Cutthroat

Cutthroat - a cutthroat activity or situation is one in which people behave in an unfair or immoral way in order to get an advantage over other people.

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Gruesome

Gruesome - involving or describing death or an injury in a very unpleasant way.

Example - Police faced the gruesome task of looking for body parts.

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Endowment

Endowment - an amount of money that someone gives to an institution.

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Shady

Shady - secret and probably dishonest or illegal.

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Demotion

Demotion - the opposite of promotion.

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To prime

To prime - to prepare someone to behave or act in a particular way.

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Shim

Shim - A shim is a thin and often tapered or wedged piece of material, used to fill small gaps or spaces between objects. Shims are typically used in order to support, adjust for better fit, or provide a level surface. Shims may also be used as spacers to fill gaps between parts subject to wear.

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To crunch

To crunch - if you crunch numbers, you do a lot of calculations; if you crunch information, you deal with a lot of it quickly.

Example - "My brain is too foggy to crunch these numbers now."

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To jump-start

To jump-start:

1 - to start a car by connecting its engine to another car's engine with jump leads.

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2 -  to start something in a very active and successful way.

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To skimp

To skimp - to expend or use less time, money, or material on something than is necessary in an attempt to economize.

Example - "The dessert was good but they had skimped on the chocolate sauce."

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Mogul

Mogul - an important and powerful person in a particular activity or business.

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To drizzle

To drizzle: 

1 - to pour a small amount of liquid over food that you are preparing.

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2 - to rain in a very light way.

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To luck out

To luck out - to be lucky.

Example - "We so lucked out tonight!"

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In jest

In jest - if you say something in jest, you do not mean it seriously.

Example - "I'm sure Jesse said most of it in jest."

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Ruthless

Ruthless - willing to make other people suffer so you can achieve your aims.

Example - "She showed a ruthless determination to succeed in her career."

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To badger

To badger - to try to make someone do something by asking them many times.

Example - "They keep badgering me to take them to the show."

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Kooky

Kooky - silly or strange.

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Jumpy

Jumpy - nervous.

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Queasy

Queasy - feeling that you are going to vomit.

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Every cloud has a silver lining

Every cloud has a silver lining - usually for saying that there is usually a good aspect of a bad situation.

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To divvy

To divvy up - to divide or share something.

Example - "It is time to divvy up what's in the Lost and Found box."

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to garnish

To garnish - to add something to a dish or food to make it look more attractive.

Example - "Garnish the fish with lemon slices."

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To gab

To gab - to talk a lot and for a long time about unimportant things.

Example - "What were you two gabbing about all evening?"

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To dodge

To dodge - to avoid someone or something by moving quickly, especially so that something does not hit you or someone does not see you.

Example - "Shoppers had to dodge flying glass when the bomb exploded."

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To wobble

To wobble - to rock slightly from side to side.

Example - "I wouldn't sit on that chair. It wobbles."

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Scatterbrained

Scatterbrained - disorganized and lacking in concentration.

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To chide

To chide - to criticize someone, or to speak to them in an angry way because you think their behaviour is wrong.

Example - "The company was chided for its lack of original research."

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Edgy

Edgy - in a bad mood because you are worried or nervous.

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To fluster

To fluster - to make someone feel confused, embarrassed or nervous.

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To upstage

To upstage - to do something so you can get more attention and admiration than someone else, especially someone who will be annoyed by this.

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Scrumptious

Scrumptious - tasting extremely nice.

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To fidget

To fidget - to keep making small quick movements with parts of your body because you are bored, nervous or impatient.

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To skim

To skim - if someone skims money, they take small amounts from somewhere so that people do not notice it is gone.

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Luddite

Luddite - someone who does not like new technology and who tries to avoid using it.

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To condone

To condone - to approve of behaviour that most people think is wrong.

Example - "The school does not condone bullying of any kind."

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To smear

To smear - to spread a substance accidentally and make a mess.

Example - "The ink tends to smear on shiny paper."

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Gridlock

Gridlock - A situation in which there are so many cars on the road that traffic cannot move; a situation in which is impossible to make progress.

Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous - present everywhere.

Example - "His ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family."

To fudge

To fudge - to avoid giving a clear decision or explanation.

Example - "People have accused us to fudging the issue."

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Write-off

Write-off - an agreement that allows someone not to pay back the amount that they owe.

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To pry

To pry - to be interested in someone's personal life in a way that is annoying or offensive.

Example - "I just glanced at the letter, I didn't mean to pry."

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Lowlife

Lowlife - a bad person, specially a criminal.

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Slop

Slop - Waste food or drink left by customers in restaurants and bars.

Example - "Listen up, diner! I just hit the big time. No more serving up slop to you lowlifes." 

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Scapegoat

Scapegoat - someone who is blamed for something that is not their fault, especially because someone else wants to avoid being blamed.

Example - "She's being made a scapegoat for the commission's own mistakes."

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Bottoms up

Bottoms up - used for expressing good wishes before drinking an alcoholic drink. The more usual word is cheers.

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Stuck-up

Stuck-up - a stuck-up person acts as though they are too important to speak to you.

Example - "She looks stuck-up, like she'd talk about herself all night."

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To shimmy

To shimmy - to move your shoulders and hips from side to side as you dance or walk.

Example - "Free up your shoulders to shimmy!"

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Stoop

Stoop - a way of standing or walking with your head and shoulders bent downwards and forwards.

Example - "I saw a guy on a stoop frenching his cat!"

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