Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• step off: To leave or move away from a place or situation, often used as a command.
• on the other hand : Considering a different aspect of the matter; alternatively.
• make up: To invent or create a story
• in prison: Confined in a prison; incarcerated.
• in the game: Still involved or active in a competition or situation.
• for a minute: For a short period of time; briefly.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
• in the house: Located inside a building used as a dwelling.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• for instance: As an example.
• walk down: To walk along or down something.
• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• at least: As a minimum
• coming after: To follow someone in order to threaten them
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• out of the window: To be discarded or no longer applicable or relevant.
• for nothing: Without payment or reward; to no purpose or effect; in vain
• black: To fill in something to make it a very dark color
• hot: Angry or excited
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• white: Person's name
• newspaper: Sheets of paper (or online) containing the news
• man: Humans in general, including male and female
• live: To be alive
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• person: Man, woman or child
• baby: A very young child, who cannot yet speak
• sport: Something that is done for fun, e.g. football
• window: Opening in a wall or door to let in light
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• come: To arrive at a place
• sauce: Food made from cooked fruit, e.g. apples or mangos
• hockey: Sport played on a field with sticks and a ball
• kid: Child or young person
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• police: People, often in uniforms, who solve crimes
• ship: Large boat
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• wallet: Small flat case for money, credit cards etc.
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• scared: To become frightened
• vote: To make a choice for or against, as in an election
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• law: Field of study that relates to the legal profession
• percent: One one-hundredth of a whole; the symbol %
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• hire: To give a job to someone in exchange for pay
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• trust: To expect confidently
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• unemployed: Not currently being used
• insist: To demand that someone do something
• freezing: To harden to a solid below zero degrees
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• constantly: Frequently, or without pause
• haunt: To remain in the mind causing worry, sadness, pain
• encounter: To come up against a problem or trouble; meet
• suspicion: Feeling that something or something is doubtful
• shrink: To become smaller
• cheat: To be unfaithful to (your wife, boyfriend etc.)
• suspicious: Doubtful about someone's honesty
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• enforcement: Process of making sure that rules are followed
• harass: To bother repeatedly with harmful words or actions
• stereotype: False categorization of people as all the same
• bland: Plain; flavorless; dull
• instinctively: Through intuition, not thought
• endorse: To show or express approval of
• famine: Long-lasting period of little food in an area
• siren: Device that produces loud warning sounds; alarm
• prone: Lying flat with your head facing the ground
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• preacher: One speaking in church, etc. about religious ideas
• predicate: To base something on a previous situation
• couscous: North African dish of crushed and steamed semolina
• mandatory: Absolutely required; not optional
• swag: Australian sack/bundle containing your possessions
• chick: A baby bird
• skeptical: Doubting that something is true/probable/useful
• endorsement: Support for a product for advertising purposes