Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• face up to: To gather your courage to deal with (a problem)
• face the music: To accept the unpleasant consequences of one's actions.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• come before: To happen or exist earlier in time than something else.
• work at: To have a job at a particular place or organization.
• shoot off: To fire a gun or weapon.
• at the moment: At this time; now
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• up to something: Doing something; planning something, often secret or mischievous.
• have to: Must do
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• go on: To continue doing something
• of use: Having practical value; useful or helpful.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• film: Thin layer that covers something
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
• leave: To go away from; depart
• frequency: Number of repetitions of (radio or sound) wave
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• important: Having power or authority
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• replace: To use instead of something else
• invitation: When someone asks another to attend an event, etc.
• rule: Something that is normal and usually happens
• auxiliary: Helping or supporting a function or group
• award: To give a prize for doing something well
• shoot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• repeat: Action that is done again
• participle: Nonfinite form of the verb, e.g. -ing or -ed forms
• satisfactory: Good enough; acceptable
• homework: Work that a student is given to do at home