Vocabulary set 1 Flashcards
Ousted
Removed from position or office, other definitions. To oust is to “expel,” “kick out,” or “remove and replace.”
waxed and waned
To wax is to grow larger or increase, whereas wane means to grow smaller or decrease, other related words. diminishes
resurgence
Coming back. i.e Bringing back into activity and prominence.
prominence
the state of being prominent: widely known
Gush
On hot summer days, city kids will sometimes open a fire hydrant and let the water gush into the street. Things that gush come streaming out.
renaissance
A resurgence of excitement or interest in something is a renaissance.
correspond
When two things correspond, they match up or are equivalent to one another. You might come up with a code in which numbers correspond to letters of the alphabet. Correspond can also mean to send messages back and forth.
Resort
The noun resort means “turning to something or someone else for assistance.” You tried everything to figure out your math homework on your own, so asking your dad for help was your last resort, also act of turning to for assistance
where the rubber meets the road
the point at which a theory or idea is put to a practical test.
ambivalent
Undecided
Obtuse
Slow to learn
Cunnilingus
Oral sex
Se’renity
The goal of meditation is to reach a state of serenity, when your mind is still and perfectly calm
Swerve
swerve means a sudden turn off your path. As a verb, it means to move off your original route, possibly to avoid a collision. You can swerve either toward something or away from it.
Chivalry
Men behaving courteously toward women — holding the door for them, offering them their jackets when it’s cold — is called chivalry. Many women consider chivalry a lost art. Nice work, fellas.
Misogynist and rug burn
Bickering or squabbling
Quarrel/ argue about petty & trivial things.
Put out
Have sex
distress
In distress, in trouble, you are hurting either physically or emotionally.
Deceit
the action or practice of deceiving someone by concealing or misrepresenting the truth.
Ambivalent
you can’t decide how you feel about something, declare yourself ambivalent about it.
Dab
A dab is a quick, soft application of something, like paint or makeup. You might touch up a clown’s makeup with several dabs on his cheeks and forehead.
Campestral
The adjective campestral is an uncommon way to describe something connected to the wide open countryside. You could describe a field full of wildflowers as campestral.
Languor
When you are sick or heartbroken and too tired to get out of bed, the listlessness you feel is called languor. It’s sluggishness and slowness, but usually with cause.
Echolalia
The repetition of other people’s words or sounds is echolalia
Disdain
If you feel that something isn’t worthy of your consideration, you may disdain it (or treat it with disdain).
Segway
trademark) a self-balancing personal transportation device with two wheels; can operate in any level pedestrian environment
Contempt
Extreme lack of respect
Snob
If your best friend tells you that you’ve become a snob, he means that you’ve become condescending and you like to think you’re better than everyone else. Of course maybe he’s a snob for looking down on your behavior — how annoying!
Segue
Noun.
the act of changing smoothly from one state or situation to another
Verb.
proceed without interruption; in music or talk
Cushy
Note demanding, soft, easy.
Done easily without hardship.
Skeptical
Doubtful
empiricism
Based on facts, evidence and research.
Articulate
Speak/ express clearly.
AWOL
Absent without permission
Fend off
Defend yourself from something
Liberated
Release from confinement
Confinement
Imprisonment
Govern
To govern is to rule, lead, oversee, or otherwise control. Each U.S. state has its own governor, whose job it is to govern the affairs of that state.
Formidable
Extremely impressive in strength or excellence.
speculate
When you speculate, you use what you know to make a prediction about an outcome, like when you speculate that the injury of two key players will prevent your favorite team from going far in the playoffs this year.
Equivocal
Equivocal means uncertain or ambiguous. If you ask your teacher what’s on an upcoming test and she gives you an equivocal answer, you won’t be able to narrow down your studying.
Dodge
Avoid it
Reticent
not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings readily.
“she was extremely reticent about her personal affairs”
Reticent means either quiet or restrained. If you’re reticent about your feelings, you like to keep them to yourself, and you’re probably quiet in rowdy groups where everyone is talking over each other.
Rowdy
If you’re rowdy, you’re loud and raucous. You’re disturbing the peace and somebody’s likely to ask you to quiet down.
Raucous
Raucous means unpleasantly loud, or behaving in a noisy and disorderly way. It can be hard to give an oral report in the front of a classroom when the kids in the back are being raucous.
Detrimental
Formal way of saying harmful.
Anything’s detrimental damage, hurtful
Damper
When you put a damper on something, you restrain it or inhibit it. Putting a damper on things usually means bringing them down — your car troubles might put a damper on your travel plans.
Mitigate
Less bad
Prejudice
Pre-conceived opinion not based on reason or actual experience
Outright
Open/direct.
Immediately
Altogether and completely
Exasperate
To exasperate someone is to annoy him or her to the point of impatience, frustration and irritation, like when you exasperate a busy waiter by asking questions like “what are all the ingredients in the salad dressing?” and making him repeat the specials five times.
Speculative
Speculative describes very risky and unproven ideas or chances. You might have great ideas about starting your own business but your plans are speculative until you earn money from them.
Frustrated
feeling or expressing distress and annoyance, especially because of inability to change or achieve something.
“young people get frustrated with the system
Anger
If you’re mad about something and you’re not going to take it anymore, you’re feeling anger, a strong emotion you experience when you think someone has done you wrong. If you want to scream and kick, you’re feeling anger.
powerful vs intense vs extreme
Expect / seize /amaze/sound- good and solid.
Amaze
Confusion and mystery.
Surprised to see you here.
Out on a limb / take a risk
If someone goes out on a limb, they do something they strongly believe in even though it is risky or extreme, and is likely to fail or be criticized by other people. They can see themselves going out on a limb, voting for a very controversial energy bill.
Confiscated
To confiscate means to take away temporarily for security or legal reasons. It implies an act by an authority upon one of less power. If you use your cell phone in class, the teacher might confiscate it for the day.
Quadruple checked everything
Mortified
To be mortified is to be extremely embarrassed. If your pants fell down in class, you’d be mortified.
Squirm
wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort.
Superficial vs deep
Rev up / speed up
Prime
When sty is in its prime it’s in at its best
Prelude
A prelude is an introductory action, event, or performance that comes before a bigger or more momentous one. It is made of up the prefix pre- meaning “before,” and the Latin root ludere meaning “play.”
Democratize
Make it accessible to everyone
Humorous
It’s funny / causes laughter
Hickey
Love bite
Incompetent
not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully.
Ludicrous
Ludicrous things are funny, absurd, or nonsensical. If someone says something silly or far-fetched, you could say “That’s ludicrous!”
Far fetched
Something farfetched is imaginative but very unlikely. It’s a lot easier to think of than to do.
Mosey
walk or move in a leisurely manner.
Lucrative
Use lucrative to refer to a business or investment that makes money. While your parents might want you to pursue a lucrative career, you’re committed to your plan of becoming a professional mime.
Drool
The dampness that forms in your mouth when you smell something delicious is drool. When it actually drips from your mouth, you drool.
Arduous
Use the adjective arduous to describe an activity that takes a lot of effort. Writing all those college essays and filling out the applications is an arduous process!
