Pre-Listening Vocabulary gender-neutral: does not identify a person as being male or female personal pronoun: a word that is used to identify a specif...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary temple: a religious building where people gather to worship metropolis: a large, heavily populated city urban sprawl: the unc...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary pasta: a staple Italian dish, shapes made from flour, water, and sometimes egg retain: to keep translation: the process of ch...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary caffeine: a drug found in some plants, including coffee seeds and tea leaves pesticide: a substance that keeps insects or har...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary Vatican City: the state in Rome where the Pope resides sovereign state: a region where people and their government live insid...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary storey: one level in a building cutting-edge: modern exclusive: for the use of one person or group ventilation: the circulati...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary continent: a large region of the world with various countries; or the mainland of a region as opposed to its islands full-bod...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary molar: large teeth at the back of ones mouth (top and bottom) emerge: to appear; to come up from the surface impacted: wedged...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary trailer: a movie preview potential: possible in the future feature film: a full-length film being shown in a movie theatre st...
Pre-Listening Vocabulary ampersand: a symbol for et meaning and cursive: handwriting recite: to say per se: by of or in itself; as such slur: to say w...