Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• breaks down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• take it from me: Trust me or believe what I say based on experience.
• no sweat: An informal way of saying that something is not a problem or is easy to do.
• upwards of: More than; at least.
• much about: A lot of information or knowledge concerning something.
• in good health: Being in a state of physical and mental well-being; not sick or injured.
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• barely: Only just; just possible
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• fertility: The state of a female being able to produce young
• freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• conduct: Your behavior
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• corporate: Concerning (usually large) companies
• pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• plague: To cause to have continual problems with something
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• vanity: When you are too proud of your appearance/ability
• sweat: To do an amount of hard work
• guide: To help or advise someone about something
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• grand: A counter for 1000 of something
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• author: Person who writes books, plays, poems etc.
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• defect: Fault in someone or something
• census: Survey to collect data about people in an area
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• tick: To function properly or normally
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• rot: To break down into pieces through dying; decay
• sour: (Of relationship) to cease to be good or friendly
• undergo: To experience or endure something (bad)
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• chemotherapy: Treatment of diseases using chemicals
• oven: Kitchen appliance you put food in to bake, roast
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• impatient: Not wanting to wait; getting angry over problems
• headache: Pain in the head
• woo: (Of a man) to try to get a woman to marry him
• hen: Adult female chicken