Vocabulary

• wind up: To be brought to a state of great tension
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• incredibly: To a great degree; very; amazingly
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• deserve: To be worthy of, e.g. getting praise or attention
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• barely: Only just; just possible
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• bold: Brave; very confident; too confident
• dude: Form of address for a man
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• lame: Having a damaged leg/foot making walking painful
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• defy: To refuse to obey; be resistant to
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• complicate: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• throat: Part of the neck that is below the chin
• boom: Very fast increase in growth or popularity
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• alien: Foreigner; a person not from this place
• rule: Something that is normal and usually happens
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• bout: A boxing match
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• disappear: To no longer see because it's not there any more
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• bat: Small flying mouse-like animal with wings
• sob: To make gasping sounds while crying
• ocean: Large body of salt water; a large sea
• gotcha: Shortened form of 'got you'
• super: Of the highest quality; great; marvelous
• nah: Way of saying 'No'