Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• cut out: To leave out of something, e.g. a social event
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• stand for: To support a particular idea, e.g. in politics
• on to: Toward something; forward
• left out: To forget; omit
• of old: From a long time ago; in the past.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• count on: To depend on someone
• miss out: To exclude; not include in something
• leave out: To forget; omit
• shell out: To pay money, especially when the amount is large or considered too much.
• cut back: To use less of something
• catch up: To become equal with another person
• prepare yourself: To get yourself ready for something.
• stick with: To continue to support or stay loyal to someone or something.
• in the end: Finally; after a period of time or series of events.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
• feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
• portrait: Picture of a person's head and shoulders
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• snap: To close your mouth quickly like biting something
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• motivate: To give someone a reason, the will to do something
• option: A choice
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• visual: Of or relating to vision
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• important: Having power or authority
• magnetic: Having the properties of a magnet; able to attract
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• dust: To apply a fine powder to, e.g. sugar to a cake
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• button: Small round piece material used to fasten clothing
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• exhaust: System of pipes through which gases escape
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• optimize: To make as effective as possible
• kick: Feeling of enjoyment or excitement
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
• cellular: Concerning a cell of a living thing
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• slim: Being thin in an appealing way
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• battery: Portable device that stores electricity
• upgrade: To improve something in terms of quality
• headphone: Device put over the ears to listen to recordings
• accustom: To make someone or something become used to something.
• portability: Quality of being light enough to be carried
• affordability: Cheap enough to buy something you want
• modem: Device that sends data to another computer
• telephoto: Photograph made with a telephoto lens