Life on the edge

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• detention keeping somone in a police station/prison
• fickle always changing your mind about who/what you like
• cinnamon spice used to flavour sweet food and cakes
• disguise oneself modify one´s appearance
• shed lose/drop something in a natural way or by accident
• turnstile narrow gate with metal bars that you push round to enter an area
• dodge avoid with a quick movement
• make it snappy informal do it quickly
• disobey not do what you are told
• fuzzy tightly curled
• heir someone who will receive money, property
• stain spot, mark
• plain not attractive
• talkative chatty, talking a lot
• prosperity wealth
• railing fence made from metal bars
• garment item of clothing
• enchanted magical
• pale whitish, not strong in colour
• tinned BrE preserved in a can
• wing here additional part of a building
• ravenous very hungry
• decline (to) refuse, decide not to
• rummage search for something
• giddy dizzy, light-headed
• breed type, sort
• captivity imprisonment, confinement
• threadbare worn shabby
• refugee someone forced to eave their country beacuse of war, politics
• implore beg, plead with
• possessions belongings, things you own
• see-through transparent
• defy refuse to obey, rebel against
• concrete building material made with sand, cement, smal stones and water
• slab thick flat piece of a hard material
• soothe calm, relax
• flicker shine unsteadily
• entwined twisted togheter
• adorn decorate
• intricate detailed, complex
• stifling very hot and difficult to breathe
• squat occupy land or property illegally
• landlord person you rent land or housing from
• beat-up old and in bad condidtion
• makeshift temporay, improvised
• sewage waste matter and dirty water from homes
• swig drink something in large mouthfuls
• tattered old and torn
• shed small simple building
• deceased formal dead
• inheritance money or poverty you recive from a person who has died
• ingenious very clever
• resilience ability to keep going despite setbacks
• fill someone provide
• hassle cause someone problems
• jaded bored and tired, no longer enthusiastic
• anticipation expectation
• drifter person who doesn´t stay in one place for long
• muse reflect, consider
• enlist join an army
• imminent happening very soon
• provisions food and material necessities
• rapid quick
• in succession in a row, one after the othe r
• endeavour try hard
• bolt lock
• devoted dedicated, enthusiastic
• provided on condition (that), only if
• coverage meet, join
• consequential important
• exceed go beyond
• unblemished having no faults
• immaculate totally perpfect
• hoarse rough and unclear
• swiftness quickness, speed
• marvel be amezed
• shudder shake, tremble
• agility ability to move quickly and easily
• dash run quickly
• infrequently rarely, not often
• heed notice, pay attention to
• readily wilingly
• supple able to move and bend easily
• dip solpe, hollow
• gratified pleased
• the latter the second of two things mentioned
• casualtied people hurt or killed
• stoop bend forward and down
• immense great, huge
• render provide, give

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