Important Vocabulary to Improve your English-11

idle
If people who were working are idle, they have no jobs or work.

If machines or factories are idle, they are not working or being used.

If you say that someone is idle, you disapprove of them because they are not doing anything and you think they should be.

idleness

idly ADV: ADV with v

Idle is used to describe something that you do for no particular reason, often because you have nothing better to do.

idly

You refer to an idle threat or boast when you do not think the person making it will or can do what they say.
= empty
To idle a factory or other place of work means to close it down because there is no work to do or because the workers are on strike.

To idle workers means to stop them working.

If an engine or vehicle is idling, the engine is running slowly and quietly because it is not in gear, and the vehicle is not moving.


wastrel

If you describe someone as a wastrel you mean that they are lazy and spend their time and money on foolish things.


writ
A writ is a legal document that orders a person to do a particular thing.


destiny
A person's destiny is everything that happens to them during their life, including what will happen in the future, especially when it is considered to be controlled by someone or something else.
= fate
Destiny is the force which some people believe controls the things that happen to you in your life.
= fate

pop
Pop is modern music that usually has a strong rhythm and uses electronic equipment.

You can refer to fizzy drinks such as lemonade as pop.

Pop is used to represent a short sharp sound, for example the sound made by bursting a balloon or by pulling a cork out of a bottle.

If something pops, it makes a short sharp sound.

If your eyes pop, you look very surprised or excited when you see something.

If you pop something somewhere, you put it there quickly.

If you pop somewhere, you go there for a short time.

Some people call their father pop.


to pop the question: see question

sire
sire sires siring sired
When a male animal, especially a horse, sires a young animal, he makes a female pregnant so that she gives birth to it.


fiddle
fiddle fiddles fiddling fiddled
If you fiddle with an object, you keep moving it or touching it with your fingers.
Harriet fiddled with a pen on the desk.

If you fiddle with something, you change it in minor ways.
She told Whistler that his portrait of her was finished and to stop fiddling with it.

If you fiddle with a machine, you adjust it.
He turned on the radio and fiddled with the knob until he got a talk show.

If someone fiddles financial documents, they alter them dishonestly so that they get money for themselves.
He's been fiddling the books...

Some people call violins fiddles, especially when they are used to play folk music.
Hardy as a young man played the fiddle at local dances.

= violin
Someone who is as fit as a fiddle is very healthy and full of energy.
I'm as fit as a fiddlewith energy to spare.

If you play second fiddle to someone, your position is less important than theirs in something that you are doing together.
She hated the thought of playing second fiddle to Rose.


lad
A lad is a young man or boy.

Some men refer to their male friends or colleagues as the lads.