Vocabulary

• open-heart surgery: Surgery performed on the opened heart, usually involving a heart-lung bypass machine.
• on time
• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• in the dark: Uninformed about something; unaware.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• go on: To continue doing something
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• catch up: To become equal with another person
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• have to: Must do
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• pleasant: Causing a good feeling
• sequence: Part of a movie showing one part of the story
• evaluate: To form an idea to judge something carefully
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
• scrub: To clean with hard rubbing
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• professional: Of jobs such as doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc.
• role: Character played by an actor
• honor: To fulfill an agreement
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• unexpected: Surprising because it was not expected
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• invasive: Entering the body, etc. in a destructive way
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• cardiac: Concerning the heart
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• important: Having power or authority
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• hop: Dance party
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• hip: The upper part of Leg
• stable: In a position where something does not fall over
• operation: Business or company, or its activities
• satisfied: To make someone happy because they got their wish
• successful: Having the desired effect or result
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• smooth: Moving without stops and starts
• valve: A device along a pipe or tube to regulate flow
• battle: Military fight between armies
• lung: One of the two organs we use to breathe
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• rap: To hit sharply or repeatedly with something
• magnify: To increase the importance or seriousness of
• briefing: To give information and instructions in a meeting
• coronary: Concerning the heart
• favorable: When a good result or positive outcome is likely
• choreograph: To arrange the movements of dances and dancers
• upstairs: On a floor above
• classical: Concerning the culture of ancient Greece or Rome
• ballet: Form of theater telling a story in music and dance
• incision: Cut, as that done by a surgeon in an operation