to prance | to be boastful |
nifty | skillful, effective |
median | place in the middle |
crank | sb who behaves strangely |
pauper | sb who is very poor |
requisite | needed for a particular purpose |
preordained | certain to happen, decided in advance |
to subdue | to bring sth under control (zapanować) |
to sustain | to make sth continue to exist |
offspring | someone's child/ result |
to exert yourself | to work very hard |
to disdain | to have no respect for sth/sb, to contempt (lekceważyć) |
to excel | to do sth much better than most people |
to peddle | to sell goods (esp. illegal) to people (domokrążyć) |
every walk of life | every social group |
to prod | to encourage, to stimulate (poganiać) |
to deplore | to disapprove of sth, to criticize it (ubolewać) |
unrelenting | ruthless (nieubłagany) |
to pervade | to permeate (przenikać) |
duly | as it should be |
obscurity | the state of not being known |
to be cut out for sth | to be the right person |
household name | very popular person |
credibility | an instance of being believable |
to linger | to make sth longer |
to menace | to threaten |
one-off | sth that is done only once (jednorazowy) |
venture | activity which involves taking risk |
to venture | to go to a dangerous place |
snatch | extract |
remote | far away |
to rubbish | to say sth sad or useless |
odd | weird |
odd jobs | different jobs |
hand on | practical |
to look out | to watch out |