Chapter12

1.flank

V-T If something is flanked by things, it has them on both sides of it, or sometimes on one side of it.

2.boar

N-COUNT A boar or a wild boar is a wild pig.

3.trundle

V-I If a vehicle trundles somewhere, it moves there slowly, often with difficulty or an irregular movement.

4.drench

V-T To drench something or someone means to make them completely wet.

5.sputter

V-I If something such as an engine or a flame sputters, it works or burns in an uneven way and makes a series of soft popping sounds.

6.bedraggled

ADJ Someone or something that is bedraggled looks messy because they have got wet or dirty.

7.doublet

N-COUNT A doublet was a short, tight jacket that was worn by men in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and early seventeenth centuries.

8.ruff

N-COUNT A ruff is a stiff strip of cloth or other material with many small folds in it, which some people wore around their neck in former times.

9.sidle

V-I If you sidle somewhere, you walk there in a quiet or cautious way, as if you do not want anyone to notice you.

10.reminiscent

ADJ If you say that one thing is reminiscent of another, you mean that it reminds you of it.

11.shroud

V-T If something has been shrouded in mystery or secrecy, very little information about it has been made available.

12.swivel

V-T/V-I If something swivels or if you swivel it, it turns around a central point so that it is facing in a different direction.

13.mane

N-COUNT The mane on a horse or lion is the long, thick hair that grows from its neck.

14.diagonal

ADJ A diagonal line or movement goes in a sloping direction, for example, from one corner of a square across to the opposite corner.

15.gash

N-COUNT A gash is a long, deep cut in your skin or in the surface of something.

16.hip

ADJ If you say that someone is hip, you mean that they are very modern and follow all the latest fashions, for example in clothes and ideas.

17.flask

N-COUNT A flask is a bottle which you use for carrying drinks around with you.

18.toll

N-COUNT A toll is a sum of money that you have to pay in order to use a particular bridge or road.

19.reinstate

V-T To reinstate a law, facility, or practice means to start having it again.

20.ripe

ADJ If a situation is ripe for a particular development or event, you mean that development or event is likely to happen soon.