Vocabulary

• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• blow up: To suddenly become angry
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• drive in: To enter a place or area by driving a vehicle.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• threat to: A person or thing likely to cause damage or danger.
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• meet with: To have a meeting with someone in order to discuss something.
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• property: Particular quality that someone or something has
• integrate: To combine together; make into one thing
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• military: Army or armed forces
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• signature: Something that represents a person's work or style
• vessel: Container, such as a cup, for holding liquids
• grasp: Person's control over something
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• precision: Performed in a very careful, detailed manner
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• hunch: Premonition or suspicion; guess
• framework: Skeleton structure of a building or construction
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• collision: Act of crashing into someone or something else
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• carbon: Chemical element with an atomic number of 6
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• departure: Act of leaving a place, to start a journey
• raid: Sudden entry by police; surprise attack by army
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• jeopardy: When something may be harmed, damaged or lost
• rogue: Being corrupt, dangerous, or uncontrollable
• virus: File secretly put on computers to cause harm
• great: Very good; better than before
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• dismantle: To take something apart in an organized way
• intercept: To stop or catch something while it is moving
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• mankind: All humans thought of as one group; humanity
• cargo: Goods carried in a ship or plane
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• defensive: Protecting something, yourself from attack
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• ballistic: Of the science of movement of rockets and bullets
• port: City where ships can shelter during a storm
• autopilot: (For ships, planes) automatic navigational device
• automobile: Car; a road vehicle with four or more wheels
• involvement: Act or process of joining in a particular activity
• melody: Song; music
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• ship: Large boat
• rendezvous: An arranged meeting with someone (often a secret)
• faction: Group within a larger group, with a different aim
• wade: Person's name
• exterminate: To kill an entire group of animals or insects
• covertly: Secretly
• intercontinental: Between or among continents
• triangulation: Measuring lengths and areas with triangles