Vocabulary

• take down: To capture physically
• take off: To remove, e.g. your clothes
• carry on: To engage in an activity, e.g. a conversation
• wrap up: To complete something, such as a film or project
• give back: To return something you borrowed
• eat out: To eat at a restaurant
• get along: To have a friendly relationship with someone; like
• go on: To continue doing something
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• called off: To cancel or stop planning an activity or event
• see off: To say goodbye to someone who is going away
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• talk over: To discuss something thoroughly in order to reach a decision or agreement.
• turn down: To fold something, e.g. a shirt collar
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• give away
• hang out: To spend time with your friends
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• take after: To resemble (an older family member); favor
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• let in: To allow someone to enter or come in
• pass out: To distribute or hand out papers to people
• phone number: A sequence of digits assigned to a telephone subscriber, used to make a call to that phone.
• call out: To criticize someone to modify their behavior
• by chance: Accidentally; without planning.
• have to: Must do
• do over: To repeat an action; do something again
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• for free: Without charge; at no cost.
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• hanging out: To spend time with your friends
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• let down
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• pass away: A polite way of saying 'to die'
• run over: To go beyond a limit, e.g. of a budget
• ask out: To ask someone to go on a date
• break out
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• wrap: Piece of clothing worn loosely on the shoulders
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• vomit: Food coming back up from stomach, due to illness
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• charity: Kindness and willingness to forgive, help
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• vehicle: Machine (such as a car) used to carry things
• hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• resemble: To be similar to in looks or manner
• shelf: Flat, narrow surface on an area of rock or sand
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• faint: To suddenly become unconscious and fall down
• accident: Sudden unplanned event causing damage, injury etc.
• proposal: Act of asking someone to marry you
• refuse: To not accept, allow, or give something
• flight: Act of leaving a place, usually to escape danger
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• quit: To leave a job
• concert: Musical entertainment performed in public
• dizzy: Feeling light-headed and as if you might fall
• collect: By asking the receiver of a call to pay for it
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• marriage: Relationship between a husband and a wife
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• unexpectedly: In a surprising way because not expected
• shout: To speak very loudly to get attention
• exam: (Medical) test to find out what is wrong
• disappoint: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
• lend: To let someone borrow something for a while
• handwriting: Way a person's writing looks
• mall: Large public area often covered with grass
• clothe: To put a certain type of clothing on someone; dress
• airport: A place where passenger planes land and take off
• airplane: A machine that flies through the air
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother