Vocabulary

• ride on: To continue as planned, despite difficulties.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• down the road: At a future time; in the future.
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• the bottom line: The most important thing; the essential point.
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• intuitive: Able to understand by feeling rather than fact
• spot: A certain place or area
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• incorporate: To form into a company or business corporation
• impression: Effect or feeling resulting from an experience
• reverse: Setting that makes the vehicle go backward
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• cruise: To easily achieve
• portrait: Picture of a person's head and shoulders
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• thrill: Thing/event causing sudden excitement or pleasure
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
• accelerate: To cause to occur earlier than expected
• vehicle: Machine (such as a car) used to carry things
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• race: Speed contest between people, animals or vehicles
• leave: To go away from; depart
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• habit: Loose clothing like a cloak, worn by monks, nuns
• rear: Part of the human body that you sit on; buttocks
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• operation: Business or company, or its activities
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• assembly: Process of putting the parts of something together
• great: Very good; better than before
• front: Behavior not showing a person's true feelings
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
• auxiliary: Helping or supporting a function or group
• valley: Area between mountains with river running through
• resistant: Not affected by something
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• pedal: Lever worked by the foot, e.g. the brakes of a car
• port: City where ships can shelter during a storm
• arcade: Covered passageway with shops on either side
• battery: Portable device that stores electricity
• lad: A boy or young man; any man
• silicon: Mineral used in making steel and computer parts
• ion: Atoms with either a positive or negative charge
• neighbourhood: Area of a town or city that people live in
• cocoa: Brown powder from a large bean, used for chocolate
• classically: In the manner of Greek and Roman culture
• automaker: Manufacturer of cars and trucks