Vocabulary

• on the phone: Talking on the telephone.
• drive up: To cause something to increase.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• behind bars: In prison; imprisoned.
• settle in: To become comfortable in a new place or situation.
• fire escape: A special staircase or ladder for escaping from a burning building.
• calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• take down: To capture physically
• next to: Being located along side another
• charged with: To be officially accused of something
• on behalf of: As the representative of someone
• knock it off: Stop doing something annoying or disruptive.
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• silly: Careless
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• conduct: Your behavior
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• upset: (Of stomach, etc.) not functioning well; sick
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• screw: To cheat someone, as out of money/property
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• application: Software program, e.g. for smart phone
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• defense: Argument in support of something
• arrest: To attract someone's attention and hold interest
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• entertain: To receive someone as a guest
• committee: Group of people who do or decide something
• mascot: Object, person or animal used to represent a team
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• defend: To protect and explain your position in court
• accident: Sudden unplanned event causing damage, injury etc.
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• behalf: As a representative of someone or a group.
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• bail: Money given to ensure prisoner returns to a court
• waffle: Batter cooked in a hot iron, as with crisscrosses
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• jail: Place to hold criminals being punished for a crime
• makeup: Substance put on the face to make you look pretty
• disciplinary: Concerning discipline in behavior
• underage: Too young to legally do something
• officer: Person of high position in an organization
• lawyer: Professional who helps people with the law
• lily: Type of plant with big, leafy flowers
• cam: Rotating or sliding piece in mechanical linkages
• drunkenness: Temporary state from drinking too much alcohol
• mama: A mother
• pinkie: Little finger; finger farthest from the thumb