Tuesday, October 31, 2017

NA2 31/10/17


lump /lʌmp/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
1 a small piece of something solid, without a particular shape
 Strain the custard to remove lumps.
lump of
 Melt a lump of butter in your frying-pan.

2 a small hard swollen area that sticks out from someone’s skin or grows in their body, usually because of an illness
 You should never ignore a breast lump.

armpit
ˈsugar cube noun [countable] 
a sugar Gump

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gen‧re /ˈʒɒnrə $ ˈʒɑːnrə/ 

give somebody the creeps
if a person or place gives you the creeps, they make you feel nervous and a little frightened, especially because they are strange

That house gives me the creeps.

thriller /ˈθrɪlə $ -ər/ ●●○ noun [countable] 
a book or film that tells an exciting story about murder or crime

all sorts (of something) (=a lot of different types of things)

The new catacomb (story)

take the first/a wrong etc turn (=go along the first etc road)

wom‧an‧izer (also womaniser British English) /ˈwʊmənaɪzə $ -ər/ 
noun [countable]  a man who has sexual relationships with many different women – used to show disapproval → man-eater

revenge is a dish best served cold

be of French/Russian/Italian etc extraction

to be from a French, Russian, etc, family even though you were not born in that country

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