Vocabulary

• health benefits: Advantages provided by an employer or insurance plan related to healthcare, such as medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• regardless of
• going on: To continue doing something
• lead to: To result in some action
• compared with: In relation to
• back into: To drive a vehicle backwards into a space or area.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• at the end of the day: Ultimately; when everything else is considered.
• get up in: To wake and leave bed at a particular time.
• mouse around: To search or explore casually or without a clear plan.
• join in
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• stretch: To make your arm, leg muscles long to ease them
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• boost: To increase something; to make something better
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• reputation: Common opinion that people have about someone
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• respiratory: (Medical) concerning breathing
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• develop: To explain something in steps and in detail
• stroke: When blood cannot get to brain, causing damage
• solitary: Done alone; spending a lot of time alone
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• interaction: Process of people or things affecting each other
• benefit: Good result or effect, something advantageous
• therapeutic: Intended to make things (e.g. illness) better
• cholesterol: Substance in the body that may cause heart disease
• cardiovascular: Concerning the heart and vessels of the body
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• anonymous: Unknown; with no name revealed
• spirit: Person's strong determination or attitude
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• empty: Containing nothing; with no contents
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• pace: Rate of speed at which something moves or happens
• fulfill: To finish or provide something successfully
• connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• mood: Emotion or a state of mind; how you feel
• swell: To feel overcome due to a strong emotion
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• heal: To recover from or forget a bad experience
• asthma: Lung illness causing difficulty in breathing
• frequency: Number of repetitions of (radio or sound) wave
• buddy: Friend, usually male
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• relieve: To make less boring by making some change
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• own: To have something as your property
• sudden: Happening or done quickly or unexpectedly
• nurture: Care and support given to people as they develop
• companionship: Good feeling from being with someone else
• pat: Person's name
• loneliness: State of feeling sad because you are alone
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• immunity: State of not being able to catch a disease
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• socialize: To spend time with people; go out and make friends
• buffalo: Wild animal with horns similar to a large cow
• uplift: To make someone feel happier or more hopeful
• hertz: Unit for measuring the frequency of sound waves