Vocabulary

• all along: From the beginning; all the time.
• face up to: To gather your courage to deal with (a problem)
• got to: To arrive at some place
• kick ass: To decisively defeat someone
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• spot: A certain place or area
• budget: Amount of money planned to be spent
• recruit: Person who has just joined the military
• academy: School that specializes in certain subjects
• buck: To resist or go against the trend
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• resent: To feel angry because of unfair treatment
• kick: Feeling of enjoyment or excitement
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• part: Division of a book
• ass: (Impolite) part of the human body that you sit on
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• transfer: To move to a different place, job or school
• earn: To deserve something because you worked for it
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• live: To be alive
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• let: To allow someone to do something
• kid: Child or young person
• anymore: No longer; no more
• swat: To hit, slap, or smack, e.g. so as to kill a fly
• beach: Large area of sand, next to an area of water