Vocabulary

• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• make up: To invent or create a story
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• back then: At that time in the past.
• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• take on: To acquire a new characteristic
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• from scratch: From the very beginning; from nothing.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• perceive: To notice or become aware of something
• incredible: Very good; amazing
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• essential: Extremely or most important and necessary
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• evolve: To develop certain features
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• surge: Sudden movement in one direction by many
• random: Chosen, done without a particular plan or pattern
• scratch: To rub your skin with your nails to stop an itch
• bacteria: The very small creatures that can cause disease
• mutation: Change that changes genetic structure
• protein: Group of molecules made from amino acids
• existence: State of being present, alive or real
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• primitive: Lacking a written language and advanced technology
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• odor: A certain smell, often strong or distinct
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• require: To demand that someone does something
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• huge: Very very large
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• organ: Part of a person's body with a particular function
• favor: Support or approval from people
• suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• duplicate: Something that is the exact same thing as another
• organism: Living thing, often one that is small
• enzyme: A protein made by cells
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• rise: To wake up and get out of bed after sleeping
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• reproduce: To make a copy of something
• encode: To change a message or information into code
• venom: Poison, e.g. one produced by plant or animal
• gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
• gibberish: Unintelligible talking
• mutate: To develop into another thing; change
• oak: Hard, tough wood taken from an oak tree
• snake: An animal with a long body, no arms or legs
• spider: Small creature with 8 legs that spins cobwebs
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information