Tenacious
Use tenacious to mean “not easily letting go or giving up,” like a clingy child who has a tenacious grip on his mother’s hand.
Litigate
proceedings. Litigating mostly takes place in court.
Cherishes
To cherish something is to care for it deeply, to treasure it, like the way you cherish the time you spend with a favorite person you don’t see often.
Diversity
When there’s diversity, there’s variety. Often, this word is used for diversity of race, class, or gender.
Ultimatum
Vicarious
experienced at secondhand
If something is vicarious, it delivers a feeling or experience from someone else. If your child becomes a big star, you might have a vicarious experience of celebrity.
Take a deep breath vs relax
Dissipates
Go into thin air / just disappear / fades away
Squander
To squander means to spend extravagantly, thoughtlessly, or wastefully. If you need to save for college, don’t squander your income on nightly sushi dinners.
Wandering
The verb wander describes something that has lost track. If you’re watching a boring movie, your mind might begin to wander. If you don’t have a clear goal, you could wander too — meaning you drift aimlessly.
Redundant
Nasty / remember/ piss off
offensive or even (of persons) malicious
Cackle
To cackle is to laugh in a loud, harsh way. Your dad’s jokes might be so bad that they’re funny, making you cackle every time.
Conquer / I agree
The best course of action
Exude
make apparent by one’s mood or behavior - verb
release (a liquid) in drops or small quantities
Rumors / give and take relationship/ goes down / bonding - creating a relationships
Wants but nothing
Upset/ angry/ irritated/
Betray
When you betray someone or something, you provide information whether you mean to do it or not, like the loud growling of your stomach that betrays your hunger or the secret you tell about your friend that betrays her trust.
Resent
To resent something is to feel anger or bitterness toward it. You might resent someone who has treated you poorly.
Frown upon
look disapprovingly upon
Deferred
Postponed/ put off
Attic
Other forms: attics
An attic is an unfinished room at the very top of a house, just below the roof. It’s often the setting for creepy stories because it’s a room people don’t go in very often.
Despise/ snooping around
Epicenter
Morphing
Changing from one state to another
Reciprocity
When two or more people or nations have equal exchanges of goods or services, they are enjoying reciprocity, a situation where each enjoys an equal benefit from the relationship.
I’m swamped
Did favors
Blackmail
To blackmail someone is to use secret information to get something from them, usually money. Blackmailing is a crime.
Reaction / memo /cuddling/ jewelry/ worried/ runaway/ overlook/ believe / congratulations/ fault/ depicts/ inspiration/ abuse/ adopted/ abandon/ procrastinate
Ground rules
Destined
Torture
Agitated
Upset
Prospects , horizon, track record
Prospect - possibility that something fabulaous will happen
Unconscious/ conception
I’m sticking to it / toilet flushing
Barely know
Console, and torment.
Perhaps you avoid babysitting your baby brother because you’re worried that if he starts to cry, you won’t be able to console him or make him feel better
By repeatedly trying to make someone miserable you torment them. The noun torment is the result of the verb torment.
Sympathize
Pity
Hoping / clues / gasps/ sham - counterfeit -fake,not real / pervert - creepy
A gasp is the sound made by a sharp inward breath. After running up a steep hill, your breath will come in gasps.
Something is creepy if it feels like tiny things are crawling on you. The sensation of a spider on your arm is creepy.
Brush-off
curt or disdainful rejection
I’m sorry to be curt, but let’s get right to the point. You should use the adjective curt to describe a way of speaking that’s brief and blunt.
Escape , bother, plenty , get cracking, ordered, crisis, trouble, auction, fall apart, turn down - reject, multitask, contact- eye contact, come through for me, screwed up, deadbeat
Get cracking - start to be active. Act quickly and energetically. Alimony,
court-ordered support paid by one spouse to another after they are separated - alimony.
Deadbeat.
A deadbeat is someone who owes money or has other financial obligations and doesn’t meet them. Deadbeats don’t pay their bills.
Put aside. Coincidences. Bid on it, massive, contribution, fault, contingency, disappointed, get on my nerves, self centered, manufacture, insecure, fabulous, crazy, global impact, strong suggest you use it, liquidate-
If you plan to walk home if the weather is nice, but bring subway fare just in case, then taking the subway is your contingency plan. A contingency is an event you can’t be sure will happen or not.
Fabulous.
If something is so great you can hardly believe it, it is fabulous. You can have a fabulous first date or you can make a fabulous dinner.
Liquidate
If you liquidate something, you get rid of it. When a huge retailer has to close all of its stores, it liquidates everything, meaning the inventory and even the shelves and display cases are sold to bargain-hunters, to raise money for the company to pay its debts.
Announcement, schedule , multifaceted - having many aspects, oblivious, profound narcissistic personality disorder, afraid, - fear, hate to put & ur ass on the stress, been there it’s not pretty. Lol
schizophrenic
you are schizophrenic, you suffer from a mental disorder that includes auditory hallucinations and paranoid behavior
Skip, get stranded,
Groupie
an enthusiastic young fan (especially a young woman who follows rock groups around)
Struggling.
Blacker the berries, the sweeter the juice.
Origin head count - original count.
Diminished
Diminish means to make smaller or lesser. If you cover a lightbulb with a dark lamp shade, the light from the lamp will diminish.
Stalking
Stalking is the act of following someone or something very closely and watching its every move
Issues are resolved. Whatever I was that’s all in the past, my issues are resolved.
Trivial
Not important or significant.
Discombobulated
Discombobulate is a fun, fancy word for “confuse.” If something has put you in a state where you don’t know up from down and you can’t spell your own name, you may be discombobulated.
Extricate
If you need to be untangled, set free or otherwise released from something or someone, you need to be extricated.
Abscond
Abscond is to escape, often taking something along.
Punk
A punk is a young troublemaker. If your elderly neighbor thinks of you as a young punk, he either thinks all kids are bad — or you did something that really disturbed him.
Demeaning
Dignity
The adjective demeaning describes something that lowers a person’s reputation or dignity. If your boss always asks you to pick up her dry cleaning and get her coffee, you might feel like you usually get the demeaning jobs.
If someone has dignity, it means they are worthy of respect. If you really want the lead role in a play and you try to bribe the director to give it to you, she might say, “Have you no dignity?”
Rancid
Rancid means sour, rotten, and nasty and refers most specifically to the sharp bad smell of decomposing oils or fat
Liberty
Freedom of choice
Desperate times calls for desperate measures
Elevate
To elevate is to lift up, either literally or figuratively
Liaison
refer to a relationship, a link between people or groups who aids communication.
Accomplishments
Romance, love, marriage, divorce . I’m skipping ahead of myself.
Two years from now. Take out the trash don’t touch me
Delightful
Anything delightful causes pleasure or joy. For most people, watching a puppy play is delightful.
Sleazy
Something that is sleazy is low and nasty. It’s a perfect word to describe characters like the sleazy door-to-door con men who cheat old ladies into selling them their jewelry at a deep discount.
You need someone soon or later. Family, companionship, purpose.
Relied on and cherished
Neutering
Sterilization of an animal
Egregious , appalling and intolerable.
