Vocabulary

• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• under consideration: Being thought about or discussed, typically before a decision is made.
• have to: Must do
• start over: To begin again.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• hit on: To discover an idea, etc. by chance
• hit out: To criticize someone or something strongly and publicly.
• of a sudden: Quickly and unexpectedly; suddenly.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• in hot water: In trouble; in a difficult situation.
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• perceptions of: Ideas, beliefs, or images you have as a result of how you see or understand something.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• diabetes: Illness where there is too much sugar in the blood
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• industry: Hard work; being busy working
• disrupt: To cause a disturbance in an activity in progress
• paradigm: A set of ideas for understanding or explaining
• capital: Writing the first letter of a word in big letters
• handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
• venture: (Business) activity involving calculated risks
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• retail: Business of selling products to the public
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• optimistic: Tending to believe the future will be good
• anonymous: Unknown; with no name revealed
• agriculture: The science of farming
• validate: To show to be officially correct or allowable
• tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• scramble: To cause war planes to take off quickly
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• submit: To accept a superior force has power over you
• hell: Any place of pain and suffering
• petition: Request to an authority to change something
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• utilize: To use something for a particular purpose
• livestock: Any animals kept for use or profit
• investigation: Search for information about something
• vegan: Vegetarian who eats no animal or dairy products
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• patent: Legal protection for inventions or ideas
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• transportation: Act of moving people or goods between places
• transcend: To achieve or go beyond normal limits of
• taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
• laboratory: A place to do scientific experiments
• traditional: Involved in a custom or event common to a people
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• consideration: Careful thought; thinking about something
• derive: To come from another thing
• invent: To create something such as a story or excuse
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• product: Item that can be bought
• slaughter: Act of killing an animal to get its meat
• plant: Factory or a place where things are made
• societal: Concerning society or a society
• mobility: Ability to move
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• mayonnaise: Creamy, thick savory dressing for food
• nugget: Small, solid lump (of gold, chicken, wisdom etc.)
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• molecular: About or caused by molecules
• gel: Thick substance, similar to jelly
• poise: Way of behaving with confidence/emotional control
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• put: To move or place a thing in a particular position
• turf: Grass or a grass-like surface
• carnivore: Any creature that consumes meat
• pickup: Small truck that has an open back with low sides
• horsepower: Unit of power of car engine, etc.