Session 71: August 18.

Sunday, September 27, 1942

 So-called: used to show that you think a word that is used to describe
someone or something is wrong (kind of like supposed but not)
Supposed: used to show that you do not believe that something or
someone really is what many other people consider them to be
 Maid: a woman who cleans or cooks in a hotel or in someone’s home
 At any rate: at least
 Stick it out: to continue to the end of a difficult or unpleasant situation
Bear with sb: to be patient and wait while someone does something
 Umpteenth: of a high but unknown number / Enisima or Enesima
 Sulk: to show anger or resentment by being silent / to look unhappy and not
speak to anyone because you are angry about something
 Mischief: behaviour, usually of a child, that is bad but not serious / evil,
damage or harm.
 Admonition: a piece of advice that is also a warning to someone about
their behaviour
 Saucy: rude and showing no respect, or referring to sex, especially in a
humorous way
 Fierce: violent or angry / very strong or powerful / showing strong feeling or
energetic activity
 Fray: fight
 Composure: the feeling of being calm, confident, and in control
 Doomed: certain to fail, die, or be destroyed
 Loathe: to hate someone or something
 Uphold: to support (a person’s action)
to defend or keep a principle or law, or to say that a decision that has
already been made, especially a legal one, is correct
 Upbringing: the way that your parents look after you and the things that
they teach you when you are growing up
 Tirade: a long, angry speech expressing strong disapproval
 Pot Calling the kettle black: This is a phrase that states that the person
you are talking to is calling you something that they themselves are (and
generally in abundance).
This comes from old times when pots and pans were generally black and
kettles were generally metallic and reflective. Therefore the pot sees its
black reflection in the kettle and thinks that the kettle is black.
 Flush: to get a red face because you are embarrassed or angry
 Sacred: /ˈseɪ·krɪd/ relating to a religion or considered to be holy
 Session 72: August 23.

Monday, September 28, 1942

 Clash: a fight or argument / a serious disagreement or difference

 Quarrel: to have an argument with someone / an argument
 Bicker: to argue about things that are not important
 Squabble: to argue about something that is not important
 Occurrence: something that happens
 Harsh: cruel or unkind
 Fling: to suddenly throw something
 To the powers that be: important people who have authority over others
 Manner: ways of behaving with other people
 Headstrong: very determined to do what you want without listening to
others
 Pushy: behaving in an unpleasant way by trying too much to get something
or to make someone do something
 pent-up: repressed
 1. Not released; repressed: pent-up emotions.
 2. Kept unwillingly: I've been pent up in this office for over a year.
 rage: strong anger that you cannot control
 Diffident: not confident / shy and not confident of your abilities
 diffidence: shyness
 Retiring: adjective: Shy.
 Outlook: the way a person thinks about something / a person’s view of life
etc
 Household: a family or group of people who live together in a house
 Be pushed around: manipulated
 Starve: to become sick or die because you do not have enough food
 Tangled up: twisted together in an untidy way
 As luck would have it: by chance / fortunately
 Tirade: a long, angry speech expressing strong disapproval
 Tongue-lashing: If you give someone a tongue-lashing, you speak angrily
to that person about something that they have done wrong

Session 73: August 25.

Tuesday, September 29, 1942

  Plagued: a large and annoying quantity / The seven plagues of egypt
 Outweigh: to be greater or more important than something else
 Draw: to pull curtains open or closed
 Scrub: to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush
 Chink: a narrow opening
 Plumber: someone whose job is to repair or connect water pipes for
kitchens, bathrooms, etc.
 Seemly: socially suitable and polite
 Unseemly
 Prudish: prude: a person who is easily shocked by rude things, especially
those of a sexual type

