Vocabulary

• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• forget about: To stop thinking about something; to ignore something.
• in perspective: Considered in relation to other things, so as to judge what is truly important.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• per year: For each year; annually.
• for the rest: Concerning the remaining people or things.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• as well as: Also; in addition to
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• thrive: To be or become healthy or successful
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• arbitrary: (Of decisions) unsupported; without any evidence
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• intellectual: connected with or using a person’s ability to think in a logical way and understand things
• navigate: To direct (car, plane etc.) in the right direction
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• hurdle: Small fence a person or horse jumps over in a race
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• sacrifice: Person/animal killed in a sacrifice (to a god)
• consistently: In a manner that is the same almost every time
• decade: Period of 10 years
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• brutal: Extremely violent or mean
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• alter: To change so (clothing) fits better
• curiosity: Something unusual and perhaps worthy of collecting
• standard: Official unit of measuring something
• surgery: Medical operation involving cutting into body
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• competitive: Being strongly driven to win or be better than
• radiation: Energy transmitted as rays, waves or particles
• skull: Structure of bones forming the face and head
• swell: To feel overcome due to a strong emotion
• plastic: Stiff but usually flexible man-made material
• exhausting: To emit gas from the back of a car
• lapse: (Of license, etc.) to stop being valid; expire
• collaborate: To cooperate with or help an enemy
• century: Period of 100 years
• hit: To have a negative impact on a person/place/thing
• survival: Act of continuing to exist when facing difficulty
• semester: Half or a third of a school or college year
• specialty: Skill or a dish that a person, business is good at
• clarify: To make a liquid become clear or pure
• surgeon: A doctor who performs surgery
• handle: To cope with or take responsibility for
• length: Distance from one end of a pool to the other
• physician: A medical doctor
• future: Time that is to come after the present
• discomfort: To cause to feel uncomfortable or not at ease
• chemotherapy: Treatment of diseases using chemicals
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• train: Line of people, animals moving the same direction
• remove: To get rid of something completely
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• knowledge: Information, understanding, or skill
• surgical: Of or relating to surgery or operations
• juggle: To entertain by throwing and catching balls, etc.
• paralyze: To be unable to move from loss of muscle function
• residency: Training for a junior doctor in hospital
• pre: A prefix meaning 'before'
• school: Large group of fish that swim together
• preview: Showing of a movie before public release
• superhuman: Above or beyond human power or endurance