J.Java June 2022

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• fedora hat, flatter brim than trilby
• piffle nonsense
• pure piffle pure nonsense
• detain keep someone in official custody, typically for questioning about a crime
• snuff out dissent extinguish, out a sudden end to dissent (like a candlelight by pinching the wick)
• dissent the holding or expression of opinion at a variance with those commonly or officially held
• invertebrate an animal lacking backbone
• angler a person who fishes with a rod and a line
• flotsam the wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating or washed up by the sea, people or things that have been rejected or discarded as worthless
• seditious conspiracy inciting or causing people to rebel against the authority of a state or a monarch
• gawk stare openly and stupidly
• neck and neck with level in a race or other competition
• hike a sharp increase, esp in price
• the biggest interest rate hike since 1994 den största räntehöjningen sedan 1994
• excelsior used in the name of hotels to indicate superior quality
• excelsior softwood shavings used for packaging fragile goods or stuffing furniture, träull
• threadbare cloth worn thin and soft with age, tattered. Can also mead worn out about an argument or excuse, used so long it has lost its effect
• perimeter a continous line defining the boundary of a close geometrical figure
• arbor berså
• conk out early fall asleep early
• RV recreational vehicle
• a dainty teacup a teacup that is delicately small and pretty
• affidavit vidimering
• movie tie-in cover reprint of a novel rebranded to tie in with its film adaptation
• unvetted not thoroughly examined
• esophagus matstrupe
• worth her salt (woman) good or competent at the job or profession specified
• rhinestone an imitation diamond used in cheap jewellery and to decorate clothes, strass
• live vicariously through you experience the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
• coterie a small group of people sharing the same interest
• brawny physically strong, muscular
• mesh tyg av myggnätstyp
• incandescent mile a passionate smile, full of strong emotion
• snake oil a substance with no real mechanical value sold as remedy for all diseases
• debunk expose the falseness or hollowness of an idea or belief
• cursor muspekare
• filch a cookie steal a cookie secretly or casually
• epitaph something by which a person, time or event will be remembered
• exacerbate make a problem worse
• ditty a short simple song

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