Vocabulary

• see through: To realize the truth about
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• bounce back: To return quickly to a normal condition after a difficult situation or illness.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• clue in: Inform someone about something they do not know.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• at last: Finally; after a long delay.
• spell out: To explain something in a very clear and detailed way.
• in action: Actively doing something; performing a task or duty.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• check out
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• ancient: Very old; having lived a very long time ago
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• controversial: Causing a great deal of argument, or conflict
• tiny: Very, very small
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• snap: To close your mouth quickly like biting something
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• study: To focus on learning something usually at school
• glimpse: To see or notice something very briefly
• discover: To find something new that was not known before
• bounce: A person's energy or confidence
• crystal: A solid formed by the solidification of a chemical
• philosopher: Person studying the meaning of truth and life
• atom: Smallest bit that matter can be broken down into
• flash: To appear suddenly and briefly
• chemistry: The study of the structure of substances
• tunnel: Passage under the ground, often for cars or trains
• visible: Can see, easily seen or understood
• early: Coming/happening before others in a time sequence
• retina: Part of the eye that senses light
• stationary: Being still or unmoving
• camera: Object that takes pictures digitally, or on film
• ray: Person's name
• photograph: To take a picture with a camera
• apple: Hard round red or green fruit with a white center
• dentist: Person whose job is to take care of people's teeth
• periodic: Happening regularly, but not frequently
• detector: Device that receives a signal and responds to it
• wavelength: To have similar feelings
• laser: Strong narrow beam of high-powered light
• ozone: Gas protecting the earth from the sun
• crafty: Being cunning to get others to do what you want
• depletion: Reducing the amount, strength or number of
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information
• franklin: A landowner (th and th centuries) who was free but not of noble birth
• awesomeness: Degree to which a thing makes you feel admiration
• replay: To play a game again, as on a video
• wrongly: In error; unfairly; unjustly
• helix: Three-dimensional shape of a cone-like object
• diffraction: Bending light, etc. around something/through a hole
• crick: Painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back ('rick' and 'wrick' are British)
• xenon: A colorless odorless inert gaseous element occurring in the earth's atmosphere in trace amounts
• microsecond: One millionth (10^-6) of a second
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