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Arrow S2E12: English vocabulary

Season 2, Episode 12CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

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  • disbar

    Word

    to officially remove a lawyer from the legal profession

  • trounce

    Word

    to defeat someone very easily and completely

  • portend

    Word

    to be a sign that something, especially something bad, is likely to happen

  • disbarment

    Word

    the removal of a lawyer from the legal profession

  • cannoned

    Word

    to hit or move into something with sudden force

  • bracketing

    Word

    the act of putting words, numbers, or symbols in brackets

  • reticence

    Word

    a tendency to say little or keep your thoughts private

  • worser

    Word

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • hellish

    Word

    extremely unpleasant, difficult, or severe

  • receivership

    Word

    the legal state of a company being controlled by a receiver, usually after financial trouble

  • bolo

    Word

    a long knife used in the Philippines for cutting plants or wood

  • scoff

    Word

    to show that you think something is silly or not worth taking seriously

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  • welcomer

    Word

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

  • conjugal

    Word

    relating to marriage or to a married couple

  • ransack

    Word

    to search a place or container quickly and in a messy way

  • lioness

    Word

    a female lion

  • dishing

    Word

    giving out or handing out something, often quickly or generously

  • evener

    Word

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

  • adept

    Word

    very skilled at doing something

  • severance

    Word

    the ending of a job or other relationship, often with money paid to the person leaving

  • tremor

    Word

    a slight shaking movement

  • felicity

    Word

    great happiness or pleasure

  • starling

    Word

    a small bird with dark, shiny feathers that often flies in large groups

  • prudent

    Word

    careful and sensible, especially about the future or about money

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  • redwood

    Word

    a very tall tree with reddish-brown bark and soft wood

  • congratulation

    Word

    an expression of praise or good wishes for someone's success or good luck

  • broken man

    Phrase

    a man who has been deeply hurt or emotionally damaged by a bad experience

  • bidder

    Word

    a person or company that makes a formal offer to buy something, especially at an auction

  • aforementioned

    Word

    mentioned earlier in the same text or conversation

  • come right

    Phrase

    to end well or be resolved successfully

  • save it

    Phrase

    used to tell someone to stop talking or stop making excuses

  • not done

    Phrase

    not acceptable in polite society; considered improper or rude

  • freaking

    Word

    used to add emphasis, especially in informal speech

  • kill me

    Phrase

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

  • arm up

    Phrase

    to get weapons or supply weapons to people

  • freighter

    Word

    a ship or plane that carries goods

  • mercenary

    Word

    a soldier who is paid to fight for a foreign army

  • fives

    Word

    a game in which a player or side must reach five points before the other side does

  • speak of

    Phrase

    to indicate or suggest something

  • look on

    Phrase

    to think of someone or something in a particular way

  • channeling

    Word

    the act of directing energy, money, or attention into something

  • trajectory

    Word

    the path that something moving through the air or space follows

  • disciplinary

    Word

    relating to rules, discipline, or punishment for breaking rules

  • fancied

    Word

    imagined rather than real

  • bunk

    Word

    a bed, especially one on a ship or in a train or bus

  • profiling

    Word

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

  • glamour

    Word

    an attractive quality that makes someone or something seem exciting and special

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • way out

    Phrase

    far away; at a great distance

  • put out

    Phrase

    to cause someone trouble or inconvenience

  • arming

    Word

    the act of giving weapons to people or preparing them for fighting

  • crack open

    Phrase

    to open something quickly or roughly

  • accustomed

    Word

    used to describe someone who is used to something

  • bracket

    Word

    a support that holds something in place, often on a wall

  • machining

    Word

    the process of shaping metal or other material with machine tools

  • stress out

    Phrase

    to make someone feel worried or under pressure

  • run against

    Phrase

    to compete against someone in an election

  • public security

    Phrase

    the protection of the public from crime, violence, and disorder

  • substance abuse

    Phrase

    the harmful use of drugs or other addictive substances

  • pissed off

    Phrase

    very angry or annoyed

  • fingerprint

    Word

    the pattern of lines on the tip of a finger, used to identify a person

  • for nothing

    Phrase

    without paying anything

  • pint

    Word

    a unit for measuring liquid, equal to half a quart

  • undertaking

    Word

    a task or project that takes a lot of effort

  • caught up

    Phrase

    involved in a situation, often without wanting to be

  • bum

    Word

    a person who is lazy and avoids work

  • what do you want

    Phrase

    a rude way of asking why someone is bothering or interrupting you

  • vote in

    Phrase

    to elect someone to a job or position by voting

  • laurel

    Word

    a wreath made from laurel leaves, used as a sign of victory or honor

  • chipping

    Word

    small pieces that break off from a hard surface

  • put in

    Phrase

    to submit something, such as a request or application

  • blueprint

    Word

    a detailed plan for building something

  • gill

    Word

    a breathing organ that fish and some other water animals use to get oxygen from water

  • riches

    Word

    a large amount of money, property, or valuable things

  • polling

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    the activity of asking people questions to find out what they think, especially about an election

  • deserving

    Word

    deserving praise, help, or respect

  • warp

    Word

    to bend or twist out of shape

  • serum

    Word

    a clear liquid in blood or in some medicines and beauty products

  • quota

    Word

    a fixed limit on the number or amount of something allowed or required

  • underestimate

    Word

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

  • get over

    Phrase

    to recover from an illness, shock, or painful experience

  • shoot me

    Phrase

    a casual way to say you feel embarrassed, annoyed, or frustrated

  • classify

    Word

    to put people or things into groups based on shared qualities

  • look in

    Phrase

    to visit someone or somewhere briefly and casually

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • get through

    Phrase

    to manage to deal with or survive something difficult

  • housekeeper

    Word

    a person employed to clean and take care of a house or hotel

  • pawn

    Word

    the smallest chess piece, which can move forward and capture diagonally

  • singular

    Word

    referring to one person or thing, not more than one

  • one way

    Phrase

    allowing travel in only one direction

  • bottled

    Word

    preserved or sold in bottles

  • faulting

    Word

    the act of blaming or criticizing someone

  • manifest

    Word

    clear and obvious

  • inject

    Word

    to put a liquid, drug, or other substance into something or someone

  • see ya

    Phrase

    a casual way to say goodbye

  • starve

    Word

    to suffer or die from lack of food

  • forgiving

    Word

    willing to forgive mistakes and not easily upset by them

  • no pressure

    Phrase

    used to tell someone not to worry or feel under pressure

  • withstand

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    to be strong enough to deal with something difficult or harmful

  • precinct

    Word

    a police station or the area it serves

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