Vocabulary

• sit down: To take a seat
• have to: Must do
• come up: To come closer to someone; approach
• plunge in: To start doing something with enthusiasm, especially without thinking carefully about it.
• wimp out: To decide not to do something because of fear or lack of courage.
• come down to: To become in the end a matter of
• to: Toward a point, person, place or thing
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• go: To attend or be at a place
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• continent: Very large piece of land, e.g. Africa or Asia
• amazing: Surprising in a pleasing way
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• sit: To take an exam
• deception: Use of trickery to make someone believe an untruth
• fortunate: Having good luck
• station: (Army) to be posted to a place to perform duties
• antarctica: An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to , feet deep
• weather: Whether it is raining, sunny, cold etc. outside
• polar: Concerning the areas near the North or South poles