Vocabulary

• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• deprivation: State of lacking something needed
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• campaign: To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• legacy: Literature, arts etc. from previous generations
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• mimic: Someone who tries to act like another person
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• blast: To attack someone with words
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• astronaut: Person who travels in space
• charismatic: Able to attract and make them like you
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• couple: To join something to something else
• respond: To answer something or someone
• sensory: Referring to the physical senses
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• stream: To send a constant flow of data over the internet
• minor: Not so large in size; not important or valuable
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• scramble: To cause war planes to take off quickly
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• feline: Belonging to the cat family
• desert: To leave a place for ever; abandon
• signal: To be evidence/an indication something will happen
• capsule: Tube-shaped plastic casing filled with medicine
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• mission: A task or role someone is given to do
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• primate: One of species containing humans and monkeys
• land: Region or country
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• edition: Form in which a book, magazine etc. is released
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• statue: Stone or metal image of a person, often carved
• historic: (Of past event) having an effect on future; famous
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• ordeal: Event that is difficult to survive, live through
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• rocket: Powerful engine that releases hot gases
• dub: To add a new soundtrack to an audio recording
• cargo: Goods carried in a ship or plane
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• dysfunction: Failure to act as expected, as in a social context
• roar: To laugh in a loud and continuous manner
• acceleration: Increase in the speed or rate of something
• compression: Act of reducing something in time, size, quantity