Vocabulary

• of old: From a long time ago; in the past.
• of age: Having reached the legal age of adulthood.
• wait on: To serve customers in a restaurant, shop, etc.
• in trouble: Experiencing difficulties, problems, or legal issues.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
• got to: To arrive at some place
• gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• dude: Form of address for a man
• silly: Careless
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
• substitute: To perform the tasks instead of someone else
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
• mature: Behaving like an adult
• dairy: Concerning or made from milk
• blow: To move something using air
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• couple: To join something to something else
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• flirt: To behave playfully to arouse romantic interest
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• exhibit: Object put on public display, e.g. in a gallery
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• hysterical: Being out of control mentally; violently emotional
• century: Period of 100 years
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• attract: To make something move closer using magnetic force
• reservation: Arrangement to keep a room or table for you
• breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
• comfy: In a position that feels just right
• rack: A frame, stand, hook on which things are hung
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• peek: To look at something quickly (often secretly)
• apron: Clothing to keep clothes clean when cooking
• drip: Tiny amount of liquid that falls from something
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
• blush: To turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• expensive: Costing a lot of money
• snag: To catch something on something sharp
• woo: (Of a man) to try to get a woman to marry him
• botanical: Concerning plants or botany
• brunch: Mixture of breakfast and lunch eaten late morning
• margarine: Butter substitute made from food oils
• bottomless: Extremely deep
• angel: Supernatural human figure from heaven with wings
• mama: A mother
• sangria: Sweetened red wine with juice and soda water