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Game Of Thrones: 15 advanced words to your vocabulary

 Learn English with Game Of Thrones. An English advanced vocabulary lesson. 15 new words and phrases.

Hi, welcome to English Watch And Learn. Today's vocabulary is "wash down", "sibling", "apparently", "mercy", "linger", and many others. We learn them with the Lannister family gathered for breakfast at Winterfell, the day after Bran Stark fell from the tower. Let's go. (Game Of Thrones: S01E02 - 06:41-07:38.)

New words and phrases

"wash down" is a phrasal verb that is informal here and means to eat food with a drink that helps swallow it.

"sibling" means a brother or sister

"apparently" used to say that something seems to be true, although it is not certain

"mercy" means kindness that makes you forgive someone, usually someone that you have authority over

"linger" means to take a long time to leave or disappear

"pray" means to speak to a god in order to express love or thanks or in order to ask for something

"charm" means a quality that makes you like or feel attracted to someone or something

"entirely" means completely, in every way, or as much as possible

"be lost on someone" is an idiom that means they do not understand it

"ridiculous" means stupid or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed at

"sense" here means a general feeling about something

"structure" here means something that has been made or built from parts, especially a large building

"intrepid" means extremely brave and showing no fear of dangerous situations

"wintry" means typical of winter’s cold, windy, and snowy weather

"abode" means the place where someone lives

All right, now the listening practice. Let's watch the part of the clip without subtitles.

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