Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• just kind of: Used to express a feeling or state in a vague or hesitant way.
• metro area: A densely populated urban area and its surrounding suburbs, economically and socially integrated.
• in store: About to happen in the future
• got to: To arrive at some place
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• consider: To think carefully about something
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• upset: (Of stomach, etc.) not functioning well; sick
• fellow: Man or a boy
• institute: Organization studying science, engineering etc.
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• distinction: Special quality that makes something different
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• aggression: Use of energy and determination to achieve a goal
• rapid: Moving or happening very quickly
• important: Having power or authority
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• justify: To give good reasons for something
• hail: To speak of something with admiration/excitement
• load: Large, often heavy, amount of a thing to be moved
• endorse: To show or express approval of
• forecast: Prediction of some future thing, e.g. the weather
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• predictable: Capable of being guessed before it happens
• recognizable: Being easily identified because of some quality
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• area: Amount of measured space
• store: To put things in a place for later use
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• cop: Slang for police officer
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• escalation: An increase in severity
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• cap: Covering for the end or top of something
• happen: To take place or occur
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• metro: Underground railway or subway
• breakup: End of a relationship often due to troubles
• understandable: Able to be understood; intelligible
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• camera: Object that takes pictures digitally, or on film
• umbrella: Including many smaller things of the same type
• weekend: Saturday and Sunday, after the normal working week
• northwest: Being between west and north