Fashion and Education Vocabulary: Essential Terms

Fashion Vocabulary

Here are some essential terms and phrases related to fashion:

• To be on trend: To be very fashionable.
• Designer label: A well-known company that makes (often expensive) clothing.
• Dressed to kill: Wearing clothes that attract admirers.
• To get dressed up: To put on nice clothes, often to go out somewhere special.
• To go out of fashion: To not be in fashion anymore.
• Hand-me-downs: Clothes that are passed down from older brothers or sisters to their younger siblings.
• To have an eye for (fashion): To be a good judge of fashion.
• To have a sense of style: The ability to wear clothes that look stylish.
• The height of fashion: Very fashionable.
• To keep up with the latest fashion: To wear the latest fashions.
• To look good in: To wear something that suits you.
• To mix and match: To wear different styles or items of clothing that aren't part of a set outfit.
• Must-have: Something that is highly fashionable and therefore in demand.
• Off the peg: Clothing that is ready to wear.
• Old fashioned: Not in fashion anymore.
• On the catwalk: The stage that models walk along to show off the latest fashions.
• A slave to fashion/fashion victim: Someone who always feels the need to wear the latest fashions.
• Smart clothes: The kind of clothes worn for a formal event.
• To suit someone: To look good on someone.
• To take pride in one's appearance: To pay attention to how one looks.
• Timeless: Something that doesn't go out of fashion.
• Vintage clothes: Clothes from an earlier period.
• Well-dressed: To be dressed attractively.

Education Vocabulary

Here are some essential terms and phrases related to education:

• Revise: To review or study again.
• Cram: To study a lot of information quickly, especially for an exam.
• Hand in: To submit an assignment or work.
• Assignment: A task or piece of work allocated to someone as part of a job or course of study.
• Play truant: To stay away from school without permission.
• Mess around: To waste time; to behave in a silly way.
• Bother: To make an effort to do something; to annoy or disturb.
• Disruptive: Causing trouble and stopping something from continuing as usual.
• Get stuck: To be unable to progress or move forward.
• Scrape through: To succeed in something but with a lot of difficulty.
• Pass with flying colors: To pass something with a high score.
• Do A levels: To take advanced level exams.
• Go to boarding school: To attend a school where students live during term time.
• Campus: The grounds and buildings of a university or college.
• Have a deadline: To have a time or date before which a particular task must be finished.
• Get a degree: To obtain a university degree.
• Pay fees: To pay a required amount of money for a service.
• Have a lecture: To attend or give a formal talk on a particular subject.
• Professor: A university teacher of the highest rank.
• Pupil: A student, especially at school.
• Apply for: To make a formal request for something.
• Graduate: To successfully complete a course of study and receive a degree or diploma.
• Undergraduate: A university student who has not yet taken a first degree.
• Drop out of school: To leave school before completing a course of study.

Idioms Related to the Heart and Head

• Set your heart on something: To want something very much or want to do it very much.
• Your heart's not in it: You do not feel interested or enthusiastic about something.
• One's heart sank: Used to say that someone becomes sad or disappointed about something.
• Do them standing on your head: To do something with very little or no difficulty; to complete or accomplish something in a relaxed, carefree, or effortless manner.
• Right over your head: To become or be deeply involved in a situation that is too difficult for you to deal with.