Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• stack up: To compare with something else; measure up.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• set up
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• much about: A lot of information or knowledge concerning something.
• check out
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• alternative: Something different you can choose
• silly: Careless
• feature: Special report in a magazine or paper
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• prompt: Message on a computer requiring attention
• stack: A large number or amount of something
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• pause: To stop doing for a while before continuing
• tap: To access a liquid (e.g. in a tree) through a hole
• option: A choice
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• fit: Good looking; physically attractive
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• leave: To go away from; depart
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• outlet: Place in a wall to supply electricity to a device
• stadium: Building with a sports field for watching games
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• wear: To have clothes, glasses, shoes etc. on your body
• great: Very good; better than before
• galaxy: A group of stars and planets in space
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• pad: Object that is thin, flat, and usually soft
• bud: Small part of a plant that will be a flower
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• side: To decide to agree with one point, not the other
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• complain: To say something is wrong and should be changed
• ambient: Of or in the surrounding area or air
• wireless: Needing no wires to make something operate
• battery: Portable device that stores electricity
• android: Robot that looks or seems human
• bass: Type of fish
• equalizer: Electronic equipment reducing frequency distortion
• treble: Highest musical range of sounds
• yankee: Sometimes used insultingly an American
• backstreet: A street off a main street in a town