Vocabulary

• beat out: To defeat someone in a competition or contest.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• for best: An expression meaning ‘it is better to’ or ‘to do something for the best outcome’.
• hands down: To give (clothes, etc.) to someone younger
• play out: To use up or exhaust
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• come from behind: To win after being in a losing position initially.
• in the game: Still involved or active in a competition or situation.
• have to: Must do
• just kind of: Used to express a feeling or state in a vague or hesitant way.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• scenario: An imagined sequence of events in a plan/project
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• passionate: Being easily excited to strong emotions
• extreme: Very great in degree
• consider: To think carefully about something
• bold: Brave; very confident; too confident
• mediocrity: Ordinariness; being boring because just average
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• instant: (Food) requiring very little preparation
• candidate: Politician who is running for public office
• inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• dare: To challenge someone to do something that is risky
• grand: A counter for 1000 of something
• beat: To move in regular motions in order to push blood
• institute: Organization studying science, engineering etc.
• grit: Strong determination
• favor: Support or approval from people
• film: Thin layer that covers something
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• count: To add things together to find the total number
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• favorite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• fully: Completely or entirely
• inception: Beginning or start of (institution or business)
• despise: To have no respect whatsoever for a person/thing
• type: Printed letters or blocks used for printing them
• rank: To rate or class things
• adjacent: Being close or near to a border, wall, or point
• royalty: Members of a royal family
• polarize: To divide opinions into two extremes
• runoff: A second election to find a winner
• voting: To make a choice for or against, as in an election
• preferential: Giving better treatment to one rather than another
• swan: Large white water bird with a long graceful neck
• moonlight: To work at a second job (often late at night)
• oscar: Annual award given in the movie industry
• goodnight: (Said as you go to bed, leave someone at night)