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Criminal Minds S5E7: English vocabulary

Season 5, Episode 7CrimeDramaMystery

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  • apprise

    Word

    to tell someone something, especially official information

  • expunge

    Word

    to remove something completely, especially from a record or document

  • tangential

    Word

    only loosely related to the main subject

  • worser

    Word

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • pariah

    Word

    a person who is rejected by other people or by society

  • adulation

    Word

    excessive admiration or praise, often for a famous person

  • malign

    Word

    to speak about someone in a harmful, unfair, or spiteful way

  • ratting

    Word

    the act of hunting or trapping rats

  • welcomer

    Word

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

  • twittering

    Word

    the soft, repeated sound birds make

  • agitate

    Word

    to make someone feel worried or upset

  • tenuous

    Word

    weak, slight, or not very strong

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  • dredge

    Word

    to remove mud or sand from the bottom of a river, harbor, or lake

  • homicidal

    Word

    wanting to kill someone or related to killing a person

  • professed

    Word

    claimed or declared openly, especially as a belief or feeling

  • cannibalism

    Word

    the practice of eating the flesh of one's own species

  • shelve

    Word

    to put something on a shelf

  • abler

    Word

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • supervisory

    Word

    relating to supervising people or work

  • defer

    Word

    to delay something until a later time

  • jacketed

    Word

    covered with a protective outer layer

  • fixation

    Word

    the state of being fixed or made firm

  • interestingly

    Word

    used to say something is surprising or worth noticing

  • caterer

    Word

    a person or company that provides food and drink for an event

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  • technicals

    Word

    the practical details of something, especially the technical ones

  • evener

    Word

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

  • clockwork

    Word

    the mechanism inside a clock

  • pertinent

    Word

    relevant to the subject being discussed

  • proficient

    Word

    good at doing something because of practice or training

  • goth

    Word

    a person who belongs to the goth subculture, which is known for dark clothes, makeup, and music

  • obsess

    Word

    to fill someone's mind so much that they cannot think about much else

  • exceedingly

    Word

    to a very great degree; extremely

  • licking

    Word

    the act of moving your tongue over something

  • adversary

    Word

    a person or group you are competing or fighting against

  • coasting

    Word

    the act of moving along without using power

  • holy hell

    Phrase

    an informal exclamation used to show strong surprise, shock, or annoyance

  • stalker

    Word

    a person who follows and watches someone in a way that frightens or annoys them

  • rat pack

    Phrase

    a military ration pack for one person

  • morgue

    Word

    a place where dead bodies are kept until they are identified or examined

  • strangle

    Word

    to kill or try to kill by squeezing someone's throat or neck

  • live on

    Phrase

    to continue to exist or be remembered

  • triad

    Word

    a group of three connected people or things

  • go there

    Phrase

    used to say something that is bold, rude, or about a taboo topic

  • ragged

    Word

    (of clothes or a person) old, torn, and untidy

  • blood in

    Phrase

    to join a gang by doing a violent act as part of an initiation

  • tabling

    Word

    the act of postponing a proposal or motion for later discussion

  • thicken

    Word

    to make something thicker or to become thicker

  • layering

    Word

    the use of several layers, especially in clothing

  • very well

    Phrase

    used to say that you agree to something, often reluctantly

  • hook up with

    Phrase

    to start a casual romantic or sexual relationship with someone

  • profiling

    Word

    the practice of analyzing people or data to predict behavior or group people by characteristics

  • gunning

    Word

    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • saliva

    Word

    the liquid in your mouth that helps you chew and swallow food

  • special agent

    Phrase

    an FBI or other government detective

  • piece of the puzzle

    Phrase

    one part of a bigger situation, explanation, or plan

  • dog and cat

    Phrase

    a pair of people who are always arguing or fighting

  • fly off the shelves

    Phrase

    to be bought very quickly in large numbers

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • add up

    Phrase

    to seem reasonable or consistent

  • no go

    Phrase

    something that is not possible or not acceptable

  • no chance

    Phrase

    an informal way of saying that something is impossible or will definitely not happen

  • here's the thing

    Phrase

    used to introduce the main point or important detail of what you are saying

  • fang

    Word

    a long, pointed tooth, especially in a meat-eating animal

  • police department

    Phrase

    the local office that handles police work in a town or city

  • run across

    Phrase

    to find or meet someone or something by chance

  • record company

    Phrase

    a company that makes and sells music recordings

  • broken home

    Phrase

    a family where the parents are divorced or separated

  • manipulation

    Word

    the act of skillfully handling or controlling something

  • phrasing

    Word

    the way words are chosen and put together in speech or writing

  • pint

    Word

    a unit for measuring liquid, equal to half a quart

  • contradiction

    Word

    a fact, idea, or statement that is opposite to another one and cannot both be true

  • force in

    Phrase

    to push or squeeze something into a space that is too small

  • name after

    Phrase

    to give someone or something the name of another person or thing, usually to honor them

  • push through

    Phrase

    to keep going and finish something difficult

  • commuter

    Word

    a person who travels regularly between home and work

  • put in

    Phrase

    to submit something, such as a request or application

  • hook up

    Phrase

    to connect a device to a power source or another device

  • hacker

    Word

    a person who breaks into computer systems or networks

  • scotch

    Word

    to stop something from happening or continuing

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

  • in order

    Phrase

    ready, arranged, or working properly

  • resentment

    Word

    a feeling of anger and hurt because you think you have been treated unfairly

  • live for

    Phrase

    to care about something so much that it gives you energy or purpose

  • cross over

    Phrase

    to go from one side of something to the other

  • back up

    Phrase

    to support a claim with facts or proof

  • colon

    Word

    the part of the large intestine between the small intestine and the rectum

  • twitter

    Word

    a short, high, light sound, especially made by birds

  • stay on

    Phrase

    continue to stay in a place, job, or situation

  • interrogation

    Word

    the act of questioning someone closely, especially by police

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • rodent

    Word

    a small mammal such as a rat, mouse, or squirrel

  • resurrection

    Word

    the return to life after death

  • adolescent

    Word

    a teenager

  • chatter

    Word

    to talk quickly and continuously, often about unimportant things

  • amaze

    Word

    to fill someone with wonder or great surprise

  • lettered

    Word

    marked or decorated with letters or writing

  • minimize

    Word

    to reduce something as much as possible

  • fan club

    Phrase

    a group of people who support and admire a particular person, band, or show

  • fan mail

    Phrase

    letters or messages sent by fans to a famous person

  • bedded

    Word

    past tense and past participle of bed

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