Vocabulary

• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• down to earth: Practical, realistic, and approachable.
• sound right: To seem correct or accurate.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• call down: To invoke or summon from a higher power or authority.
• on time
• shoot down: To make plane fall from sky by shooting rockets
• on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• tuned to: To adjust a radio receiver to the frequency of a particular station.
• heat up: To become warmer; to make something warmer.
• into space: Toward or entering the region beyond Earth's atmosphere.
• spot on: Exactly right; perfectly accurate.
• move into: To start living in a new house or building
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• atmosphere: Air around us
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• blast: To attack someone with words
• craft: To make by hand and with much skill
• expertise: The special knowledge that an expert has
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• orbit: Path an object takes as it circles another object
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• envision: To imagine or picture in your mind
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• bullet: Metal object fired from a gun
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• vehicle: Machine (such as a car) used to carry things
• phase: Different stages of the moon from new to full
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• fundamentally: In a basic and important way
• reliable: Being likely to be true; believable
• totally: In a complete way; completely; absolutely
• curve: Smooth rounded line that is not straight
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• defense: Argument in support of something
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• maneuver: Military movement of troops
• parachute: To drop supplies from a plane via parachute
• capsule: Tube-shaped plastic casing filled with medicine
• ammunition: Supply of bullets, etc. that are fired from guns
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• point: An item to be discussed
• founder: Person establishing an organization, school etc.
• inversion: Change in position so things become the opposite
• constellation: Group of things or people that are similar
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• missile: A weapon that is thrown, shot or launched
• burn: To destroy with fire
• plasma: Substance in which the blood cells are carried
• cargo: Goods carried in a ship or plane
• entry: Act of entering a room, building, party
• globe: A round object, e.g. like the earth; sphere
• shortcut: A route that is shorter than the normal
• torch: Light or flame to be carried in the hand
• freight: Commercial transportation of goods
• upper: Drug that improves mood or increases energy
• dome: Rounded roof or ceiling shaped like half a ball
• spacecraft: Vehicle capable of traveling to outer space
• atmospheric: Concerning or located in the air around us
• charcoal: Burnt wood used for fuel/drawing
• arc: Smoothly curving line or movement
• aerospace: Industry of air and space travel
• incoming: Coming toward a place or position; arriving
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer