Vocabulary 1

3. To follow a plan, activity or situation with the hope of achieving it, usually over a long period of time.
7. Why you do something or why something exists.
8. A part of a machine, or a set of parts that work together.
9. Someone who continues doing something or tries to do something in a determined but often unreasonable way
12. Believing strongly in a religion and obeying all its rules or principles.
14. An adjective that describes metal that has slowly been damaged by something such as rain or water.
16. To say or do something to someone that is rude or offensive.
17. People considered as a group, or a group of people who live together in a particular social system.
21. The number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts.
22. Very surprising.
23. The system of rules of a particular country, group, or area of activity.

1. A piece of a solid substance, usually with no particular shape.
2. To say that you will not do or accept something.
4. To try to do or continue doing something in a determined but often unreasonable way.
5. Something that you say or write that expresses your opinion.
6. The fact of many different types of things or people being included in something;a range of different things or people.
9. Any stage in a series of events or in a process of development.
10. To pull or be pulled apart, or to pull pieces off.
11. A likelihood to happen or to have a particular characteristic or effect.
13. Making you feel embarrassed.
14. A large hole in the side of a hill, cliff, or mountain, or one that is underground.
15. To refuse to accept, use, or believe something or someone.
18. A suggestion that something unpleasant or violent will happen, especially if a particular action or order is not followed.
19. Used to reply completely or to emphasize something and show that there is no doubt about it.
20. Showing no fear of dangerous or difficult things.