Vocabulary

• check out
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• ahead of schedule: Earlier than planned or expected.
• on schedule: According to the timetable; not delayed.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• health benefits: Advantages provided by an employer or insurance plan related to healthcare, such as medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• in the dark: Uninformed about something; unaware.
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• cut in: To interrupt someone's conversation
• have to: Must do
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• with practice: Through repeated exercise or performance, leading to improvement or skill.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• in any case: Whatever happens; regardless of what has happened or may happen.
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• with time: As time passes; eventually.
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• specifically: As regards a particular thing; closely related to
• exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• permission: Right to do something as allowed by another
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• financial: Involving money
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• celebrity: A (famous) entertainer known by many people
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• ego: Opinion you have about yourself and your worth
• eternal: Endless; constant; never ending
• syllable: Part of a word containing a vowel
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• resolve: To make a decision to do something
• strengthen: To make something stronger
• important: Having power or authority
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• comfortable: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
• fountain: Structure out of which a jet of water comes
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• curtain: Piece of cloth used to cover a window
• squirrel: Small furry tree-living animal with a big tail
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• great: Very good; better than before
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• part: Division of a book
• jewelry: Necklace, ring, etc., often made of gold, etc.
• choir: Group of people who sing together e.g. in church
• kernel: Central small part or aspect, e.g. of truth
• raccoon: A nocturnal mammal with a ringed tail
• colonel: Person with senior rank in an army or air force
• corporal: Concerning or affecting the body
• turtle: Animal that lives in water and has a hard shell
• ordinal: Being or denoting a number in order in a series
• pie: Baked food with a filling encased in pastry
• glottal: Concerning or produced by the vocal cords
• ch: Abbreviation for Chapter