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Criminal Minds S11E22: English vocabulary

Season 11, Episode 22CrimeDramaMystery

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  • sappy

    Word

    too sentimental in a way that is annoying

  • rioter

    Word

    a person who takes part in a riot

  • interrogator

    Word

    a person who asks questions, especially in an official investigation or interview

  • mooned

    Word

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

  • smirk

    Word

    to smile in a way that shows you are pleased with yourself or think you know more than others

  • leavings

    Word

    things that are left over after something is used, eaten, or finished

  • splice

    Word

    to join ropes or cables by weaving their strands together

  • inflection

    Word

    the way a word changes form to show grammar, such as tense, number, or case

  • hogging

    Word

    to take or use more than your fair share of something

  • abler

    Word

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • slighting

    Word

    showing disrespect or contempt

  • perjury

    Word

    the crime of lying under oath in court

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  • supervisory

    Word

    relating to supervising people or work

  • misinterpret

    Word

    to understand or explain something in the wrong way

  • rambling

    Word

    long and not clearly organized, especially in speech or writing

  • evener

    Word

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

  • retort

    Word

    to answer quickly, often in a sharp or witty way

  • grasping

    Word

    greedy and always wanting more money or possessions

  • ideological

    Word

    relating to ideas, beliefs, or a political ideology

  • factoring

    Word

    the practice of selling unpaid bills to get money before they are paid

  • carding

    Word

    the process of combing and separating wool or other fibers

  • deviate

    Word

    to move away from a usual course, rule, or pattern

  • subcommittee

    Word

    a small committee made up of members of a larger committee

  • compulsive

    Word

    done because of a strong, hard-to-control urge

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  • invoke

    Word

    to mention or use something as support for an argument or action

  • shadowing

    Word

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

  • swat

    Word

    to hit something quickly with your hand

  • internal affairs

    Phrase

    a police department that investigates complaints against officers

  • child porn

    Phrase

    informal slang for child pornography

  • counterfeit

    Word

    to make an illegal copy of something in order to trick people

  • anarchist

    Word

    a person who believes in anarchism

  • ball bearing

    Phrase

    a small metal ball used in a bearing

  • charismatic

    Word

    having a strong charm that makes people admire and follow you

  • probable cause

    Phrase

    legal grounds that justify an arrest, search, or similar police action

  • reminiscent

    Word

    suggesting something you remember from the past

  • fall in

    Phrase

    to move into position in a line or formation, especially in the military

  • holed up

    Phrase

    staying hidden or shut away in a place, often for safety or privacy

  • tempting

    Word

    so attractive or appealing that it is hard to resist

  • hunch

    Word

    a feeling or guess based on intuition, not facts

  • profiling

    Word

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

  • turn around

    Phrase

    cause something to improve a lot

  • gunning

    Word

    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • special agent

    Phrase

    an FBI or other government detective

  • land on

    Phrase

    to reach a decision or agreement

  • ashore

    Word

    toward or onto land from the water

  • creature of habit

    Phrase

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

  • affirmative

    Word

    showing agreement or saying yes

  • excite

    Word

    to make someone feel excited and eager

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • way out

    Phrase

    far away; at a great distance

  • safe house

    Phrase

    a place where someone can hide safely, especially from danger or the police

  • recapture

    Word

    to get something back, especially by force or effort

  • expel

    Word

    force someone to leave a place, school, or organization

  • don't you know

    Phrase

    used at the end of a statement to ask for agreement or confirmation

  • here's the thing

    Phrase

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

  • to the moon

    Phrase

    a slogan used to say that a cryptocurrency will rise a lot in value

  • sounder

    Word

    a group of wild boars

  • the Bomb

    Phrase

    the first nuclear bomb ever made or used

  • rally around

    Phrase

    to join together to support someone or something

  • distressing

    Word

    causing worry, sadness, or pain

  • IP address

    Phrase

    the unique number that identifies a device on a network

  • sneaky

    Word

    behaving in a secretive or dishonest way

  • chipping

    Word

    small pieces that break off from a hard surface

  • framing

    Word

    the way something is presented so that people understand it in a particular way

  • hypothetical

    Word

    based on an imagined situation rather than a real one

  • in order

    Phrase

    ready, arranged, or working properly

  • flashlight

    Word

    a small battery-powered light you can carry in your hand

  • traumatic

    Word

    causing strong emotional pain or shock

  • underestimate

    Word

    to think that something is less important, serious, or valuable than it really is

  • bourbon

    Word

    a type of American whiskey made from corn

  • browser

    Word

    a program you use to look at websites on the internet

  • get over

    Phrase

    to recover from an illness, shock, or painful experience

  • write up

    Phrase

    to write something in full or in a finished form

  • stay on

    Phrase

    continue to stay in a place, job, or situation

  • effectiveness

    Word

    the ability of something to produce the result you want

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • wipe out

    Phrase

    to destroy something completely or make it disappear

  • storming

    Word

    moving forward quickly and forcefully

  • lowering

    Word

    the act of making something lower or of becoming lower

  • operative

    Word

    working or in effect

  • warden

    Word

    a person who is in charge of a prison or another place and makes sure rules are followed

  • fly by

    Phrase

    to pass by while flying

  • bedded

    Word

    past tense and past participle of bed

  • runaway

    Word

    a person, especially a child or teenager, who has run away from home or another place where they were staying

  • all clear

    Phrase

    a signal that danger or an emergency has ended and it is safe to continue

  • calculated

    Word

    carefully planned or done on purpose

  • back in

    Phrase

    used to talk about an earlier time in the past

  • tricking

    Word

    the act of deceiving or cheating someone

  • sewer

    Word

    an underground pipe or system of pipes that carries away waste water and sewage

  • head start

    Phrase

    an advantage gained by starting before other people

  • overlap

    Word

    to cover or lie partly over something else

  • disruption

    Word

    a problem or event that interrupts normal activity

  • kind of

    Phrase

    to some extent; fairly

  • lure

    Word

    to attract or tempt someone or something, often by offering something appealing

  • reinforce

    Word

    to make something stronger or more effective

  • probable

    Word

    likely to happen or be true, but not certain

  • faulty

    Word

    not working properly because of a defect or mistake

  • prank

    Word

    a playful trick or practical joke

  • derive

    Word

    to get something from a source or from something else

  • sync

    Word

    to make two devices or systems work together by sharing data

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