Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• to the bone: Thoroughly; completely; to the innermost part.
• torture chamber: A room used for inflicting torture.
• break up
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• brush up: To improve your knowledge, skill, or memory of
• in ways: In a manner or by methods that.
• on the news: Reported or broadcasted as part of a news program.
• way to go: An expression of encouragement or approval.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• work together: To collaborate or cooperate with others to achieve a common goal.
• proud of you: Feeling pleased and satisfied about something you own or have done, or are connected to.
• in relation to: Concerning; with reference to; regarding.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• woman: Adult female human being
• wife: Married woman
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• girl: A female child; a young woman
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• man: Humans in general, including male and female
• pencil: Something you draw pictures with, or write with
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• cat: Household pet with fur, four legs and long tail.
• great: Very good; better than before
• thinking: To have an idea, opinion or belief about something
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• hair: Long thin strands growing on your head or body
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• story: One of many floors or levels in a building
• terrible: Very bad; horrible
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• excellence: Extremely high quality
• correct: Being suitable and appropriate for an occasion
• jealous: Wishing you were like someone or had their things
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• suddenly: In an unexpected or very quick manner
• truth: Real facts about something
• shiny: Reflecting a lot of light; bright and smooth
• painful: Causing or feeling physical pain or hurt
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• row: To move a boat using oars
• obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
• hang: To attach a picture, photograph etc. onto a wall
• account: An advantage
• bitterness: With a strong unpleasant taste
• exhausting: To emit gas from the back of a car
• competitiveness: Aggressive willingness to win
• emotion: A feeling such as sadness, anger or love
• gut: To destroy the inside of a building , e.g. by fire
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way
• brightly: In a happy manner
• react: To change when mixing with other chemicals
• entitlement: Right (to benefits) granted by law, contract
• interpret: To express so that others understand it
• unconscious: Not aware of what is going on around you
• suspicion: Feeling that something or something is doubtful
• envy: Feeling of wanting something that someone else has
• jealousy: Unhappy feeling of wanting what someone else has
• intensity: Great energy, strength, or concentration
• genius: Person displaying a high level of intelligence
• scholarship: Work of learning, studying, acquiring knowledge
• detect: To discover or identify the presence of something
• amateur: Someone doing an activity for pleasure, not a job
• exaggeration: Act of trying to make things seem more extreme
• intensely: In a manner that is very strong or extreme
• quest: Long and challenging journey to find something
• provoke: To deliberately annoy to make someone aggressive
• creep: To move quietly so as not to be seen
• misplace: To put something in the wrong place
• masterpiece: Greatest work, e.g. of a famous artist
• thrill: Thing/event causing sudden excitement or pleasure
• intolerable: Unbearable; so that you cannot suffer any more
• formidable: Powerful; causing fear and deserving respect
• sentimental: Displaying emotions too easily or strongly
• mistress: Woman in sexual relationship with a married man
• baffle: To puzzle; to confuse
• hideous: Very ugly; frightening-looking
• geometry: Mathematical study of shapes, surfaces, and space
• consolation: Something that gives you a better feeling when sad
• mastermind: To supervise a complex undertaking, crime etc.
• pierce: Person's name
• centennial: 100th anniversary of something
• speller: An introductory textbook to teach spelling
• blatantly: Very obviously; without any shame
• parse: To analyze component parts of speech
• envious: Wishing you had what someone else has
• inventive: Having the ability to think up/create new things
• teller: Person who works at a bank front counter
• configuration: A shape or outline; a method of arrangement