WORD

barnyard (noun)
blare (verb)
blaze (verb)
blazing (adj)
brine (noun)
brine (verb)
chummy (adj)
clothes peg (noun)
colletc (verb)
deadpan (adj)
ditch (adj)
ditch (noun)
ditch (verb)
engross (verb)
etch (verb)
fidget (adj)
inner (adj)
jam (verb)
jammed (adj)
lessen (verb)
level-pegging (noun)
load (noun)
maze (noun)
muffle (noun)
muffle (verb)
nab (verb)
natch (slang)
off-the-peg (adj)
peg (noun)
peg leg (noun)
pegboard (noun)
permit (noun)
pertinacious (adj)
pickle (verb)
queasy (adj)
rack (idiom)
rack (phrasal verb)
rack (verb)
reel (noun)
reel (phrasal verb)
reel (verb)
renown (noun)
rivet (verb)
rodent (noun)
rope (phrasal verb)
rope (verb)
salvage (verb)
scrunch (phrasal verb)
scrunch (verb)
smug (adj)
snicker (verb)
snoozefest (noun)
speak (verb)
spot (verb)
stack (noun)
stack (phrasal verb)
stack (verb)
swamp (verb)
tarnish (verb)
tarp (noun)
tow (verb)
tug (verb)
turning peg (noun)
unattended (adj)
varsity (noun)
vessel (noun)
wan (adj)
yap (verb)
MEANING
An area on a form surrounded by farm buildings (farmyard).
(Blare out) To make a very loud unpleasant noise.
1. (Fire) To burn very brightly and strongly. 2. (Light) To shine with a very bright light. 3. (Eyes) If
someone's eyes are blazing, their eyes are shining brightly because they are feeling a very strong
emotion, usually anger (blazer with anger). 4 (Gun) If guns blaze, they fire bullets quickly and
continuosly. 5. Blaze a trail: to develop or do something new and important, or to do something
important that no one has done before. 6. Be blazed across/all over something: If something is
blazed across a newspaper, etc, it is written in a way that everyone will notice.
1. Extremely hot. 2. Full of strong emotions, especially anger. Blazing row: very angry argument.
The water of a sea or an ocean. Salt water used for preserving and picklng foods.
To immerse, preserve, or pickle in salt water.
Friendly.
A wooden or plastic object that you use to fasten wet clothes to a clothesline (= clothespin).
Collect yourself/your thoughts: to make na effort to remain calm and think clearly and carefully
about something.
Sounding and looking completely serious when you are saying or doing something funny ("cara de
pau").
A last-ditch attempt/effot: a final attempt to achieve something before it is too late.
A long narrow hole dug at the side of a field, road, to gold or remove unwated water (vala).
1. To stop having something because you no longer want it. 2. To end a romantic relationship with
someone. 3. To not to go school, a class, when you should (= skip). 4. To leave someone you are
with in a place without telling them you are going. 5. To land an aircraft in a controlled crash into
water.
1. If something engrosses you, it interests you so much that you don't notice anything else. 2.
Engross yourself in something.
1. To cut lines on a metal plate, piece of glass, stone, etc, to form a picture or words (etch on). 2.
Be etched on/in your memory/mind: If na experience, name etc, is etched on your memory or
mind, you can't forget it and you think of it often. 3. If someone's face is etched with pain, sadness
etc, you can see these feellings from their expression (etch with). (GRAVAR)
Unable to stay still, especialy because of being bored or nervous (inquieto).
1. On the inside or close to the centre of something ( outer). 2. Inner thoughts or feelings are ones
that you feel strongly but don'y always show to other people. 3. Relating to things which happens
or exist but aren't easy to see. 4. Inner circle: the few people in an organization, political party,
etc, who control it or share power with its leader. 5. Somebody's inner voice: thoughts or feelings
inside your head which seem to warn or advise you.
1. (Push hard) To push something somewhere using a lot of force, until it can move no further. 2.
(Block) If a lot of people or vehicles jam a place, they fill it so that it is difficult to move (= cram). 3.
