Vocabulary

• check out
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• halfway through: At or in the middle of a period of time or an activity.
• together with: In addition to; along with.
• in the first place: To begin with; as the first point or consideration.
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• feed on: To eat a particular food.
• warm up: To gently exercise muscles before doing sport
• in exchange for: Given or done as an equivalent or substitute for.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• on the surface: Appearing to be true or real until examined more closely.
• fight back: To make your point more strongly against opponent
• to death: Extremely; to a great degree
• come together: To assemble or unite; to start working together.
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• in little: To a small extent; insignificantly.
• gobble up: To eat something quickly and greedily.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• sneak up: To approach someone quietly and unnoticed.
• sift through: To examine something very carefully in order to find something important or useful.
• suck in: To inhale or draw something into the mouth or lungs.
• go for it: An expression of encouragement or approval.
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• ridiculous: Funny or foolish; deserving to be laughed at
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• bizarre: Odd or strange
• resilient: Recovering quickly from something bad
• consume: To eat, drink, buy or use up something
• dumb: Senseless; stupid
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• stare: To look at someone or something for a long time
• feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• tiny: Very, very small
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• huge: Very very large
• evolution: Theory that living things change over time
• empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
• meaningful: Having importance; showing someone's intention
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• ecosystem: Types of plants and animals in an specific area
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
• genius: Person displaying a high level of intelligence
• bladder: Soft bag which holds liquid or air
• rapid: Moving or happening very quickly
• cartilage: Strong flexible tissue connecting bones, joints
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• dim: Not bright; not being clear
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• parasite: Small animal or plant living off a bigger one
• fill: To make something full
• great: Very good; better than before
• hatch: To be born or come out from an egg
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• deep: Complex and important
• salmon: Light pinkish orange color
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• nutritious: Providing nourishment; good to include in the diet
• plankton: Tiny plants and animals that fish eat in seas
• chunky: Containing large sticky lumps; thick and heavy
• skip: Very large waste disposal bin
• saturate: To cause a liquid to not be able to absorb more
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• larva: Wormlike young form of some insects
• beak: Hard pointed parts of a bird's mouth; bill
• jelly: Semisolid food substance, eaten as dessert
• infest: (Of bad things) to be present in in large numbers
• mow: To cut grass with a blade or mower
• jellyfish: Soft-bodied sea animal, as with stinging tentacles
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• molar: Tooth with broad biting surface used for grinding
• rudder: Flat piece of wood or metal that steers ships
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information
• seafloor: Bottom of the sea