Vocabulary Notes

1. brood ( noun) a group of young birds who all have the same mother and were born at the same time a. humorous a group of young children who all have the same mother

brood (verb) 1. to think and worry about something a lot: + about/over Don’t sit and brood over it for weeks. 2. if a bird broods, it sits on its eggs until young birds are born.

brooding (adj.) 1. literary making you feel as if something bad or dangerous is about to happen 2. looking as if you are thinking and worrying about something: the brooding expression in his dark eyes.

broody (adj.) 1. Br E wanting to have a baby: Seeing tiny babies always makes me feel broody. 1a wanting to lay eggs or sit on them: a broody hen 2 thinking and worrying about something a lot: Tim plays the role of a broody teenager.

2.martinet (noun) formal someone who is very strict.

3.elevated (adj.) formal 1 raised above the ground or higher than surrounding area: an elevated railway/motorway 1a. at a higher level or amount than previously or than is normal: the dangers of the elevated blood pressure 2 more important or higher in status: an elevated position in society 3 at a high level mentally or morally: elevated notions/standards.

4.gauche (adj.) behaving in a rude or unsuitable way in a social situation.

5.arrangement (noun) 1 often plural a way of organizing things so that problems are solved or avoided: I’m staying with Sally until my heating is fixed – it’s just a temporary arrangement. make an arrangement He husband is away, so she has to make other childcare arrangements 1a. arrangements (plural) practical plans for managing the details of an event involving many people: How are the wedding arrangements coming along? 2 an agreement or plan that you make with someone else: + with They have an arrangement with Pepsi-Cola to share the distribution facilities. come to an arrangement We are trying to come to an arrangement about who should pay the legal fees. by arrangement Evening meals are available by arrangement (= if you agree in advance). 3 a set of things that have been arranged to look attractive: a floral arrangement 3a. the way that things are arranged in a particular order or pattern: the arrangement of bones in the skull. 4 a piece of music that has been changed for a particular type of voice or instrument: He will play his own arrangement of Handel’s Water Music.

6.phoney (adj.) informal 1 not real and intended to trick people, fake: a phoney ID card 2 someone who is phoney pretends to be friendly, clever, kind, etc.

phoney war a period of time during which people or governments are officially at war, but are not in fact fighting.

7.pent up (adj.) pent up emotions are strong feelings, for example anger, that you do not express so that they gradually become more difficult to control: pent up excitement/frustration/fear.

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