| 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 |