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Modern Family S5E8: English vocabulary

Season 5, Episode 8Comedy

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  • newsy

    Word

    full of useful or interesting news

  • trollop

    Word

    an insulting word for a woman who is thought to be sexually promiscuous

  • condescend

    Word

    to act in a way that shows you think you are better than someone else

  • ceaseless

    Word

    continuing without stopping

  • stickler

    Word

    a person who insists on doing things in a very exact way

  • sty

    Word

    a small enclosure where pigs are kept

  • reattach

    Word

    to attach something again

  • berate

    Word

    to criticize someone angrily and at length

  • persevere

    Word

    to keep trying to do something despite difficulty or failure

  • osmosis

    Word

    the movement of water through a membrane from a less concentrated solution to a more concentrated one

  • welcomer

    Word

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

  • quaint

    Word

    attractively old-fashioned or unusual in a charming way

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  • lander

    Word

    a spacecraft that lands on the surface of a planet or moon

  • filament

    Word

    a very thin thread or fiber

  • stalked

    Word

    to follow someone closely and watch them in a threatening way

  • couched

    Word

    to express something in a particular way

  • sensibility

    Word

    the ability to notice and appreciate subtle feelings, beauty, or art

  • evener

    Word

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

  • tangle

    Word

    to twist or become twisted into a messy mass

  • teeny

    Word

    very small

  • silo

    Word

    a tall structure on a farm used for storing grain or animal feed

  • barb

    Word

    a sharp point or hook with a backward-facing point

  • rowdy

    Word

    noisy and hard to control

  • geez

    Word

    used to show surprise, annoyance, or frustration

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  • overalls

    Word

    a piece of clothing with trousers and a bib front, worn over a shirt for work or casual wear

  • sloping

    Word

    sloping downward or at an angle

  • yak

    Word

    a large wild ox with long hair and horns, found in Tibet and nearby areas

  • stalker

    Word

    a person who follows and watches someone in a way that frightens or annoys them

  • liquored up

    Phrase

    very drunk

  • bale

    Word

    a large tightly tied bundle of hay, cotton, paper, or similar material

  • butting

    Word

    to hit or push with the head or horns

  • come right

    Phrase

    to end well or be resolved successfully

  • open the door

    Phrase

    to make it possible for something to happen

  • improvise

    Word

    to create or perform something without preparing it first

  • fives

    Word

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

  • bring it

    Phrase

    to do your best and put a lot of energy into something

  • walk down

    Phrase

    to keep moving toward an opponent and keep attacking them in a fight

  • shotted

    Word

    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • tabling

    Word

    the act of postponing a proposal or motion for later discussion

  • cider

    Word

    an alcoholic drink made from fermented apple juice

  • complicate

    Word

    to make something more difficult or harder to understand

  • lonesome

    Word

    sad because you are alone or feel alone

  • gunning

    Word

    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • cramp

    Word

    a sudden painful tightening of a muscle

  • holy Moses

    Phrase

    an informal expression used to show surprise, shock, or annoyance

  • hot on

    Phrase

    very interested in or enthusiastic about something

  • hole in one

    Phrase

    a golf shot that puts the ball into the hole in one stroke

  • maturing

    Word

    becoming more mature and fully developed

  • pooling

    Word

    the act of combining money, resources, or efforts for a shared purpose

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • slop

    Word

    to spill or let liquid flow out of a container

  • paneling

    Word

    wooden boards or panels used to cover a wall

  • go way back

    Phrase

    to have known someone for a very long time

  • sounder

    Word

    a group of wild boars

  • mend

    Word

    to repair something, especially by hand

  • make out with

    Phrase

    to kiss and touch someone in a sexual or romantic way

  • trade show

    Phrase

    an event where companies show and promote their products to business buyers and visitors

  • liquor up

    Phrase

    to make someone drunk with liquor

  • chore

    Word

    a small task you have to do regularly, especially around the house

  • thinner

    Word

    a liquid used to make paint or other coatings thinner

  • cam

    Word

    a shaped part in a machine that makes another part move in a controlled way

  • dope

    Word

    very good or impressive

  • phrasing

    Word

    the way words are chosen and put together in speech or writing

  • sideways

    Word

    toward or to the side

  • security system

    Phrase

    a system that protects a building or area from intruders and may sound an alarm

  • burn up

    Phrase

    to burn completely and be destroyed by fire

  • see after

    Phrase

    to take care of someone, especially by watching over them

  • storm out

    Phrase

    to leave a place suddenly because you are very angry

  • rule on

    Phrase

    to make an official decision about a case or issue

  • tang

    Word

    a strong, sharp taste or smell

  • scotch

    Word

    to stop something from happening or continuing

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

  • hanger

    Word

    a piece of wood, plastic, or metal with a hook for hanging clothes

  • check up on

    Phrase

    to visit or contact someone to see how they are doing

  • knock it off

    Phrase

    used to tell someone to stop doing something annoying or unwanted

  • act on

    Phrase

    to act because of information, advice, or a rule

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • storming

    Word

    moving forward quickly and forcefully

  • ducking

    Word

    to lower your head or body quickly to avoid being hit or seen

  • irony

    Word

    a situation in which the result is the opposite of what you would expect

  • gag

    Word

    a device or piece of cloth used to stop someone from speaking

  • bedded

    Word

    past tense and past participle of bed

  • hoo

    Word

    the sound an owl makes

  • kin

    Word

    your family and relatives

  • back in

    Phrase

    used to talk about an earlier time in the past

  • garment

    Word

    a piece of clothing

  • early on

    Phrase

    at an early stage; before much time has passed

  • overlap

    Word

    to cover or lie partly over something else

  • kind of

    Phrase

    to some extent; fairly

  • sustainable

    Word

    able to continue for a long time without causing serious damage or using up resources

  • sucker

    Word

    informal: a person who is easily fooled or taken advantage of

  • see ya

    Phrase

    a casual way to say goodbye

  • rum

    Word

    a strong alcoholic drink made from sugarcane

  • starve

    Word

    to suffer or die from lack of food

  • pizza guy

    Phrase

    a person who delivers pizza

  • ringed

    Word

    having a ring or rings around it

  • sync

    Word

    to make two devices or systems work together by sharing data

  • replica

    Word

    a copy of something, especially one made to look exactly like the original

  • warm up

    Phrase

    gentle exercise done before harder exercise or sport to prepare the body

  • North American

    Phrase

    relating to North America or its people

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