Special Vocabulary

SPECIAL VOCABULARY

(1) whacko (also wacko) - crazy
(2) chum - a friend
eg : an old school chum.
(3) nuts - crazy
eg : My friends think I’m nuts for saying yes.
(ii) You must be nuts to go climbing mountains in winter.
(4) pal -a friend
eg : We’ve been pals for years.
(5) pet - a person who is given special attention by sb, especially in a way that seems unfair to other people.
SYN : favourite
eg : She’s the teacher’s pet.
(6) poppycock - nonsense
eg : He dismissed the allegations as poppycock.
(7)cockamamie - silly; not to be believed.
eg: He had some cockamamie idea about turning waste paper into animal food.
(8)bugbear - a thing that annoys people and that they worry about.
eg : Inflation is the government’s main bugbear.
(9) flimflam – nonsense
(10) pick-and-mix
- used to describe a way of putting sth together by choosing things from among a large variety of different items.
eg : a pick-and-mix programme of study.
(11)piecemeal -done or happening gradually at different times and often in different ways, rather than carefully planned at the beginning.
eg : a piecemeal approach to dealing with the problem.
(12) slapdash - done, or doing sth, too quickly and carelessly.
eg : a slapdash piece of writing.
(13)mountebank - a person who tries to trick people, especially in order to get their money.
(14) greenhorn - a person who has little experience and can be easily tricked.
SYN : tenderfoot
(15) jerk - a stupid person who often says or does the wrong thing
(16) fad - something that people are interested in for only a short period of time
SYN : craze
eg : the latest / current fad.
(17)wreck – A person who is physically or mentally broken down or worn out.
eg : I was a total wreck that day.
(18) rotten – very bad
eg : She’s a rotten singer.
(19)flaky –slightly unstable and unreliable.
eg : “She’s a little flaky at times,but otherwise she’s a good worker.”
(20)scruff - a dirty or untidy person.
(21)picky – only liking certain things or people.
eg : “She’s picky about her friends.”
(22)slapdash – doing your work quickly and carelessly.
eg : “He’s got a very slapdash attitude – I doubt he’ll ever become a lawyer.”
(23)slimy – trying to get what you want by being over-friendly.
eg : “That man is so slimy- he makes me feel sick!”
(24) god – gosh
no - nope
yes - yeah
(1) gotcha - said to mean 'I have got you' in order to surprise or frighten someone you have caught, or to show that you have an advantage over them.
(2) gotta - 'have got to' or 'have got a'
eg: I gotta go now.
He's gotta be kidding.
Gotta (= Have you got a) cigarette?
(3) kinda - used in writing to represent an informal way of saying "kind of"
eg: I was kinda sorry to see him go.
(4) wanna - 'want to' or 'want a'
eg: D'you wanna go now?
I wanna hamburger, Mom.
(5) gonna - going to
eg: What are you gonna do?
(25) dickhead - a very rude way of referring to sb, especially a man, that you think is stupid .
SYN : idiot
eg: You dickhead - you've dented the back of my car!
(26)stalk - to walk in an angry or proud way.
eg : He stalked off without a word.
(27) opportune - (of a time) suitable for doing a particular thing, so that it is likely to be successful
SYN : favourable
eg : The offer could not have come at a more opportune moment.
(28) amigo – friend
(29)copycat - someone who lacks their own ideas and does or says exactly the same as someone else.
eg : You're just a copycat!
(ii) The little boy was accused of being a copycat by the other children.
(30) resilient - able to feel better quickly after sth unpleasant such as shock, injury, etc.
eg : He’ll get over it—young people are amazingly resilient.
(31) creep - an unpleasant person, especially a man.
eg : He was a real creep - he was always staring at me in the canteen.
(ii)Leave me alone, you creep!
(32)moron - an offensive way of referring to sb that you think is very stupid.
eg: You moron—now look what you’ve done!
(33) bosh - nonsense.
eg: Don't talk such bosh!
(34)slimy - If you describe a person or their manner as slimy, you mean that they appear to be friendly but in a way that you find unpleasant.
eg: He was the very worst sort of slimy salesman.
(35)chatterbox - a person, especially a child, who talks a lot.
eg: Your sister's a real chatterbox!
(36) gobsmacked - so shocked that you cannot speak.
eg: He was gobsmacked when he heard of the redundancies.