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Modern Family S2E16: English vocabulary

Season 2, Episode 16Comedy

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  • harpist

    a person who plays the harp

  • hygienist

    a person who works in dental care and helps clean and protect teeth

  • worser

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • playbook

    a book or document that shows the plays or strategies a team plans to use

  • archenemy

    a person's main enemy or rival

  • excruciating

    extremely painful or hard to endure

  • thumbed

    past tense and past participle of thumb through

  • peppering

    to scatter or cover something with small bits or drops

  • ahold

    the ability to contact or reach someone, especially in get ahold of

  • feathered

    covered with feathers or decorated with feathers

  • abler

    more able or skilled than someone or something else

  • slighting

    showing disrespect or contempt

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  • appetizer

    a small dish served before the main meal

  • extinguisher

    a device used to put out a fire

  • evener

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

  • penciled

    written or marked lightly with a pencil

  • overpass

    a bridge or road that goes over another road

  • tangent

    a straight line that touches a curve at one point

  • bouncer

    a person whose job is to stop troublemakers from entering a bar, club, or similar place

  • nemesis

    a person or thing that is very difficult to defeat or deal with

  • outburst

    a sudden strong expression of emotion, especially anger

  • saline

    containing salt or tasting like salt

  • congratulation

    an expression of praise or good wishes for someone's success or good luck

  • when it's at home

    used to ask what something really means or is, especially in British English

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