Vocabulary

• up close and personal: Very near or intimately, often in detail or physically close.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• all over the place: In a state of disorder; scattered everywhere.
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• franchise: Right to run a business using name of a company
• performance: Act of doing something
• blow: To move something using air
• couple: To join something to something else
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• guard: To keep watch over something to protect it
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• league: Group of people, countries with a common goal
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• tune: To make adjustments to equipment to make it better
• foul: Terrible in smell, taste, appearance or morals
• block: Solid piece of material used for building
• score: A sharp mark or cut in the surface of something
• point: An item to be discussed
• great: Very good; better than before
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• shot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• dub: To add a new soundtrack to an audio recording
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• partner: One you have a business/personal relationship with
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• cylinder: Tube shape with flat ends
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• technical: Complex; difficult to understand
• bench: Part of the room in court where the judge sits
• tired: Without energy so you want to rest or fall asleep
• morph: (Of computer animation) to gradually change shape
• bro: Shortened form of 'brother'
• questionable: Not likely to be right or true; doubtful
• shimmy: Trembling or shaking movement, as when dancing
• hometown: Town (or city) where you grew up or where you live
• playoff: Contest to determine which team goes to the final
• lance: Weapon like a spear carried by knights in jousts