Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• under control: Being managed or restrained; not out of hand.
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• prior to: Before a particular time or event.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• have to: Must do
• after hours: After the usual closing time.
• record holder: A person or thing that holds a record, especially in sports.
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• barrier: Difficult situation preventing something happening
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• couple: To join something to something else
• mentally: With or in the mind and thoughts
• prior: Existing or coming earlier in time
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• device: Object, machine, or equipment for a specific use
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• leave: To go away from; depart
• skull: Structure of bones forming the face and head
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• important: Having power or authority
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• survival: Act of continuing to exist when facing difficulty
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• attach: To be associated or connected with
• aircraft: Vehicle that can fly
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• protocol: Written agreement between countries
• stable: In a position where something does not fall over
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• corner: To force into a position impossible to escape from
• weigh: To balance things against each other
• weight: How heavy something is
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• chute: Sloping channel or passage to throw things down
• whiz: To move fast, making whistling or whoosh sound
• wisp: Thin light bit of something, e.g. a cloud or hair
• gee: Give a command to a horse to turn to right
• mach: Unit that expresses the speed of an airplane