Vocabulary

• with bated breath: In great suspense; very anxiously or excitedly.
• back to work: Returning to one's job or professional duties after a period of absence.
• get back to: To get in contact with someone again
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• candidate: Politician who is running for public office
• astronaut: Person who travels in space
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• gaze: Direction you are looking
• signal: To be evidence/an indication something will happen
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• breath: Air you take in and out of your body
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• land: Region or country
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• nation: Area or region controlled by a government and army
• galaxy: A group of stars and planets in space
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• base: Place military personnel live, train, and operate
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• live: To be alive
• earth: Wire connecting an electrical device to the ground
• soviet: Elected government council in a communist country
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• shock: The passage of an electricity through the body
• gentleman: Man who has good manners and is considerate
• cosmonaut: Person trained to travel in a spacecraft
• moon: To expose your buttocks as a joke
• eagle: Very large, strong bird that hunts small animals