Jam on the brakes: to slow down a car suddenly by putting your foot down hard on the brake. 4.
Jam somebody's/the switchboard: If someone calls jam the switchboard of an organization, so
many people are phoning the organization that it can't deal with them all.
1. Stuck and impossible to move. 2. Full of people or things (= full). 3. If people are jammed in a
place, there are a lot of them there, so that there is no space between them.
To become smaller in size, importance or value, or make something do this (= reduce). Lessen the
risk/chance/possibility (of something). Lessen the impact/effect/importance (of something).
If competitors in a race, election, etc, are level-pegging, they are equal and it is difficult to know
who will win.
1. A large quantity of something that is carried by a vehicle, person. 2. A load/loads (of something):
a lot of something. 3. A load of crap/bull/rubbish: used to say that something is bad, untrue or
stupid (unpolite). 4. Get a load of somebody/something: used to tell someone to look at or listen to
something that is surprising or funny.
A complicated and confusing arrangement of streets, roads, etc.
Muffled sound can't be heard clearly, for example because they come from behind a door or wall.
1. To make a sound less louder and clear, especially by covering something. 2. Muffle somebody
up: to cover yourself or another person with something thick and warm (be muffled up in
something).
1. To catch or arrest someone who is doing something wrong. 2. To get something or someone
quickly, especially before anyone else can get them.
Used to say that something is exactly as you would expect (= naturally; of course).
Off-the-peg clothes are made in standard sizes, not made especially to fit one person.
1. A short piece of wood, metal, or plastic that is attached to a wall or fits into a hole, used
especially to hang things on or to fasten things together. 2. Take/bring somebody down a peg (or
two): to make someone to realize that they are not as important or skilled as they think they are. 3.
A peg to hang something on: something that is used as a reason for doing, discussin, or believing
something.
An artificial leg, especially a wooden one.
Thin board with holes in it, into which you can out pegs or hooks to hang things on.
Na official written statement giving you the right to do something.
Continuing to believe something or to do something in a very determined way (= tenacious).
Persistent.
To preserve food in vinegar or salt water.
1. Feeling that you are going to vomit. 2. Feeling uncomfortable because an action seems morally
wrong (queasy about).
On the rack: under great stress.
Rack up: to get a number or amount of something, especially a number of points in a competition;
to accumulate; to score. Rack out: to go to sleep or get some sleep.
1. To make someone suffer great mental or physical pain. (be racked by/with something) (afflitc).
2. Rack your brains: to try very hard to remember or think of something.
1. A round object onto which film, wire, a special string for fishing etc can be wound (carretel). The
amount that one of these objects will hold. 2. One of the parts of a cinema film that is contained on
a reel.
1. Reel somebody/something in: to wind the reel on a fishing rod so that fish caught on the line
comes towards you. To get or attract a large number of people or things (= pull in). 2. Reel
something off: to repeat a lot of information quickly and easily. To do something again and again.
1. To be confused or shocked by a situation. 2. Reel from. 3. Reel back: to step backwards
suddenly and almost fall over, especially after being hit or getting a schock. 4. To walk in an
unsteady way and almost fall over, as if you are drunk. 5. To seem to go around and around.
When you are famous and a lot of people admire you for a special skill, achievement ou quality (=
acclaim).
1. Be riveted on/to/by something: if your attention is riveted on something, you are so intereted
or so frightened that you keep looking at it. 2. Be riveted to the spot: to be shocked or frightened
that you can't move.
Any small animal of the type that has long sharp front teeth, such as a rat or a rabbit.
1. Rope somebody into something: to persuade someone to help you in a job or join in activity,
especially whrn they don't want to (rope somebody into doing something; rope somebody in to do
something). 2. Rope something off: to surround an area with ropes, especially in order to
separete it from another area.
1. To tie things together using rope (rope something to something; rope somebody/something
together). 2. To catch na animal using a circle of rope.
1. To save something from na accident or bad situation in which other things have already been
damaged, destroyed or lost (salvage something from something). 2. To make sure that you don't
lose something completely or to make sure that something doesn't fail completely. (salvamento).
