Vocabulary

• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• turn out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• best known: Most widely or popularly recognized, famous, or familiar.
• think back: To recapture the past
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• progress: To move forward or toward a place or goal
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• evolve: To develop certain features
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• famine: Long-lasting period of little food in an area
• artificial: Dishonest, to seem fake, not sincere
• heritage: Traditional beliefs or customs of a culture
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• regime: A system of management; a form of government
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• propaganda: (Use of) message that you want people to accept
• genre: Category of art, music with its own qualities
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• contrast: To compare; to show clear, obvious differences
• seek: To ask someone for help
• envision: To imagine or picture in your mind
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• harmony: Pleasing, attractive combination of parts, things
• logical: Sensible; reasonable
• mold: Distinctive type of character or nature
• contemporary: Being modern, up -to-date, of this age
• bother: To cause problems, concerns or worry for someone
• extravagant: Going beyond what is normal or proper
• broad: General; not detailed
• inequality: Situation where things are not equal, fair
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• transcend: To achieve or go beyond normal limits of
• plagued: To cause to have continual problems with something
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• tolerance: Ability to adjust to changes, your environment etc.
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• oppression: Treatment of people to limit their freedom
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• utopia: Imagined perfect society
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• bliss: Great joy or happiness
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• enlighten: To cause someone to understand
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• warfare: Methods used by those fighting in a war
• critique: A review of the quality of a work
• deplete: To reduce the amount, strength or number of
• erase: To remove data in computer memory, tape, etc.
• impoverished: Not having enough money; short of money
• portrayed: To play a character in theater or on film
• tyrannical: Forcing people to do what you want, as by threats
• blueprint: Plans of how buildings will be built
• utopian: Being like an ideal society
• afterlife: Life after death