Vocabulary

• in the face of: When confronted with something difficult or challenging.
• in the future: At a later time; in times to come.
• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• give up: To lose hope or admit defeat
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• awesome: Great; wonderful; stupendous
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• gear: To aim at or prepare yourself for something
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• numerous: Existing in large numbers
• intentionally: With a plan to do or achieve something
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• passion: Powerful, positive excitement and interest
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• apply: To spread a substance or liquid over a surface
• scientific: Concerning academic study of the physical world
• meaningful: Having importance; showing someone's intention
• nerve: Fibers in the body that enable feeling, movement
• respond: To answer something or someone
• ecosystem: Types of plants and animals in an specific area
• obsess: To talk or think about someone, something too much
• prove: To demonstrate truth by providing evidence
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• science: Study of the physical world, based on facts
• intern: Person working to get experience/train for a job
• program: To make someone act or think in a certain way
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• conservation: Protecting the environment or a species
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• land: Region or country
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• start: First time or place that a thing exists; beginning
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• bay: Part of an ocean or lake partly surrounded by land
• lab: Short for 'laboratory'
• undergraduate: A college student studying for their first degree
• shark: Person who lends money at unfair rates of interest
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water