TEST

• bottom line


  the most important thing
• rebel against

  to oppose
• insular

  narrow-minded person
• practicalities

  the conditions that result from an idea
• reserved

  retiring, withdrawn
• know-how


  knowledge of how to do something
• reconcile


  to balance two things
• local etiquette


  local rules
• comprehensive


  covering or including everything
• on a superficial level


  not complete and involving only the most obvious things
• take the mickey out of sb


  make fun of sb, tease sb
• social mobility


  a change in position within the social hierarchy
• social class


  a division of a society based on social and economic status.
• positive outlook


  a way of thinking in which you believe that good things will happen
• tough


  difficult, hard
• live and let live


  accept other people's opinions and ways of life, even if they are different from your own
• interfere


  come between
• lost touch with


  to stop communicating
• secular society


  A society that is not ruled by religious beliefs
• revolve around


  focus on, center on
• burreucratic


  involves complicated rules and processes which make it slow
• plays a powerful role

  involved with, have an effect on smth
• conform


  to follow rules
• male-dominated

  involving mostly men or controlled mostly by men
• hospitality


  kindness in welcoming guests or strangers
• Excommunicate


  To declare that a person or group no longer belongs to a church
• egalitarian


  promoting equal rights for all people
• worldly


  engrossed in matters of this earth; not spiritual
• cut corners


  do something the cheapest or easiest way
• cornerstone of

  a basic and fundamental part of
• implication


  the effect that an action or decision will have on something else in the future, consecquences
• baptise


  to christen
• orchestrate

  to arrange music for performance; to coordinate, organize
• courtship

  The process of finding a mate
• thump the table


  to hit a table hard, with closed hand
• temper tantrums


  sudden periods of uncontrolled childish anger
• unnerve

  make someone feel nervous or uncomfortable
• frown upon


  to disapprove of something
• latecomers


  people who arrive late
• keep still


  not move