Vocabulary

• spot on: Exactly right; perfectly accurate.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• as one: Acting or moving together at the same time.
• on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• in blood: Covered or stained with blood, literally or figuratively.
• right back: Said when someone says they will return soon, indicating you expect their prompt return.
• right next to: Immediately adjacent to; in very close proximity to.
• next to: Being located along side another
• trait: A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• evolve: To develop certain features
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• rage: Strong or violent anger
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• valuable: Being useful or important
• hippocampus: A part of the brain that is part of the limbic system and is important for memory
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• couple: To join something to something else
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• savvy: Wise; Not easily fooled; Street smart
• conceal: To hide; prevent from being discovered
• sniff: To detect something, e.g. a potential problem
• tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• accuracy: Being exactly right; correctness
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• rotten: Gone bad; broken into pieces through dying
• damn: To cause the downfall or failure of; criticize
• shatter: To break into small pieces
• cartilage: Strong flexible tissue connecting bones, joints
• ripe: (Of a smell) disgusting
• century: Period of 100 years
• breast: Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
• point: An item to be discussed
• mould: Fungus growing on old food or in wet dark places
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• sneeze: Act of air suddenly being forced out of nose/mouth
• bash: To hit something; to criticize
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• downward: Moving from a higher to a lower condition/place
• cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
• live: To be alive
• keep: Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• nip: Sharp cold feeling
• splinter: To split a large group into smaller groups
• wee: Scottish and Northern English small; short
• nickname: Name given by friends or family
• cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way
• larynx: Hollow organ in throat containing the vocal chords
• rainwater: Drops of fresh water that fall from clouds