Vocab Diary – 3rd March 2012, Saturday
Jostle
- verbpush or bump against roughly
- jostle for struggle or compete forcefully for
Grope
- verb feel about or search blindly or uncertainly with the hands
- grope for search uncertainly for (a word or an answer) in one’s mind
- informal fondle(someone) for sexual pleasure, especially against their will
Milieu
- nouna person’s social environment
Dastardly
- adjective dated or humurous wicked and cruel
Smoulder
- verb burn slowly with smoke but no flame
- show or feel a barely suppressed intense emotion
- exist in a suppressed or concealed state
- noun an instance of smouldering