Vocabulary

• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• shut up: To close something, e.g. a shop
• write in: To add text to a document or form.
• on the line: At risk; in a situation where something could be lost.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• at least: As a minimum
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• leave out: To forget; omit
• in mind: Being aware of or considering something.
• get it together: To organize your life and become more responsible.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• go away: To go on vacation
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• leave: To go away from; depart
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
• contraction: Process of becoming smaller in length/size
• write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
• literacy: Fact of having knowledge of a particular subject
• wise: Knowledgeable about life; having good judgment
• hate: To have a very strong feeling of dislike for
• mock: To laugh at someone or something in an unkind way
• syntax: Study of the way words are organized in a sentence
• linguist: Person who speaks several languages