English Vocabulary and Idioms Lecture Notes

A complete set of vocabulary flashcards covering idioms, personality descriptors, city adjectives, formal discourse markers, and everyday expressions from the lecture notes.

Implements

Tools

Fastidious

Very careful

Transgression

An act that breaks rules

Proliferate

To increase (to grow in quantity or size)

To bloviate

Speak without sense

Irish: gaff

House/home

A wreck the head

Something/someone gets on your nerve

To husband

To store, to save

A out

Excuse to not do something

Rip-off

Not worth the money

In the red

To have debits

In the black

To have money

Living beyond her means

Spend more money then someone has

Squatter

Person who live in an empty building without permission and paying

Terrace house

House between two others (house in the middle)

Semi-detached

House who has another house on one side

Busybody

Someone who is obsessed with other people gossip

Nosey parker

Someone who is obsessed with other people gossip

Wet wipe

Someone who is oversensitive

Bright spark

Someone who is super smart

Salt of the earth

Someone who is very logical, calm and kind

Though cookie

Somebody who is incredibly emotionally strong

Wet blanked

Somebody who destroy all of the fun

Loose cannon

Someone who is crazy and can't be controlled

Plucky

Brave

Extra

An actor who plays a very small role, usually in the background

Catch the red-eye

Take a late-night flight that arrives in the morning

Travel on a shoestring

Travel with very little money/ on a tight budget

Poker face

To hide your true emotions or intensions behind an unreadable expression

Water under the bridge

Problems, arguments from the past that are now forgotten, forgiven

Bad blood

Continuous bad feelings, bitterness, or unresolved conflict between people

Thinking out loud

To say your immediate thought out loud as you think of them

Cry me a river

A sarcastic expression used to tell someone you have zero sympathy for their complaints

Paint the town read

To go out into the city, celebrate wildly, and have lively night out

Sprawling

A city with a lot of buildings, most they were build without a plan

Run-down

In poor condition, where no investment has been made

Deprived

Something important is missing e.g. school in a city

Ballsy

Brave

Grunt work

Boring, time-consuming work

Redundant

Loose your job because the job not longer existed

Ballpark

Approximant

A misfit

Strange person

Villainous

Morally unacceptable

A house hold name

Known by everyone

A cat with nine lives

Don't face consequences, person how should get cancelled

Born with a silver spoon

Born in a rich family

The novelty wears off

Something gets unpopular

A backlash

A strong, sudden, and widespread negative public reaction

A hassle

Something that is annoying because it causes difficulty or trouble

Bring the house down

To cause great enthusiasm or excitement often with a performance

Cursory

Hasty, very quick

Trepidation

Fear

Ennui

Boredom

Precocious

Mature for their age

Commodious

Specious

Fatous

Foolish, stupid

Somnolent

Sleepy

Quotidian

Commonplace, every day the same ->boring

Inimical

Hostile -> incompatible with

Restive

Stubborn "hartnäckig"

Exculpatory

Clearing from guilt

Propitious

Favourable "günstig, vorteilhaft"

Approbation

Praise (Lob)

Blockbuster

A film that is very successful and popular

Defer

To give somebody else the right to decide

Shyster

Scammer

Not cracked up

Not as good as people say

Discombobulated

Confused

Bamboozled

Confused, maybe you got fooled

Apoplectic

Extremely angry

Zealous

Extremely enthusiastic

Zestful/-y

Full of energy, opposite of boring

Zoned

Very tired, also with drugs