Vocabulary

• close out: To sell off or eliminate remaining items or inventory, often at discounted prices.
• sit out: To refrain from participating in something.
• as soon as: In a short time after (something happens)
• fall away: Slowly lessen your friendship with someone
• wipe out: To destroy or be destroyed
• slide off: To move smoothly and unintentionally from a surface and fall or drop off.
• wash over: If a feeling washes over you, you experience it suddenly and strongly.
• back onto: To reverse a vehicle so it stops at a particular place.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• straight: Not having curves, bends, or angles
• flip: To turn your body in the air, as in gymnastics
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• direction: When someone tells people what to do
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• chest: Strong, lidded container for storing things
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• peak: Part of a cap that sticks out over your eyes
• ensure: To make something sure, certain, or safe
• horizon: Line where the earth or sea meets the sky
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• leave: To go away from; depart
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• wipe: To clean or dry something with a cloth
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• equipment: Tools or materials used to perform a task
• act: To behave in a certain way
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• deck: Floor built into a ship, bus, plane or home
• upright: Having good moral standards; of good character
• swirl: To make a twisting shape, mark, or pattern
• negotiate: To have a formal discussion to reach an agreement
• elbow: Middle part of the arm, which bends
• angle: Place where two lines or surfaces meet
• paddle: Long stick with a flat end used to move a boat
• surf: To view webpages on the internet
• duck: To avoid doing something that is difficult
• turtle: Animal that lives in water and has a hard shell
• oncoming: (E.g. of traffic) moving towards
• surfer: Person riding the waves on a surfboard