Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in check: Under control; restrained.
• up in the air: Not yet decided or resolved; uncertain.
• in the air: Present or circulating in the atmosphere.
• roll around: For a date or time to arrive.
• keystone species: A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• nasty: Very bad, unpleasant, or offensive
• flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
• fluffy: Containing air and being light in weight
• precious: Having a youthful, cute, and pleasant appearance
• wrap: Piece of clothing worn loosely on the shoulders
• variety: Particular type of thing or person
• rid: To cause to no longer have (pest, problem)
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• cruise: To easily achieve
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• rub: To spread a cream, etc., using a repeated motion
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• extinction: When every example of animal, plant is dead
• praise: To express approval of something or someone
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• absolute: Complete; total; pure; not limited in any way
• groom: To make neat and smart in appearance
• camouflage: Blending into the background by being similar
• twist: To turn something in a circular direction
• wild: In a manner which lacks control
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• devour: To eat quickly and hungrily
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• nonsense: Foolish or untrue statements or ideas
• tummy: Stomach or belly
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
• trust: To expect confidently
• bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• selfish: Concerned about your own interests, not others'
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• burrito: Flour tortilla folded around a filling
• raft: Pieces of wood tied together as a kind of boat
• live: To be alive
• warrior: Courageous or skilled fighter in a battle or war
• keep: Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• crab: Sea creature with a hard shell and two claws
• moan: To complain about something
• shellfish: Sea animals such as shrimps, lobsters, clams etc.
• punk: Violent or criminal young man
• gremlin: An imaginary gnomelike creature to whom mechanical problems, especially in aircraft, are attributed
• depot: Storage place for goods
• badger: Small forest animal with thick black and white fur
• otter: Aquatic, carnivorous mammal of the weasel family
• comeback: A clever or witty retort or reply
• kelp: Large brown seaweed with fluted leathery fronds
• urchin: Small sea animal with stiff parts like needles
• keystone: Central building block at the top of an arch
• cuteness: State of being attractive in a pretty way
• mama: A mother