Something that is egregious stands out, but not in a good way — it means “really bad or offensive.” If you make an egregious error during a championship soccer match, your coach might bench you for the rest of the game.
Classist
treating someone unfairly or having negative opinions about them based on their social class (= economic and social position), especially because they are thought to be from a low social class: I found the discussion of street clothes and street culture to be racist and classist.
Slick
Slick means smooth or slippery, but it can also describe a smooth, effortless style. How did that Girl Scout talk you into buying so many boxes of cookies? It must have been her slick sales pitch.
Modest
A person is modest if he or she is very successful but does not call attention to this.
Prude
Use prude to describe someone who is too concerned with being proper or modest
Prudent
Describe an action as prudent if it is the wise thing to do under the existing circumstances
Discreet
Discreet describes someone or something that is appropriately quiet, prudent, and restrained. If you are wearing a discreet gray suit, it is unlikely that anyone at that business meeting will notice you.
Often people use discreet not only to indicate modesty or carefulness, but also to show a sort of secretiveness along the lines of “You’re going to keep this a secret, right?” If no one in your family knows that you like to dress up as a bear, but then your cousin finds out, you may ask him to please be discreet.
Perk up
Gain or regain energy
Suing / malpractice
If you needed your tonsils removed but your surgeon accidentally took out your appendix instead, you could sue her for malpractice, or mistreatment by a doctor that results in harm to the patient.
Benevolent
Choose the adjective benevolent for someone who does good deeds or shows goodwill. If your teacher collects homework with a benevolent smile, she’s hoping that you’ve done a good job.
You are such a generous and benevolent person.
Absurd
Something absurd is really silly, absolutely ridiculous, or total nonsense. Thinking you can wear flip flops and a bikini to the North Pole is an absurd idea, for example.
Warp
To warp is to bend, twist, or otherwise become misshapen. Wooden furniture left outside in the rain will often warp from the moisture.
Mooch
To mooch is to take advantage of other people’s generosity without giving anything in return. If you constantly mooch rides from your friend, she’s going to get tired of agreeing to drive you around.
Keep in touch / once in a while/ can’t believe you didn’t take picture of him
Kick up a notch
Deflect
Changing its course
Tuck away
keep something in a secure place.
“employees can tuck away a percentage of their pretax salary”
Stand up someone
Keep them awaiting and never show up
Indefinitely
Written all over it
To show certain characteristics very clearly.
Flaunt
Flaunt is “to display proudly or show off,” like when you flaunt your new Italian leather jacket by wearing it to the beach and pretending you’re cold to make sure everyone sees it.
Recall & punctuality
Mesmerizing
ff them, like you are connected by an invisible cord and can’t break free. Those kinds of people have the power to mesmerize, holding your attention like you’re under hypnosis.
The word mesmerize comes from the last name of 18th century German physician Franz Mesmer, who believed that all people and objects are pulled together by a strong magnetic force, later called mesmerism. If you ever start to feel mesmerized, maybe it’s because you find someone fascinating, or maybe you’ve been hypnotized by a magician. Hard to tell from here.
Mean
Apology, accepted, position, make it hard, acknowledge, divorce, settlement agreement, simple, sign it, legal, best have seen all year, decided, compete
Rehearsing
practice something
Bleak
Something that is bleak is gloomy and depressing. If it’s raining and dark, you might describe the night as bleak. If you have looked for work and no one will hire you, you could describe your prospects as bleak.
Cheer me up, tell me about your miserable life so mine will appear less bleak.
Giggle
If you laugh with a dainty tee-hee-hee, you giggle. Children giggle a lot. Big strong men are more likely to guffaw or issue a big belly laugh.
Open book, I’m not hiding anything.
Ease is into it, get all the pressure off.
Enjoy
Veneral
of or relating to the external sex organs / genitals
Hop, I was in love and really cared about your feelings, now that I don’t.
Intimidate , libelous
published false statement that is damaging to a person’s reputation; a written defamation. - libelous - libel
Puppet
A doll or figure controlled by a person so that it appears to be moving on its own is a puppet. A puppet can be fun, but if you feel like a puppet, it seems like someone is controlling you. Not fun
Quelled
Anything that’s quelled is quieted, extinguished, or calmed. A quelled urge to yell something mean at your brother is an impulse that you’ve managed to overcome.
Warranty, fine print , prove, troubling, hypothetical
Hypothetical- guess , trial to experiment.
Bruise
If you’re just learning to skateboard, you’ve probably got an ugly bruise or two to show for it — those purple and yellow patches you get on your skin where you’ve bumped and scraped. They probably hurt, too!
Sensitive
Sensitive describes something or someone who reacts quickly and strongly. It’s often something to protect — like baby skin, government documents, or a fragile ecosystem.
Unshackled
Set free
Back away , control, initiatives, legitimate
An initiative is the start of something, with the hope that it will continue
Nominate, decade, election, loose, placeholder, legacy, urgent, get dressed I want you to see something. Definitely, authorization, proceed, destroyed, target.
Nudity, sex, smoking, language - television show. Chapters, paragraphs, theme, bold, refine, pardons
Some words to make it permanent.
Suspected. Another word. Being honest, forthright.
Untrustworthy/ others believe you have committed a crime.
Taking out of context, thank you for your time. Let’s try someone else.
Incumbent- an official who holds an office.
Vendetta
Exist, continue, long, get back, during bs hours.
A vendetta is blood feud, a quest for revenge. A vendetta might separate families for generations, with members of one family murdering those of the other, all to satisfy an ancient grudge.
Feud - bitter quarrel between two rivals. Long standing fight often between family.
Long-standing
having existed or continued for a long time.
Lasted
The duration the activity took to be complete.
Shrinkage
When something becomes smaller than it was before, that’s shrinkag
Discuss , talk about , engage in the conversation, inappropriate, having a rough - if you must know, news flash you guys have been over months ago.
Curious
Eager, really wanna know something.
Wince.
A wince is a facial or bodily expression of pain, disgust, or regret. Think of something you’ve done that was really, really embarrassing or dumb: now feel your face or take a look in the mirror as you wince at the uncomfortable memory.
Let my freak in - engage in sexual activity.
Wrap it up
Finish the task completely
Bacon
Bacon is a thin, salty meat product that’s often served beside eggs at breakfast. Some people like their bacon cooked until it’s crispy.
Crap
Garbage, shit
You all set/ yeah I’m fine/ see you at home.
Dissolution, transformation, fascinating. Decay, growth, whisper, quits,
Short handed- inadequate in number of workers or assistants etc.
Come check this out.
That’s why they hire men.
Apprehend
Arrest
Custody - imprisonment
Individuals / persons /people/ folks/guys/men
Siren wailing
Pull it together
to take control of your feelings and behave in a calm way
Intoxication
Drunk / under the influence of drugs.
Murders , rapists , peace. Tour. Insane,
Hilarious
extremely funny.
Take the stairs instead as of taking the elevator.
I really really want help, but I’m at the point in my life where I can’t do anything I wanna do
Spinning. Care about my career and want me to succeed. Why are you sending me immigrants without insurance.
glam·or·ous
Having a beauty or charm that is sexually attractive.
Charm
the power or quality of giving delight or arousing admiration.
