Vocabulary

• set up
• off the bat: Immediately; without delay.
• right off the bat: Immediately; from the very beginning or start.
• have to: Must do
• of choice: Indicating something is preferred or selected deliberately.
• take a survey: To participate in a survey by answering questions.
• go in for: To enter a competition
• watch out: To be careful; to be alert to danger
• fill up
• check out
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• entire: Complete or full; with no part left out; whole
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• technique: Way of doing by using special knowledge or skill
• basically: Used before you explain something simply, clearly
• associate: Partner in professional work, e.g. in law
• amount: Quantity of something
• paradox: Surprising statement containing two opposing ideas
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• expert: Skillful person with special knowledge
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• worth: the financial, practical or moral value of somebody/something
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• path: Method of living leading to a particular result
• frame: To make a person that is not guilty appear guilty
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• depict: To represent or describe something using words
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• fill: To make something full
• hover: (Bird/helicopter) to fly staying in one position
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• neuroscience: Scientific study of the nervous system
• great: Very good; better than before
• scan: To look inside of the body with a special machine
• dart: To move suddenly away; race away
• area: Amount of measured space
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• crown: To put a crown on to make someone a king/queen
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• iceberg: Very large mass of floating ice in the sea
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• victory: Defeating or beating someone or something
• buffet: Meal where eaters select from many various dishes
• hummingbird: Tiny iridescent bird that hovers while feeding