Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• discipline: Instruction and practice to teach obedience
• fatigue: Breaking due to being moved or bent many times
• overwhelmed: To defeat something or someone completely
• mental: Concerning the mind
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• genuinely: In a real, actual, not false or artificial way
• trait: A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• procrastination: Act of putting off something you ought to do
• anxious: Afraid of what may happen; worried and nervous
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• binge: To eat or drink too much at one time
• motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
• productive: Producing things in large quantities; fertile
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• symptom: Sign that suggests that there is a problem
• explore: To examine something in detail to learn about it
• overwhelm: To defeat something or someone completely
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• overcome: To succeed in a struggle against; defeat
• myth: Popular belief that is false, unsupported by fact
• criticism: Article or essay that judges quality
• momentum: Speed or force that is gained when something moves
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
• grind: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• anticipate: To expect or look ahead to something positively
• productivity: Rate at which people or machines produce
• resonate: (Of ideas) to have a big impact for a long time
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• neurological: Concerning, used in or practicing neurology
• scroll: To move up and down a computer screen
• loop: A circle or curved shape, as when you tie a lace
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• hydrate: To give or add water to something or someone
• stand: To be a candidate in an election
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• conservation: Protecting the environment or a species
• neuroscience: Scientific study of the nervous system
• indulgent: Allowing children, etc. more pleasure than usual
• familiarity: Manner of talking or behaving
• burnout: When you get exhausted from the effort of your job
• anime: A form of Japanese animation
• cover: To record a different version of another song
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• clear: Empty; without anything in it or on it
• dysfunction: Failure to act as expected, as in a social context
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• deplete: To reduce the amount, strength or number of
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• depress: To make someone feel sad or miserable
• overload: To make a machine work too hard so it might break
• takeaway: Employee benefit deleted in union contract
• dissociation: Separation of one part of your life from others