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Criminal Minds S5E5: English vocabulary

Season 5, Episode 5CrimeDramaMystery

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  • miscarry

    Word

    to lose a baby through miscarriage

  • asphyxiate

    Word

    to stop someone from breathing, or make breathing very difficult

  • clingy

    Word

    wanting too much attention or closeness from other people

  • squalid

    Word

    extremely dirty and unpleasant, often because of poverty or neglect

  • lactation

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    the production of milk by a mother after giving birth

  • scrip

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    paper money or a voucher used instead of cash, especially in the past

  • transpire

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    to become known; to turn out or emerge

  • obstetric

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    relating to childbirth and the care of women giving birth

  • spousal

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    relating to a husband or wife, or to marriage

  • placental

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    relating to a placenta

  • meshed

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    joined so that the parts fit together and move smoothly

  • indistinctly

    Word

    in a way that is not clear or easy to hear, see, or understand

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  • nullify

    Word

    to make something legally invalid or no longer effective

  • uterine

    Word

    relating to the uterus

  • magnify

    Word

    to make something look larger, especially with a lens or microscope

  • leavings

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    things that are left over after something is used, eaten, or finished

  • guesswork

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    the act of guessing instead of using facts or evidence

  • dilate

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    to make something wider or more open, or become wider or more open

  • trimester

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    one of three periods into which a pregnancy is divided

  • bombshell

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    a surprising event or piece of news that has a strong effect

  • prenatal

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    relating to the time before a baby is born

  • abrasion

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    the wearing away of a surface by rubbing or scraping

  • caroling

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    singing Christmas carols, often while going from house to house

  • cranked

    Word

    turned or operated by a crank

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  • abler

    Word

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • faxed

    Word

    to send something by fax

  • notary

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    a person authorized to witness and certify legal documents

  • compulsion

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    a strong urge to do something, especially one that is hard to control

  • harem

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    the part of a Muslim household where women lived separately from men

  • stalked

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    to follow someone closely and watch them in a threatening way

  • evener

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    something that makes a surface, line, or shape even or level

  • umbilical

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    relating to the navel or the umbilical cord

  • deduce

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    to reach a conclusion by thinking carefully about the facts

  • brunette

    Word

    a woman or girl with dark brown hair

  • streaked

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    having thin lines or marks of a different color

  • familiarity

    Word

    familiar knowledge or experience of something

  • carding

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    the process of combing and separating wool or other fibers

  • reassign

    Word

    to give someone a different job, role, or place to work

  • prescribe

    Word

    to officially tell someone to take a medicine or treatment

  • tiling

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    the process of covering a surface with tiles

  • rancho

    Word

    a ranch, especially in Spanish-speaking countries

  • weeding

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    the act of removing weeds from a garden or other area

  • screenings

    Word

    the showing of a film or TV program to an audience

  • adoptive

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    connected with adoption; having been adopted

  • law review

    Phrase

    a journal about law, usually published by a law school

  • abduct

    Word

    to take someone away illegally by force or trickery

  • considerate

    Word

    showing care and thought for other people's feelings and needs

  • go to the mat

    Phrase

    to keep fighting or arguing for something until the result is decided

  • anonymously

    Word

    without revealing your identity

  • caretaker

    Word

    a person who looks after a building or property

  • apprehend

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    to arrest someone, especially a suspect

  • It boy

    Phrase

    a young man who is very fashionable and widely talked about

  • kill me

    Phrase

    a rude, exaggerated way of saying you are very annoyed or frustrated

  • infant mortality

    Phrase

    the rate at which babies die before reaching one year old

  • come under

    Phrase

    to be included in a particular category, law, or authority

  • deduction

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    the act of taking an amount away from a total, especially for tax or pay

  • shotted

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    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • coping

    Word

    the process of dealing with stress, problems, or difficult feelings

  • step down

    Phrase

    to resign from an important job or public position

  • very well

    Phrase

    used to say that you agree to something, often reluctantly

  • send it

    Phrase

    to do something with full effort or confidence

  • scrutiny

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    careful and often critical examination of something

  • mesh

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    a piece of material made of threads, wire, or plastic with many small holes

  • denomination

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    the amount or value of a coin or bill

  • profiling

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    the practice of analyzing people or data to predict behavior or group people by characteristics

  • genetically

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    in a way that relates to genes or genetics

  • despise

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    to hate or strongly dislike someone or something

  • track with

    Phrase

    to spend time with someone socially; to associate with them

  • presbyterian

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    relating to the Presbyterian Church

  • gunning

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    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • induce

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    to persuade or influence someone to do something

  • motherhood

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    the state of being a mother

  • abduction

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    the act of taking someone away by force and keeping them somewhere against their will

  • pooling

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    the act of combining money, resources, or efforts for a shared purpose

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • rouge

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    a red powder or cream used to color the cheeks or lips

  • way out

    Phrase

    far away; at a great distance

  • recreate

    Word

    make something again, especially in a new or different way

  • miscarriage

    Word

    the loss of a pregnancy before the baby can survive

  • drug addict

    Phrase

    a person who is addicted to drugs

  • sounder

    Word

    a group of wild boars

  • adoptive parent

    Phrase

    a person who has legally adopted a child

  • to God

    Phrase

    used in expressions like “I hope to God” to show a very strong wish or hope

  • come down on

    Phrase

    to punish or criticize someone severely

  • safe haven

    Phrase

    a place that gives protection and safety from danger or trouble

  • state line

    Phrase

    the border between two U.S. states

  • short list

    Phrase

    a final selection of people or things chosen from a larger group

  • crank out

    Phrase

    to produce something quickly and in large quantities

  • broken home

    Phrase

    a family where the parents are divorced or separated

  • captivity

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    the state of being kept somewhere and not allowed to leave

  • can't help

    Phrase

    to be unable to stop yourself from doing something

  • foster care

    Phrase

    care for a child in another family, usually for a limited time

  • drug abuse

    Phrase

    the harmful or excessive use of illegal drugs

  • blood relative

    Phrase

    a person who is related to you by birth

  • bossed

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    to give someone orders in a rude or controlling way

  • momentum

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    the force or energy that keeps something moving or helps it keep growing or developing

  • framing

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    the way something is presented so that people understand it in a particular way

  • mortality

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    the fact that all living things eventually die

  • fertility

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    the ability to produce babies, young animals, or seeds

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

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