Vocabulary

• hike up: To increase something, often prices or taxes.
• dressed for: Wearing clothes suitable for a particular event or activity.
• at least: As a minimum
• shut down: To close an operating system, e.g. on a computer
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• practically: Nearly, almost, or in effect
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• couple: To join something to something else
• string: To tie or connect things together with a thread
• nightmare: Frightening, difficult or displeasing experience
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• tropical: Hot and humid; near to the equator
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• humidity: Amount of moisture in the air in a particular area
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• flesh: Soft part of fruit, vegetable that can be eaten
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• shut: To stop being open for business
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• great: Very good; better than before
• celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• battle: Military fight between armies
• part: Division of a book
• alley: A narrow road or path between buildings
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• dodge: To attempt to avoid something
• moist: Being a little bit wet, often in a pleasing way
• upside: Above, over
• hike: Large and unexpected increase in price, level etc.
• plum: Type of juicy red or yellow fruit with a stone
• museum: Building to display art/science/history objects
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• mix: To combine two or more things to make one
• miso: Paste made from fermented soybeans and malt