Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• got to: To arrive at some place
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• drive down: To cause something to decrease or become lower.
• see past: To overlook flaws or errors and accept.
• do the right thing: To behave in a morally correct or proper way.
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• optimistic: Tending to believe the future will be good
• film: Thin layer that covers something
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• worthwhile: Worth the money, time or effort of doing something
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• tale: Story that is not true
• complicate: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• pessimistic: Having negative feelings about the future
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• horror: Feeling of great shock or fear; thing causing it
• election: Process of choosing someone by voting
• adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
• ache: To want something very badly
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• point: An item to be discussed
• contribution: Helping a cause by giving money, things, services
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• great: Very good; better than before
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• person: Man, woman or child
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• drug: Illegal substance taken for effect on the mind
• lush: Someone who is often drunk
• needle: Part of a medical device used to inject medicine
• tweet: Weak chirping sound as of a small bird
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• altruistic: Selfless concern for the well-being of others
• incumbent: A person who holds a particular office or position
• boulevard: Wide, grand street often with trees on both sides
• lotus: Any aquatic plant of the water lily family
• noon: Middle of the day
• honeymoon: Holiday or trip taken by a newly married couple
• soprano: Pitch range of the highest female voice