Vocabulary

• lead off: To begin; to start something, such as a meeting or performance.
• other than: Except for; apart from.
• on base: Having reached a base safely in baseball.
• in on: To be involved in a secret or plan.
• turn into: To change to become something else
• jump in: To enter a vehicle quickly.
• pop up: To appear suddenly.
• stop by: To visit someone or some place for a short time
• hit away: To continue hitting repeatedly.
• on cue: At exactly the moment expected or required.
• good call: A wise or correct decision; a sensible choice.
• through with: Having had enough (of trouble); wanting to stop
• off the wall: Unconventional; eccentric; bizarre.
• strike out: To not hit the ball when playing baseball
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• out of town: Away from one's usual place of residence or work; absent from the local area.
• to the left: In or toward the left direction.
• on the run: Fleeing or trying to escape, especially from the police.
• third one: The item that is in the third position in a sequence.
• shut out: To prevent from entering; keep out of relationship
• versatile: Having many uses or skills
• strike: To hit something
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
• pitch: To suggest a product, idea to make someone buy
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• bulk: Most of something; majority of
• series: Set of stories or articles on a particular subject
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• shallow: Not deep; short from top to bottom
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• leave: To go away from; depart
• league: Group of people, countries with a common goal
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• foul: Terrible in smell, taste, appearance or morals
• streak: An continuous amount of something, e.g. luck
• carve: To cut a piece of cooked meat into thin slices
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• hop: Dance party
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• score: A sharp mark or cut in the surface of something
• plate: Flat dish used for eating or serving food
• batter: Someone using a bat to play sports, e.g. baseball
• handle: To cope with or take responsibility for
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• percentage: Part of a whole divided into hundredths
• season: One of Spring, Summer, Autumn (Fall) and Winter
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• retire: To stop using, producing, or servicing something
• bench: Part of the room in court where the judge sits
• triple: Group or set of three
• lineup: People arranged by police for identification
• ballpark: Facility in which ball games are played
• airport: A place where passenger planes land and take off
• twofold: Two of something
• swung: To move something in a back and forth motion
• softly: In a gentle or quiet manner
• cutter: A special tool used for cutting things
• sweeper: Employee who sweeps floors, streets etc.
• cleanly: Done according to the rules or standards; fair
• strikeout: When the batter gets three strikes in baseball