Vocabulary

• keeping up: To understand what someone is saying
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• have to: Must do
• land on: To come down to the ground or another surface after flying or falling.
• look into: To investigate or try to discover the reasons for
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• to rights: Done correctly or properly, especially fixing problems.
• gender equality: The state in which access to rights or opportunities is unaffected by gender.
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• for some reason: For a reason that is not known or not easily explained.
• once and for all: Completely and finally; decisively.
• come together: To assemble or unite; to start working together.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• off of: From a position on something; down from.
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• overwhelming: To defeat something or someone completely
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• adorable: Lovable or appealing, e.g. like a cute child
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• bold: Brave; very confident; too confident
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• jerk: Someone you think is an idiot
• debt: Sum of money owed to someone that is not yet paid
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• clue: Information that helps explain something; hint
• plain: Obvious; clearly so, true
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• wisdom: Knowledge gained from experience in life
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• gender: State of being male or female
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• heck: Expressing surprise, or frustration
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• racism: Belief that people of other races are bad/inferior
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• stressful: Worrying; causing tension
• compete: To try to beat others at something, e.g. a race
• millennial: Concerning a millennium (a thousand years)
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• imagination: Ability to creates new ideas and mental images
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• avocado: Pear-shaped fruit with green flesh and large stone
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• soul: Central or basic part of something
• addict: Person who can’t control their overuse of a thing
• mirror: Thing with glass surface used to look at yourself
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• refuse: To not accept, allow, or give something
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• mobile: Able to be moved or able to move
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• entitle: To make you eligible to hold a title
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• toast: Bread grilled to make it brown and crisp
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• keep: Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
• bogus: Not genuine; false
• depress: To make someone feel sad or miserable
• truce: Agreement between opponents to stop fighting
• judgmental: Depending on judgment
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• nah: Way of saying 'No'
• generational: Concerning people born at about the same time