VOCABULARY Flashcards
dishwasher
the person who is responsible for washing dishes, cleaning the kitchen area, and taking out the garbage
garbage (synonyms)
Rubbish Trash Waste
- well if you don’t want it, throw it in the rubbish
-the garbage is full, so i should taken out the trash
-the street has an underground sewer system. Before that, sewage and waste would just flow right down the street
garbage/waste/trash/rubbish (differences)
Garbage: Worthless, smelly or unpleasant material such as food waste.
Waste: Something left over but not entirely consumed. Rubbish: Things that are no longer wanted.
Trash: Worthless material.
when we use ‘‘the gall ‘’
1-to describe someone’s excess of confidence in doing somenthing that is inappropriate or disrespectful
ex: she had the gall to ask for a raise after coming in late to work every day
2- where you get the gall: as a rhetorical question to express disbelief or disapproval of someone’s bahavior or actions
rhetorical question
is when we ask without expecting an answer
monumentally
significantly, generously, importantly
hyperbolically
an exaggerated way
draw
1- dessiner
2- to pull or drag something so as to make it follow behind.
‘a cart drawn by two horses’
quarter
to cut something in four pieces
blathering
the action of talking long-windedly without making very much sense.
sneaky
when u describe someone as a sneaky; you beleive that person is behaving in a way that can’t be trusted, and that they don’t want to be seen by others.
overreaching
to describe someone who is trying to acheive or do more than is reasonable or acheivable, more than he is entitled to or capable of.
to trap something
means you catch it using an object or a strategy preventing it form escaping
hanging by a thread
means that here is very little keeping it attached to the whole
this expression implies when it is unstable and that there is only a slim chance of saving something
hang in there
this expression is tepically used to encourage someone to persevere or to keep going despite difficulties or challenges
stay strong and hold on
dispose of (something)
means you get rid of it, usually by throwing it away or selling it
tug (verb)
to pull something quickly and usually with a lot of force
ex: remy tugs my hair
Perk
Noun: an advantage or something extra, sush as money or goods,that you are given because of your job
Verb:(of boiling water or cofee) to move up a tube in a percolator(=a type of a container for making coffee) when the coffee is being made
Assignment(a sain mənt )
A price of work given to someone,typically as part of their studies or job
He/she is bad news
He is unwelcome, troublemaker, or dangerous.stay away from him
I warned her about John,but she didn’t listen.Turns it,he was bad news all along
Rain on my parade
to do something thatspoilssomeone’splans
Treachery
Betrayal
It refers to the behavior of deceiving, tricking or betraying someone who trusts you.