Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• run with: To take and work with an idea, plan as your own
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
• practically: Nearly, almost, or in effect
• account: An advantage
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• costume: Special clothes, e.g. clothes for acting in a film
• talent: Natural ability of a person to do something well
• appointment: Job, position or duty that is offered to a person
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• movement: Part of a piece of classical music
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• laptop: Portable computer small enough to use on your lap
• naughty: Behaving badly, e.g. so as to annoy adults
• efficiency: Working well; producing something without waste
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
• index: Number showing how prices, wages changed over time
• fill: To make something full
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• theater: Place where plays or movies are seen
• apron: Clothing to keep clothes clean when cooking
• chimney: Part of a building through which smoke escapes
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• streamline: To make smooth or more efficient
• subscription: Regular payment for a service, magazine etc.
• interested: Having had your attention taken; curious
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• bastard: Someone whose parents were not married
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• embassy: Building where an ambassador works
• skip: Very large waste disposal bin
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• engineering: The practical application of science to industry
• nick: Person's name
• pokey: Wasting time; small and remote and insignificant
• oscar: Annual award given in the movie industry
• weekday: Any day of the week except Saturday and Sunday
• spiderman: Fictional character from comics and movies