Vocabulary

• from memory: Using only your memory without any help or notes.
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• look back: To think about past events
• attend to: To deal with; take care of; pay attention to.
• single step: A solitary action or measure.
• from scratch: From the very beginning; from nothing.
• pile up: To put things on top of each other to form a pile
• for long: For a considerable period of time.
• in parallel: Done at the same time; simultaneously.
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• lead to: To result in some action
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• genuinely: In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
• simultaneously: At the same time; all together
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• intuition: Natural ability to guess or feel things
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• presentation: Act of giving a formal talk about something
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• expert: Skillful person with special knowledge
• shrink: To become smaller
• clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
• pile: Large amount of something
• diversity: Having a range of different races, ideas etc.
• dominant: The strongest; most powerful
• analogy: Comparison of things based on their similarity
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• radical: Person who believes in extreme political change
• sequence: Part of a movie showing one part of the story
• cabinet: Piece of furniture resembling a cupboard
• parallel: To be equal to, or like, something else
• grain: Seeds of plants used for food
• extract: Essential ingredient of a natural thing
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• capture: To attract and hold e.g. interest, attention
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• token: Flat, round piece of material used e.g. as coins
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• latency: State of being not yet evident or active
• bottleneck: Become narrow, like a bottleneck
• catastrophically: With terrible or unfortunate consequences
• sequential: Arranged or occurring in a certain order or series
• cache: (Weapons etc.) which are hidden away illegally
• throughput: Amount of data passing through a system