Vocabulary

• come from: To have as your native country or city
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• discipline: Instruction and practice to teach obedience
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
• motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• perseverance: Act of continuing to try despite difficulties
• crush: Strong attraction to someone
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• athlete: Person trained to compete in sports
• inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
• franchise: Right to run a business using name of a company
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• ambition: Desire to win or be successful in life, work
• option: A choice
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• talent: Natural ability of a person to do something well
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• triumph: Joy from victory or success
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• immigrant: Person moving to another country to live there
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• fountain: Structure out of which a jet of water comes
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• explode: To express an emotion in a sudden and loud way
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• draft: Withdrawal of money from the bank
• greatness: Property of outstanding importance or eminence
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• legend: List of explanations of symbols on map, etc.
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• globe: A round object, e.g. like the earth; sphere
• biography: Story of a person's life as told by someone else
• lifelong: Continuing through life; lasting a long time
• heartbreak: Great sorrow caused by e.g. death of loved one
• freeman: Someone who is not a slave