Vocabulary

• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• high time: The appropriate moment or opportunity to do something.
• get out of: To leave or escape responsibilities, troubles
• got to: To arrive at some place
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• account for: To explain the cause or reason for something
• bring back: To cause to remember
• carry on: To engage in an activity, e.g. a conversation
• on to: Toward something; forward
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• out of the window: To be discarded or no longer applicable or relevant.
• next to: Being located along side another
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• fall short: To fail to reach a required or expected standard or goal.
• humanly possible: Within the limits of what a person can achieve.
• in the field: Working or doing research in a real-world environment, not in a classroom or laboratory.
• burn up: To consume all of something, e.g. fuel, energy
• call out: To criticize someone to modify their behavior
• set out: To arrange something in an orderly fashion
• on foot
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• have to: Must do
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• at school: Present and attending school.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• at least: As a minimum
• sum up
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• unfinished: Not yet ended; not complete; still being done
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• credited: To add a certain amount of money to a total
• ice: Frozen gas or liquid, esp. water
• answer: To reply to a question someone asks
• leave: To go away from; depart
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• fun: Amusing and enjoyable
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
• photo: Short for photograph; a picture taken by a camera
• sea: Very large group of people, similar-looking things
• sit: To take an exam
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• north: Direction to your left when facing the rising sun
• helicopter: Aircraft with spinning blades at the top
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• team: Group of people working on a task together
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• comfortable: Having more than enough e.g. money for your needs
• adventure: An exciting and often dangerous experience
• mountain: Very high piece of land, higher than a hill
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
• high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
• century: Period of 100 years
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• standing: To be a candidate in an election
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• drag: To reluctantly move or go somewhere
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• nowadays: At the present time; now
• stepping: To raise and moving the foot to put it down
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• argument: Discussion in which you disagree with someone
• edge: An advantage you have over others
• action: Something that a person or thing does
• disappear: To no longer see because it's not there any more
• scenery: Stage props during a play; a country view
• advisor: Someone giving advice in business, law etc.
• joy: Deep happiness and pleasure about something
• polar: Concerning the areas near the North or South poles
• respond: To answer something or someone
• virtually: In an almost complete or entire manner
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• constant: Happening frequently or without pause
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• spectator: Someone who watches an event
• slightest: The smallest, thinnest or weakest
• intellectually: In a manner involving reasoning or complex ideas
• presenter: Announcer of a TV or radio show
• endeavor: To attempt or make effort to do something
• upward: Toward some higher point or position
• addictive: Being powerless to stop doing or using something
• utterly: Completely
• exploration: Act of examining something to learn about it
• summit: Official meeting(s) of the leaders of countries
• sheer: To suddenly turn or change direction
• pole: One of two opposite ideas, qualities or positions
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• adversity: Bad or difficult situation or times; trouble
• dichotomy: Difference between two completely opposite ideas
• scurvy: Disgustingly mean or contemptible; despicable
• shotgun: Double-barreled smoothbore shoulder weapon
• implore: To make an emotional and serious request
• tally: To count or reckon up; to score a point
• macho: Being characterized by being strongly masculine
• flux: A state of flow and change
• audacious: Fearless, brave and daring
• aviation: Science or practice of flying aircraft
• chap: To cause the skin, lips to roughen or crack