Vocabulary

• incredible: Very good; amazing
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• current: Electricity flowing through wires
• climate: Typical weather conditions in a particular place
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• dignity: Person of high rank deserving respect
• financial: Involving money
• indigenous: Being naturally from an area, not somewhere else
• conference: Series of lectures held as an event
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
• address: Exact street location of a place
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• agenda: Plan or policy to achieve your goal or intentions
• topic: Subject or issue people talk or write about
• project: To predict what will happen in the future
• element: Essential or particular part of something
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• important: Having power or authority
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• sustainability: Property of being able to be continued/repeated
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• piece: A counter in a board game
• campus: Grounds of an institution, e.g. a university
• conservation: Protecting the environment or a species
• pollution: Dangerous substances released into an environment
• broadly: In a general (not detailed) manner
• scholarship: Work of learning, studying, acquiring knowledge
• lightning: Flashes of light in the sky caused by a storm
• evident: Clearly the case; plain; apparent
• pipeline: Line of pipes used for carrying gases or liquids
• nonprofit: Not commercially motivated; charitable
• dissertation: An in-depth paper submitted for a higher degree
• displacement: Number of liters a petrol engine has