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1. Brash: too much confidence and no respect. A brush young boy.
2. Breadth: considerable size, width. A room with a breadth of three metres and a
length of five metres.
3. Brim: full of (specially a liquid). A glass brimmed with heady read wine.
4. Bunch: a group of people or things. I would like to eat a bunch of grapes.
5. Chase: to hurry after someone or something in order to catch it. The police car was
chasing after a man who had robbed a bank.
6. Cinch: very easy. The exam was a cinch; I will certainly get a high mark.
7. Clammy: sweat. When I am nervous, my hands are clammy.
8. Cobbled: old streets with irregular stones. Toledos narrow cobbled streets lend the
citt an atmosphere of historical beauty.
9. Cram: to fill something with more than it can hold. My hamster crammed his
mouth.
10. Crooked: not a straight line. Drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
11. Culture vulture: If you are a culture vulture, Barcelona has all you may want.
12. Drag out: last unnecessarily long.
13. Get the ball rolling: initiate an action. I had the ball rolling, but no one helped me
14. Gilded: covered with gold.
15. Hasty: something that happens too fast. I dont like to take hasty decisions.
16. Heaped: super ple I couldnt finish the heaped plate of potatoes.
17. Heaving: crowded
18. Hoisted: to raise or lift something. They hoist a Catalan flag on their roof.
19. Hooked: trapped. I was hooked by the astonishing beauty of the landscape.
20. Horde: a large crowd of people. A horde of Chinese tourists
21. Lap of luxury: wealth and comfort.
22. Linger: to delay doing something. Paul lingered in bed and missed the bus.
23. Mound: elevation of the Earth. In Lleida we have two main mounds
24. Myriad: a lots. myriad stars of a summer night.
25. Nippy: cold. I could feel the nippy wind on my face while climbing up the mountain.
26. Parry: avoid dealing with. The teacher parried that embarrassing question
27. Quaint: odd charm. I cannot understand his jokes; he has a quaint sense of humour.
28. Quarter: district, area of a city. We stayed at a peaceful quarter in Paris.
29. Rambler: a person who takes country walks.
30. Reveller: a person who often goes to parties.
31. Rough it: to live not very comfortable. The campers roughed it in a tend for a
week.
32. Shawl: mocador. Mother wears a shawl.

33. Sheer: pure, utter, sheer enjoymen
34. Shoestring: small sum of money; we live on a shoestring budget.
35. Slum: dirty part of a city. If you go alone, avoid wandering though the slums at
night.
36. Staggering: causing amazement. Staggering view.
37. Standstill: state in which action has stopped. Vehicle standstill in a traffic jam
38. Strand: shore. Walk around the sea strand.
39. Stuffed: filled
40. Swamp: panta
41. Swarm: a many things or people moving together. A swarm of cyclists
42. Sweltering: hot and humid. In a sweltering day, there is nothing better than
43. Tart: acid. tart apples.
44. Tease: to make fun of someone. Please, stop teasing me.
45. Throng: large group of people assembled. A throng of people gathered to
46. Trimmed: something Smart that is adorned. The table was trimmed with roses.
47. Uneven: not uniform.
48. Unsealed: open. I placed the letter in an unsealed envelope
49. Whip through: to move rapidly, read quickly.
50. Wrecked: destroyed
64. Surmise: deduce
51. Alluring: attractive
65. Appaling: horrifying
52. Alongside: next to
66. Concussion: infory to the brain
53. Bond: emotional tie
67. Crutch: crossa
54. Conspicuous: obvious
68. Dreadful: unpleasing
55. Crafted: designed
69. Epitome: prototype
56. Dashing, fething: attractive
70. Flaked out: exhausted
57. Galore: abundance:

restaurants calore
there
are
58. Hype: interest, publicity. Generate

media hype
59. Revenue: income
60. Innuendo: insinuation
61. State of the art: last technology
62. Unsurpassed: superior to all
63. Sumptuous: luxurious
71. Hare: rush

72. Prop up: support
73. Puffed up: hinchar
74. Startle: shocked
75. Wailing: cry, complain
76. Strain: stress, muscular injury
77. Stroke: brain injury
78. Unsettling: disturbing
79. Swelling: injury
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1. Brash: too much confidence and no respect. A brush young boy.

32. Shawl: mocador. Mother wears a shawl.

64. Surmise: deduce

51. Alluring: attractive

65. Appaling: horrifying

52. Alongside: next to

66. Concussion: infory to the brain

53. Bond: emotional tie

67. Crutch: crossa

54. Conspicuous: obvious

68. Dreadful: unpleasing

55. Crafted: designed

69. Epitome: prototype

56. Dashing, fething: attractive

70. Flaked out: exhausted

57. Galore: abundance:

58. Hype: interest, publicity. Generate

71. Hare: rush

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