Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• try out: To try to win a place on a team in a group
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• have to: Must do
• stick around: To remain in place; not leave or go
• speed up: To move more quickly
• cut out: To leave out of something, e.g. a social event
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• on the news: Reported or broadcasted as part of a news program.
• turn on
• thumbs up: A gesture of approval or agreement, indicated by holding a fist with the thumb extended upwards.
• look around: To explore a place; search for something.
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• associate: Partner in professional work, e.g. in law
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• spontaneous: Happening on its own, without anyone helping it
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• express: To send something by fast mail
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• incentive: Something that encourages you to do something
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• concrete: Hard building material made of cement, sand, water
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• spontaneously: In a sudden, unplanned way
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• optimal: Best or most desirable; best possible
• plateau: Flat land that is higher than the land around it
• acronym: A word made from the first letters of other words
• courage: Quality of being able to face danger without fear
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• intermediate: Between; in the middle; moderate
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• problematic: Being difficult to deal with or fix
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• point: An item to be discussed
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• pat: Person's name
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• discourage: To make a person feel less courageous or hopeful
• intimately: Privately and personally
• idiomatic: Concerning idioms