Vocabulary

• carry on: To engage in an activity, e.g. a conversation
• look back: To think about past events
• conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• ruin: To damage or completely destroy something
• compassion: Feeling of wanting to help suffering people
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• claim: To say that something is true, often without proof.
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• consistency: Quality of behaving or meaning the same
• ordinary: Normal or usual
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• innocent: Free from guilt or responsibility for a crime
• consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
• judge: Person who decides on the results of a contest
• ancestor: A person from your family that lived in the past
• humanity: Quality of being understanding or sympathetic
• boundary: A division or border to separate two areas
• intelligent: Smart; able to think and reason
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• theme: An main or dominant idea, motif
• argument: Discussion in which you disagree with someone
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• strange: Unusual or odd; surprising because unexpected
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• century: Period of 100 years
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• uncertainty: Feeling of not really knowing what will happen
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• vegan: Vegetarian who eats no animal or dairy products
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• natural: Being as one would expect; being usual or normal
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• fail: To be unsuccessful in passing a class or exam
• tribe: Racial group united by language, religion, customs
• difference: A thing or issue that people do not agree about
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• innocence: Lack of guilt or responsibility for a crime
• gene: Part of cell controlling development of a thing
• uncomfortable: Not being relaxed; worried about something
• kindness: Quality of being warmhearted and helpful
• octopus: Sea creature with eight arms or tentacles
• grieve: To feel great sadness, as when someone dies
• puppy: Very young dog (and some other animals)
• monstrous: Abnormally large or bad
• bacon: Salted meat from a pig
• midnight: 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
• humankind: All of the living human inhabitants of the earth
• supermarket: Self-service store selling groceries etc.
• lion: Large wild cats from Africa and south Asia
• pig: Animal that bacon, pork and ham come from
• dna: Chemical in living cells with genetic information