Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• on the spectrum: Having a range of conditions characterized by challenges with social skills, repetitive behaviors, speech, and nonverbal communication.
• going on: To continue doing something
• in terms of
• used to: Did regularly before, but don't do now
• out of pocket: Having spent more money than one has received.
• come from: To have as your native country or city
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• neurodegenerative diseases: Diseases characterized by the progressive degeneration and death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
• bright young thing: A young person who is intelligent and successful.
• at least: As a minimum
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• work in: To make an opening for something in your schedule
• got to: To arrive at some place
• in commerce: Engaged in buying and selling, especially on a large scale.
• hand up: To raise one's hand in order to get attention, especially in a classroom.
• for free: Without charge; at no cost.
• feel like: To have a desire or inclination for something.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• have to: Must do
• pay out: To finish paying a debt
• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• evidence: Factual proof that helps to establish the truth
• anxious: Afraid of what may happen; worried and nervous
• spectrum: The wavelengths of colors from red to violet
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• spouse: Someone's husband or wife
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• diverse: Being varied or different from each other
• molecule: Two or more atoms chemically combined
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• dementia: Illness characterized by loss of memory
• absorb: To take up all attention / energy of something
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• predict: To guess or estimate what will or might happen
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• diversity: Having a range of different races, ideas etc.
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• generation: Act or process of producing or causing something
• option: A choice
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• invest: To use resources to build for the future
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• autism: Disorder that prevents normal communication
• communal: Shared or used in common by members of a group
• placebo: Harmless pill for comparison in trial of new drug
• diagnose: To determine the cause of an illness or problem
• place: To put someone in a particular type of situation
• important: Having power or authority
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• diagnosis: Judgments by a doctor about a person's illness
• complexity: State of having many parts and not being simple
• ethnicity: Ethnic group; shared origins or culture
• cluster: To come together in a group, flock etc.
• delve: To search, especially as if by digging, in order to find a thing or information
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• commerce: Buying and selling of goods and services; trade
• step: Movement done as part of a particular dance
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• medication: Substance to relieve pain or cure sickness
• marathon: Lasting for a long time
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• pharmaceutical: Concerning the science of drugs and medicines
• resistant: Not affected by something
• differentiate: To see or show how things are not the same
• psychiatrist: Doctor who treats psychological disorders
• mankind: All humans thought of as one group; humanity
• sponge: Soft cleaning material able to absorb water
• racial: Of or relating to race
• diagnostic: Concerning finding out the cause of a problem
• hormonal: Concerning or caused by hormones in the body
• datum: Item of factual information
• bipolar: (Disorder) exhibiting extremes of behavior
• personalize: To make personal or more personal
• coca: Type of South American plant used to make cocaine