Vocabulary

• root for: To support a sports team
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• go along with: To agree to do something
• carve out: To create or obtain something through effort or skill.
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• play out: To use up or exhaust
• put away: To put things in a closet, etc.; tidy up
• close up: A photograph or film shot taken of a subject at close range.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• give in: To submit work; hand in
• of all time: The best or most significant in history.
• relevant: Having an effect on an issue; related or current
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• vocabulary: Words that have to do with a particular subject
• audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• trial: Hearing and judgment of a case in court
• narrative: The telling of a story
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• cruel: Hurtful; acting to hurt others intentionally
• innocent: Free from guilt or responsibility for a crime
• sympathy: Feeling for other people when they are in trouble
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• construction: Act of building something; thing that is built
• intonation: Rises and falls in pitch of speech
• insanity: Mentally ill, unable to act normally
• equation: Mathematical statement showing things to be equal
• sympathetic: Feeling favorable to something; wanting to support
• anatomy: Scientific study of the structure of (human) body
• distinction: Special quality that makes something different
• favorite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
• ambiguous: Able to be understood in more than one way
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• defense: Argument in support of something
• revenge: Getting back at someone by hurting them back
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• verdict: Jury or judges finding or decision as to guilt
• tight: Showing anxiety or anger; tense
• protagonist: Main character in a story
• juvenile: Concerning young people or children
• justice: Quality of being fair, equal, or just
• accurately: Exactly and without any mistakes; correctly
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• alternate: To follow one thing after another repeatedly
• testimony: Public statement of personal religious experiences
• legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
• disregard: To treat something as unimportant; ignore
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• bruise: To cause a dark mark in the flesh through injury
• incarceration: Act of putting in prison
• flirty: Playfully trying to arouse sexual interest
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• cop: Slang for police officer
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• design: To plan in a particular way to fulfill a purpose
• prosecute: To try to prove someone legally guilty of a crime
• prosecution: Lawyers acting to prove a defendant guilty
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• bartender: Employee who makes and serves alcohol at a bar
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• latent: Existing but needing certain conditions to start
• lieutenant: Officer in the army, navy, or air force
• penchant: Definite liking; a strong inclination
• solemnly: In a grave and sedate manner
• courtroom: Room in which a law court sits
• granular: Composed of or covered with grain
• quill: Pen made from a bird's feather
• clink: To make light sound as when glasses are tapped
• lt: Short for 'lieutenant'