The Landlady Vocabulary

 Brisk

• A type of tea
• Fast, active, energetic; sharp or abrupt

• A brand of car
• A type of bird

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 Congenial

• Pleasant, sociable; having similar taste and views

• Hostile
• Indifferent
• Apathetic

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Rapacious

• Aggressively greedy or grasping

• Happy
• Sad
• Angry

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Dither

• A type of dance
• A type of food
• A type of animal
• Indecisive behavior; a state of agitation

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Dotty

• A type of pattern
• Mentally unbalanced or odd in kind way

• A type of food
• A type of dog

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Tantalizing

• Exciting or teasing
• A type of dance
• A kind of food
• A musical instrument

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Emanate

• To come out from, emit

• To absorb
• To destroy
• To create

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Briskness, he had decided was the one common characteristic of all successful businessmen. The bigshots up at Head Office were absolutely fantastically ______ all the time.”

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“On the other hand a pub would be more _______ than a boarding-house."

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He was a tiny bit frightened of [boarding houses]. The name itself conjured up images of watery cabbage, __________ landladies, and a powerful smell of kippers in the living-room.”

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