Vocabulary

• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• amount: Quantity of something
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• hypothesis: A theory trying to explain something
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• envision: To imagine or picture in your mind
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• majestic: Characterized by an imposing or stately appearance
• invisible: Being unable to be seen
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• devastate: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• investigate: To try to find out facts; to carry out research
• radiation: Energy transmitted as rays, waves or particles
• observation: Remark or comment on something you noticed
• tear: Drop of salty water from the eye
• combine: To mix several things together to form one thing
• previously: At an earlier time
• scramble: To cause war planes to take off quickly
• emit: To release or send out (a gas, etc.)
• century: Period of 100 years
• spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
• important: Having power or authority
• visible: Can see, easily seen or understood
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• motion: Suggestion at a meeting
• inability: Lack of ability, power, or means to do something
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• cosmic: Concerning space and the universe
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• galaxy: A group of stars and planets in space
• predictable: Capable of being guessed before it happens
• mankind: All humans thought of as one group; humanity
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• tug: To pull (something) hard or suddenly
• rotate: To regularly change people who perform a role
• calculate: To find an answer using mathematics
• telescope: Tube-shaped device used to see a great distance
• calculation: Process or result of using mathematics
• orbital: Concerning an orbit
• galactic: Concerning a galaxy