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Stranger Things S1E5: English vocabulary

Season 1, Episode 5Action & AdventureMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy

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  • thumper

    a person or thing that thumps.

  • riddling

    hard to understand; mysterious or puzzling

  • worser

    an old or nonstandard comparative of bad, meaning worse

  • looped

    twisted or bent into a loop or loops

  • bub

    a small bubble of air or gas in a liquid.

  • nosing

    the front edge of a step or stair

  • poling

    the act of moving a boat by pushing a pole against the bottom of the water

  • caroling

    singing Christmas carols, often while going from house to house

  • wafer

    a very thin, crisp biscuit or cookie

  • acrobat

    a person who performs difficult gymnastic tricks, often in a circus or show

  • pretentious

    trying to seem more important, stylish, or impressive than you really are

  • couched

    to express something in a particular way

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  • hallucination

    something you see, hear, or feel that seems real but is not caused by anything outside your mind

  • evener

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

  • headless

    having no head

  • quarried

    to cut stone out of the ground in a quarry

  • fireball

    a ball of fire, especially one caused by an explosion

  • dismay

    to make someone feel shocked, upset, or disappointed

  • deflect

    to make something move in a different direction

  • shadowing

    the practice of learning a job by following and watching an experienced worker

  • morgue

    a place where dead bodies are kept until they are identified or examined

  • depress

    to make someone feel very sad, discouraged, or hopeless

  • hard on

    A strong sexual desire for someone

  • benevolent

    kind and wanting to help other people

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