Vocabulary

• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• zip up: To fasten something with a zipper.
• all over the place: In a state of disorder; scattered everywhere.
• fork over: To hand over money or something else, especially when unwillingly.
• episode: One separate event in a series of events
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• soil: Conditions in which something develops
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• wild: In a manner which lacks control
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• starve: To (cause to) be hungry or go without food
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• chew: To bite something many times without swallowing it
• snack: Small amount of food eaten between meals
• feed: To give food, e.g. to animals or a baby
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• hurt: To cause pain, damage or injury
• tank: Container for holding liquid or gas
• iceberg: Very large mass of floating ice in the sea
• sharpen: To make something more pointed, e.g. a pencil
• fork: To divide or separate into two branches
• complication: Action making something harder to do something
• flounder: To make clumsy or uncontrolled movements
• friendly: Acting like a friend; kind and helpful
• whoa: Tell someone to do something more slowly
• shark: Person who lends money at unfair rates of interest
• lightly: In a gentle manner; with little weight or force
• zooming: To move along or go somewhere very quickly
• motorcycle: Motorbike; vehicle with two wheels and an engine