Vocabulary

• on everybody's lips: Widely spoken about or very popular among people at a given time.
• from time to time: Occasionally; sometimes but not regularly.
• for the most part: Generally; mostly; on the whole.
• have to: Must do
• grasping without rage: The act of understanding something fully without anger or fury.
• morally uplifting: Having the effect of improving someone's moral character.
• as opposed to: In contrast to; rather than.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• stuff: Generic description for things, materials, objects
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• decent: Being fairly good; acceptable
• desperate: Being beyond hope; prepared to do anything
• regret: Feeling of being sorry, as for what you didn't do
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• disorder: State of confusion or a lack of organization
• miserable: Very unhappy
• general: Widespread, normal or usual
• sense: Certain mental feeling or emotion
• melancholy: Having a sad mood or feeling
• career: Particular occupation in professional life
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• contribute: To be a factor in causing something to happen
• grief: Feeling of great sadness because someone has died
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• inherently: As an essential part of
• rage: Strong or violent anger
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• society: A group who meet to share values or interests
• grasp: Person's control over something
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• emphasize: To stress the items that are important
• attention: Taking notice of someone or something
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• wisdom: Knowledge gained from experience in life
• seek: To ask someone for help
• cure: Something that solves a problem or makes it better
• grim: Being very serious or determined
• sorrow: Deep sadness caused by a loss
• fully: Completely or entirely
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• modern: Of the present time; up to date; contemporary
• folly: Bad judgment or stupidity; madness
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• difficult: Hard; not easy; you need to work hard to do it
• greed: Wanting too much of something
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• unusual: Being rare or uncommon; not ordinary; strange
• part: Division of a book
• disappointment: Feeling or state of not being satisfied
• understand: To know the meaning of language, what someone says
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• uplift: To make someone feel happier or more hopeful