Vocabulary

• work through: To deal with something systematically until it is completed
• out of control: Impossible to manage or control.
• work to do: Tasks or activities that need to be accomplished.
• get up in: To wake and leave bed at a particular time.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• have to: Must do
• have on: To be wearing something.
• walk through: To show someone carefully how to do something
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• guarantee: To promise to repair a broken product
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• stake: Share/interest in the success of a business, etc.
• instrument: Gauge for measuring something, e.g. temperature
• existence: State of being present, alive or real
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• currency: Widespread acceptance
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• universe: All of space that contains planets and stars
• valuable: Being useful or important
• assertive: Being confident and sure of yourself
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• expand: To make something larger in size, number, amount
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• talent: Natural ability of a person to do something well
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• waste: To kill or severely harm someone
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• extend: To offer something (help, friendship) to someone
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• oatmeal: Cereal made from rolled or ground oats
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• homeless: Having no home; living on the streets
• heed: To take notice of; pay attention to; care about
• soy: Food substance made from soya beans
• hurl: To throw something with great power
• psychic: Concerning the mind and its workings
• variability: (Statistics) degree scores depart from the mean
• gamer: Person playing a game to a set of rules