Vocabulary

• of course: Sure ; Certainly
• at least: As a minimum
• lay out: To show or explain your plans carefully
• grow into: To be able to wear clothes that were too big
• in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
• act on: To have an effect on something.
• at times: Sometimes; occasionally.
• cut across: To rudely go in front of someone
• turn out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• with time: As time passes; eventually.
• specific: Precise; particular; just about that thing
• eventually: After a long time; after many attempts; in the end
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• slightly: Only a little
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• strike: To hit something
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• impulse: Sudden desire to do something that is not planned
• authority: The power to give orders to people
• strive: To work hard/make effort to achieve something
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• state: Region within a country, with its own government
• furious: Extremely angry
• mature: Behaving like an adult
• neglect: Act of failing to do something important, required
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• therapist: Person skilled in a particular type of therapy
• resolution: End part of a story resolving the conflict
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• register: To record your name on an official list; sign up
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• distant: Unfriendly; cold
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• pessimistic: Having negative feelings about the future
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• act: To behave in a certain way
• unfold: (Of a situation) to be told or revealed
• bring: To take or go with someone to a place
• mixture: Something made by combining two or more things
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• disastrous: Having very unfortunate or terrible consequences
• soothe: To relieve something, like pain
• marvel: Something that causes wonder or astonishment
• betray: To endanger (friend) by giving enemy information
• omit: To not do, or include
• weep: To cry or shed tears often due to sadness
• afloat: Remaining on top of a liquid; floating
• universally: Applying to all people, times, places
• persecute: To ill-treat, oppress or harass, as for religion
• pebble: Small, smooth stone, as found on a beach
• unworthy: Lacking in value or merit; not deserving help