Vocabulary

• out of it: Unconscious or not completely alert; dazed or confused.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• dying to: Extremely eager or anxious to do or have something.
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• render down: To melt animal fat to extract oil for cooking or other uses.
• measure up: To be good enough; to meet the required standard.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• at the same time: Simultaneously; at the identical moment.
• same time: Occurring simultaneously or at the same point in time.
• on the surface: Appearing to be true or real until examined more closely.
• just kind of: Used to express a feeling or state in a vague or hesitant way.
• in half: Divided into two equal parts.
• want out: To desire to withdraw or escape from a situation, agreement, or commitment.
• to order: To give an instruction or command.
• ahead of time: Before the scheduled time; early.
• right for: Suitable or appropriate for a particular person, purpose, or situation.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• get here: To arrive at a specific location.
• authentic: From a reliable source; accurate; true
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• iconic: Being widely recognized as a symbol of something
• texture: Quality from different elements, as in music
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• shrink: To become smaller
• cuisine: Certain style or technique of cooking
• counterintuitive: Contrary to what common sense would suggest
• interpretation: Explanation of the meaning of something
• ancestor: A person from your family that lived in the past
• rip: To tear or split roughly or cause to tear or split
• render: To cause to be in a certain state or condition
• flavor: Quality giving something a particular character
• mentality: Attitude toward, or a belief about something
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• starch: Substance in food changed to energy in the body
• dough: Substance made from flour and water to bake bread
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• trade: A specific industry, e.g. shoe making
• flush: Feeling that comes suddenly
• sizzle: A hissing sound of something burning or frying
• important: Having power or authority
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• upbeat: Being positive and cheerful
• joint: Body parts where bones meet and can move together
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• crisp: To make or become dry and crisp, as with heat
• memorize: To study something so that you remember it
• cabbage: Round green vegetable with tightly packed leaves
• slap: To hit with the open hand or with a flat object
• taste: (Good) sense of style in clothes, art, or manners
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• celery: Long hard thin green vegetable
• requirement: A demand that someone does something
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• mixture: Something made by combining two or more things
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• land: Region or country
• business: A company formed for making profit
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• central: Being in the middle
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• spice: Plant used for making food sweet or hot-tasting
• part: Division of a book
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• militant: Using strong forceful methods to achieve a goal
• shoulder: Part of the body where an arm attaches or joins
• silk: Fine cloth material used for making clothes
• marinate: To put food in sauce to add flavor before cooking
• chili: Hot-tasting spice used in curry, etc.
• dish: Shallow container that you cook or serve food in
• dine: To eat
• meat: Flesh of a dead animal that you eat
• muslim: Of or relating to Islam
• whatnot: Miscellaneous curios
• bake: To cook food (bread, cakes) in an oven
• cumin: Aromatic seed used to flavor food
• wok: Pan with convex bottom used for stir frying
• techno: Style of fast heavy electronic dance
• lunchtime: The time you eat your midday meal