Technology/emotions/Shakespeare/BBC Flashcards
Growing luxuriantly, common, increasing (as crime, weeds, disease)
Rampant
A digital technology expert or enthusiast; very skilled in a subject
Geek
To increase dramatically
To spiral
Cheerful readiness, willingness; to do smth quickly and eagerly
Alacrity
To enclose within bounds, limit or restrict; prevent from spreading beyond a place or a group
To confine
A coming into place, arrival, start, coming into existence
Advent
A go-between or mediator passing information between two sides
Intermediary
Beginning, start, esp of smth bad or unpleasant
Onset
To stop; discontinue
To cease
An ingenious or novel device to attract extra attention or deceive
Gimmick
To regard with respect, venerate
To revere
Weighed down, loaded down, burdened
Laden with
Strong or eager desire, craving
Thirst
To invent
To come up with
Rubbish
Junk
To make a call to
To get through to
To crash
To fail/go down
Everyday
Commonplace
To stay abreast of
To keep up with
Welcome happily
Take to sth with alacrity
Lose your nerve
Push the panic button
Not difficult to understand
Not rocket science
Lose your temper
Blow a fuse
Have a misunderstanding with someone
Get your wires crossed
Be very advanced
Be light years ahead
Have similar views
Be on the same wavelength
A smooth-running organization
A well-oiled machine
Work very productively
Fire on all cylinders
Waste time devising smth that already exists
Reinvent the wheel
Spoil a plan
Throw a spanner in the works
Somebody you love and protect
The apple of somebody’s eyes
Only just manage to do sth
By the skin of your teeth
Honest person
The salt of the earth
Too soon
Early days
Shy person
Tongue tied
Critically important
Defining
Perceiving; becoming conscious of; knowing
Cognizing
Evident, definite
Clear-cut
Substitute to act on behalf of someone else
Proxy
A manner of solving problems using an indirect or creative approach via reasoning that is not immediately obvious
Lateral thinking
To be disappointed
To be absolutely gutted
To be overwhelmed
To be completely blown away
To be distraught
To be beside yourself
Not interested
Be bored rigid
To be delighted
To be thrilled to bits
To complain
To make such a fuss
To explode with anger
To totally lose it
Exceedingly eager or avid; having a strong desire to have a lot of something
Voracious
To endanger; to put smb in danger
To imperil
Something next to sth; contiguous
Adjacent
To stand or rise stiffly; to show you are angry
To bristle
The act or process of burning
Combustion
Unmindful, unconscious, forgetful; not noticing sth that is happening around
Oblivious
To try hard to understand a difficult idea or solve a problem
To grapple with sth
A state of cessation of movement or action; situation when there is no activity
Standstill
A mound or bank of snow driven together by the wind
Snowdrift
