Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• at once: Immediately; without delay
• on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• brilliant: Having a great amount of intelligence or talent
• necessarily: In a way that is needed/required/is unavoidable
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• renowned: Widely known and esteemed
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• reflection: Sign or indication of a state or condition
• gender: State of being male or female
• supposedly: As some people believe (shows you doubt it)
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• distinction: Special quality that makes something different
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• moment: Very short or brief period of time
• distribution: Dividing or spreading out to others
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• century: Period of 100 years
• important: Having power or authority
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• spatial: About space
• sperm: Cell produced by men and needed for reproduction
• overlap: To lie over or cover a part of something else
• point: An item to be discussed
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• neuroscience: Scientific study of the nervous system
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• tsunami: Huge sea wave often caused by an earthquake
• datum: Item of factual information
• marketing: To publicize products to get you to buy; advertise
• dichotomy: Difference between two completely opposite ideas
• bombardment: Act of dropping bombs on a place
• prescriptive: Determining or ordering rules or laws
• invert: To turn the order of things backwards