Vocabulary

• of sorts: Of a kind, but not a very good one.
• revolving door: A door consisting of several panels that hang on a central shaft and rotate to allow people to enter or leave a building.
• awkward: Lacking smooth movement
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• inspiration: Force making you feel you can do things, succeed
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• efficient: Able to produce results without waste
• interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• insist: To demand that someone do something
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• patent: Legal protection for inventions or ideas
• storm: To act violently or angrily
• dust: To apply a fine powder to, e.g. sugar to a cake
• salute: Raising your hand to your head to show respect
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• draft: Withdrawal of money from the bank
• phobia: Extreme fear
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• great: Very good; better than before
• revolve: To move something in a circular motion
• restaurant: Place where you can order, buy and eat a meal
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• hate: To have a very strong feeling of dislike for
• study: To focus on learning something usually at school
• translation: changing text from one language to another; the process of changing something into a different form
• close: Almost; near
• van: Truck with an enclosed cargo space
• scrooge: A mean ungenerous person