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Bones S3E1: English vocabulary

Season 3, Episode 1CrimeDrama

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  • willowy

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    slender and graceful

  • rakish

    Word

    attractive in a lively, confident, slightly wild way

  • gladiolus

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    a plant with tall stems and brightly colored flowers

  • hermetically

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    in a way that is completely airtight or tightly sealed

  • dalliance

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    a brief romantic or sexual affair

  • salacious

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    showing too much interest in sex or sexual matters

  • ineffable

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    too great or beautiful to be described in words

  • anatomically

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    in a way that relates to the structure of the body

  • consummation

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    the act of completing a marriage by having sex

  • reefer

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    a cigarette containing marijuana

  • crockery

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    plates, cups, bowls, and other dishes used for serving and eating food

  • backboard

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    a board behind a basketball hoop that the ball can bounce off

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  • pinking

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    to cut the edge of fabric with pinking shears

  • inset

    Word

    a small picture, map, or piece of text placed inside a larger page or image

  • worser

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    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • sternum

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    the bone in the center of the chest

  • impregnable

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    impossible or very hard to capture or defeat

  • apogee

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    the highest point of something's development or success

  • scuttle

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    to move quickly with short, light steps

  • stethoscope

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    a medical instrument used for listening to a person's heart and lungs

  • tumbler

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    a drinking glass with straight sides and no handle

  • visceral

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    strong and instinctive, rather than calm or logical

  • fibula

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    the smaller of the two bones in the lower leg, next to the tibia

  • phalanx

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    a group of soldiers or police standing or moving in a tight formation

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  • mooned

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    to show your bare buttocks to someone as a joke or insult

  • gnaw

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    to bite or chew something repeatedly, especially for a long time

  • welcomer

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    a person whose job or role is to welcome and help guests or newcomers

  • superfluous

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    more than needed; not necessary

  • reek

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    to smell very bad

  • silvering

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    the process of turning silver in color

  • annul

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    to officially cancel a law, agreement, or decision

  • squatter

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    a person who lives in a building or on land without permission or legal right

  • weirdness

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    the quality of being strange or unusual

  • peachy

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    having the soft pinkish color of a peach

  • bub

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    a small bubble of air or gas in a liquid.

  • nosing

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    the front edge of a step or stair

  • etch

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    to cut or mark a design into a hard surface, often with acid or a sharp tool

  • squint

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    to look at something with your eyes partly closed, often because of bright light or to see better

  • annulment

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    the official ending of a marriage because it was never legally valid

  • contraption

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    a strange or complicated machine or device

  • grooving

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    to move or dance in a relaxed way to music

  • tibia

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    the larger bone in the lower part of the leg, between the knee and the ankle

  • butchering

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    the process of cutting an animal into pieces for meat

  • incisor

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    one of the front teeth used for cutting food

  • freemason

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    a member of the Freemasons, a secret society with its own rituals and traditions

  • symbiotic

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    describing a relationship in which two different things help each other

  • consummate

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    showing great skill and polish; excellent

  • ensue

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    to happen afterward, especially as a result of something else

  • rapture

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    a feeling of great joy or delight

  • embed

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    to put something firmly inside or into something else

  • conservancy

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    the protection and careful management of nature and natural resources

  • alchemy

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    a medieval practice that tried to turn ordinary metals into gold and find a cure for all illness

  • sift

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    to pass dry ingredients through a sieve to remove lumps or coarse bits

  • sinus

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    one of the air-filled spaces in the bones around the nose and eyes

  • pining

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    full of longing or sadness for someone or something

  • retina

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    the part at the back of the eye that senses light and sends visual signals to the brain

  • trucker

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    a person who drives a truck for a living

  • assimilate

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    to learn and understand something so well that you can use it easily

  • femur

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    the long bone in the upper part of the leg

  • couched

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    to express something in a particular way

  • combing

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    the act of combing hair

  • interrogate

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    to question someone closely for a long time, especially in an official or forceful way

  • tectonic

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    relating to the movement and structure of the Earth's crust

  • detrimental

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    causing harm or damage

  • evener

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    something that makes a surface, line, or shape even or level

  • overpass

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    a bridge or road that goes over another road

  • scraping

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    small bits or pieces left after something has been scraped away

  • ferret

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    a small furry animal that people keep as a pet

  • vortex

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    a mass of air or water that spins around very fast

  • rationally

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    in a way that uses reason and logic

  • boning

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    the process of removing bones from meat or fish

  • tropic

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    either of the two lines of latitude around 23.5° north and south of the equator

  • quarried

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    to cut stone out of the ground in a quarry

  • smother

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    to stop someone from breathing by covering their nose and mouth

  • scapegoat

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    a person who is blamed for other people's mistakes or problems

  • bitters

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    a bitter liquid used in small amounts to flavor cocktails

  • cannibal

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    a person who eats human flesh

  • shears

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    large scissors with two blades that slide past each other

  • intimately

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    in a very close and personal way

  • raving

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    showing strong enthusiasm or excitement

  • ascertain

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    to find out something for certain

  • microscopic

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    extremely small; too small to see without a microscope

  • infidelity

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    the act of being unfaithful to a spouse or partner

  • grit

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    courage and determination to keep going in a difficult situation

  • weeding

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    the act of removing weeds from a garden or other area

  • fiddler

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    a person who plays the violin, especially in traditional music

  • chilling

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    making you feel very cold; cold enough to make you shiver

  • vernacular

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    the everyday language or dialect used by ordinary people in a place

  • reassurance

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    something that makes someone feel less worried or afraid

  • ribbed

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    having raised ridges or lines

  • anthropologist

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    a person who studies human societies, cultures, and how they change over time

  • bedding

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    sheets, blankets, and other things used on a bed

  • astrology

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    the belief that the positions of the stars and planets can affect people’s lives and personalities

  • insure

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    buy insurance for something or someone

  • spurred

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    to make someone or something more likely to act or happen

  • cougar

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    a large wild cat from the Americas, also called a mountain lion or puma

  • sizing

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    a process that makes cloth stiffer and stronger by coating it with a special substance

  • strictly speaking

    Phrase

    used to say that something is true in a strict or exact sense

  • tramp

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    walk heavily or noisily

  • chew off

    Phrase

    to scold someone sharply

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