Essential English Vocabulary Glossary: Definitions and Phrasal Verbs

General Vocabulary

• Good looking: someone who has good luck.
• To share: to use something together with somebody else.
• Contract: a paper you sign with a particular purpose.
• To realise: to publish so that people can buy it / to notice.
• To give away: to donate.
• Live: takes place with an audience in front.
• To promote: to try to increase the sales for a product / to play a role, to be essential.
• Updating: to make something modern by adding new information.
• Remote: a person who isn't very friendly and doesn't want to get undue attention.
• Hit: when something is very successful.
• To be willing: to be open or ready to do something.
• To ban: to forbid, to prohibit.
• Support: to agree with.
• Intimidating: scary, frightened, daunting.
• Nevertheless: however.
• Unfairly: unjustly.
• Hooligan: disorderly and violent person.
• Wherever: wherever you are.
• To presume: to believe something to be true because it is very likely.
• To cope with: to struggle or deal with, especially on fairly even terms or with some degree of success.
• Disappointed: unhappy because something or something was not as good as you hoped or expected.
• Reliable: someone you can trust.
• Slightly: a little bit.
• Feeling down: sad.
• Over the moon: extremely happy and excited.
• Global warming: heating of the Earth.
• To be at risk: to be in danger.
• Ensure: to make something certain.
• Threat: menace.
• To threaten: to cause harm or hurt.
• To release: to make free.
• Trap: to catch.
• To prosper: to grow or develop in good conditions.
• Average: typical.
• Major: serious.
• Floods: a natural disaster in which water covers normally dry land.
• Drought: a natural disaster in which there is a long period with no rain.
• Melting: becoming liquid.

Phrasal Verbs and Expressions

• Set up: to prepare / to install or mount.
• Sign up: to sign a contract / to register.
• Turn up: to increase the volume / to arrive.
• Warm up: to practice, to prepare, or to heat up.
• Took up / Take up: to start a hobby or practice an activity.
• Turned down / Turn down: to reject / to decrease the volume.
• Took off / Take off: to leave the ground and fly.
• Coming out / Come out: to be released or published / to reach.
• Break into: to enter a field with success.
• Make up: to invent.
• Break down: to stop working.
• Tidy / Clear up: to pick up, clean, and organize.
• Come up: to approach or arise.
• Come over: to visit someone's place.
• Look after: to take care of.
• Shut down: to close.
• Go up: to increase.
• Catch up / Cacht up: to reach the same level / to get up to date.
• Fill in: to complete a form or document.
• Go over: to review, examine, or explain something again.
• Go through: to check or experience something.
• Gets on: to have a good relationship with somebody.
• Missed out on: was unable to do or experience something.
• Cheered up: felt happier.
• To coach: to train.
• To retire: to stop working.
• Go rough (listed as *go coach*): to suffer or go through a difficult time.
• Care about: to feel concern or interest for someone or something.