Vocabulary

• on second thought: After reconsidering; changing one's mind.
• hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
• cut in: To interrupt someone's conversation
• hot air: Meaningless or exaggerated talk; empty rhetoric.
• going on: To continue doing something
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• in a minute: Very soon; in a short amount of time.
• have to: Must do
• make up: To invent or create a story
• piece of cake: (slang) easy to do
• kinda: Short way of saying 'kind of'
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• vision: Ability to see; eyesight
• edible: Being safe to eat
• respect: To follow the established rules
• hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• buddy: Friend, usually male
• notch: Certain level (slightly higher or lower than)
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• wheat: A kind of grain that is used to make flour
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• piece: A counter in a board game
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• spinach: Vegetable with dark green leaves, full of iron
• plate: Flat dish used for eating or serving food
• pal: Friend
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• quit: To leave a job
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• dessert: Sweet food usually eaten at the end of a meal
• bowl: Part of an object that has a rounded, inward curve
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• gravy: Brown sauce made from meat juices when cooking
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• chef: Person whose job is to cook food in a restaurant
• toast: Bread grilled to make it brown and crisp
• chili: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
• dish: Shallow container that you cook or serve food in
• onion: Strong-smelling, strong-tasting vegetable
• meat: Flesh of a dead animal that you eat
• bacon: Salted meat from a pig
• basket: Amount contained in a basket; a basketful
• omelet: An egg mixture cooked until just set
• breakfast: First meal of the day
• cheddar: A type of cheese
• salad: Uncooked vegetables made into a dish
• hungry: Feeling a need or want to eat food
• gill: Part of a fish's body it uses to breathe
• buster: Way of addressing a man
• iffy: Uncertain; not reliable; unpredictable
• trout: Fish that lives in rivers and streams
• pie: Baked food with a filling encased in pastry
• grandma: Mother of your father or mother
• hon: Shortened form of honorable ; Used of judges