Smack
A smack is a slap or blow made with the palm of a hand or something else that’s flat. Instead of giving your dog a smack for chasing the cat, you should speak calmly and firmly to him.
Respectfully decline
Chubby
Overweight
Gross out
Freak out. Lol
Maybe there is an overlap, I’m not taking about myself.
Exception
Resist
Butler - chief man servant
Adjourned
Meeting adjourned . Meeting ended
Lend the helping hand.
Supervision
Whistle - blowing
an informant who exposes wrongdoing within an organization in the hope of stopping it
Divulge
If you’ve been sneaking around with your best friend’s boyfriend, that’s probably one secret you don’t want to divulge, because revealing that tidbit of information will probably cut your friendship short.
Tidbit
delicious. You might have a tidbit to tide you over between lunch and dinner.
If you’re tempted to feed your dog tidbits of your dinner, remember that that’s a good way to turn him into a chubby dog that begs for food. The word tidbit can also mean “a bit of gossipy information,” and you may notice yourself lingering where you can overhear a phone conversation, hoping for a few tidbits. Tidbit, or titbit in the U.K., comes from the dialectical tid, “fond or tender.”
Tide
Rise and fall of sea levels.
Collegial
Collegial is an adjective describing a work environment where responsibility and authority is shared equally by colleagues. You know you work in a collegial environment when your co-workers smile at you, and you don’t have to hide from your supervisor.
Replenish
Refill
Incoherent
Incoherent means that something is difficult to understand because it’s not holding together.
Surly
Surly describes behavior nobody wants to be around. Think of the irritable old guy who lives on your street and always seems to be simmering with some sullen nasty anger, whose every utterance he spits out with a rude snarl.
Flight attendant
I’m not buying it - I don’t believe it.
Get your take on something
Discovering Stu, find out about something’s.
Handle all this in one session. Something is based on a lie.
Pounding
repeated and heavy striking or hitting of someone or something.
“the pounding of the surf on a sandy beach”
My heart is pounding
My head is pounding.
You lost me at handsome.
Ironically
Sob, count on it. Insulting , sneakers
The meat was heavenly discounted, I have to cook it before it turns.
Thought was a joke and I thought it was hilarious
You know how I appreciate your help, but you have to let me establish my own traditions.
Wanna handle it right, you grew back that mustache
Landlord tenant confidentiality in the lease, sounds like he really cares about you what a dick. Yes I liked it it made me laugh, I once successfully argued against gravity, actually scratch that I’m addicted to gambling.
I’m messing with you - I’m kidding
Don’t worry it gets better, eventually they leave. As a a nurse I totally recommend but a Cuban I’ll suffer in silence. A silent Cuban I’d like to meet one of those.
You know how hard I bust myself so that you can have opportunities than I did, then you pull this crap.
Spoon me to sleep / cuddle
Exhale/ inhale / heavily
Shush
You are safe . Barge into
Barge into - push one’s way. Barge yourself into a meeting.
Every time I show at school there are these eyes expecting perfection.
And you give it to them. Lol
Don’t worry I got this. I have a lot going on too. I wish I can make you this excited about a comb. lol when a hair looks weird.
Condiment
A condiment adds flavor to food. Ketchup and mustard are popular condiments.
Is it hot out here or is it you.
Shakespeare
Before you speak listen
Before write think
Before you spend earn
Learn a lot from my peer as much as from faculty if not more.
Hypnotize/ fascinate
capture the whole attention of (someone); fascinate.
Mesmerize / hypnotize - note sexism
Lawyers could love to wear sweatpants but they wear suits so that the judge can take them seriously
Beauty gives you power.
I like what you said about power, I’ll try it
Stagger
Walk unsteadily
Or arrange things/ people so they don’t occur at the same time.
Have noticed when I speak you don’t listen, okay.
Stop saying what I’m trying to say.
Dismiss everything that I say
Complaining about
Diagnose what is happening I’ll say you being jealous because I’m killing it.
Tightening, my date had a huge success still happening.
Was terrible, I did listen to you, liked really unnatural, inside I was thinking, thank you,
You look lovely as always
Please come back to work I’m begging you.
Make a move on someone
Spying on me weren’t you,, proof it.
What are you in my closet. I was on my way to the kitchen and I got lost
Compulsive hoarding
A persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of a perceived need to save them.
Speed things along - especially when you are precasting .
Offering thanks to someone who lets you stay and you have a present with you.
Thanks you so much for letting me stay, you so generous, I bought a dash a token of appreciation. - dash, gift as a token of appreciation.
Meet someone you’ve been looking forward to see/ meet
It’s so wonderful to finally meet you.
I’m just beat after that flight.
You must be
All that thing with initial passion and excitement wore off
I’m a bookwarm myself, what are you reading
Shove them under the bed .
I have to take this
Can’t be around this people, my brain has started to liquidity
Embark on this journey of my life.
Toiling
doing arduous or unpleasant work
Toiling my whole life for every inch of academic success.
I don’t thing anyone would buy me a shed for a myriad reasons
A myriad is a lot of something. If you’re talking about Ancient Greece, a myriad is ten thousand, but today you can use the word in myriad other ways.
I actually get that. I understand that. ??? It’s annoying
You are so good at smells. It’s a gift! Lol
You sure have a lot of way to say you are sad.
Closing blinds - people close blinds all the time, why did you , who are you talking about.
You are out she is in.
I have your lunch, I want you to check on it to make sure it meets your approval. The good news about my lunch deliveries, you don’t have to tip!
Make sure it’s what you ordered.
Hey. Everything going alright?
Morning
What’s up
What’s going on sir?
- propriety. the state or quality of conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behavior or morals.
“he always behaved with the utmost propriety”
I’m underpaid but it beats not having a job at all.
Far be it for me to tell you how to do you job.
He knows exactly what he wants he needs to be wooed, progress nonetheless, you can’t turn a no into a yes without a maybe in between.
Health starts disintegrating
Decrease - depreciating
Inviting a fox into the hen house
There is more difference than similarities
Selfish isn’t a bad thing fill your own cup before filling someone’s
I don’t want to fight you on but what choice have you left me.
We were ready to impeach one president we will do the same with you.
So much has been going in the first few months it’s has been hardly to talk.
You don’t explain.
I love you and it has nothing to do with you.
Let’s finish taking about this in the moment.
We are set in stone, we can change.
Asked you to destroy it. You should have.
Hope I came over hear for the good news.
The countries values independence and following the dreams
Why am I hear mr president
You don’t strike to me as somebody who will shy away from a challenge
Doctors are not infallible
Incapable of making mistakes
Infallible
Always right effective always
Vision is currency. How far you see into the future
Lurking
remaining hidden so as to wait in ambush.
Ambush
An ambush is a sneak attack. To ambush your enemy, hide and wait for him to come near and then pounce on him.
Sneak
The word sneak has many shades of meaning, but all involve doing something in a secretive or stealthy way.
Dissolution
The dissolution of a relationship means that it’s broken up or ended. The dissolution of your band means you better get started on your solo album.
