0328 Flashcards
(10 cards)
pittance
He’s paid a pittance but at least he’s paid.
a very small amount of money, especially wages, that is less than someone needs or deserves OPP fortune
cantina
It’s like the catina scene from Star Wars, where the band’s playing music and Han Solo’s in the corner and all of the bad guys and bounty hunters from all over the universe are hanging out - a wrethced hive of scum anbd villainy, only there’s no music and there’s no Han Solo.
(especially in a Spanish-speaking country or the southwestern US) a bar.
bounty
1 [countable] an amount of money that is given to someone by the government as a reward for doing something, especially catching or killing a criminal
wretched
1 someone who is wretched is very unhappy or ill, and you feel sorry for them
the poor, wretched girl
2 if you feel wretched, you feel guilty and unhappy because of something bad that you have done
Guy felt wretched about it now.
3 [only before noun] making you feel annoyed or angry
Where is that wretched boy?
4 literary extremely bad or unpleasant SYN miserable
I was shocked to see their wretched living conditions.
scum
2 [plural] informal nasty unpleasant people
villainy
evil or criminal behaviour
bawl
Right next to me as I walked in was a young man having a complete meltdown, talking to himself, balwing his eyes out.
bawl one’s eyes out: :
to cry loudly especially for a long time.
ruffian
He wasn’t some ruffian.
old-fashioned a violent man, involved in crime
rackteer
They were mostly in for white-collar crimes, money schemes, fraud and racketeering.
someone who earns money through crime and illegal activities
facade
I broke down. I’s been putting on this tough-guy facade for nearly a week, and I just couldn’t do it anymore.
2 [usually singular] a way of behaving that hides your real feelings
