Vocabulary

• on to: Toward something; forward
• go on: To continue doing something
• in the picture: Aware of what is happening; informed.
• up against: Facing or contending with something difficult or challenging.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• for someone: On behalf of or intended for a particular person.
• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• thankful for: Feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
• hinges on: Depends entirely on something.
• writ large: Displayed or obvious in a very clear or exaggerated way.
• work over: To physically attack or beat someone severely.
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• reflect on: To think deeply or carefully about something.
• in terms of
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in the absence of: When someone or something is not present or available.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• care for: To want or desire a thing
• get together: To gather, or come together for some purpose
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• family: Close group of people or organizations
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• living: To be alive
• today: This day; day that is happening now
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• happiest: Being most pleased; feeling extremely glad
• money: Coins or notes we use to pay for things
• health: (Person, company) being in a good condition; well
• grandmother: Your mother or father's mother
• care: To feel interest, concern, or worry
• spend: To use money to pay for something
• brush: To touch against a thing very lightly when moving
• perfect: So good it cannot be improved
• level: Specific height of something
• arrive: To reach the place you are traveling to
• inability: Lack of ability, power, or means to do something
• colleague: Person you work or cooperate with
• engineer: Someone whose job is designing machines, buildings
• powerless: Lacking control or influence
• issue: To make something available to be used or sold
• basic: At the most important or easiest (beginner) level
• afford: To make available, to provide
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• hug: To hold someone in your arms as sign of affection
• minimum: Smallest degree or level that is acceptable
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• population: Number of people who live in a country, area etc.
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• universally: Applying to all people, times, places
• rob: Person's name
• generosity: Giving or sharing things freely with others
• regard: Admiration or respect for a person or thing
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• poverty: State of being poor
• policy: Document stating terms of an insurance agreement
• fascinated: Having your attention fixated as though by a spell
• dependent: Someone who relies on (financial) support
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• universal: Existing in all places at all times for all people
• wealth: Amount of money or possessions you own, e.g. large
• potentially: That could happen or become reality
• internalize: To accept attitudes, behavior as part of yourself
• global: Concerning, involving, affecting all of something
• adaptable: Having the ability to change to new conditions
• beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
• desperately: In a way that shows you don't have much hope
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• coverage: Type of programs a radio or TV station broadcasts
• sustainable: Capable of continuing for a long time
• span: Distance between two supports of a bridge
• feasible: Possible; that you can believe will work/succeed
• intensely: In a manner that is very strong or extreme
• thankful: Feeling or showing you are grateful
• inevitable: That must happen; certain to happen
• rank: To rate or class things
• horrified: Very annoyed or disapproving; shocked
• doorway: The space that a door can close
• plead: To ask or beg for something in an urgent way
• aspire: To have a great ambition or goal
• pave: To build a hard even surface for traveling on
• indispensable: Being essential and hard to live without
• empower: To give someone a power or ability
• lump: Small swollen mass in body, e.g. showing disease
• infant: Child in the beginning stage of life; a baby
• profoundly: With a great depth psychologically
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• notion: Sudden idea or desire to do something
• divisive: Causing division or disagreement
• insure: To buy protection against possible loss, damage
• revisit: To talk or think about something again
• tumor: Abnormal growth of cells; cancer
• paralyze: To be unable to move from loss of muscle function
• quo: The existing state of affairs, especially regarding social or political issues.
• genocide: Deliberate destruction of a group of people
• expectancy: Excited feeling that something is will happen soon
• communist: Believer in communism