Vocabulary

• speak of: To mention someone or something in conversation.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the dark: Uninformed about something; unaware.
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• in comfort: In a state of ease and relaxation; without hardship or difficulty.
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• with reason: Having a good or justifiable cause.
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• ritual: Performed as part of a ceremony
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• ancient: Very old; having lived a very long time ago
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• fundamental: Forming a necessary part, base, or core
• capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• sacrifice: Person/animal killed in a sacrifice (to a god)
• shift: To change in position or direction
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• mechanism: Part of a machine that performs a certain function
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• vessel: Container, such as a cup, for holding liquids
• crawl: To move very slowly or cautiously
• catastrophe: Very bad disaster causing much suffering, etc.
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• require: To demand that someone does something
• precision: Performed in a very careful, detailed manner
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• seal: To close tightly to protect it from leaking
• halt: To stop, or cause something, e.g. a car, to stop
• civilization: A highly developed society
• autonomous: Able to control or decide matters by itself
• span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• defy: To refuse to obey; be resistant to
• apocalypse: Great disaster; complete destruction
• silent: Without making any noise; soundless
• throne: Special elaborate chair on which king/queen sits
• decay: To be slowly destroyed by natural processes; rot
• corpse: A dead body
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• prevail: To be successful against enemy/problem
• greatness: Property of outstanding importance or eminence
• scatter: To throw or move into various different directions
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• deep: Complex and important
• millennium: Period of time that lasts one thousand years
• superstition: Unproven belief that some things are lucky/unlucky
• burn: To destroy with fire
• galaxy: A group of stars and planets in space
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• incense: To cause to feel great anger; to infuriate
• mankind: All humans thought of as one group; humanity
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• machine: Piece of equipment used to do work
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• erase: To remove data in computer memory, tape, etc.
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
• forget: To not remember something
• abominable: Extremely bad, horrible, immoral, or unpleasant