Vocabulary January 2023 - Guardian

The exercise was created 2023-07-20 by jennyholmqvist. Question count: 20.

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  • bootstrap relying entirely on one's efforts and resourses (eg about the success of a business)
  • grindset state of mind where you just keep going/thinking in order to achieve your goals
  • shingles bältros
  • svengali a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on others, esp for sinister purposes
  • chafing against rubbing against, esp about skin touching skin
  • in the vanguard at the forefront, in the position of leaders (from French avant guard)
  • cantankerous bad tempered, argumentative or uncooperative
  • furlough suspension or discharge of worker (permission)
  • self-effacing not claiming atetion to oneself
  • caper a playful skipping moment (glädjedans, kapris)
  • erstwhile former (tidigare)
  • a squalid jail cell an extremely dirty and unpleasant jail cell
  • golly doll doll with a black caricatural face
  • minstrelcy variety show during the 19th century in the USA where white men painted black were preforming
  • behemoth a huge or monstruous creature
  • blood libel false accusation of ritual murder (that Jews killed white boys)
  • grifter person who engage in petty or small scale swindling
  • pull a hamstring sträcka bakre lårmuskeln
  • hamstring render powerless
  • profiling someone collecting information about someone, esp a criminal, in order to give a description of them

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