Thursday, October 1, 1942

 Prankster: someone who plays pranks on people

 Dread: a strong feeling of fear or worry / to feel worried or frightened about
something that has not happened yet
 Mice: /mɑɪs/
 Quicksilver: as an adjective it means unpredictable.
 For hours on end: For long stretches of time / An expression which means
a long time.
 Carnation: a small flower with a sweet smell that is usually white, pink, or
red
 Split their sides laughing: split one's sides (with laughter): Fig. to laugh so
hard that one's sides almost split. (Always an exaggeration.)
 Hideous: very ugly
 Burlap: (American ) a type of strong rough cloth woven from a plant, either
hemp or jute, and used to make sacks and ropes; hessian (British)
 Guilder: the standard unit of money used in the Netherlands before the
introduction of the euro
 Correspondence: /kɑr·əˈspɑn·dəns/
 Shorthand: a system of fast writing that uses lines and simple signs to
represent words and phrases (taquigrafia)
 To suit him: to be in his interests
 Roam: to move around a place without any purpose
 Carp: to complain all the time about matters that are not important / to
criticize someone or something.
 Brunt: to bear the worst of the effect of (a blow, attack etc)
 Paragon: a person or thing that is perfect or has an extremely large amount
of a particular good characteristic
  Virtue: /ˈvɜr·tʃu/
 Goody-goody: someone who behaves in a way intended to please people
in authority / someone called this because they won't do stupid and
immature crap like the majority of their peers.
 Hodgepodge: a confused mixture of different things
 What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once
 A centipede with a clubfoot

Session 74: August 28.

Wednesday, October 7, 1942

 set off: to start on a trip

 wool: the soft, thick hair that grows on the bodies of sheep and some other
animals
 Petticoats: a woman's light, loose undergarment hanging from the
shoulders or the waist, worn under a skirt or dress.
 Slipper: a type of soft, comfortable shoe for wearing inside the house:
 Dressy: Dressy clothes are suitable for formal occasions
 Silk: a delicate, soft type of cloth made from a thread produced by
silkworms, or the thread itself:
 Skeins: a length of wool or thread collected together into the shape of a
loose ring.
 Yarn: thread used for making cloth or for knitting
 variegated: having a pattern of different colours or marks
 purse: a small container for money, usually used by a woman
 cleansing: used to describe something that cleans or is used for cleaning
 suntan: pleasantly brown skin caused by being in hot sun
 rouge: a red or pink powder put on the cheeks to make the face look more
attractive
 eau de cologne
 powder puff: a round piece of soft material used for putting powder on the
face or body
October 9, 1942

 cattle: cows and bulls that are kept for their milk or meat
 they’re branded by their shorn heads
o shorn: past of shear: to cut the hair on a person's head close to the
skin, especially without care
 heartrending: /ˈhɑːrtˌren.dɪŋ/: causing great sympathy or sadness
  distraught: extremely worried, nervous, or upset
 crippled: offensive old-fashioned a person who cannot use their arms or
legs in a normal way
 glaring searchlights:
o Searchlights: a light with a very bright beam that can be turned in any
direction, used especially to guard prisons or to see the movements
of enemy aircraft in the sky
o shining too brightly
 subdued: /səbˈduːd/ If a person is subdued, they are not as happy as
usual or they are quieter than usual
 saboteurs: a person who sabotages something
 hostages: /ˈhɑː.stɪdʒ/ someone who is taken as a prisoner by an enemy in
order to force the other people involved to do what the enemy wants

Session 75: August 30.

Wednesday, October 14, 1942

1. La Belle Nivemaise:
2. Awful: very bad
3. Wretched: unpleasant or of low quality / very ill or very unhappy / UK: used
to express anger when something annoying happens
o someone who is unpleasant or annoying / a miserable, unhappy
creature
4. Though in fact neither of us is any good.
5. Moreover: adverb also and more importantly
6. Cramped: Adjective: A cramped room, building, etc. is unpleasant because
it is not big enough.
7. Nosy: /ˈnoʊ·zi/: always trying to find out private things about other people
8. Chase him off it: Force a person to leave or go away
9. Vague: /veɪɡ/: C2 A vague person is not able to think clearly, or gives an
impression of not thinking clearly in order to hide their real thoughts:

