admonish - napomenout, napomínat, kárat, pokárat

verb, formal - to warn or reprimand someone firmly, often to correct a behaviour or attitude

 

poser - pozér

noun, informal - a person who pretends to be something they’re not, usually to impress others

 

incinerate - spálit, spalovat, spálit na popel (hlavně ve spalovně)

verb, formal - to burn something completely, especially waste material, until it is reduced to ashes

 

swirl - kolovat, šířit se (zvěsti, novinky)

verb - to circulate (news, rumours), to be talked about by a lot of people

understand - chápat, rozumět

verb - to realize something, to see how something works, why somebody does something etc.

contract - zadat na smlouvu, smluvně dohodnout, uzavřít smlouvu

verb - to make a written legal agreement with someone to do something for you

 

obstacle - překážka, problém, potíž

noun - something that makes it difficult to move forward or to achieve a goal

 

invert - obrátit, otočit

verb - to turn upside down, to reverse the position, order, or arrangement of something

 

strip off - svléknout se, svléknout (co), sundat (si co), odložit (co)

verb - to take off your clothes, to take off a particular piece of clothes

trick-or-treat - koledovat (na Halloween), jít na halloweenskou koledu

verb - to go from house to house in costumes asking for candy on Halloween

 

wise up - dostat rozum, zmoudřet, probrat se

verb, American English, informal - to start to realize the truth about something, usually something bad or unpleasant

 

persuasiveness - přesvědčivost

noun - the ability to make other people want or do what you want to

 

industrial action - stávka, protest

noun, British English - an occasion when workers stop working to protest to their employers about something

 

removal man - stěhovák

noun, American English - a person whose job is to move furniture from one building to another

 

unhook - odepnout, sundat (něco co drží na háček)

verb - to undo the hooks on clothes or to remove something from a hook