Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• down and out: Without money, a job, or a place to live; destitute.
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• above water: Not in debt or trouble; surviving or managing successfully.
• push off: To set off, depart, or leave, especially by boat
• in the air: Present or circulating in the atmosphere.
• have to: Must do
• fall for: To be deceived or tricked by someone
• for instance: As an example.
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
• in on: To be involved in a secret or plan.
• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• make contact with: To initiate communication with someone.
• pass through: To experience something, often unpleasant or difficult.
• fall under: To be included in or classified as part of a specific category or jurisdiction.
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• scratch: To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
• category: Groups of things that are similar in some way
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• initial: First letter of your given name
• component: One of the parts that something is made up of
• impression: Effect or feeling resulting from an experience
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• athlete: Person trained to compete in sports
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• tiny: Very, very small
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• anticipate: To expect or look ahead to something positively
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• rigid: Stiff rather than flexible
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• couple: To join something to something else
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• punctuation: Marks used in piece of writing, such as ? ; and !
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• splash: To throw water or liquids in many directions
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• subjective: Using personal feelings and opinions not facts
• point: An item to be discussed
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• fill: To make something full
• cavity: Hole or empty space, especially in a tooth
• exclamation: Abrupt excited utterance
• angular: Having one or more sharp angles
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• leeway: Sideways drift, as of a boat from a course
• radial: Having straight lines coming out from the center