VIP Class Notes (Jesse) [R]

I am reading Harry Potter recently and have questions on below words meaning and how I can appropriately apply into daily life .

1. Would you like to wait here and greet him or would you prefer to step inside and warm up a trifle ?
2. “It will be attended to”.
3. It wad nearly three in the morning,but he felt wide awake – wide awake, and worried.
4. Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own? Hermione hung her head.
5. The troll was advancing on her, knocking the sinks off the walls as it went.
6. Hermione was stomping up the stairs looking disapprovingly at the package in Harry’s hand.
7. Hermione marched away her nose in the air.
8. Flich knew someone was going to be in the trophy room, Malfoy must have tipped him off

I am reading Harry Potter recently and have questions on below words meaning and how I can appropriately apply into daily life .

1. Would you like to wait here and greet him or would you prefer to step inside and warm up a trifle?
2. “It will be attended to”.
3. It was nearly three in the morning,but he felt wide awake – wide awake, and worried.
4. Miss Granger, you foolish girl, how could you think of tackling a mountain troll on your own? Hermione hung her head.
5. The troll was advancing on her, knocking the sinks off the walls as it went. / while it was advancing.
6. Hermione was stomping up the stairs looking disapprovingly at the package in Harry’s hand.
7. Hermione marched away, her nose in the air.
8. Flich knew someone was going to be in the trophy room, Malfoy must have tipped him off

Vocabulary

a trifle – a little / sth of little importance

reckon – more casual than think

tend 
eg. I will tend to your wounds = fix / help / heal
eg2. I tend to do funny things when I’m drunk = often / generally

Ok boss I will attend to it = I will do it / take care of it
attend – more formal than “do / take care of”

I will tend the / tend to the garden so don’t worry, it will be attended to.

i think / i guess / i reckon 

interchangeable 

tackle – handle a difficulty / manage / complete / win / beat
eg. I will try to tackle the problem myself, before asking for help

advance – approach but more vivid
I advanced on her – feels like it’s on top of you and growing
I approached her – direct

step – a normal movement of your feet on the ground
stomp – lower pitched, stronger, heavier step
march – a proud, direct walk from A to B

to tip sb off – to give them secret information about sth
eg. the police work with tip offs (n) all the time to find criminal activity
eg2. the gang member worked with the police and tipped them off (v) about the location of the drugs