clear musical sound by forcing air through the teeth or through an aperture formed by pursing the lips/gwizać
To plop
To fall with a sound like that of an object falling into water without splashing/pluskać
To grate
To cause to make a harsh grinding or rasping sound through friction/zgrzytać
To spalsh
To produce a sound or sight associated with spilling water/pluskać
To pop
To make a short, sharp, explosive sound/wystrzeliwać
To jangle
To make a harsh metallic sound/brzęczenie, terkot
To click
To produce a brief, sharp sound/klikać
To rattle
To make or emit a quick succession of short percussive sounds/grzechotać
To squeal
To give forth a loud shrill cry or sound like a pig/kwiczeć
To squeak
To give forth a short, shrill cry or sound like a mouse/piszczeć
To swish
To rustle, as silk/świstać, szeleścić
To crack
To make a sharp snapping sound/pękać
To drip
To make a sound made by liquid falling in drops/kapać
