Vocabulary

• in trouble: Experiencing difficulties, problems, or legal issues.
• have to: Must do
• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• below the surface: Hidden emotions or issues not immediately visible.
• hot air: Meaningless or exaggerated talk; empty rhetoric.
• in some places: In certain locations or areas, but not all.
• at least: As a minimum
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• much lighter: Considerably less heavy.
• for all practical purposes: In effect; for real-world or practical use.
• win out: To be victorious or successful, especially after a struggle.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• atmosphere: Air around us
• virtually: In an almost complete or entire manner
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• blast: To attack someone with words
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• orbit: Path an object takes as it circles another object
• retain: To continue to have or use; keep the quality of
• suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• blow: To move something using air
• landscape: Area or scene of activity, especially in politics
• plummet: To fall quickly, as from the sky
• withstand: To remain unaffected by something or someone
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• extinct: (Of animal, etc.) having died out; with none left
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• distant: Unfriendly; cold
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• tumble: To fall downwards, hitting the ground a few times
• spray: To cover something with a stream of tiny drops
• relative: Measured or considered in comparison to another
• zone: Area of space designated for a particular use
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• comedian: An entertainer whose job is to make people laugh
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• rotation: Regular change of the crops grown in a field
• dissipate: To disappear over time
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• revolve: To move something in a circular motion
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• turbulent: (Of water) moving violently and unevenly
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• churn: To turn milk round and round to make butter
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• latitude: Distance north or south of equator shown by a line
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• terrestrial: Concerning the earth; not of, in the air or space
• strong: (Of tea or beer) dark or thick
• tidal: Of the regular rise and fall of the sea level
• ashore: Onto the land from the water
• bunker: Section of a golf course that contains sand
• supersonic: Greater/faster than the speed of sound