New Words 215

stomp, verb, /stɑmp/

to walk with heavy steps or to put your foot down very hard, especially because you are angry SYN  stamp. ► walk.

Alex stomped angrily out of the meeting.

stomp on

Rogers was injured after being stomped on by another player.

cayenne /kaɪˈɛn/ 红辣椒

crater /ˈkreɪtər/ 坑

pepper, noun,  /'pɛpɚ/

1 a powder that is used to add a hot taste to food.

salt and pepper.

→ black pepper, white pepper.

2 a hollow red, green, or yellow vegetable, eaten either raw or cooked with other food SYN bell pepper (American English) → sweet pepper, cayenne pepper, red pepper.

pepper, verb,  /'pɛpɚ/

1 if something is peppered with things, it has a lot of those things in it or on it

be peppered with something

a speech peppered with amusing stories.

The surface of the Moon is peppered with craters.

GRAMMAR Pepper is usually passive in this meaning.

2 if bullets pepper something, they hit it several times.

Machine gun fire peppered the front of the building.

3 pepper somebody with questions(American English) to ask someone a lot of questions, one after the other.

Reporters peppered him with questions.

4 to add pepper to food.

Pepper the steak well.

peppered salami. /sə'lɑmi/

mince, verb, /mɪns/

1 (also mince something ↔ up) to cut food, especially meat, into very small pieces, usually using a machine.

minced lamb.

Mince the meat up with some onion and garlic.

2 to walk with very quick, short steps in a way that looks unnatural or silly.

She was mincing about in her high-heeled shoes.

3 not mince (your) words to say exactly what you think, even if this might offend people.

Tom didn’t mince words and told me straight away that I had failed.

mince, noun, /mɪns/

meat, especially beef, that has been cut into very small pieces using a special machine SYN ground beef (American English)

scissors /'sɪzɚz/

oppress, verb, /ə'prɛs/

1 to treat a group of people unfairly or cruelly, and prevent them from having the same rights that other people in society have.

native tribes oppressed by the authorities.

2 to make someone feel unhappy, worried, or uncomfortable.

The gloom in the chapel oppressed her.

GRAMMAR Oppress is often used in the passive.