Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• fit in: To mix with others so you get on well with them
• make with: To offer or provide something, often quickly or unexpectedly.
• in order to: For the purpose of; with the aim of.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• add up to: To amount to a particular sum or total.
• have to: Must do
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• dynamic: Always active or energetic; getting things done
• amount: Quantity of something
• substance: Essence of; most basic or central qualities
• extent: Point, level or limit to which something reaches
• version: Different way that someone interprets something
• tendency: Likelihood to behave in a particular way
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• handy: Convenient, easy to use, easy to reach
• dissolve: To cause something to end
• participate: To take part with others in doing something
• leave: To go away from; depart
• sodium: A soft, white chemical element
• discrepancy: Difference between amounts that should be the same
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• formation: Process of creating; making a particular shape
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• particle: Adverb or preposition that joins with a verb
• great: Very good; better than before
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• equilibrium: A state of balance or harmony
• saturate: To cause a liquid to not be able to absorb more
• diagram: A drawing intended to explain how something works
• calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
• datum: Item of factual information
• precipitation: Material that falls from sky; rain, snow or hail
• favorable: When a good result or positive outcome is likely
• homogeneous: Being all of the same type
• chlorine: Greenish-yellow gas with a strong smell
• hydration: Process of supplying or adding water to
• heighten: To increase the degree or intensity of something
• entropy: Lack of order in a system
• soluble: Able to dissolve or be dissolved in a liquid
• solvent: Substance used to dissolve or melt others
• unstable: (Of a chair, etc.) likely to move, fall etc.
• indirectly: In a manner that is not direct or straight
• elemental: Being basic and important
• ion: Atoms with either a positive or negative charge
• lattice: Openwork structure of crossed strips of wood, etc.
• tabulate: To put and order figures or information in a list