Vocabulary

• bust out: To escape from a place, especially prison.
• pick through: Search carefully among a group or collection.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• on earth: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise or anger.
• back then: At that time in the past.
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• insomnia: Inability to sleep for many nights
• severe: Very bad; harsh
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• mess: Something that is untidy, dirty or unclean
• intellectual: connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• comment: Something you say, giving an opinion; remark
• dementia: Illness characterized by loss of memory
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• cue: Word or action in a play to tell an actor to speak
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• neural: About the nerves or nervous system
• drill: A machine that makes holes with a metal bit
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• curse: To use offensive language when angry; swear
• subject: The person, thing, or idea that is being discussed, described, or studied.
• contain: To keep something from spreading
• bust: To arrest people involved in crime
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• click: To work well with someone or something
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• infection: (Computers) Having a computer virus
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• patient: Not getting annoyed when things take a long time
• leave: To go away from; depart
• skull: Structure of bones forming the face and head
• noggin: A human head
• aggression: Use of energy and determination to achieve a goal
• invasive: Entering the body, etc. in a destructive way
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• procedure: A medical operation
• cerebral: Having or concerning ideas rather than emotions
• horror: Feeling of great shock or fear; thing causing it
• modify: To make minor change to something
• impairment: Damage leading to lower strength or quality
• cognition: Recognition involved in thought processing
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• legal: Concerning the law; allowed by law
• gruesome: Showing horrible scenes, e.g. showing blood
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• abnormal: Not normal, not typical, not usual, not regular
• voluntary: Done or given by their own will and not forced
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• apathy: Feeling of indifference; not caring about anything
• epilepsy: Medical condition involving fits or seizures
• insert: To put something into a certain place or spot
• lobe: Round part in body, e.g. some parts of brain
• archaic: Old and no longer relevant or applicable
• frontal: Belonging to the forward part
• depress: To make someone feel sad or miserable
• psychopathy: State of having emotional or behavioral problems
• apprehension: Dread or fear of a bad outcome
• socket: Area into which (e.g. a bone) will fit
• homosexuality: Sexual attraction to persons of the same sex
• depressive: Suffering a psychological lack of happiness
• overuse: Use of an object too often or too extensively