Vocabulary

• build me up: To encourage or praise someone, often to increase their confidence.
• second things second: Addressing the next most important thing; after the most important thing has been dealt with.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in the clouds: Lost in thought; daydreaming or distracted.
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• spirit: Person's strong determination or attitude
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• master: To gain control over something
• flow: To move steadily and easily in a certain direction
• drown: To kill something by putting it under water
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• choke: To cause someone not to breathe
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• lesson: Something done to learn or teach something; class
• sail: To travel across water in a boat or a ship
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• shake: To cause someone to be surprised or upset
• live: To be alive
• hear: To be aware of sound; to perceive with the ear
• age: To keep food, wine for a long time to improve it
• message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
• prayer: Words spoken to your god for help
• tired: Without energy so you want to rest or fall asleep
• beauty: Something attractive that produces great pleasure
• singe: To burn lightly, often to remove hair
• heartache: Intense sorrow caused by loss, e.g. of a loved one
• believer: A person who has religious faith