Vocabulary

• on display: In a place where something can be seen by the public.
• order about: To give commands in a bossy or controlling manner.
• to order: To give an instruction or command.
• head up: To lead or manage a team, project, or organization.
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• to scale: In proportion; maintaining accurate relative dimensions.
• have to: Must do
• of the century: The most notable or important in a hundred-year period.
• in the air: Present or circulating in the atmosphere.
• pretty solid: Quite strong, reliable, or convincing.
• sign off: To end communications, e.g. by radio
• inside of: Within; in the inner part of.
• except for: Not including; excluding.
• hand out: To distribute papers (often in class)
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• move around: To change position or location; to go from place to place.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• frankly: Speaking honestly and directly
• brand: A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• personality: Way someone is or reacts to life or other people
• fabric: Cloth or material
• screw: To cheat someone, as out of money/property
• rigorous: Very strict and often difficult; thorough
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• steer: A cow
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• drag: To reluctantly move or go somewhere
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• equation: Mathematical statement showing things to be equal
• steep: Very expensive
• exception: Something different or not included
• industrial: Concerning making things in factories
• aviation: Science or practice of flying aircraft
• twist: To turn something in a circular direction
• tray: A wide flat thing to carry food on
• original: Being first made, thought or performed; fresh
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• century: Period of 100 years
• bend: To become curved or no longer straight
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• pilot: To conduct a small practice experiment
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• thrust: To move (e.g. a knife) forcefully towards someone
• chain: To feel to be bound or tied to
• custom: Person's regular, daily habit or practice
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• modify: To make minor change to something
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• frequent: Happening often
• prototype: A first or preliminary version of a device or vehicle from which other forms are developed
• hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
• aluminum: Very light silvery-white metal used to make cans
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• simulate: To copy something or look or behave like it
• airborne: Being in the air
• cylinder: Tube shape with flat ends
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• warp: Twist or bend in something normally straight
• cockpit: Area in (plane, boat) where the pilot, driver sits
• mask: To hide something so that it cannot be seen
• invert: To turn the order of things backwards
• recreate: To make a past situation exist again
• propeller: Device with blades that move a plane or boat
• airplane: A machine that flies through the air
• aluminium: Very light silvery-white metal used to make cans
• differential: Different, as in treatment; discriminatory
• horsepower: Unit of power of car engine, etc.