Vocabulary

• shut up: To close something, e.g. a shop
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• jam up: To become stuck or blocked, preventing movement or function.
• in town: Present or available in the local area or city.
• out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
• run in: To arrest person and take them to police station
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• walk over: To treat someone badly, as if they had no rights
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
• dumb: Senseless; stupid
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• etiquette: Rules regarding manners or good behavior
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• grip: To hold someone's interest
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• tap: To access a liquid (e.g. in a tree) through a hole
• drag: To reluctantly move or go somewhere
• respect: To follow the established rules
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• leave: To go away from; depart
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• buddy: Friend, usually male
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• corpse: A dead body
• piece: A counter in a board game
• articulation: Shaping the sounds of speech to communicate
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• rubber: Material used to make tires, etc.
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• exceed: To be greater in number, degree than something
• scalp: Part of the human head covered by hair
• mount: To attach something to something else
• freedom: State of being free, not being controlled
• depart: To die
• commuter: Someone who travels regularly from home to work
• tired: Without energy so you want to rest or fall asleep
• overrate: To put too high a value or worth on; overpraise
• subway: Train system running under the ground in a city
• beep: Short high sound such as that made by a car horn
• til: Until