Revolutions sneak up on you one small step at a time I don’t take chances if with the smallest of steps
Why don’t you say something, I don’t have to they are my friends they should be supporting me not taking advantage. Maybe they don’t know that. Neither of them is very bright . - sharp,
It’s common knowledge
That explain it, I’m not common
You seem to have forgot. We don’t skip church.
I should be making decisions that I should be making
What did you think chasing that woman away, she is funny , she is charming and when she gets angry she cleans
Move over
What’s everybody having going on tonight. Any fun plans.
Cast out
Throw away
Strike out
Set out on a course of action
Queer
Gay
Where have you two been,
Where is the cake
Where is the balloon.
Status report
Sounds like a train wreck - disaster.
Figurative.
Attitude
Spare
Spare describes something that is extra. If you have a spare tire for your bike you can replace a flat, and if there’s enough change in your pocket you can spare some to patch a friend’s tire.
As a noun, a verb, and an adjective, the word spare has many meanings. A leftover part is a spare, you can spare a life when you save an animal or person, and you have spare time when you finish a project early. If you “spare no expense” you spend lots of money and when you spare a friend’s feelings, you keep upsetting details to yourself. And if you have a moment to spare, you have time to share.
If memory serves next stage us dancing
We should probably the music on to make this less weird.
I’m glad you are having a good time. But it’s not over yet.
This is great.. ..
Why is it always when someone says I’m just being honest. Something terrible comes next. It’s never like I’m just being honest you are smart.
Ridicule
When you ridicule someone, you mock or make fun of them. They become the object of your ridicule or mockery. Your bad behavior might bring ridicule on your parents, who raised you to know better.
Aspirational
I spend my whole life trying to avoid this conversation
Let’s catch you up
I need to talk you to you so call as soon you get this
One in the morning, something happened in you apartment or something is about to happen in mine. Ugh!
You’ll be surprised how many of my hookup started with urg!
Groping
acting with uncertainty or hesitance or lack of confidence
Protagonist
A protagonist is the central character in a story: the protagonist of Huckleberry Finn is — guess who? — Huckleberry Finn.
Suffocate you
Reminisce
Recall the past
Who are you hiding behind you Edwin
We are still conversing
Custody hearing
Appropriate
Don’t let anyone who knows nothing about your family make decisions for your family .
When you are against going to family court.
Belligerent
Other forms: belligerents
If someone is belligerent, they’re eager to fight. It’s a good idea to avoid hardcore hockey fans after their team loses — they tend to be belligerent.
You snooper my medicine cabinet
Are you hoarding me
Starving
Famished
You can’t keep stringing me along
Repulse
Force or drive back
Delusional
A delusional person believes things that couldn’t possibly be true. If you’re convinced that the microwave is attempting to control your thoughts, you are, sadly, delusional.
Shenanigan
Ever been ripped off at three card monte or some other con? Well, you’re the victim of a shenanigan, a clever form of deception, usually designed to part the unwary from their money.
Stealing someone’s innocence
Flaw - fault
Sabotage
Horrendous
extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible.
Excruciating
Extremely painful
Potent
Potent means really strong, but not like a body builder. Use potent instead to describe things like intense smells, powerful magic potions, and very influential people.
From the Latin potentum, meaning “powerful,” potent is just that: having tremendous strength or influence in either a moral or physical sense. A potent question gets to the heart of the matter and sparks serious discussion. Really stiff drinks can be potent, as can your breath after a garlicky meal. And as the composer Igor Stravinsky once asked, “What force is more potent than love?”
We are drifting apart , how did it get to this.
I don’t know what to say
Barking the wrong tree
to make the wrong choice; to ask the wrong person; to follow the wrong course.
This calls for celebration.
You guys have fun but I gotta go.
Infuriating
Make extremely angry
Blew up
Context - destroy
Retract
could retract, or take back? You’re not alone. Even newspapers and magazines have sections where the editors can retract something written that was incorrect.
I’ll be honored
Gonna have to call you right back
Must be. A mistake
The process is a breeze there is really nothing to be nervous about
Prohibit
It’s not allowed
Putrid
You know that science experiment that used to be lunch that is now rotting in the back of your fridge? Because it’s decomposing and stinks to high heaven, you can call it putrid.
Wilt
When things droop from heat, lack of water, or illness, they wilt. If you go on vacation for two weeks and forget to water your plants first, they will wilt.
Soldier on
: to continue to do something or to try to achieve something even though it is difficult
Plunge into
to jump into something, especially with force. (also plunge in) to start doing something in an enthusiastic way, especially without thinking carefully about what you are doing. to experience something unpleasant. The country plunged deeper into recession.
Toiletries
Sweltering
Sweltering means uncomfortably hot. Walking home from work on a sweltering day will leave you sweating.
Did this topic came up when we were making the reservations.
No, because you insisted on making the reservations.
Hysterical
Hysterical means “marked by uncontrollable, extreme emotion.” If your favorite sports team wins a championship, you might get hysterical and start weeping and screaming all at once.
Camouflage
To camouflage is to disguise, and a camouflage is that which disguises — like the leaf-colored and patterned uniforms worn by soldiers who want to blend in with their natural surroundings.
Rage
Rage is a really intense anger.
Treacherous
Treacherous means either not trusted or dangerous. A treacherous road might be icy or otherwise likely to cause a car accident. A treacherous friend will betray you.
I have found in my life, that people who tell me how busy they are all the time, if you break it down, they don’t have jack shit going on.
Put my foot down
to use your authority to stop something happening: When she started borrowing my clothes without asking, I had to put my foot down.
Quack
a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill. 2. a person who pretends, professionally or publicly, to skill, knowledge, or qualifications he or she does not possess; a charlatan.
National
Of or relating to or belong to a nation / country.
Tragedy/ disaster
event causing extreme suffering, even total destruction.
- earthquake
- oil spills.
- economic collapse.
Fortune
A fortune can be a large amount of money, and fortune is a form of fate. So you want to have the good fortune to make a fortune during your career.
Express
- Something’s goes fast - express.
- You also express your feelings and thoughts.
Articulate
Ability to speak fluently and coherently.
Convert from thoughts to words
Presented with clarity.
Present vs express.
Also note eloquent.
Intended
Have in mind as a purpose.
I intend to finish homework.
Factual account of events/ information is non fiction.
Narrative.
Story that you write or tell someone usually in great detail.
Narrative gives the whole story a summary gives few details and then the narrative delve into the details.
Delve
The verb delve means to dig into, loosen, or investigate. She delved into her family’s history and discovered an inventor, a checkers champion, and a circus equestrian in her ancestry.
When you scowl you make an angry face. The angry face you make is also called a scowl. Lighten up.
Men will oftentimes instinctively mistake kindness for sexual interest and women mistake sexual interest for kindness.
Worry more about what you want to do rather than what you want to be
The noun retreat means a place you can go to be alone, to get away from it all. A spot under a shady tree might be your favorite retreat from the sun, or your bedroom in the basement may serve as a retreat from your siblings.
Went on a church retreat
Let go of the handle
Stay back
Seat belt
You look good
You lie good
involving or causing sudden great damage or suffering.
“a catastrophic earthquake”
Young woman informal - cupcake.
