Vocabulary

• take over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• take in: To allow to enter; receive as a guest
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• take off: To remove, e.g. your clothes
• take after: To resemble (an older family member); favor
• take out: To apply for and get a license
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• take a bath: To wash oneself in a bathtub.
• take a rest: To stop working or doing an activity for a period of time in order to relax and recover strength.
• take with: To bring something or someone along when you go somewhere.
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• create with: To use specific tools, materials, or techniques in the process of creating something.
• think twice: To consider something carefully before doing it, especially because it could have negative consequences.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• on to: Toward something; forward
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• have to: Must do
• check out
• help out: To assist someone
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
• content: Being happy or satisfied
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• character: Person in a story, movie or play
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• appearance: The way a person looks to others
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• couple: To join something to something else
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• resemble: To be similar to in looks or manner
• generosity: Giving or sharing things freely with others
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• important: Having power or authority
• habit: Loose clothing like a cloak, worn by monks, nuns
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• phrasal: Concerning or consisting of a phrase
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• connect: To associate a thing with something else
• sponsor: Person that supports the passage of a new law
• contribution: Helping a cause by giving money, things, services
• verb: Word that expresses an action or state
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• nap: To sleep or rest for a short time during the day
• strictly: In compliance with the rules
• confine: To hold or imprison someone in a place
• incorrect: Being wrong or inaccurate
• unfair: not treating people in an equal way, or not morally right
• babble: To talk without speaking clearly
• smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning