Vocabulary

• critical to: Extremely important or essential.
• up in the air: Not yet decided or resolved; uncertain.
• in the air: Present or circulating in the atmosphere.
• come up: To come closer to someone; approach
• pop in: To visit someone briefly.
• by accident: Without intending to; unintentionally.
• turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• night and day: Continuously; all the time.
• million dollar: Extremely valuable or impressive; very expensive.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• such as: For example; like
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• indigenous: Being naturally from an area, not somewhere else
• elusive: Difficult to find or catch
• predator: An animal that hunts and kills other animals
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• remarkable: Interesting and unexpected, worthy of notice
• huge: Very very large
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• fuzzy: Covered with fur or short hair
• blow: To move something using air
• capture: To attract and hold e.g. interest, attention
• foster: To raise a child who is not yours, for payment
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• economy: Using money, resources in a careful, effective way
• ecosystem: Types of plants and animals in an specific area
• role: Character played by an actor
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• gooey: Soft and sticky
• document: Official (printed) record that gives information
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• colony: Group (bees, etc.) that live in the same place
• carbon: Chemical element with an atomic number of 6
• devour: To eat quickly and hungrily
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• juvenile: Concerning young people or children
• fur: Hairy coat of an animal
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• conservation: Protecting the environment or a species
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• wary: Concerned about danger; cautious; circumspect
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• raft: Pieces of wood tied together as a kind of boat
• hereditary: Passing from parents to children
• reproduction: Act or process of producing a copy of something
• territorial: Associated with the ownership of an area
• slum: Poor section of a city with poor quality houses
• wilderness: Rural area left natural and largely untouched
• scuba: Equipment which allows you to breath underwater
• shellfish: Sea animals such as shrimps, lobsters, clams etc.
• decimate: to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely
• otter: Aquatic, carnivorous mammal of the weasel family
• relocate: To move to a new or different place
• comeback: A clever or witty retort or reply
• kelp: Large brown seaweed with fluted leathery fronds
• urchin: Small sea animal with stiff parts like needles
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• inlet: Water protruding into land, e.g. a bay