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Criminal Minds S6E20: English vocabulary

Season 6, Episode 20CrimeDramaMystery

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  • debilitate

    Word

    to make someone or something weaker or less effective

  • awfulness

    Word

    the quality of being very bad, unpleasant, or shocking

  • squelch

    Word

    to make a soft, wet, sucking sound

  • enshrine

    Word

    to protect or preserve something as important or sacred

  • worser

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    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • inclement

    Word

    (of weather) very unpleasant, especially cold, wet, or stormy

  • lashing

    Word

    a rope or cord used for tying or fastening things

  • columbine

    Word

    a garden plant with delicate, spurred flowers

  • welcomer

    Word

    a person whose job or role is to welcome and help guests or newcomers

  • leavings

    Word

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

  • devastate

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    to destroy something badly or cause it to fail completely

  • pessimism

    Word

    a tendency to expect bad things or to think things will not improve

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  • copped

    Word

    to get something, especially in a casual or slightly sneaky way

  • tempering

    Word

    the process of heating and cooling metal to make it harder and less brittle

  • recoil

    Word

    to pull back suddenly, often because you are frightened or shocked

  • vigilant

    Word

    watching carefully for danger or problems

  • couched

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    to express something in a particular way

  • graver

    Word

    a small tool used for engraving or carving hard material

  • evener

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

  • misdemeanor

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    a minor crime, especially one less serious than a felony

  • proficient

    Word

    good at doing something because of practice or training

  • deduce

    Word

    to reach a conclusion by thinking carefully about the facts

  • teal

    Word

    a dark blue-green color

  • logics

    Word

    the study of correct reasoning

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  • footnote

    Word

    a note printed at the bottom of a page that gives extra information

  • outburst

    Word

    a sudden strong expression of emotion, especially anger

  • keyed

    Word

    locked with a key

  • swat

    Word

    to hit something quickly with your hand

  • marital

    Word

    relating to marriage or to a married couple

  • salting

    Word

    the act of adding salt to food or water

  • expiration

    Word

    the end of a period when something is valid or can be used

  • common law

    Phrase

    the body of law based on judges' decisions rather than written statutes

  • grieve

    Word

    to feel deep sadness, especially because someone has died

  • graced

    Word

    to honor an event or place by being present

  • lax

    Word

    not strict, careful, or controlled enough

  • shotted

    Word

    past tense and past participle of shoot

  • tabling

    Word

    the act of postponing a proposal or motion for later discussion

  • turmoil

    Word

    a state of confusion, disorder, or strong emotional upset

  • inflict

    Word

    to cause someone to suffer something unpleasant or painful

  • rampage

    Word

    a period of violent, uncontrolled behavior

  • profiling

    Word

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

  • spree

    Word

    a short period of doing a lot of one activity, often in an uncontrolled way

  • gunning

    Word

    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • hide behind

    Phrase

    to use someone or something as a way to avoid blame or responsibility

  • revolver

    Word

    a handgun with a rotating cylinder that holds several bullets

  • find out

    Phrase

    to discover or learn something, especially by asking or checking

  • pun

    Word

    a joke that uses a word with two meanings or two words that sound the same

  • incident report

    Phrase

    a written record of an accident, problem, or unusual event

  • bouncing

    Word

    moving up and down repeatedly

  • cam

    Word

    a shaped part in a machine that makes another part move in a controlled way

  • unprecedented

    Word

    never done, seen, or known before

  • can't help

    Phrase

    to be unable to stop yourself from doing something

  • built up

    Phrase

    closely packed with buildings or houses

  • hold it in

    Phrase

    to stop yourself from showing a strong feeling or doing something you want to do

  • hold down

    Phrase

    to keep a job or manage to do something difficult for a period of time

  • cafeteria

    Word

    a place where people choose food from a counter and pay before eating

  • dotted

    Word

    covered with small dots or spots

  • turn on

    Phrase

    to depend on something; to be decided by something

  • armed robbery

    Phrase

    a robbery in which the thief has a weapon or threatens to use one

  • live for

    Phrase

    to care about something so much that it gives you energy or purpose

  • zoned

    Word

    restricted by zoning rules to a particular type of use or area

  • back up

    Phrase

    to support a claim with facts or proof

  • the way

    Phrase

    as; in the same way that

  • medic

    Word

    a person trained to give emergency medical care

  • lettered

    Word

    marked or decorated with letters or writing

  • violently

    Word

    with a lot of force or energy

  • get through

    Phrase

    to manage to deal with or survive something difficult

  • marital status

    Phrase

    the fact of being married or unmarried

  • collared

    Word

    having a collar

  • narrowing

    Word

    the process of becoming narrower

  • coped

    Word

    to deal with a difficult situation successfully

  • unarmed

    Word

    not carrying a weapon

  • back in

    Phrase

    used to talk about an earlier time in the past

  • doctrine

    Word

    a set of beliefs or principles taught by a group or organization

  • good times

    Phrase

    a period in the past that was enjoyable or memorable, often remembered with nostalgia

  • weathering

    Word

    the wearing away or breaking down of rock and other materials by air, water, and weather

  • figure out

    Phrase

    to find an answer to something or understand it after thinking about it

  • offender

    Word

    a person who has done something illegal or wrong

  • kind of

    Phrase

    to some extent; fairly

  • thunderstorm

    Word

    a storm with thunder, lightning, and usually heavy rain

  • faulting

    Word

    the act of blaming or criticizing someone

  • manifest

    Word

    clear and obvious

  • now then

    Phrase

    used to get someone's attention before saying something

  • humid

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    having a lot of water vapor in the air

  • sync

    Word

    to make two devices or systems work together by sharing data

  • abusive

    Word

    rude and hurtful, especially in a way that hurts someone repeatedly

  • forwarding

    Word

    the act of sending something on to another place

  • too late

    Phrase

    so late that something can no longer be done or changed

  • can't wait

    Phrase

    to feel very excited and eager for something that will happen soon

  • conditioned

    Word

    trained to react in a particular way

  • purely

    Word

    used to emphasize that something is true only in one way or for one reason

  • geographic

    Word

    relating to geography or to the physical features of a place

  • what's going on

    Phrase

    an informal way to greet someone or start a casual conversation

  • no way

    Phrase

    an emphatic way of saying that something is impossible or that you strongly refuse it

  • liquor store

    Phrase

    a shop that sells alcoholic drinks to take away

  • massacre

    Word

    the killing of many people in a cruel or violent way

  • to go

    Phrase

    for food or drink that you buy and take away to eat or drink somewhere else

  • too soon

    Phrase

    before the expected or usual time

  • say no

    Phrase

    to refuse to do or accept something

  • cut it out

    Phrase

    used to tell someone to stop doing something annoying or irritating

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