Language stay in Fort Lauderdale

words i learnt during my language stay in Florida

words i learnt during my language stay in Florida

Tamara Schenker

Tamara Schenker

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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