Vocabulary

• time out: A brief suspension of activity; a pause.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• double up: To bend your body quickly, for example because you are in pain or because you are laughing a lot
• coming over: To change sides in a discussion
• set up
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• bat out: To write or produce something quickly with effort.
• walk down: To walk along or down something.
• going on: To continue doing something
• in a hurry: Acting or moving with great haste; rushed.
• off the wall: Unconventional; eccentric; bizarre.
• strike back: To retaliate or counterattack.
• right back: Said when someone says they will return soon, indicating you expect their prompt return.
• on deck: In baseball, being the next batter to come up to bat.
• out of the box: Thinking in an original or creative way.
• step out: To go outside for a short time
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• game over: The end of a game or a situation.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• kinda: Short way of saying 'kind of'
• strike: To hit something
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• lean: To balance against or on something for support
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• pitch: To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
• series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• shallow: Not deep; short from top to bottom
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• leave: To go away from; depart
• organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• trip: To release an electrical switch
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• rally: Public meeting to support or oppose something
• roll: Small, round piece of bread for one person to eat
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• slide: Part of machines that slides backward and forward
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• sweep: Man who cleans chimneys
• great: Very good; better than before
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• corner: To force into a position impossible to escape from
• tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• level: Specific height of something
• tag: Child's game in which one person chases the others
• retire: To stop using, producing, or servicing something
• mound: Raised area on the ground on which pitcher stands
• turf: Grass or a grass-like surface
• alleyway: A narrow street with walls on both sides
• lunge: To thrust or reach forward with a sudden motion
• lone: Being alone or the only one; single
• bouncer: Person who removes troublemakers out of a bar
• liner: Material used to cover the inside surface of
• earpiece: Part on a phone you put next to your ear to hear
• cutter: A special tool used for cutting things
• hoo: Dialect West Yorkshire and Lancashire she