Vocabulary

• take in: To allow to enter; receive as a guest
• catch up: To become equal with another person
• first off: To begin with; firstly.
• at a glance: Immediately; instantly upon looking.
• red flag: A warning sign or signal of danger or a problem.
• get up to: To do something slightly naughty
• chew on: To think carefully about something over a period of time.
• settle into: To become comfortable and familiar with a new place or situation.
• read: Person's name
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• eye: The part of the body that you see with
• slow: Lacking activity, busyness or excitement
• test: To be given a medical examination
• interesting: Taking your attention; making you want to know
• word: Unit of language that has a meaning
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• bath: Long container you fill with hot water to wash in
• pencil: Something you draw pictures with, or write with
• student: Person studying at school
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• page: Person's name
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• good: Proper, appropriate or right
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• hurt: To cause pain, damage or injury
• painless: Requiring little hard work or exertion
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• finger: One of the five long parts of the hand
• let: To allow someone to do something
• share: Part-ownership in a property, business or company
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• sell: To exchange something for money
• memory: Ability of the mind to call back past things
• Double: Person that is exactly like someone else
• college: School or educational institution for adults
• national: Concerning a nation as a whole
• view: Opinion, belief, or idea about something
• move: To cause someone to have certain emotions
• speed: How fast or slow something is or is done
• voice: Ability to sing well
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• sharp: Person's name
• pronounce: To state something in a legal or official way
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• painfully: In or as if in pain
• technology: Use or knowledge of science in industry etc.
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• exhaust: System of pipes through which gases escape
• reader: Easy and simple book to teach people to read
• glance: Quick or temporary look at
• chew: To bite something many times without swallowing it
• flag: To indicate something should get special attention
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• vision: Ability to see; eyesight
• focus: To see clearly by adjusting your eyes or a camera
• flash: To appear suddenly and briefly
• psychologist: An expert who studies the mind and behavior
• accuracy: Being exactly right; correctness
• tendency: Likelihood to behave in a particular way
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• loss: Friend, family, or other loved person's death
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• fund: To supply money for something
• comprehension: Act of understanding, e.g. a reading text
• advocate: A lawyer who protects a clients interests
• surpass: To go beyond or achieve more than someone
• pioneered: To begin or discover something new
• overload: To make a machine work too hard so it might break
• retention: Act of holding something inside the body
• app: Small applications for smartphones
• discern: To be able to tell differences, see shapes, etc.
• retina: Part of the eye that senses light
• hooray: Said to show delight at something happening
• peripheral: Computer devices attached to the computer
• hack: To illegally access someone else's computer