Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• look through: To examine carefully to see what is there
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• in answer to: As a response to something.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• in quantity: In large amounts or numbers.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• on a roll: Experiencing a period of success or good luck.
• for instance: As an example.
• cracking down: To act forcefully in order to reduce crime, etc.
• health benefits: Advantages provided by an employer or insurance plan related to healthcare, such as medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• pull a fast one: To trick or deceive someone successfully.
• call out: To criticize someone to modify their behavior
• full picture: A complete and comprehensive understanding of a situation or issue.
• turn on
• dedicated: To state a person's name in book, song, in respect
• ingredient: Food item used when making a meal or drink
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• autonomy: The power to make independent decisions
• shrink: To become smaller
• sensitive: Taking offense easily; easily upset or hurt
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• widespread: Happening or existing in many places
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• quantity: A large amount of something
• profit: Benefit from doing something
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• buck: To resist or go against the trend
• quarter: 25 cents
• thread: Spiral cut at the end of a bolt
• opt: To choose one thing rather than other choices
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• justify: To give good reasons for something
• ounce: Unit of weight equal to 1/16 pound or 28 grams
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• fill: To make something full
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• product: Item that can be bought
• noticeable: Being easy or likely to be sensed or noticed
• compulsory: Required by the rules; that you cannot avoid doing
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• ultra: Prefix that denotes a lot of something; extreme
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• inquiry: Process of seeking information
• broadly: In a general (not detailed) manner
• peanut: Edible small nut which grows under the ground
• senator: An elected politician belonging to the senate
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• fruitful: Being productive; successful
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• price: Person's name
• notify: To inform; to communicate specific information
• dishonest: Likely to steal or lie; deceitful; corrupt
• indentation: Space showing start of new paragraph or line
• supermarket: Self-service store selling groceries etc.
• reddit: Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.