Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• for now: Temporarily; for the present time.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• white collar: Relating to the work done in an office or other professional environment.
• on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
• as for: Concerning; regarding.
• as a result of: Because of something; owing to.
• back then: At that time in the past.
• split up: To break up your marriage or relationship
• to death: Extremely; to a great degree
• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• puberty: Stage of life when you become sexually mature
• shift: To change in position or direction
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• crowd: To force too many things, people into
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• drastic: Serious, severe or extreme
• comparison: Act of comparing things
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• interrupt: To stop something from happening for a while
• household: Being in everyday use; common
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• sanitation: Water systems that protect people's health
• nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
• plummet: To fall quickly, as from the sky
• gender: State of being male or female
• affluent: Having plenty of money and possessions
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• infant: Child in the beginning stage of life; a baby
• analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
• produce: Fresh foods such as fruits and vegetables
• wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• century: Period of 100 years
• census: Survey to collect data about people in an area
• division: How many times a number is contained in another
• vertical: (Of a line, etc.) going up and down; not horizontal
• catch: Amount of something that has been caught
• adjust: To change; to attain a desired state or function
• exceed: To be greater in number, degree than something
• collar: Band put around the neck of an animal
• great: Very good; better than before
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• inherit: To have a quality or feature passed down at birth
• person: Man, woman or child
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• axis: A line about which a rotating body turns
• income: Earned money from work, investments or business
• area: Amount of measured space
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information