Ways of looking - VOCABULARY

LEVEL: Advanced

(Most verbs of looking go with the preposition AT. These are all regular verbs.)


PEER:
1) strain your eyes in order to see. (as if unable to see well).
e.g. With glasses . Over your glasses. Over somebody's shoulder.
2) at / into something. (escudriñar)

PEEP:
short, quick look taken secretly (incomplete view). Thru a narrow opening.
e.g. Peep in/into the oven. Peep at a neighbor's paper.
e.g. A peeping Tom = someone who likes to watch women undress. (Lady Godiva).
a Peep-hole: of a door - the sights of a gun
to take a peep at: to look cautiously / shyly.

GLANCE:
give a quick intentional look.
e.g. She glanced at her watch with impatience.

GLIMPSE:
Quick unintentional.
To give/have/get/catch a glimpse of ...
e.g. I had a glimpse of his brother so I couldn't really describe him.
e.g. He caught a quick glimpse of her in the crowd before she disappeared from view.

GLARE:
look angrily at. (also shine in a dazzling way)

GLOWER

LOOK DAGGERS

SCOWL:
look in a bad tempered way. (you appear to be angry)
e.g. The receptionist scowled at the rude customer.

FROWN:
with concentration / puzzlement / disapproval

OGLE:
to look with insistence and pleasure.
e.g. Men ogle at women.

LEER AT:
with desire or lust, as a dirty old man.
e.g. He leered at his neighbor's wife.

GOGGLE:
as if eyes came out of their sockets with surprise/terror/etc.

GOGGLE BOX:
T.V. (British Eng.)

GAPE:
look in silly astonishment.
e.g. Country visitors usually gape at neon lights.

GLOAT (OVER something):
with selfish delight.
e.g. She gloats over her clothes / He gloats over his money.

GAZE:
look in awe/admiration (fixedly).
e.g. Stop gazing at that girl.

STARE:
fixed look (rude).
empty look

TWITCH:
eyes can twitch sometimes (tremble a little, in an involuntary movement of the muscles)

WINK an eye at somebody.