Vocabulary

• bad habits: Negative or harmful routines or behaviors that are difficult to stop.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• turn into: To change to become something else
• chip away: To gradually make something weaker or smaller.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• discipline: Instruction and practice to teach obedience
• conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
• distraction: Something drawing your attention away from
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• procrastinate: To delay doing something that you ought to do
• routine: Happening or done regularly or habitually
• crave: To have a very strong desire for something
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• indulge: To let someone else have or do what they want
• unconscious: Not aware of what is going on around you
• temptation: Something making you want to do/have bad thing
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• instant: (Food) requiring very little preparation
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• counterintuitive: Contrary to what common sense would suggest
• dilemma: Position in which you must make difficult choices
• cue: Word or action in a play to tell an actor to speak
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
• disguise: Change in appearance so you will not be noticed
• willpower: Ability to make yourself do what you really want
• subconscious: Occurring in the mind without direct thinking
• counter: To say or do something in opposition or resistance
• repetitive: Doing or saying the same things many times
• swap: To exchange goods without spending money; trade
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• temporary: Continuing for a limited time; not permanent
• guide: To help or advise someone about something
• consciously: In a manner that is aware, and on purpose
• pleasure: Feeling of happiness, enjoyment, or satisfaction
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• shame: Feeling of guilt because you did something wrong
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• scroll: To move up and down a computer screen
• boredom: Feeling of being uninterested or unexcited
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• loop: A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
• satisfaction: Happy feeling because of something that you did
• solely: With no one or nothing else
• intentional: Done with a deliberate plan to do or achieve
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• detach: To send away a military unit on a special mission
• snack: Small amount of food eaten between meals
• swipe: To pass a magnetic card through a digital reader
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• pesky: Causing irritation or annoyance
• quit: To leave a job
• quick: Using very little time; moving far in little time
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• autopilot: (For ships, planes) automatic navigational device
• circuitry: Electronic equipment consisting of switches
• ingrain: To be deeply attached or fixed in
• turkey: Edible bird resembling a large chicken
• saboteur: Person deliberately destroying the work of others