Vocab portions 4-7

a detractor is

• someone who is proud of somebody

• someone who admires something or someone

• someone who criticizes something or someone, often unfairly

• someone who leaves nothing undone to unbind you to them

you're not all the milk and honey

• you possess dexterity

• it's rather difficult to get along with you

• you're easy to deal with

• you are superior to me

if something gnaws at you...

• it makes you feel worried and uncomfortable and anxious

• it makes you feel as if you are on cloud nine

to ruffle somebody means

• to take liberties with somebody

• to appeal to somebody

• to annoy somebody

• to wait for somebody

to have/do something up one's sleeve is

• to do it occasionally

• to do it regularly

• to do it by yourself

• to do it secretly

type in a colloquial word (slang) with the meaning 'to show off' (video with Hugh Laurie and Ellen Degeneres)

(a)  

a useful or valuable quality, skill, or person

• deliberation

• asset

• disparity

• inkling

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(a)  

to (cause to) be unable to breathe because you have no air (i. e. pain can ____ you)

• to flatter

• to stifle

• to bear

• to consent

if something is heartrending, it evokes

• anguish and exasperation

• aloofness and contempt

• admiration and pride

• sympathy and sadness