Vocabulary

• break the ice: To say or do something to relieve tension or awkwardness, especially at the start of a conversation or meeting.
• for days: For a long period of time; lasting several days.
• in part: To some extent; partially.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• check out
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• ritual: Performed as part of a ceremony
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• wrap: Piece of clothing worn loosely on the shoulders
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• couple: To join something to something else
• nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
• role: Character played by an actor
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• leave: To go away from; depart
• impress: To make an emotional impact upon
• pregnancy: When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• deposit: Concentration of mineral left by a river
• bottom: The part of your body you sit on
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• extend: To offer something (help, friendship) to someone
• sperm: Cell produced by men and needed for reproduction
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• act: To behave in a certain way
• mate: A friend who you work, live, or go to school with
• pouch: Pocket; a folded area that holds something
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• adulthood: Time of life when a person is fully grown
• part: Division of a book
• tube: Plastic or metal container for soft substances
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• reproductive: Concerning the process of making children
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• vegetation: (Of plants) to grow in an area (without humans)
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• come: To arrive at a place
• torso: Body (often dead), without arms, legs, or head
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• synchronize: To make two things work at the same time
• reversal: Change to the opposite, often from good to bad
• flap: Motion or sound of something waving back and forth
• salinity: Concentration of salt in a solution
• newborn: Having just/recently arisen or come into existence
• dodo: Extinct heavy flightless bird related to pigeons
• seahorse: Small fish with a horse-like head and a tail