Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• deal in: To buy and sell a particular product or products.
• give out: To be used up; have nothing left; fail
• in the red: Operating at a loss; in debt.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• episode: One separate event in a series of events
• relevant: Having an effect on an issue; related or current
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• phrase: Common expression or saying
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• enormous: Huge; very big; very important
• pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• innovative: Having or using new methods or ideas
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• literal: Being the basic exact meaning of a word/expression
• blow: To move something using air
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• click: To work well with someone or something
• setback: Unfortunate happening that hinders or frustrates
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• plastic: Stiff but usually flexible man-made material
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• distribute: To hand out or give to people
• sustainability: Property of being able to be continued/repeated
• sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
• metaphorical: Using words imaginatively to reveal a similarity
• guardian: Person who guards, protects, or preserves
• oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
• headline: To be the main performer at a show