Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• move along: To make progress; advance.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• in the house: Located inside a building used as a dwelling.
• take on: To acquire a new characteristic
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• put it away: To return something to its proper location; to tidy up.
• block out: To cover so something cannot be seen or heard
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• in total: Completely; with everything added together.
• in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
• picks up: To catch a criminal and take to police station
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• in progress: Currently taking place or being done; not yet completed.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• have to: Must do
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• subtle: Delicate or slight so it is difficult to perceive
• rhythm: Pattern of events, motions, or changes
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• evolve: To develop certain features
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• brand: A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
• cozy: Comfortable, warm, pleasant, and often, small
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• private: Being away from others and quiet
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• architecture: Design and construction of buildings
• principle: Moral rule or belief governing a person's behavior
• wisdom: Knowledge gained from experience in life
• seek: To ask someone for help
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• fulfill: To finish or provide something successfully
• flexible: Bending easily
• clutter: To fill with disorderly mess of things
• empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
• privacy: State of being hidden from the presence of others
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• dawn: First light of day
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• raw: Being uncontrolled or strong, as your emotions
• harmony: Pleasing, attractive combination of parts, things
• tuck: To put something into a small or safe place
• straw: Dry yellow stems of crops such as wheat
• distant: Unfriendly; cold
• organism: Living thing, often one that is small
• horizon: Line where the earth or sea meets the sky
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• humidity: Amount of moisture in the air in a particular area
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• pure: Not mixed with anything else
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
• slide: Part of machines that slides backward and forward
• connect: To associate a thing with something else
• glow: Pink color in the face, e.g. from exercise/emotion
• porch: Roofed structure over the entrance of a building
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• fill: To make something full
• simplicity: Being easy to understand or use
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• flexibility: The quality of being able to be bent or stretched
• evenly: Equally; with advantage to both sides
• renovation: Act of repairing or rebuilding a house, room, etc.
• translucent: Having the quality of being transparent
• blueprint: Plans of how buildings will be built
• bamboo: Long light Asian plant with strong, empty stems
• futon: Cotton mattress consisting for sleeping on floors
• tatami: Japanese floor matting