Advanced Vocab Flashcards
Phrasal Verb-to start doing something by chance and without an intention:
Stumble into
6:00am my alarm goes off and I reluctantly roll out of my big king sized bed at the Marriott. I stumble into the bathroom, where I take a hot steam shower with multiple shower heads, while I watch CNN on the bathroom TV.
Idiom-to start a conversation (with someone)
to strike up a conversation-Idiom
I just find it so hard to strike up a conversation with someone I don’t know.
They kept getting interrupted every time they tried striking up a conversation.
7:35 I jump on a high-speed electric train to go to a neighboring city. Also loaded up with free high speed WiFi. I strike up a conversation with the Polish couple next to me, who speak flawless English, and they tell me they are taking a few weeks off to visit family around Germany and France, because usually their family members actually prefer to come stay with them in Poland.
To force someone or something to carry or hold a very large or heavy amount of something.
he doesn’t want to load me up with a bunch of small coins I probably won’t use.
(of words, expressions, etc) having an unpleasant or disparaging connotation
However, since 90% of them were very poor and disorganized (Switzerland being a counter example), the term became more of a pejorative in modern days, which is what the question author was getting at (I think).
