Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• do the right thing: To behave in a morally correct or proper way.
• look around: To explore a place; search for something.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• tricky question: A question that is difficult to answer, often because it is designed to be confusing or misleading.
• see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
• second nature: A behavior that has become automatic or habitual.
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• period: Set amount of time during which events take place
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• cultivate: To grow plants, crops etc.
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• abstract: Passage of text from an article or book
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• component: One of the parts that something is made up of
• automatically: In a way not requiring control by a person
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• vice: used as part of the title of particular positions. The person who holds one of these positions is next below in authority to the person who holds the full position and can act for them
• instantly: In a manner without delay; immediately
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• frame: To make a person that is not guilty appear guilty
• moral: In a way considered proper and good by most people
• response: Something said/written as an answer to something
• address: Exact street location of a place
• require: To demand that someone does something
• virtue: Benefit, advantage, or good result of something
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• religious: Following the rules and beliefs of a faith
• empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
• sacred: Worthy of religious worship; very holy
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• satisfaction: Happy feeling because of something that you did
• hack: To illegally access someone else's computer
• generosity: Giving or sharing things freely with others
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• trajectory: The path followed by a flying object
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• act: To behave in a certain way
• optimize: To make as effective as possible
• patience: Ability to wait without being annoyed
• virtuous: Having moral goodness
• neuroscience: Scientific study of the nervous system
• fitness: Good physical condition; being in shape
• great: Very good; better than before
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• intermittent: Occurring at irregular times; off and on
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• attain: To reach a desired level or amount over time
• disposition: Normal attitude or mood of someone
• sunset: Daily disappearance of the sun
• ramadan: 9th month of Muslim year, when you fast during day