Vocabulary

• in half: Divided into two equal parts.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• next to: Being located along side another
• under control: Being managed or restrained; not out of hand.
• stick with: To continue to support or stay loyal to someone or something.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• leave it out: To stop doing or saying something irritating or unpleasant.
• with the exception of: Excluding; not including.
• in writing: Expressed or presented in written form, rather than spoken.
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• tricky: Difficult, so needing skill to do or deal with
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• consider: To think carefully about something
• straightforward: Easy to do or understand; not complicated
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• dialogue: Conversation between two or more individuals
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• grammar: Book describing the syntactic rules of a language
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• possession: State of being under the control of evil spirits
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• professional: Of jobs such as doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc.
• contraction: Process of becoming smaller in length/size
• conundrum: A problem that is puzzling
• exception: Something different or not included
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• leave: To go away from; depart
• plural: Being more than one person or thing
• punctuation: Marks used in piece of writing, such as ? ; and !
• important: Having power or authority
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• singular: Form of a word referring to only one person/thing
• solve: To figure out a way to handle a difficult problem
• chop: To cut into pieces with an up and down motion
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• piece: A counter in a board game
• wrinkle: Small folds in the skin, e.g. as a sign of age
• replace: To use instead of something else
• usage: Amount something is used
• own: To have something as your property
• mayhem: Scene or situation that involves much violence
• rule: Something that is normal and usually happens
• hover: (Bird/helicopter) to fly staying in one position
• possessive: Wanting someone's complete attention, love
• truth: Real facts about something
• disagree: To have a different opinion; to fail to agree
• sand: Area composed of tiny pieces of rock near an ocean
• apostrophe: Punctuation mark (') showing possession
• placement: Act of putting something in a place or position
• comma: Mark showing a pause or list in a sentence
• quotation: Written statement of the cost of something
• refresher: A refill of a person's glass with a drink