Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• per year: For each year; annually.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• shine on: To continue to shine; to keep giving light.
• for free: Without charge; at no cost.
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• feel for: To have sympathy for someone; to empathize with someone's situation.
• check out
• start off: To begin or commence something.
• zoom out: To decrease the magnification of an image, showing more of the scene.
• other places: Different locations or areas
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• picks up: To catch a criminal and take to police station
• heat up: To become warmer; to make something warmer.
• hot air: Meaningless or exaggerated talk; empty rhetoric.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• blow past: To move quickly past someone or something.
• jut out: To extend outward beyond a main surface or line.
• set up
• in relation to: Concerning; with reference to; regarding.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• all at once: Suddenly; at the same time
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• in contrast to: Differing from something else
• wind up: To be brought to a state of great tension
• out of the question: Impossible; not worth discussing.
• get about: To go out a lot; travel widely
• on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• reputation: Common opinion that people have about someone
• squeeze: Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• definition: Explanation of word's meaning, as in dictionaries
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• region: Part of a country, of the world, area, etc.
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• consecutive: Following one after the other in order
• moisture: Small amount of wetness that can be felt
• perpetual: Continuing forever
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• desert: To leave a place for ever; abandon
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• peninsula: Narrow strip of land projecting into a sea or lake
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• evaporate: To pass off or away; to disappear
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• hurricane: Very severe storm usually occurs near the ocean
• coverage: Type of programs a radio or TV station broadcasts
• breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
• equator: Geographical line at zero degrees latitude
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• surround: To be all the way around something
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• land: Region or country
• sponge: Soft cleaning material able to absorb water
• outward: Going away from a place that will be returned to
• geography: Study of the earth and its natural features
• overcast: (Sky) being covered by clouds
• inland: Concerning areas that are not near a coast
• ad: Public notice or advertisement
• rainfall: Water falling from the sky
• meteorological: Of the weather or weather forecasts
• spotless: Completely clean; immaculate
• sunrise: The time of day we first see the sun
• postcard: Card for sending messages by post
• rightly: In accordance with what is right
• reddit: Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and discussion website.
• unsettle: To upset; making someone feel uneasy