Vocabulary

• around the world: In or to many countries.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• wall in: To surround something tightly with walls or barriers.
• get a sense: To understand or perceive something intuitively.
• in the shadow of: Close to and influenced or dominated by something else.
• on the other side of: Located across something from a given point.
• hot air: Meaningless or exaggerated talk; empty rhetoric.
• check out
• consists of: Is made up or composed of.
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• in the first place: To begin with; as the first point or consideration.
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• in the west: Located in or towards the west.
• back then: At that time in the past.
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• iconic: Being widely recognized as a symbol of something
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• preserve: To cook food so it can be kept for long periods
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• strip: To remove your clothes (often sexily for someone)
• seal: To close tightly to protect it from leaking
• depict: To represent or describe something using words
• construction: Act of building something; thing that is built
• honest: Good, truthful, sincere, or faithful; trustworthy
• route: Way to get from one place to another place; path
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
• original: Being first made, thought or performed; fresh
• funeral: Ceremony of burying, burning a dead body
• border: To be right next to another country or state
• important: Having power or authority
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• division: How many times a number is contained in another
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• memorial: Ceremony or monument honoring dead person, people
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• steel: Very strong or determined character in a person
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• part: Division of a book
• cross: Angry and upset
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• rent: To give the use of something in return for payment
• demolish: To destroy completely (e.g. an idea, a building)
• overnight: (Becoming famous, etc.) in a short amount of time
• site: Place that is reserved for a particular activity
• continuous: Happening, existing, or performed without stops
• freedom: State of being free, not being controlled
• mural: Art that is painted directly on a wall
• inventive: Having the ability to think up/create new things
• karaoke: Singing popular songs to a prerecorded soundtrack
• documentation: Official papers that give information
• checkpoint: Place where a traveler's ID is checked