Vocabulary

• black sheep: A person who is different from the rest of their family or group and who is considered a disgrace.
• all along: From the beginning; all the time.
• act out: To perform a role before going on stage; practice
• through with: Having had enough (of trouble); wanting to stop
• lock up: To imprison someone.
• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• scene: Incident where someone behaves angrily, badly
• amount: Quantity of something
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• silly: Careless
• butt: (Informal) fleshy part of your body you sit on
• suspect: Person thought to have committed a crime
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• cue: Word or action in a play to tell an actor to speak
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• footage: A certain amount of film or video of something
• grant: To admit an opinion is true but not fully agreeing
• distance: Lack of friendliness toward another person
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• plural: Being more than one person or thing
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• favorite: A thing that someone likes best or enjoys most
• bend: To become curved or no longer straight
• solve: To figure out a way to handle a difficult problem
• suspicion: Feeling that something or something is doubtful
• act: To behave in a certain way
• mad: Very angry
• adjective: A word that describes a noun, e.g. happy
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• verb: Word that expresses an action or state
• college: School or educational institution for adults
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• exclamation: Abrupt excited utterance
• theater: Place where plays or movies are seen
• great: Very good; better than before
• part: Division of a book
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• toe: One of the five parts at the end of your foot
• upstairs: On a floor above
• handwriting: Way a person's writing looks
• badger: Small forest animal with thick black and white fur
• sheep: Animal with a woolly coat raised for meat or wool
• buttock: Fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
• nah: Way of saying 'No'
• lib: Liberal member of parliament
• superman: Person with great powers and abilities