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VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR LIST
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| 1. | The only reason people journey here is for the orphanage. | a large house where children whose parents are both dead live and are taken care of: He was raised in an orphanage. |
| 2. | I came as a physician to the abandoned children. | physician formal especially American English a doctor abandon to leave someone, especially someone you are responsible for: How could she abandon her own child? |
| 3. | In the lonely, sordid world of lost children, there were no heroes to be found. | 1 involving immoral or dishonest behaviour The whole sordid affair came out in the press. She discovered the truth about his sordid past. 2 very dirty and unpleasant: a sordid little room |
| 4. | And so I became the caretaker of many, father of none. | American English someone who looks after other people, especially a teacher, parent, nurse etc |
| 5. | And I made his name Wells because I could tell he was very deep. | Interpret. |
| 6. | Princes of Maine | ME a state in the northeast of the US, next to the Atlantic coast and the border with Canada. Maine is the largest state in New England, and is famous for its beautiful forests, mountains, and coast. * New England - the states of the northeastern US: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. It is called New England because it was the first part of the US where people from England, including the Pilgrim Fathers, began to settle in the 17th century. |
| 7. | Twice adopted, twice returned. It didn’t bode well. | bode well/ill (for somebody/something)to be a good or bad sign for the future: The opinion polls do not bode well for the Democrats. |
| 8. | Near the angle of the rib … | 
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| 9. | …I began his tutorials. | a period of teaching and discussion with a tutor, especially in a British university: the tutorial system * A tutor gives lessons to just one student or a small group of students, especially privately in their home or a student's home |
| 10. | In failing to withhold love, and making the orphanage his home, had I created a true and everlasting orphan? | to refuse to give someone something: I withheld payment until they had completed the work. Ian was accused of withholding vital information from the police. |
| 11. | And so my excellent pupil learnt to… deliver unwanted babies. | to help a woman give birth to her baby, or to give birth to a baby: They rushed her to hospital where doctors delivered her baby. |
| 12. | He sniffs that ether. I’ve seen him do it. | a clear liquid used in the past as an anaesthetic to make people sleep before an operation |
| 13. | They seem to be susceptible to every damn thing that comes along. | likely to suffer from a particular illness or be affected by a particular problem: Older people are more susceptible to infections. Soil on the mountain slopes is very susceptible to erosion. |
| 14. | Those morons who write the books ought to do some research here. | informal not polite a very offensive word for someone who you think is very stupid [= idiot]: Don't leave it there, you moron! |
| 15. | … Grant us a safe lodging and a holy rest… | a place to stay: It's £ 90 a week forboard and lodging (=meals and a room) . |
| 16. | A dog, which had lain concealed till now, ran backwards and forwards on the parapet with a dismal howl. | if a situation or a place is dismal, it is so bad that it makes you feel very unhappy and hopeless: The future looks pretty dismal right now. a dismal, grey afternoon |
| 17. | Missing his aim, he fell into a ditch … | a long narrow hole dug at the side of a field, road etc to hold or remove unwanted water |
| 18. | No, you jerk. | informal someone, especially a man, who is stupid or who does things that annoy or hurt other people: I swore at him for being such a jerk. |
| 19. | It is your splice. You always blame me for everything. | the act of joining the ends of two things together, or the place where this join has been made |
| 20. | You are … a surgeon with near perfect obstetrical and gynecological procedure. | obstetrics the part of medical science that deals with the birth of children |
| 21. | I was a posthumous child. | happening, printed etc after someone's death: a posthumous collection of his articles |
| 22. | She was a nanny. | a woman whose job is to take care of the children in a family, usually in the family's own home: She found a job as a nanny with a wealthy Italian family. |
| 23. | Her temperature is 104 ˚. | 104˚ Fahrenheit = 40˚ Celsius |
| 24. | Scoot down. | especially American English to make someone or something move a short distance by pulling or pushing: I scooted my chair over to their table. |
| 25. | The fetus is unexpelled. | Fetus, British foetus, a baby or young animal before it is born expel to eject or drive out with force |
| 26. | Her uterus is punctured. | uterus the organ in a woman or female mammal where babies develop puncture to make a small hole in something: One bullet punctured his lung. |
| 27. | She has acute peritonitis. | acute technical an acute illness or disease quickly becomes very serious peritonitis technical a serious condition in which the inside wall of someone's abdomen (=part around and below your stomach) becomes infected and painful |
| 28. | I think it’s a crochet hook. | crochet to make clothes etc from wool or cotton, using a special needle with a hook at one end
