Vocabulary

• blow up: To suddenly become angry
• against you: In opposition to you.
• run by: To be managed or controlled by someone or a group.
• cling to: To hold onto something tightly, often for support or safety.
• live up: To be as good as expected or promised.
• flare up: To suddenly worsen or become more intense (of a medical condition).
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• feel for: To have sympathy for someone; to empathize with someone's situation.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• in different ways: Using various methods or approaches; with variety.
• by nature: Inherently; by one's character or disposition.
• cast on: To create the first row of stitches in knitting.
• hold onto: To grasp or grip something tightly.
• step into: To enter a place or situation.
• in the hands of: Under the control or responsibility of someone.
• cut your losses: To stop doing something that is failing in order to minimize further losses or damage.
• on purpose: Intentionally; deliberately.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• push through: To continue with a plan or activity despite difficulties or opposition.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• care for: To want or desire a thing
• ordinary day: A typical or unremarkable day.
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• walk through: To show someone carefully how to do something
• step to: To approach someone or something, often with a specific purpose.
• have to: Must do
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• applause: The sound made by clapping a performance or speech
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• insult: To disrespect someone by being rude or impolite
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• burden: To weigh down with a load; impose a task upon
• shift: To change in position or direction
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• worth: the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
• inherent: Existing as an essential part of
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• willpower: Ability to make yourself do what you really want
• consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• value: Importance you attach to something
• vicious: Very dangerous, e.g. an animal or dog
• praise: To express approval of something or someone
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• framework: Skeleton structure of a building or construction
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• idiot: A person who is foolish or not very smart
• hostage: Person held prisoner to get a demand satisfied
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• virtuous: Having moral goodness
• temper: An angry mood or fit; temperament
• torment: Great mental or physical pain
• slave: Someone who is legally owned by another person
• inclusive: Covering or including everything
• concede: To admit that something is true
• imperfection: Something that makes something less than perfect
• grievance: Feeling of being treated unfairly
• fulfil: To finish or provide something successfully