Vocabulary

• close to home: Emotionally sensitive or personally relevant to someone.
• on the job: While working; during the course of employment.
• offensive to: Causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.
• have to: Must do
• in public: In a place where anyone can see or hear you.
• eating healthy: The practice of consuming foods that are beneficial for one's health and well-being.
• take a hike: A rude way of telling someone to go away.
• start off: To begin or commence something.
• lie back: To rest in a reclining position on one's back.
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• drive in: To enter a place or area by driving a vehicle.
• pull away: To drive (vehicle) away;
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• speak of: To mention someone or something in conversation.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• on the lookout: Vigilantly searching for someone or something.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• insane: Mentally ill; crazy
• gross: 144 of something; twelve dozen of something
• metabolism: Chemical processes to convert food to energy
• dumb: Senseless; stupid
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• athlete: Person trained to compete in sports
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• diarrhea: Frequent and watery bowel movements
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• motivate: To give someone a reason, the will to do something
• string: To tie or connect things together with a thread
• anatomy: Scientific study of the structure of (human) body
• offensive: Causing displeasure or anger
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• leave: To go away from; depart
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• stall: Walled area in a barn where a farm animal is kept
• movement: Part of a piece of classical music
• spit: To forcefully blow saliva out from your mouth
• idiot: A person who is foolish or not very smart
• medium: Method of expressing ideas or feelings
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• public: Owned by the government
• spinach: Vegetable with dark green leaves, full of iron
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• refuse: To not accept, allow, or give something
• operation: Business or company, or its activities
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• gluten: Mix of sticky plant proteins found in wheat flour
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• gown: Long loose clothing worn over other clothes
• pose: To be or exist as (a problem, threat etc.)
• lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
• pardon: To forgive for some error or fault; let off
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• dictionary: Book with the spellings and meanings of many words
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• peanut: Edible small nut which grows under the ground
• senator: An elected politician belonging to the senate
• goodness: (Used to express slight surprise)
• cleanse: To remove impurities or pollutants from something
• detox: Hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified
• explosive: Tending to show strong emotion suddenly
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• unnecessary: Being more than needed or not needed
• hike: Large and unexpected increase in price, level etc.
• mat: Piece of material used to cover, protect the floor
• hate: To have a very strong feeling of dislike for
• lookout: Person who keeps watch, e.g. for an enemy
• woo: (Of a man) to try to get a woman to marry him
• beet: Type of vegetable with a thick, purplish root
• yoga: Exercise system to gain suppleness and tranquility
• birdie: Shooting a hole in one stroke under par in golf
• mantis: Large insectivorous insect with prayerlike pose
• mama: A mother