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| 29. | If she’d asked you for a simple D& C, what would you have done? | dilate if a hollow part of your body dilates or if something dilates it, it becomes wider [≠ contract]: dilated pupils curette a surgical instrument designed for scraping or debriding biological tissue or debris in a biopsy, excision, or cleaning procedure D& C = dilation and curettage the dilation of the cervix (the narrow passage into a woman's uterus) and surgical removal of part of the lining of the uterus and/or contents of the uterus by scraping and scooping. It is a therapeutic gynecological procedure as well as a rarely used method of first trimester abortion. |
| 30. | We could have ended up in the incinerator. | a machine designed to burn things in order to destroy them |
| 31. | Steerforth got into the pantry. He’s eaten all the pie dough. | pantry a very small room in a house where food is kept [= larder] dough – Perhaps you know? |
| 32. | He’s such a pig. | someone who eats too much or eats more than their share: Yougreedy pig, you ate all the candy! Imade a bit ofa pig of myself (=ate too much) at dinner. |
| 33. | Are you enlisted? – They wouldn’t take me. I’m Class 4. I have a heart defect. | enlisted having a rank below that of an officer in the army, navy etc: officers andenlisted men Class 4 Patients with cardiac disease resulting in inability to carry on any physical activity without discomfort. If any physical activity is undertaken, discomfort is increased. |
| 34. | I can’t imagine there’s any stress or strain around here. | worry that is caused by having to deal with a problem or work too hard over a long period of time: thestresses and strains of police life I know you've been under a lot of strain lately. crack/collapse/buckle etc under the strain (=become unable to deal with a problem or work) |
| 35. | Cut it out, children. | Perhaps you know? |
| 36. | What’s a runt? | informal a small, unpleasant, or unimportant person |
| 37. | Doubtless you will let me know what immensely worthwhile or at least useful thing that it is you find to do. | if something is worthwhile, it is important or useful, or you gain something from it: He wanted to do a worthwhile job. We decided to give the money to aworthwhile cause (=one that helps people). It wasn't worthwhile continuing with the project. |
| 38. | Are you so stupid you imagine you’re going to find a more gratifying life? | pleasing and satisfying: It's gratifying to note that already much has been achieved. |
| 39. | Do you have cramps? | 1 a severe pain that you get in part of your body when a muscle becomes too tight, making it difficult for you to move that part of your body: One of the swimmers got cramp and had to drop out of the race. 2 (stomach) crampssevere pains in the stomach, especially the ones that women get when they menstruate |
| 40. | It should taper off tomorrow. | to decrease gradually: Profits may be tapering off in the near future. |
| 41. | Thought you said you was gonna get us a plumber. | someone whose job is to repair water pipes, baths, toilets etc |
| 42. | Please don’t operate the grinder or press if you’ve been drinking. | a machine for crushing coffee beans, peppercorns etc into powder |
| 43. | When the grass is wet, you can make it slide. | to move smoothly over a surface while continuing to touch it, or to make something move in this way Francesca slid across the ice. |
| 44. | Trees are flak, antiaircraft fire from the geekson the ground. | bullets or shells that are shot from the ground at enemy aircraft |
| 45. | Wally here thinks people like being whack ed by branches. | informal to hit someone or something hard He kept whacking the dog with a stick. |
| 46. | I’m shipping out today. | to leave, as for a distant place: troops shipping out to the war zone |
| 47. | Are you bored stiff or do you think you can stick it out a bit? | bored/scared/worried stiff informal extremely bored, frightened, or worried: As a child I was scared stiff of going down to the cellar. stick it out to continue doing something that is difficult, painful, or boring: It wasn't a happy period of his life, but he stuck it out. |
| 48. | You’re picking apples with the stem only half the time. | 
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| 49. | That’s the bud for next year’s apple. That’s called the ‘ spur’. | a young tightly rolled up flower or leaf before it opens:
rose buds
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| 50. | He’d be happy to help to commit me. | to order someone to be put in a hospital or prison The judge committed him to prison for six months. |
| 51. | She has enough Christian zeal to start her own country. | eagerness to do something, especially to achieve a particular religious or political aim: religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal He approached the job with missionary zeal. In their zeal to catch drug dealers, police have ignored citizens' basic civil rights. |
| 52. | An internship. | American English a job that someone who has nearly finished training as a doctor does in a hospital |
| 53. | You’re making this up. | to pretend that something is true in order to deceive someone: I think they're making the whole thing up. |
| 54. | These credentials are against the law. | 1 someone's education, achievements, experience etc that prove they have the ability to do something She had excellent credentials for the job. There are doubts over his credentials as a future Prime Minister. 2 a letter or other document which proves your good character or your right to have a particular position: The commissioner presented his credentials to the State Department. |
| 55. | How’s young Homer working out? | if a situation works out in a particular way, it happens in that way: Financially, things have worked out well for us. |
