Advanced Vocabulary 11 | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

to move quickly, and almost or just touch the surface of something - These boats go so fast that they literally just s______ the surface of the water.

skim

trying to make yourself seem less important - She wrote a wonderful book but she is so s______ - d______ that she feels like it was not good enough.

self-depreciating

to clean something by rubbing it hard with a brush - We had to s___________ the pot really hard to remove the black burn marks from the fire.

scrub

inside the range of distance where you can hear something or someone - Make sure the children are playing w_____ e______.

within earshot

a journey to a place that nobody knows about - Their expedition was a real v______ into the u______.

voyage into the unknown

a large uncountable amount of something - He received a t_____ of abuse from the crowd.

torrent

to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts - In a long relationship, you have to t____ the r______ with the smooth.

take the rough with the smooth

causing little damage to something so it lasts a long time - We need to find more s______ sources of fuel.

sustainable

to stay somewhere for a period of time - If you s______ a______ after the concert and you might meet the band.

stick around

the lowest amount of money that you can buy a particular thing for - These apartments have a s_______ price of £500,000.

starting

a walk that people pay you to do in order to raise money for charity - I owe Saskia $10 for that s_______ walk she did.

sponsored walk

an area of completely wild land that is far away from where people live - We walked through the r_____ w______ of northern Scotland.

remote wilderness

to leave someone waiting on the phone - His line’s busy at the moment – I’ll p___ you on h____.

put __ on hold

something that is easy and without problems - I had revised for weeks, so the test was p_____ s______.

plain sailing

Doing something suddenly, without planning it - On the s_____ of the m______ we decided to visit James.

on the spur of the moment

in a place where few people go - Her cottage is a long way o____ the b_____ t____.

off the beaten track

Saying sorry for someone´s bad luck especially when someone has died - Please offer my c______ to your sister on her loss.

condolences

to make someone wait for you - The boss is ready to see you – don’t k______ her w_____!

keep her waiting

Not pleasant or friendly to be around - We visited some of the world’s most i________ deserts.

inhospitable

to set a date or time by which something must be done - If he’s working too slowly, you need to i____ some d____.

impose a deadline

an opinion formed too quickly to discover enough about the situation - You should avoid making h____ j______ and get to know her first.

hasty judgements

to be able to obtain something - I read anything I could g___ my h____ o___.

get my hands on

causing death - Police are investigating a f_____ accident in the town centre.

fatal

death - On his d_______, the land will go to his son.

demise

to telephone someone - Let´s c_________ Dad u_______ to see if he will pick us up with the car.

call __ up