Vocabulary

• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• deal with
• such as: For example; like
• show of hands: A way of voting in which people raise their hands to show that they support something.
• ink in: To fill in an outline or sketch with ink.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• find out about: To look for information to learn about it
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• elvis has left the building: The event is finished; nothing more will happen.
• literally: In a literal manner or sense; exactly as stated.
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• elaborate: To explain something in detail
• deliberate: Carefully thought out in advance
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• hypothetical: Thought up, as an example; not being a real case
• neutral: Something with pH value of 7
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• ubiquitous: Found everywhere; found in many places
• organ: Part of a person's body with a particular function
• spark: Small piece of burning material produced by fire
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• analogy: Comparison of things based on their similarity
• utter: To make a particular sound; speak
• literal: Being the basic exact meaning of a word/expression
• agent: Chemical with the power to make chemical reactions
• instinctively: Through intuition, not thought
• brick: Baked clay block used to build houses, walls
• reign: To be present and felt or sensed by everyone there
• clutch: To hold strongly in your hand
• fossil: Plant or animal that became rock after many years
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• imply: To suggest something, without saying it directly
• reject: Goods that are not suitable for sale at full price
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• false: Not real or genuine
• stimulus: Something that causes a change
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• poetry: Poetic writing; imaginative verses
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• great: Very good; better than before
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• laughter: Action or sound of laughing
• translate: To change something into a different state
• meaning: To express a particular idea or thought
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• spiky: Having a long sharp point
• routinely: In a regular, habitual or expected way
• metaphorically: In a metaphorical manner
• dissonance: Lack of harmony or agreement
• dome: Rounded roof or ceiling shaped like half a ball
• metaphorical: Using words imaginatively to reveal a similarity
• synesthesia: Stimulation of one sense organ by another
• enlisted: To obtain support from someone
• prefix: Part of a word added to the front, e.g. UNhappy
• buttercup: Small yellow flower