Vocabulary

• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• go on: To continue doing something
• cast of characters: The actors and roles in a play, film, or other performance.
• condemned to: To be destined for a particular fate, usually negative.
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• at last: Finally; after a long delay.
• have at: To attack someone or something.
• chance on: To find or discover something unexpectedly.
• for free: Without charge; at no cost.
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• strike: To hit something
• inspiration: Force making you feel you can do things, succeed
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• epic: Going on for a long time; awe-inspiring
• narrative: The telling of a story
• reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• solitude: State of preferring to be alone
• subsequent: Happening after; later
• realistic: Looks or appears real; like things really are
• gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
• conservative: (Of an estimate, price) set fairly low
• rampant: Growing rapidly and uncontrollably
• veteran: Person experienced through long service
• surreal: Concerning surrealism
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• genre: Category of art, music with its own qualities
• manner: The way a person acts, talks, or behaves
• lecture: To speak to someone to show anger or warn them
• capture: To attract and hold e.g. interest, attention
• depict: To represent or describe something using words
• isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
• civil: Of citizens of a country; not military, criminal
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• expose: To make visible, without covering or protection
• author: Person who writes books, plays, poems etc.
• distant: Unfriendly; cold
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
• condemn: To say that (a building) is too unsafe to be used
• journalist: Writer of news reports for newspapers etc.
• intrigue: To make someone interested or curious
• liberal: Someone who is open-minded and favors progress
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• outlook: General feeling or attitude about something
• coup: Successful taking over of a thing; sudden success
• colonial: Of a system where one country controls another
• superstition: Unproven belief that some things are lucky/unlucky
• massacre: Killing of a large number of people
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• maternal: Of mothers or being a mother
• spite: Wish to hurt another person; malice; maliciousness
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• firsthand: Received directly from a source
• blossom: Flower from a tree, often one appearing in spring
• assortment: Collection of different things some similarities
• tangle: To involve in troubles that are hard to escape
• face: To cover a surface with something like paint
• fire: Heat and the flame produced when burning
• die: Cube with dots numbering 1-6 on it used in games
• fruit: Result or product of something
• strife: Conflict or discord
• supernatural: Being unable to be explained by natural causes
• book: (Police) to officially record someone's crimes
• family: Close group of people or organizations
• latin: Ancient Roman language affecting many languages
• relive: To remember a past time or event
• colombia: A republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language
• iniquity: Deep injustice; wickedness
• venezuelan: Concerning the culture and people of Venezuela
• colombian: Concerning the culture and people of Colombia
• gabriel: (Bible) The archangel who was the messenger of God