Scrunch something up: to crush and twist something into a small round shape. Scrunch up your
face/eyes: to move the muscles in your face in a way that makes your eyes seem narrow.
If stones, leaves etc, scruch as you walk on them, they make a noisy sound.
Showing too much satisfaction with your own cleverness or sucess - used to show disapproval
(smug about; smug expression/look/face/smile). (presunoso).
To laugh quietly and in a way that is not nice at something whick is not supposed to be funny (=
snigger).
An event, discussion, or meeting so boring that it causes one to nap.
1. So to speak: used when you are saying something in words that don't have their usual
meaning. 2. Speak out of turn: to say something when you don't have the right or authority to say
it.
1. To notice someone or something, especially when they are difficult to see or recognize. 2. Be
spotted with something: to have small round marks or small pieces of something on the surface. 3.
(American) To give the other player in a game an advantage.
1. A neat pile of things (heap). 2. A stack of something/stacks of something: a large amount of
something. (pilha) 3. A chimney. 4. The stacks: the rows of shelves in a library where the books
are kept.
1. Stack something up: to make things into a neat pile. 2. Used to talk about how food something is
compared with something else. 3. If a number of things stack up, they gradually collect or get stuck
in one place.
1. To make things into a neat pile or to form a neat pile. 2. To put neat piles of things on something
(be stacked with something). 3. The odds/cards are stacked against somebody: used to say that
someone is unlikely to be successful. 4. Stack the cards/deck: to arrange cards dishonestly in a
game.
1. To suddenly give someone a lot of work, problemas, etc, to deal with (be swamped by/with
something). 2. To go somewhere or surround something in large numbers, especially in a short
period of time. 3. To suddenly cover na area with a lot of water.
If na event of fact tarnishes someone's reputation, record, image, etc, it makes it worse (=
demage).
Tarpaulin (British), tarp (American). A large heavy cloth or piece of thick plastic that water won't
pass through, used to keep rain off things. (LONA)
To pull a vehicle or ship along behind another vehicle, using a rope or chain.
To pull with one or more short, quick pulls (tug at/on something). Tug at somebody's
heart/heartstrings: to make someone feel sumpathy for someone or something.
A screw (parafuso) used for making the strings on a guitar tighter or looser.
Left alonge without anyone in charge.
The main team that represents a university, college, or school in a sport. A university (British).
A ship ou a large boat.
Looking pale, weak or tired.
1. If a small dog yaps, it barks in na excited way. 2. To talk in a noisy and annoying way.
EXAMPLE
Horns blared in the street outside.
1. The room was warm, with a fire blazing in the hearth. 2. The
sun blazed down as we walked along the valley. 3. Lind leapt
to her feet, her dark eyes blazing with anger. 4. An enemy
plane roared overhead, its guns blazing. 5. An innovative
young company that has blazed a trail for others to follow. 6.
News of their divorce was blazed across all the tabloids.
1. A blazing August afternoon. 2. He jumped to his feet in a
blazing fury.
Fish pickled in brine.
You and Eric have become quite chummy, haven't you?
I got there early so I had a few minutes to collect my thoughts
before the meeting began.
Deadpan humor.
The negotiators made a last-ditch effort to reach an agreement.
1. The government has ditched plans to privatise the prison. 2.
Meg and Neil were due to marry, but she ditched him. 3. Did
you ditch class today? 4. You ditched me at the bakery! 5.
Two balloonists had to ditch during the race.
The scene was stunning, and for a time engrossed all out
attention. Take your mind off it by engrossing yourself in a good
book. He was engrossed in the paper. Who's that guy you've
been engrossed in conversation with all night?
A gravestone with three names etched on it. A laser is used to
etch a pattern in the smooth surface of the disc. The island
remaind etched in my memory. Her face was etched with
tiredness.
The boys get fidgety if they can't play outside.
1. An inner room. 2. She'll need great inner strenght to get
over the tragedy. 3. The inner workings of the film industry. 4.
Members of the President's inner circle. 5. My inner voice told
me to be cautious.
