Vocabulary
Synonyms for hot weather
What is boiling/sweltering/scorching?
To stop something, more formal. Normally used for stopping shooting in a war.
What is to cease/ceasefire?
What are soaring/skyrocketing/plunging/plummeting?
To make somebody do something
What is to twist somebody's arm?
This is to be exhausted, for clothes, shoes or people after a long day.
What is to be worn out.
Synonyms for raining
What is showering/pouring/spitting?
To create a debate, another word for create. This is also the start of a fire.
What is to spark?
When something is true. Usually collocates with information/sources.
To pick data/things that give a favourable/unfavourable image of someone. e.g they ____-______ the data to make the government look bad.
What is to cherry-pick?
This is to destroy/damage clothes or paper. Extra point: This is to destroy completely, e.g a contract, homework.
What is to tear?
Someone who doesn't believe someone quickly, they are cynical.
What is skeptic/a skeptic?
To intervene
To step in
A very cruel and violent civilisation.
What is barbaric?
To present an idea. Another word for present.
What is to pitch.
To impede the progress of something, also a phrase for a basket of food.
What is to hamper/a hamper?
Over a large area, e.g urban ____
What is sprawl?
What is to shoplift?
Too relaxed about a problem, not preparing enough.
What is complacent/complacency?
To get very angry, very quickly
What is to hit the roof/go through the ceiling/fly off the handle/see red?
To create support for a cause or try to gather donations.
What is to drum up?
These are what you get when you break a limb. Also the people in a film/play and a way to help someone.
What is a cast and crutches?
To get rid of tension, to feel good after expecting things to turn out badly. Also a way to do a number 1.
What is to relieve/be relieved/relieve yourself
To be extremely wet, e.g after that storm I was completely _______
To perform comedy, like Jerry Seinfeld or Richard Pryor.
What is to do stand-up comedy.
Making a joke in a tense situation.