Vocabulary

• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• in the hot seat: In a stressful or difficult position requiring accountability.
• to date: Up to the present time; until now.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• insane: Mentally ill; crazy
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• adorable: Lovable or appealing, e.g. like a cute child
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• character: Person in a story, movie or play
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• manipulate: To try to control others to gain an advantage
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• underestimate: To make too low a guess of something's size, value
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• impression: Effect or feeling resulting from an experience
• innocent: Free from guilt or responsibility for a crime
• sniff: To detect something, e.g. a potential problem
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• strategic: Concerned with strategy; well thought out
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• hostage: Person held prisoner to get a demand satisfied
• entertain: To receive someone as a guest
• emotionally: In a way that shows your feelings
• grace: Dignified polite behavior, as when things go badly
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• tame: Not wild; trained to obey people
• person: Man, woman or child
• trust: To expect confidently
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• invite: To ask someone to go somewhere or do something
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• ass: (Impolite) part of the human body that you sit on
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• penis: Male organ for copulation and urination
• machine: Piece of equipment used to do work
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• pancake: Flat cake of fried on both sides on a griddle, etc.
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• wee: Scottish and Northern English small; short
• info: Shortened form of the word 'information'
• negotiator: Person holding a discussion to reach agreement
• airplane: A machine that flies through the air
• waltz: Dignified dance of two people holding each other
• grandpa: Your mother or father's father
• jay: Bird with a blue and white pattern on the wing
• puppeteer: Person who uses puppets to perform for a show