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Words & Phrases 5/3
English words and phrases
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Incisive | sharp; keen; penetrating; acute |
| Suffrage | The right to vote, act of intercession |
| Go out with | Spend time with someone |
| Get away with | Avoid punishment or to do something successfullly althought it's not the best way of doing it. |
| Take off | fly to somewhere; leave anyone without telling |
| Give up on something or someone | Stop feeling hope or stop trying to somethine |
| Sass | To talk in a rude way to someone you should respect |
| Disputatious | Fond of arguing; to disargee with something that someone says |
| Inclination | A small downwards movement; a feeling that make a person want to do something |
| Mingle | To mix or combind; at a party, you move around the room and talk a lot of different people. |
| Take someone back | Restart a romantic relationship |
| To set off | Start a journey |
| Stop off | To visit or stay at a place for a short time when you are going somewhere else. |
| Face up to | You accept the existence of a difficult situation |
| Keen | Want something, interest something, mind is quick to understand things |
| Succor | Assistance in time of distress, help |
| Keel over | Turn upside down, surrender, give in fall to the ground. |
| Drop something or someone off | Leave a person or something somewhere |
| Force | To use physical strength or effort to make something move or open. |
| Surrender | Give up something because you have been forced to do so. |
| Get away from | Go somewhere different, or do something different |
| Cheat on someone | You secretly have a romantic relationship with someone else |
| Rudiment | The elementary stages of any subjects. |
| Jaunt | A short journey for pleasure |
| Suitable | Acceptable or right for someone or something |
| Stifle | To prevent something from happening, being expresed or continuing |
| Drop in/by | Make a short visit to a person, usually without arranging a particular time. |
| Hang up | To end a telephone conversation |
| Grubby | Dirty, slovenly, unclean, untidy |
| Turn into | Become something different, change |
| Prissy | behaving very correctly and easily shocked by anything else |
| Drop out | Quit or not finish something I |
| Garrulous | Having the habit of talking a lot |
| Look after something or someone | You take care of them and make sure they have what they need |
| Catch someone out | You find evidence to show that they have secretly been doing something wrong or bad |
| Adhesion | The ability to stick when s.t sticks to s.t else |
| Prepossessing | Interesting,noticeable, attractive |
| Make s.t up | You invent an untrue story or explaination, often in order to hide the trude |
| Tell on s.o | You give information about s.o usually about s.t bad that they said or done, to a person in authority |
| Infuriate | To make s.o extremely angry |
| Find out about s.t | You discover a fact or information that you did not know before |
| Flare | Suddently become angry, violent |
| Get back to s.o | You contact s.o to continue an earlier conversation or reply the message, question, invitation. You can get back to s.o face to face, by text, phone, emai. |
| State | Say or write especially clearly and carefully |
| Crush | To make s.o feel extremely upset or shock. to press s.t very hard so that it's broken or damage |
| Crush on s.o | to have a feeling of romantic love for s.o especially s.o you do not know well |
| Come up | S.t happens, occurs or appears |
| Discourage (vt) | To make s.o feel less confident, enthusiastic and positive s.t; or less willing to do s.t |
| A thorn in somebody's side | S.o or s.t that annoys you or causes problems for a long period of time; s.t is bother in you. |
| Neglected (adj)Neglec (vt) | Not receiving enough care or attention |
| Neglect to do s.t | To not do s.t, often because you forget. |
| Affluent (adj)Affluence (nu) | owning a lot of thing, rich, wealthy |
| Tell off | Talk angrily to s.o about s.t they have done wrong. |
| Effluent (adj, nuc) | Special chemicals, liquid waste that is sent out from factories, poisonous, toxic. |
| Run out | To finish, use or sell all of s.t, so that there is none left, come to an end. |
| Slacker (nc)Slack (Adj) | S.o who is lazy and does not to do the work |
| Account for | To explain |
| Incur (vt) | To experience s.t, usually s.t unpleasant as a result of actions you have taken, you have to pay $ because of s.t |
| Allow for | Take into a consideration, to make concession, provision for |
| Encounter (nc; vt) | Especially one that happens by chance; to meet s.o unexpected, |
| Playing at | It means you are surprised by or unhappy about their behavior |
| Consideration (n) | The act of considering, careful thought or attention, regard; esteem; impertance; |
| Calm downs | You stop being angry or excited and become more relaxed |
| Provision (nc-u) | Preparing or supplying of s.t |
| Feel up to | It means that you want to do s.t or feel enthusiastic. |
| Shoddy (adj) | Badbly and carelessly made, using low quality materials, showing a little respect. |
| Freak out | You become very angry, excited |
| Slipshod (adj) | Done too quickly and carelessly, showing little care, effort and attention. |
| Enmity (nc-u) | A feeling of hated towards s.o |
| Bump into | You meet them by chance or unexpectedly |
| Go back | It means that you have known them for a very long time. |
| Hang on | you wait for a short time |
| Mess up | Do s.t wrongly and badly, you damage or spoil s.t |
| Indolent (adj) | Lazy |
| Construe (v) | To understand the meaning, especially of other's people actions and statements. |
| Culpable (adj) | Deserving to be blamed or considered responsible for s.t bad |
| Slapdash (adj) | Done or made in a hurried and careless way. |
| Pick up | You collect it; improve; learn quick; receive; take up s.t by hand; take on people; to accept in order to pay it |
| Get rid of | You destroy s.t that you don't want, often because it is causing problem for you |
| Go over | Check it very carefully |
| Get away with | Do s.t wrong or bad without being discovered or punished |
| Annotate (vt)Annotation (nc,u) | To add a short explaination or opinion to a text or drawing |
| Anxious (adj) | Nervous or uncomportable about s.t that will happen in the future. |
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