Vocabulary

• on God: Used to solemnly swear or emphasize truthfulness.
• dive in: To start doing something with a lot of enthusiasm.
• to death: Extremely; to a great degree
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• get behind: To support or encourage.
• on the scene: Present at a location, especially where something has happened.
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• scene: Incident where someone behaves angrily, badly
• fraud: Use of dishonest ways to take something valuable
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• lean: To balance against or on something for support
• private: Being away from others and quiet
• scheme: Plan (sometimes dishonest) to get or do something
• budget: Amount of money planned to be spent
• favor: Support or approval from people
• blow: To move something using air
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• whip: To defeat thoroughly or easily
• bust: To arrest people involved in crime
• dive: Restaurant, bar or club with a bad reputation
• pop: To cause something to open or burst suddenly
• owe: To need to do something in return for a favor etc.
• foul: Terrible in smell, taste, appearance or morals
• addict: Person who can’t control their overuse of a thing
• mansion: Very large, expensive home
• savage: Condition of being cruel, violent, uncivilized
• dope: Someone you think it stupid or a fool
• wrist: Part where your hand joins your arm
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• phantom: A spirit or ghost existing only in a person's mind
• bow: To (cause to) curve or bend
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• palette: Flat board for mixing paint
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• offset: To compensate for or counterbalance the effect of
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• demon: Cruel wicked and inhuman person or spirit
• expansion: Making or becoming larger
• balance: Instrument for weighing things
• roof: Top of the inside a tunnel, cave, mouth etc.
• jewelry: Necklace, ring, etc., often made of gold, etc.
• freeze: To harden to a solid below zero degrees
• ass: (Impolite) part of the human body that you sit on
• atlantic: Of the ocean between Africa and the Americas
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• yacht: Large expensive boat
• beam: To send out information, signals, or light
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• zombie: Dead person who exists among the living
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• undercover: Operating in disguise; incognito
• dungeon: Dark underground room in a castle used as a prison
• rock: To be greatly upset by something, e.g. a death
• tell: To (strongly) advise a person to do something
• casket: Box in which dead people are buried; coffin
• woo: (Of a man) to try to get a woman to marry him
• mute: Not willing or being unable to speak
• boo: To shout out 'boo', to express your disapproval
• clone: To make an exact copy of a living thing
• cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way
• goliath: Very large or powerful person, company etc.
• coupe: Car with two doors and a downward sloping back
• hoo: Dialect West Yorkshire and Lancashire she