Vocabulary

• on the way: During the journey to a particular place.
• in second grade: Being in the second year of elementary school.
• on the go: Very busy and active.
• peeking out: To be just visible; to emerge slightly or briefly.
• compromise: To weaken your position or views
• meditate: To think deeply and quietly to calm your spirit
• strike: To hit something
• ambition: Desire to win or be successful in life, work
• heritage: Traditional beliefs or customs of a culture
• tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
• imitation: Act of copying or imitating something
• extrovert: Person who enjoys being with other people
• contemplate: To consider whether you will do something
• association: Organization of people with the same interest
• nerve: Fibers in the body that enable feeling, movement
• footage: A certain amount of film or video of something
• expertise: The special knowledge that an expert has
• conviction: Act of finding someone guilty of a crime
• fate: What will happen to you in the future, often bad
• estate: A large piece of land, usually with a large house
• hustle: To make someone move quickly by pushing them
• quarter: 25 cents
• destruction: Act of destroying; damaging beyond repair
• hip: The upper part of Leg
• scream: To make a sudden loud, high sound
• brutality: Extremely mean or violent act or treatment
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• hop: Dance party
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• plate: Flat dish used for eating or serving food
• offend: To break a rule or do something wrong
• gauge: A tool used to measure things
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• marble: A hard type of stone, often used in monuments
• rot: To break down into pieces through dying; decay
• salute: Raising your hand to your head to show respect
• something: Thing that is not yet known or named
• weapon: An advantage to help win a contest or conflict
• cell: Smallest unit of living things in biology
• murder: Something that is difficult or painful to do
• poison: To affect something in a very negative way
• beast: Ugly or terrifying animal
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• cocaine: Illegal drug made from coca leaves
• redemption: Trading in a voucher, debt, etc.
• loyalty: Complete and sustained support for person, thing
• belt: To leave somewhere quickly (UK use)
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• go: To attend or be at a place
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• boulevard: Wide, grand street often with trees on both sides
• dice: To cut food or other things into small pieces
• sucker: Part of an animal used for holding onto surfaces
• sow: To plant seeds in an area of ground
• backbone: Strength and determination
• engine: Machine that changes energy into mechanical motion
• shine: To point a light in a certain direction
• shit: A coarse term for defecation
• nothing: Item of little or no value, importance, interest
• dead: Not alive
• nirvana: Extinction of desires when you reach perfect peace
• power: Legal or official right to perform certain actions
• ticket: Piece of paper allowing you enter or use something
• fuck: Vulgar term used as an intensifier
• jellyfish: Soft-bodied sea animal, as with stinging tentacles
• kill: To cause someone to experience a lot of pain
• abomination: Something or someone that makes you feel disgust
• money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
• win: Success in beating the other team or competitors
• hoe: Garden tool used to remove weeds or break ground
• riff: Short series of repeated notes in music