Vocabulary

• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• consists of: Is made up or composed of.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• break through: To move quickly through (wall, etc.) using force
• look into: To investigate or try to discover the reasons for
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• round to: To visit someone's place informally, usually briefly.
• come round: To visit someone or some place for a short time
• reach out: To attempt to communicate with someone.
• going on: To continue doing something
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• for a minute: For a short period of time; briefly.
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• have to: Must do
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• to the point: Expressing something directly and without unnecessary detail.
• ease with: To make something less painful, difficult, or troubling; to comfort or relieve.
• at ease
• got to: To arrive at some place
• on the internet: Located or available on the internet.
• in command: Having control or authority over something or someone.
• have at: To attack someone or something.
• in on: To be involved in a secret or plan.
• at least: As a minimum
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• interfere: To get involved in something not your business
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
• solitude: State of preferring to be alone
• dialogue: Conversation between two or more individuals
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• pursuit: Act of following someone to catch them
• consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
• recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• render: To cause to be in a certain state or condition
• renaissance: Period of intense activity in art and science
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• civilization: A highly developed society
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• element: Essential or particular part of something
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• luxury: Something expensive bought for pleasure
• crop: Plants grown on a farm for food, e.g. corn or rice
• envious: Wishing you had what someone else has
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• fully: Completely or entirely
• colossal: Being extremely large in size or amount
• preferably: In a way that would be better
• germ: Tiny organism that can cause sickness and disease
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• imaginary: Not real; existing only in your imagination
• aspire: To have a great ambition or goal
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• rotation: Regular change of the crops grown in a field
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• discussion: Any long communication about a particular topic
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• betrayal: Act of giving knowledge or information to an enemy
• acclaim: To give strong or public praise to
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• bloom: To flower; to produce flowers
• scholar: Educated person who attends or attended school
• examination: (Medical) test to find out what is wrong
• consist: To have as an essential, necessary or main part
• fruitful: Being productive; successful
• prose: Writing that is not a poem
• encyclopedia: Reference book of information about many subjects
• corona: Outermost region of the sun's atmosphere
• recapture: To capture again
• sonnet: 14-line poetic verse form with fixed rhyme pattern