Vocabulary

• speed up: To move more quickly
• have to: Must do
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• at rest: Not moving or being used.
• in motion: Moving; not stationary.
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• push down: To apply pressure to something from above, forcing it downwards.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• on the ball: Alert, quick to understand and respond to things.
• bounce back: To return quickly to a normal condition after a difficult situation or illness.
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
• motion: Suggestion at a meeting
• ball: Large dance where people dress formally
• speed: How fast or slow something is or is done
• pair: Two of the same thing, e.g. socks