Vocabulary

• secret of: The key or hidden information that explains something.
• in ruins: Reduced to a state of destruction or disrepair.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• give it up: To stop trying to do something
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• past it: No longer capable or effective due to age or declining condition.
• read up: To spend time trying to find out about something so that you know more about it.
• go down on: To perform oral sex on someone.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
• vibe: Distinct emotional aura experienced instinctively
• huge: Very very large
• fade: To cause to lose brightness of color
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
• fate: What will happen to you in the future, often bad
• shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
• hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
• leave: To go away from; depart
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• chemical: Basic substance produced by mixing elements
• ironic: Funny because it is the opposite of the truth
• flame: To glow
• margin: Edge of an area
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• miracle: Amazing, seemingly impossible thing that happened
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• piece: A counter in a board game
• poetry: Poetic writing; imaginative verses
• false: Not real or genuine
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• outline: Line around the outer edge of something
• quit: To leave a job
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
• roof: Top of the inside a tunnel, cave, mouth etc.
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• cosmos: The universe
• swift: Quick
• verse: Writing with words that rhyme or are rhythmic
• album: Book with a collection of photographs or pictures
• hammer: To bring severe damage, harm, or blame upon
• artist: A person skilled and creative in art e.g. painter
• reversal: Change to the opposite, often from good to bad
• ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
• smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
• oracle: Wise person who tells the future