Vocabulary

• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• work out
• let down
• for long: For a considerable period of time.
• fizzle out: To gradually fail or end, often after a promising start.
• want in: To desire to participate or be included in something.
• want out: To desire to withdraw or escape from a situation, agreement, or commitment.
• settle for: To accept something although not satisfied with it
• pull away: To drive (vehicle) away;
• such as: For example; like
• wrestle with: To struggle to understand or make a difficult decision.
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• bring to: To make someone to wake up from being unconscious
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• look for: To try to find a thing or person that is lost
• mindset: Way someone things about something
• commitment: Permanent love or concern for person, thing
• intimacy: The sharing of private and personal things
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• guilty: Responsible for doing something wrong
• flaw: Quality that makes something imperfect
• inherently: As an essential part of
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• concern: To be about a particular topic
• mutual: Shared between two or more people
• pursuit: Act of following someone to catch them
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• adopt: To legally take a child into your family
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• characteristic: Typical or distinctive
• illustrate: To supply pictures to go along with words
• ironically: Contrary to plan or expectation
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• doom: Certain of the failure or destruction of
• autonomous: Able to control or decide matters by itself
• obsess: To talk or think about someone, something too much
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• belief: Being sure that something exists or is true
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• distant: Unfriendly; cold
• speculate: To take risks that might lead to big profits
• resolve: To make a decision to do something
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• mindful: Bearing in mind; attentive to
• important: Having power or authority
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• mission: A task or role someone is given to do
• proclaim: To indicate or show something clearly
• internalize: To accept attitudes, behavior as part of yourself
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• person: Man, woman or child
• fret: To worry about something in a nervous way
• wrestle: To fight someone by holding parts of their body
• spite: Wish to hurt another person; malice; maliciousness
• reclaim: To get back something that was lost; recover
• negatively: In a harmful, unwanted or unhelpful manner
• reciprocity: Equal give and take relationship between people
• parental: Concerning, or provided by, a parent
• psychotherapy: Therapy for the mind
• closeness: A feeling of being intimate and belonging together
• abandonment: Act of abandoning or leaving something deserted