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Arrow S7E12: English vocabulary

Season 7, Episode 12CrimeDramaAction & Adventure

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  • deputize

    Word

    to give someone official authority to act for you

  • paring

    Word

    the act of cutting off small pieces from something

  • scrutinize

    Word

    to examine something very carefully

  • sanguine

    Word

    confident and hopeful, especially when things are difficult

  • recrimination

    Word

    a statement accusing someone in return, especially after being accused first

  • crucify

    Word

    to kill someone by nailing or tying them to a cross

  • worser

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    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • wormed

    Word

    treated with medicine to remove worms from the body

  • enema

    Word

    a liquid treatment put into the rectum to help empty the bowels

  • nutter

    Word

    a crazy or strange person

  • welcomer

    Word

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

  • chimera

    Word

    a monster in Greek mythology with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail

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  • looped

    Word

    twisted or bent into a loop or loops

  • buckling

    Word

    the bending or curving of something under pressure

  • skyrocket

    Word

    to increase very quickly

  • definitively

    Word

    in a way that settles something clearly and finally

  • crusading

    Word

    strongly and publicly committed to a cause or campaign

  • abler

    Word

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • condone

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    to accept or ignore bad or wrong behavior, without trying to stop it

  • saddled

    Word

    having a saddle on it

  • quiver

    Word

    to shake slightly and quickly, often because of fear, cold, or excitement

  • ahem

    Word

    used to get someone's attention, or to show mild embarrassment or disapproval

  • legality

    Word

    the state of being legal or allowed by law

  • evener

    Word

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

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  • incursion

    Word

    a sudden short attack or movement into another place, especially across a border

  • felicity

    Word

    great happiness or pleasure

  • starling

    Word

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

  • obsess

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    to fill someone's mind so much that they cannot think about much else

  • duly

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    in the proper or expected way; as required

  • abduct

    Word

    to take someone away illegally by force or trickery

  • hypocrite

    Word

    a person who says they believe or support something but acts differently

  • guns blazing

    Phrase

    with a lot of energy, force, or confidence

  • party to

    Phrase

    involved in something, especially a secret plan or a wrong action

  • sizing

    Word

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

  • eat it

    Phrase

    to fall forward and land face first

  • gene pool

    Phrase

    the collection of genes in a population or species

  • lair

    Word

    a hidden place where a wild animal lives

  • vested

    Word

    earned or officially guaranteed, so it cannot be taken away

  • shotted

    Word

    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • bounding

    Word

    moving quickly with light, springy steps

  • mass destruction

    Phrase

    weapons that can kill or destroy very large numbers of people

  • keyhole

    Word

    the small hole in a door where you put a key

  • complicate

    Word

    to make something more difficult or harder to understand

  • trajectory

    Word

    the path that something moving through the air or space follows

  • nicking

    Word

    stealing things, especially in a casual or sneaky way

  • blazing

    Word

    burning very brightly and strongly

  • man on

    Phrase

    a shout warning that an opponent is coming up behind you

  • transparency

    Word

    the quality of being open and honest, especially about decisions or money

  • run around with

    Phrase

    to spend time with someone or a group, often with disapproval

  • 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

  • hide behind

    Phrase

    to use someone or something as a way to avoid blame or responsibility

  • anarchy

    Word

    a situation where there is no government or no control, often causing chaos

  • scheming

    Word

    making secret plans to get what you want, often in a dishonest way

  • pooling

    Word

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

  • excite

    Word

    to make someone feel excited and eager

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • drug bust

    Phrase

    a police raid that finds and seizes illegal drugs

  • disarm

    Word

    to take weapons away from someone or something

  • expel

    Word

    force someone to leave a place, school, or organization

  • trojan

    Word

    a computer virus that hides inside another file or program

  • go public

    Phrase

    to make something secret known publicly

  • disable

    Word

    to make a machine, system, or device stop working properly or at all

  • trusting

    Word

    willing to believe that other people are honest and will not harm you

  • take that

    Phrase

    used to say you have won or beaten someone

  • police department

    Phrase

    the local office that handles police work in a town or city

  • figuring out

    Phrase

    the process of trying to understand or solve something

  • slip out

    Phrase

    to leave a place quietly so no one notices

  • grow out of

    Phrase

    to become too big or too old for something, especially clothes or a habit

  • psychiatric hospital

    Phrase

    a hospital for people with mental illness

  • for nothing

    Phrase

    without paying anything

  • disrespectful

    Word

    showing a lack of respect; rude or impolite

  • tequila

    Word

    a strong alcoholic drink made from agave, originally from Mexico

  • setback

    Word

    a problem that slows or stops progress

  • sit on

    Phrase

    to delay dealing with something

  • on the road

    Phrase

    away from home, especially while travelling or playing in another team’s venue

  • crush on

    Phrase

    to feel a romantic attraction to someone

  • grow out

    Phrase

    to let hair grow longer

  • edit out

    Phrase

    to remove a part of a film, recording, or text during editing

  • bossed

    Word

    to give someone orders in a rude or controlling way

  • uphold

    Word

    to support and keep something going, especially a belief, rule, or principle

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

  • in the first place

    Phrase

    at the beginning; originally

  • police force

    Phrase

    the organization that provides police services in an area

  • deserving

    Word

    deserving praise, help, or respect

  • work in

    Phrase

    to find time or space for something in a busy schedule or limited place

  • check up on

    Phrase

    to visit or contact someone to see how they are doing

  • happen on

    Phrase

    to find something by chance

  • zoned

    Word

    restricted by zoning rules to a particular type of use or area

  • winding

    Word

    having many bends or turns

  • do not want

    Phrase

    used to say that you strongly dislike or reject something

  • stay on

    Phrase

    continue to stay in a place, job, or situation

  • have nots

    Phrase

    people who have little money or wealth

  • stand in

    Phrase

    to do someone else's job or perform their role for a short time

  • interrogation

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    the act of questioning someone closely, especially by police

  • slit

    Word

    to make a long, narrow cut in something

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • violate

    Word

    to break a rule, law, or agreement

  • medic

    Word

    a person trained to give emergency medical care

  • philosophical

    Word

    relating to the study of ideas about knowledge, reality, and existence

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