Vocabulary

• fake out: To deceive or trick someone, often with a feint or deceptive action.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• face off: To oppose one another (often in sports)
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• have to: Must do
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• gear up: To prepare for an activity or event.
• go for it: An expression of encouragement or approval.
• in the game: Still involved or active in a competition or situation.
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• applause: The sound made by clapping a performance or speech
• gear: To aim at or prepare yourself for something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• intact: Being complete, without damaged or missing parts
• cast: People who appear in a play or movie
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• equal: Same in shape, size, or number
• mentally: With or in the mind and thoughts
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• stream: To send a constant flow of data over the internet
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• slap: To hit with the open hand or with a flat object
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• person: Man, woman or child
• focus: To see clearly by adjusting your eyes or a camera
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• match: To equal or be as good as something else
• cross: Angry and upset
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• bud: Small part of a plant that will be a flower
• squid: Sea creature with ten arms, and a long thin body
• laughter: Action or sound of laughing
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• flinch: To move back as in fear or pain; recoil; shrink
• spoon: Tool with a rounded end for eating ice cream, etc.
• rock: To be greatly upset by something, e.g. a death
• mark: Person's name
• lock: To become fixed in place and hard to move
• scissor: To cut with or as if with scissors
• whew: Sound people make when they are relieved
• ohh: Expression showing surprise