Vocabulary

• be with: To accompany someone; to be in someone's presence.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• regardless of
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• dignity: Person of high rank deserving respect
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• toss: To throw something into the air, e.g. casually
• preserve: To cook food so it can be kept for long periods
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• decision: Choice made after thinking; final judgment
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• seek: To ask someone for help
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• declare: To make a statement in a strong and confident way
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• shore: Land along the edge of a sea, lake or river
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
• boast: To speak of something with too much pride
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• gain: To increase in something, such as weight
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• endless: Having or appearing to have no end
• slight: Small (amount, quality)
• dismiss: To consider that something is at an end
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• courtesy: Polite and respectful behavior
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• relevance: State of being related or appropriate to a topic
• limp: Being soft, not hard, not rigid
• lap: (Of water) to move in a gentle repeated motion
• exterior: Outside layer or surface
• land: Region or country
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• bride: Woman who is, or who will get married soon
• cattle: Cows or bulls on a farm
• license: To give official permission to do something
• dime: Coin worth 10 US cents
• entry: Act of entering a room, building, party
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• yearn: To strongly desire something or someone
• lipstick: Red, pink etc. makeup for the lips
• live: To be alive
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• huddle: Tightly packed group
• prostitute: To sell your body; to exchange sex for money
• decency: Behavior that is good, moral and acceptable
• flu: Illness causing headache, fever etc.
• plan: Drawing of how something should be done or made
• ship: Large boat
• teem: To have many active living things moving inside
• tempest: (Literary) a powerful storm
• sonnet: 14-line poetic verse form with fixed rhyme pattern
• missus: Someone's wife