Vocabulary

• take on: To acquire a new characteristic
• ask for help: To request assistance or support.
• lie in: To stay in bed later than usual in the morning.
• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• one of those days: A day when many things go wrong.
• run to: To have enough money; be able to pay; afford
• lay ahead: To be going to happen in the future.
• regardless of
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• reach out: To attempt to communicate with someone.
• forge ahead: To make strong and steady progress; to move forward with determination.
• make it worse: To aggravate a situation; to make something bad even worse.
• go forth: To begin or proceed with something, especially after hesitation or delay.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• mindset: Way someone things about something
• inevitable: That must happen; certain to happen
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• description: Explanation of what something is like, looks like
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• barely: Only just; just possible
• strength: Condition of being strong
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• irritable: Annoyed; easily annoyed or angered
• capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• sensitive: Taking offense easily; easily upset or hurt
• remedy: Way to solve or fix a problem
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• physically: In a manner related to the body
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• therapist: Person skilled in a particular type of therapy
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• forge: To create something by hammering hot metal
• narrator: Person or character who tells a story
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• promise: To say you will certainly do something
• stagnant: Unmoving; not growing, as of an economy
• overly: To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• great: Very good; better than before
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• discourage: To make a person feel less courageous or hopeful
• coaster: Mat placed under a glass to protect furniture
• renew: To make something stronger, fresher, or like new
• bathroom: Room where you take a bath or go to the toilet
• beta: Test version of a product or software