- A caveat is a warning of a specific limitation of something such as information or an agreement.
- If you describe someone or something as a spoiler, you mean that they try to spoil the performance of other people or things.
- A cameo is a short description or piece of acting which expresses cleverly and neatly the nature of a situation, event, or person's character.
- If you mutter, you speak very quietly so that you cannot easily be heard, often because you are complaining about something.
synonym- verb: murmur, mumble, grumble, growl, grouse
noun: mumble, murmur, mumbling, grumble, growl - If you elbow people aside or elbow your way somewhere, you push people with your elbows in order to move somewhere.
- Discontent is the feeling that you have when you are not satisfied with your situation.
synonym- adjective: dissatisfied,
- If you peer at something, you look at it very hard, usually because it is difficult to see clearly.
- throng
synonym: crowd, multitude, mob, swarm, host, concourse, rabble, press, huddle, squash, crush, herd - If something is inevitable, it is certain to happen and cannot be prevented or avoided.
Synonym: unavoidable
- Sleet is rain that is partly frozen.
- If you cram things or people into a container or place, you put them into it, although there is hardly enough room for them.
- A voyage is a long journey on a ship or in a spacecraft.
To voyage to a place means to travel there, especially by sea.
- When a ship docks or is docked, it is brought into a dock.
- An expedition is a short journey or trip that you make for pleasure.
- who knows where
- Bangs are hair which is cut so that it hangs over your forehead.
- You use apparently to refer to something that seems to be true, although you are not sure whether it is or not.
- Wrestling is a sport in which two people wrestle and try to throw each other to the ground.
- If you describe a situation, process, or field of knowledge as labyrinthine, you mean that it is very complicated and difficult to understand.
- If you arrange an event or meeting, you make plans for it to happen.
- A hasty event or action is one that is completed more quickly than normal.
- If you brace yourself for something unpleasant or difficult, you prepare yourself for it.
- If you gaze at someone or something, you look steadily at them for a long time.
- If you shrug, you raise your shoulders to show that you are not interested in something or that you do not know or care about something.
- A sticking point in a discussion or series of negotiations is a point on which the people involved cannot agree and which may delay or stop the talks.
A sticking point is also one aspect of a problem which you have trouble dealing with. - defile: to make something dirty or no longer pure, especially something that people consider important or holy
- execution: the act of killing somebody, especially as a legal punishment
- If you describe someone as obliging, you think that they are willing and eager to be helpful.
- If you shy away from doing something, you avoid doing it, often because you are afraid or not confident enough.
- If you contradict someone, you say that what they have just said is wrong, or suggest that it is wrong by saying something different.
- A grizzled person or a person with grizzled hair has hair that is grey or partly grey.
- If something is flanked by things, it has them on both sides of it, or sometimes on one side of it.
- If you intercept someone or something that is travelling from one place to another, you stop them before they get to their destination.
- If you say that someone is implacable, you mean that they have very strong feelings of hostility or disapproval which nobody can change.
- Brocade is a thick, expensive material, often made of silk, with a raised pattern on it.
- An assessment is a consideration of someone or something and a judgment about them.
- You can refer to the light reflected from something as a gleam. If your eyes gleam, they look bright and show that you are excited or happy.
- When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
- If you stride somewhere, you walk there with quick, long steps.
- If someone slouches somewhere, they walk around slowly with their shoulders and head bent looking lazy or bored.
- Mild is used to describe something such as a feeling, attitude, or illness that is not very strong or severe.
- If someone imposes on you, they unreasonably expect you to do something for them which you do not want to do.
- If you dart a look at someone or something, or if your eyes dart to them, you look at them very quickly.
- If you chastise someone, you speak to them angrily or punish them for something wrong that they have done.
- Etiquette is a set of customs and rules for polite behaviour, especially among a particular class of people or in a particular profession.
- If someone spits an insult or comment, they say it in an angry or hostile way.
- If two people smooch, they kiss and hold each other closely. People sometimes smooch while they are dancing.
- Someone or something that is solemn is very serious rather than cheerful or humorous.
- "So you're gonna make him do something stupid, to make up for doing something stupid?" Which was apparently a poor way to put it, since they both looked affronted again.
- If something affronts you, you feel insulted and hurt because of it.
- If you crane your neck or head, you stretch your neck in a particular direction in order to see or hear something better.
- If someone pontificates about something, they state their opinions as if they are the only correct ones and nobody could possibly argue against them.
- If someone is distraught, they are so upset and worried that they cannot think clearly.
- The foyer is the large area where people meet or wait just inside the main doors of a building such as a theatre, cinema, or hotel.
- warble: adjective: twittering, chirping
- The circumference of a circle, place, or round object is its edge.
- nook: noun: corner, angle, recess
- You describe something as garish when you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way.
- A devout person has deep religious beliefs.
- You can describe someone or something as plump to indicate that they are rather fat or rounded.If you plump for someone or something, you choose them, often after hesitating or thinking carefully.
- A bewildering thing or situation is very confusing and difficult to understand or to make a decision about.
- Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen.
- If you retreat from something such as a plan or a way of life, you give it up, usually in order to do something safer or less extreme.
- A balcony is a platform on the outside of a building, above ground level, with a wall or railing around it.
- If someone has piercing eyes or a piercing stare, they seem to look at you very intensely.
If you describe a quality or feeling as piercing, you mean that it makes you experience a feeling, especially sadness, very strongly. Adjective ADJ n literary
- he was aware of a sharp piercing regret.
- If someone slouches, they sit or stand with their shoulders and head bent so they look lazy and unattractive
- If you glower at someone or something, you look at them angrily.
- If you dodge, you move suddenly, often to avoid being hit, caught, or seen
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A sheath is a covering for the blade of a knife, OR a rubber covering for a man's penis and is used during sex as a contraceptive or as a protection against disease. - A scabbard is a container for a sword and can hang from a belt.
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- A glint is a quick flash of light.
- If someone is sloshed, they have drunk too much alcohol.
- If you have a feeling of unease, you feel rather anxious or afraid, because you think that something is wrong.
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If your skin prickles, it feels as if a lot of small sharp points are being stuck into it, either because of something touching it or because you feel a strong emotion.
Prickles are small sharp points that stick out from leaves or from the stalks of plants. -
Your appetite is your desire to eat.
Someone's appetite for something is their strong desire for it. - When someone frowns, their eyebrows become drawn together, because they are annoyed, worried, or puzzled, or because they are concentrating→
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