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Question 1

run-down

Answer 1

The girl lived in a run-down block of flats downtown.
run-ˈdown adjective
1 a building or area that is run-down is in very bad condition
a run-down inner-city area
2 [not before noun] someone who is run-down is tired and not healthy
You look a bit run-down.

Question 2

busted

Answer 2

The elevator was busted, so we walked up several flights.

1 broken
a busted arm
2 [not before noun] caught doing something wrong and likely to be punished
You guys are so busted!

Question 3

dumbfounded

Answer 3

I was dumbfounded. I had no idea how to talk to a girl that beautiful.

extremely surprised
He was completely dumbfounded by the incident.

Question 4

layaway

Answer 4

Amabhujua will put a shirt on layaway, one shirt, and spend seven months paying it off .

American English a method of buying goods in which you give the seller of the goods a small amount of money to keep the goods until you can pay the full price
I put the dress on layaway.

Question 5

cornrows

Answer 5

corn‧rows /ˈkɔːnrəʊz $ ˈkɔːrnroʊz/ noun [plural]
a way of having your hair in small tight plaits in lines along your head
cornrows
• He wears tattoos and cornrows and bandanas and travels with his posse.
• Just don’t blame the cornrows for what’s wrong with the game.

Question 6

dorky

Answer 6

It was like the makeover scenes in my American movies, where they take the dorky guy or girl, fix the hair and change the clothes, and the ugly duckling becomes the swan.

dork /dɔːk $ dɔːrk/ noun [countable] informal
someone who you think is or looks stupid

Question 7

gawk

Answer 7

Guys were gawking at her like she was an animal at the zoo.

informal to look at something for a long time, in a way that looks stupid SYN stare
gawk at
Don’t just stand there gawking at those girls!

Question 8

swig

Answer 8

I was sitting on the pavement, taking swigs from teh brandy bottle, getting buzzed.

swig /swɪɡ/ verb (swigged, swigging) [transitive]
informal to drink something in large mouthfuls, especially from a bottle SYN gulp
He sat swigging beer and smoking.
► see thesaurus at drink
—swig noun [countable]
She took a long swig of Coke.

Question 9

buzzed

Answer 9

5 THOUGHTS [intransitive] if your head or mind is buzzing with thoughts, ideas etc, you cannot stop thinking about them
buzz with
My mind was buzzing with new ideas.
Questions started buzzing round in my head.