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 _______ the surface of the water.

skim

stir

slip

slide

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

self-depreciating

selfless

selfish

self-esteem

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

scrub

wipe

scrape

scratch

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

within earshot

within hearing

within sound

within hear

a journey to a place that nobody knows about - Their expedition was a real ______________.

voyage into the unknown

trip into the desert

travel into the distance

journey into the wilderness

a large uncountable flow of something - He received a _______ of abuse from the crowd.

torrent

trickle

speck

pinch

to accept the unpleasant parts of a situation as well as the pleasant parts - In a long relationship, you have to ________ .

take the rough with the smooth

have the good with the bad

get the tough with the easy

eat the sour with the sweet

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

sustainable

attainable

managable

fulfillable

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

stick around

swing back

stray around

slip back

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

starting

a smallest

an ending

a beginner

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

sponsored

charitable

funded

lucrative

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

remote wilderness

wild place

outback

far vecinity

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

put you on hold

stand you on standby

place you on wait

get you on waiting

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

plain sailing

pure easy

pretty fine

usual cruising

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

spur of the moment

edge of the moment

wing of the moment

tip of the moment

in a place where few people go - Her cottage is a long way _____________.

off the beaten track

to nowhere

far from civilization

from somewhere

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

offer my condolences

give my congratulations

hand my sorrows

share my saddness

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

keep her waiting

make her late

let her wait

have her waiting

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

inhospitable

unhospitable

inhabitable

indispicable

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

impose a deadline

instigate a deadline

implant a deadline

impead a deadline

an opinion formed too quickly to - You should avoid making __________ and get to know her first.

hasty judgments

rapid assumptions

hurried opinions

quick conclusions

to be able to obtain something - I read anything I could _____________.

get my hands on

grab onto

catch onto

hold onto

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

fatal

feeble

terminal

life-threatening

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

demise

morgue

decease

dying

to phone someone - Let´s ___________ to see if he will pick us up with the car.

call Dad up

call Dad in

call to Dad

call Dad on