Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• scoop up: To gather or pick up something with a scoop or similar tool.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• for myself: Done for one's own benefit or use.
• better understanding: An improved level of comprehension or knowledge.
• in a row: One after another without a break.
• check out
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• rhythm: Pattern of events, motions, or changes
• accent: To give emphasis to (a point you are making)
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
• pitch: To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• scoop: To dig out for a hole with a tool or hands
• syllable: Part of a word containing a vowel
• colleague: Person you work or cooperate with
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• bounce: A person's energy or confidence
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• object: Something you can see or touch, but is not alive
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• master: To gain control over something
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• row: To move a boat using oars
• vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
• alphabet: Letters, symbols, characters of a written language
• cluster: To come together in a group, flock etc.
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• abrupt: Very sudden, often in a bad way
• verb: Word that expresses an action or state
• consonant: Music (of a note) in harmony
• scan: To look inside of the body with a special machine
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• noun: The subject or object of a sentence
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• nifty: Very good or useful; clever; effective
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• phonetic: Concerning the sounds of languages
• apostrophe: Punctuation mark (') showing possession
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• flatten: To make level and spread out over a surface
• opera: A type of play that is sung with classical music
• singe: To burn lightly, often to remove hair