Vocabulary

• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• on the internet: Located or available on the internet.
• just kind of: Used to express a feeling or state in a vague or hesitant way.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• going on: To continue doing something
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• accent: To give emphasis to (a point you are making)
• imitate: To act, speak like someone or something else
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• default: Automatic setting when no indicated preference
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• neutral: Something with pH value of 7
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• dominance: Having more power, success than others
• exception: Something different or not included
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• randomly: With no pattern or clear purpose; by chance
• dialect: Way of speaking used by a group or in a region
• millennial: Concerning a millennium (a thousand years)
• original: Being first made, thought or performed; fresh
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• invade: To enter something causing a harmful result
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• nowadays: At the present time; now
• land: Region or country
• person: Man, woman or child
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• regional: Of a particular area, not the whole of a country
• upper: Drug that improves mood or increases energy
• impersonation: Imitating the mannerisms of another person
• fashionable: Behaving and dressing as is currently popular
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
• gen: (UK old-fashioned, informal) Information about a particular subject
• grandma: Mother of your father or mother
• midwest: North central region of the United States