Vocabulary

• hold over: To postpone; delay.
• speak of: To mention someone or something in conversation.
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• vast: Being very large in size or amount
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• immense: Very great in size or amount
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• huge: Very very large
• astronaut: Person who travels in space
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• scarce: Not many; Not plentiful or abundant
• imagination: Ability to creates new ideas and mental images
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• liquid: (Of wealth) being able to be spent as cash
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• breathe: To move air into and out of your lungs
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• probe: To carefully examine an issue by asking questions
• space: Empty area kept for a specific reason, like a car
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• land: Region or country
• possibly: May be true or likely, but is uncertain
• possibility: Something with a chance of happening or being true
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• iron: Heavy metal device heated to smooth clothes
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• technical: Complex; difficult to understand
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• fable: Very old (children's) story with a moral lesson
• come: To arrive at a place
• rover: Someone who leads a wandering unsettled life
• spacecraft: Vehicle capable of traveling to outer space
• daunt: To make someone feel less courageous or confident
• musk: Strong sweet-smelling substance used in perfume