Vocabulary

• wake up: To stop sleeping
• escape from reality: To avoid dealing with unpleasant or boring aspects of life.
• write down: To record in writing
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• look back: To think about past events
• look away: To turn your eyes in a different direction, especially because you are embarrassed, frightened, or upset.
• second nature: A behavior that has become automatic or habitual.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• in the middle of: In the central part or point of something.
• in mind: Being aware of or considering something.
• go back to: To return to a starting point
• after all: In spite of what was expected; used to introduce a statement that supports a previous statement or explains why it was made
• subscribe: To regularly pay to receive a service
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• equivalent: Equal to something in value, use or meaning
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• phrase: Common expression or saying
• phenomenon: Unusual event, fact that can be studied
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• effort: Amount of work used trying to do something
• technique: Way of doing by using special knowledge or skill
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• completely: In every way or as much as possible
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• attempt: To try to do something challenging or difficult
• reinforce: To send more troops/resources to support an army
• distinct: Clearly different in nature from something else
• fear: Unpleasant feeling caused by being aware of danger
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• prevent: To stop something from happening or existing
• recession: Act of moving backward gradually
• insight: Power to understand people and things very well
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• escape: Act to briefly ignoring boring or bad things
• paralysis: Inability to move or feel all or part of the body
• journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
• perform: To carry out an action well or successfully
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• caveat: Warning or caution in a legal document
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• facilitate: To make an action or process easier
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• induce: To make someone do something; create an outcome
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• fall: Season after summer and before winter; Autumn
• scary: Causing fear; frightening
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• subsequently: After something else has happened; as a result
• lucid: Very clear; really easy to understand
• beg: To ask someone in an emotional way for something
• location: Particular position or area of place, event, etc.
• astray: Away from the right direction or path
• continuum: A continuation without noticeable divisions
• twitter: To make small chattering sounds, like some birds