Vocabulary

• in the clouds: Lost in thought; daydreaming or distracted.
• grow into: To be able to wear clothes that were too big
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• have to: Must do
• ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• check out
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• slightly: Only a little
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• delicate: Easily broken or damaged
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• 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
• exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
• variety: Particular type of thing or person
• approximately: Around; nearly; almost; about (a number)
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined
• stunning: Causing amazement, e.g. because so very good
• intricate: Very detailed or difficult to untangle
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• efficient: Able to produce results without waste
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
• occasionally: Not very often; sometimes; seldom
• stack: A large number or amount of something
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• identical: The same in every way
• bullet: Metal object fired from a gun
• oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• totally: In a complete way; completely; absolutely
• spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• breakthrough: Important discovery in doing something difficult
• humidity: Amount of moisture in the air in a particular area
• complexity: State of having many parts and not being simple
• cluster: To come together in a group, flock etc.
• crystal: A solid formed by the solidification of a chemical
• hydrogen: Lightest of all chemical elements
• notification: Act of giving formal or official information
• symmetry: Having parts that are exactly the same
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• land: Region or country
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• pollen: Fine, usually yellow powder produced by plants
• captivate: To catch and hold someone's interest; charm
• type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• symmetrical: Having parts that are exactly the same
• blob: Object that does not have a regular shape
• cylindrical: Having the shape of a cylinder
• snowflake: A single crystal of snow
• hexagon: Flat, six-sided shape
• honeycomb: Wax structure of six-sided cells made by bees
• vapour: Droplets of liquid spread thinly in air
• beehive: Nest of bees
• radially: In a radial manner