Vocabulary

• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• soften up: To make something softer or more pliable.
• have to: Must do
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• got to: To arrive at some place
• turn away: To go in a different direction; not face something
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• breaks down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• set up
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• swing for: To be punished, often by death, for a crime committed.
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• very top: The highest point or part of something.
• at the moment: At this time; now
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• start off: To begin or commence something.
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• dial in: To connect to a computer network or system remotely, typically using a modem.
• in the first place: To begin with; as the first point or consideration.
• turn into: To change to become something else
• absolutely: Completely; totally; very
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
• concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• shift: To change in position or direction
• component: One of the parts that something is made up of
• pitch: To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
• reference: A letter of recommendation, e.g. for a job
• drill: A machine that makes holes with a metal bit
• address: Exact street location of a place
• sequence: Part of a movie showing one part of the story
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• intention: Aim or purpose
• tension: Feeling of anxiety and inability to relax
• rigid: Stiff rather than flexible
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• transition: Change from one state, movement, place to another
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• whip: To defeat thoroughly or easily
• heck: Expressing surprise, or frustration
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• important: Having power or authority
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• extension: Addition to something, e.g. a house
• mate: A friend who you work, live, or go to school with
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• breakdown: When normal activity or behavior stops
• dial: To call a person or place on a telephone
• rig: To dishonestly fix the result of elections, games
• elbow: Middle part of the arm, which bends
• iron: Heavy metal device heated to smooth clothes
• torso: Body (often dead), without arms, legs, or head
• shaft: To ruin the plans or prospects of others
• standpoint: Mental position from which things are viewed
• lever: A handle that one pulls to operate a machine
• lag: Delay between two events
• hinge: To be dependent on or caused by