Vocabulary

• in a row: One after another without a break.
• ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
• drop out: To take no part in a society you disapprove of
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• row: To move a boat using oars
• expense: Money you have to pay to do part of your job
• afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
• college: School or educational institution for adults
• quit: To leave a job
• glad: Happy or pleased about something/to do something
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• frank: Member of the ancient Germanic peoples
• refrigerator: An electric cool box for keeping food fresh
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• band: Group of people who work together e.g. play music
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• add: To include as well
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• clothe: To put a certain type of clothing on someone; dress
• baby: A very young child, who cannot yet speak