Vocabulary

• hunt down: To search for someone or something until you find them, often after a long time or over a large area.
• from the top: From the beginning.
• give away
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• such as: For example; like
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• simultaneously: At the same time; all together
• evolve: To develop certain features
• spot: A certain place or area
• squeeze: Amount of liquid from firmly pressing e.g. orange
• dumb: Senseless; stupid
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• solitary: Done alone; spending a lot of time alone
• territory: Area of land defended by an animal
• domestic: Someone paid to help with housework in your house
• expert: Skillful person with special knowledge
• predator: An animal that hunts and kills other animals
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• keen: Being eager or excited for something to happen
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• odor: A certain smell, often strong or distinct
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
• curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• retain: To continue to have or use; keep the quality of
• cram: To add more to something that is already full
• sniff: To detect something, e.g. a potential problem
• bounce: A person's energy or confidence
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• frequency: Number of repetitions of (radio or sound) wave
• feline: Belonging to the cat family
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• vantage: (usually vantage point) A place or position affording a good view of something
• unconventional: Not acting according to normal accepted rules
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• nap: To sleep or rest for a short time during the day
• predominant: Having more power or influence than others
• climb: To rise gradually and steadily to a higher point
• amusing: To make someone laugh by entertaining them
• view: Opinion, belief, or idea about something
• chatter: To talk a lot in a casual manner
• pounce: To jump forward suddenly after waiting to attack
• need: To be unable to manage without something; require
• propensity: Natural tendency to behave in a particular way
• large: Big; of great size; broad, tall, wide, or fat
• top: To be higher or larger than a specific value
• purr: To make a soft, pleasing humming noise like a cat
• hunger: Strong desire or need
• today: This day; day that is happening now
• help: To act to enable a person to do something; assist
• day: A period of 24 hours beginning at midnight
• stealthy: Moving/acting so as to avoid being seen/noticed
• small: Little in size; not big
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• bookcase: Piece of furniture with shelves for storing books
• cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way
• regeneration: Act of adding more life or energy into
• hertz: Unit for measuring the frequency of sound waves