menial | physical |
bouncer | a person hired by a club to throw out troublemakers |
to entail | to include, to involve |
hitherto | up till now |
to imbue sth with sth | to fill/ to inspire |
ruffle | lottery |
to put sb/ to jump through the hoops | to make sb endure a test or sth unpleasant (ex. ordeal) |
dainty | small and pretty |
typos | mistakes in a printed text |
prompt | taking immediate action |
abrupt | quick, doing things without much thinking and often rude |
to weigh up | to consider carefully |
to make up for | to compensate |
to set sth against sth | to juxtapose |
to settle up with sb | to pay back, to return the money that you owe to sb |
indulgent | giving even more than sb asks for |
gainful | profitable |
dense | with so many things that you have to pay attention to |
appreciably | considerably |
sorely | greatly |
bud | sth that is about to blossom |