Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• reduce to: To simplify or condense something.
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• bounce back: To return quickly to a normal condition after a difficult situation or illness.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• smooth out: To remove wrinkles or creases from something.
• in real life: In the physical world; not online or in a fictional setting.
• check out
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• stop: To block or close something
• boring: To make a deep hole in the ground with a drill
• tooth: A sharp points on the edge of a machine or tool
• movie: Motion picture; film
• easy: Not hard to do; not difficult
• mouth: Hole in the face used for eating and talking
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• read: Person's name
• long: Person's name
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• nice: Being attractive or of high quality or value
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• team: Group of people working on a task together
• air: Mixture of gases around the earth that we breathe
• adverb: A word that modifies verbs and adjectives
• win: Success in beating the other team or competitors
• roof: Top of the inside a tunnel, cave, mouth etc.
• let: To allow someone to do something
• keep: Large, strong tower in the middle of a castle
• final: Last game in a series in a competition
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• full: Containing all the parts; complete
• cut: Act/instance of reducing the size or amount of
• video: Recording capturing action with sound
• call: A order or request for action
• vowel: A speech sound; a, e , it, o, u and sometimes y
• consonant: Music (of a note) in harmony
• tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• disappoint: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
• voice: Ability to sing well
• unstressed: Having no accent or stress when spoken
• thought: To have an idea about something without certainty
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• relax: To calm or quiet yourself, or stop worrying
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• rhythmic: Having a pattern of events and motions
• bounce: A person's energy or confidence
• sample: To try (e.g. food, drink), to see if you like it
• contrast: To compare; to show clear, obvious differences
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• diphthong: Union of two vowel sounds or vowel letters, e.g. the sounds , ai; ai, in pipe , paip; paip, , the letters ou in doubt, pipe , paip; paip, , ai; ai, ; doubtou
• schwa: A neutral middle vowel; occurs in unstressed syllables