Vocabulary

• read across: To compare information from one context to another for inference.
• stick with: To continue to support or stay loyal to someone or something.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• constantly: Frequently, or without pause
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• distraction: Something drawing your attention away from
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• constant: Happening frequently or without pause
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• dedicate: To state a person's name in book, song, in respect
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• topic: Subject or issue people talk or write about
• essay: Short piece of written opinion on a subject
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• promote: To try to encourage popularity/sales of a product
• important: Having power or authority
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• imagination: Ability to creates new ideas and mental images
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• remind: To cause someone to remember what they forgot
• stimulus: Something that causes a change
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• act: To behave in a certain way
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• steal: A bargain; something bought very cheaply
• patience: Ability to wait without being annoyed
• fill: To make something full
• commerce: Buying and selling of goods and services; trade
• fictional: Including people and events that are not real
• revolt: Protest against authority; fight to take control
• itchy: Nervous and unable to relax
• defiant: Refusing to obey (rules, parent); resistant
• politic: Careful what you say; diplomatic
• partial: Giving better treatment to one person than another
• cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way