Vocabulary

• come on in: An invitation to enter a place.
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• screw up: Spoken to make a big mistake
• stand back: To move away from something, usually to create space or avoid danger.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• have to: Must do
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• got to: To arrive at some place
• deserve: To be worthy of, e.g. getting praise or attention
• brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• rational: Able to think clearly
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• jerk: Someone you think is an idiot
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• prospect: Opportunity or chance for success
• tension: Feeling of anxiety and inability to relax
• wisdom: Knowledge gained from experience in life
• ambition: Desire to win or be successful in life, work
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• curse: To use offensive language when angry; swear
• blow: To move something using air
• engagement: Something you must do at a set time; appointment
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• plunge: (Of prices, hopes etc.) to decrease very quickly
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• asthma: Lung illness causing difficulty in breathing
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• idiot: A person who is foolish or not very smart
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• hail: To speak of something with admiration/excitement
• fur: Hairy coat of an animal
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• vow: Very serious promise
• rack: A frame, stand, hook on which things are hung
• great: Very good; better than before
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
• avenue
• wrestle: To fight someone by holding parts of their body
• part: Division of a book
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• thesis: Long paper presenting original research and ideas
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• degrade: To reduce in amount or strength
• scholarship: Work of learning, studying, acquiring knowledge
• toast: Bread grilled to make it brown and crisp
• hunger: Strong desire or need
• sweatshop: Factory where workers do piecework for poor pay
• lawyer: Professional who helps people with the law
• playback: Act of reproducing recorded sound
• squeak: To make a short very high cry or sound
• singe: To burn lightly, often to remove hair
• solo: Being performed or done alone
• stepmother: Father's wife after death/divorce of your mother
• someplace: In or at or to some place