Vocabulary

• act on: To have an effect on something.
• taken over: To gain control of (a company) from someone else
• on behalf of: As the representative of someone
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• found out: To learn or discover something, often after some effort.
• of interest: Relevant or important to someone or something.
• extraordinary: Beyond what is ordinary; very unusual; remarkable
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• initial: First letter of your given name
• distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
• contract: To become ill as a result of getting a disease
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• effectively: In a way that produces the desired result
• dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• chase: Act of going after someone to catch them
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• scrutiny: Careful examination, as to see rules are followed
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• examine: (Medical) to test to find out what is wrong
• degree: Amount or extent of something
• attitude: Way you act, think and feel about something
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• devastate: To cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
• investigation: Search for information about something
• breast: Fleshy part of a woman's body for feeding babies
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• diagnosis: Judgments by a doctor about a person's illness
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• act: To behave in a certain way
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• swiftly: Quickly
• surgeon: A doctor who performs surgery
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• lump: Small swollen mass in body, e.g. showing disease
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• behalf: As a representative of someone or a group.
• reliance: State of being dependent on something for help
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• list: To lean to one side, like a boat or ship
• solace: Comfort in sorrow or trouble; consolation
• freedom: State of being free, not being controlled
• barber: Person whose job is to cut men's hair, shave them
• bourbon: Type of whiskey made in the US
• truss: Frame supporting structure such as roof or bridge
• outdate: To be older than