Nouns
a person you trust and share your feelings and secrets with
eg. my best friend Katie is my _________, I tell her everything that happens in my day.
What is a confidante?
next to something
eg. My house is __________ to the park.
What is adjacent?
to love something very much
eg. I ________ my mother, even when she irritates me.
What is adore?
extreme unhappiness caused by suffering
eg. She felt ________ after having to listen to her friend complain for four hours straight.
What is anguish?
can be heard
eg. on Zoom, I often ask, "am I __________?"
What is audible?
things that you see, hear, feel or smell that are not actually real, usually because of sickness, or because you ingest a drug or poison
eg. when she took the medication, she saw ________ of monsters all around her
What are hallucinations?
boring, not original
eg. the essay was written with ChatGPT, so its ideas were ________.
What is banal?
to pull something with a quick movement
eg. After seeing her sister was reading her diary she ______ it away from her.
What is yank?
being too proud, believing you are more important or smart than others (not humble)
eg. her _________ made her forget there were other smart people in the class. she thought she would get top grades even without studying!
What is arrogance?
with wild and uncontrolled emotion
eg. After finding out she failed the test, she cried __________.
shocking or offensive things, usually curse words
eg. passionate sports fans sometimes get in trouble for shouting ___________ at the players.
has the same meaning as something else
eg. tired is _______ with sleepy
What is synonymous?
go with someone, usually to ensure they arrive or leave safely
eg. the teachers __________ the students to the bathroom on the field trip to make sure they didn't get lost.
What is escort?
fear of tight spaces
eg. she locked herself in the closet to scare her friends, but it made her feel ___________.
What is claustrophobic?
when someone is punished less than you’d expect
eg. after cheating, she was not granted _________ by her teacher.
What is leniency?
someone who does anything a more important person tells them to do
eg. I accused my co-worker of being my boss' ________, because they would never do anything unless it was approved by them
What is a lapdog?
not very good, but not terrible.
eg. her work was _______, so it earned 70%
What is mediocre?
to not do something, usually something enjoyable that is not good for you
eg. when I am trying to be healthy, I ________ from eating sugar, fat and salt
What is abstain?
extremely scared
eg. I went to a haunted house on Halloween and was ____________.
What is petrified?
thing that is equal distances between two points
eg. the library on the second floor is __________ from the Lab School and the third floor offices
What is equidistant?
someone who makes money from an illegal business activity
eg. the ____________ stole ten million taka after hacking into the shop's bank account.
racketeer
very small or not enough
eg. her _________ wages were not enough for her to be able to afford rent and food
What is meagre?
think carefully about for a long time
eg. when she is alone at night, she ________ the meaning of life
What is ponder?
to react as if you are vomiting, but not vomit (also called dry heaving)
eg. she was so sick, she _________ at the smell of food
What is retch?
two people who love each other, but cannot be together because of things outside of their control
eg. Romeo and Juliet are ____________
What are star-crossed lovers?