Vocabulary from the article: Madrid suffers crisis of confidence as debt and unemployment hit home:
Vocabulary from the article: Madrid suffers crisis of confidence as debt and unemployment hit home:
dejected: adjective
downhearted, crestfallen, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, disheartened, downcast, glum, miserable, sad
gloom: noun
1 darkness, blackness, dark, dusk, murk, obscurity, shade, shadow, twilight
2 depression, dejection, despondency, low spirits, melancholy, sorrow, unhappiness, woe
heyday
noun
prime, bloom, pink, prime of life, salad days
flag
verb
weaken, abate, droop, fade, languish, peter out, sag, wane, weary, wilt
punter
noun
1 gambler, backer, better
2 person, man in the street
busk
busk busks busking busked
People who busk play music or sing for money in the streets or other public places. (BRIT)
They spent their free time in Glasgow busking in Argyle Street.
VB
· busking
Passers-by in the area have been treated to some high-quality busking.
N-UNCOUNT
flagship
2 flagship flagships
The flagship of a group of things that are owned or produced by a particular organization is the most important one.
The hospital has been the government's flagship, leading the health service reforms.
The company plans to open a flagship store in New York this month.
N-COUNT: oft with poss
rein in
1 rein in reins in; reining in; reined in
To rein in something means to control it.
His administration's economic policy would focus on reining in inflation and reducing the budget deficit.
Mary spoiled both her children, then tried too late to rein them in.
PHR-V
= control
V
shed
verb
1 give out, cast, drop, emit, give, radiate, scatter, shower, spill
2 cast off, discard, moult, slough
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