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

 

apt - bystrý (např. žák)

adjective - able to learn quickly

 

apt - mající sklony, náchylný

adjective - having a tendency to do something

 

apt - výstižný, trefný

adjective - suitable, appropriate, especially in a particular situation

cone off - uzavřít část silnice pomocí kuželů

verb, British English - to close a part of the road using traffic cones

 

conical - kuželovitý

adjective - cone-shaped

faint - malátný, cítící se na omdlení

adjective - feeling very weak, likely to lose consciousness

 

faint-hearted - nesmělý, bojácný, zbabělý, bázlivý

adjective - not brave or confident, afraid of failing

 

the Privy Council - královská rada

noun - the group of advisers to the British monarch

outhouse - latrína, kadibudka

noun, American English - an outdoor toilet

privy - latrína, kadibudka

noun, dated - an outdoor toilet

privy - zasvěcený (do čeho)

adjective, formal - allowed to know something that other aren't allowed to know