Vocabulary

• slip by: To pass or elapse unnoticed or without being acted upon.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• turn back: To stop and move backward on some issue
• in style: Fashionable; popular
• settle for: To accept something although not satisfied with it
• get back to: To get in contact with someone again
• burn rubber: To accelerate a vehicle quickly, causing tires to smoke or squeal.
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• spike: The top point in a graph
• dull: Not exciting or interesting; boring; lifeless
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• leave: To go away from; depart
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• idiot: A person who is foolish or not very smart
• destroy: To damage so badly that something no longer exists
• tear: Drop of salty water from the eye
• shatter: To break into small pieces
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• copper: Reddish-brown metal used in cables or wires
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• nonsense: Foolish or untrue statements or ideas
• rubber: Material used to make tires, etc.
• darn: Hole in a piece of cloth that has been repaired
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• land: Region or country
• vain: Too proud of yourself, especially your appearance
• attack: To try to destroy, beat, or injure
• burn: To destroy with fire
• heroic: Courageous, determined, and worthy of admiration
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• freedom: State of being free, not being controlled
• fool: An idiot; someone who does something stupid
• come: To arrive at a place
• shuttle: Vehicle carrying passengers between two places
• hole: An empty space, as in the ground, in a sock etc.
• lookout: Person who keeps watch, e.g. for an enemy
• warn: To tell someone about possible danger
• save: To make your computer keep a file
• die: Cube with dots numbering 1-6 on it used in games
• punk: Violent or criminal young man
• rod: Straight, thin stick or bar
• straighten: To make or become straight
• hurry: To move, act, get somewhere, do something quickly
• whoa: Tell someone to do something more slowly
• whopper: Something big or impressive, e.g. a very big lie
• almighty: Having complete power
• timer: Device measure the amount of time that has gone by
• robin: Person's name
• turbo: Device that increases the power of an engine