Vocabulary

• below the surface: Hidden emotions or issues not immediately visible.
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• to the moon: Increasing quickly and significantly, often in value or excitement.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• on a mission: Having a clear and important goal or purpose.
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• abstract: Passage of text from an article or book
• toxic: Poisonous; harmful
• continent: Very large piece of land, e.g. Africa or Asia
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• reflection: Sign or indication of a state or condition
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• organism: Living thing, often one that is small
• plastic: Stiff but usually flexible man-made material
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• marine: Soldier trained to serve on land and sea
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• mission: A task or role someone is given to do
• daily: Happening every day
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• deep: Complex and important
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• contamination: Being impure because of a harmful agent
• cascade: Body of water falling from something tall
• pollution: Dangerous substances released into an environment
• submarine: Ship that travels above and below the sea
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• physiology: Ways in which the parts of a living thing operate
• trench: Long narrow hole dug in the ground
• garbage: Waste material that has been thrown out
• magically: In a manner that uses or involves magic
• teddy: A soft toy resembling a bear; teddy bear