| 56. | Now don’t be a party-pooper, Arthur. | informal someone who spoils other people's fun |
| 57. | It[the cinema]’s closed now because of the blackouts. | a period of darkness caused by a failure of the electricity supply [= power cut] |
| 58. | So many apples are disappointingly mealy. | fruit or vegetables that are mealy are dry and do not taste good: These apples are kind of mealy. |
| 59. | Novices are introduced to the traditional realm of King Neptune. | literary a country ruled by a king or queen |
| 60. | His pathetic resume is the best I’ve seen. | something or someone that is pathetic is so useless, unsuccessful, or weak that they annoy you: You're pathetic! Here, let me do it. I know it sounds pathetic now, but at the time I was frightened. Vic made a pathetic attempt to apologise. |
| 61. | Tomboy! | a girl who likes playing the same games as boys |
| 62. | I fail to see how someone courageous enough to make a commitment to a foreign mission is automatically to be dismissed. | to refuse to consider someone's idea, opinion etc, because you think it is not serious, true, or important: He just laughed and dismissed my proposal as unrealistic. It's an idea that shouldn't bedismissed out of hand (=dismissed immediately and completely) . |
| 63. | I ain’t goin’ in that vat to fish out no cigarette. | a very large container for storing liquids in |
| 64. | Scrunch down like this. | to crush and twist something into a small round shape: I scrunched up the letter and threw it in the bin. |
| 65. | It seems I will not have the occasion to use it, barring some emergency of course. | unless something happens: Barring a miracle, he won't walk again. |
| 66. | I thought you were over your adolescence. | the time, usually between the ages of 12 and 18, when a young person is developing into an adult |
| 67. | Field mice girdle an apple tree, pine mice kill the roots. | to remove a band of bark and cambium (=a cylindrical layer of tissue in the stems and roots of many seed-bearing plants, consisting of cells that divide rapidly to form new layers of tissue) from the circumference of (a tree), usually in order to kill it
pine mouse
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| 68. | Men and women of conscience should seize these moments. | a man of conscience acts based on what he thinks is right rather than logic and reason seize a chance/an opportunity/the initiative to quickly and eagerly do something when you have the chance to |
| 69. | He wasn’t up for the trip this season. | spoken willing to do something or interested in doing something: We're going to the pub later - are you up for it? |
| 70. | Forceps. | a medical instrument used for picking up and holding things:
a pair of forceps
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| 71. | Cervical stabilizer, vulval pads. | cervix the narrow passage into a woman's uterus vulva the outer part of a woman's sexual organs |
| 72. | Dakin’s solution. | antiseptic solution developed to treat infected wounds. First used during World War I, Dakin’s solution was the product of a long search by an English chemist, Henry Drysdale Dakin, and a French surgeon, Alexis Carrel, for an ideal wound antiseptic. |
| 73. | She took off in the middle of the night. | slang to go off; leave: He took off in a hurry. |
| 74. | No gal need to be out here trying to hitch-hike unless she got a good, strong knife to hold onto. | American English informal a girl or woman - used especially by older people: She's a great gal. |
| 75. | I poked it all around, Homer. | to quickly push your finger or some other pointed object into something or someone: Be careful with that umbrella or you'll poke someone in the eye. He was poking at the dust with a stick, making little patterns. |
| 76. | I’m just trying to put things straight. | set / put something straight to figure out and correct something; to straighten out a mess: I am sorry for the error. I am sure we can set it straight. We'll put this matter straight in a short time. |
| 77. | I reckon you gotta do what you gotta do. | spoken especially British English to think or suppose something Do you reckon he'll agree to see us? 'There's nothing we can do about it.' 'You reckon (=used to express doubt or disagreement)? ' |
| 78. | It’s gonna be chicken fricassee tonight. | a method of cooking meat in which the meat is cut up, sauté ed, and braised, and served with its sauce, traditionally a white sauce. |
| 79. | He said it would never stand up to Homer Wells going off to war. | to refuse to accept unfair treatment from a person or organization: He'll respect you more if you stand up to him. Cliff couldn't stand up to bullying. |
| 80. | The remembrance of my old life is fraught with so much want of hope. | fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etcfull of problems etc: Their marriage has been fraught with difficulties. |
| 81. | …I only know that it was… and ceased to be. | formal to stop doing something or stop happening: He ceased to be a member of the association. The things people will do for charitynever cease to amaze me (=I am always surprised by them). |
| 82. | Let’s not give the story away. | to tell someone something that you should keep secret: He gave away as little information as possible. I don't want togive the game away (=give information that should be secret) by saying too much. |
SOURCES:
| https://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary https://www.thefreedictionary.com | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki https://www.macmillandictionary.com/ |
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