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 | |