Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• game over: The end of a game or a situation.
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• turn into: To change to become something else
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• at risk: In danger; likely to be harmed
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• grocery: Daily foods such as flour, sugar, and tinned foods
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• campaign: To work in an organized, active way towards a goal
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• rid: To cause to no longer have (pest, problem)
• accommodate: To adapt or handle a situation, task
• decade: Period of 10 years
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• estimate: Guess or calculation of cost, size or value
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• candidate: Politician who is running for public office
• federal: Consisting of several united states
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• congress: Meeting of elected or appointed representatives
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• embarrassed: To cause someone to feel ashamed
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• administration: Act of giving e.g. medicine to a patient
• seal: To close tightly to protect it from leaking
• fate: What will happen to you in the future, often bad
• expire: To breathe out
• eligible: Being able to be chosen or selected; suitable
• platform: Flat, raised structure that people stand on
• fault: A failure or negative aspect of
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• previously: At an earlier time
• ambivalent: Not sure what you feel about something
• apologize: To say sorry because of a mistake or injury
• illegal: Not allowed by the laws or rules
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• stark: Very clear and often unpleasant
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• surrender: Ending a fight you cannot win; formally giving up
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
• float: To sell the shares of a company publicly
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• senate: A board of governors at a college or university
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• expansion: Making or becoming larger
• immigration: Process of moving your home to a new country
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• sue: Person's name
• constitutional: Regarding laws that govern a nation and its people
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• want: To desire or wish for something; hope for a thing
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• amnesty: Freedom given to someone who could be punished
• wedge: Golf club designed to hit the ball high in the air
• defer: To hold back to a later time
• limbo: An uncertain situation that you cannot control and in which there is no progress or improvement
• homeland: Country where you were born
• deport: To force a person to leave a country