Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• at school: Present and attending school.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• cut off: To end a process, e.g. a phone call
• got to: To arrive at some place
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• flip through: To look quickly through a book or magazine.
• being with: Accompanying someone; being in someone's presence.
• in the back seat: Having a less active or secondary role; not in control.
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• turn to: To go to someone for help, advice, or information.
• come clean: To confess fully; to admit wrongdoing.
• put away: To put things in a closet, etc.; tidy up
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• other places: Different locations or areas
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• at a distance: Far away; not close.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• live for: To consider something the most important thing in your life; to find purpose or great pleasure in something.
• face to face: (Meeting) while looking at someone
• live my life: To experience life in a way that is true to oneself and brings personal fulfillment.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• on the telephone: Engaged in a phone call.
• dial down: To reduce the intensity or level of something.
• at bay: Kept at a distance; held back.
• keep at: To continuously try to do something
• in touch: Having contact or communication with someone.
• ramp up: To increase the level or amount of something sharply.
• dumb down: To simplify something so that it is easier to understand, often to an excessive degree.
• light on: To illuminate something.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• ill afford: To be unable to do something because it would cause problems.
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• close down: To shut an operation, company, shop
• as one: Acting or moving together at the same time.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• on the job: While working; during the course of employment.
• Internet: Worldwide computer network system
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• message: Main idea or theme in a story, book, or film
• live: To be alive
• computer: Machine for storing data, accessing the internet
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• school: Large group of fish that swim together
• talk: Style of speaking
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• parent: Person's, animal's mother or father
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• adult: Person or animal that is fully grown
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• clock: A device that shows the time
• busy: Working hard doing something; full of activity
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• call: A order or request for action
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• share: Part-ownership in a property, business or company
• online: Connected to the internet
• calendar: A table showing the days, months and years
• alarm: Sound or light used for a warning or alert
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• mix: To combine two or more things to make one
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• meeting: To provide something that is necessary
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
• communicate: To give and exchange information
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• rid: To cause to no longer have (pest, problem)
• communication: Talking to people; giving information to people
• update: Addition of a current version of something
• connectivity: Degree to which computer system has connections
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• networking: To join a group of computers together
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• lonely: Sad because apart from other people
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• professional: Of jobs such as doctor, lawyer, accountant, etc.
• addiction: Lack of control the overuse of something e.g. drugs
• virtual: Existing only on the internet or on a computer
• constant: Happening frequently or without pause
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• companionship: Good feeling from being with someone else
• propose: To make an offer of marriage
• readily: In a quick and easy manner
• continual: Happening all the time; never-ending
• restart: To begin working again after it has stopped
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• reconsider: To think whether to change an earlier decision
• vulnerable: Being open to attack or damage
• metaphor: Imaginative use of words to reveal a similarity
• aspiration: Great desire to achieve something
• scroll: To move up and down a computer screen
• blackberry: Type of black fruit grown on vines with thorns
• apt: Likely or having a tendency to act a certain way
• phantom: A spirit or ghost existing only in a person's mind
• pickup: Small truck that has an open back with low sides
• derail: (Of a train) to come off the railway tracks
• wondrous: Extraordinarily good or great
• compelled: To force someone to do something
• paraphrase: Summary of another person's words
• seductive: Having the ability to attract someone sexually
• validation: Act of finding or testing the truth of something
• ramp: Path that increases in height as you walk up it
• limb: Leg, arm, branch or wing
• nourish: To cause an idea, belief, or feeling to develop
• bail: Money given to ensure prisoner returns to a court