Vocabulary

• in action: Actively doing something; performing a task or duty.
• batten down the hatches: To prepare for a difficult or dangerous situation.
• pull yourself together: To calm down and regain control of your emotions
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• fly up: To ascend or rise quickly into the air.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• way to go: An expression of encouragement or approval.
• fly a kite: To control and maneuver a kite in the air using a string.
• take off: To remove, e.g. your clothes
• fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
• get: To become affected by illness or disease
• to: Toward a point, person, place or thing
• sweetie: Person loved by someone; boyfriend, girlfriend
• boat: Small form of transport for traveling on water
• shirt: Light garment for upper body, with sleeves
• buy: To believe something; accept
• plane: An airplane
• day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• worry: Something that causes trouble or concern
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• ready: Being likely or about to do something
• open: To make accessible or able to be used, e.g. road
• stop: To block or close something
• sail: To travel across water in a boat or a ship
• uniform: Set of clothes showing you belong to an army, etc.
• kite: Toy flown in the wind on a long string
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• sailing: To travel across water in a boat or a ship
• adventure: An exciting and often dangerous experience
• suit: To be appropriate for a given situation
• tie: To attach things (together) with a string or rope
• save: To make your computer keep a file
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• captain: Title of a senior officer in the military
• sailor: Someone who helps sail a boat as their job
• reporting: To submit a report or bill to the government
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• brave: (Old-fashioned) A native American warrior
• duty: Work required by your job or position
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• pedal: Lever worked by the foot, e.g. the brakes of a car
• steer: A cow
• rope: A thick string made by twisting fibers together
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• pal: Friend