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Conservative = If you are conservative in your appearance, you usually do not like fashionable or modern clothes or hairstyles: , holding your traditional

I belong to a very conservative family " a Baloch family"


He's a very conservative dresser

Paralysed = unable to move or act

I got paralysed for the rist of my life .


The accident left her paralysed from the waist down.

Exhale = to send air out of your lungs: , to breath out air .

Eight days until we might possibly maybe perhabs exhale .


She held her breath for a moment and then exhaled.

Demolish = to completely destroy a building , especially in order to use the land for something else, to quickly eat all the food you have been given

A number of houses were demolished so that the supermarket could be built.


Joe demolished an enarmous platful of chicken and fries

Wobble = to cause something to shake or move from side to side in a way that shows poor balance : , a feeling of not being certain about something:

Don't wobble the table, please, Dan.


I gave the poles a slight wobble and the whole tent collapsed.


She's having a bit of a wobble about the move to New York.

Flinch = to make a sudden, small movement because of pain or fear:

He didn't even flinch when the nurse cleaned the wound .


Kobe Bryant doesn't flinch when matt Barnes fakes pass at his face

Sniff = to smell something by taking air in through your nose: , to take air in quickly through your nose, usually to stop the liquid inside the nose from flowing out:

He sniffed his socks to see if they needed washing.


You're sniffing a lot - do you have a cold?


Could you blow your nose instead of sniffing?

Paw = the foot of an animal that has claws or nails, such as a cat, dog, or bear: , to touch somene with roughly specially sexy way and forcefully

I found paw prints in the kitchen


A man is pawing a women

Reflex = the ability to react quickly

Good reflex

Pitch = to move or to be moved suddenly , especially by throwing or being thrown

The bike hit a rut and I was pitched (forward) onto the road.


Dignity =

In hospital, she felt stripped of all her dignity .


He felt what he was being asked to do took away his dignity and self-respect.

Snazzy = modren and stylish in a way that attracts attention :

You got to look snazzy .


Pauls wearing a very snazzy pair of shoes .

Patch = a small area that is different in some way From the area surrounds it : ,


A small piece of are swen or stuck over something , a small piece of cloth to show that person working there

Our dog has a black patch on his back.


A shirt with a us flag patch sewn onto the right shoulder

Trim = to make something tidier or more level by cutting a small amount off it: , to reduce the amount or size of something:

My hair needs trimming


They're trying to trim their costs, so staff who leave are not being replaced.

Speechless = unable to speak because you are so angry , shocked , surprised etc... , temporarily unable to talk or to know what to say, esp. because of having strong feelings:

The news left us speechless .


Her remark left me speechless .

Tease = to laugh at someone or say unkind things about them, either because you are joking or because you want to upset that person: , to intentionally annoy a person or animal by saying something that is not true or pretending to do something , often in a playful way :

I was just teasing, I didn't mean to upset you.


I used to hate being teased about my red hair when i was at school


Don’t tease the dog by showing her the treat if you’re not going to give it to her.


Meditiate = to think calm thoughts in order to relax or as a religious activity: , to think seriously about something for a long time:

Sophie meditates for 20 minutes every day.


He meditated on the consequences of his decision.

Condemn = to criticize something or someone strongly, usually for moral reasons: , to severely punish someone who has committed a crime, or to force someone to suffer:

The film was condemned for its sexism.


Illness condemned her to spend her remaining days in a home.

Perv = a pervert (= a person whose sexual behaviour is considered strange and unpleasant by most people, to look at or behave towards someone in a way that shows sexual interest, and that they or others find unpleasant:

She caught him perving at/over a picture of a naked woman.


Stop looking down my dress, you perv.


Were you just perving out on me somehow ? .

Extraction = the process of removing something, especially by force: , the process of removing a tooth: , the process of removing a substance from the ground or from another substance:

The extraction of minerals has damaged the countryside.



Flatter = to praise someone in order to make them feel attractive or important, sometimes in a way that is not sincere: ,


Flatter yourself = to believe something good about yourself although it might not be true:


be/feel flattered = to feel very pleased and proud because someone has said good things about you or has made you feel important:


I knew he was only flattering me because he wanted to borrow some money.


Steve flatters himself that he's an excellent speaker.


We felt flattered that so many people came to our party.

Width = the distance across something from one side to the other:

No they take up the entire width of the road!


It is five meters in width


We need to measure the width of the wood.