Vocabulary

• get past: To overcome an obstacle or difficulty.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• have to: Must do
• got to: To arrive at some place
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• deal with
• in turn: One after the other in a sequence or rotation.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• on the street: Located on or along a public road in a town or city.
• interact with
• by doing that: Using that action or method.
• meet with: To have a meeting with someone in order to discuss something.
• step into: To enter a place or situation.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• freak out: To react or behave in a wild or irrational way
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• way to go: An expression of encouragement or approval.
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• family: Close group of people or organizations
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• help: To act to enable a person to do something; assist
• person: Man, woman or child
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• street: Road in a city with buildings and places to walk
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
• business: A company formed for making profit
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• loud: Being very bright with colors, clothes etc.
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• call: A order or request for action
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• photographer: Professional who takes photographs for a living
• elevator: Machine that carries people between floors
• level: Specific height of something
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• curious: Wanting to know more about something
• label: A (luxury) brand owned by a company
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• criminal: Involving illegal activity; relating to crime
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• attack: To try to destroy, beat, or injure
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• powerful: Having control or influence over
• truth: Real facts about something
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
• terrorist: Radical who employs terror as a political weapon
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
• willingness: Cheerful agreement to do something
• protection: Being kept from harm
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• foolish: Lacking good sense or judgment; not sensible
• stereotype: False categorization of people as all the same
• differentiate: To see or show how things are not the same
• scarce: Not many; Not plentiful or abundant
• undergo: To experience or endure something (bad)
• sacrifice: Person/animal killed in a sacrifice (to a god)
• mode: Fashion and design
• ample: (Of quantity, amount) more than enough
• confidential: Entrusted with another's secrets
• stereotypical: In an inaccurate and simplistic manner
• arise: To stand up
• reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
• exclude: To prevent someone from taking part in something
• filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
• humiliating: Causing you to feel a loss of self-respect
• dread: To await with great fear
• empathize: To imagine or understand how others feel
• ambiguity: State of being confusing, uncertain or unclear
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• entrepreneur: Businessperson who develops new businesses
• frisk: To search someone's body for concealed gun, drug
• bigotry: Intolerant and prejudiced acts
• mafia: Secret criminal organization
• limbic: Concerning or forming a limbus
• chant: To repeat a word or groups of words continuously
• amygdala: Almond-shaped structure in the brain's anterior
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• magnify: To increase the importance or seriousness of
• nuance: Small, not obvious difference in meaning, etc.
• barista: Person who serves drinks at a bar or cafe
• hoodie: A cotton sweatshirt with a hood
• mob: A secret criminal organization
• enlighten: To cause someone to understand