echo - rozléhat se, ozývat se

verb - reflect off walls, sides of mountains etc.

 

self-raising flour - mouka s kypřidlem

noun, British English - flour that contains baking powder

 

make excuses - vymlouvat se, hledat výmluvy

verb - to come up with reasons to justify something

 

excuse - záminka

noun - a reason for doing something you want to do anyway

 

suspenseful - napínavý, plný napětí

adjective - causing a feeling of tension, expectation or uncertainty about what may happen next

 

suspend - dočasně vyloučit, suspendovat

verb - to officially order someone to leave their job or school for some time, especially as a punishment

the cops - policie

noun - the police

chopstick - hůlka (na jídlo), jídelní hůlka

noun - on of the two long thin sticks that are used in China, Japan etc. to eat with (instead of a knife and fork)

 

crush - do koho je někdo zamilovaný (platonicky)

noun, informal - a person that someone has a strong feeling of love for

 

enliven - oživit, učinit zajímavějším, zpestřit

verb, formal - to make something more interesting

hardening - otužování

noun - the process of becoming resistant to cold weather, imrpoving one's fitness and immunity etc.

hardened - otužilý

adjective - having become resistant to cold weather, having improved one's fitness and immunity

 

hardened - zpevněný, ztvrdlý, ztuhlý

adjective - having become hard

harden - otužit, otužit se, otužovat se

verb - to become resistant to cold weather etc., to improve one's immunity

 

exit poll - volební průzkum (těsně po hlasování)

noun - the activity of asking people how they have just voted to predict the result of the election