Vocabulary

• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• in all likelihood: Very probably; almost certainly.
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• follow up on: To investigate or check on something.
• in key: Singing or playing notes correctly according to the musical key.
• shoot the breeze: To chat in a relaxed and informal way.
• talk shit: To say negative or untrue things about someone or something, often behind their back; to gossip maliciously.
• in particular: Specifically; especially.
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• privilege: Advantage or right given to only certain people
• accent: To give emphasis to (a point you are making)
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• distraction: Something drawing your attention away from
• genuinely: In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• intimacy: The sharing of private and personal things
• profound: Requiring deep thought; difficult to understand
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• consider: To think carefully about something
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• curious: Wanting to know more about something
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• crack: Attempt to achieve a goal or objective
• rational: Able to think clearly
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• tongue: Long, thin part of (e.g. shoe under the laces)
• clever: Funny in a way that shows intelligence
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• mutual: Shared between two or more people
• handful: an amount of something that can be held in one hand; small quantity or amount of people or things
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
• affection: Feeling of liking someone or something
• peculiar: Not usual or normal; strange
• imitation: Act of copying or imitating something
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• likelihood: Chance that something might happen
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• dip: To decrease or lower temporarily
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• dire: (E.g. of consequences) very serious
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• speculate: To take risks that might lead to big profits
• lapse: (Of license, etc.) to stop being valid; expire
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• breeze: To act in a confident way; walk, enter confidently
• naughty: Behaving badly, e.g. so as to annoy adults
• censor: To remove inappropriate material from books, films
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• consequential: Following as a logical conclusion or result
• unfortunate: Having bad luck; bringing a bad result
• interpersonal: Occurring among or involving several people
• chatter: To talk a lot in a casual manner
• tangent: Line or curve meeting another line or curve
• closeness: A feeling of being intimate and belonging together
• regressive: Returning to a former less advanced state
• babble: To talk without speaking clearly
• prelude: Event introducing something more important