Vocabulary

• touch and go: A situation that is uncertain or risky, possibly dangerous.
• get it on: To start doing what you say you will do
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• intensity: Great energy, strength, or concentration
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• tension: Feeling of anxiety and inability to relax
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• zone: Area of space designated for a particular use
• deck: Floor built into a ship, bus, plane or home
• shove: To roughly push someone or something away
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
• pedal: Lever worked by the foot, e.g. the brakes of a car
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• overdrive: Extra gear on a vehicle that allows more power
• touch: To affect feelings, especially by causing sympathy
• twilight: Period of time just as the sun sets
• engine: Machine that changes energy into mechanical motion
• overload: To make a machine work too hard so it might break
• listen: To carefully consider what someone is saying
• danger: The possibility of getting hurt, damaged, killed
• high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
• jump: To attack someone suddenly
• tonight: Night following this day
• highway: Main road connecting places
• red: Being the color of blood