Bottle
Confiscated
Diligent
Someone who is diligent works hard and carefully. If you want to write the epic history of your family, you’ll have to be very diligent in tracking down and interviewing all of your relatives.
Patch in
to connect (a person, a message, etc.) to a communication system especially temporarily. they patched him into the conference call.
Invincible
too powerful to be defeated or overcome.
Fogies
plural noun: fogies
a person, typically an old one, who is considered to be old-fashioned or conservative in attitude or tastes.
“a bunch of old fogeys”
Morbid
If the first section of the newspaper you read is the obituaries, you could be considered morbid. Morbid is a word used to describe anyone who spends too much time thinking about death or disease.
Knock your block off
hit someone very hard in anger.
Furlough
Furlough started as a word for time off from military duty. It spread from there to other types of time off, including an employer furloughing (or laying off) employees.
Empty nester
a parent whose children have grown up and left home
Charade
A charade is something done just for show. Your devotion to vegetarianism would be a charade if you actually ate cheeseburgers when no one was looking.
Boudoir
Boudoir is a slightly old-fashioned word for a bedroom. You could invite a friend for a sleepover and say, “You can sleep on the spare bed in my boudoir.”
Ego
a person’s sense of self-esteem or self-importance.
“a boost to my ego”
Misconstrue
Misunderstood
Trying to get my head around this.
Imbecile
extremely stupid person.
Entice
Let’s say your friend wants to go to the movies and you don’t want to. Your friend might try to entice you by offering to buy you popcorn and a soda. Entice means to persuade with promises of something.
Ran into someone
Nail it
Perfect a task exceptionally well
Insinuating
Secret
Huddle up
to gather or crowd together in a close mass. to crouch, curl up, or draw oneself together.
Pawn
To pawn something is to use it as collateral when you’re borrowing money. When you pawn a necklace at a pawn shop, you get cash in exchange for it with the understanding that you can buy it back later.
Belch
to expel gas suddenly from the stomach through the mouth ; 2 · to erupt, explode, or detonate violently ; 3 · to issue forth spasmodically : gush.
Brains beats brawn
Temple
Place of worship
Flat area on the side of the forehead
Stunning
Someone who is strikingly beautiful can be described as stunning. There’s something magical about weddings that makes every bride look stunning.
Eviscerate
Eviscerate is not a pretty word. To eviscerate can mean to remove the entrails of a creature. On the Discovery Channel you can watch a vulture eviscerate or take out the guts of a dead animal.
Inflate
Fill with air
Increase by large or excessive amount
Compassion
If someone shows kindness, caring, and a willingness to help others, they’re showing compassion.
Aversion
aversion - feeling of intense dislike
Feelings of fear
Dread
Stomp
When you stomp, you thud your feet down heavily as you walk. An angry teenager might stomp down the hall and slam the door to his room.
Vase
The tall container you put flowers in is a vase. Thanks for the enormous bouquet of daisies — I’ll need to find a large enough vase to fit them in!
Burn somebody up
To make someone angry
Impending
About to happen
Doom
Death , destruction the end of the world
Adverse
Unfavorable
Fan out
To spread apart / cause to spread apart
Raggedy
Worn or torn
Spout
A tube or lip projecting from a container, through which liquid can be poured.
Clench
Clench something, grip, press or squeeze it
Vestibule
A vestibule is a little area just inside the main door of a building, but before a second door. You often find vestibules in churches, because they help keep heat from escaping every time someone enters or exits.
Trample
To trample is to forcefully walk right over something or someone. If you fall down during a footrace, another runner might trample you.
Nostalgia
Longing for something in the last
Miniature
Things that are miniature are teeny tiny versions of something else
Insatiable
Hard to satisfy
Insatiable
Impossible to satisfy
Vase
A tall container that you put your flowers in
Trample
To trample is to forcefully walk right over something or someone. If you fall down during a footrace, another runner might trample you.
Omnipotent
of a deity) having unlimited power; able to do anything.
“God is described as omnipotent and benevolent”
Petrified
If you’ve ever felt so terrified you couldn’t move, you’ve been petrified. Someone who’s petrified of public speaking will do anything they possibly can to avoid giving a speech.
Stomp
When you stomp, you thud your feet down heavily as you walk. An angry teenager might stomp down the hall and slam the door to his room.
Obscure
Vague / not clear/ hard to see
Impervious
It’s a surface that won’t be penetrated.
not admitting of passage or capable of being affected
“a material impervious to water”
“someone impervious to argument”
Appropriation
- Act of taking someone’s thing without permission
- Money set aside for a specific purpose
Ancillary
Auxiliary
If you use the adjective ancillary to describe your position you are subordinate or supporting something or someone else.
Abhor
Extreme hate
Derby
A derby is a type of hat that’s round, felt, stiff, and has a narrow brim. Wear one with a little mustache and a cane, and you’ll look just like Charlie Chaplin.
Disposition
Someone’s disposition is their mood or general attitude about life. If your friend woke up on the wrong side of the bed, tell her that she might need a disposition makeover.
Hurdles over which racers must leap
An artificial barrier that racers must leap
Accents - obvious. To give special attention or prominence to something
Intractable
When a problem is intractable can’t be solved
Cracker
Crisps eaten with cheese
Teflon pans
Belch
Eat gas noisily from the stomach
Scrunch round elastic fabric band used to fasten the hair
Puck
Black disk made of hard rubber used to play ice hockey
Consummate
Make relationship/ marriage complete by having sex
Nod off
To begin to sleep especially not intentionally
Omnipotent
Unlimited power
Ephemeral
Short lived
Well up
Roll up with the punches
To be able to deal with a series of difficult situations
Prying
Excessively interested in a person private affairs
Disingenuous
Not trustworthy
Breath down someone’s neck
To stay close to someone watching everything that they do
Spooky
Easily nervous / frightened
Smokeless
Bury the hatchet
End a conflict a quarrel
Twirl
Turn in a twisting or spinning motion
Terrestrial
Of on relating to earth
I can live with that
You are good at math
Married to and NOT with
Fed up with - tired / angry
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
Indifference
Trait of lacking interest or enthusiasm in things
Snooze fest
Very boring event
Decency honest good manners and respect for other people.
Decency
Bland
Lack strong features and characteristics and therefore uninteresting
Water under the bridge
Past event should not be a source of concern
Presumptuous
Hope I won’t be considered presumptuous if I offered you some advice
When someone takes liberties, doing things too boldly, you can describe them with the adjective presumptuous.
Dashing
Someone who’s dashing is stylish, with a certain bold, attractive spirit. Your dashing uncle might charm and impress your friends with his stories of travels around the world and his fashionable outfits.
Characters in old books are
Where do you get the gall
Blathering
Talk foolishly
Emphatically
When you say something emphatically, you say it with great emphasis and force, like when you emphatically denied that you took the last cookie.
Emphatically, pronounced
Lassitude
Feeling of lack of energy or interest
Indulgence
An indulgence is doing something that you enjoy even if it has negative consequences. Buying yourself something that you don’t need, be it a cookie, video game, or diamond necklace, is an indulgence.
Aberrant
Departing from accepted standards
Condescending
Looking down on someone
Embarrass
feeling of self-consciousness, shame, or awkwardness.
