Vocabulary

• spread out: To extend or stretch over a large area.
• sum up
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• slow down: To reduce the speed
• as a rule: Generally; usually
• one up: In a better or more advantageous position.
• in the ground: Located within or beneath the surface of the earth.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• orbit: Path an object takes as it circles another object
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• pace: Rate of speed at which something moves or happens
• couple: To join something to something else
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• thumb: To use your thumb to request a ride in a car
• equation: Mathematical statement showing things to be equal
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• leave: To go away from; depart
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• carbon: Chemical element with an atomic number of 6
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• methane: Colorless gas without smell often used as fuel
• uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
• chain: To feel to be bound or tied to
• hydrogen: Lightest of all chemical elements
• plate: Flat dish used for eating or serving food
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• fill: To make something full
• quantum: The smallest unit or amount of energy
• stable: In a position where something does not fall over
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
• palace: Official home of a ruler, such as a king or queen
• rule: Something that is normal and usually happens
• deep: Complex and important
• part: Division of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• tug: To pull (something) hard or suddenly
• dot: To place small amounts/things in various places
• mechanical: Done without thought or feeling; automatic
• quadruple: To make or become four times bigger in number
• proton: Tiny part of atom with positive electrical charge
• orbital: Concerning an orbit
• angular: Having one or more sharp angles
• purview: Area of authority, knowledge of influence
• pi: The ratio of the circumference to the diameter
• sigma: 18th letter of the Greek alphabet -