Vocabulary

• around the world: In or to many countries.
• number of people: The total count of individuals within a group or gathering.
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• on the move: Traveling or going from place to place.
• account of: A spoken or written description of an event.
• closer to home: Nearer to one's place of residence or origin.
• at school: Present and attending school.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• knock on: To strike a door or window to attract attention.
• have to: Must do
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• recap: Brief description of something that had been said
• vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• signature: Something that represents a person's work or style
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• account: An advantage
• embarrassed: To cause someone to feel ashamed
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
• literacy: Fact of having knowledge of a particular subject
• charity: Kindness and willingness to forgive, help
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• trend: Current style or fashion
• commute: To lessen or shorten a prison sentence
• regularly: At the usual time each day, week, or month
• informal: Casual; relaxed
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• deceive: To make someone believe something that is not true
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• alphabet: Letters, symbols, characters of a written language
• programme: A plan or schedule of events
• adjective: A word that describes a noun, e.g. happy
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• march: To force someone to walk somewhere
• service: Work that a person does to assist others
• cheat: To be unfaithful to (your wife, boyfriend etc.)
• embarrassment: Shame you feel when you did something wrong
• friendship: Feeling of liking someone; good relationship
• handwriting: Way a person's writing looks
• unable: Not being able to do something
• potter: To spend time, e.g. gardening, without hurrying
• literate: Being educated and having read a lot of literature
• fingerprint: Generic term for any identifying characteristic