Takeoff D (Life) | U9C: Vocabulary

staggering

• deeply shocking; astonishing

• not particularly interesting or surprising

exquisite

• extremely beautiful and, typically, delicate

• constructed in a rudimentary way

a person whose job is to buy and sell products in large amounts, especially by trading with other countries

• crew

• merchant

• ingot

to scatter

• to move far apart in different directions

•  come together; assemble or accumulate

sketchy

• having many details or facts;

• containing few details

a thick, solid piece of something:

• chunk

• stern

• blow

ashore

• situated at sea some distance from the shore

• toward or onto land from an area of water

be carried slowly by a current of air or water

• to drift

• to calm

• to send down

inhospitable

• (of an environment) pleasant and favorable for living in

• (of an environment) harsh and difficult to live in

short trees and bushes, growing on dry ground of low quality

• scrub

• sand

• wasteland