Vocabulary

• on a plate: To receive something easily, without much effort.
• on the surface: Appearing to be true or real until examined more closely.
• come up to: To meet expectations
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• as opposed to: In contrast to; rather than.
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• plate: Flat dish used for eating or serving food
• pan: To follow an object being filmed with a camera
• melt: To disappear or to go away
• fat: Amount beyond what is usual or necessary
• coat: Clothing worn outside over your normal clothes
• ready: Being likely or about to do something