Vocabulary

• step back: To move backwards; to move away from something.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• blank out: To lose consciousness or memory temporarily.
• calm down: To make or become relaxed after being stressed
• call in: To ask others for help when in need
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• back up: To save a copy of your computer data
• sit back: To relax and take it easy.
• lean in: To move closer to someone or something, often by bending forward.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• contagious: Able to be passed on by touch
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
• fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
• confident: Feeling that you can do well at something
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• capable: Being able to do something very well; proficient
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• suspicious: Doubtful about someone's honesty
• desire: To wish for, hope or want something
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• presentation: Act of giving a formal talk about something
• lean: To balance against or on something for support
• rehearse: To practice e.g. play, speech before a performance
• intimidate: To make someone feel afraid
• interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
• task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• wanna: Shortened form of 'want to'. Used only in speaking
• quiz: A game in which players answer questions on topics
• competent: Fully qualified or capable of doing
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• instinctively: Through intuition, not thought
• stage: To organize an event to gain public interest
• notch: Certain level (slightly higher or lower than)
• collaborate: To cooperate with or help an enemy
• important: Having power or authority
• physiological: Of or relating to functions of the body
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• collaborative: Working with others to complete a task
• event: Any social gathering; occasion; planned activity
• competence: Ability to do in a fully satisfactory way
• collar: Band put around the neck of an animal
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• trustworthy: Honest and reliable
• sprinkle: To throw a little water on something
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• mistake: Something done wrong/calculated wrong; error
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• area: Amount of measured space
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• nature: Person's character or particular way of behaving
• physiology: Ways in which the parts of a living thing operate
• angle: Place where two lines or surfaces meet
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• reset: To return to the original start or formation