Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• in the dark: Uninformed about something; unaware.
• apropos of: Concerning or relating to a particular subject.
• next door: Living in the house next to the one mentioned
• stay home: To remain in one's house or residence.
• in reality: Actually; in fact; truly.
• on hold: Temporarily delayed or suspended.
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• kinda: Short way of saying 'kind of'
• motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• plot: Small piece of land for a house growing crops etc.
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• cue: Word or action in a play to tell an actor to speak
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• delusion: False belief despite evidence to the contrary
• grand: A counter for 1000 of something
• flexible: Bending easily
• role: Character played by an actor
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• invariably: Each time without change; always
• tale: Story that is not true
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• honestly: With truth or sincerity; I'm being honest with you
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• costume: Special clothes, e.g. clothes for acting in a film
• intrigue: To make someone interested or curious
• confusion: Not knowing what to do; state of disorder
• leave: To go away from; depart
• fairy: Small imaginary being that can do magic
• british: Concerning the culture and people of British
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• suspense: Genre of movies, novels of uncertain mystery
• act: To behave in a certain way
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• rhyme: One of a group of words ending in similar sounds
• fill: To make something full
• bleak: Desolate and colorless; without much hope
• disappear: To no longer see because it's not there any more
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• legendary: Being a very famous sports player, actor etc.
• orphan: Child whose parents have died
• mount: To attach something to something else
• nifty: Very good or useful; clever; effective
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• pee: To urinate
• futile: Having no result; useless
• enchant: To hold the admiration of others; charm
• cradle: Small bed for a baby, with rockers and sides
• precarious: Not secure; likely to fall over/off; dangerous
• mamma: A mother