Vocabulary

• wake up: To stop sleeping
• well rested: Having had enough rest or sleep; feeling refreshed.
• get by with: To manage or cope with something, often with limited resources.
• figure out: To understand the behavior of someone
• also known as: Also called; alternatively named.
• stay up: To not go to bed until late
• with regard to: Concerning; in relation to.
• neurodegenerative diseases: Diseases characterized by the progressive degeneration and death of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord.
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• figure: To appear in a game, play or event
• resilience: Ability to recover quickly from something bad
• trait: A particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behavior
• diabetes: Illness where there is too much sugar in the blood
• obesity: State of being so fat it can harm your health
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• average: Total of numbers divided by the number of items
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• extreme: Very great in degree
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• elite: The richest, most powerful, best-educated, or best-trained group in a society
• resilient: Recovering quickly from something bad
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• bet: To gamble money to win more money, e.g. on horses
• impression: Effect or feeling resulting from an experience
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• therapeutic: Intended to make things (e.g. illness) better
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• huge: Very very large
• regulate: To control something with rules or laws
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• asset: Thing that has value to you
• advance: Forward movement by an army
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• rest: Time when one relaxes, sleeps, or is inactive
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• restore: To return a thing to its original condition
• genetically: Caused or controlled, or by genes
• psychiatric: Concerning the treatment of the mind
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• person: Man, woman or child
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
• diagnostic: Concerning finding out the cause of a problem
• jigsaw: Cut up picture on card that you fit back together
• unlock: To use a key or code to open something
• familial: Of or relating to families