Vocabulary

• wipe out: To destroy or be destroyed
• have to: Must do
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• poverty: State of being poor
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• compensate: To give (money) to as a form of correcting a loss
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• ego: Opinion you have about yourself and your worth
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• damn: To cause the downfall or failure of; criticize
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• wipe: To clean or dry something with a cloth
• persona: Personality that you project in public
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• truth: Real facts about something
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• flash: To appear suddenly and briefly
• stay: To keep trying without giving up
• recover: To return to a prior normal condition
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• powerful: Having control or influence over
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• man: Humans in general, including male and female
• briefcase: Flat case used for carrying papers and documents
• run: To depart or travel according to a schedule
• watch: To keep in check, manage, or control something
• love: Person's name
• road: Long piece of hard land for cars to travel on
• late: At a time after the expected time
• home: House, apartment or building to be rented or sold
• gothic: With mysterious/frightening events, as in a castle
• breakfast: First meal of the day
• sex: State of being male or female
• superhero: Fictional character who fights evil
• lunchtime: The time you eat your midday meal