Vocabulary

• due to: Because of; owing to
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• in charge: To be responsible for
• right in front: Directly ahead; in a position immediately before someone or something.
• see the light: To finally understand something after a period of confusion or ignorance.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• check out
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• pattern: Model to follow in making or doing something
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• skeptical: Doubting that something is true/probable/useful
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• familiar: Well-known or easily recognized
• impressive: Causing admiration or respect; grand or expensive
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• precisely: In an exact and accurate manner
• establish: To set or create something to last for a long time
• toll: Sound that a big bell makes, when it is rung
• innovation: Process of creating new ideas or inventions
• address: Exact street location of a place
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• charge: To run quickly toward someone to attack them
• modest: Not large in amount, size, etc.; moderate
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• labor: To struggle to do something because it's difficult
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• due: When something is required or expected
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• meticulous: Extremely careful to do things correctly
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• tragic: (Of a play, movie, or book) with a sad ending
• countless: Being too many to be numbered or imagined
• reduction: Act of making something smaller
• triumph: Joy from victory or success
• revolutionary: Marking a significant change in something
• funeral: Ceremony of burying, burning a dead body
• century: Period of 100 years
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• psychiatric: Concerning the treatment of the mind
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• germ: Tiny organism that can cause sickness and disease
• fever: A high body temperature, indicating illness
• physician: A medical doctor
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• widely: To a large degree; over a large range
• maternal: Of mothers or being a mother
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• begin: To do the first part of an action; to start
• maternity: For or relating to the time of having a baby
• aptitude: Natural gift allowing quick learning of something
• chlorine: Greenish-yellow gas with a strong smell
• physicist: Person who studies and works in physics
• hypothesize: To come up with a theory to explain something
• underscore: To highlight or stress