Vocabulary

• along with: In addition to; together with.
• best known: Most widely or popularly recognized, famous, or familiar.
• shut down: To close an operating system, e.g. on a computer
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• stand with: To support or defend someone or something.
• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• check out
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• profound: Requiring deep thought; difficult to understand
• demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
• iconic: Being widely recognized as a symbol of something
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• adopt: To legally take a child into your family
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• prejudice: Law to make ineffective, e.g. evidence in a trial
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• propaganda: (Use of) message that you want people to accept
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• illustrate: To supply pictures to go along with words
• persuade: To try to make someone to do, believe something
• visual: Of or relating to vision
• outbreak: Sudden occurrence of illness, discontent etc.
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• cluster: To come together in a group, flock etc.
• stripe: Strip of alternating color in straight lines
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• surgeon: A doctor who performs surgery
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• slavery: State or condition of being a slave
• pump: To make liquid or gas flow in a particular direction
• disastrous: Having very unfortunate or terrible consequences
• devise: To think of and plan something
• chart: Drawing showing information in a clear way
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• abolish: To officially stop (a law or practice)
• racial: Of or relating to race
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• believe: To think or accept that something is true
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• hay: Dry grass used as food for animals
• showcase: Cabinet to display objects or goods for sale
• dot: To place small amounts/things in various places
• visualization: Act of creating an image in your mind
• hereditary: Passing from parents to children
• misinformation: Information that is incorrect
• uneven: Being good in some parts and poor in others
• warm: To become more friendly or to like something
• battlefield: Region where a battle was, or is being fought
• line: Border that divides two places or regions
• feeble: Weak; not well in health; lacking power
• cholera: Fatal disease from drinking dirty water