Vocabulary

• think about: To consider something carefully.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• stand for: To support a particular idea, e.g. in politics
• call up: To require someone to join the army
• in essence: Used to summarize the main point.
• first three: The initial three items or elements in a series or sequence.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• turn out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• pull apart: To separate something into pieces, often forcefully.
• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• short clip: A brief segment of a video or film.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• engage in: To participate or become involved in something.
• at school: Present and attending school.
• in turn: One after the other in a sequence or rotation.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• have to: Must do
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• extraordinary: Beyond what is ordinary; very unusual; remarkable
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• psychological: Concerning the study of the mind
• experiment: Test performed to assess new ideas or theories
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• puberty: Stage of life when you become sexually mature
• fundamental: Forming a necessary part, base, or core
• status: Position or rank relative to others in a society
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• draw: To attract attention to someone or something
• subsequent: Happening after; later
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• neural: About the nerves or nervous system
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• witness: To see the signing of an official document
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• motivate: To give someone a reason, the will to do something
• ethnic: Of people who share the same culture, traditions
• transition: Change from one state, movement, place to another
• adolescence: Developmental period typically in the teen years
• gender: State of being male or female
• fiber: Basic character and nature of a person
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• crime: Act that is believed to be a mistake or foolish
• ethical: Morally right; following principles of goodness
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• satisfaction: Happy feeling because of something that you did
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• neuroscience: Scientific study of the nervous system
• turn: To become (a particular age)
• adulthood: Time of life when a person is fully grown
• person: Man, woman or child
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• disposition: Normal attitude or mood of someone
• scan: To look inside of the body with a special machine
• enact: To make a bill into law
• incline: To bend the head or body forward
• historical: Connected with the past
• semantic: Concerning the different meanings of words
• longitudinal: Going from the top to the bottom of something
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• transcendent: Beyond the range of human experience/understanding
• psychosocial: Psychological development in social environments