Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• family members: People related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
• in the face of: When confronted with something difficult or challenging.
• as one: Acting or moving together at the same time.
• seek out: To look for and find someone or something, especially when it is not easy to find.
• in the midst of: Surrounded by; in the middle of.
• result in: To cause or produce as a consequence.
• talk about it: To discuss a particular subject.
• vulnerable: Being open to attack or damage
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• potential: Capable of happening or becoming reality
• mental: Concerning the mind
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• psychological: Concerning the study of the mind
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
• consume: To eat, drink, buy or use up something
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• opinion: Court judge's statement why a decision was made
• psychologist: An expert who studies the mind and behavior
• leverage: An advantage which gives you influence or power
• military: Army or armed forces
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• adversity: Bad or difficult situation or times; trouble
• destructive: Causing a very large amount of damage
• slash: Line ( / ) used in writing
• grateful: Feeling or showing thanks; thankful
• bury: To put something into the ground and cover it
• grim: Being very serious or determined
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• proud: Very good; worthy of making one pleased
• petty: Small and unimportant; small-minded
• existential: Philosophy concerning existence
• constructive: Having positive effective results
• polish: Act of making something clean and shiny
• unpredictable: Difficult to guess about (the future)
• midst: Middle area or part of something
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• horrific: Terrifying and shocking
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• great: Very good; better than before
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• rubble: Rough, broken stones from destroyed building
• newfound: Newly discovered
• wartime: Period of time when there is armed conflict