Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• rise above: To overcome or surmount a difficult situation or challenge.
• have to: Must do
• drag in: To arrive somewhere reluctantly or heavily, often tired or late.
• water: Clear liquid that forms the seas, rivers and rain
• coat: Clothing worn outside over your normal clothes
• fat: Amount beyond what is usual or necessary
• body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
• warm: To become more friendly or to like something
• cold: Illness of sneezing, coughing, and a sore throat
• long: Person's name
• live: To be alive
• home: House, apartment or building to be rented or sold
• swimming: To move through water by moving parts of the body
• swim: To move through water by moving parts of the body
• colored: To change or affect someone's opinion
• tall: High in height
• weather: Whether it is raining, sunny, cold etc. outside
• eat: To put food in your mouth
• web: Skin between ducks' toes that enables them to swim
• mistaken: To understand someone or something incorrectly
• desert: To leave a place for ever; abandon
• neck: Part of the body joining the head and the body
• store: To put things in a place for later use
• heat: State of anger, excitement, or arguing
• Double: Person that is exactly like someone else
• heavy: Greater in amount, degree, or severity than usual
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• full: Containing all the parts; complete
• high: Excited or relaxed from taking drugs
• call: A order or request for action
• giraffe: Tall African animal with very long neck and legs
• camel: Large desert animal with a long neck and hump(s)
• penguin: Black and white sea bird that cannot fly
• sand: Area composed of tiny pieces of rock near an ocean
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
• skin: To defeat someone easily and completely
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• freezing: To harden to a solid below zero degrees
• spot: A certain place or area
• feed: To give food, e.g. to animals or a baby
• drag: To reluctantly move or go somewhere
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• survive: To continue to live despite illness or trouble
• tan: A light brown color
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
• mammal: Animal which drinks milk from its mother
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• habitat: Natural place where a plant or animal lives
• blend: To combine different elements or substances
• scattered: To throw or move into various different directions
• camouflage: Blending into the background by being similar
• mph: MPH is an acronym for miles per hour
• reside: To live in; dwell; to be present
• savannah: Flat grassland of tropical or subtropical regions
• streamline: To make smooth or more efficient
• misconception: Wrong or misunderstood idea