Vocabulary

• first up: Firstly; to begin with; the first item on a list or agenda.
• cut into: To divide something into pieces with a sharp tool.
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• blow away: To completely beat or defeat someone, or kill them
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• amount: Quantity of something
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• integrate: To combine together; make into one thing
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• automatically: In a way not requiring control by a person
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• efficient: Able to produce results without waste
• grind: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• blow: To move something using air
• capture: To attract and hold e.g. interest, attention
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• harness: To capture the power of something
• orientation: Where you are in a location, e.g. facing east/west
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• grid: Electrical network supplying electricity to area
• equally: In an equal, even, or identical manner
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• vertical: (Of a line, etc.) going up and down; not horizontal
• optimize: To make as effective as possible
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• forecast: Prediction of some future thing, e.g. the weather
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• intermittent: Occurring at irregular times; off and on
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• pump: To make liquid or gas flow in a particular direction
• axis: A line about which a rotating body turns
• blade: One of several flat pieces in a fan which move air
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• horizontal: Concerning the horizon
• mount: To attach something to something else
• diameter: Distance across the center of an object
• resin: Sticky substance that is produced by some trees
• offshore: (Of tax avoidance schemes) not in your country
• kinetic: Of or relating to movement
• physicist: Person who studies and works in physics
• blister: To form a painful spot on the skin after rubbing
• generator: Machine that produces electrical power
• aerodynamic: Efficiently designed to move through the air
• turbine: Engine or motor that operates from fluid pressure
• rotational: Concerning rotation
• rotor: Rotating part of an electrical machine