Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• have to: Must do
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• come up with: To think of an idea or solution; produce
• looking out: To take care and watch something carefully
• take stock: To review or assess a situation.
• critical to: Extremely important or essential.
• deal with
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• to date: Up to the present time; until now.
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• susceptible: Likely to fall prey to, be drawn to or influenced
• present: Being in attendance; being there; having turned up
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• metabolism: Chemical processes to convert food to energy
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• curious: Wanting to know more about something
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• unique: Unlike other things; being the only one like it
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• decade: Period of 10 years
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• dementia: Illness characterized by loss of memory
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• wonder: Surprise caused by experiencing something amazing
• dramatic: Gripping the attention; causing an effect
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
• stock: Animals such as cattle kept for breeding
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• nutrition: Scientific study of the effects of foods on health
• kidney: Body organ that cleans blood, producing urine
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• serve: To act in a particular position or office
• analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
• movement: Part of a piece of classical music
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• puzzle: To be a challenge to understand; confuse
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• workout: Energetic exercise
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• modify: To make minor change to something
• prevalence: Fact of being widespread or common
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• peek: To look at something quickly (often secretly)
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• genome: Complete set of genetic material in an organism
• realization: Act of noticing something not noticed before
• linear: Made of lines
• newfound: Newly discovered
• lifestyle: The type of life that you have; the way you live
• multi: A prefix meaning 'many' or 'more than one'
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• inflection: Change in a person's voice when talking
• personalize: To make personal or more personal