Vocabulary

• run on: To continue longer than expected, e.g. a meeting
• tap into: To manage to use something in a way that brings you benefits
• alternative energy: Energy generated from natural resources, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable.
• energy sources: Materials or processes that can produce energy.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• elaborate: To explain something in detail
• alternative: Something different you can choose
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• artificial: Dishonest, to seem fake, not sincere
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• amount: Quantity of something
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• address: Exact street location of a place
• require: To demand that someone does something
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• huge: Very very large
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• tap: To access a liquid (e.g. in a tree) through a hole
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• grid: Electrical network supplying electricity to area
• fossil: Plant or animal that became rock after many years
• increasingly: More and more; in greater degree or amount
• additional: Further or added
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• equipment: Tools or materials used to perform a task
• finance: Control of money a person, business has access to
• solar: Concerning the sun, or its heat
• transmit: To broadcast by using signals to a radio/TV
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• compose: To calm yourself after being angry or upset
• burn: To destroy with fire
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• datum: Item of factual information
• answer: To reply to a question someone asks
• international: Of or relating to several countries
• overheat: To become too hot