Vocabulary

• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• express: To send something by fast mail
• amount: Quantity of something
• puberty: Stage of life when you become sexually mature
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• rural: Concerning the country as opposed to the city
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• urban: Concerning a city; located in a city
• pregnancy: When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• important: Having power or authority
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• education: Academic field studying the practice of teaching
• public: Owned by the government
• attend: To take care of someone in need
• improvement: Addition or change that makes something better
• menstruation: Monthly discharge of blood from the uterus
• biology: The study of living things
• embarrassment: Shame you feel when you did something wrong
• sanitary: Designed to keep things clean to prevent disease
• attendance: Number of people present at a place or event
• bleed: To allow a liquid or gas to escape
• publish: To prepare and make available a book magazine etc.
• teenage: Being of the age 13 through 19
• monthly: Occurring about once every 4 weeks
• teen: Teenager