Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• sneak past: To move quietly and secretly past someone or something.
• going on: To continue doing something
• goes well: To happen in the way desired
• on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• for the rest: Concerning the remaining people or things.
• wait out: To wait until the end of something, especially something unpleasant.
• beat the clock: To hurry in order to do something before a deadline.
• knock out: To hit and make unconscious
• of old: From a long time ago; in the past.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• take in: To allow to enter; receive as a guest
• at least: As a minimum
• pitch black: Extremely dark; completely without light.
• speed up: To move more quickly
• left out: To forget; omit
• pick out: To choose or select one item from many
• pass on: A polite way of saying 'to die'
• due to: Because of; owing to
• look around: To explore a place; search for something.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
• dumb: Senseless; stupid
• aisle: Long narrow space between rows of seats
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• sneak: To move around in a way so no one will see you
• burst: To move (arrive, exit, etc.) suddenly or hurriedly
• film: Thin layer that covers something
• couple: To join something to something else
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
• construction: Act of building something; thing that is built
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• leave: To go away from; depart
• ramp: Path that increases in height as you walk up it
• cement: Building material made from gray powder, water
• bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• boom: Very fast increase in growth or popularity
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• chin: Part of your face below your mouth above your neck
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• lane: Marked strip of the road or swimming pool
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• traffic: The cars or vehicles on the road
• knock: Bad experience that reduces a person's confidence
• brake: Mechanism on car, train, bike to make it slow down
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• habitual: Done by someone on a regular basis
• exit: A door that you go through to leave a place
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• speed: How fast or slow something is or is done
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• continental: Of or typical of the culture of mainland Europe
• hole: An empty space, as in the ground, in a sock etc.
• merge: To cause two or more things to combine into one
• bleed: To allow a liquid or gas to escape
• tired: Without energy so you want to rest or fall asleep
• oncoming: (E.g. of traffic) moving towards
• grandma: Mother of your father or mother
• secondhand: Something that has already used by another person