Vocabulary

• sell off: To sell something quickly, usually because you need the money or because you want to stop being involved with it.
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• end up with: To have something as a result.
• drop out: To take no part in a society you disapprove of
• have to: Must do
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• build in: To include something as part of a plan, system, or design.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• vulnerable: Being open to attack or damage
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• influential: Having the power to cause change; having influence
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• erode: To destroy something gradually; be destroyed thus
• square: Shape with 4 equal length sides and 4 equal angles
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• loose: To shoot or fire something from a gun
• important: Having power or authority
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• monitor: To observe and keep a record of something
• stable: In a position where something does not fall over
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• historic: (Of past event) having an effect on future; famous
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• mount: To attach something to something else
• vegetation: (Of plants) to grow in an area (without humans)
• outward: Going away from a place that will be returned to
• mortar: Stone bowl for crushing substances with a pestle
• lime: White containing calcium used in farming
• masonry: Materials used to build brick or stone structures
• flint: Hard rock that sparks when hit with steel