Vocabulary

• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• first off: To begin with; firstly.
• going on: To continue doing something
• over your head: Too difficult to understand.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• in turn: One after the other in a sequence or rotation.
• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• deal with
• open up to: To start talking more freely about your feelings and private thoughts.
• under the rug: To hide something, especially something embarrassing or damaging.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• engage in: To participate or become involved in something.
• bad habits: Negative or harmful routines or behaviors that are difficult to stop.
• come at: To approach someone to attack them
• check out
• ultimately: Done or considered as the final and most important
• constantly: Frequently, or without pause
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• content: Being happy or satisfied
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• intimacy: The sharing of private and personal things
• profound: Requiring deep thought; difficult to understand
• deserve: To be worthy of, e.g. getting praise or attention
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• prone: Lying flat with your head facing the ground
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• effective: Working efficiently to produce a desired result
• anxious: Afraid of what may happen; worried and nervous
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• narrative: The telling of a story
• toxic: Poisonous; harmful
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• resentment: Feeling of anger because of unfair treatment
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• shift: To change in position or direction
• drain: Hole or pipe that water, waste etc. flows into
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• frustrating: To make annoyed because things don't go well
• victim: Person/thing affected by an unpleasant event
• acknowledge: To say you have received a letter, gift, etc.
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• neglect: Act of failing to do something important, required
• accountability: Responsibility to someone or for some activity
• define: To explain the meaning of words
• resonate: (Of ideas) to have a big impact for a long time
• clingy: Sticking or holding onto something, someone
• resort: Act of choosing something to help with a problem
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• manipulation: Act of controlling to gain an advantage
• distant: Unfriendly; cold
• important: Having power or authority
• uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• point: An item to be discussed
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• perpetuate: To make something continue for a long time
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• rug: Small carpet; material used to cover a floor
• firsthand: Received directly from a source
• blueprint: Plans of how buildings will be built
• lonely: Sad because apart from other people
• toxicity: Quality or degree of being poisonous
• fester: (Of a problem) to get worse because unattended to
• normalize: To make something normal or regular