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Criminal Minds S10E21: English vocabulary

Season 10, Episode 21CrimeDramaMystery

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  • hallucinate

    Word

    to see or hear things that are not really there

  • coercive

    Word

    using force, threats, or pressure to make someone do something

  • odorless

    Word

    having no smell

  • dissimilar

    Word

    not alike; different

  • molest

    Word

    to harass or bother someone persistently

  • propensity

    Word

    a natural tendency to do something

  • understatement

    Word

    the act of making something seem less important or less serious than it really is

  • satanic

    Word

    relating to Satan or to satanism

  • tasteless

    Word

    not having much flavor; not tasty

  • abler

    Word

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • lurk

    Word

    to stay hidden and wait for a chance to act

  • primal

    Word

    relating to the earliest stage of life, history, or development

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  • stalked

    Word

    to follow someone closely and watch them in a threatening way

  • couched

    Word

    to express something in a particular way

  • ahem

    Word

    used to get someone's attention, or to show mild embarrassment or disapproval

  • talon

    Word

    a sharp claw on a bird of prey

  • hysteria

    Word

    a state of wild, uncontrolled emotion or excitement

  • evener

    Word

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

  • inhale

    Word

    to breathe air, smoke, or gas into your lungs

  • shadowy

    Word

    dark, hard to see clearly, or partly hidden in shadow

  • insistence

    Word

    the act of insisting on something, or the fact that someone keeps insisting

  • calculus

    Word

    a branch of mathematics that uses derivatives and integrals to study change and motion

  • vibrate

    Word

    to move quickly and repeatedly from side to side

  • when it's at home

    Phrase

    used to ask what something really means or is, especially in British English

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  • shadowing

    Word

    the practice of learning a job by following and watching an experienced worker

  • hardened

    Word

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

  • tripping

    Word

    moving or walking with quick, light steps

  • delusion

    Word

    a false belief that someone strongly believes even though it is not true

  • Other Side

    Phrase

    the life or world believed to exist after death

  • kill me

    Phrase

    a rude, exaggerated way of saying you are very annoyed or frustrated

  • lash

    Word

    to hit or move something with a quick, sharp motion

  • flagging

    Word

    becoming weaker or less active

  • deviation

    Word

    a difference from what is normal, expected, or allowed

  • proxy

    Word

    the authority to act or vote for someone else

  • witness protection

    Phrase

    a government program that gives witnesses new identities and protection when they are in danger

  • imprint on

    Phrase

    if a young animal imprints on someone or something, it starts to treat that as its parent

  • shotted

    Word

    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • cognitive

    Word

    relating to thinking, learning, memory, and understanding

  • get to the bottom of

    Phrase

    to find out the real reason for something or solve a problem

  • summons

    Word

    an official order to appear in court

  • paternal

    Word

    relating to a father

  • oddly

    Word

    in a strange or unusual way

  • profiling

    Word

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

  • swear to God

    Phrase

    Used to strongly say that something is true or to emphasize that you are being honest

  • pleading

    Word

    showing that someone is begging or asking for something in a strong, urgent way

  • recollection

    Word

    the act of remembering something

  • gunning

    Word

    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • induce

    Word

    to persuade or influence someone to do something

  • seduce

    Word

    to persuade someone to have sex with you or do something they might not otherwise do

  • stand over

    Phrase

    to watch or supervise someone closely, often in an annoying way

  • lucky break

    Phrase

    a lucky event or opportunity that helps someone succeed

  • flop

    Word

    to fall or move down heavily and loosely

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • harden

    Word

    to become hard, or to make something hard

  • break in

    Phrase

    to interrupt a conversation or discussion by speaking

  • insanity

    Word

    a state of severe mental illness

  • imprint

    Word

    to press or stamp a mark onto a surface

  • parameter

    Word

    a value or limit that affects how something works or is measured

  • see things

    Phrase

    to think you are seeing something that is not really there

  • allegation

    Word

    a claim that someone has done something wrong or illegal, without proof

  • sounder

    Word

    a group of wild boars

  • fundamentally

    Word

    in a basic or essential way

  • spied

    Word

    to notice or see someone or something unexpectedly

  • residency

    Word

    the fact of living in a place, or the place where you live

  • to God

    Phrase

    used in expressions like “I hope to God” to show a very strong wish or hope

  • death threat

    Phrase

    a threat to kill someone

  • holding cell

    Phrase

    a room where police or court staff keep someone for a short time before they are moved or released

  • cuff

    Word

    the part of a sleeve that fits tightly around the wrist

  • can't help

    Phrase

    to be unable to stop yourself from doing something

  • come out with

    Phrase

    to say something suddenly or without thinking first

  • foster care

    Phrase

    care for a child in another family, usually for a limited time

  • cheat on

    Phrase

    to be sexually unfaithful to your partner

  • reach out

    Phrase

    to contact someone, especially to offer help or start a conversation

  • oral

    Word

    relating to the mouth or to speaking

  • infrastructure

    Word

    the basic systems and services a society needs, such as roads, power, and water

  • walk through

    Phrase

    to explain something to someone in a clear, step-by-step way

  • cozy

    Word

    comfortable, warm, and pleasant in a way that makes you feel relaxed

  • slit

    Word

    to make a long, narrow cut in something

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • recount

    Word

    to tell someone about an event or experience in detail

  • haunt

    Word

    to visit a place often

  • chatter

    Word

    to talk quickly and continuously, often about unimportant things

  • medic

    Word

    a person trained to give emergency medical care

  • sage

    Word

    a person known for great wisdom

  • bedded

    Word

    past tense and past participle of bed

  • algebra

    Word

    a branch of mathematics that uses letters and symbols to solve problems

  • back in

    Phrase

    used to talk about an earlier time in the past

  • figure out

    Phrase

    to find an answer to something or understand it after thinking about it

  • set up

    Phrase

    prepare something so it can be used or can happen

  • phantom

    Word

    a ghost or a figure that seems real but is not

  • kind of

    Phrase

    to some extent; fairly

  • reinforce

    Word

    to make something stronger or more effective

  • subtitle

    Word

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

  • linear

    Word

    straight or almost straight, following a line

  • sync

    Word

    to make two devices or systems work together by sharing data

  • algorithm

    Word

    a set of step-by-step rules used to solve a problem or do a task, especially by a computer

  • thank god

    Phrase

    used to express relief that something bad did not happen

  • time period

    Phrase

    a length of time

  • kitchen knife

    Phrase

    a knife used for cutting and preparing food in the kitchen

  • ticketing

    Word

    the sale and issuing of tickets

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