Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• at school: Present and attending school.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• run over: To go beyond a limit, e.g. of a budget
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• off guard: In a vulnerable state; not alert or cautious.
• at least: As a minimum
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• bring back: To cause to remember
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• fit in: To mix with others so you get on well with them
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• productive: Producing things in large quantities; fertile
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• dude: Form of address for a man
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• hectic: (Of time, activity) very busy; full of activity
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• crunch: To crush something into pieces
• apparent: Easy to see or clearly understand
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• starve: To (cause to) be hungry or go without food
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• melt: To disappear or to go away
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• alive: Living; not dead
• supper: Evening meal, often when informal
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• glitch: Small problem, fault preventing something working
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• translate: To change something into a different state
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• trash: Garbage or anything that is worthless
• entrance: A place where you enter a house or other building
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• glue: Sticky substance used for joining things together
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• review: To carefully look at the quality of something
• skip: Very large waste disposal bin
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• convenience: Quality of being easy to do or saving time
• tape: To record some sounds using an electric device
• calligraphy: Beautiful decorative handwriting of Kanji
• put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• thankfully: In a glad way, e.g. when bad thing is over
• backpack: Bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
• tired: Without energy so you want to rest or fall asleep
• adjustment: Small change to attain a desired state or function
• lock: To become fixed in place and hard to move
• ugly: (E.g. of a situation) bad; likely to turn nasty
• whoa: Tell someone to do something more slowly
• mall: Large public area often covered with grass
• junior: Student in third year
• eraser: Piece of rubber to rub out a mistake in writing
• homework: Work that a student is given to do at home
• yen: Currency used in Japan
• yum: Used to show pleasure at eating something nice
• mama: A mother