Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• relevant: Having an effect on an issue; related or current
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• bold: Brave; very confident; too confident
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• decade: Period of 10 years
• efficient: Able to produce results without waste
• task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• distinguish: To make something clearly different from others
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• evaluate: To form an idea to judge something carefully
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• device: Object, machine, or equipment for a specific use
• responsibility: Job, task or thing you are expected to look after
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• monumental: (Mistake/waste of time) huge; very big; severe
• delight: Strong feeling of great pleasure
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• audio: Concerning sound
• forefront: Part in the front or nearest; most prominent
• ultra: Prefix that denotes a lot of something; extreme
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• refine: To change slightly in order to improve it
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• software: Computer applications and systems
• study: To focus on learning something usually at school
• large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
• engineering: The practical application of science to industry
• aerodynamic: Efficiently designed to move through the air
• corpus: Large collection of written and spoken language
• foundational: Being the base or important starting point
• nano: Concerning 1/1000,000th