Vocabulary

• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• stake: Share/interest in the success of a business, etc.
• property: Particular quality that someone or something has
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• steer: A cow
• couple: To join something to something else
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• hesitate: To pause because unsure or reluctant to do
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• deposit: Concentration of mineral left by a river
• exhausting: To emit gas from the back of a car
• eager: Very excited and interested
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• biscuit: A cookie
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• hook: Bent tool used to catch fish or to hang things on
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• operation: Business or company, or its activities
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• cattle: Cows or bulls on a farm
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• impeccable: That cannot be faulted/criticized; without flaws
• marble: A hard type of stone, often used in monuments
• slaughter: Act of killing an animal to get its meat
• legendary: Being a very famous sports player, actor etc.
• tally: To count or reckon up; to score a point
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• shovel: Long tool used for digging; type of spade
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• crown: To put a crown on to make someone a king/queen
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• heaven: Place or feeling of great happiness
• rob: Person's name
• hole: An empty space, as in the ground, in a sock etc.
• ranch: Large farm, made mostly of land for raising cattle
• governor: Person who leads a state or province
• snitch: To take by theft; to steal
• wrestler: Fighter holding parts of their opponents body
• bitch: To aggressively complain about something
• nick: Person's name
• certify: To approve someone as authorized, valid
• wade: Person's name
• cowboy: Man who tends cattle or sheep (often from a horse)
• restart: To begin working again after it has stopped
• bingo: Game of chance played by calling random numbers