infatuation | strong, unreasonable, temporary feeling of love for someone or interest in sth; zauroczenie | |
vicious | malicious, violent, cruel, callous | |
sloppy | careless, untidy | |
monstrous | extremely shocking, huge | |
desensitise sb to sth | make someone react less strongly to sth by making them become used to it; numb | |
shallow | having only a short distance from the top to the bottom; antonym of deep | |
acquisitive | eager to own and collect things; zachłanny | |
telly/box | slang name of TV | |
not a scrap | absolutely none | |
scrap | piece of sth | |
advent of sth | arrival, introduction | |
well-adjusted | able to deal well with the problems of life | |
the truth is breaking | the truth becomes known | |
detractor | critic | |
diligent | working hardly and carefully | |
impressionable | easily influenced | |
brutality | cruel and violent behaviour; atrocity | |
intact | complete, not damaged or changed | |
outnumber sth | be greater in number | |
former | this first one (of previously mentioned); antonym of latter | |
retain | keep sth or continue to have sth | |
versatile | universal | |
sheer | pure | |
impart | communicate info to sb; give a particular quality to something | |
glowing | full of praise | |
chatter | talk for a long time about things that are not important | |
barely | only with great difficulty or effort (= only just) | |
resemble | to look like or be similar to sb/sth | |
hinge (up)on sb/sth | completely depend on sb/sth | |
deterioration | become worse | |
amenable to | accept what someone says or does without arguing | |