Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• last summer: The summer before this one.
• see about: To look into or arrange something.
• got to: To arrive at some place
• pick up on: To notice or become aware of something that is not obvious.
• have to: Must do
• get lost: An impolite way of telling someone to go away.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• shut up: To close something, e.g. a shop
• build me up: To encourage or praise someone, often to increase their confidence.
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• insane: Mentally ill; crazy
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• belly: Middle part of the body; the stomach
• curse: To use offensive language when angry; swear
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• supposedly: As some people believe (shows you doubt it)
• offensive: Causing displeasure or anger
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• leave: To go away from; depart
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• bill: Plan for a new law being discussed by a government
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• dirt: Loose earth or soil
• act: To behave in a certain way
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• celebrate: To observe an event or occasion, e.g. a birthday
• glad: Happy or pleased about something/to do something
• charm: Quality of making people like you; attractiveness
• scout: To watch or search for something or someone
• shoot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• rank: To rate or class things
• ass: (Impolite) part of the human body that you sit on
• bullshit: Telling lies, nonsense (very rude)
• brat: Someone who has misbehaved, usually a child
• triple: Group or set of three
• ugly: (E.g. of a situation) bad; likely to turn nasty
• sheep: Animal with a woolly coat raised for meat or wool
• eagle: Very large, strong bird that hunts small animals