Vocabulary

• pull off: To manage to succeed
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• take away from: To reduce the positive effect or value of something.
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• wake up: To stop sleeping
• look back: To think about past events
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• call attention to: To make someone notice something.
• loaded gun: A firearm containing ammunition ready to be fired.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• end in: To have something as the final result.
• in itself: Considered alone or without reference to anything else; intrinsically.
• in the end: Finally; after a period of time or series of events.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• episode: One separate event in a series of events
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• audience: Group of people attending a play, movie etc.
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• craft: To make by hand and with much skill
• norm: Standard or regular way of doing something
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• swallow: To believe (something that is not true)
• string: To tie or connect things together with a thread
• dedication: Addressing book, song to someone to show respect
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• utter: To make a particular sound; speak
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• facade: False front of a particularly impressive building
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• comedy: Amusing play, film, usually with a happy ending
• frequency: Number of repetitions of (radio or sound) wave
• devote: To dedicate
• insist: To demand that someone do something
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• grave: Hole in the ground in which you place a dead body
• psychiatric: Concerning the treatment of the mind
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• constellation: Group of things or people that are similar
• trophy: Prize given to the winner of a competition
• great: Very good; better than before
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• shrewd: Clever at understanding and making judgments
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• devotion: Strong love or attachment; a commitment to
• mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
• laugh: To make a happy sound when something is funny
• deep: Complex and important
• resemblance: Being similar in appearance
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• psychiatrist: Doctor who treats psychological disorders
• defensive: Protecting something, yourself from attack
• ridicule: Act of exposing someone to laughter; mockery
• vanish: To disappear in a sudden and mysterious way
• ramble: To talk or write in an apparently purposeless way
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• punchline: Last line of a joke
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• progression: Process of developing over time
• crazy: Mentally ill; mad
• predicate: To base something on a previous situation
• distaste: When you have no liking for something; disgust
• moth: Insect with large wings that flies around at night
• shaggy: Covered with long, coarse, or matted hair
• bedside: (Of bed) by the side of a bed