0329 Flashcards
petrified
But now I was even mor epetrified because I didn’t want the judge to think I wasn’t taking him seriously because I was laughing.
petrified wood/trees
spill out
The truth came spilling out.
2 [intransitive always + adverb/preposition] if people or things spill out of somewhere, they move or fall out in large numbers SYN pour
spill out/into/onto etc
Crowds from the theatre were spilling onto the street.
slick
I’d spent the whole week in jail thinking I was so slick.
1 if something is slick, it is done in a skilful and attractive way and seems expensive, but it often contains no important or interesting ideas
a slick Hollywood production
slick advertising
The presentation was very slick.
2 if someone is slick, they are good at persuading people, often in a way that does not seem honest
a slick used-car salesman
3 done smoothly and quickly
He got round the defender using some slick footwork.
4 smooth and slippery
slick with
Cars were sliding off roads that were slick with rain.
5 American English old-fashioned very good or attractive
butcher
That night I went to bed and I got absolutely butchered by mosquitoes.
1 to kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat
2 to kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people
3 informal to spoil something by working carelessly
That hairdresser really butchered my hair!
pitch up
She believes that you pray to Jesus and then Jesus pitches up and does the thing that you need.
to arrive somewhere SYN turn up
cornrow
Once I had my hair cornrowed for the matric dance, I started getting attention from girls for the first time.
putter around
Monday through Saturday my mom worked in her offie and puttered around her garden dressed like a homeless person.
sanctuary
a tiger sanctuary
decimate
But one the black land twenty minutes down the road, the soil has been decimated by years of overfarming and overgrazing.
graze
1 [intransitive, transitive] if an animal grazes, or if you graze it, it eats grass that is growing
