Cathy Kelly - What she wants

Some vocabulary from the second chapter of the book, I would try to post some of them from the first chapter and write anything about the book. Anyway, I have enjoyed reading it.

• incumbent noun [C]

the person who has or had a particular official position:
the first/last/previous incumbent
The present incumbent (of the post) is due to retire next month.

• kudos noun [U]

the fame and public admiration that a person receives as a result of a particular achievement or position in society:
Being an actor has a certain amount of kudos attached to it.

• muster sth up phrasal verb

If you muster up a feeling of bravery or energy, you try hard to find that quality in yourself because you need it in order to do something:
[+ to infinitive] She finally mustered up the courage to ask him for more money.

• teeter on the brink/edge of sth

If something is teetering on the brink/edge of a bad situation, it is likely that the situation will happen soon:
What we are seeing now is a country teetering on the brink of civil war.
teetering on the abyss of the forty

• bleached an adjective
  

- having lost freshness or brilliance of color; "sun-bleached deck chairs"; "faded jeans"; "a very pale washed-out blue"; "washy colors"
faded, washed-out, washy
colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful

• slog (WORK HARD) verb -gg-

1 [I usually + adverb or preposition] MAINLY UK INFORMAL to work hard over a long period, especially doing work that is difficult or boring:
I've been slogging away for days on this essay and I'm still not finished.
2 [I + adverb or preposition] to travel or move with difficulty, for example through wet, sticky soil or snow, or when you are very tired:
Despite the rain, they slogged on for another six miles.

• dork noun [C] SLANG

a stupid awkward person

• mainline (DRUGS) verb [I or T] INFORMAL

to inject drugs directly into the blood:
Several of her friends were mainlining heroin.
By now she was mainlining.

• tawny adjective

of a light yellowish brown colour, like that of a lion

• sleek adjective

(especially of hair, clothes or shapes) smooth, shiny and lying close to the body, and therefore looking well cared for; not untidy and with no parts sticking out:
The cat had sleek fur.
Who owns that sleek black car parked outside your house?
DISAPPROVING He's one of those sleek (= seeming rich and dishonest) businessman types.

• willowy adjective APPROVING

(especially of a woman) graceful and thin:
a willowy blonde

• with a vengeance

with great force or extreme energy:
He's been working with a vengeance over the past few weeks to make up for lost time.
Flared trousers are back with a vengeance (= very popular again) this summer.

• fall by the wayside

If someone falls by the wayside, they fail to finish an activity, and if something falls by the wayside, people stop doing it, making it, or using it :
So why does one company survive a recession while its competitors fall by the wayside?

• reedy adjective

2 DISAPPROVING describes a sound, especially a voice, that is thin and high and not pleasant to listen to

Law and order vocabulary

a search warrant
a rebuttal witness
litigation
on a technicality
indigent
to be implicated in
treason
to commit treason, high treason

Food vocabulary

Some useful vocabulary about food and eating.

The Kooks - Ooh La

In their eyes is the place that you finally discovered
That you love it here, you've got to stay
On the bottom of the rock, an island
On which you find you love it when you twitch
You feel that itch in you pettycoat
Your pretty pretty pettycoat

Then you smiled, he got wild
You didn't understand that there's money to be made
Beauty is a card that must get played
By organisation

And ooh la, she was such a good girl to me
And ooh la, the world just chewed her up, and spat her out
And ooh la, she was such a good girl to me
And ooh la, the world just chewed her up, and spat her out

The world can be a very big place
So be yourself don't get out of place
Love your man and love him twice
Go to Hollywood and pay the price
Oh go to Hollywood

And don't be a star, it's such a drag
Take care of yourself, don't begin to lag
It's a hard life to live, so live it well
I'll be your friend and not in pretend
I know you girl
In all situations

And ooh la, she was such a good girl to me
And ooh la, the world just chewed her up, and spat her out
And ooh la, she was such a good girl to me
And ooh la, the world just chewed her up, and spat her out

Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty
Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pettycoat
Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty
Pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pretty pettycoat
In all situations

And ooh la, she was such a good girl to me
And ooh la, the world just chewed her up, and spat her out
And ooh la, she was such a good girl to me
And ooh la, the world just chewed her up, and spat her out

Tennis

1. a popular spectator sport - spectator sport –noun any sport that can be watched by spectators, as football or basketball, usually for a fee.
2. a felt-covered ball
3. to return a shot
   

   A player wins a point when his or her opponent cannot return a shot, or the opponent's shot doesn't land in the court.

4. 30-love
   

   Why does love mean zero?
   Love, meaning zero (in tennis only), comes from the French word 'l'oeuf', meaning egg, and was used because of an egg's round shape, the same as zero (0).

5. a grass, clay, or hard court tennis surface
6. the receiver
7. six games
   

   Play continues until a player wins the first 'set' by being the first to win at least six games.

8. different shots
   

   Professional players learn to use many different shots, including the serve, forehand, backhand, volley, half-volley, overhead smash, drop shot, and lob. They also learn how to put spin on their shots to make them more difficult to return, and learn how to use tactics to win, such as by playing to their opponent's weaknesses.

9. ace
   a winning serve which the receiver fails to touch with his or her racket
10. deuce
    Tennis. a situation, as a score of 40–40 in a game or 5–5 in a match, in which a player must score two successive points to win the game or two successive games to win the set.
11. advantage
    a player who scores a point at 'deuce' has the advantage, meaning if they win the next point, they win the game
    
    
    More at: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/sports-tennis.htm