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American Dad! S17E13: English vocabulary

Season 17, Episode 13AnimationComedy

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  • whippersnapper

    Word

    a young person who is seen as too confident or disrespectful

  • apropos

    Word

    appropriate or relevant to what is being said or done

  • spurious

    Word

    not real, true, or genuine

  • worser

    Word

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • cherub

    Word

    an angel in Christian tradition, often shown as a small child with wings

  • ergo

    Word

    therefore; as a result

  • wormhole

    Word

    a tunnel-like connection that could link two far-apart places in space-time

  • obliterate

    Word

    destroy completely; leave nothing behind

  • deductible

    Word

    an amount of money you must pay yourself before an insurance company pays the rest

  • dogged

    Word

    showing strong determination and persistence

  • melanoma

    Word

    a serious type of skin cancer

  • infatuated

    Word

    having a strong but usually short-lived romantic attraction to someone

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  • abler

    Word

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • epileptic

    Word

    relating to epilepsy

  • slighting

    Word

    showing disrespect or contempt

  • negligent

    Word

    not careful enough, especially in a way that causes harm or breaks a duty

  • evener

    Word

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

  • alas

    Word

    used to show sadness, regret, or disappointment

  • hideous

    Word

    extremely ugly or unpleasant

  • screw the pooch

    Phrase

    to make a serious mistake or fail badly

  • keyed

    Word

    locked with a key

  • manipulative

    Word

    trying to control or influence people in a dishonest way for your own benefit

  • planetary

    Word

    relating to planets

  • keep it real

    Phrase

    to be honest and authentic, especially in a cool or direct way

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  • hardened

    Word

    made hard or tougher by heat, cold, use, or time

  • gravitational

    Word

    relating to the force of gravity

  • screwed the pooch

    Phrase

    to fail badly or make a serious mistake

  • gassing

    Word

    to talk in a casual, lively way

  • sizing

    Word

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

  • grieve

    Word

    to feel deep sadness, especially because someone has died

  • paling

    Word

    a fence made of upright wooden stakes

  • home in

    Phrase

    to move closer to a target or goal and focus on it

  • wheeling

    Word

    the act of moving something on wheels

  • ruse

    Word

    a trick or plan used to deceive someone

  • speak of

    Phrase

    to indicate or suggest something

  • say uncle

    Phrase

    to admit defeat or give in

  • designate

    Word

    to officially choose someone for a job or role

  • rapped

    Word

    to hit a surface with short, quick knocks

  • eject

    Word

    to force something out or out of a place

  • gravitational field

    Phrase

    the area around an object with mass where gravity acts

  • turn around

    Phrase

    cause something to improve a lot

  • paradox

    Word

    a situation or idea that seems impossible or contradictory but may still be true

  • shading

    Word

    the use of light and dark areas in a drawing or picture

  • accelerator

    Word

    something that makes a process or change happen faster

  • cut off

    Phrase

    separated from the rest by cutting

  • get straight

    Phrase

    to make something clear or settled

  • maturing

    Word

    becoming more mature and fully developed

  • reckoning

    Word

    the act of making a calculation or estimate

  • way out

    Phrase

    far away; at a great distance

  • in circles

    Phrase

    without making any progress

  • spied

    Word

    to notice or see someone or something unexpectedly

  • restrain

    Word

    to stop someone or something from moving or acting freely

  • temporal

    Word

    relating to time

  • on earth

    Phrase

    used in questions to express surprise, emphasis, or strong curiosity

  • take that

    Phrase

    used to say you have won or beaten someone

  • child support

    Phrase

    money that a parent pays to help support a child after a separation or divorce

  • land up

    Phrase

    to end up in a place or situation, often by accident or unexpectedly

  • for nothing

    Phrase

    without paying anything

  • pull off

    Phrase

    to succeed in doing something difficult

  • what do you say

    Phrase

    used to ask if someone is willing to do something or agrees with an idea

  • stein

    Word

    a large mug for beer, often with a handle and a lid

  • on the road

    Phrase

    away from home, especially while travelling or playing in another team’s venue

  • burn up

    Phrase

    to burn completely and be destroyed by fire

  • sabotage

    Word

    the deliberate damaging or blocking of something to stop it working or succeeding

  • maneuver

    Word

    to move carefully or skillfully through a difficult place or situation

  • work in

    Phrase

    to find time or space for something in a busy schedule or limited place

  • deceive

    Word

    to trick someone by making them believe something false

  • work through

    Phrase

    to deal with a problem or difficult feeling gradually, step by step

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • shatter

    Word

    to break suddenly into many pieces

  • to be honest

    Phrase

    used to introduce a frank opinion or statement

  • back in

    Phrase

    used to talk about an earlier time in the past

  • accelerate

    Word

    to go faster

  • weathering

    Word

    the wearing away or breaking down of rock and other materials by air, water, and weather

  • detached

    Word

    not connected to anything else; separate

  • fiery

    Word

    burning strongly and brightly, or looking like fire

  • salute

    Word

    to greet or show respect to someone in a formal way

  • kind of

    Phrase

    to some extent; fairly

  • faulting

    Word

    the act of blaming or criticizing someone

  • hold out

    Phrase

    to stretch something out toward someone

  • subtitle

    Word

    the words shown at the bottom of a screen that translate or show what people are saying

  • upgrade

    Word

    to make something newer, better, or more advanced

  • forgiving

    Word

    willing to forgive mistakes and not easily upset by them

  • hemisphere

    Word

    one half of the Earth

  • premium

    Word

    an extra amount of money added to a normal price or payment

  • seizure

    Word

    the sudden loss of control of the body caused by a medical condition

  • great job

    Phrase

    used to praise someone for doing something well

  • calculation

    Word

    the process of working out an answer using numbers

  • obscure

    Word

    not well known or not easily understood

  • every time

    Phrase

    used to say that something happens on each occasion that something else happens

  • upsetting

    Word

    making someone feel unhappy, worried, or upset

  • what's going on

    Phrase

    an informal way to greet someone or start a casual conversation

  • no way

    Phrase

    an emphatic way of saying that something is impossible or that you strongly refuse it

  • rap music

    Phrase

    a style of popular music with spoken or rhymed lyrics over a beat

  • good looking

    Phrase

    attractive or pleasant to look at

  • don't worry

    Phrase

    A friendly way to tell someone not to be anxious or upset

  • venus

    Word

    the second planet from the Sun

  • proximity

    Word

    the state of being near in space, time, or relationship

  • sober

    Word

    not drunk

  • mercury

    Word

    a heavy silver-white metal that is liquid at room temperature

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