Vocab Flashcards
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Lousy
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Very bad
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Lousy with sth
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Full of sth
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Run-down
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Fatigued, weary, exhausted
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Crumby/ crummy
2 meanings
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1.Dirty and shabby
2. Cheap, worthless
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Hotshot
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Highly successful and aggressive
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To bash
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To strike with a crushing or smashing blow
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Grandstand
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The main seating area of a stadium
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Scrawny
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Excessively thin
Meagre and stunted
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Faggy/ faggot
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Insulting- gay man
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Slob
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A person who is lazy and has low standards for cleanliness
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Foil
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One of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing
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Flunk
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To give smb a poor grade so that he fails the exam
Fail to reach the required standards
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To apply oneself
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To make oneself work hard in order to complete sth successfully
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To chuck
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To throw carelessly
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To have no wind
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To have no endurance
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Crew cut
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A classic short hairstyle that is tapered at the sides and back
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To taper
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To diminish or reduce in thickness towards the end
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To get a bang out of sth
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To drive excitement or pleasure from sth
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Half- assed
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Stupid, not considering carefully enough
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To stoop over
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To bend the upper body forward and downward; to crouch; to lean
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To chuckle
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To laugh quietly
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Grand
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Magnificent
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Tack
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A small, sharp broad-headed nail
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Chiffonier
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A tall chest of drawers
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Turd
A lump of excrement
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Firecracker
A loud, explosive firework
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Corny
Showing no new ideas or too often repeated; not funny or interesting
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Qualm
An uncomfortable feeling when in doubt if you are doing the right thing
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Parlor
A store that provides a service rather than selling goods
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Liable
2 meanings
1. Likely to
2. Legally responsible for
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To shove
To push with a quick, violent movement
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Stiff
2 meanings
1. Dead body
2. Severe and strong, not easily bent
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Swell
2 meanings
Adj- really nice
V- to enlarge
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Rostrum
A raised platform for speakers
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Sore
2 meanings
1. Angry, upset
2. Painful, tender
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Peak
The part at the front of the hat that sticks above your eyes
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To barge in on smb
To rudely interrupt
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Ledge
The narrow shelf along the bottom edge of a window
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Goner
Smb about to die
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Fiddle around with
2 meanings
1. For a machine - to try to make it work
2. To waste time doing unimportant things
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To horse around
To play roughly and carelessly so that you can hurt smb or damage sth
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Jock strap
Жокейска каишка
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Clunk
The sound made by a heavy object hitting sth hard
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Horny
Hard and strong, made of horn
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To keep tabs on
Monitor the activities/ development
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Conceited
Too proud of own achievements; arrogant
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To aggravate
2 meanings
1. To annoy
2. To make worse
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Houndstooth
A usually small brocken check textile pattern
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Can
Bathroom (informal)
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To chew the rag
To chat in a leisurely and prolonged way
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Lather
The foam formed when a detergent is agitated with water
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To be up the creek
To be in a difficult situation
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Creek
A narrow area of water that flows into the land
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Half/ full nelson
Wrestling positions, holding smb so that it is hard for him to move
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Viselike
Very tight
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Checkers
A board game with 12 circular pieces
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Caddy
Smb that carries your golf clubs for you
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Booze hound
Alcoholic
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Nosy
Showing too much curiosity about other people's affairs; to pry into sth
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Muffler
2 meanings
1. Scarf
2. A device to deaden noise
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To tile
To make agitated and angry
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Hydrant
An outlet from a water main from which water can be tapped for fighting fires
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Pinball
A game in which the player presses two buttons in order to hit a small ball
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Boardwalk
