Vocabulary

• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• work at: To have a job at a particular place or organization.
• for some reason: For a reason that is not known or not easily explained.
• bring in: To earn a certain amount of money or profits
• for free: Without charge; at no cost.
• to taste: Add an ingredient according to your preference.
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• phone number: A sequence of digits assigned to a telephone subscriber, used to make a call to that phone.
• cut up: Be cut up (about) to be upset or angry
• have to: Must do
• set up
• awkward: Lacking smooth movement
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• dude: Form of address for a man
• amount: Quantity of something
• insult: To disrespect someone by being rude or impolite
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• extra: More than necessary; additional
• silence: State of being quiet and not talking for a time
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• apologize: To say sorry because of a mistake or injury
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• funeral: Ceremony of burying, burning a dead body
• favorite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• hire: To give a job to someone in exchange for pay
• employee: Person who works for someone else for payment
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• college: School or educational institution for adults
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• stripe: Strip of alternating color in straight lines
• illuminate: To supply light to something
• customer: Someone who buys goods or services from a business
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• stupid: Not intelligent; lacking ability to learn easily
• tag: Child's game in which one person chases the others
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• loaf: Large piece of bread baked as a whole
• kid: Child or young person
• shine: To point a light in a certain direction
• awkwardly: With a lack of smooth movement
• cream: Pale color that is yellowish white
• meat: Flesh of a dead animal that you eat
• spokesperson: Advocate who represents another’s policy/purpose
• super: Of the highest quality; great; marvelous
• turkey: Edible bird resembling a large chicken
• laser: Strong narrow beam of high-powered light
• cheese: Yellowish solid food made from aged milk
• recreate: To make a past situation exist again
• ham: Smoked meat from leg of a pig, often eaten cold
• taco: Tortilla rolled cupped around a filling
• cookie: A flat, round sweet baked food
• meatball: Ground meat formed into a ball and fried or boiled
• pastrami: Highly seasoned smoked beef