Vocabulary

• by oneself: Alone; without any help or company.
• pick out: To choose or select one item from many
• go away: To go on vacation
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• reflect on: To think deeply or carefully about something.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• in the house: Located inside a building used as a dwelling.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• in order to: For the purpose of; with the aim of.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• slightly: Only a little
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• cruel: Hurtful; acting to hurt others intentionally
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• afford: To make available, to provide
• clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
• jealous: Wishing you were like someone or had their things
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• loyalty: Complete and sustained support for person, thing
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• pride: Sense of your own importance and worth
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• sheet: Piece of cloth you put on the bed to sleep on
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• relic: Valuable, ancient thing or work of art
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
• point: An item to be discussed
• mixture: Something made by combining two or more things
• behave: To act correctly
• jealousy: Unhappy feeling of wanting what someone else has
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• insert: To put something into a certain place or spot
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• embarrassment: Shame you feel when you did something wrong
• enlighten: To cause someone to understand
• unreliable: Not able to be trusted or believed
• spectre: Mental representation of some haunting experience
• unsafe: Likely to be dangerous or harmful