Vocabulary

• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• pass by: To go past someone or something.
• going on: To continue doing something
• in time: Eventually; after a period of time.
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• care for: To want or desire a thing
• on to: Toward something; forward
• piece together: To assemble or put together from fragments or parts.
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• got to: To arrive at some place
• equivalent: Equal to something in value, use or meaning
• mental: Concerning the mind
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• dignity: Person of high rank deserving respect
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• statement: Record of activity in a bank account over time
• desperately: In a way that shows you don't have much hope
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
• debris: Remains of something broken or destroyed
• extract: Essential ingredient of a natural thing
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• leave: To go away from; depart
• aviation: Science or practice of flying aircraft
• funeral: Ceremony of burying, burning a dead body
• investigation: Search for information about something
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• accommodation: Adapting to become better at handling situations
• stark: Very clear and often unpleasant
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• regard: Admiration or respect for a person or thing
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• memorial: Ceremony or monument honoring dead person, people
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• anniversary: Date occuring every year of a past event, wedding
• collide: To come together or crash with a lot of force
• handle: To cope with or take responsibility for
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• false: Not real or genuine
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• critically: As part of the process of judging something
• medical: Of or relating to physical health or medicine
• suspend: To hang something or someone from something
• license: To give official permission to do something
• bind: To cover a wound, as with a bandage
• miraculous: Wonderful; extraordinary
• lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
• burn: To destroy with fire
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• grapple: To engage in close hand-to-hand combat
• wreckage: Remaining parts of something that has been wrecked
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• hallway: Interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open
• happen: To take place or occur
• plane: An airplane
• utmost: Greatest possible
• casket: Box in which dead people are buried; coffin
• decease: To die
• coroner: Person whose job is to find out the cause of death
• fireball: Ball of fire (such as the sun)