Vocabulary

• on the ground: Located on the surface of the earth.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• got to: To arrive at some place
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• run by: To be managed or controlled by someone or a group.
• Easier said than done: More difficult than it appears to be.
• pop up: To appear suddenly.
• pulled off: To manage to succeed
• out of the box: Thinking in an original or creative way.
• spot on: Exactly right; perfectly accurate.
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• down the line: At a later time; in the future.
• halfway through: At or in the middle of a period of time or an activity.
• step to: To approach someone or something, often with a specific purpose.
• pull ahead: To move in front, e.g. in a race
• pitch in: To help or join together to accomplish something
• for some reason: For a reason that is not known or not easily explained.
• come from behind: To win after being in a losing position initially.
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• strike: To hit something
• aisle: Long narrow space between rows of seats
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• pitch: To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
• shallow: Not deep; short from top to bottom
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• tap: To access a liquid (e.g. in a tree) through a hole
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• theme: An main or dominant idea, motif
• slash: Line ( / ) used in writing
• slice: Way of hitting the ball so the ball curves
• leave: To go away from; depart
• straw: Dry yellow stems of crops such as wheat
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of 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
• connect: To associate a thing with something else
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• score: A sharp mark or cut in the surface of something
• sack: To put something in a large bag
• swing: Movement in a curved motion
• load: Large, often heavy, amount of a thing to be moved
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• shot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• fence: Wood, metal structure enclosing an area, land
• jam: To block a signal (e.g. radio waves)
• halfway: A middle point between two extremes
• retirement: Time later in life when you stop working
• minimize: To make something seem small or less important
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• tag: Child's game in which one person chases the others
• back: Farthest from the front e.g. in a classroom
• come: To arrive at a place
• popped: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• victory: Defeating or beating someone or something
• unbelievable: Being very hard to believe; very great
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• overpower: To control or defeat something or someone by force
• incoming: Coming toward a place or position; arriving
• solo: Being performed or done alone
• miller: Someone who grinds grain into flour
• strikeout: When the batter gets three strikes in baseball