Vocabulary

• fit in: To mix with others so you get on well with them
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• work at: To have a job at a particular place or organization.
• ever since: Continuously from a past time until now.
• on a regular basis: Happening frequently or at regular intervals.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• face to face: (Meeting) while looking at someone
• engage in: To participate or become involved in something.
• shut off: To stop the movement of something, such as water
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• esteem: Feeling of respect or admiration regarding someone
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• epidemic: Disease that spreads quickly affecting many
• poverty: State of being poor
• whopping: (Informal) huge; very big
• recipe: Conditions likely to create a particular result
• amount: Quantity of something
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• conduct: Your behavior
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
• dilemma: Position in which you must make difficult choices
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• addiction: Lack of control the overuse of something e.g. drugs
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• appearance: The way a person looks to others
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• steady: Happening or developing at a regular rate
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• survey: Broad view or general description of something
• favor: Support or approval from people
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• institute: Organization studying science, engineering etc.
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• coronavirus: Any of a group of RNA viruses that cause a variety of diseases in humans and other animals.
• fake: Not real; made to look like something real
• suicide: Act of purposely killing yourself
• company: Good feeling from being with someone else
• millennial: Concerning a millennium (a thousand years)
• documentary: Supported by written evidence
• bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• exacerbate: To increase the severity or bitterness of
• amplify: To increase the effect of something
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• notification: Act of giving formal or official information
• worse: Comparative of 'bad'; more bad
• loneliness: State of feeling sad because you are alone
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• person: Man, woman or child
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• disastrous: Having very unfortunate or terrible consequences
• mobile: Able to be moved or able to move
• compulsory: Required by the rules; that you cannot avoid doing
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• specialist: Person who works in one specific area or field
• tractor: Powerful (farm) vehicle with large back wheels
• gen: (UK old-fashioned, informal) Information about a particular subject
• loneliest: The saddest because apart from other people