A path made of wooden boards, especially along a beach
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Hunch
a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than fact
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To tee off
To make angry/ annoyed
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Station wagon
A car with a long body and space behind the back seats
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Halitosis
Unpleasant breath smell
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To gripe
To complain about sth in a persistent, irritating way
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Break a neck
To make extraordinary efforts to achieve sth
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To sock
To hit with force
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To bawl
To weep/ cry noisily
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Janitor
A person employed to look after a building
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A gore
Blood from a wound that has become thick
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A tiff
A small unimportant quarrel
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To snow
To persuade smb to do sth by deceiving him
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Fiend
2 meanings
1. Extremely cruel person
2. Smb very interested in the thing mentioned or enjoys having a lot of it
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You are aces
You are highly regarded
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Gladstone bag
Rigid leather suitcase
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Wad
A tight bundle of sth
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Lavish
2 meanings
1. Smb that spends a lot
2. Very impressive and expensive
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Lean-jawed
Smb with long, thin jaws and sunken cheeks
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In the sack
In bed, sleeping
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Conscientious
Very careful to do their work properly, scrupulous
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Lousy with rocks
Wearing a lot of jewellery
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Darn
2 meanings
1. To mend a hole in sth knitted
2. Used to emphasize what you are saying when you are annoyed
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Snotty
Having a very proud and superior attitude
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Snob
The substance produced by the nose
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Booth
A small area separated from a larger public area by screens used for phone calls/ voting
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Screwball
2 meanings
1. Smb who does strange/ crazy things
2. For comedy- silly and eccentric
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Bellboy
A man who works in a hotel, carrying bags/ bringing things to guests' rooms
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To neck
To kiss in a sexual way
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Suave
Polite, ingratiating
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To foul up
2 meanings
1. To make dirty, to contaminate
2. To spoil by making mistakes, to confuse
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To sooth the crap with
To talk to
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To soothe
To make calm, relieve
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Pimp
A man who controls prostitutes and arranges clients for them, taking a percentage of their earnings
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Putrid
2 meanings
1. Sth that has decayed and smells unpleasant
2. Morally corrupt, depraved
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Brassy ( music)
Harsh and loud
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To hem and haw
Hesitate, be indecisive
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Hem
2 meanings
1. The sound made in clearing the throat
2. The bottom edge of clothing
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Haw
2 meanings
1. To utter a sound representing hesitation or a pause in speech
2. The berry of a hawthorn
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Crude
Rough, basic, rude
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Dopey
2 meanings
1. Silly, stupid
2. Sleepy
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Jitterbug
A fast jerky American dance, usually to jazz music, popular in the 40's
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Immaterial
Not important, relevant
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Sterling
Very good in quality, first -class
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Tom Collins
A long drink with gin, lime juice, sugar, soda water
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Beat- up
Adj
Old and in bad condition
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Licorice stick
Clarinet
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Licorice
A firm black substance with a strong taste used for making sweets
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Muckle
A large amount
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Muckle- mouthed
Having a big mouth
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To snub
To treat with neglect/ contempt
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Screened in porch
Screened room
A room near the exterior of the house covered by window screens
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Glider
A seat for one or two people that swings backwards and forwards, usually used in a porch
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To get wise with
To become presumptuous (самонадеян) or impertinent (нахален)
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Newsreel
A short film of national or international news events, made for showing in cinemas
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To toss one's cookies
To vomit
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Hoodlum
A criminal, a gangster, a thug
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To shoot the bull
To talk informally about unimportant things
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To strike up a conversation
To start a conversation
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Coat check
A room in a restaurant/ theatre, where smb can leave their belongings
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To shove
To push along
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Flannel suit
A type of soft- woven suit that is made with an emphasis on softness and comfort
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Flitty (n)
A male homosexual
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To flit
To alter, to shift
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Tattersal
S style of tartan pattern woven into a cloth
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Crocked
Drunk
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Horse's ass
Stupid person
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Knockers
Breast ( vulgar)
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Pansy
A gay man
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Yellow guy
Cowardly, not brave
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Cutting remark
A remark intended to hurt the feelings of others
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To rile smb up
To induce resentful/ angry agitation
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Nonchalant
Feeling casually calm and relaxed, not displaying any interest or enthusiasm
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Tail
A woman considered as a sexual object
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Dolled up
Dressed in order to look attractive for an event
