In the Wild 005: A Few Good Men
List of Highlighted Vocabulary
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- baby boomer: someone born during the postwar baby boom
- bizarre: very strange or unusual
- brat: a badly behaved or annoying child
- Claremont serial killer: Australian murderer who killed women near Claremont
- cloak: a long, loose outer garment
- courtroom drama: a story focused on trials and legal conflict
- creepy: strange and making you uncomfortable
- curse tablet (Roman): ancient tablet asking supernatural powers to harm someone
- curse word: a rude or offensive word
- dupe: a duplicate, fake product
- grave: a place where a dead person is buried
- grotto: a small natural or artificial cave
- manatee: a large, gentle aquatic mammal
- peloton: the main group of cyclists in a race
- pissed off: very annoyed or angry
- pissy mood: an irritable or bad mood
- rerun (TV): another broadcast of an old television episode
- rope: thick cord made from twisted fibers
- Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: game connecting actors through shared films
- smear campaign: organized attempt to damage someone’s reputation
- snobby: acting superior because of social status or taste
- snooty: behaving as if you are better than others
- Taíno people: Indigenous Caribbean people encountered by European colonizers
- take (while filming): one recorded attempt at filming a scene
- The Cather in the Rye: novel about teenager Holden Caulfield’s experiences
- to blubber: to cry loudly and uncontrollably
- to cheat on somebody: to be unfaithful to a romantic partner
- to cuss: to use rude or offensive words
- to go number one: to urinate, to pee
- to go number two: to defecate, to poo
- to haze somebody: to humiliate someone as an initiation
- to piss away: to waste something carelessly
- to sniff: to breathe through nose to smell something
- to snore: to breathe noisily while sleeping
- to snort: to force air noisily through the nose
- to stumble into something: to discover or enter something accidentally
- ugly crying: crying intensely without caring how you look
- weird: strange or unusual
The Top Five Most Interesting Adjectives
- 1st place – phony:fake or not sincere
- 2nd place – snotty: rude and acting superior to others
- 3rd place – grotesque: very ugly, strange, or disturbing
- 4th place – grave: extremely serious or dangerous
- 5th place – entitled: believing you deserve special treatment
The Top Five Most Interesting Verbs
- 1st place – to fathom: to understand something difficult or mysterious
- 2nd place – to piss: to urinate, to pee
- 3rd place – to weep: to cry, usually from strong emotion
- 4th place – to smear: to damage someone’s reputation with accusations
- 5th place – to curse: to use rude or offensive words, to wish supernatural harm on someone
The Top Five Most Interesting Military Words
- 1st place – camouflage: colors or patterns used to hide something
- 2nd place – Code Red: an unofficial punishment or hazing by fellow Marines
- 3rd place – barracks: buildings where soldiers live
- 4th place – Guantanamo Bay: a US naval base in Cuba
- 5th place – platoon: a military unit containing several squads
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