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The Flash S1E8: English vocabulary

Season 1, Episode 8DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy

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  • tardiness

    Word

    the fact of being late

  • huntress

    Word

    a woman who hunts

  • embolden

    Word

    to make someone feel braver or more confident

  • inhospitable

    Word

    harsh, empty, or difficult to live in

  • misstep

    Word

    a small mistake or wrong move, especially one that causes a problem

  • ocular

    Word

    relating to the eye or vision

  • berate

    Word

    to criticize someone angrily and at length

  • welcomer

    Word

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

  • hock

    Word

    to pawn something, especially to get money quickly

  • tranquilizer

    Word

    a medicine that helps a person or animal relax or sleep

  • cornea

    Word

    the clear front part of the eye

  • conundrum

    Word

    a confusing problem or question that is hard to solve

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  • engender

    Word

    to cause something to happen or exist

  • fathom

    Word

    a unit of length equal to six feet, used mainly for measuring water depth

  • clatter

    Word

    to make a series of short, sharp rattling sounds

  • copped

    Word

    to get something, especially in a casual or slightly sneaky way

  • tracer

    Word

    something used to trace or track something else

  • swab

    Word

    a small piece of soft material used for cleaning a wound or taking a sample

  • milligram

    Word

    a unit of mass equal to one thousandth of a gram

  • psychosis

    Word

    a serious mental illness that can cause a person to lose touch with reality

  • drool

    Word

    to let saliva run from your mouth

  • retina

    Word

    the part at the back of the eye that senses light and sends visual signals to the brain

  • lovable

    Word

    easy to love because of pleasant or attractive qualities

  • hallucination

    Word

    something you see, hear, or feel that seems real but is not caused by anything outside your mind

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  • evener

    Word

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

  • unaffected

    Word

    not changed or influenced by something

  • stutter

    Word

    to speak with repeated sounds or pauses because of a speech difficulty

  • derail

    Word

    to make a train or tram leave its tracks

  • felicity

    Word

    great happiness or pleasure

  • retaliate

    Word

    to hurt or punish someone in return for something they did to you

  • starling

    Word

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

  • adamant

    Word

    firm and determined; not willing to change your mind

  • streaked

    Word

    having thin lines or marks of a different color

  • neutralize

    Word

    to make a substance or effect harmless or inactive

  • tweak

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    to make small changes to something to improve it or make it work better

  • inched

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    to move very slowly and carefully in a particular direction

  • anyways

    Word

    used in speech to mean “anyway” or “in any case,” often when changing the subject or continuing a point

  • vibrate

    Word

    to move quickly and repeatedly from side to side

  • prism

    Word

    a solid shape with flat sides, often used to split light into colors

  • when it's at home

    Phrase

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

  • swat

    Word

    to hit something quickly with your hand

  • horse tranquilizer

    Phrase

    a slang term for ketamine

  • adios

    Word

    goodbye

  • morgue

    Word

    a place where dead bodies are kept until they are identified or examined

  • commotion

    Word

    a noisy, confused disturbance

  • salting

    Word

    the act of adding salt to food or water

  • boomerang

    Word

    a curved throwing stick that can return to the person who throws it

  • not done

    Phrase

    not acceptable in polite society; considered improper or rude

  • potting

    Word

    the act of putting a plant into a pot or container

  • freaking

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    used to add emphasis, especially in informal speech

  • sizing

    Word

    a process that makes cloth stiffer and stronger by coating it with a special substance

  • oxide

    Word

    a chemical compound made of oxygen and another element

  • iron oxide

    Phrase

    a compound of iron and oxygen

  • giggle

    Word

    to laugh quietly in a nervous, shy, or silly way

  • paling

    Word

    a fence made of upright wooden stakes

  • 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

  • shotted

    Word

    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • crave

    Word

    to want something very much

  • sic

    Word

    used to show that a word or passage is copied exactly as it appears, even if it looks wrong

  • turn around

    Phrase

    cause something to improve a lot

  • raider

    Word

    a person who attacks a place or group and steals things

  • induce

    Word

    to persuade or influence someone to do something

  • aboriginal

    Word

    relating to the original people living in a place before colonization

  • archery

    Word

    the sport or skill of shooting arrows with a bow

  • hit with

    Phrase

    to tell someone something surprising or unpleasant, especially suddenly

  • CAT scan

    Phrase

    a CT scan

  • irrational

    Word

    not based on clear thought or good judgment

  • napping

    Word

    to sleep for a short time, especially during the day

  • hoax

    Word

    a trick or lie meant to make people believe something false

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • reckoning

    Word

    the act of making a calculation or estimate

  • rendezvous

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    a meeting that has been arranged for a particular time and place

  • brew

    Word

    to make beer, tea, or coffee by soaking or boiling ingredients in water

  • sugared

    Word

    coated or mixed with sugar

  • sounder

    Word

    a group of wild boars

  • hands up

    Phrase

    a shouted command telling people to raise their hands, especially in surrender or when being searched

  • machining

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    the process of shaping metal or other material with machine tools

  • nice try

    Phrase

    used to say that an attempt was not successful

  • body armor

    Phrase

    protective clothing worn on the body to help stop bullets or other attacks

  • close in on

    Phrase

    to get closer to someone or something, especially while chasing or searching

  • run over

    Phrase

    to hit someone or something with a vehicle and drive over them

  • cuff

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    the part of a sleeve that fits tightly around the wrist

  • come along

    Phrase

    to appear or happen, especially by chance

  • cheat on

    Phrase

    to be sexually unfaithful to your partner

  • narrow down

    Phrase

    to reduce the number of possibilities so something becomes more specific

  • commuter

    Word

    a person who travels regularly between home and work

  • bossed

    Word

    to give someone orders in a rude or controlling way

  • riches

    Word

    a large amount of money, property, or valuable things

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

  • live for

    Phrase

    to care about something so much that it gives you energy or purpose

  • fight off

    Phrase

    to successfully defend yourself against an attack, illness, or a strong feeling

  • shoot me

    Phrase

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

  • ping

    Word

    to send a quick message to someone

  • composite

    Word

    made of different parts or materials combined together

  • iris

    Word

    the colored part of the eye around the pupil

  • break up

    Phrase

    to make a group of people separate and go away

  • catch up

    Phrase

    to find out the latest news or information after missing it for a while

  • diversion

    Word

    the act of changing the direction of something

  • overwhelm

    Word

    to affect someone so strongly that they cannot think clearly or deal with things well

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