Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• of ours: Belonging to us; associated with us.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• in a word: Briefly; in short.
• have to: Must do
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• except for: Not including; excluding.
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• accent: To give emphasis to (a point you are making)
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• exact: Completely correct; accurate; specific
• roughly: Approximately; (of numbers) about; around
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• slip: Act of beginning to fall from losing balance
• odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• gender: State of being male or female
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• handy: Convenient, easy to use, easy to reach
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• countless: Being too many to be numbered or imagined
• plural: Being more than one person or thing
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• century: Period of 100 years
• habit: Loose clothing like a cloak, worn by monks, nuns
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• marvelous: Extraordinarily good or great
• dozen: 12 people or things
• streamline: To make smooth or more efficient
• perfectly: In a faultless manner; without mistakes
• lamb: Young sheep
• spoon: Tool with a rounded end for eating ice cream, etc.
• fry: To cook something in fat or oil
• fork: To divide or separate into two branches
• impossible: (Child, etc.) very annoying
• differently: In another and different manner
• crazy: Mentally ill; mad
• goose: Large water bird related to a duck
• pea: Round green seed, several of which grow in a pod
• oak: Hard, tough wood taken from an oak tree
• goat: Small animal with beard and horns
• merry: Feeling a little drunk from alcohol
• sheep: Animal with a woolly coat raised for meat or wool
• neuter: Neither masculine nor feminine in gender
• norse: People from Norway in medieval times