Vocabulary

• in competition: Taking part in a contest or rivalry.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• point out: To make others aware of an idea
• tough questions: Difficult or challenging questions that require careful consideration and honest answers.
• tough: (Of food) difficult to chew or bite through
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• debate: General public discussion of a topic
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• conflict: Argument or struggle between two or more parties
• extreme: Very great in degree
• motivation: Reason behind why someone did something
• strike: To hit something
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• toxic: Poisonous; harmful
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• competition: Fighting against others to win something
• task: Big or small piece of work someone has to do
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• generally: Usually; as a rule; by, to or for most people
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• collaboration: Act of working with someone to complete a task
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• performance: Act of doing something
• couple: To join something to something else
• chamber: Enclosed space that contains something
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• source: Piece of information; a person giving information
• sound: Sensible, dependable and reliable
• point: An item to be discussed
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• complementary: Working well together; completing something
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• echo: (Of a place) to be filled with repeating sounds
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• problem: Something difficult to deal with or causes trouble
• meet: To provide something that is necessary
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• leadership: Quality of being able to guide or influence others
• prickly: Causing or having a sharp needle-like feeling
• mismatch: To not be the same as or as good as
• shark: Person who lends money at unfair rates of interest
• zoo: Place in a town where wild animals are shown