Vocabulary

• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• experience in: Knowledge or skill gained from doing something for a period of time.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• lead to: To result in some action
• at times: Sometimes; occasionally.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• longer lasting: Continuing or enduring for a greater amount of time.
• the leading cause: The most significant or primary reason for something.
• work wonders: To have a very good effect; to be surprisingly effective.
• set up
• compulsory education: Education that is required by law to be attended by all children.
• check out
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• fatigue: Breaking due to being moved or bent many times
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• overwhelming: To defeat something or someone completely
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• journey: Act of traveling from one place to another; trip
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• insomnia: Inability to sleep for many nights
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• miserable: Very unhappy
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• deteriorate: To become worse in condition or value
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• vivid: Having very clear details and seeming to be real
• pregnant: Carrying your unborn baby inside you
• persistent: Continuing to do something despite challenges
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• intervention: Getting involved to solve a disagreement, problem
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
• emergency: Sudden event needing an immediate action
• mild: Gentle in nature or behavior
• pregnancy: When a woman carries her unborn baby inside her
• nurture: Care and support given to people as they develop
• resolve: To make a decision to do something
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• philosopher: Person studying the meaning of truth and life
• extend: To offer something (help, friendship) to someone
• embark: To begin a journey; get on a ship or plane
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• inadequacy: Not enough; not good enough; not satisfactory
• undergo: To experience or endure something (bad)
• last: Final; with nothing following; after all others
• diaper: Towel/paper for baby's bottom for urine/feces
• medication: Substance to relieve pain or cure sickness
• tribe: Racial group united by language, religion, customs
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• soothe: To relieve something, like pain
• compulsory: Required by the rules; that you cannot avoid doing
• societal: Concerning society or a society
• regain: To get something back that had been lost
• physique: The shape and size of a human body
• dictionary: Book with the spellings and meanings of many words
• return: To hit something back to the other player or team
• femininity: Qualities thought typical of women, e.g. sweetness
• unconditional: With no demands made before agreeing
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• maternal: Of mothers or being a mother
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• agitation: Mental state of extreme emotional disturbance
• realization: Act of noticing something not noticed before
• estrogen: General term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
• hormonal: Concerning or caused by hormones in the body
• care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
• lonely: Sad because apart from other people
• difficulty: Something that is hard to do
• transformation: A complete change in shape or form of something
• nighttime: Time after sunset and before sunrise
• newborn: Having just/recently arisen or come into existence
• childbirth: Process of giving birth to a child
• motherhood: Condition of being a female parent
• breastfeed: To feed a baby with breast milk
• stabilizer: Device used to make something stable or balanced