Vocabulary January 2023 - Guardian

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• bootstrap relying entirely on one's efforts and resourses (eg about the success of a business)
• grindset state of mind where you just keep going/thinking in order to achieve your goals
• shingles bältros
• svengali a person who exercises a controlling or mesmeric influence on others, esp for sinister purposes
• chafing against rubbing against, esp about skin touching skin
• in the vanguard at the forefront, in the position of leaders (from French avant guard)
• cantankerous bad tempered, argumentative or uncooperative
• furlough suspension or discharge of worker (permission)
• self-effacing not claiming atetion to oneself
• caper a playful skipping moment (glädjedans, kapris)
• erstwhile former (tidigare)
• a squalid jail cell an extremely dirty and unpleasant jail cell
• golly doll doll with a black caricatural face
• minstrelcy variety show during the 19th century in the USA where white men painted black were preforming
• behemoth a huge or monstruous creature
• blood libel false accusation of ritual murder (that Jews killed white boys)
• grifter person who engage in petty or small scale swindling
• pull a hamstring sträcka bakre lårmuskeln
• hamstring render powerless
• profiling someone collecting information about someone, esp a criminal, in order to give a description of them

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