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tale

a story

tell tales

to spread gossip

telling tales out of school

to spread stories, to gossip

account

written description of past events

spin a yarn

tell a long, entertaining story; often not completely true

narrator

the person from whose perspective a story is told

folk tale

a legen, a story that is passed down

snitched

to tell somebody in authority about what somebody else did wrong

sheer 1

pure, only just because of, utter

sheer 2

thin, light, and delicate that you can see through it

sheer 3

almost vertical, very steep

outright

straight, pure, utter

unadulterated

pure, not mixed with anything else

unmitigated

absolute, pure; often describing something bad that has no good or positive points.

perfect nonsense

completely unbelievable

quotations

words from books, speeches or other sources

quotation marks

inverted commas before and after cited word or direct speech

an I quote

indicating that the words that follow were said literally

cited

to mention, to refer to

quotes

formal statement of the price that will be charged for a job

estimate

the price that a certain job will be, more or less

excerpt

a fragment taken literally from a book or article

draw on

to use, to make use of

to have recourse to

to turn to someone or something for help or support

employed

to use, to make use of

exploited

to use abusively, abuse

exploit

to make full use of

to resort to

to turn to something, often relucantly, as a last option

expedient 1

useful, practical

expedient 2

practical or advantageous in the short term, even if it may be improper, unfair, or ethically questionable

deserted

abandoned, with nobody living on it

desert island

an island with nobody living on it

desert

a large arid wasteland such as the sahara

dessert

a dish eaten after the main course at the end of a meal

barren wasteland

a land without any life or possibility of sustaining life

desolate

destroyed, abondoned

forsaken

deserted, abondoned

stranded

unable to leave somewhere; run aground

beached

washed up on the shore

beach

to deliberately pull or move something like a boat our of the water onto the land

marooned

isolated in a place from which you cannot escape to be destroyed

is wrecked

to be destroyed

demolished

to bulldoze, to flatten, to destroy completely

castaways

a shipwrecked person

patches 1

a small defined area

patches 2

a place of material

elbow patches

a piece of material sewed on to strengthen the elbow area

vegetable patch

a section in the garden reserved for growing vegetables and herbs and such

allotment

a piece of land, usually public, rented out to grow

strip

a rather narrow piece of land

patched-up-affair

a situation that is poorly or only

chunks

a big piece

drifted

to move aimlessly

drifter

a person who lives without a fixed home, job, or clear direction

if you get my drift

if you get what i mean

floating

to lie on the surface of a body of water

to hover

to hang in the air and stay in one place

to meander

to follow a winding course

to drift apart

to grow apart

snowdrifts

a heap of snow blown by the wind to a particular spot

tend 1

to look after, to control

to tend bar

to work at a bar serving drinks

tend 2

to care for, to nurse

tend 3

to be inclined to do something

to have a tendency of

to have natural ability to do something

to have a tendency

to regularly or habitually behave in a certain way

to attend to

to take care of, to deal with

to nurse a grievance

to hold on to a feeling of anger or resentment