Vocabulary

• think about: To consider something carefully.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• on course: Likely to achieve a desired outcome after a period of difficulty.
• by day: During the daytime; not at night.
• by night: During the night; not during the day.
• start out: To begin your life or career in a particular way.
• wait for: To wait until someone comes, or something happens
• all along: From the beginning; all the time.
• fly: Common flying insect, sometimes blue in color
• wind: A current of air moving approximately horizontally, especially one strong enough to be felt
• long: Person's name
• stop: To block or close something
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• evening: To make something level; to flatten
• bird: Animal with feathers that uses wings to fly
• fat: Amount beyond what is usual or necessary
• travel: To go to a place that is far away
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• warm: To become more friendly or to like something
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• sun: Light and heat coming from a large star in the sky
• hot: Angry or excited
• eat: To put food in your mouth
• mineral: Substance naturally formed in the ground
• cooler: More cool than
• hop: Dance party
• map: Diagram showing the geography of an area
• flight: Act of leaving a place, usually to escape danger
• guide: To help or advise someone about something
• mountain: Very high piece of land, higher than a hill
• dangerous: Involving the chance of hurt or damage; risky
• calling: To make a request or order for action
• Double: Person that is exactly like someone else
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• save: To make your computer keep a file
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• top: To be higher or larger than a specific value
• depend: Be controlled or determined by (someone/something)
• mystery: Quality of being strange and not understood
• energy: Physical or mental strength
• keen: Being eager or excited for something to happen
• reminder: Something that causes one to remember something
• select: To choose a suitable thing from a group
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• coast: Land near the sea or ocean
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• weight: How heavy something is
• tiny: Very, very small
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• resident: Trainee doctor who works/lives in a hospital
• gather: To bring objects together into one place
• prime: To get a person ready for; prepare someone
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• migration: Process of moving to live in another place
• habitat: Natural place where a plant or animal lives
• compliment: Remark saying someone looks nice, plays well, etc.
• upward: Toward some higher point or position
• magnetic: Having the properties of a magnet; able to attract
• spiral: A continuous curve round a central point
• resistance: Force that stops or slows movement of something
• migrate: To move from one country or place to live or work
• navigate: To direct (car, plane etc.) in the right direction
• hummingbird: Tiny iridescent bird that hovers while feeding
• overheat: To become too hot
• magnetism: Property causing metal objects to attract or repel
• thermal: Item of warm clothing for cold weather use
• compass: Device that shows the direction of north
• glide: To move smoothly and quietly as if without effort
• altitude: Height of something above sea level
• flock: Group of animals or birds that live together