Box of Lies with Chris Pratt
Vocabulary
face off
phrasal verb
if people or groups face off, they compete or fight with each other
to begin a game of ice hockey
lies
noun
The terrain and conditions surrounding the ball before it is struck.
The terrain and conditions surrounding the disc before it is thrown.
The position of a fetus in the womb.
A manner of lying; relative position.
An animal's lair.
verb
To rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
To be placed or situated.
To abide; to remain for a longer or shorter time; to be in a certain state or condition.
Used with in: to be or exist; to belong or pertain; to have an abiding place; to consist.
Used with with: to have sexual relations with.
Used with on/upon: to be incumbent (on); to be the responsibility of a person.
To lodge; to sleep.
To be still or quiet, like one lying down to rest.
To be sustainable; to be capable of being maintained.
verb
To give false information intentionally with intent to deceive.
To convey a false image or impression.
To be mistaken or unintentionally spread false information.
noun
An intentionally false statement; an intentional falsehood.
A statement intended to deceive, even if literally true; a half-truth
Anything that misleads or disappoints.
adjective
(Mid-Ulster) Great, wonderful
upstage
noun
The part of a stage that is farthest from the audience or camera.
verb
To draw attention away from others, especially on-stage.
To force other actors to face away from the audience by staying upstage.
To treat snobbishly.
To restage (cancer) to a higher stage than that found at last assessment (compare downstage).
adjective
At the rear of a stage.
adverb
Toward or at the rear of a theatrical stage.
Away from a motion-picture or television camera.
weigh
verb
To determine the weight of an object.
Often with "out", to measure a certain amount of something by its weight, e.g. for sale.
To determine the intrinsic value or merit of an object, to evaluate.
To judge; to estimate.
To consider a subject.
To have a certain weight.
To have weight; to be heavy; to press down.
To be considered as important; to have weight in the intellectual balance.
To raise an anchor free of the seabed.
To weigh anchor.
To bear up; to raise; to lift into the air; to swing up.
To consider as worthy of notice; to regard.
diorama
noun
A three-dimensional display of a scenery, often having a painted background in front of which models are arranged, e.g. in a museum where stuffed animals are presented against a painted landscape.
dwarves
noun
Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with normal adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
A star of relatively small size.
make up
phrasal verb
to become friendly with someone again after an argument
to combine together to form something larger
to invent a story, poem etc
to invent an explanation for something, especially in order to avoid being punished or embarrassed
to make an amount or a number complete
to prepare or arrange something
to produce something from cloth
to put make-up on someone’s face
to work at different times from usual because you have not worked enough at the normal times
used for saying that something is so unlikely or improbable it seems impossible for it to be true
sucker
noun
A person or animal that sucks, especially a breast or udder; especially a suckling animal, young mammal before it is weaned.
An undesired stem growing out of the roots or lower trunk of a shrub or tree, especially from the rootstock of a grafted plant or tree.
(by extension) A parasite; a sponger.
An organ or body part that does the sucking; especially a round structure on the bodies of some insects, frogs, and octopuses that allows them to stick to surfaces.
A thing that works by sucking something.
The embolus, or bucket, of a pump; also, the valve of a pump basket.
A pipe through which anything is drawn.
A small piece of leather, usually round, having a string attached to the center, which, when saturated with water and pressed upon a stone or other body having a smooth surface, adheres, by reason of the atmospheric pressure, with such force as to enable a considerable weight to be thus lifted by the string; formerly used by children as a plaything.
A suction cup.
An animal such as the octopus and remora, which adhere to other bodies with such organs.
Any fish in the family Catostomidae of North America and eastern Asia, which have mouths modified into downward-pointing, suckerlike structures for feeding in bottom sediments.
A lollipop; a piece of candy which is sucked.
A hard drinker.
An inhabitant of Illinois.
A migrant lead miner working in the Driftless Area of northwest Illinois, southwest Wisconsin, and northeast Iowa, working in summer and leaving for winter, so named because of the similarity to the migratory patterns of the North American Catostomidae.
A person who is easily deceived, tricked or persuaded to do something; a naive person.
A person irresistibly attracted by something specified.
(British slang) The penis.
verb
To strip the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers.
To produce suckers, to throw up additional stems or shoots.
To move or attach itself by means of suckers.
To fool someone; to take advantage of someone.
yelled
verb
Shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
To convey by shouting
To tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)
ooh
noun
An exclamation of ooh.
verb
To exclaim ooh.
interjection
An expression of surprise.
An expression of awe.
A sound made to imitate a ghost.
An expression of affection.
An expression of pain.
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