Vocabulary

• have to: Must do
• in control: Having the power to direct or regulate something; able to manage or direct a situation or person.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• over to: Used to hand over to someone else to speak
• work at: To have a job at a particular place or organization.
• out of shape: In poor physical condition; not physically fit.
• start out: To begin your life or career in a particular way.
• at that time: During a specific point in the past.
• live on: To continue to exist or be remembered.
• add on: To attach or include something extra.
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• get on with: To have a good relationship with someone
• in my book: According to my personal opinion or belief.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• screen in: To enclose a space with a screen or mesh.
• perspective: Artistic method of creating a sense of distance
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• discipline: Instruction and practice to teach obedience
• pandemic: (of a disease) existing in almost all of an area or in almost all of a group of people, animals, or plants
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• routine: Happening or done regularly or habitually
• concept: Abstract idea of something or how it works
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• extreme: Very great in degree
• capacity: Ability to hold, involve or contain (e.g. liquids)
• elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
• strength: Condition of being strong
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• cardiovascular: Concerning the heart and vessels of the body
• decade: Period of 10 years
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• pursuit: Act of following someone to catch them
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• address: Exact street location of a place
• performance: Act of doing something
• treadmill: Boring job, with repetitive tasks
• favor: Support or approval from people
• lift: Picking someone up in a car and taking to a place
• torture: Hurting someone to force them to give information
• inconsistent: Not tying together logically or with the facts
• oxygen: A gas in the air that we need to breathe
• span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
• equation: Mathematical statement showing things to be equal
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• layer: One of several sheets of a material or object
• discuss: To talk about seriously or in great detail
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• bear: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• friction: Disagreement between two or more people
• channel: Long hole dug in the ground, e.g. to move water
• important: Having power or authority
• sprint: To race or move at full speed
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• act: To behave in a certain way
• optimize: To make as effective as possible
• surgeon: A doctor who performs surgery
• screen: To hide or block something from being seen
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• psychologically: As regards the study of the mind
• minute: Notes taken at a meeting to record what was said
• temporal: Concerning time
• fragility: Lack of strength; easily broken or harmed
• frail: (E.g. of old person) weak in health, body
• gym: Physical education taught as a class in school
• negotiable: That can be discussed to come to an agreement
• pre: A prefix meaning 'before'
• percentile: A range of scores allotted to parts of one hundred
• overweight: Weighing more than a normal or allowed amount
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer