Vocabulary

• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• take off: To remove, e.g. your clothes
• suffer from: To experience pain or distress; to be badly affected by.
• call up: To require someone to join the army
• fall short: To fail to reach a required or expected standard or goal.
• step to: To approach someone or something, often with a specific purpose.
• might well: Used to indicate a good possibility or likelihood.
• lie in: To stay in bed later than usual in the morning.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• hold on: To wait for someone (e.g. on a phone call)
• in turn: One after the other in a sequence or rotation.
• come back: To reply to someone, often forcefully
• in essence: Used to summarize the main point.
• in the dark: Uninformed about something; unaware.
• have words: To argue or quarrel with someone.
• human development: The process of improvement in people's well-being and quality of life.
• in the past: During a former period of time; previously.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• vulnerable: Being open to attack or damage
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• vulnerability: Being weak and able to be easily hurt or damaged
• intimate: (E.g. of detail) fine, detailed or complete
• fragile: Easily affected, broken, or harmed
• reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
• strength: Condition of being strong
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• imperative: The state of demanding notice or attention
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• paradox: Surprising statement containing two opposing ideas
• flaw: Quality that makes something imperfect
• distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
• odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
• convey: To carry or transport something
• suck: To be very bad, undesirable or unpleasant
• intensity: Great energy, strength, or concentration
• desperately: In a way that shows you don't have much hope
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• flawless: With no imperfections or errors
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• essence: Most important part or quality of something
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• affection: Feeling of liking someone or something
• rough: Causing or involving violence, force, and harm
• fatal: Causing death; having very bad consequences
• ashamed: Feeling of shame or guilt
• disgusting: Having a very bad taste
• incompetent: Not having the skill or ability to do a thing well
• deception: Use of trickery to make someone believe an untruth
• womb: Place in a woman's body where a baby grows
• profoundly: With a great depth psychologically
• nuance: Small, not obvious difference in meaning, etc.
• minor: Not so large in size; not important or valuable
• prison: Place the court puts criminals as punishment; jail
• dismiss: To consider that something is at an end
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• whisper: To talk with breath but no voice
• inflict: To make someone endure (something bad)
• imply: To suggest something, without saying it directly
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• paranoia: Disorder in which you fear people want to harm you
• competence: Ability to do in a fully satisfactory way
• person: Man, woman or child
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• disgust: Strong feeling of dislike for something
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• cloak: Long loose garment worn over clothes, for warmth
• human: A person; a man, woman or child
• anti: A prefix meaning 'against' or 'opposed'
• trunk: Long nose of an elephant
• hurt: To cause pain, damage or injury
• fruitful: Being productive; successful
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• show: To be easily seen or displayed
• scare: To become frightened
• traumatize: To cause trauma and shock
• speak: To be able to use a certain language
• member: Part of the body of a human, animal