Vocabulary

• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• hanging out: To spend time with your friends
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• hang out: To spend time with your friends
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• have to: Must do
• like candy: In large amounts or very freely and abundantly.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• going on: To continue doing something
• go for it: An expression of encouragement or approval.
• kick in: (Of a medicine, plan, etc.) to start to have an effect; become operative
• play around: To cheat on your partner romantically
• smoke around: To smoke in various places nearby or around a location.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• walk away: To leave a situation, especially a difficult or unpleasant one.
• time left: The amount of time that remains or is available.
• at death's door: Very close to dying or very seriously ill.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
• huge deal: Something very important or significant.
• bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• spot: A certain place or area
• amount: Quantity of something
• neat: That you approve of; cool
• blow: To move something using air
• hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
• inhale: To breathe in something like air or smoke
• rush: To attack someone suddenly in a group
• viable: Being capable of living, growing, and developing
• leave: To go away from; depart
• gauge: A tool used to measure things
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
• row: To move a boat using oars
• wheat: A kind of grain that is used to make flour
• chew: To bite something many times without swallowing it
• hop: Dance party
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• celery: Long hard thin green vegetable
• great: Very good; better than before
• trust: To expect confidently
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• detective: Person who investigates and solves crimes
• cigarette: White paper tube filled with tobacco
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• puff: To breath in and out quickly
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• powder: Dry material made up of small powder-like pieces
• herb: Small leafy plant used in medicines or food
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• electric: Creating a feeling of excitement
• meal: Food for eating at a particular time, e.g. dinner
• fascinate: To attract or interest greatly
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• death: When someone dies; the end of life
• fry: To cook something in fat or oil
• factory: Building where things are made
• lip: Edge of a hole or container
• toilet: Room where you go to urinate or excrete; bathroom
• sugar: Substance which the body stores or uses for energy
• valet: Servant who looks after clothes of male employer
• heroin: A highly addictive drug, a derivative of morphine
• morphine: Alkaloid narcotic drug extracted from opium
• bathroom: Room where you take a bath or go to the toilet
• homemade: Made at home, not in a factory
• hospice: Nursing home for the dying
• smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
• chomp: To chew noisily and strongly
• cobra: Deadly snake known for its hooded head
• candy: Small sweet foods made mostly of sugar
• requiem: Mass for the dead; music for such a mass
• deco: Geometric style popular in the 1920s and 1930s
• bubblegum: Form of chewing gum
• cheeseburger: Hamburger with melted cheese on it
• cheesecake: A cake made with cream cheese