Vocabulary

• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• into time: Over a period, involving a gradual process or change.
• time out: A brief suspension of activity; a pause.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• last straw: The final problem in a series of problems that causes someone to lose patience or give up.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• from now on: Starting at this moment and continuing indefinitely into the future.
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• up to speed: Fully informed; aware of the latest information
• in the end: Finally; after a period of time or series of events.
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• alternative: Something different you can choose
• recommend: To advise or suggest that someone do something
• disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• experiment: Test performed to assess new ideas or theories
• exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
• fluent: Doing something well and with ease
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• academic: Concerning education, schools, universities, etc.
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• reference: A letter of recommendation, e.g. for a job
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• section: A part of a whole
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• performance: Act of doing something
• communicate: To give and exchange information
• couple: To join something to something else
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• pride: Sense of your own importance and worth
• straw: Dry yellow stems of crops such as wheat
• intersection: Place where two things cross
• communication: Talking to people; giving information to people
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• deficiency: Lack of something that is necessary
• immigrant: Person moving to another country to live there
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• point: An item to be discussed
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• incline: To bend the head or body forward
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• vividly: In a strongly, bright, lively or colorful manner
• elementary: Basic, simple, or essential
• academically: In regard to teaching or learning
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• lumber: Pieces of wood cut ready for use in building
• pathology: Study of diseases and their effect on the body
• percentile: A range of scores allotted to parts of one hundred
• standardize: To change to make everything the same level