Vocabulary

• go it alone: To act or do something without help or partners.
• fend off: To defend and keep (threats) at distance
• work together: To collaborate or cooperate with others to achieve a common goal.
• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• game on: An exclamation indicating the start of a game or activity.
• size up: To consider something to make a decision
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• strike: To hit something
• confidence: Feeling that you can do well at something
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• spare: To make (money or time) available for
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• security: Department in a company in charge of protection
• deliver: To give birth to a child; help a woman give birth
• blow: To move something using air
• drop: Distance between a higher and a lower level
• quantity: A large amount of something
• league: Group of people, countries with a common goal
• colony: Group (bees, etc.) that live in the same place
• defense: Argument in support of something
• sharp: Person's name
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• chew: To bite something many times without swallowing it
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• squirrel: Small furry tree-living animal with a big tail
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• resident: Trainee doctor who works/lives in a hospital
• alive: Living; not dead
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• steel: Very strong or determined character in a person
• quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
• bite: Amount of food taken into your mouth at one time
• blade: One of several flat pieces in a fan which move air
• cocky: Overly self-confident or self-assertive
• venom: Poison, e.g. one produced by plant or animal
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• fend: To try to manage for yourself without assistance
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• cape: Clothing without sleeves worn over the shoulders
• neighbor: Person who lives, or is near, you
• getaway: Rapid escape (as by criminals)
• fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
• matrix: Rock that surrounds rare stones
• push: To move into enemy country with a military attack
• body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
• snake: An animal with a long body, no arms or legs
• style: The (tasteful) way something is designed or done
• hungry: Feeling a need or want to eat food
• tooth: A sharp points on the edge of a machine or tool
• cobra: Deadly snake known for its hooded head
• mongoose: Small furry animal that kills snakes, rats etc.