Vocabulary

• work together: To collaborate or cooperate with others to achieve a common goal.
• in action: Actively doing something; performing a task or duty.
• down the road: At a future time; in the future.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• in flight: Act of flying
• drag in: To arrive somewhere reluctantly or heavily, often tired or late.
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• sit back: To relax and take it easy.
• behind the scenes: Secretly or without being known to the public.
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• elaborate: To explain something in detail
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• variety: Particular type of thing or person
• combination: Series of letters or numbers needed to open a lock
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• barrier: Difficult situation preventing something happening
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• commercial: Radio or television advertisement
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• military: Army or armed forces
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• require: To demand that someone does something
• parallel: To be equal to, or like, something else
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• feat: Impressive act showing courage or skill
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• equal: Same in shape, size, or number
• counteract: To reduce the impact doing something opposite
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• harmony: Pleasing, attractive combination of parts, things
• soar: (Of prices, etc.) to increase a lot in a short time
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• thrust: To move (e.g. a knife) forcefully towards someone
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• laboratory: A place to do scientific experiments
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• expel: To force a person to leave a place or organization
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• airborne: Being in the air
• ascend: To rise, go up to a higher level
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• downward: Moving from a higher to a lower condition/place
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• propulsion: Forward movement often under power
• plane: An airplane
• aerodynamic: Efficiently designed to move through the air
• fuselage: Main part of an airplane, not the wings
• throttle: Device controlling the supply of fuel to an engine
• payload: Part of guided missile containing the explosive
• rudder: Flat piece of wood or metal that steers ships