Vocabulary

• record holder: A person or thing that holds a record, especially in sports.
• roll in: To arrive in a casual or unimpressive manner.
• come up to: To meet expectations
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• hand out: To distribute papers (often in class)
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• switch up: To change or alternate something.
• pay off: To give money to get person to do something; bribe
• fall out
• my eye: Used to express disbelief or skepticism.
• run over: To go beyond a limit, e.g. of a budget
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• hand down: To give (clothes, etc.) to someone younger
• picks up: To catch a criminal and take to police station
• get together: To gather, or come together for some purpose
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• prestigious: Respected as being important and with high status
• caveat: Warning or caution in a legal document
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• shore: Land along the edge of a sea, lake or river
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• whip: To defeat thoroughly or easily
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• tournament: Sports contest with many games to find a winner
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• tilt: To change to a newly preferred idea or opinion
• succumb: To eventually die from a disease
• sanctuary: Place to find rest and relaxation
• velocity: Speed in a given direction
• twist: To turn something in a circular direction
• breakthrough: Important discovery in doing something difficult
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• sharp: Person's name
• delivery: Way someone acts when speaking publicly
• ripple: Small gentle low wave on the surface of water, etc.
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• verify: To prove that something is right, accurate or true
• breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
• addict: Person who can’t control their overuse of a thing
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• slippery: Difficult to hold or stand as it's smooth/wet/icy
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• land: Region or country
• frown: When you pull your eyebrows together to show anger
• discover: To find something new that was not known before
• bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
• mastery: Total control over something
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• pad: Object that is thin, flat, and usually soft
• underway: Happening now
• angle: Place where two lines or surfaces meet
• skip: Very large waste disposal bin
• lobe: Round part in body, e.g. some parts of brain
• chilly: Slightly cold
• correspondence: Quality of similarity or equality
• surf: To view webpages on the internet
• fudge: Soft sweet made from butter and milk
• dud: Device which did not function properly (bomb, car)
• torque: Turning or twisting force
• toot: To make a loud squeaky noise like a car horn
• shale: Soft rock that easily breaks into flat pieces
• kneecap: Bone in the leg protecting the knee
• oversize: Larger than normal for its kind