Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• wake up: To stop sleeping
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• got to: To arrive at some place
• grapple with: To struggle or deal with something difficult.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• as opposed to: In contrast to; rather than.
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• in a while: In a short period of time; soon.
• once in a while: Occasionally; not very often.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• go past: To move beyond a particular place or point.
• deal with
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• move to: To change the place where you live or work.
• fit into: To be small enough to go inside something.
• on foot
• get after: To talk to in order to get someone to do something
• on the table: Located on the surface of a table.
• in particular: Specifically; especially.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• critical to: Extremely important or essential.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
• going on: To continue doing something
• have at: To attack someone or something.
• at least: As a minimum
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• for the most part: Generally; mostly; on the whole.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• take on: To acquire a new characteristic
• check out
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• bunch: A group of things of the same kind
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• insomnia: Inability to sleep for many nights
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• productive: Producing things in large quantities; fertile
• track: To use marks to follow a wild animal
• method: (Organized and planned) way of doing something
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• definition: Explanation of word's meaning, as in dictionaries
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• efficient: Able to produce results without waste
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• typical: Normal; usual; expected
• innovative: Having or using new methods or ideas
• productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
• actual: Real or existing in fact, not imagined; real
• couple: To join something to something else
• drift: (Of sand, etc.) to be blown into heaps by the wind
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• signal: To be evidence/an indication something will happen
• important: Having power or authority
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• decide: To make a choice or choose after thinking about it
• campus: Grounds of an institution, e.g. a university
• great: Very good; better than before
• deep: Complex and important
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• jet: Stream of liquid/gas shooting out of small opening
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• admin: Controller of a system (e.g. computers)
• pre: A prefix meaning 'before'
• orthogonal: Having or determined by right angles