Vocabulary

• serve up: To present food to someone, typically in a restaurant or at home.
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• stop in: To visit a place briefly, usually on the way to somewhere else.
• for nothing: Without payment or reward; to no purpose or effect; in vain
• in mind: Being aware of or considering something.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• make up: To invent or create a story
• stick around: To remain in place; not leave or go
• from time to time: Occasionally; sometimes but not regularly.
• made with: Containing a particular ingredient or material.
• do away with: To remove or take something away; to kill
• bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
• cash in: To sell asset to get money back
• check out
• decent: Being fairly good; acceptable
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• portion: Serving of food that is intended for one person
• syrup: Sugary liquid e.g. used on pancakes
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• require: To demand that someone does something
• adopt: To legally take a child into your family
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• labor: To struggle to do something because it's difficult
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• fortune: What might happen to you in the future
• extensive: Large; full or complete
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• quantity: A large amount of something
• wage: Money paid to a worker for the hours they worked
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• profit: Benefit from doing something
• quarter: 25 cents
• medium: Method of expressing ideas or feelings
• altogether: All things considered
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• profitable: Being useful; benefiting someone or something
• margin: Edge of an area
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• fountain: Structure out of which a jet of water comes
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• crisp: To make or become dry and crisp, as with heat
• bucket: Open container with a handle used to carry liquids
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• fill: To make something full
• minimum: Smallest degree or level that is acceptable
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• surprisingly: In an unexpected manner; to an unexpected degree
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• frugal: Spending very small amounts; using very little
• mobile: Able to be moved or able to move
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• insulate: To prevent heat, electricity, sound from passing
• streamline: To make smooth or more efficient
• minimal: The smallest possible; least
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• cite: To officially order someone to appear in court
• come: To arrive at a place
• price: Person's name
• automate: To make automatic by using machines
• mash: To make something soft by beating or crushing it
• duo: Two (e.g. of living or people)
• soda: Sweet bubbly flavored drink
• coca: Type of South American plant used to make cocaine