Addiction

24th-29th December

Here comes my list of vocabulary I have started to poses from  The Undefeated by Irvine Welsh.

• Leer – look at smb and show they are sexually attractive


• Stop off - make a short visit to a place during a journey, especially to rest or to see someone.

• Pluck up (the) courage (to do something) - force yourself to be brave and do something you are afraid of doing.

• Cathartic -helping you to remove strong or violent emotions: a cathartic experience.

• Lined face – with wrinkles

• A sound argument – strong

• Break off – stop talking

• Bother

• Fuse – combine different ideas etc

• Cast an eye on/over something - examine or read something quickly in order to judge whether it is correct, good etc.

• Make somebody's acquaintance - meet someone for the first time: I should be delighted to make Mrs McGough's acquaintance. At the hotel, I made the acquaintance of a young American actor.

• Apologetic - showing or saying that you are sorry that something has happened, especially because you feel guilty or embarrassed about it. The manager was very apologetic about everything. She gave me an apologetic smile. Look/sound apologetic. I know,' she said apologetically.

• Necessitate - make it necessary for you to do something: Lack of money necessitated a change of plan. necessitate doing something

• Proximity - nearness in distance or time + to/of

• Relinquish – give up smth to smth

• Get out of something - avoid doing something you have promised to do or are supposed to do: See if you can get out of that meeting tomorrow. get out of doing something. -2- Stop doing something or being involved in something: I wanted to get out of teaching.

• Thrive - become very successful or very strong and healthy

• Reconcile - if you reconcile two ideas, situations, or facts, you find a way in which they can both be true or acceptable: The possibility remains that the two theories may be reconciled.

• Perceive

• Uneventful

• Combative – ready to argue

• Tense

• Resentment - a feeling of anger because you feel that you are being treated badly or unfairly, and cannot do anything about it: Patricia stared at the other girls with resentment.

• Load - the amount of work that a person or machine has to do: The computer couldn't handle the load and crashed. My work load has doubled since Henry left. They hired more staff in order to spread the load.

• Slumber=sleep

• Contempt – презрение. The contempt he felt for his students was obvious. The report shows utter contempt for women's judgement.

• His ideas have won widespread public approval (=many people agree with them and think they are good).

• Does the design meet with your approval (=do you like it?)? She looked to Greg for approval.

• Take responsibility for

• The government's proposals were held up to ridicule by opposition ministers. He had become an object of ridicule among the other teachers.

• Whatsoever - used to emphasize a negative statement: He's had no luck whatsoever.