Vocabulary

• specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• crave: To have a very strong desire for something
• evolve: To develop certain features
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• appetite: Feeling of hunger or desire for something
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• decade: Period of 10 years
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• prevalent: Being common; occurring frequently
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• universe: All of space that contains planets and stars
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• 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
• communicate: To give and exchange information
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• apparent: Easy to see or clearly understand
• soil: Conditions in which something develops
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• satellite: Device sent into space that aids communication
• signal: To be evidence/an indication something will happen
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• liquid: (Of wealth) being able to be spent as cash
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• verify: To prove that something is right, accurate or true
• vapor: Tiny droplets or pieces of some substance spread thinly throughout the air
• kick: Feeling of enjoyment or excitement
• solar: Concerning the sun, or its heat
• cosmic: Concerning space and the universe
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• alien: Foreigner; a person not from this place
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• frontier: Border crossing between countries
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• signify: To mean something; be a symbol of something
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• telescope: Tube-shaped device used to see a great distance
• datum: Item of factual information
• spacecraft: Vehicle capable of traveling to outer space
• neighbor: Person who lives, or is near, you
• solvent: Substance used to dissolve or melt others
• operational: Being in working condition and ready to be used
• habitable: Good enough to live or stay in
• theorize: To form new ideas about a particular subject
• handwritten: Being written by hand (i.e. not typed)
• techno: Style of fast heavy electronic dance