to adorn	to decorate
to poach	to hunt animals illegaly
thus	so
captive breeding	taking care of animals but not in their natural habitat (hodowla)
to behold	to see sth unusual
to be on one's toes	to be ready for action
to beset	to surround constantly (nękać, okrążać)
unbeknown to sb	without one's knowledge
to gloat over	to feel or express great delight with own succes or one's failure (pastwić się)
hue	a type of colour (odcień)
to have a narrow escape	to survive luckily
half-hearted	without enthusiasm
outfit	a set of clothes usually wear together
out of harm's way	in a safe place
commoner	an ordinary person
mere	only and just
fragile	likely to break
leftover	remains from the meal
globally internationally	known worldwide
diverse	various
differential	showing or depending on a difference
to stash	to store safely to use it later (przechowywać)
to elude	to escape from sth/ not to remember (uchylić się od)
soundly	based on reason (solidnie)
stupendous	amazingly large or impressive
to amass	to gather
riot of colour	extremely colourful and bright
off the beaten track	far away from the popular places (na uboczu)
to grace	to adorn
affluent	rich and powerful
gingerly	with great care and attention
to wince	to show pain, embarassement on your face
precarious	depending on chance (ryzykowny)
balmy	gentle, quiet and pleasantly warm
to duck	to move head down to avoid being hit
gossipmonger	sb who spreads information which are not optimistic
warmonger	sb who is encouraging a country to go to war
doom	bad situation which cannot be avoided (fatum)
malleable	easily influenced or changeable (podatny na zm)
laid-back	calm and relaxed (niefrasobliwy)
timid	shy, easily frightened
to lavish	to give generously (szafować)
lavishly	giving generously
whopper	lie
conscientious	doing sth with care and attention (skrupulatny)
trait	feature
to be in flux	to be in situation in which things are changing a lot
lay	not belonging to clergy/ lacking of specialistic knowledge
lay theory	not based on knowledge
to shy away	to avoid
irrevocable	it cannot be changed (nieodwołalny)
ostensibly	apparently (pozornie)
vengeful	willing to punish sb for harming one's family (mściwy)
to sprout	to begin to grow (kiełkować)
to entrench	to fix or to establish sth firmly (obwarować)
incorrigible	it cannot be corrected