[10:03] Peppa Pig Season 2 Episode 19｜Learn 2000 Basic Vocabulary｜Bilingual Subtitles + Practical Expressions｜Enhance English Listening & Speaking

noun

1. a special assignment that is given to a person or group

e.g. a confidential mission to London
his charge was deliver a message

Synonym: missioncommission

2. attention and management implying responsibility for safety

e.g. he is in the care of a bodyguard

Synonym: caretutelageguardianship

3. an impetuous rush toward someone or something

e.g. the wrestler's charge carried him past his adversary
the battle began with a cavalry charge

4. a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time

e.g. this cartridge has a powder charge of 50 grains

Synonym: bursterbursting chargeexplosive charge

5. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

Synonym: bearingheraldic bearingarmorial bearing

6. (criminal law) a pleading describing some wrong or offense

e.g. he was arrested on a charge of larceny

Synonym: complaint

7. an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence

e.g. the newspaper published charges that Jones was guilty of drunken driving

Synonym: accusation

8. a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something

e.g. the judge's charge to the jury

Synonym: commissiondirection

9. request for payment of a debt

e.g. they submitted their charges at the end of each month

Synonym: billing

10. the swift release of a store of affective force

e.g. they got a great bang out of it
what a boot!
he got a quick rush from injecting heroin
he does it for kicks

Synonym: bangbootrushflushthrillkick

11. (psychoanalysis) the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object

e.g. Freud thought of cathexis as a psychic analog of an electrical charge

Synonym: cathexis

12. a person committed to your care

e.g. the teacher led her charges across the street

13. the quantity of unbalanced electricity in a body (either positive or negative) and construed as an excess or deficiency of electrons

e.g. the battery needed a fresh charge

Synonym: electric charge

14. the price charged for some article or service

e.g. the admission charge

15. financial liabilities (such as a tax)

e.g. the charges against the estate

noun

1. any piece of furniture or decorative object or the like produced in a former period and valuable because of its beauty or rarity

2. an elderly man

Synonym: old-timeroldtimergafferold geezer

noun

1. a grounder that bounces high in the air

Synonym: chopper

2. a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball

Synonym: chop shot

3. a jaw

e.g. I'll hit him on the chops

4. a small cut of meat including part of a rib

5. the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)

e.g. the boat headed into the chop

noun

1. a short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England

noun

1. gear consisting of a set of articles or tools for a specified purpose

Synonym: kit

2. a set of clothing (with accessories)

e.g. his getup was exceedingly elegant

Synonym: getuprigturnout

3. any cohesive unit such as a military company

noun

1. a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building

2. protective covering on top of a motor vehicle

3. an upper limit on what is allowed

e.g. he put a ceiling on the number of women who worked for him
there was a roof on salaries
they established a cap for prices

Synonym: ceilingcap

4. the inner top surface of a covered area or hollow space

e.g. the roof of the cave was very high
I could see the roof of the bear's mouth

adj

1. having a useful function

e.g. utilitarian steel tables

Synonym: utilitarian

2. being of use or service

e.g. the girl felt motherly and useful
a useful job
a useful member of society

Synonym: utile

noun

1. a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas

Synonym: patchworkhodgepodge

2. small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie

Synonym: jumbal

3. a confused multitude of things

Synonym: cluttermuddlefuddlemare's nestweltersmother

adj

1. morally reprehensible

e.g. would do something as despicable as murder
ugly crimes
the vile development of slavery appalled them
a slimy little liar

Synonym: despicableuglyvileslimyunworthywretched

2. lacking in usefulness or value

e.g. a worthless idler