1. He jammed his foot on the accelerator and the car sped off.
2. Crowds jammed the entrance to the stadium. 4. Viewers
jammed the switchboard with complaints.
1. Bob had got his finger jammed in the door. 2. The place is
jammed. The town was completely jammed with traffic. 3. We
were jammed together, shoulder to shoulder, in the narrow
corridor.
Exercise lessens the risk of heart diseases. The new project will
lessen the effects of car pollution.
1. A load of wood. The plane was carrying a full load of fuel. 2.
Don't worry, there's loads of time. 3. I thought the game was a
load of crap. 4. Get a load of this! Yours stars say you are
going to meet someone who's rich.
Five minutes of walking through the maze of tents, she still
couldn't find the food tent.
I could hear muffled voices in the next room.
The falling snow muffled the sound of our footseps. Her voice
was muffled by the pillow in which she had hidden her face. She
arrived, muffld up in a thick coat.
1. The police nabbed him for speeding. 2. See if you can nab a
seat.
"What does he drives?" "A BMW, natch"
It was only a cheap suit, bought off-the-peg.
1. Sarah hung her coat on the peg. 2. Evans is an arrogant
bully who needs taking down a peg or two. 3. As a peg to hang
it on, the tournament had the 100th anniversary of Nehru's birth.
A permit is required for fishing in the canal.
They were all a bunch of pertinacious actors and theatre
majors.
The sea got rougher and I began to feel queasy. Many
Democrats felt queasy about the issue.
She's on the rack because her Maths grades.
He racked up 41 points.
1. Great sobs racked her body. Her face was racked with pain.
Liza was racked by guilty. 2. I racked my brains, trying to
remember his name.
1. A cotton real. A fishing rod and reel. 2. The final reel.
1. It took almost na hour to reel the fish in. The programme
reels in more than 13 million viewers a show. 2. Jack reeled off
a list of names. The Yankees reeled off 14 straight wins.
1. Norman's brain was reeling, but he did hi best to appear
calm. 2. The party is still reeling from its recent election defeat.
3. Diane reeled back in amazement. The force of the punche
sent him reeling against the wall. 4. Andy reeled away from the
bar and knocked over his stool. 5. The room reeled before my
eyes and I fainted.
He has won world renown for his films. He achieved some
renown as a football player.
1. All eyes were riveted on her in horror.
She was surrounded by small, yapping little rodent dogs.
1. Denise roped me into selling tickets. Anyone who could sing
was roped in to help. Have you been roped in too? 2. The
stairs were roped off.
Suitcases were roped to the top of the car. Mountaineers rope
themselves togehter for safety. The calves are roped and
branded.
1. Divers hope to salvage some of the ship's cargo. They
managed to salvage only a few of their belongings from the fire.
2. He fought to salvage the company's reputation.
I scrunched up the letter and threw it in the bin.He scrunched
up his eyes and grinned.
The dry leaves scrunched under our feet.
What are you looking so smug about?. "I knew I'd win", she said
with a smug smile.
The other students snickered at Steve.
I was hoping to witness some fistfights at my family reunion, but
it turned our to be a snoozefest.
1. We have to pull down the barriers, so to speak, of poverty.
2. Excuse me if I'm speaking out of turn, but what you are
proposing is quite wrong.
1. I spotted a police car behind us. Meg spotted someone
coming out of the building. 2. The windscreen was spotted with
rain. 3. He spotted me six points and he still won.
A stack of papers. A stack of folders.
Parents want to know how their kids' schools stack up against
others.
1. The assistants price the items and stack them on the
shelves. 2. He went back to stacking the shelves. The floor
was stacked with boxes.
1. We've been swamped with phone calls since the advert
appeared. 2. In the summer the village is swamped by visitors.
3. Huge waves swamped the vessel.
His regime was tarnished by human rights abuses.His image
was tarnished by the savings and loans scandal.
The ship had to be towed into the harbor.
The woman gentily tugged his arm. Joe was tugging at her
sleeve.
Children should not be left unattended in the playground.
The varsity football team.
A fishing vessel.
She gave a wan smile.
Some guy was yapping on his cell phone.