📖 Women Detectives — Vocabulary
- gossip
- (to) talk about other people’s private business behind their back
- (to) miss
- to not see, hear, or notice something
- (to) notice
- if you notice something or someone, you realise they exist
- (to) shave
- (to) cut off hair very close using a razor
- (to) solve a crime
- (to) turn the tables
- if you turn the tables, you reverse a situation to your advantage
- active
- ≠ passive
- cunning
- clever
- determined
- showing determination
- downsize
- (to) make smaller
- equal
- ≠ unequal
- evidence
- proof
- gossip
- une commmère
- insufferable
- extremely annoying or unpleasant
- investigation
- enquiry
- menial
- menial work is boring, needs no skill, and is not important
- professional
- ≠ amateur
- proper
- the real or of good standards
- set
- if a film or story is set in a particular place or period, the aciton is taking place there or then.
- skill
- the ability to do something well because you have learned or practised it
- spinster
- an unmarried women, usually one who is no longer young and seems unlikely to marry
- traditional
- ≠ modern
- unconventional
- unusual
- unfair
- unjust
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