Language stay in Fort Lauderdale
words i learnt during my language stay in Florida
words i learnt during my language stay in Florida
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to take something away (calculating, minus)
to subtract something
the feeling that you have to vomit
nausea
extremely unhappy (Adj.)
distressed
town next to another town/village (N.)
neighbouring town
to allow / to give permission (V.)
to permit
to go beyond something/to become better than something/somebody in something (V.)
to surpass something/somebody in something
highest (position, importance) (Adj.)
uppermost
possible to be done (machbar) (Adj.)
feasible
to gather (V.)
to congregate
gathering, meeting (N.)
assembly
something that seems real, but isn't real / Fata morgana (N.)
mirage
the money borrowed from the bank when you want to buy a house/property (N.)
mortgage
how is it called when you kill someone but not on purpose? (N.)
manslaughter
specific word for the break between the plays in a theatre (N.)
interval
to find it really difficult to do something
to have great difficulty in doing something
to imagine/foresee something (V.)
to envisage something
onetime thing / oneshot deal (N.)
one-off
job / position (N.)
post
person who has to go to jail (N.)
convict
to find somebody guilty of something (V.)
to convict somebody of something
to be slowly destroyed by natural progress (V.)
to decay
to direct where a vehicle goes (V.)
to steer
to suddenly change the direction (because there is something in the way) (V.)
to swerve
cooking "plate", hot plate where you put the pan to cook something (N.)
stove
word for a familymember like mother, father, or sibling (Adj. + N.)
immediate relative
another expression for single parents (Adj. + N.)
lone parents
another expression for mother, father + children (Adj. + N.)
nuclear family
family which is really close and care for each other (Adj. + N.)
close-knit family
friend that's here today, gone tomorrow / only here in good times (Adj. + N.)
fair-weather friend
family and relatives (mother, father, children + aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc...) (Adj. + N.)
extended family
co-workers (N.)
colleagues
really good (Adj.)
terrific
to scare someone (V.)
to frighten someone
to scare / frighten someone extremely (V.)
to terrify someone
to get something from someone, use it for a certain amount of time and give it back (V.)
to borrow something from someone
to give something to someone to use it during a certain amount of time and then get it back (V.)
to lend something to someone
for this reason, since (Adv.)
hence
small, unimportant, minor (Adj.)
negligible
the work that is done for free for a good cause (N.)
volunteer work
try not to be noticed
to keep a low profile