Tuesday, October 20, 1942

1. Scare: a sudden feeling of fear or worry

2. Extinguisher: /ɪkˈstɪŋ.ɡwɪ.ʃɚ/
3. Station: to place
4. Bange: to make a sudden very loud noise or noises.
5. Hook: to fasten something with a hook, hang something on a hook, or catch
something with a hook:
 6. Fastening: a device on a window, door, box, etc. for keeping it closed
7. Relieved: feeling happy because something bad did not happen
a. Relieve: to make pain or a bad feeling less bad
8. Fascist: based on or supporting fascism
a. Fascism: a political system based on a very powerful leader, state
control, and being extremely proud of country and race, and in which
political opposition is not allowed
9. Whew: Phew: Exclamation. used when you are happy that something
difficult or dangerous has finished or is not going to happen, or when you
are tired or hot.
10. Gieses: Giese is a German surname. Especially since the mid-19th century,
people with this name have migrated throughout the world and now form an
extensive diaspora in countries such as the United States and Australia,
where they have lived for several generations.
a. Diaspora: the spreading of people from one original country to other
countries
11. Drawn sth up: to prepare something, usually something official, in writing:
12. What were we to do?:
13. Fuse: a small safety part in an electrical device or piece of machinery that
causes it to stop working if the electric current is too high, and so prevents
fires or other dangers:
14. Forth: (from a place) out or away, or (from a point in time) forward
15. Industrious: An industrious person works hard
16. Curl up: to sit or lie in a position with your arms and legs close to your body

Session 76: September 1.

Thursday, October 29, 1942

 Measles: an infectious disease that covers your skin in small, red spots
 Perspire: to produce liquid through your skin because you are hot or
nervous
 Nevernmassig: Nervous
 Grumble: to keep complaining about something
 Mumble: to speak too quietly and not clearly / to speak (words) in such a
way that they are difficult to hear
 Swept: Sweep: to clean (a room etc) using a brush or broom

Monday, November 2, 1942

 Exasperating: irritating
  Index card: a small card used to record information such as addresses,
telephone numbers, etc. kept in a card index (= a small box with cards
arranged in alphabetical order)
 Go nuts: to become extremely angry
 Before long: soon
 Indelicate: Indelicate words or actions are not suitable for a situation and
are likely to be offensive.
 Yearning: a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something
that you cannot have or get easily
 Yearn: to want something very much with a feeling of sadness
 Long: yearn

Thursday, November 5, 1942

 Stinker: someone who behaves very badly

Saturday, November 7, 1942

 Bode: to be a sign of something that will happen in the future, usually

something very good or bad
 Scold: to speak angrily to someone, especially a child, because they have
done something wrong
 Knitted: brow: wrinkled
 Butt in: to interrupt a conversation or discussion or someone who is talking
 In a huff: angry and offended
 Rebuke: the act of speaking angrily to someone because they have done
something wrong
 Moodiness: changing mood
 Darn: used instead of damn to express anger
 Gnawing: annoying; disturbing
 Mischief: action or behavior (especially of children) that causes small
troubles or annoyance to others
 Envious: /ˈen·vi·əs/
 Clash: to fight or argue
 I´ve cut myself a drift from them:
 Chart: a drawing that shows information in a simple way
 Inadequacy: /ɪˈnæd.ɪ.kwə.si/ the fact that something is not good enough
or is too small in amount
 Be entitled: to have the right to do something
 Deed: something that you do
 Obliged: /əˈblɑɪdʒd/
 Abide: formal) to put up with; to tolerate / If you can’t abide someone or
something, you dislike them very much.
 Wind up: to end
 Choke back: If you choke back feelings or tears, you force yourself not to
show how angry or upset you are
 Bursting point:
 The point at which normal capacity is exceeded.
 A stage of emotion at which self-control is lost.