Vocabulary

• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• out of order: Not in proper working condition; broken.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• out of breath: Having difficulty breathing, often after physical exertion.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in half: Divided into two equal parts.
• under the microscope: Being examined very carefully or in great detail.
• stall out: (of an engine) to stop suddenly because of a lack of power.
• on top of that: In addition to something already mentioned; furthermore.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• crystal clear: Extremely clear and easy to understand.
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• legacy: Literature, arts etc. from previous generations
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• paradigm: A set of ideas for understanding or explaining
• tiny: Very, very small
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• fabric: Cloth or material
• section: A part of a whole
• architecture: Design and construction of buildings
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• plague: To cause to have continual problems with something
• threat: Warning of probable trouble
• secure: To get or achieve something with certainty
• evolution: Theory that living things change over time
• rigid: Stiff rather than flexible
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• performance: Act of doing something
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
• absolute: Complete; total; pure; not limited in any way
• penalty: Negative effect resulting from your actions
• gain: To increase in something, such as weight
• fundamentally: In a basic and important way
• totally: In a complete way; completely; absolutely
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
• execution: Killing a person as a (usually legal) punishment
• bandwidth: Data transmission rate over the internet
• deep: Complex and important
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• ultra: Prefix that denotes a lot of something; extreme
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• part: Division of a book
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• pillar: Tall strong post that supports a building
• unify: To bring or join together into one
• latency: State of being not yet evident or active
• scalable: Computers that can be increased or magnified
• socket: Area into which (e.g. a bone) will fit
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• bottleneck: Become narrow, like a bottleneck
• cache: (Weapons etc.) which are hidden away illegally
• throughput: Amount of data passing through a system
• monolithic: Imposing in size or bulk or solidity
• determinism: Theory that all events are consequences of causes