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• barrelling rolling
• contest dispute
• devour eat quickly and hungrily
• juggernaut huge lorry/truck
• slated for extinction will no longer exist
• bluebell blue flower shaped like a bell
• ripple move like a series of small waves
• chandelier hanging crystal lamp
• inherit get from forefathers
• acquire learn
• chief institution most important organization
• expand become larger
• cite quote
• codified systematically arranged according to certain rules
• convey communicate
• de facto actual, real
• fluency ability to speak a language with an easy flow
• grating irritating
• inhibited held back by some hindrance
• stoke add fuel to a fire
• conceived born (as an idea)
• endure manage through hardships
• forth forward
• perish die
• pannikin small metal cup
• definitive final
• obsolete out of date, no longer used
• pedant a person who is very concerned about small details
• mocking contemtuous
• wastage loss
• justification acceptable reason
• vague not clear
• notion idea
• vapid dull
• big brother an oppressive leader, present everywhere, who controls individual lives
• range extent
• rigidly strictly
• rub out remove
• consciousness awareness
• prole proletarian
• remark comment
• unorthodox very unusual
• divine guess
• contradictory opposite
• abolish put an end to, cancel
• be vaporized disappear, made into gas
• constellation a named group of stars
• crave have a longing desire for
• elation extreme happiness
• psychic able to see into the future and read minds
• surgeon doctor who performs operations
• Ursa Minor latin name of a star group in space
• blockbuster best-selling book or film
• supplanted replaced
• repository place for keeping things
• omission leaving something out
• apocryphal probably not actually from real life
• pedestrian unadvanced
• destiny fate
• descendant later generation
• bypass road which passes round, not through, a town
• The East India Company trading company set up by the British government
• I'm game let's give it a try
• gone off stopped liking
• come off it don't be stupid
• display show
• average medium, typical
• casually without particular planning
• dropping round informally visiting
• social venue chosen location
• torch hand-held light
• vicinity neighbourhood
• Betelguese a bright star in the star group Orion
• inconspicuous not very noticeable
• deference special consideration
• ancestors earlier generations
• stiff drink strong drink
• take it as read assume
• volatile easily evaporating
• fermentation transformed through action of yeast etc.
• forgone conclusion absolutely expected result
• Reader's Digest a monthly magazine thought by many to dumb down literature
• get the hang of intuitively understand
• cruddy utterly worthless
• oscure and unsung hamlet unknown tiny village
• refreshment food and drink
• sanitary relief toilets
• own look-out own problem
• passing out losing consciousness, graduating from military school
• galley kitchen in ship etc.
• squalid low standard and dirty
• officious rule-bound and pompous
• callous unfeeling
• ravenous extremely hungry
• peat compost
• impoverished very poor
• interstellar between stars
• strut walk boastfully
• leech-like like a bloodsucking parasite
• excreting getting rid of body waste
• upshot result
• clinching providing unanswerable argument
• dead giveaway something which clearly shows up the truth
• QED quite easily done
• rectify put right
• recitation speaking
• fatulent having very gassy intestines
• putty soft squashy substance
• nobbling disabling
• haemorrhaging bleeding
• intestine gut
• throttle strangle
• perished died
• ordeal extremely unpleasant experience
• unscathed unhurt

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