Vocabulary

• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• sit down: To take a seat
• down with: Suffering from an illness.
• lights up: Third-person singular present tense of to illuminate something; to make something brighter with light.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• interact with
• of all time: The best or most significant in history.
• across time: Throughout the duration of time; spanning different periods.
• in terms of
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• read for: To read aloud on behalf of someone else.
• stay in: To remain inside one's home.
• mental: Concerning the mind
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• crave: To have a very strong desire for something
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• character: Person in a story, movie or play
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• compound: Series of buildings that are walled or fenced off
• conduct: Your behavior
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• resist: To not be affected by e.g. a force or an effect
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• sustain: To lengthen or continue to do something
• neural: About the nerves or nervous system
• remarkable: Interesting and unexpected, worthy of notice
• require: To demand that someone does something
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• genre: Category of art, music with its own qualities
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
• appointment: Job, position or duty that is offered to a person
• scroll: To move up and down a computer screen
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• fundamentally: In a basic and important way
• regularly: At the usual time each day, week, or month
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• neuroscience: Scientific study of the nervous system
• density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
• pick: Sharp tool used for breaking the ground
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• illuminate: To supply light to something
• simulate: To copy something or look or behave like it
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• part: Division of a book
• rocket: Powerful engine that releases hot gases
• biography: Story of a person's life as told by someone else
• rewire: To put new electricity cables in (a building)
• warren: Large network of connecting rabbit burrows
• noticeably: Being easy or likely to be sensed or noticed
• ceo: CEO for Chief Operating Officer