Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• without which: Used to indicate something that is essential or necessary for something else to exist or happen.
• in reality: Actually; in fact; truly.
• all the things: Everything; all items or aspects
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• turn out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• close up: A photograph or film shot taken of a subject at close range.
• in store: About to happen in the future
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• doubt: Not being sure of something; lack of certainty
• appetite: Feeling of hunger or desire for something
• foremost: Being the best or most important
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• crush: Strong attraction to someone
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• fraction: Small part of something
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• willpower: Ability to make yourself do what you really want
• require: To demand that someone does something
• compatible: Able to get on or be used well together
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• excitement: When people feel very happy and enthusiastic
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• fate: What will happen to you in the future, often bad
• swallow: To believe (something that is not true)
• appalling: Causing shock or distress because it is terrible
• anticipation: Pleasurable feeling about a future event
• flourish: To show and direct attention by waving something
• agony: Great pain or suffering
• unleash: To release or let an animal go
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• invention: Something new that is different from other things
• important: Having power or authority
• comfortable: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• blind: Unable to see; with eyes that cannot see
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• melt: To disappear or to go away
• fill: To make something full
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• incomprehensible: Impossible to understand or comprehend
• uncomfortable: Not being relaxed; worried about something
• futile: Having no result; useless
• scratchy: Causing you to itch; causing irritation/annoyance
• insufferable: Unbearable; very rude or arrogant; intolerable
• cuteness: State of being attractive in a pretty way
• mulch: Material spread round plants to stop weeds, etc.
• beastly: Very unpleasant; nasty