Vocabulary

• take off: To remove, e.g. your clothes
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• check out
• on time
• break up
• split up: To break up your marriage or relationship
• due to: Because of; owing to
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• turn on
• turn off
• take out: To apply for and get a license
• put off: To take off, e.g. clothing
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• bring back: To cause to remember
• wake up: To stop sleeping
• get along: To have a friendly relationship with someone; like
• turn down: To fold something, e.g. a shirt collar
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• set up
• bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
• go on: To continue doing something
• turn in: To produce or achieve a good performance
• point out: To make others aware of an idea
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• carry out
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• take in: To allow to enter; receive as a guest
• drop off: To leave someone, something somewhere
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• look into: To investigate or try to discover the reasons for
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• switch on: To put something electrical on or off
• switch off
• throw away: To fail to take advantage of a good chance
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• make up: To invent or create a story
• let down
• stop working: To cease performing a task or function; to become non-operational.
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• presentation: Act of giving a formal talk about something
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• anticipate: To expect or look ahead to something positively
• register: To record your name on an official list; sign up
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• due: When something is required or expected
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• application: Software program, e.g. for smart phone
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• argument: Discussion in which you disagree with someone
• topic: Subject or issue people talk or write about
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• leave: To go away from; depart
• cautious: Careful about avoiding danger, problems
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• phrasal: Concerning or consisting of a phrase
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• execute: To kill someone, usually as an official punishment
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• reception: Front desk area of an organization or building
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• postpone: To schedule for a later time
• point: An item to be discussed
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• quit: To leave a job
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• trash: Garbage or anything that is worthless
• oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
• unexpectedly: In a surprising way because not expected
• quarrel: To have an angry argument or disagreement
• disappoint: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
• socialize: To spend time with people; go out and make friends
• depart: To die
• disagreement: Act or state of not agreeing
• breakup: End of a relationship often due to troubles
• checkout: Counter in a supermarket where you pay for goods