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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S27E7: English vocabulary

Season 27, Episode 7CrimeDramaMystery

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  • horrify

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    to make someone feel very shocked, frightened, or disgusted

  • victimize

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    to treat someone cruelly or unfairly, especially by bullying them

  • sycophant

    Word

    someone who flatters a powerful person to get an advantage

  • toweling

    Word

    a soft, absorbent fabric used for towels and bathrobes

  • denigrate

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    to criticize someone unfairly and make them seem bad or unimportant

  • hallucinate

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    to see or hear things that are not really there

  • dissociate

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    to separate one thing from another, especially ideas, feelings, or yourself from a situation

  • misdeed

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    an evil or wrong act

  • dabble

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    to put your hands or feet into water and move them gently

  • replaceable

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    able to be replaced by something else

  • overrule

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    to use your authority to change or reject a decision

  • fervor

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    strong, intense enthusiasm or feeling

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  • inexcusable

    Word

    too bad or wrong to be accepted or forgiven

  • welcomer

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

  • twittering

    Word

    the soft, repeated sound birds make

  • arraignment

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    a court hearing where a person is formally told the criminal charge against them and asked to respond

  • fining

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    the act of making someone pay a fine

  • peppering

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    to scatter or cover something with small bits or drops

  • idolize

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    to admire someone so much that you think they are almost perfect

  • devastate

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    to destroy something badly or cause it to fail completely

  • clouding

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    the act or process of becoming less clear or transparent

  • paralyze

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    to make a person or part of the body unable to move

  • virgo

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    the sixth sign of the zodiac, represented by the maiden

  • overt

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    done or shown openly, not hidden

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  • heinous

    Word

    extremely evil and shocking

  • cutthroat

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    ruthless and intensely competitive

  • infatuated

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    having a strong but usually short-lived romantic attraction to someone

  • corroborate

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    to show that something is true or correct by giving evidence

  • daze

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    a state of being confused, stunned, or unable to think clearly

  • abler

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    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • misfit

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    a person who feels different from the people around them and does not fit in easily

  • lowly

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    not important or powerful; low in rank or status

  • pining

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    full of longing or sadness for someone or something

  • perjury

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    the crime of lying under oath in court

  • curried

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    flavored with curry

  • terrify

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    to make someone feel extreme fear

  • waive

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    to give up a right, claim, or rule requirement

  • stalked

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    to follow someone closely and watch them in a threatening way

  • implicate

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    to show or suggest that someone is involved in something bad or illegal

  • perfectionist

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    someone who wants everything to be exactly right and is hard to satisfy

  • evener

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

  • tether

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    a rope or chain used to tie an animal so it cannot move far

  • boning

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    the process of removing bones from meat or fish

  • smeared

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    covered with a messy layer of something that has been spread around

  • confide

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    to tell someone private information or feelings in confidence

  • obsess

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    to fill someone's mind so much that they cannot think about much else

  • intimidation

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    the act of frightening or pressuring someone to make them do something

  • frail

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    weak, delicate, and easily hurt or damaged

  • shameless

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    showing no shame or embarrassment, especially in a bold or rude way

  • stalker

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    a person who follows and watches someone in a way that frightens or annoys them

  • biographer

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    a person who writes a biography

  • salting

    Word

    the act of adding salt to food or water

  • horrific

    Word

    extremely shocking, violent, or upsetting

  • reasonable person

    Phrase

    a legal standard meaning an ordinary careful person

  • brag

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    to talk too proudly about your achievements, possessions, or abilities

  • paling

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    a fence made of upright wooden stakes

  • migraine

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    a severe headache that often affects one side of the head and may cause nausea or vision problems

  • avid

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    very interested in something and enthusiastic about it

  • fives

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    a game in which a player or side must reach five points before the other side does

  • after the fact

    Phrase

    after something has already happened or been decided

  • designate

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    to officially choose someone for a job or role

  • vulnerability

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    the state of being open to harm, attack, or criticism

  • complicate

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    to make something more difficult or harder to understand

  • rapped

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    to hit a surface with short, quick knocks

  • closeness

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    the state of being physically near someone or something

  • scum

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    a dirty layer or froth that forms on the surface of a liquid

  • torso

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    the main part of the human body, not including the head, arms, or legs

  • presbyterian

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    relating to the Presbyterian Church

  • gunning

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    to shoot and kill someone with a gun

  • number seven

    Phrase

    the batter who is scheduled to bat seventh in the batting order

  • remorse

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    a strong feeling of regret and guilt about something wrong you did

  • apocalypse

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    a complete and terrible destruction, especially one that is thought of as the end of the world

  • screwing

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    the act of fastening something with a screw

  • confide in

    Phrase

    to tell someone private thoughts or feelings in confidence

  • tough case

    Phrase

    an informal way to describe a person who is hard to deal with or understand

  • indictment

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    a formal charge that someone has committed a serious crime

  • expel

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    force someone to leave a place, school, or organization

  • allegation

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    a claim that someone has done something wrong or illegal, without proof

  • sounder

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    a group of wild boars

  • hands up

    Phrase

    a shouted command telling people to raise their hands, especially in surrender or when being searched

  • collaborator

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    a person who works with others on a project or task

  • distressing

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    causing worry, sadness, or pain

  • memoir

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    a book in which someone describes their own life and experiences

  • can't help

    Phrase

    to be unable to stop yourself from doing something

  • sit on

    Phrase

    to delay dealing with something

  • ask round

    Phrase

    to ask several people for information or help

  • feed into

    Phrase

    to flow into a larger river, lake, or sea

  • felony

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    a very serious crime, usually one that can be punished by prison

  • bossed

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    to give someone orders in a rude or controlling way

  • squeaky clean

    Phrase

    very clean and neat

  • like that

    Phrase

    used to refer to something similar to the thing just mentioned

  • deserving

    Word

    deserving praise, help, or respect

  • hand off

    Phrase

    to give something to another person or group, especially so they can continue using or dealing with it

  • back up

    Phrase

    to support a claim with facts or proof

  • checklist

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    a list of tasks or items to check off one by one

  • twitter

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    a short, high, light sound, especially made by birds

  • shatter

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    to break suddenly into many pieces

  • unjust

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    not fair or morally right

  • now now

    Phrase

    a mild way of telling someone to calm down or stop arguing

  • bedded

    Word

    past tense and past participle of bed

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