Vocabulary English - test v.42

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• Detention Keeping someone in a police station/prison and not allowing them to leave
• Fickle Always changing your mind
• Disguise oneself (as) modify one’s appearance
• Shed (shed, shed) lose/drop something in a natural way or by accident
• Turnstile narrow gate with metal bars that you push around to enter an area
• Dodge avoid with a quick movement
• Make it snappy do it quickly
• Disobey not do what you are told
• Fuzzy tightly curled
• Heir someone who will receive money, property, a title or a duty when another person dies
• Stain spot, mark
• Plain not attractive
• Repatriate send someone back to their home country
• Railing fence made from metal bars
• Garment item of clothing
• Enchanted magical
• Pale whitish, not strong in color
• Tinned preserved in a can
• Wing additional part of a building
• Ravenous very hungry
• Decline (to) refuse, decide not to
• Rummage search for something (among a lot of other things)
• Giddy dizzy, light-headed
• Breed type, sort
• Captivity imprisonment, confinement
• Threadbare worn and shabby
• Implore beg, plead with
• Possessions belongings, things you own
• See-through transparent
• Defy refuse to obey, rebel against
• Livelihood (source of) income, business
• Sustain enable something to continue exist
• Acute extreme, severe
• Toil work hard
• Extent size degree
• Abuse cruel and violent treatment of another person
• Condemnation criticism, disapproval
• Manufacturer maker, producer
• Abound exist in large numbers
• Choosy fussy, difficult to please
• Call for demand that something happens
• Fund provide money for something
• Body organization
• From the ground up completely (and taking the basics first)
• Legislation law, set of laws
• Empower give someone the power or authority to do something
• Pest insect that damages crops
• Pesticide chemical used by farmers to kill harmful insects etc.
• Prune trim, cut back
• Institute introduce begin
• Return profit
• Ridden full of something bad
• Fluctuate rise and fall
• Unrest conflict, disorder
• Stance attitude, view
• Outfit small organization
• Intermediary middleman, go-between
• Slump sudden large drop (in price, amount, ets.)
• Sound sensible and reliable
• At the expense of causing damage to
• Jubilant extremely happy
• Unintelligible impossible to understand
• Heirloom inheritance, family treasure
• Arbitrary random, not thought through
• Secular not connected to religion
• Fleeting brief, short-lived
• Negligent careless and showing neglect
• Valiant brave
• Solace comfort
• Contamination infection, poisoning, pollution
• Wilful intentional and in a determined way
• Flutter sudden movement (up and down)
• Prowl move around quietly and threateningly
• Sensous physically pleasurable
• Exuberance energetic character/behaviour
• Retrieve get bring back
• Dollop portion, amount
• Squirm look or feel embarrassed
• Rash area of red spots on the skin
• Vouch for back up, confirm
• Impetuous impulsive, without thinking
• Inventory detailed list
• Apprehensive worried, anxious
• Reminiscence A memory
• Patronise act superior
• At large as a whole, generally
• Magnitude great size
• Docile quiet and well behaved
• Concession compromise
• Inflict cause

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