Vocabulary

• at last: Finally; after a long delay.
• a passion for: A strong enthusiasm or interest in something.
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• consist of
• to the rafters: Completely full; filled to the maximum capacity.
• cave in: To give in to pressure
• account of: A spoken or written description of an event.
• as for: Concerning; regarding.
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• check out
• extraordinary: Beyond what is ordinary; very unusual; remarkable
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• experiment: Test performed to assess new ideas or theories
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• exotic: Being very different or unusual
• keen: Being eager or excited for something to happen
• pile: Large amount of something
• arguably: Highly likely to be true but not certainly true
• passion: Powerful, positive excitement and interest
• identical: The same in every way
• evolution: Theory that living things change over time
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• illustrate: To supply pictures to go along with words
• examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
• pastry: Dough making top/bottom of pie; cake made of dough
• diet: To eat special or less food, as to lose weight
• quest: Long and challenging journey to find something
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• skull: Structure of bones forming the face and head
• tropical: Hot and humid; near to the equator
• roast: To strongly criticize often in a teasing manner
• eccentric: Out of the ordinary; acting unusually or oddly
• stomach: Place in the body where food is processed
• breakthrough: Important discovery in doing something difficult
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• cocktail: Mixed alcoholic drink, containing spirit like gin
• reconcile: To balance the accounts
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• great: Very good; better than before
• reptile: Animals such as snakes, lizards
• pack: Bag carried on the back of donkey, etc.
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• slate: To strongly criticize someone usually in public
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• priest: Person who can perform ceremonies in a religion
• reply: Answer to someone's question
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• live: To be alive
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• crocodile: Large meat-eating reptile that can swim
• dinosaur: Reptile that lived millions of years ago
• wacky: Quite strange, but in a creative way
• dung: Excretion from animals
• quarry: Large pit in the earth where stone is mined
• hedgehog: Small mammal making a spiky ball if threatened
• unorthodox: Different from the norm in behavior or thought
• mole: Small animal with dark fur that lives under ground
• arrive: To reach the place you are traveling to
• tortoise: Slow moving animal with a hard protective shell
• genesis: Beginning of something important
• turkey: Edible bird resembling a large chicken
• mutton: Meat from a mature domestic sheep
• animal: A living creature that is not a plant or person
• oxford: A low shoe laced over the instep
• panther: Black leopard
• sandstone: Sedimentary rock consisting of sand, clay, quartz
• ordain: To appoint as a priest of the church