“Professional English for Molecular Biologists” - Words of the day


27.9.

Tedious – too long, slow, or dull: tiresome or monotonous

Sloppy – 1. containing too much liquid, 2. carelless and unsystematic, 3. weakly or foolishly
sentimental

Beggar – a person, typically homeless one who lives by asking for money or food

Creep – to move slowly and carefully, especially in order to avoid being heard or noticed


4.10

Potty – a bowl used by small children as a toilet

Witch – a woman thought to have evil magic powers

their earnings in return

Pillow – a bag stuffed with feathers used to support the head when lying or sleeping

Wise guy – a person who speaks and behaves as if they know more than others


11.10.

Dope – 1. a drug taken illegally for recreatinal purposes, especially heroin, 2. a stupid person

Groovy – 1. inclined to follow a fixed routine, 2. highly stimulating or attractive (slang)

Smash – to break to pieces with violence and often with a crashing sound

Snuff – to draw in through the nose by inhaling


18.10.

Sturdy – strongly built, robust

Nap – sleep lightly or briefly, especially during the day

The heck – expression used for emphasis in questions and axclamations („what the heck do you thing
you are?“)

Intoxication – 1. poisoning: the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance,
2. drunkenness: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol, 3.  excitement
and elation beyond the bounds of sobriety; "the intoxication of wealth and power"


25.10.

Screwdriver – a tool with a flattened or cross-shaped tip that fits into the head of a screw to
turn it; a cocktail made from vodka and orange juice

Lullaby – a quiet, gentle song sung to send a child to sleep

Lucid – expressed clearly, easy to understand

Delirium - a state of being unable to think or speak clearly because of fever or mental confusion



1.11.

Let´s keep the facts straight

Rubbish – 1. waste material, 2. material that is considered unimportant or valueless

Peculiar – strange or odd, unusual

Wallflower – a person who has no one to dance with or who feels excluded at the party


8.11.

Grass widower – a man who is divorced or separated from his wife; a man whose wife is temporarily
absent

Crapflooding – the practice of disrupting online media

Spam – the use of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast media, digital delivery
systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately

Hacker – or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system


15.11.

Yummy – delicious, highly attractive and desirable

Pimp – a man who controls prostitutes and arranges clients for them, taking a percentage

Seductive – tempting and attractive

Wellness – being healthy and disease free


22.11.

Lousy – very poor or bad, disgusting

Schnook – an unimportant or stupid person

Vicious circle – a complex of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop toward greater
instability

Rule of thumb – principle with broad application that is not intended to be strictly accurate


29.11.

Lobbyist – A lobbyist is an activist usually paid by an interest group to promote their positions
to legislatures

Vendetta – A bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families, clans or factions, in which
each injury or slaying is revenged; a blood feud

Squatting – consists of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied space or building, usually
residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have permission to use

Stoned – under the influence of drugs, very drunk


6.12.

Nightmare – a very upsetting or frightening dream; an extremely unpleasant event or experience or
possible event or experience

Brain drain – when large numbers of educated and very skilled people leave their own country to
live and work in another one where pay and conditions are better

Mighty – possessing great and impressive power or strength

Corpus – the collection of a single writer's work or of writing about a particular subject, or a
large amount of written and sometimes spoken material collected to show the state of a language


13.12.

Jacuzzi – a large bath with a pump that moves water around giving a pleasant feeling to your body

Magic – the power of apparently influencing events by using mysterious or supernatural forces; a
quality of being beautiful and delightful in a way that seems remote from daily life

Knowledgeable – intelligent and well informed

Deleterious – harmful and damaging