Vocabulary

• down the drain: Wasted or lost completely.
• have to: Must do
• got to: To arrive at some place
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• going on: To continue doing something
• light on: To illuminate something.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• work out
• break from: To separate oneself from an association or way of life, typically due to disagreement or disillusionment.
• in the midst of: Surrounded by; in the middle of.
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• in power: Having control of a country or organization.
• at best: Under the most optimistic or favorable circumstances; the most that can be hoped for.
• next to: Being located along side another
• in store: About to happen in the future
• level out: To become flat or even; to make something flat or even.
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• falling apart: To suffer a nervous breakdown
• all the things: Everything; all items or aspects
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• on board: Being on a ship, plane, or other vehicle
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• hygiene: Cleanliness; being clean
• experiment: Test performed to assess new ideas or theories
• advocate: A lawyer who protects a clients interests
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• military: Army or armed forces
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• vice: used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• curb: Anything that restrains or controls
• communist: Believer in communism
• nightmare: Frightening, difficult or displeasing experience
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• leave: To go away from; depart
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• sprint: To race or move at full speed
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• seize: To take a place with force, as by military action
• president: Person in charge of a country, or organization
• invade: To enter something causing a harmful result
• terrible: Very bad; horrible
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• cocktail: Mixed alcoholic drink, containing spirit like gin
• lactose: Sugar comprising one glucose molecule linked to a galactose molecule; occurs only in milk
• swirl: To make a twisting shape, mark, or pattern
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• poop: Feces
• focus: To see clearly by adjusting your eyes or a camera
• conform: To agree or be compatible with something else
• rank: To rate or class things
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• utopia: Imagined perfect society
• shovel: Long tool used for digging; type of spade
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• store: To put things in a place for later use
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• mayor: Head of a town or city government
• level: Specific height of something
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• condom: Rubber cover worn over the penis when having sex
• international: Of or relating to several countries
• strong: (Of tea or beer) dark or thick
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• mash: To make something soft by beating or crushing it
• comrade: Someone you work or fight side by side with
• muslim: Of or relating to Islam
• nanny: Woman paid to take care of the children of others
• slogan: Distinctive phrase used in political campaign, etc.
• whoa: Tell someone to do something more slowly
• laser: Strong narrow beam of high-powered light
• normalize: To make something normal or regular
• childcare: Looking after children and babies
• loser: Someone who fails to win a game or other contest