Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• pour in: To arrive or enter a place in large numbers or amounts.
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• inside of: Within; in the inner part of.
• hand up: To raise one's hand in order to get attention, especially in a classroom.
• pull back: To move to a safer area; retreat
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• turn down: To fold something, e.g. a shirt collar
• on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
• piping hot: Extremely hot; very hot.
• like a million dollars: To feel or look exceptionally good or healthy.
• from the top: From the beginning.
• take out: To apply for and get a license
• cut up: Be cut up (about) to be upset or angry
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• chop up: To cut something into small pieces.
• take off: To remove, e.g. your clothes
• by half: Indicates something is at 50% or to a large but incomplete extent.
• pop in: To visit someone briefly.
• finishing touch: A final detail or action that completes and enhances something.
• make for: To go to or toward something/someone for a reason
• baking tray: A flat, typically rectangular metal pan used for baking food in an oven.
• hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• absolutely amazing: Extremely good or impressive; causing great surprise or wonder.
• to taste: Add an ingredient according to your preference.
• pull down: To destroy an old building; demolish
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• absolutely: Completely; totally; very
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• fantastic: Strange or unusual in design or appearance
• fridge: An electric cool box for keeping food fresh
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• pour: To fill a person's glass or cup with a drink
• flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
• couple: To join something to something else
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• roast: To strongly criticize often in a teasing manner
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• tray: A wide flat thing to carry food on
• breast: Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
• chop: To cut into pieces with an up and down motion
• garlic: Strong-smelling white bulb used in cooking
• carve: To cut a piece of cooked meat into thin slices
• crispy: Dry and breaking with a sharp sound
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• steam: Mist collecting on a surface when wet air cools
• taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• sprinkle: To throw a little water on something
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• cavity: Hole or empty space, especially in a tooth
• gravy: Brown sauce made from meat juices when cooking
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• burn: To destroy with fire
• oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• moist: Being a little bit wet, often in a pleasing way
• delicious: Very pleasing to eat; especially pleasing
• flake: Thin and very small piece of something
• truffle: Expensive black edible fungi
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
• parsley: Small, green herb used to season or garnish food
• turmeric: Spice giving yellow color used in Indian cooking
• pepper: Green, red, or yellow vegetable with hollow center
• zest: Excitement and eagerness (for life); liveliness
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• add: To include as well
• butcher: Store selling meat; person who sells meats
• pine: Tall pointed evergreen tree with needlelike leaves
• chili: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
• thyme: Type of herb with a slightly minty flavor
• olive: Person's name
• cider: Alcoholic drink made from fermented fruit (apples)
• sieve: Device with fine mesh to filter out liquids
• ladle: Large spoon with deep bowl for serving e.g. soup
• goose: Large water bird related to a duck
• dainty: Small and attractive in a delicate way
• turkey: Edible bird resembling a large chicken
• massage: Rubbing neck, back etc., to relieve pain/to relax
• teaspoon: Small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee
• lemon: Badly made or poorly functioning product