mice and men

The exercise was created 2020-11-18 by IsacOlofsson. Question count: 57.




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  • cat house whore house; house of prostitution
  • debris the remains of something that has been destroyed
  • morosely in a sad, gloomy manner
  • rabbit hutch type of cage for keeping rabbits
  • reeds tall grass with hollow stems, often found in or near water
  • stake an amount of money
  • reluctantly to do something against your will
  • recumbent reclining or lying down
  • timidly shyly
  • irrigation ditch a ditch to supply dry land with water artificially
  • noiselessly soundlessly
  • slope the side of a hill
  • emerge something appears
  • mottled a surface having coloured spots or blotches
  • blaze to burn brightly and strongly
  • embrace to hug
  • juncture a junction, where something is joint together
  • twinkle what happens when the sun hits and reflects in the water
  • anguish a feeling of great physical or mental pain
  • periscope a device, that through series of mirrors and prisms, allows one to view something not directly in the line of sight
  • tramp a person who travels on foot, usually doing odd jobs for a living
  • in hot water to be in hot water is to be in trouble
  • live of the "fatta" land using the existing resources
  • blow their stake lose and/or spen all their money
  • bustin a gut to bust a gut is to engage in very hard physical labour
  • you ain't puttin' nothing over me you can't fool me
  • grey-back parasites
  • vial small bottle
  • rumple to crease something
  • stocky heavily built
  • squint having your eyes partly closed
  • cesspool a deep hole in the ground in which sewage is drained
  • ominous something threatening
  • derogatory belittling and insulting
  • pugnacious someone who is eager to fight or argue
  • mourn to try to get over a sad occurrence
  • imitate to copy something
  • bitch a female dog
  • cautiously when you do something in a carefull way
  • deliberately doing something on purpose
  • peer to peek, look at something
  • bindle a package
  • stable buck a black man who works in a stable
  • viciously in a mean way
  • complacent satisfied with the current situation and unconcerned
  • swamper a handyman
  • to flounce to rush
  • to raise hell to cause trouble
  • to get the can to be fired
  • got the eye tends to look around at other men
  • shove off leave
  • picking scraps with big guys provoke a fight with big guys
  • to give someone a bum steer to trick someone
  • sore as hell extremely angry
  • i don't like anybody to get nosy i don't like anyone spying
  • tart a woman who dresses to get attraction from men
  • take the rap take the blame

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