Vocabulary

• break away: To escape from a situation suddenly
• buddy up: To become friendly with someone, often to gain an advantage.
• make up: To invent or create a story
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• piece of cake: (slang) easy to do
• build up: To increase the amount; collect something
• speed up: To move more quickly
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• ahead of the pack: Being in a leading position compared to competitors.
• finish: To use or consume all of something
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• body: The physical structure of a person or animal.
• cake: To cover with a thing that becomes hard when dried
• slow: Lacking activity, busyness or excitement
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• easy: Not hard to do; not difficult
• road: Long piece of hard land for cars to travel on
• run: To depart or travel according to a schedule
• need: To be unable to manage without something; require
• ready: Being likely or about to do something
• friend: Person who you like and enjoy being with
• stay: To keep trying without giving up
• happy: Feeling pleasure or joy; glad
• hand: Cards given to a player in a card game
• team: Group of people working on a task together
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• line: Border that divides two places or regions
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• push: To move into enemy country with a military attack
• special: Being additional or extra
• friendly: Acting like a friend; kind and helpful
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• pack: Bag carried on the back of donkey, etc.
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• piece: A counter in a board game
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• cool: Steady and calm when facing difficulties
• guy: Man; boy; any person
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• speed: How fast or slow something is or is done
• position: Person's opinion or attitude about something
• specially: Very; noticeably; greatly
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• initial: First letter of your given name
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• alive: Living; not dead
• tiny: Very, very small
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• reaction: Bodily response to a drug or something eaten
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• strain: To remove the water from (food) using a colander
• participation: Act of being involved in something
• lower: In a position more near the bottom
• chemical: Basic substance produced by mixing elements
• rearrange: To rethink a plan, event for a time and place
• atom: Smallest bit that matter can be broken down into
• flexibility: The quality of being able to be bent or stretched
• muscle: Physical power
• pace: Rate of speed at which something moves or happens
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• react: To change when mixing with other chemicals
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• stable: In a position where something does not fall over
• unstable: (Of a chair, etc.) likely to move, fall etc.
• transition: Change from one state, movement, place to another
• orientation: Where you are in a location, e.g. facing east/west
• flatten: To make level and spread out over a surface
• hum: To make a constant low sound
• activation: Act of making something (e.g. a bomb) active
• substrate: A substance which a catalyst has an effect on
• enzyme: A protein made by cells
• molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined
• destabilize: To make unstable or unpredictable
• molecular: About or caused by molecules
• buddy: Friend, usually male
• automatically: In a way not requiring control by a person