Vocabulary

• rely on: To depend on someone or something
• pass through: To experience something, often unpleasant or difficult.
• do in: To make completely tired out and exhausted
• experience in: Knowledge or skill gained from doing something for a period of time.
• above all: Most importantly; more than anything else.
• look around: To explore a place; search for something.
• end up with: To have something as a result.
• hang on: To wait for the person you phoned to answer
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• as a consequence of: Because of; due to something that happened before.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• on average: Typically; usually; based on an average calculation.
• salt of the earth: A very good, honest, and reliable person.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• book on: A book about a particular subject.
• in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
• certainly possible: Definitely able to happen or be done.
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• structure: The way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in this way
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• common: Area in a city or town that is open to everyone
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• consequence: Importance of a person or thing
• circumstance: Condition or fact that affects a situation
• fundamental: Forming a necessary part, base, or core
• threshold: Degree or level at which something begins
• tolerate: To be able to adjust to changes of various kinds
• conservative: (Of an estimate, price) set fairly low
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
• syndrome: A group of signs and symptoms of a disease
• appeal: Ability to attract interest, attention, or desire
• resolution: End part of a story resolving the conflict
• norm: Standard or regular way of doing something
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• huge: Very very large
• virtue: Benefit, advantage, or good result of something
• manner: The way a person acts, talks, or behaves
• vision: Ability to see; eyesight
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• stiff: Slang term for a dead body
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• rely: Depend on with full trust or confidence
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• nuance: Small, not obvious difference in meaning, etc.
• literature: Writing valued as art, e.g. fiction, drama, poetry
• deprive: To deny someone access to or take away something
• depth: Distance below a surface
• demographic: Group of people with similar characteristics
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• spit: To forcefully blow saliva out from your mouth
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• commonly: Typically, normally; not unusually
• mock: To laugh at someone or something in an unkind way
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• narcissistic: Admiring yourself excessively
• cerebral: Having or concerning ideas rather than emotions
• detail: Small part of something; tiny fact
• finite: Having limits; lasting for a limited time
• nail: Pointed piece of metal used to join pieces of wood
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• disposal: Act of giving or throwing something away
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• needle: Part of a medical device used to inject medicine
• undoubtedly: With certainty; without question; for sure
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• transformation: A complete change in shape or form of something
• stuffy: (Nose) blocked
• tonic: An invigorating fresh energy boost
• generalization: Making a statement about a group from limited data
• poppy: Red flowering plant, a source of heroin
• northeast: Location in the northeastern part of an area
• horsepower: Unit of power of car engine, etc.