Vocabulary

• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• content: Being happy or satisfied
• vital: Needed to support life; essential
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
• expression: Act of making your thoughts and feelings known
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• esteem: Feeling of respect or admiration regarding someone
• deliberately: In a careful, considered manner; on purpose
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• character: Person in a story, movie or play
• resilient: Recovering quickly from something bad
• strength: Condition of being strong
• productive: Producing things in large quantities; fertile
• express: To send something by fast mail
• distract: To draw someone's attention away from something
• harsh: Rough; tough; hard to experience or accept
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• extent: Point, level or limit to which something reaches
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• significantly: In a way that is important or noticeable
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• resentment: Feeling of anger because of unfair treatment
• tendency: Likelihood to behave in a particular way
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• criticism: Article or essay that judges quality
• expert: Skillful person with special knowledge
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• tip: To pour or move something from a place, container
• impulsive: Acting without really thinking about it; rash
• tactic: One of the ways you attempt to achieve a strategy
• section: A part of a whole
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• harness: To capture the power of something
• throw: To use your arm to make something fly in the air
• abundant: Being in very great supply; plentiful
• nurture: Care and support given to people as they develop
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• utilize: To use something for a particular purpose
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• elicit: To get an answer or reaction from
• defense: Argument in support of something
• escalate: To increase in size, intensity, or scope
• mindful: Bearing in mind; attentive to
• important: Having power or authority
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• prefer: To like something better than something else
• invincible: That cannot be defeated; unbeatable
• flood: To quickly appear unexpectedly and in volume
• provoke: To deliberately annoy to make someone aggressive
• offend: To break a rule or do something wrong
• troll: Ugly dwarf in fairy tales, e.g. with long hair
• discern: To be able to tell differences, see shapes, etc.
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• countdown: Counting backward to zero to show the time left