My Vocabulary 12

Front 1

window sill (also sill, window ledge)

Back 1

a narrow shelf below a window, either inside or outside: Place the plants on a sunny window sill.

Front 2

scruffy

Back 2

dirty or untidy: He looked a little scruffy. She was wearing a scruffy pair of jeans.

Front 3

despondent (about sth)|(over sth)

Back 3

sad, without much hope: She was becoming increasingly despondent about the way things were going. There are times when it is hard not to feel despondent.

Front 4

dote on / upon sb

Back 4

to feel and show great love for sb, ignoring their faults: He dotes on his children.

Front 5

shuffle

Back 5

1 to walk slowly without lifting your feet completely off the ground: He shuffled across the room to the window. The line shuffled forward a little.
2 to move from one foot to another; to move your feet in an awkward or embarrassed way: Jenny shuffled her feet and blushed with shame.

Front 6

snuggle ~ (up to sb/sth)

Back 6

to get into, or to put sb/sth into, a warm comfortable position, especially close to sb: The child snuggled up to her mother. He snuggled down under the bedclothes. She snuggled closer. He snuggled his head onto her shoulder.

Front 7

wag

Back 7

1 if a dog wags its tail, or its tail wags, its tail moves from side to side several times
2 to shake your finger or your head from side to side or up and down, often as a sign of disapproval

Front 8

tousle (tousled)

Back 8

to make sb's hair untidy:
a boy with blue eyes and tousled hair

Front 9

traipse

Back 9

to walk somewhere slowly when you are tired and unwilling: We spent the afternoon traipsing around the town.

Front 10

trip sb up

Back 10

to make a mistake; to deliberately make sb do this: Read the questions carefully, because the examiners sometimes try to trip you up. (a question which would trip up a NS)

Front 11

jettison

Back 11

1 to throw sth out of a moving plane or ship to make it lighter: to jettison fuel
2 to get rid of sth/sb that you no longer need or want: He was jettisoned as team coach after the defeat.
3 to reject an idea, belief, plan, etc. that you no longer think is useful or likely to be successful

Front 12

fondle

Back 12

to touch and move your hand gently over sb/sth, especially in a sexual way, or in order to show love (caress)

Front 13

umpteen

Back 13

very many: I've told this story umpteen times.

Front 14

qua /kwei/

Back 14

as sth; in the role of sth: The soldier acted qua soldier, not as a human being.