Vocabulary

• beneath the surface: In or under the outer layer of something, often physically below.
• in order to: For the purpose of; with the aim of.
• off guard: In a vulnerable state; not alert or cautious.
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• deliberately: In a careful, considered manner; on purpose
• tackle: To start working on a difficult problem
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• document: Official (printed) record that gives information
• drown: To kill something by putting it under water
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• skill: Ability to do something well
• enable: To make it possible to do something
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• live: To be alive
• whale: To strike forcefully, e.g. as a punishment
• ocean: Large body of salt water; a large sea
• large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
• hunt: To search for wild animals to kill (for food)
• top: To be higher or larger than a specific value
• push: To move into enemy country with a military attack
• home: House, apartment or building to be rented or sold
• teach: To help someone learn or do something
• game: Activity with rules that people play to have fun
• team: Group of people working on a task together
• big: Popular
• blue: Color of the clear sky
• matriarch: Female head of a family/tribe; strong older woman
• swim: To move through water by moving parts of the body
• orca: Whale