First Impressions Count - Vocab

to be doomed

• to decide where to meet someone

• to fail to get on with someone

• to save someone from an awkward situation

• to be certain to fail, suffer or die

hard to overcome

• a difficult situation to put right again

• an awkwardness to ask someone back to your place

• a problem with travelling, mostly flying

• a complex calculation in an exam

betrayal

• an argument that is easily mended

• responding to someone with compassion

• losing someone's trust through a dishonest action

• to forget an important date

to establish ties with

• to forge a connection with someone

• to create a feeling of mistrust with someone

• to build a social network platform from scratch

• to lie to someone almost without care

breach

• to insist that someone else is in the wrong

• to attempt to grab a person's attention

• to worry constantly about your appearance

• to break a law or code of conduct

unbeknownst

• to be known to someone

• to not be known to someone

• to pretend to know someone

• to pretend not to know someone

right off the bat

• after a mistake

• when something scares you

• now and again

• from the start

to defect

• to insist that someone does something for their benefit

• to greet someone in a friendly way or to buy a surprise gift for someone

• to abandon one's country or to change sides in a battle

• to seriously hate someone for their actions

turns out

• proves to be the case

• has a difficult result

• wants to leave immediately

• throws someone out of an establishment

to fly in the face of

• to agree with someone without any facts

• to go against common thinking

• to lose one's temper quickly without warning

• to fail to do something