Vocabulary

• against the world: Feeling alone in opposition to everyone else.
• fall short: To fail to reach a required or expected standard or goal.
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• strike: To hit something
• represent: To depict art objects, figures, scenes; to portray
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• inflation: Act of filling something with air or gas
• facility: Piece of equipment or buildings with a special use
• pledge: To make a promise; make an oath
• dispute: To argue with someone about something
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• wage: Money paid to a worker for the hours they worked
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• slash: Line ( / ) used in writing
• drought: Long period of dry weather
• soar: (Of prices, etc.) to increase a lot in a short time
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• equipment: Tools or materials used to perform a task
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• union: Act of joining two or more things into one
• plant: Factory or a place where things are made
• production: Process of producing or growing food naturally
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• burn: To destroy with fire
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• upheaval: Raising of the earth's upper layer
• level: Specific height of something
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• graze: (Of cows, etc.) to eat grass growing in a field
• long: Person's name
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• face: To cover a surface with something like paint
• meat: Flesh of a dead animal that you eat
• unclear: Not easy to understand; not obvious
• picket: To petition or complain, often outside a company