Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• going on: To continue doing something
• pretty much anything: Almost everything; nearly all things.
• except for: Not including; excluding.
• off the grid: Not depending on public utilities, especially the supply of electricity.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• turn on
• have on: To be wearing something.
• old school: Traditional or old-fashioned in style, behavior, or attitude.
• print out: To produce a paper copy of a document from a computer.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• work at: To have a job at a particular place or organization.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• in with: Fashionable or popular at the moment.
• head up: To lead or manage a team, project, or organization.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• in the moment: At the present time; now.
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• privilege: Advantage or right given to only certain people
• mental: Concerning the mind
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• appreciate: To rise in value (of property or belongings)
• intimate: (E.g. of detail) fine, detailed or complete
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
• productive: Producing things in large quantities; fertile
• irritable: Annoyed; easily annoyed or angered
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• suppose: To imagine or guess what might happen
• freak: (Of weather, etc.) unusual; unpredictable; amazing
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
• addiction: Lack of control the overuse of something e.g. drugs
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• profile: To write a short description of a person or group
• horrible: Very bad; causing annoyance, distaste or fear
• spiritual: Of religious belief; believing in things of soul
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• wander: To move through a place with no particular purpose
• press: Machine using pressure to shape, flatten, squeeze
• grid: Electrical network supplying electricity to area
• era: Period characterized by particular events, people
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• fold: To bend one part of something against another
• millennial: Concerning a millennium (a thousand years)
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• slack: Condition of being looser or not tight
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• battery: Portable device that stores electricity
• jade: Green stone used to make jewelry/art objects
• visibility: Quality of being able to be seen, as at a distance
• classical: Concerning the culture of ancient Greece or Rome
• tinder: Material for starting a fire
• bathroom: Room where you take a bath or go to the toilet
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
• mini: Small British car