Vocabulary

• next to: Being located along side another
• obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• universe: All of space that contains planets and stars
• accomplishment: Something you succeed in after hard work
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• polish: Act of making something clean and shiny
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• kick: Feeling of enjoyment or excitement
• citizen: Person who belongs to and has rights in a country
• solar: Concerning the sun, or its heat
• chip: To break a small piece off something such as a cup
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• feed: To give food, e.g. to animals or a baby
• discover: To find something new that was not known before
• admiration: A feeling of respect and appreciation
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• sausage: Finely chopped and seasoned meat in a skin
• plasma: Substance in which the blood cells are carried
• share: Part-ownership in a property, business or company
• alcoholic: Containing alcohol; that can make you drunk
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• happen: To take place or occur
• disadvantage: A negative point; a downside; difficulty
• penny: Person's name
• spoon: Tool with a rounded end for eating ice cream, etc.
• disappoint: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
• hand: Cards given to a player in a card game
• astronomer: Scientist studying stars and other bodies in space
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• face: To cover a surface with something like paint
• relax: To calm or quiet yourself, or stop worrying
• unbelievable: Being very hard to believe; very great
• birth: Time when a baby or young animal is born
• model: Being an excellent example of
• ghost: To write a book on behalf of another person
• gift: Something given to another for a reason; present
• observational: Concerning observing, or watching and waiting
• radium: Radioactive element occurring in uranium ore
• quark: One of the smallest amounts of physical matter
• lambda: 11th letter of the Greek alphabet