Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• eat out: To eat at a restaurant
• by half: Indicates something is at 50% or to a large but incomplete extent.
• clear up: To tidy things away, e.g. dirty dishes after meal
• back to normal: Returned to the usual or expected state or condition.
• on a day-to-day basis: Happening regularly every day as a routine.
• mess up: To make a mistake
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• at the minimum: Not less than the smallest amount or number.
• rule of thumb: A practical and approximate way of doing or measuring something.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• on to: Toward something; forward
• at night: During the night; in the nighttime.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• rhythm: Pattern of events, motions, or changes
• pretend: To act as if something is true when it is not
• genuinely: In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• aggressive: Using energy and determination to achieve a goal
• hygiene: Cleanliness; being clean
• exposure: Allowing light through a cameras lens onto film
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• hormone: Chemical produced by the body to control functions
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• underestimate: To make too low a guess of something's size, value
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• circadian: Concerning biological processes occurring at -hour intervals
• tiny: Very, very small
• irrelevant: Not important; not related to the topic
• adapt: To change something for a different function
• sedentary: (Of a job, life style) done while sitting
• suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
• plain: Obvious; clearly so, true
• regulate: To control something with rules or laws
• cortisol: Adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• primarily: In the most basic or important way
• intake: Amount of something that a person's body consumes
• mass: Religious ceremony in some Christian churches
• inconsistent: Not tying together logically or with the facts
• thumb: To use your thumb to request a ride in a car
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• tissue: Substance formed by cells of living thing; flesh
• chronically: In a habitual and long-standing manner
• anchor: Metal hook on a rope used to stop boats moving
• testosterone: Natural chemical responsible for the male sex
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• decrease: To reduce the size, amount or number of something
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• receptor: A nerve ending that changes stimuli into impulses
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• override: To make (rule or law) not be valid anymore
• calorie: Unit for measuring the amount of energy in food
• bore: To accept (responsibilities or duties)
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• theoretical: Concerning the unproved aspects of a subject
• magnesium: Silver, white metal burning with a white flame
• supportive: Providing help and support to someone or something
• estrogen: General term for female steroid sex hormones that are secreted by the ovary and responsible for typical female sexual characteristics
• deplete: To reduce the amount, strength or number of
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• pointless: Being without a purpose or meaning
• live: To be alive
• baseline: Imaginary standard by which things are compared
• workload: Work you are expected to do in a specified time
• coexist: To exist peacefully together
• lifestyle: The type of life that you have; the way you live
• zinc: Bluish white metal used in making brass
• micro: A prefix meaning 'very small'
• synthesized: To combine different things into a new form
• downstream: In the direction of a stream's current