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Criminal Minds S10E23: English vocabulary

Season 10, Episode 23CrimeDramaMystery

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  • exhume

    Word

    to dig up something buried, especially a body

  • gargantuan

    Word

    extremely large; huge

  • stomaching

    Word

    the present participle of stomach

  • tinder

    Word

    dry material that catches fire easily and is used to start a fire

  • worser

    Word

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • pariah

    Word

    a person who is rejected by other people or by society

  • goddaughter

    Word

    a girl or woman who is your godchild

  • abductor

    Word

    a person who takes someone away by force or trickery

  • trafficker

    Word

    a person who illegally buys, sells, or moves drugs, people, or other banned goods

  • welcomer

    Word

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

  • laceration

    Word

    a deep cut or tear in the skin

  • canvass

    Word

    to go from place to place asking people for opinions, votes, or support

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  • preferential

    Word

    giving someone special treatment or an advantage

  • peppering

    Word

    to scatter or cover something with small bits or drops

  • palmed

    Word

    to hide something in your hand, especially secretly

  • clouding

    Word

    the act or process of becoming less clear or transparent

  • jogger

    Word

    a person who runs slowly and regularly for exercise

  • duress

    Word

    pressure or threats that force someone to do something

  • searcher

    Word

    a person who looks for something

  • godson

    Word

    a boy or man who has a godparent

  • manipulator

    Word

    a person who uses other people in a clever or dishonest way to get what they want

  • dyeing

    Word

    the process of coloring fabric or other materials

  • categorize

    Word

    to put something into a particular group or category

  • rapport

    Word

    a friendly, easy relationship in which people understand and trust each other

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  • unspeakable

    Word

    too strong, painful, or shocking to describe in words

  • expedite

    Word

    to make a process or task happen faster

  • observable

    Word

    able to be seen, noticed, or measured

  • compliant

    Word

    willing to obey rules or accept what other people want

  • jacketed

    Word

    covered with a protective outer layer

  • stalked

    Word

    to follow someone closely and watch them in a threatening way

  • dispatcher

    Word

    a person who sends workers, vehicles, or emergency services to where they are needed

  • sophistication

    Word

    the quality of being cultured, stylish, and knowledgeable

  • evener

    Word

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

  • insulate

    Word

    to cover or treat something so that heat, sound, or electricity cannot pass through easily

  • inseparable

    Word

    so close that the people or things are always together and hard to separate

  • tangent

    Word

    a straight line that touches a curve at one point

  • puffy

    Word

    slightly swollen or rounded

  • necking

    Word

    kissing and touching someone in a sexual way

  • intensify

    Word

    to become stronger, more serious, or more intense

  • tor

    Word

    a steep rocky hill or peak

  • tailoring

    Word

    the work of making or altering clothes so they fit well

  • abduct

    Word

    to take someone away illegally by force or trickery

  • with young

    Phrase

    pregnant, used about a female animal

  • revisit

    Word

    to go back to a place, topic, or situation and deal with it again

  • save it

    Phrase

    used to tell someone to stop talking or stop making excuses

  • elaborated

    Word

    to explain something in more detail

  • pervert

    Word

    to change something so that it becomes distorted or corrupted

  • mobilize

    Word

    to organize people or resources for a purpose

  • penetrating

    Word

    clear and strong, and hard to ignore

  • kidnapper

    Word

    a person who kidnaps someone

  • two up

    Phrase

    to share a prison cell with another person

  • vertigo

    Word

    a feeling that you or the things around you are spinning, often making you lose your balance

  • home in

    Phrase

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

  • shotted

    Word

    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • embankment

    Word

    a raised bank of earth or stone built to protect land from flooding

  • gun down

    Phrase

    to shoot someone and kill them

  • vulnerability

    Word

    the state of being open to harm, attack, or criticism

  • rapped

    Word

    to hit a surface with short, quick knocks

  • send it

    Phrase

    to do something with full effort or confidence

  • stamping

    Word

    the act of making a mark or design by pressing a stamp onto something

  • inflict

    Word

    to cause someone to suffer something unpleasant or painful

  • 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

  • torso

    Word

    the main part of the human body, not including the head, arms, or legs

  • bust in

    Phrase

    to enter a place suddenly and forcefully

  • gunning

    Word

    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • abduction

    Word

    the act of taking someone away by force and keeping them somewhere against their will

  • titanium

    Word

    a strong, light metal used in aircraft, tools, and medical implants

  • be onto

    Phrase

    to realize that someone is investigating you or has discovered something about you

  • creature of habit

    Phrase

    a person who likes routine and prefers things to stay the same

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • break in

    Phrase

    to interrupt a conversation or discussion by speaking

  • just like that

    Phrase

    suddenly and without warning

  • bogus

    Word

    not real, true, or honest; fake

  • past life

    Phrase

    a time in the past in someone's life

  • no place

    Phrase

    used to say that something does not belong in a place or situation

  • questionable

    Word

    likely to cause doubt, concern, or suspicion

  • make with

    Phrase

    to create or produce something using a particular material or method

  • blood sample

    Phrase

    a small amount of blood taken from the body for testing

  • amber alert

    Phrase

    a public warning that a child has been abducted

  • video conference

    Phrase

    a meeting held by video link, with people in different places

  • beat into

    Phrase

    to make someone learn something by repeating it many times, often in a forceful or unpleasant way

  • undermine

    Word

    to gradually weaken or damage something, especially in a hidden or indirect way

  • captivity

    Word

    the state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave

  • missing person

    Phrase

    a person whose whereabouts are unknown

  • up in the air

    Phrase

    very uncertain or not yet decided

  • IP address

    Phrase

    the unique number that identifies a device on a network

  • stick at

    Phrase

    to keep trying to do something even when it is difficult

  • accomplice

    Word

    a person who helps someone commit a crime or other bad act

  • lynch

    Word

    to kill someone illegally, especially by hanging, without a fair trial

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

  • turn on

    Phrase

    to depend on something; to be decided by something

  • penetrate

    Word

    to go into or through something, often with force or difficulty

  • browser

    Word

    a program you use to look at websites on the internet

  • moron

    Word

    an insulting word for a stupid person

  • registry

    Word

    an official record or list of names, events, or items

  • originate

    Word

    to begin to exist or happen; come from a place, time, or idea

  • ping

    Word

    to send a quick message to someone

  • reconstruct

    Word

    to build or make something again after it has been damaged or destroyed

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

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