“I turned red with embarrassment”
Similar:
awkwardnes
Moxie
If you have moxie, you won’t let a minor setback stop you from trying again, because you’re a determined person who doesn’t give up easily.
Perpetual
Harmless - innocuous
Why are you doing track
Retaliate
Reputation
Partake
Eat and drink
Atrocious
exceptionally bad or displeasing
“atrocious taste”
shockingly brutal or cruel
“murder is an atrocious crime”
Sound
Expose
make (something) visible by uncovering it.
“at low tide the sands are exposed”
Precious
Highly valued
Look in on
Brief social visit
Vividly
Plunge into a bit of depression
Dizzy and woozy
Awful
Brief fling
Brief sexual relationship
Pitch a tent
To have an erection that shows through the trousers
Tipi
A type of a tent in the shape of a cone made from animal skin that was the traditional shelter of some Native American
Suggests fine dine
Score you suck
Swoop in
Usher in
To usher in is to launch something new, or mark its beginning. Your habit of wearing a tuxedo every day just may usher in a new era of formal wear at school.
Distraught
If you are upset, you are distraught. If you don’t want to explain why you are pulling your hair out, just utter “Leave me alone; I’m distraught.” It’ll work.
Swearing off
promise to abstain from something.
“I’d sworn off alcohol”
Swearing off guys altogether is the answer
Sophisticated
Barge in here you don’t knock
Inspire
Excite, encourage and breath life to
Pity
Feel sympathy for someone’s suffering
Pathetic
Inspires pity and contempt which means extreme lack of respect
Yelling - shouting
Nervous
Is the uneasy feeling we get for example when we perform in front of a large crowd, before the test.
Nervous / anxious
Attic - place or a room just before the roof of the house/building.
Refurbished
Whether it’s a bike, an old computer, or a tennis stadium, when you refurbish something you clean it up and make it look or perform better.
Unorthodox
Unorthodox describes something that goes against the usual ways of doing things.
Expunge
Remove completely
Agregious
Really bad and offensive
Presumptuous
When someone takes liberties, doing things too boldly, you can describe them with the adjective presumptuous
Plathora
Large / excessive amount
One in the oven
Baby growing in one’s womb
Hospitable
Welcoming and open
Latch
When you unlock your front door, you open the latch. A latch is a fastener or lock that you open with a key.
Fluke
If something good happens to you that you were not expecting that’s a fluke.
Extremely embarrassed- mortified
To be mortified is to be extremely embarrassed. If your pants fell down in class, you’d be mortified.
Adhere
Be loyal to
Fear dreads of something bad happening
Outrage
Shocking and makes you angry
The word versatility describes having many different skills or qualities. Versatility allows you to adapt to many different situations. Your versatility in sports means that you can play soccer, tennis, and basketball.
Agility
Act quickly and with ease
Green of someone
Have little experience with a particular job / task
Verge
Edge, border and boundary.
Motive
The reason for doing something.
Fraud
Deceives / tricks another person usually to get money.
Self righteous
Is when a person things their believe and morals are better than everyone else.
When you think that the charity of others pales in comparison with yours you are being self righteous.
To spew is to forcefully expel something, the way a volcano spews hot lava when it erupts, or the way you might spew soda from your mouth if your friend makes you laugh right after you take a big gulp.
Benign , mild, prospects
Ecstatic
Very happy or excited
Detrimental
Tending to cause harm.
Detrimental
Causing damage.
Prose
Te ordinary language people use in writing and speaking.
Infer
Deduce, or conclude information from evidence and reasoning rather than from explicit statements.
Jockeying
Struggle by any available means to achieve or gain something.
Vehement
You do it with energy and passion
Vociferous
Loudmouth
Writhe
Continual shaking and twisting / squirming movements
Dissent
Disagreement
Gurney
Aberration
Departure from what is normal
Pristine
Original condition unspoiled.
Good as new
Godspeed
A wish for success.
A wish for success given to a person on parting.
Zephyr
Gentle breeze
Renounce
Formally declare one’s abandonment
Stalwarts
Loyal, reliable and hardworking.
The dog emulates the master
Emulates - copies the behavior of.
Emulates
Imitate
Neutering
Castrate
Slick
Forfeit
Fine/ Penalty of wrongdoing.
Lose or deprived.
Epitome
A person or thing that’s a perfect example of a particular quality or type.
Warp
To be become twisted or bent
Slink
Move smoothly or quietly.
Slow your roll
Slow down, relax or calm down.
Nasty
Something nasty/ unpleasant.
It’s code for something nasty
Crudite
Raw vegetables
Hypnotize
Hold whole attention of, fascinate
I’ll come back when you are in a more receptive mood.
Soul patch
Hair that grows underneath a man’s lip.
Goatee
Chin hair
Rummage
Unsystematic and untidy search of something.
Innuendo
Indirect usually malicious implication
Prodigal son
Has returned from a long being gone for a long time
Obviously have been lured here under false pretenses
Put someone through the wringer
Make someone go through a stressful experience
Starting / is a huge undertaking.
Wrecking havoc
Cause great damage
Loathe
Intense dislike
Exfoliate
Removal of surface skins cells / dirty build up
Squeaky clean
Completely clean
Fastidious
Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
Smother
Deprive of oxygen / suffocate
Shimmering
shining with a soft, slightly wavering light
Blizzard
Severe snow storm
Professional
Putting personal aside to get the job done.
Prevail existing / occurring commonly,
Marvel
Causing great wonder, extraordinary
Sly
Skill in deception
Rigmarole
Lengthy and complicated procedure.
Petrified
Terrified
Tender
Formally offer.
I’m tendering my resignation.
Snap at someone
Speak irritably or abruptly to someone.
Transgressions
Infringement or violation of the law.
Chime in
Add into the conversation.
Burn the midnight oil
Set in stone
Accolade
Award s
Decadent
Characterized by a state of moral and cultural decline.
Dejected
Sad and depressed
Abysmal
Extremely bad and appalling / shocking / horrific
Crème de crème
Forsake
Abandon
Reprehensible
Deserving of blame or strong criticism.
Brazen
Bold without shame.
Treason
Deliberate betrayal.
The crime that undermine the offenders government.
Undermine - weakening someone else efforts.
Bemoan
Regret strongly.
Surfeit
An excessive amount of something.
A Surfeit food and drink.
Prodigy
Person especially a young one who has exceptional abilities
It’s easy to yield to the temptation to borrow slot of money.
Pulsating
They are diametrically opposed
Very different from each other
Prenatal
Before birth
Midwife
Healthcare providers who deal with childbirth, pregnancy.
Convenience
The state of being able to proceed with something with less effort or difficulty.
Radically
Completely
Bungle
To so something badly, make a mess.
Give that woman a taste of her Goodman medicine.
Do the same bad things to someone that they have done to you.
Got someone on the ropes
They are very near to giving up or being defeated.
Stipulate
Taking a demand that it be part of an agreement.
Badgering
Act of harassing someone
Infantry
Soldiers fighting on foot.
Don’t have a leg to stand on
Have nothing to prove.
Quip
Make a witty remark.
Recant
Take back
Atonement
When you apologize of doing something wrong, that’s atonement.
