Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• got to: To arrive at some place
• first off: To begin with; firstly.
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• rub shoulders: To associate with famous or important people.
• start off: To begin or commence something.
• roll it: To prepare a marijuana cigarette.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• on to: Toward something; forward
• red onion: A type of onion with reddish-purple skin and white flesh tinged with red.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• off the bat: Immediately; without delay.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• lose out
• miss out: To exclude; not include in something
• come along: To go with someone who takes the lead
• cool down: To become cooler; to reduce in temperature.
• secret of: The key or hidden information that explains something.
• from the top: From the beginning.
• eat your heart out: To feel bitter or jealous about someone else's success.
• catch up: To become equal with another person
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• precious: Having a youthful, cute, and pleasant appearance
• harsh: Rough; tough; hard to experience or accept
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• stunning: Causing amazement, e.g. because so very good
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• abundance: Quantity that is very large or more than enough
• robust: Having physical vigor or energetic good health
• grain: Seeds of plants used for food
• flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
• rub: To spread a cream, etc., using a repeated motion
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• authenticity: Quality of being genuine, not a fake or copy
• mold: Distinctive type of character or nature
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• crunch: To crush something into pieces
• slice: Way of hitting the ball so the ball curves
• tilt: To change to a newly preferred idea or opinion
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• grill: Plate of food that has been grilled
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• frustrate: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• twist: To turn something in a circular direction
• important: Having power or authority
• avocado: Pear-shaped fruit with green flesh and large stone
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• chop: To cut into pieces with an up and down motion
• garlic: Strong-smelling white bulb used in cooking
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• load: Large, often heavy, amount of a thing to be moved
• backdrop: Contextual meaning or background
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• stove: Device that burns fuel for heating or cooking
• cilantro: Herb used in Asian cooking; coriander
• blade: One of several flat pieces in a fan which move air
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• pan: To follow an object being filmed with a camera
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• sloppy: (Of people) Not clean or orderly; messy
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• cactus: Fleshy spiky plant that grows in hot, dry areas
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• asparagus: Green vegetable with long thin stems
• touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
• zest: Excitement and eagerness (for life); liveliness
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• spoon: Tool with a rounded end for eating ice cream, etc.
• fragrant: Having a sweet or enjoyable smell
• dice: To cut food or other things into small pieces
• chili: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
• alligator: A large reptile like a crocodile
• sear: To use high heat to quickly burn the surface of
• salt: Natural white crystal used to flavor food
• garnish: To add salad, etc. as decoration to food
• buildup: Making people feel excited about some new event
• tortilla: Thin Mexican flat bread
• rattlesnake: Pit snake with a tail that rattle when shaken