Vocabulary

• run over: To go beyond a limit, e.g. of a budget
• out of the window: To be discarded or no longer applicable or relevant.
• throw off: To put out (heat, smell etc.); emit
• wake up: To stop sleeping
• authentic: From a reliable source; accurate; true
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• chaos: State of utter confusion or disorder
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• absurd: So foolish as to be difficult to believe
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• crawl: To move very slowly or cautiously
• neglect: Act of failing to do something important, required
• drastic: Serious, severe or extreme
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• retain: To continue to have or use; keep the quality of
• primarily: In the most basic or important way
• render: To cause to be in a certain state or condition
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• endurance: Quality of lasting or of being permanent
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• convention: Official agreement between two or more countries
• shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• leave: To go away from; depart
• rescue: To save someone who is in danger or in trouble
• naked: Not wearing any clothes; without covering
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• eternity: A very long time; forever
• revenge: Getting back at someone by hurting them back
• important: Having power or authority
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• alive: Living; not dead
• sincerity: The quality of being open and truthful
• central: Being in the middle
• stringent: Strict or severe, as regards standards or rules
• blood: Red liquid in the bodies of people and animals
• shave: To cut the beard/hair close to skin with a razor
• lobster: Large hard-shelled sea crustacean, prized as food
• bob: To move up and down repeatedly
• ensue: To happen as a result of
• hinge: To be dependent on or caused by
• brilliance: Great amount of skill or intelligence
• inferiority: State of being not as good as others
• heartbreak: Great sorrow caused by e.g. death of loved one