Vocabulary

• come for: To arrive to collect someone or something.
• out of time: Having no more time available to do something.
• on horseback: Riding a horse or sitting astride a horse.
• slip down: To slide or lose one's footing and fall downwards.
• ask for it: To behave in a way that will cause trouble or punishment.
• come after: To follow someone in order to threaten them
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• have to: Must do
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• get back to: To get in contact with someone again
• in danger: Exposed to the risk of harm, injury, or loss.
• at least: As a minimum
• in question: Being doubted or disputed; under discussion.
• be with: To accompany someone; to be in someone's presence.
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• get here: To arrive at a specific location.
• walk with: To accompany someone while walking.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• permission: Right to do something as allowed by another
• abundance: Quantity that is very large or more than enough
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
• seek: To ask someone for help
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• agency: Business that provides some service for others
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• slight: Small (amount, quality)
• movement: Part of a piece of classical music
• wound: To rotate a part of say a watch to make it work
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• guilt: Shame at doing something bad or wrong
• loan: To give money, etc. that must be paid back
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• survival: Act of continuing to exist when facing difficulty
• ceremony: Special social or religious event
• gang: Group that you disapprove of, e.g. criminals
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• defend: To protect and explain your position in court
• limp: Being soft, not hard, not rigid
• savage: Condition of being cruel, violent, uncivilized
• draft: Withdrawal of money from the bank
• sketch: Brief account of something without many details
• prescribe: (Of doctors) to say what medicine should be taken
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• badge: Material with a pin to show membership in a group
• restrict: To prevent a person from doing something
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• land: Region or country
• passage: Process of moving through time
• herd: Group of the same animal that eat, live together
• nation: Area or region controlled by a government and army
• dime: Coin worth 10 US cents
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• prostitute: To sell your body; to exchange sex for money
• tread: To step; to walk on
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• flu: Illness causing headache, fever etc.
• crow: Large black bird
• print: To make many copies of a page, magazine or book
• ship: Large boat
• thirst: Powerful desire or need for e.g. knowledge
• save: To make your computer keep a file
• shit: A coarse term for defecation
• dream: A wish or hope for something to happen
• hawk: Large bird kills smaller birds and animals
• shotgun: Double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon
• dolly: Childish form of 'doll'