Vocabulary

• do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
• due to: Because of; owing to
• get up in: To wake and leave bed at a particular time.
• hit the sack: To go to bed; to go to sleep.
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• solid: Being able to be trusted; reliable
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
• consecutive: Following one after the other in order
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• due: When something is required or expected
• variation: Something almost the same as another but different
• annual: Happening once a year, or every year
• culture: Beliefs and customs of a particular group
• vary: To change something and make it different
• log: To move a certain distance or speed, as recorded
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• connect: To associate a thing with something else
• sack: To put something in a large bag
• index: Number showing how prices, wages changed over time
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• business: A company formed for making profit
• lie: To be in a horizontal or flat position
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• stay: To keep trying without giving up
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• largely: In large part; mainly or chiefly
• northern: In or toward the north
• wine: Dark red color
• midnight: 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
• bedtime: Time you go to bed