Vocabulary

• in summary: Briefly stating or reviewing main points.
• such as: For example; like
• from now on: Starting at this moment and continuing indefinitely into the future.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• in the rough: In an area of longer grass on a golf course, off the fairway.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• outside of: Located or situated beyond the boundaries or confines of something.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• move along: To make progress; advance.
• on to: Toward something; forward
• move on: To decide to change or go to a different place
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• metabolism: Chemical processes to convert food to energy
• properly: In an appropriate or correct manner
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• cholesterol: Substance in the body that may cause heart disease
• proper: Correct according to social or moral rules
• protein: Group of molecules made from amino acids
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• mention: To refer to or talk or write about something
• direct: To tell someone in a very clear way to do something
• glucose: Natural type of sugar found in fruits and plants
• recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
• appearance: The way a person looks to others
• rough: Causing or involving violence, force, and harm
• contact: Touching or feeling something
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• halt: To stop, or cause something, e.g. a car, to stop
• contraction: Process of becoming smaller in length/size
• calcium: A substance important for making bones and teeth
• apparatus: Tools or instruments used for a specific activity
• carbohydrate: Substance providing energy in foods (rice, bread)
• fold: To bend one part of something against another
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• formation: Process of creating; making a particular shape
• important: Having power or authority
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• allow: To admit the validity or truth of something
• membrane: Outside covering of a cell
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• modify: To make minor change to something
• receptor: A nerve ending that changes stimuli into impulses
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• cellular: Concerning a cell of a living thing
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• include: To make someone, something part of a group
• summary: Brief, complete and accurate
• nucleus: Center of an atom
• finally: used especially at the beginning of a sentence to introduce the last point or idea
• abnormal: Not normal, not typical, not usual, not regular
• plasma: Substance in which the blood cells are carried
• secrete: To hide something so it will not be seen or found
• defective: Having a defect; faulty
• think: To have an idea about something without certainty
• fuse: Device connected to and making a bomb explode
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• envelope: Paper cover you put around a letter to mail it
• degradation: Reduction in quality or character
• bud: Small part of a plant that will be a flower
• amino: Of some substances that form proteins
• post: To send a letter or package using stamps
• give: Degree of flexibility in something, a material
• synthesize: To combine different things into a new form
• close: Almost; near
• synthesis: Process of making something new out of other ones
• steroid: Drug making muscles bigger and giving more energy
• pancreatic: Do with the long gland, that is behind the stomach
• peptide: Amide derived from two or more amino acids
• endoplasmic: Inner portion of the cytoplasm of a cell
• vesicle: Small bladder-like structure in the body