Unit 1: What's Your Story? - Vocabulary and Key Concepts

These flashcards cover vocabulary related to describing people, places, things, and personalities, as well as idioms and key details from the Angulo brothers' story as presented in Unit 1.

Easy-going

A personality adjective describing someone who is really nice and very relaxed.

Smart-casual

A style of clothing that is stylish and neat but not formal.

Ensuite

A term for a shower or bathroom that is directly attached to a bedroom.

Kitchen-diner

A room in a home that combines the kitchen and the dining area.

Cosy

An adjective often used to describe a residence that is small, warm, and comfortable, such as a cottage.

Compound Adjective

A word made of two or more words joined by a hyphen that describes a noun, such as good-looking or well-dressed.

Home-made

A compound adjective for something made at home rather than bought in a shop, such as Mukunda's mask.

Bad-tempered

A compound adjective describing someone who is easily annoyed or made angry.

Reliable

A personality trait for someone that friends and others can depend on.

Moody

Describing someone whose mood changes often and suddenly for no apparent reason.

Ambitious

Having definite, strong plans for a future career and the determination to succeed.

Sensitive

A trait for someone who notices and is affected by other people's feelings.

Pessimistic

A personality trait for someone who does not think the future will be good.

Eccentric

An adjective describing behavior that is unconventional or slightly strange, used to characterize the Angulo brothers' father.

Tyrannical

Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way, used to describe Oscar Angulo's parenting style.

Reclusive

Avoiding the company of other people; used to describe the Angulo family who were unknown to their neighbors.

Welfare money

Government financial assistance that the Angulo family lived on while the children were kept at home.

Flawed

Having or characterized by a fundamental weakness or imperfection; Narayana Angulo noted that films taught them people are complex and flawed.

The Wolfpack

The name given to the Angulo brothers by a producer friend for Crystal Moselle's documentary.

First-born child

Characterized in the text as being ambitious, responsible, dominant, and insecure.

Second child

Characterized in the text as being free, independent, creative, and easy-going.

Last-born child

Described as 'the baby' of the family who is spoilt, happy, confident, and secure.

See eye to eye

An idiom meaning to agree completely with someone.

Fight like cat and dog

An idiom used to describe two people who argue or fight with each other very often.

Ups and downs

An idiom referring to a mixture of good and bad times or events in a relationship or life.

Drive someone crazy

An idiom meaning to annoy or irritate someone to a high degree.