Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• thicken up: To become denser or more viscous, especially a liquid.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• towel down: To clean or dry something by wiping with a towel.
• in the meantime: During the time between two events; meanwhile.
• on a plate: To receive something easily, without much effort.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• get at: To criticize someone, often personally
• to taste: Add an ingredient according to your preference.
• check out
• put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
• salt: Natural white crystal used to flavor food
• milk: White liquid produced by females to feed babies
• cup: Small round container used for drinking
• brown: Of the color of coffee or chocolate
• rice: Person's name
• eat: To put food in your mouth
• love: Person's name
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• buy: To believe something; accept
• clean: Completely; entirely
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• paper: Academic writing or a talk on a specific topic
• hot: Angry or excited
• coat: Clothing worn outside over your normal clothes
• oil: A liquid used for frying foods
• fry: To cook something in fat or oil
• onion: Strong-smelling, strong-tasting vegetable
• bake: To cook food (bread, cakes) in an oven
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• fryer: Flesh of a medium-sized young chicken
• temperature: When you your body heat is above normal
• towel: Piece of cloth used for drying things
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• deep: Complex and important
• kid: Child or young person
• math: Study or science of numbers and shapes
• dry: (Of humor) clever, but not obvious; ironic
• careful: Trying not to make mistakes; working slowly
• mix: To combine two or more things to make one
• corn: Small, painful hard spot on the foot
• flour: Powder made from a grain used in cooking
• heating: To make hot or hotter
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• gently: In a mild, careful, and soft manner
• thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• thicken: To make something more dense or concentrated
• peanut: Edible small nut which grows under the ground
• stir: To arouse (attention or interest)
• beautifully: Having dome something well
• pro: Reason given in support of something
• powder: Dry material made up of small powder-like pieces
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• ease: To make something less difficult, tight, stressed
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• thermometer: Instrument for measuring temperature
• teaspoon: Small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee
• lick: To pass the tongue along something, e.g. ice cream
• vinegar: Sharp-tasting liquid made from sour wine, malt etc.
• stab: To strike a blow with a knife, as to kill someone
• melt: To disappear or to go away
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• manual: Done by hand (not machine)
• hammer: To bring severe damage, harm, or blame upon
• shorten: To make something, e.g. a skirt, shorter
• insertion: Process of putting something into something else
• surgeon: A doctor who performs surgery
• soda: Sweet bubbly flavored drink
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• loosening: To make something less tight
• assemble: To put parts together to make a complete unit
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• gritty: Showing strong determination
• dice: To cut food or other things into small pieces
• batter: Someone using a bat to play sports, e.g. baseball
• homemade: Made at home, not in a factory
• buttermilk: Substance comes from making butter from sour milk
• cornstarch: Starch prepared from the grains of corn; used in cooking as a thickener
• twirl: Turning/spinning quickly, as to show off a dress
• golden: Dark yellow color often seen in sunsets
• grater: Utensil with sharp edges for shredding foods
• rinse: To wash off small amounts of dirt, soap suds, etc.
• canister: Container, usually cylindrical and made of metal
• hunk: An attractive man, e.g. with lots of muscles
• teeny: Very small
• puncture: To make hole letting air out in tire/balloon, etc.
• grate: To shred food into very small pieces
• scoop: To dig out for a hole with a tool or hands
• vampire: Bloodsucking dead person who bites neck of victim