Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• on the beach: Located on the sandy or pebbly area bordering a body of water.
• check out
• come around: To eventually change your opinion or be persuaded to agree with someone else's.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• wash up: To clean the plates, bowls and cups after eating
• watch out: To be careful; to be alert to danger
• mess with: To interfere with or tamper with something.
• drive up: To cause something to increase.
• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• on the horizon: About to happen; approaching.
• look to: Be looking to. be planning to (do something)
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• see out: To continue doing something until it ends, especially something difficult or unpleasant.
• apartment building: A building with many apartments or flats
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• like new: In very good, almost perfect condition as if unused.
• a few moments: A short period of time
• save up: To gradually collect money by saving.
• way up here: At a high or elevated location, often emphasizing the distance or effort to reach it.
• get lost: An impolite way of telling someone to go away.
• made with: Containing a particular ingredient or material.
• no smoking: A rule or sign indicating that smoking is not allowed in a particular area.
• for some reason: For a reason that is not known or not easily explained.
• out of it: Unconscious or not completely alert; dazed or confused.
• in jail: Imprisoned; confined in a jail or prison.
• on the other hand : Considering a different aspect of the matter; alternatively.
• walk behind: To walk closely following someone or something behind.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• on the news: Reported or broadcasted as part of a news program.
• nothing to write home about: Not particularly interesting, good, or noteworthy.
• passed by: Went past someone or something.
• walk down: To walk along or down something.
• go past: To move beyond a particular place or point.
• hand on: To pass or transfer something physically to someone else.
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• get here: To arrive at a specific location.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• fluent: Doing something well and with ease
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• dude: Form of address for a man
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• path: Method of living leading to a particular result
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• trail: Series of marks or signs left by something moving
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• mischievous: Doing harm
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• leave: To go away from; depart
• narrow: Not wide; short from one side to the other
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• marine: Soldier trained to serve on land and sea
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• loose: To shoot or fire something from a gun
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
• alphabet: Letters, symbols, characters of a written language
• dirt: Loose earth or soil
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• naughty: Behaving badly, e.g. so as to annoy adults
• balcony: Platform with a rail projecting out of a building
• steal: A bargain; something bought very cheaply
• campus: Grounds of an institution, e.g. a university
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• poisonous: Harmful; unfriendly; unpleasant
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• decompose: To cause (chemical) to separate into smaller parts
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• land: Region or country
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• tide: Way opinions or events are developing or changing
• spiky: Having a long sharp point
• part: Division of a book
• official: Real, exact, truely felt
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• lizard: Reptile with scales and a long body and tail
• sand: Area composed of tiny pieces of rock near an ocean
• apartment: Set of rooms to live in on one floor of a building
• silhouette: Image/drawing showing only the outline, as of head
• turquoise: Color that is a combination of green and blue
• mainland: Main land mass of a country or continent
• bridge: Structure built over river, road so you can cross
• shellfish: Sea animals such as shrimps, lobsters, clams etc.
• scooter: Light motorcycle, usually with small wheels