Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• reach out: To attempt to communicate with someone.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• off of: From a position on something; down from.
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• in particular: Specifically; especially.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• forge ahead: To make strong and steady progress; to move forward with determination.
• going on: To continue doing something
• in control: Having the power to direct or regulate something; able to manage or direct a situation or person.
• go after: To chase or pursue something
• accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• couple: To join something to something else
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• destiny: Someone's future; the power that governs this
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• cement: Building material made from gray powder, water
• master: To gain control over something
• forge: To create something by hammering hot metal
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• sharp: Person's name
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• prospective: Likely to happen or be something in the future
• equipment: Tools or materials used to perform a task
• porch: Roofed structure over the entrance of a building
• ignorant: Lacking knowledge, awareness or information
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• afraid: Worried that something bad will happen; scared
• great: Very good; better than before
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• person: Man, woman or child
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• backbone: Strength and determination
• wagon: Four wheel vehicle used to transport things
• correspondence: Quality of similarity or equality
• tack: Small, sharp nail, usually with a wide, flat head
• mule: Animal breed combining a horse and a donkey
• scripture: Holy books of a particular religion
• lawyer: Professional who helps people with the law
• airplane: A machine that flies through the air
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
• phd: Advanced university degree; Doctor of Philosophy
• blackboard: Board that someone, e.g. a teacher, writes on