Catcher in the Rye

DSI-10-English Lit.

DSI-10-English Lit.


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Flashcards 144
Students 11
Language English
Category English
Level Secondary School
Created / Updated 30.10.2018 / 10.03.2021
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snotty

showing a superior attitude, rude

absent-minded

showing a forgetful disposition

acquintance

a person who knows slightly

incognito

with the real identity concealed

screwball

a crazy person

crumby

something that is not favorable

bellboy

an attendant in a hotel who carries guests' luggage

to squirt

ejecting a liquid from your mouth with a stream

horny

feeling sexual excitement

tigress

a passionate woman

suave

charming and elegant

putrid

very unpleasant

brassy

loud,noisy

witty

funny

lawn

grassplot

ripples

curls on the surface of water

dope

drugs

fiend

drug addict

flitty

gay

knockers

a woman's breasts

pansy

 

girly

rake

immoral pleasure seeker

nonchalant

calm,relaxed,unconcerned

peculiar

specific to a person or category

to recuperate

to become healthy after an illness

pitcher

someone who throws the ball in baseball

chisel

 

a tool you use for shaping wood or stone

sermon

a religious speech

scraggy

very thin

banister

a long piece of wood that you can hold while going up and down the stairs

ransom

the demanded money for the return of a prisoner

frock

a dress

to cut something out

to stop doing something

a hole in the head

not needing or wishing something

rim

the outer end of something

contribution

money to put to a common pool

descent

ancestry

infirmary

hospital

swanky

stylish

curb

to put a brake on