Vocabulary

• to the moon: Increasing quickly and significantly, often in value or excitement.
• such as: For example; like
• alternative energy: Energy generated from natural resources, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• of old: From a long time ago; in the past.
• of the century: The most notable or important in a hundred-year period.
• in particular: Specifically; especially.
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• energy sources: Materials or processes that can produce energy.
• turn out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• big: Popular
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• cheap: Not costing a lot of money
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
• food: What people and animals eat to live
• long: Person's name
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• easy: Not hard to do; not difficult
• moon: To expose your buttocks as a joke
• war: Situation where armies fight each other
• price: Person's name
• century: Period of 100 years
• popular: Liked or enjoyed by many people
• international: Of or relating to several countries
• history: Established pattern or record
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• happen: To take place or occur
• store: To put things in a place for later use
• solve: To figure out a way to handle a difficult problem
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• political: Being active or interested in government matters
• technological: Concerning technology
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• crew: Organized group of workers (e.g. on a ship)
• cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
• percent: One one-hundredth of a whole; the symbol %
• explanation: Details or reasons given to make something clear
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• transport: Very strong uncontrollable emotion, e.g. delight
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• solar: Concerning the sun, or its heat
• alternative: Something different you can choose
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• cure: Something that solves a problem or makes it better
• transformational: Concerning a complete change in shape of something
• emphasize: To stress the items that are important
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• financed: With the money provided by person, company
• descend: To go down; to move from a higher to a lower place
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• resistant: Not affected by something
• investing: To use resources to build for the future
• funding: To supply money for something
• enrich: To make someone or something better
• derive: To come from another thing
• renewable: Being able to be replaced naturally
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• fund: To supply money for something
• lengthy: Having a lot of something, such as pages in a book
• venture: (Business) activity involving calculated risks
• eradicate: To remove or destroy something completely
• vaguely: In a vague way; not fully
• spur: To make your horse go faster
• vaccine: Shot using weak disease cells to stop same disease
• optimism: Condition of having a positive outlook or belief
• fragility: Lack of strength; easily broken or harmed
• cynical: Always believing that bad things are the reasons
• assembly: Process of putting the parts of something together
• viable: Being capable of living, growing, and developing
• biofuel: Fuel created from plants, etc.
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• smallpox: Contagious disease with pimples that leave scars
• culmination: The point at which an event or series of events ends, having developed until it reaches this point
• transcendent: Beyond the range of human experience/understanding
• polio: Disease that affects the nervous system
• tuberculosis: Disease affecting especially the lungs
• lunar: Concerning, about, or from the moon
• penicillin: Medicine that treats infection by killing bacteria
• fiery: Of or like fire; hot or angry
• liftoff: Initial ascent of a rocket from its launching pad
• thrust: To move (e.g. a knife) forcefully towards someone
• incremental: Happening or growing bit by bit over time
• commonplace: Being average or ordinary
• mobilization: (Of army) act of getting ready for action