Vocabulary booster

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• hilarious very funny
• cod an important food fish of northern Atlantic waters that is close to extinction
• devour to eat up greedily
• profound far-reaching, deep
• prejudice an opinion formed beforehand, especially an unfavourable one
• however on the other hand; by contrast
• come to a head to reach a critical or crucial state
• remorse a sense of deep regret and guilt for something one did
• capricious characterized by or subject to whom; impulsive and unpredictable
• pretentious making claim to distinction or importance
• suede a leather with a fine velvet-like surface on one side
• real estate agent a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land
• to express polite refusal decline
• Swizz a native or inhabitant of Switzerland
• outskirts the outer parts or area, especially of a town
• solicitor an attorney who advises clients on legal matters
• i.e in other words
• solitary alone, single
• pediatrician a physician who specializes in the care of babies
• a dead end a situation in which further progress is impossible
• suburb the usually residential region around a major city
• malicious with bad intent
• initial first
• bigoted blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others
• blasphemy bad language in a religious context
• crimson a deep to vivid purplish red to vivid red
• pint a unit of volume in the U.S customary system
• etymology study of the origin and development of words
• to blog to write entries in, add material to, or maintain a weblog
• inconspicious not very noticeable
• conundrum a paradoxical, insoluble, or difficult problem
• cordury hard-wearing fabric with soft velvety stripes
• swede the edible root of a European plant
• Big Brother a reality show on TV
• dilapidated old, shabby and in bad repair
• furnace informal a very hot place
• add insult to injury to make a bad situation worse
• obliterated wiped out
• proximity nearness
• the Secretary of State the foreign minister in the US
• congregation gathering of people in a church
• intrusion unasked for entry
• debris fragments of something destroyed
• CEO the corporate executive (chief executive officer)
• stifling hot and airless
• illiterate not able to read or write
• dexterity skill and grace in physical movement, especially in the use of the hands
• inadequate not good enough
• vivid very clear and detaile
• euphemism word used to replace one which has become too negative
• ferocious savagely fierce or cruel
• bilingual using or able to use two languages
• alien a person who is a citizen of a country other than the one in which he or she lives
• Facebook a social networking site founded in 2004 initially targeting Harvard students
• vast unusually large in size, degree or number
• notion idea
• cashier a person responsible for handling cash in a bank, shop, or other buisness
• conscience the sense of right and wrong that governs a person's thoughts and actions
• overthrow forcibly remove from power
• burry the hatchet make peace
• anxious uneasy and apprehensive about an uncertain event or matter
• copulate have sex
• global warming the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as result of the increase in greenhouse gases
• embezzle to steal money that belongs to the company or organization that one works for
• condominium an apartment in a building in which each apartment is individually owned

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