Vocabulary

• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• stop in: To visit a place briefly, usually on the way to somewhere else.
• in a nutshell: As a summary; including the main points concisely
• end in: To have something as the final result.
• in sight: Visible; able to be seen.
• land with: To bring an aircraft down to the ground.
• rise above: To overcome or surmount a difficult situation or challenge.
• out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
• warm up: To gently exercise muscles before doing sport
• on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
• up until now: Until the present time; so far.
• on and off: Intermittently; not continuously.
• lead to: To result in some action
• six times: Multiplied by six; a factor of six.
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• into the stratosphere: To rise rapidly to a very high level or amount.
• into space: Toward or entering the region beyond Earth's atmosphere.
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• pull on: To put on a piece of clothing quickly and easily.
• hard to say: Difficult to know or predict; uncertain.
• in any case: Whatever happens; regardless of what has happened or may happen.
• at some point: At an unspecified time, usually in the future.
• at least: As a minimum
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• enormous: Huge; very big; very important
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• barely: Only just; just possible
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
• squeeze: Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• crust: Hard outer layer of something, e.g. the earth
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• abundance: Quantity that is very large or more than enough
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• tiny: Very, very small
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• orbit: Path an object takes as it circles another object
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• halt: To stop, or cause something, e.g. a car, to stop
• perk: An advantage or something extra, such as money or goods, that you are given because of your job
• civilization: A highly developed society
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• misery: Thing that causes unhappiness
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• leave: To go away from; depart
• apocalypse: Great disaster; complete destruction
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• drown: To kill something by putting it under water
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• point: An item to be discussed
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• tide: Way opinions or events are developing or changing
• gravitational: Concerning the force of gravity
• noticeable: Being easy or likely to be sensed or noticed
• apocalyptic: Involving great disaster or destruction
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• volcanic: (E.g. of a temperament) easily angered; violent
• calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
• tidal: Of the regular rise and fall of the sea level
• lunar: Concerning, about, or from the moon
• sideways: Moving, facing, or directed toward one side
• orbital: Concerning an orbit