people who are friendly and always willing to talk to other people - he’s not the most approachable person | our tutors were young and very approachable |, a proud and unpleasant behaviour in which someone thinks they are a lot more important than other people - what I hated about him was his sheer arrogance, When someone stops insisting on something because of the people have opposed them - once he’s made up his mind he’ll never back down | he backed down as soon as I challenged him, often makes unkind remarks about other people - I realised I’d been really bitchy towards her, you don’t like it and worry about it a lot - he never seems that bothered by criticism | I don’t think he’s bothered about not having a car , Someone who behaves in a way that is pleasant and attractive and that makes people like them - he has a lot of charm | he can turn on the charm when he needs to, Someone who doesn’t usually believe that other people are honest or sincere. If you have a cynical view of things, you think they are happening for dishonest or insincere reasons. - a lot of people here are very cynical about politicians | I don’t accept the cynical view that teachers are people who would not succeed in business | a cynical attempt to deceive the voters, their actions put you in the same bad situation that they are in - don’t let them drag you down to their level. You’re better then them, Someone who is not sincere and pretends to be better or more educated than they really are - How can you like him? He’s so fake!, People who are very successful in what they are trying to achieve in their life - she’d do anything to get ahead | you need to pass your exams if you want to get ahead, you do it without discussing it with them, especially when it is someone who is your boss or who has authority over you - you need to go over his head and talk to his manager | the approval was given over my head , When to people realise they have a lot of things in common and become very friendly with each other - we hit it off straight away | we hit it off, and four years later we were married, Someone who is not able to do a job or a particular task properly - she’s completely incompetent and is bound to mess things up | whoever painted your kitchen was totally incompetent | incompetent officials lost my passport when I tried to renew it | we can’t afford to employ incompetent doctors, People who are very serious in the way they talk and behave - she’s incredibly intense and we end up having long, deep conversations | she’s very focused, very intense | he’s very serious and quite intense, People who are always very calm and relaxed and never seem to worry about anything - he’s very laid-back and just seems to lie around all day | they have a rather laid-back approach to parenting | she was very laid-back about her exams | I enjoyed the laid-back atmosphere at my last school, When you start to become less serious about things - I wish he’d lighten up a little | lighten up and enjoy the party! | I think she needs to lighten up, Someone who does not have much experience of life and believes that other people will be kind and generous to them and that things will be easy - you’re just naïve if you think the election will make any difference | he had a naïve belief that money would bring him happiness | I wish I hadn’t been so naïve when I went to university, annoying; when someone is annoying - my little sister’s such a pain, always complaining about me | it’s a pain in the neck (extremely annoying) having to go through airport security | I left early because he’d spent the whole evening being a pain | it was such a pain getting woken up at 5 in the morning, the set of moral rules that you believe are right and that you are not willing to break - she has very strong principles | it’s very important to stick to your principles | he had absolutely no moral principles, and no respect for other people | it’s against my principles to borrow money from my parents, If someone is [...] or something is [...] it often happens to them, or they often do it - she’s prone to forget things like that | some regions are more prone to thunderstorms than others | as a child, he was prone to illness | he’s too injury-prone to be considered a great footballer | sales people are prone to making exaggerated claims, someone who is rather lazy and does not make any effort to work hard or do their job properly - he’s a right slacker – he just seems to lie around all day | he called us a bunch of slackers because we hadn’t finished the job by 5 o’clock/ he was always slacking, someone who thinks they are better than other people because they come from a higher social class or because they have better taste in literature, music, etc. - he’s a complete snob and only talks to people who went to the ‘right’ school | she’s too much of a snob to wear jeans | my brother’s an intellectual snob who thinks Harry Potter books are only for children/ Adjective: snobbish | Adverb: snobbishly | Noun: snobbishness | Noun: snobbery , you support it publicly and defend it against people who disagree with you - she stands up for what she believes in | my parents taught me to stand up for what is right | they stood up for equality and everyone’s right to vote, When you are talking about a part of their character that is different from or more extreme than the rest of their character - he’s got a real stubborn streak (he is very stubborn) and will never change his mind | I noticed he had a mean streak when I tried to borrow some money from him | there was a streak of mischief about him, People who always stay calm even in difficult situations - he’s very calm and takes everything in his stride | she took all the challenges in her stride | I was far too hot there, but Jenny took the heat in her stride, This means to try and please them in order to get some benefit from them. You use the expression suck up to show that you disapprove of the way someone is doing this - he’s always sucking up to the boss | the other kids thought I was sucking up to the teacher, but I wasn’t, When people move into it and use it for a particular purpose so that the people who usually use it are unable to use it for a while - she just takes over the bathroom every morning | we took over the gym for the afternoon and put on a concert, It means to weaken them or make them less powerful or effective - she’s always trying to undermine me | they’re not trying to undermine the system – just point out where there’s corruption | a scandal that threatens to undermine the government’s authority | criticising her will seriously undermine her confidence | senior ministers were undermined by lack of support from the president, It refers to actions which are done deliberately, not by accident, and are often intended to cause harm. Someone who deliberately does things even though they might cause harm or they have been told not to - their wilful failure to deal with the problem | theft and wilful damage are crimes | she had been a wilful and stubborn child | they were accused of wilful misconduct, When you work together with them and and share the results and successes of the work - it’s the largest collaborative biology project in the world | the design process is highly collaborative | it was a collaborative effort by four composers | we should adopt a collaborative approach in the face of global warming,

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