Vocabulary

• check out
• come up: To come closer to someone; approach
• stay together: To remain in a relationship or partnership.
• of interest: Relevant or important to someone or something.
• tough questions: Difficult or challenging questions that require careful consideration and honest answers.
• across the board: Broad in scope or content
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• on the surface: Appearing to be true or real until examined more closely.
• kick in: (Of a medicine, plan, etc.) to start to have an effect; become operative
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• weird: Odd or unusual; surprising; strange
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• quote: Written statement of the cost of something
• trick: To fool someone in order to obtain a result
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• spouse: Someone's husband or wife
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• align: To arrange (e.g. objects) in line with one another
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• conduct: Your behavior
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• ignore: To not listen to, look at, or pay attention to
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• plain: Obvious; clearly so, true
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• observe: To celebrate a particular holiday/religious event
• board: Surface for posting or showing information
• nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
• interest: Best or most advantageous thing for someone
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• misery: Thing that causes unhappiness
• secret: Kept hidden from others; Known only to a few people
• statistic: Number that represents a piece of information
• physiological: Of or relating to functions of the body
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• person: Man, woman or child
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
• hockey: Sport played on a field with sticks and a ball
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• terrify: To scare or greatly frighten
• calmly: Without getting emotional, e.g. in times of stress