Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• right back: Said when someone says they will return soon, indicating you expect their prompt return.
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• all along: From the beginning; all the time.
• under the surface: Not obvious or apparent; existing out of sight.
• on sale: Available at a reduced price
• check out
• stand out
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• intuitive: Able to understand by feeling rather than fact
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
• consider: To think carefully about something
• meditate: To think deeply and quietly to calm your spirit
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• property: Particular quality that someone or something has
• spare: To make (money or time) available for
• align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• irony: Quality of being funny because it is the opposite
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• effectively: In a way that produces the desired result
• prospect: Opportunity or chance for success
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• interrupt: To stop something from happening for a while
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• flexible: Bending easily
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• deception: Use of trickery to make someone believe an untruth
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• formal: Observing rules and procedures strictly
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• firmly: In a hard, steady, unchanging way
• generosity: Giving or sharing things freely with others
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• sufficient: Having or providing enough when needed
• ironic: Funny because it is the opposite of the truth
• narrator: Person or character who tells a story
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• liberal: Someone who is open-minded and favors progress
• critic: Person who judges (e.g. art) and gives opinions
• speech: A formal talk to an audience
• weave: To make a cloth or baskets by crossing threads
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• passage: Process of moving through time
• person: Man, woman or child
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• highlight: Best or most interesting part of something
• marriage: Relationship between a husband and a wife
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• witty: Making a joke in a clever or intelligent way
• considerable: Large in size, amount, or effect
• suitable: Right for a particular purpose or occasion
• critique: A review of the quality of a work
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• website: Collection of webpages in one location
• finesse: When something is done in a perfect skillful way
• convergence: When two or more things come together
• repent: (Religion) to be sorry for something you did wrong
• apiece: Each, individually
• subjectivity: Judgment based on individual personal impressions
• toolbox: Box, chest or cabinet for holding hand tools