Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• have to: Must do
• going on: To continue doing something
• pick me up: To collect someone or something from a place.
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• make up: To invent or create a story
• look after: To take care of someone or something
• in the face of: When confronted with something difficult or challenging.
• give it up: To stop trying to do something
• hand up: To raise one's hand in order to get attention, especially in a classroom.
• turn on
• go shopping: To go to stores to buy things
• not available: Not able to be used or obtained; inaccessible.
• deal with
• on the brain: To be constantly thinking about someone or something; to be obsessed with someone or something.
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• with it: Intelligent, alert, and up-to-date.
• cope with: To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
• for that matter: Used to emphasize that something is true or likely to happen, or to introduce a related point.
• end up with: To have something as a result.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• in isolation: Separately from other people or things; alone.
• come down to: To become in the end a matter of
• lead to: To result in some action
• finish with: To end a relationship
• with just: Using only; with no more than.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• esteem: Feeling of respect or admiration regarding someone
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• arbitrary: (Of decisions) unsupported; without any evidence
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• random: Chosen, done without a particular plan or pattern
• express: To send something by fast mail
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• separate: Being different from or unrelated to another
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• cardiovascular: Concerning the heart and vessels of the body
• cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
• definition: Explanation of word's meaning, as in dictionaries
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• abuse: To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• addiction: Lack of control the overuse of something e.g. drugs
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• relief: Aid given to people in need as after war/disaster
• isolation: Condition of being in a distinct, separate place
• abandon: To discard or intentionally get rid of an item
• infant: Child in the beginning stage of life; a baby
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• asthma: Lung illness causing difficulty in breathing
• addictive: Being powerless to stop doing or using something
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• genetically: Caused or controlled, or by genes
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• arthritis: Diseases of the joints often with painful swelling
• addict: Person who can’t control their overuse of a thing
• great: Very good; better than before
• breakdown: When normal activity or behavior stops
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• inherit: To have a quality or feature passed down at birth
• physiology: Ways in which the parts of a living thing operate
• downtown: Located in the business part of a town
• depress: To make someone feel sad or miserable
• sclerosis: (Medical) process in which a soft tissue becomes hard