Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• contrast with: To be strikingly different from something else.
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• come between: To be the cause of a disagreement between people
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• sound right: To seem correct or accurate.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• get here: To arrive at a specific location.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• off the air: Not currently being broadcast on television or radio.
• call attention to: To make someone notice something.
• get excited: To become enthusiastic or eager.
• check out
• in touch: Having contact or communication with someone.
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• phrase: Common expression or saying
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• 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
• 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
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• contrast: To compare; to show clear, obvious differences
• ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
• huge: Very very large
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• syllable: Part of a word containing a vowel
• intonation: Rises and falls in pitch of speech
• click: To work well with someone or something
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• academy: School that specializes in certain subjects
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• important: Having power or authority
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
• cluster: To come together in a group, flock etc.
• throat: Part of the neck that is below the chin
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• flatter: To praise in a rather false way, to get something
• speech: A formal talk to an audience
• abrupt: Very sudden, often in a bad way
• consonant: Music (of a note) in harmony
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• smooth: Moving without stops and starts
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• exclamation: Abrupt excited utterance
• stew: To cook meat or vegetables in hot water
• terribly: To an extreme degree; badly; very
• glide: To move smoothly and quietly as if without effort
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• unstressed: Having no accent or stress when spoken
• hoe: Garden tool used to remove weeds or break ground