Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
• look over: To check something to see it works well; inspect
• of the century: The most notable or important in a hundred-year period.
• accent: To give emphasis to (a point you are making)
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• huge: Very very large
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• grateful: Feeling or showing thanks; thankful
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• century: Period of 100 years
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• starve: To (cause to) be hungry or go without food
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• economic: Concerning trade, industry, and money
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• throat: Part of the neck that is below the chin
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• college: School or educational institution for adults
• trampoline: Gymnastic apparatus with canvas sheet on springs
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• royalty: Members of a royal family
• slurp: To drink noisily
• skinny: Too thin; very lean
• invite: To ask someone to go somewhere or do something
• professor: Teacher who teaches at a college or university
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• gasp: To take a short quick breath because of surprise
• envelope: Paper cover you put around a letter to mail it
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• can: Able to; have the skill to; have the time to
• shy: Afraid of meeting people; lacking self-confidence
• date: To have become old-fashioned
• study: To focus on learning something usually at school
• model: Being an excellent example of
• spy: Person who gets secret information about an enemy
• nick: Person's name
• wedding: To combine and join two things together as one
• plop: Sound made when a solid is dropped into a liquid
• poo: Feces
• sweetie: Person loved by someone; boyfriend, girlfriend
• creak: (Of door, etc.) to make a loud squeaking noise
• backside: The part of your body you sit on
• grandma: Mother of your father or mother
• coo: To make a low, soft cry, like a dove
• pa: Father
• papa: Another word for father