heroin
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“Wow, that heroin is in my blood / And the blood is in my head / Yeah, thank⟳ God that I'm good as dead / Ooohhh, thank⟳ your God that I'm not aware / And thank⟳ God that I just don't care / And I guess⟳ I just don't know⟳”
“I saw⟳ a real strange, weird object / Standing up talking to the people / And I found out it was heroin / That deadly drug that go in your veins”
“The reason⟳ why Jon & Kate Plus 8 is such a hot topic is because it might all be a sham. It’s been claimed that Jon has a string of mistresses, that Kate had an affair with her bodyguard and that Baby Number⟳ Six is actually a shaved Ewok with a catastrophic heroin addiction. Or something.”
“Fentanyl, which looks like⟳ heroin, is a powerful synthetic painkiller that has been laced into heroin but is increasingly being sold by itself — often without the user’s knowledge.”
“Yeah, it does, though, it does. Heroin works basically everywhere because it’s heroin. It’s not a cellphone. Heroin has full coverage.”
“Okay, wel-, I’ll tell⟳ you where it stops: somewhere! Anytime someone asks, “Where does it stop⟳?”, the answer⟳ is always fucking somewhere! You might let⟳ your kid have⟳ Twizzlers, but not inject black tar heroin! You d-You don’t just go, “Well, after the Twizzlers, where does it stop⟳?”!”
“That’s because the second thing to know⟳ about Games Workshop is, as Gillen says, that Warhammer was what middle-class nerds did instead of heroin. It was just as expensive, and probably no better for your social life.”
“Strictly Orthodox, Porcia has bent her Fortune and Applications to the Advantage of the true Religion. In a word, no Perfection is feeble, or ſhines dim in Porcia; all is ſtrenuous, bright, confirm’d, and unexceptionable. She only is worthy to ſupply the Loſs of Ximena, in ſo great a Breaſt as Horatio’s, were Fortune to do what Merit has done, wou’d ſhe not make⟳ the Union? Where more juſtly cou’d we beſtow the Charms of a Heroin, who has done all things for Vertue and Honour, than in the Arms of a Hero, who has left nothing undone for Fame and Glory?”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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