Vocabulary

• blind date: A date between two people who have never met before, usually arranged by a mutual acquaintance.
• play games: To participate in activities for enjoyment or recreation, often involving rules and competition.
• fun and games: Enjoyable activities; sometimes used ironically for trouble.
• such as: For example; like
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• border on: To be very similar to; come very close to
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• fall below: To decrease to less than a certain level or amount.
• at least: As a minimum
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in need: Not having the necessary things, such as food
• take some time: To allocate or dedicate a period to a specific activity or purpose.
• have to: Must do
• crisis: Unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• resilient: Recovering quickly from something bad
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• fertility: The state of a female being able to produce young
• overwhelm: To defeat something or someone completely
• sacrifice: Person/animal killed in a sacrifice (to a god)
• reflect: To indicate or be a sign of something
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
• deal: To cope with something - usually troubles
• downright: Absolute; absolutely
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• appeal: Ability to attract interest, attention, or desire
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• estate: A large piece of land, usually with a large house
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• fair: Neither very good nor very bad; average
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• cram: To add more to something that is already full
• rural: Concerning the country as opposed to the city
• plunge: (Of prices, hopes etc.) to decrease very quickly
• steep: Very expensive
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• pregnancy: When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
• foreign: Being of a different place or country
• promote: To try to encourage popularity/sales of a product
• demographic: Group of people with similar characteristics
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• important: Having power or authority
• unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• aspire: To have a great ambition or goal
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• adulthood: Time of life when a person is fully grown
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• wide: Having a great distance from one side to the other
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• real: Actually existing or happening, not imagined
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• tutor: A teacher who deals with students personally
• negativity: Tendency to deny or resist suggestions or commands
• ineffective: Not producing the right result; not working well
• neighbor: Person who lives, or is near, you
• childbirth: Process of giving birth to a child