Deliberation
Careful consideration.
Face the music
Face consequences
Save face
Retain respect.
Inducement
A thing that persuades someone to do something / influences someone to do something.
Sever
Cut off from the whole.
Sniveling
Whining in a tearful manner.
Long in the tooth
Getting old
Delve
Inquire
Riveting
Capable of arousing and holding attention.
Arraign
To call a person before the court of law to be charged.
Huddled
Camp together
Treacherous
Dangerous, unstable, unpredictable
Insolent
Showing casual disrespect.
Asinine
Sth that is truly stupid or foolish.
Devoid of intelligence
Shiv
Knife
Renaissance
The period of European history at the close of middle and rise of the modern world.
Catch wind
Get a hint
Put your foot down
Use your authority to stop something from happening.
I had to put my foot down.
Won’t miss it for the world,
Flustered
Lose your cool
Unanimous
Full agreement
Even keeled
Stable and balanced
Resounding
Obvious and unambiguous
Bungle
Make a mess of
Two peas on a pod
Very similar
Incarcerated
Imprisoned
I wanted to sever fir a social occasion.
Celibacy; generally happier and energetic; you are very likely to achieve all you need; if you stay that way.
Roll with the punches
Adapt yourself to adverse circumstances.
Achilles heel
Vulnerable point
Put the money where your mouth is.
Take an action, give or spend money, in order to support something that you’ve been talking about.
Insinuate
Slide slowly and smoothly into position
Impugn
Dispute the truth, validity or honesty of.
Call into question.
Blow someone out of the water
To destroy or defeat someone or something completely.
Dead to rights
In act of committing the wrong or illegal activity
Fall through the cracks
Fail to be noticed, assisted or included with others.
Watering something down
Intentionally make an idea , a proposal, an opinion less extreme or forceful usually so that other people will accept it.
Prison infirmary
Hospital/ care unit
Regurgitating
Forced my hand.
Make necessary someone to do something
Stupendous
Massive
Double down
Engage in a risky behavior, especially when one is in a risky situation.
Continue to do something in a more determined way than before
Double down
Pack rat
Inadvertently
Without intention
Kick rocks
Go away
Grizzled
Frazzled
Hammock
Standoffish
Distant and cold; unfriendly
Laconic
Brief.
Opposite
Loquacious
Instigate
Provoke, stir
Inexplicable unable to be explained or accounted for.
Deranged
Crazy; insane
I’m sorry. I’m just taken aback.
Surprised, shocked.
Remiss
Failing in what duty requires.
Combative
Likes to fight either with words or fist.
Controversial
Capable of causing disagreements.
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Amicable
Savor
Enjoy it to the fullest.
Double standards
The rule that applies to one party unfairly
Repugnant
Extremely acceptable
Truculent
Pugnacious
Acquisitive
Excessive interest in acquiring money and material things.
Stupendous
Massive amount
Lecherous
Excessive indulgence in sexual activity.
Unwavering
Determined person, unwavering
Resolute
Unwavering
Inseparable
Petulance
Whininess and irritability.
Propensity
A natural inclination of behave a certain way.
Affinity
Natural attraction.
Rile up
Make people eager to fight;
Ostensible
State for appearing to be true, but not necessarily so.
Lithe
Move and bend with ease
Lithe
Supple, limber or flexible.
Grace
Smooth and pleasing way of moving or polite or thoughtful way of behaving.
Kinship
Relatedness or connection by blood, marriage or adoption.
Cynicism
Distrust or something is going to be wrong
Dub
Give a nickname
Your discernment to notice
Pernicious
Having harmful effects esp in a gradual / subtle way.
Grueling
Extremely tiring or demanding.
inextricably
Inextricably - hard to distinguish or separate.
Fluctuate
Go change continually; shift back and forth irregularly.
To fluctuate between choices - waver.
Fancy
Noun - fake.
Verb - want of like. I fancy a cup of tea.
Adjective. Opposite of plain; decorate or ornamented.
Laudatory
Full of it giving praise.
Platonic
Non sexual .
Affectionate and intimate but not sexual
surreptitious
Stealth.
Marked by quiet and caution and secrecy.
Potent
Have great power, influence and effect.
Espouse
Adopt
Vitality
Capacity to live and develop
Suborn
Induce to commit a crime
Strut
Walk in proudly.
Fly off the handle
Lose control of your emotions.
Convene
Philophobia
Fear of falling in love.
Keep always learning and adjusting your values and believe.
Obtuse
Annoyingly insensitive or slow to understand.
I’m surprised that this day and age you could be so obtuse about sexual orientations
Reprieve
Cancellation or postponement of punishment
Amnesty
This is not gonna be instant amnesty.
An official pardon to.
vicissitude
When one goes through a tough time
Pariahs
Outcast
Satiation
Satisfaction
Superfluous
Unnecessary, not needed, exceeds what’s is necessary.
Tenacity
Persistent determination
Platonic
Free from physical attraction.
Sacrilegious
extremely disrespectful towards something considered sacred
Severance
Severed - having been cut off/ sliced off.
Senile
Intrepid
Brave
Pernicious
Having harmful effects
Salutary
Describe something that is good for your health. Tending to promote physical wellbeing. Salutary benefits of pure air.
Shellacking
A very bad defeat.
Ferocious aggressiveness.
Fierce.
Avant-garde
Radically new or original.
Worthy of attention
Notable; remarkable
Take the plunge
Make a decision to do something after thinking about it for too long.
Take the helm
A position of full control or authority.
Endowment
This is a gift.
Weather
To deal successfully with a difficult situation or a problem.
Shortfall
Failure to meet a goal or requirement.
Lurch
To move suddenly.
Quacking in its boots
You feel very nervous or afraid and may feel slightly weak as a result.
Consortium
An association of two or more individuals, companies or organizations/ governments.
Emphatic
Forceful and clear.
Asymmetrical
Irregular in shape or outline.
The two sides are different in some way.
Grave mistake
A situation when someone made a serious error or bad decision with dire consequences. Terrible/ dire/ dreadful.
Lopsided
Having one side lower or smaller or lighter than the other. Asymmetrical. Turned or twisted toward one side.
Retribution
Punishment for the purpose of repayment or revenge
Bidet
Underdog
A person / team who is expected to be a loser in a competition
Underdog
A person / team who is expected to be a loser in a competition
Nonchalant
Calm and relaxed
Nonchalant
Calm and relaxed
Clandestine
Secret
Clandestine
Secret
Expeditiously
With speed and efficiency
Expeditiously
With speed and efficiency
Repudiate
Reduce to accept or associated with.
Masquerade
Pretend to be someone you are not.
Masquerade
Pretend to be someone you are not.
Mere
Pure and simple, nothing more or nothing less.
If the mere mention of someone’s name makes you happy, then just hearing his name — and that alone — is enough to make you smile.
Mere
Pure and simple, nothing more or nothing less.
If the mere mention of someone’s name makes you happy, then just hearing his name — and that alone — is enough to make you smile.
Strike out
Start something new independently
Strike out
Start something new independently
Unrequited
Not returned
Unrequited
Not returned
Avaricious
Do anything to have material gain.
