Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• civil engineer: An engineer who designs and maintains public works, such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• in public: In a place where anyone can see or hear you.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• prioritize: To rank things in importance
• deserve: To be worthy of, e.g. getting praise or attention
• infrastructure: Basic necessary equipment for a country or region
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• ordinary: Normal or usual
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• cast: People who appear in a play or movie
• retail: Business of selling products to the public
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• propaganda: (Use of) message that you want people to accept
• communicate: To give and exchange information
• sewage: Waste matter/excrement carried away in sewers
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• anonymous: Unknown; with no name revealed
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• cram: To add more to something that is already full
• linger: To take your time doing something; hang around
• visual: Of or relating to vision
• competent: Fully qualified or capable of doing
• dwell: To live in a certain place
• disposable: Being available to be used or spent
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• countless: Being too many to be numbered or imagined
• spill: Accident when someone falls
• waste: To kill or severely harm someone
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• public: Owned by the government
• replace: To use instead of something else
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• efficiency: Working well; producing something without waste
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• metric: Based on the meter as a standard of measurement
• contradiction: Saying or showing something is not so
• aluminum: Very light silvery-white metal used to make cans
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• pump: To make liquid or gas flow in a particular direction
• acceptable: Satisfactory; good enough
• miraculous: Wonderful; extraordinary
• plant: Factory or a place where things are made
• metal: Usually hard shiny material mined from rock
• ornament: An object used to decorate or enhance something
• quaint: Appealing and attractive in an outdated way
• bore: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• startling: So remarkably different or sudden as to shock
• sewer: Underground pipe that removes water and waste
• crest: Showy part growing from the top of a bird's head
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• shaft: To ruin the plans or prospects of others
• fixture: Item that is part of something for a long time
• cobra: Deadly snake known for its hooded head
• handcraft: To make an art object by hand
• manhole: Covered hole used to access underground structures