Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• at the most: No more than; maximum amount or degree.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• above all: Most importantly; more than anything else.
• cross it: To cancel or eliminate something from a list or plan.
• take it slow: To proceed at a relaxed and unhurried pace.
• off of: From a position on something; down from.
• make up: To invent or create a story
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• prior to: Before a particular time or event.
• interact with
• green light
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• on foot
• check out
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• require: To demand that someone does something
• interrupt: To stop something from happening for a while
• household: Being in everyday use; common
• curb: Anything that restrains or controls
• nudge: To touch or push something gently
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• urban: Concerning a city; located in a city
• pedestrian: Unremarkable; ordinary; not special
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• adaptation: Music, movie or play, changed to a new form
• intersection: Place where two things cross
• bump: To bounce along over a rough surface
• creep: To move quietly so as not to be seen
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
• memorial: Ceremony or monument honoring dead person, people
• neighborhood: Area of a town or city that people live in
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• peripheral: Computer devices attached to the computer
• versa: used to say that what you have just said is also true in the opposite order
• fatality: Death resulting from an accident or a disaster
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• residential: Concerning patients staying in a hospital
• type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
• arrow: Symbol used on road signs to show direction
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• transit: System of transportation, often in a city
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• downtown: Located in the business part of a town
• sprawl: To spread out in an uncontrolled way
• traverse: To pass across, over, or through
• thereof: Concerning that or it
• crosswalk: Path allowing people to cross over a road
• shorten: To make something, e.g. a skirt, shorter
• auto: Car; a road vehicle with four or more wheels
• arterial: Concerning, involving or contained in the arteries
• roadway: Road over which vehicles travel