Vocabulary

• add fuel to the fire: To make a bad situation worse by increasing tension or anger.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• make it worse: To aggravate a situation; to make something bad even worse.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• like anything: Used to emphasize strong intensity or effort.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• have to: Must do
• check out
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• reputation: Common opinion that people have about someone
• conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
• spouse: Someone's husband or wife
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• fuel: To give power to (a mob, anger, etc.); incite
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
• furious: Extremely angry
• upset: (Of stomach, etc.) not functioning well; sick
• messy: Being complex or difficult to fix
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• idiom: Phrase with a special, metaphoric meaning
• couple: To join something to something else
• rude: Being unkind or impolite to others; disrespectful
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• leave: To go away from; depart
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• frustrate: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• yell: A sudden loud cry or shout
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• gasoline: Liquid we put in cars to make them run
• complaint: Saying something is wrong and should be changed
• calmly: Without getting emotional, e.g. in times of stress