Vocabulary

• play the victim: To act as if one is a victim in order to gain sympathy or avoid responsibility.
• shapes and sizes: A wide variety of forms and dimensions.
• watch out: To be careful; to be alert to danger
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• take against: To develop a dislike or hostility toward someone.
• back at you: An informal way to return a greeting or compliment.
• point the finger: To blame or accuse someone of doing something wrong.
• allow for: To take into consideration
• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• feel sorry for: To experience sympathy or pity for someone.
• in the first place: To begin with; as the first point or consideration.
• wind up: To be brought to a state of great tension
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• mental: Concerning the mind
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• advantage: Thing making the chance of success higher
• chaos: State of utter confusion or disorder
• manipulate: To try to control others to gain an advantage
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• guilty: Responsible for doing something wrong
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• accessible: Able to be entered, reached or used
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• trap: Device used for catching animals
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• fulfill: To finish or provide something successfully
• guess: To give an answer without knowing if it is correct
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• leave: To go away from; depart
• manipulation: Act of controlling to gain an advantage
• poke: To give a push, thrust, or jab
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• ongoing: Continuing to exist or be in progress
• manipulative: Controlling people dishonestly to get control
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• intrigue: To make someone interested or curious
• empathetic: Exhibiting deep emotional understanding
• provoke: To deliberately annoy to make someone aggressive
• notification: Act of giving formal or official information
• complacent: Unconcerned, self-satisfied
• icon: Small image on a computer screen
• jealousy: Unhappy feeling of wanting what someone else has
• sow: To plant seeds in an area of ground
• differ: To be different; to be not like others
• distrust: Feeling of having no faith in a person/thing
• triangulation: Measuring lengths and areas with triangles