Vocabulary

• regardless of
• across the board: Broad in scope or content
• around the world: In or to many countries.
• depending on: To rely on for support (financial or emotional)
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• on the other hand : Considering a different aspect of the matter; alternatively.
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• in school: Attending an educational institution.
• with age: As someone gets older; as time passes.
• such as: For example; like
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• pronunciation: How a word is said; how a word sounds
• accent: To give emphasis to (a point you are making)
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• simultaneously: At the same time; all together
• matter: To be of great importance; to count
• native: Someone from or born in a specific country
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• intuitive: Able to understand by feeling rather than fact
• acquire: To get or earn something by thinking or working
• bias: Preference to believe things even if incorrect
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• cortex: The outer part of an organ/structure, e.g. brain
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• measure: Plan to achieve a desired result
• rational: Able to think clearly
• compound: Series of buildings that are walled or fenced off
• flaw: Quality that makes something imperfect
• dementia: Illness characterized by loss of memory
• casual: Being careless or having little thought or effort
• filter: Device to remove certain types of light, sound
• hypothesis: A theory trying to explain something
• passive: Allowing things to happen with quiet acceptance
• gradually: Occurring in a slow manner over a period of time
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• prefrontal: Anterior to a frontal structure
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• irrelevant: Not important; not related to the topic
• distinguish: To make something clearly different from others
• dominant: The strongest; most powerful
• remarkable: Interesting and unexpected, worthy of notice
• grasp: Person's control over something
• acquisition: Process of acquiring; thing that is acquired
• primary: Most important, most basic or essential
• leap: To enter or start something eagerly
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• hemisphere: One half of a rounded, ball-like object
• bilingual: Being able to speak two languages well
• favor: Support or approval from people
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• leave: To go away from; depart
• workout: Energetic exercise
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• onset: When something, e.g. an illness, starts; beginning
• holistic: Involving all of something
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• density: Degree to which an area is filled or covered
• analytical: Thinking in a detailed and intelligent manner
• proficient: Being very skilled at something; being expert at
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• classify: To arrange things into groups of similar items
• oui: (French) for 'yes'