Vocabulary

• moderate: To host a meeting or panel discussion
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• hemisphere: One half of a rounded, ball-like object
• rigid: Stiff rather than flexible
• patron: Person buying products or services of a business
• boast: To speak of something with too much pride
• sink: To push something down into the ground
• inhale: To breathe in something like air or smoke
• habitat: Natural place where a plant or animal lives
• lavish: To use or give a lot of something
• chore: Task done to keep a house in order e.g. cleaning
• invention: Something new that is different from other things
• colony: Group (bees, etc.) that live in the same place
• owe: To need to do something in return for a favor etc.
• gadget: Interesting or unusual tool with a practical use
• expedition: Long journey, often to a dangerous or new place
• skyscraper: Very tall building with many stories
• vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
• fluctuate: To shift back and forth uncertainly; change a lot
• skeleton: Structure of bones that supports the body
• squirrel: Small furry tree-living animal with a big tail
• particle: Adverb or preposition that joins with a verb
• hydrogen: Lightest of all chemical elements
• ignorant: Lacking knowledge, awareness or information
• exile: State of being forced to leave your country
• nostril: Either of two holes on the outside of the nose
• scrape: To take something off a surface with a sharp tool
• monument: Something built to remember an event or person
• construct: To build or create something
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• expel: To force a person to leave a place or organization
• compass: Device that shows the direction of north
• fragrance: Sweet, enjoyable, often flowery or fruity smell
• erosion: Process of wearing away by water, wind, or ice
• instruct: To command someone formally to do something
• ridicule: Act of exposing someone to laughter; mockery
• hereditary: Passing from parents to children
• hospitable: Making it easy for plants, people etc. to survive
• oblivion: State of being unconscious/unaware/being forgotten
• kernel: Central small part or aspect, e.g. of truth
• measurement: Size or amount of something or someone
• participation: Act of being involved in something
• tulip: Colorful spring flower growing from a bulb
• incomplete: Not finished; not having everything necessary
• illogical: Lacking a valid sensible or valid reasoning
• telegraph: To signal to someone without speaking
• characterize: To describe the qualities of person, place, thing
• outspoken: Saying (too) clearly what you think
• midday: Noon; 12 p.m.
• numeral: A number
• postage: Charge for mailing something
• oily: Being too full of oil, e.g. a pizza
• eyelash: Short hairs that grow along the edges of the eyes
• lint: Fabric with nap on one side, used to dress wounds
• lard: Cooled fat from meat
• midterm: Middle period
• classmate: Someone studying in your class with you
• wallpaper: Decorative paper for the walls of rooms
• cogent: Logically expressed so as to be persuasive