Vocabulary

• stand by: To keep to an agreement
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• across the board: Broad in scope or content
• send off: To force someone to leave a game
• now or never: An opportunity that must be taken immediately, or it will be lost.
• spin off: A company that is formed from part of an existing company.
• up there: In or to a higher place or position; far away.
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• hold out hope: To continue to hope that something will happen, even if it seems unlikely.
• along with: In addition to; together with.
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• melancholy: Having a sad mood or feeling
• approximately: Around; nearly; almost; about (a number)
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• impulse: Sudden desire to do something that is not planned
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• initial: First letter of your given name
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• tense: The use of grammar to state the time things happen
• sequence: Part of a movie showing one part of the story
• initiate: To cause something to begin
• orbit: Path an object takes as it circles another object
• nerd: Intelligent but single-minded expert in a field
• launch: Starting a new project; introducing new product
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• spin: To make a ball rotate when throwing it
• crew: Organized group of workers (e.g. on a ship)
• visual: Of or relating to vision
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• satellite: Device sent into space that aids communication
• proceed: To continue to do something; carry on
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• communication: Talking to people; giving information to people
• colony: Group (bees, etc.) that live in the same place
• buzz: Low pitched sound similar to the sound bees make
• alarm: Sound or light used for a warning or alert
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• mellow: Being completely relaxed and calm
• voyage: Long journey to a distant or unknown place
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• applaud: To clap the hands together to express support
• transmission: Part of car including gears affecting speed of car
• whine: To complain in an annoying crying voice
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• disappear: To no longer see because it's not there any more
• grade: To give a road the required angle of slope
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• ride: Machine at an amusement park for riding on for fun
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• diagnostic: Concerning finding out the cause of a problem
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• groan: To make a deep sound from despair, pain etc.
• propulsion: Forward movement often under power
• commander: Person with authority who commands or controls
• lose: To be unable to keep in check or control something
• come: To arrive at a place
• rumble: Low, heavy continuous sound or series of sounds
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• disappoint: To not meet the expectations of others or yourself
• spacecraft: Vehicle capable of traveling to outer space
• chatter: To talk a lot in a casual manner
• hum: To make a constant low sound
• beep: Short high sound such as that made by a car horn
• vector: Math a quantity that has both size and direction
• spaceship: Spacecraft designed to travel into space
• entangle: To involve in troubles that are hard to escape
• crackle: To make sharp repeated noises, like a fire burning
• standby: Ready for use in an emergency, etc.
• whoosh: Sound made when something moves quickly past you
• hoo: Dialect West Yorkshire and Lancashire she