Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• start off: To begin or commence something.
• have to: Must do
• in terms of
• got to: To arrive at some place
• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• start on: To begin or start doing something.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• in all honesty: Speaking truthfully and sincerely; frankly.
• take out: To apply for and get a license
• on point: Perfectly done; exactly right.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• think back: To recapture the past
• go around: (Of news, gossip) to be known; circulate
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• to God: Used to emphasize truth or sincerity.
• goes well: To happen in the way desired
• from A to B: Describes traveling or moving between two places.
• help out: To assist someone
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• push away: To move someone or something away from you by pushing.
• pull back: To move to a safer area; retreat
• touch in: Use a card or device to register entry in public transport.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• come round: To visit someone or some place for a short time
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• on and off: Intermittently; not continuously.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• in a minute: Very soon; in a short amount of time.
• go on: To continue doing something
• mess around: To cheat on your partner with another lover
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• egg on: To encourage greatly toward doing something
• red onion: A type of onion with reddish-purple skin and white flesh tinged with red.
• build up: To increase the amount; collect something
• finish with: To end a relationship
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• absolutely: Completely; totally; very
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• toss: To throw something into the air, e.g. casually
• flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• legit: As recognized by the law
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• fit: Good looking; physically attractive
• honestly: With truth or sincerity; I'm being honest with you
• leave: To go away from; depart
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• scramble: To cause war planes to take off quickly
• grill: Plate of food that has been grilled
• avocado: Pear-shaped fruit with green flesh and large stone
• garlic: Strong-smelling white bulb used in cooking
• cabbage: Round green vegetable with tightly packed leaves
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• shrimp: Small edible salt-water shellfish with many legs
• wrist: Part where your hand joins your arm
• great: Very good; better than before
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• steel: Very strong or determined character in a person
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• marathon: Lasting for a long time
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• pan: To follow an object being filmed with a camera
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• cap: Covering for the end or top of something
• penny: Person's name
• rib: One of the curved bones protecting the chest/heart
• soft: Having flowing curves rather than sharp edges
• video: Recording capturing action with sound
• tortilla: Thin Mexican flat bread
• bacon: Salted meat from a pig
• gotcha: Shortened form of 'got you'
• lime: White containing calcium used in farming
• yummy: (Of food) delicious; very tasty
• taco: Tortilla rolled cupped around a filling
• jalapeno: Hot green or red pepper
• candy: Small sweet foods made mostly of sugar