Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• go ahead: To start an activity; start doing, working etc.
• coming over: To change sides in a discussion
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• name for: To give someone or something a particular name, often in honor of someone else.
• in a hurry: Acting or moving with great haste; rushed.
• say it all: To express everything that needs to be said without using many words.
• order up: A phrase used in restaurants to indicate that a prepared dish is ready to be served.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• warm up: To gently exercise muscles before doing sport
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• go to your head: Make someone feel overly proud or arrogant.
• at least: As a minimum
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• freak out: To react or behave in a wild or irrational way
• joke around: To tease or play pranks; to act in a playful or silly way.
• in the mood: Wanting to do something
• stand behind: To support or defend someone or something.
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• fix the problem: To find a solution to a problem; to repair something that is broken.
• call about: To phone someone for a particular reason
• get it up: To find energy or motivation
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• start up: A newly established business.
• thumbs up: A gesture of approval or agreement, indicated by holding a fist with the thumb extended upwards.
• start out: To begin your life or career in a particular way.
• go towards: To move in the direction of someone or something.
• stand for: To support a particular idea, e.g. in politics
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• for the last time: Used to emphasize that something is said or done finally or repeatedly.
• in time: Eventually; after a period of time.
• on hold: Temporarily delayed or suspended.
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• going on: To continue doing something
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• hilarious: Extremely amusing; very funny
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• dude: Form of address for a man
• account: An advantage
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• click: To work well with someone or something
• theme: An main or dominant idea, motif
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• cupboard: Piece of furniture used for storage
• heck: Expressing surprise, or frustration
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• buddy: Friend, usually male
• additional: Further or added
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• button: Small round piece material used to fasten clothing
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• load: Large, often heavy, amount of a thing to be moved
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• quit: To leave a job
• license: To give official permission to do something
• mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• subscription: Regular payment for a service, magazine etc.
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• fix: Answer to a problem
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• transfer: To move to a different place, job or school
• flash: To appear suddenly and briefly
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• repair: How well cared for a thing is; physical condition
• pee: To urinate
• bomb: To attack with explosives
• reboot: To shut down and start a computer again
• woo: (Of a man) to try to get a woman to marry him
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• pear: Fruit that is pointed at top, rounded at bottom
• groin: Pelvic area of the human body
• lime: White containing calcium used in farming
• rooster: Adult male chicken
• whoa: Tell someone to do something more slowly
• pineapple: A sweet fruit with yellow flesh and green skin
• thingy: Something you cannot remember the name of
• router: Power tool used in carpentry for cutting grooves
• grapefruit: Large sour yellowish fruit with sour juice
• restroom: Toilet; bathroom
• buttercup: Small yellow flower
• hoo: Dialect West Yorkshire and Lancashire she