Vocabulary

1. lounge

(1) v. to lie, sit, or lean in a relaxed or lazy way

e.g. Laura lounged in the hammock.

(2) n. a room or area in a place such as an airport where people can sit and wait

e.g. What we have in view is redecorating the lounge and then buying a new carpet.

2. fury

n. [sing, U] a feeling of very strong anger that usually does not last very long

e.g. She was speechless with fury.

Synoyms: anger, rage

3. sneak

vi. move somewhere quietly and secretly so that no one can see you or hear you

e.g. The cat ate the food and sneaked off.

4. dump

(1) (infml) put sth. somewhere in a careless way, especially sth. that is heavy

e.g. She dumped her knapsack on the floor.

(2) get rid of someone or something that you no longer want or need

e.g. They dump their surplus production on foreign countries.

5. vacuum

(1) n. [C] a piece of electrical equipment that cleans floors by sucking up dirt

E.g.A vacuum cleaner is a handy household tool.

(2) n. [C] a space that has had all the air and any other gases removed from it

E.g. Sound waves will not travel through a vacuum.

(3) v. clean a room using a vacuum cleaner

E.g. Do you want me to vacuum the floor?

6. advisable

a. if sth. is advisable, it is a good idea to do it, especially in order to avoid problems

e.g. It is not advisable to use the general, all-covering apology because it is vague and ineffective.

Verb:advise

7. beloved

(1) a. (mainly literary) very much liked by someone

e.g. Her beloved dog was nowhere to be found.

(2)n. someone who is loved very much by someone else

e.g. The flower is from my beloved.

8. gossip

(1) vi. talk about other people or about things that are not important

e.g. To say nothing to people to their faces but to gossip behind their backs, or to say nothing at a meeting but to gossip afterwards.

2) n. [U] conversation about unimportant subjects, especially people’ s private lives

e.g. On Sundays all the men gather in the square to exchange local gossip.

Phrases

1. bump into

meet someone unexpectedly

e.g. I bumped into your mother in the supermarket.

2. fill up with

become full of sth.

e.g. His office began to fill up with people.

3. stick around

(infml) to remain in a place for than you originally intended, especially in order to wait for sth to happen

e.g. A hungry dog stuck around the dustbin and looked for food.

Sentences

1. She was called Katya, a dewy-eyed, sweet girl from Voronezh, who accepted Yakov on his own reckoning.

The sentence means that an innocent-looking girl from a less sophisticated city than Moscow was willing to believe Yakov’s own high opinion of himself.

2. “I certainly will,” said Yakov, squeezing in between Liza Minelli and Katya and draping an arm around each of them.

Yakov fit in between Liza Minelli and Katya although they were sitting close together, and put an arm around each girl.

3. Their husbands, with much cursing and clattering of pans, cook breakfast for the family…

The expression with much cursing and clattering of pans means with a lot of swearing and banging about–as they were not used to doing it, they made many mistakes.