Pack 2 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Bait
• small amount of food on a hook to attract a fish or an animal
• smth offered to people to make them react
Take the bait
• make dogs to attack an animal for fun
Tops
• the best, most excellent
• maximum
Get ahold of
Communicate by phone
Reside
To live, have your home, stay in a place
Tear down
Intentionally destroy building
Regalia
• traditional formal clothes
• any set of special clothes
Fat chance
Never happening
Chalk smth up
Achieve smth, a victory, to score points in a game
Deploy
• use in effective way
• move soldiers to where they can be used when needed
Task force
Group of people brought together to do a particular job, military group with an aim
Crepe
• thin light pancake
• thin cloth with a surface with wrinkles
• strong type of rubber on shoes
Bass
Fish in rivers that’s eaten as food
Conveyor belt
Continuous moving strip/surface for transporting objects
Premise
An idea or theory on which a statement or action is based
Glazed
• made of or containing glass
• eyes still and not showing any emotion because you are bored or tired
• shiny surface by putting liquid and leaving it or heating to dry
Indelibly
• impossible to remove by washing
• impossible to forget, permanent influence or effect
Audacious
Willingness to take risks or offend people
Hinterland
• land behind the coast, area of country that’s far away from cities
• area surrounding a big city of port on which the city or port depends for economic growth
Avid
Extremely eager or interested
Languid
Moving or speaking slowly with little energy (or lacking enthusiasm), often in an attractive way
Jiggle
Move from side to side or up and down with quick short movements, or to make something do this
Storm
• take smn/smth by storm - be suddenly extremely successful
• attack by entering suddenly in great numbers
• express anger in loud and uncontrolled way
• storm in/into/our - enter or leave showing that you’re angry
Taxi rank
Place where taxis wait for customers
Recede
• move further away into the distance, to become less clear or less bright
• get lower in value, amount, or number