Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• in writing: Expressed or presented in written form, rather than spoken.
• have to: Must do
• on to: Toward something; forward
• for some reason: For a reason that is not known or not easily explained.
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• in mind: Being aware of or considering something.
• in terms of
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• good person: A morally upright and kind individual.
• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• simple present: A verb tense used to describe habits, unchanging situations, general truths, and fixed arrangements.
• in order to: For the purpose of; with the aim of.
• go on: To continue doing something
• going on: To continue doing something
• present participle: A verb form ending in '-ing' in English, used in forming continuous tenses.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• phrase: Common expression or saying
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• slightly: Only a little
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• squeeze: Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• automatically: In a way not requiring control by a person
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
• comparison: Act of comparing things
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• technically: In an exact and particular manner
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
• quiz: A game in which players answer questions on topics
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• important: Having power or authority
• confusion: Not knowing what to do; state of disorder
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• extension: Addition to something, e.g. a house
• clause: Part of a sentence that has its own verb
• mixture: Something made by combining two or more things
• connotation: Idea associated with another one
• conjunction: Combination of things or events
• possessive: Wanting someone's complete attention, love
• redundant: Not necessary or needed
• participle: Nonfinite form of the verb, e.g. -ing or -ed forms
• oversee: To check on or manage the work of others
• gerund: Noun formed from a verb (such as the '-ing' form)
• comma: Mark showing a pause or list in a sentence
• officer: Person of high position in an organization
• sandy: Person's name
• coo: To make a low, soft cry, like a dove