Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• start off: To begin or commence something.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• push out: To prevent others from competing, e.g. in business
• push back: To force someone to withdraw or retreat
• push away: To move someone or something away from you by pushing.
• on the ball: Alert, quick to understand and respond to things.
• jump in: To enter a vehicle quickly.
• march on: To continue with a journey or task despite difficulties.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• in a row: One after another without a break.
• start out: To begin your life or career in a particular way.
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• upper body: The part of the body above the waist, including the chest, back, shoulders, and arms.
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• leg up: Assistance given to someone by lifting or pushing them up.
• pull up on: To approach and stop a vehicle near a place.
• come up: To come closer to someone; approach
• turn in: To produce or achieve a good performance
• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• look to: Be looking to. be planning to (do something)
• push on: To continue with some effort; persevere
• push down: To apply pressure to something from above, forcing it downwards.
• rise up: To attempt to defeat government or ruler
• turn on
• come together: To assemble or unite; to start working together.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• aggressive: Using energy and determination to achieve a goal
• strength: Condition of being strong
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• barrier: Difficult situation preventing something happening
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• guide: To help or advise someone about something
• click: To work well with someone or something
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• element: Essential or particular part of something
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• slice: Way of hitting the ball so the ball curves
• leave: To go away from; depart
• slight: Small (amount, quality)
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• bend: To become curved or no longer straight
• comfortable: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• gather: To bring objects together into one place
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• stationary: Being still or unmoving
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• pump: To make liquid or gas flow in a particular direction
• blade: One of several flat pieces in a fan which move air
• heel: Back or end part of something
• upper: Drug that improves mood or increases energy
• unnecessary: Being more than needed or not needed
• glide: To move smoothly and quietly as if without effort
• toe: One of the five parts at the end of your foot
• rink: A ice playing area for ice hockey or curling
• skate: Flat sea fish
• clockwise: In the same direction as a clock's hands
• chassis: Supporting frame of a structure, esp. a car