Vocabulary

• think about: To consider something carefully.
• bring about: To cause to happen
• have to: Must do
• get at: To criticize someone, often personally
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• do without: To manage without having or doing something
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• going on: To continue doing something
• at least: As a minimum
• put around: To spread a story or rumour.
• stick with: To continue to support or stay loyal to someone or something.
• sort: To organize things by putting them into groups
• stick: To push a sharp or pointed object into something
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• opportunity: Time, situation when a thing might be done; chance
• trauma: A very severe or upsetting experience
• artificial: Dishonest, to seem fake, not sincere
• poverty: State of being poor
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• failure: When things go wrong; lack of function
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• diverse: Being varied or different from each other
• blame: To say someone is responsible for something bad
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• address: Exact street location of a place
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• collaboration: Act of working with someone to complete a task
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• reason: To think and make conclusions in a logical manner
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• respond: To answer something or someone
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• haven: Place where people can feel safe and happy
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• analysis: Careful study to better understand something
• important: Having power or authority
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• kind: In a caring and helpful manner
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• resource: Something that can be used profitably; asset
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• organization: Group of people with a particular purpose
• collaborative: Working with others to complete a task
• attend: To take care of someone in need
• aggravate: To make a negative situation even worse
• reciprocal: Equal and meeting the needs of both sides
• mobility: Ability to move
• regional: Of a particular area, not the whole of a country
• segregation: Forced separation of people by race, color etc.
• disconnect: To separate something from something else
• underlie: To be the basis, foundation or cause of something
• latino: Person with a Spanish-speaking background