Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• above water: Not in debt or trouble; surviving or managing successfully.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• have to: Must do
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• lay in: To provide stocks (e.g. for the winter)
• see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• fade out: To gradually decrease in visibility or audibility.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• see about: To look into or arrange something.
• a couple hundred: Approximately two hundred.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• for life: For the duration of one's life; permanently.
• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• in the meantime: During the time between two events; meanwhile.
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• squeeze: Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• sensitive: Taking offense easily; easily upset or hurt
• prescription: Specific medicine officially ordered for a patient
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• visualize: To create a picture in your mind of something
• vision: Ability to see; eyesight
• shallow: Not deep; short from top to bottom
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• pigment: Substance that makes things have a certain color
• dough: Substance made from flour and water to bake bread
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• click: To work well with someone or something
• topic: Subject or issue people talk or write about
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• variation: Something almost the same as another but different
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
• adaptation: Music, movie or play, changed to a new form
• mammal: Animal which drinks milk from its mother
• favorite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
• marine: Soldier trained to serve on land and sea
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• sight: To aim (a gun) at something to get your range
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• accommodation: Adapting to become better at handling situations
• blurry: Being indistinguishable or unclear in shape
• retina: Part of the eye that senses light
• murky: Being dark, unclear, and difficult to see through
• fur: Hairy coat of an animal
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• range: Cooking stove with multiple burners
• optical: Concerning vision or helping people see
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• addition: Act of adding something; thing that is added
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• energetic: Possessing, exerting or displaying energy
• deep: Complex and important
• focus: To see clearly by adjusting your eyes or a camera
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• affinity: A feeling of attraction or relationship
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• twitch: To draw, pull, or move suddenly and sharply; jerk
• wavelength: To have similar feelings
• notify: To inform; to communicate specific information
• eyesight: Normal use of the faculty of vision
• rounder: More like a circle or sphere
• otter: Aquatic, carnivorous mammal of the weasel family
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• goggle: Protective covering for the eyes
• refract: To change the direction of light through glass