Vocabulary

• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• regardless of
• six times: Multiplied by six; a factor of six.
• happen on: To find or discover by accident.
• pull back: To move to a safer area; retreat
• red hot: Extremely hot; heated to a point of glowing red.
• at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• drift towards: To gradually move or develop in a particular direction or state, often without conscious intention.
• for long: For a considerable period of time.
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• tremendous: Very good or very impressive
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• artificial: Dishonest, to seem fake, not sincere
• strike: To hit something
• inevitably: (Happening) with complete certainty
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• ambitious: Having the desire to be successful in life, work
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• vivid: Having very clear details and seeming to be real
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• cast: People who appear in a play or movie
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• orbit: Path an object takes as it circles another object
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• identical: The same in every way
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• apocalypse: Great disaster; complete destruction
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• spectacle: Impressive performance, public event or show
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• amplify: To increase the effect of something
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• equator: Geographical line at zero degrees latitude
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• great: Very good; better than before
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• rotation: Regular change of the crops grown in a field
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• halfway: A middle point between two extremes
• gravitational: Concerning the force of gravity
• lava: Very hot liquid rock flowing from a volcano
• clump: Mass or pile of something such as soil
• warp: Twist or bend in something normally straight
• yank: To pull or tug on something
• moonlight: To work at a second job (often late at night)