Vocabulary

• work on: To devote effort to improve or develop something
• for instance: As an example.
• curl up: To lie or sit with your legs bent close to your body.
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• spot on: Exactly right; perfectly accurate.
• sophisticated: Making a good sounding but misleading argument
• obvious: Easily understood and clear; plain to see
• conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• controversial: Causing a great deal of argument, or conflict
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• physical: Health check at the doctors' or hospital
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• split: No longer married or in a relationship
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• instance: An example of something; case
• jerk: Someone you think is an idiot
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• complex: Group of buildings all used for the same purpose
• distinct: Clearly different in nature from something else
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• complicated: To make more difficult to do, understand or use
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• lack: To not have, or not have enough, of something
• distress: State of great sadness, anxiety or pain
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• prey: To hunt (other animals) in order to eat them
• risk: To do something potentially dangerous or foolish
• rub: To spread a cream, etc., using a repeated motion
• nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
• sensory: Referring to the physical senses
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
• equally: In an equal, even, or identical manner
• ethical: Morally right; following principles of goodness
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• rapidly: With great speed; quickly
• important: Having power or authority
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• shrimp: Small edible salt-water shellfish with many legs
• activate: To cause to happen; cause a chemical reaction
• stimulus: Something that causes a change
• simple: Not hard to understand or do; not complex
• shell: Hard outer cover of an egg, fruit, nut, or seed
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• oyster: An edible marine mollusk
• grow: To get bigger and more mature; make plants do this
• curl: To form something into a round or curved shape
• part: Division of a book
• hard: Difficult to do; difficult to understand
• repeatedly: (Said, done) many times; over and over
• administer: To give e.g. medicine to a patient
• enrich: To make someone or something better
• flinch: To move back as in fear or pain; recoil; shrink
• octopus: Sea creature with eight arms or tentacles
• prick: To pierce slightly with a sharp point
• hermit: Person that lives alone and away from society
• recoil: To quickly move away from something shocking
• snail: Slow moving creature with soft body and hard shell
• jellyfish: Soft-bodied sea animal, as with stinging tentacles
• noxious: (Of substance) poisonous/harmful to living things
• lemon: Badly made or poorly functioning product