Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• in the game: Still involved or active in a competition or situation.
• jump on: To criticize someone suddenly and strongly.
• on the phone: Talking on the telephone.
• off the charts: Extremely high or impressive; beyond normal measurement or scale.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• in the end: Finally; after a period of time or series of events.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• shake on it: To agree on something by shaking hands.
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• dude: Form of address for a man
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• seek: To ask someone for help
• favor: Support or approval from people
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• buddy: Friend, usually male
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• cereal: Breakfast food eaten with milk
• stomach: Place in the body where food is processed
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• quit: To leave a job
• glad: Happy or pleased about something/to do something
• shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• secretary: Office worker who makes appointments, etc.
• peek: To look at something quickly (often secretly)
• tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• shake: To cause someone to be surprised or upset
• chat: To talk in a friendly and relaxed manner
• impossible: (Child, etc.) very annoying
• message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
• nope: A dialect or emphatic way of saying 'No'
• breakfast: First meal of the day
• phone: To talk to someone using a telephone
• sunrise: The time of day we first see the sun
• uncle: Brother of a parent or the husband of your aunt
• teddy: A soft toy resembling a bear; teddy bear