Vocabulary

• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• know about: To have information or understanding of a subject or situation.
• off the grid: Not depending on public utilities, especially the supply of electricity.
• make ends meet: To manage to live on the money you have.
• want in: To desire to participate or be included in something.
• in terms of
• set to: To energetically begin to do, e.g. making a fire
• show up: To arrive or be seen at a place, e.g. a party
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• out there: In or to a place that is far away
• in good hands: Under the care and protection of someone competent and trustworthy.
• to let: Indicates that a property is available for rent.
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• conscious: Aware of what is going on around you
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• situation: Place, position or area that something is in
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• majority: Amount that is more than half of a group
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• determine: To control exactly how something will be or act
• intuition: Natural ability to guess or feel things
• advocate: A lawyer who protects a clients interests
• mortality: Quality or state of being capable of dying
• straightforward: Easy to do or understand; not complicated
• decline: To bend towards the ground
• spouse: Someone's husband or wife
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• awareness: Having knowledge of something
• quality: Feature associated with someone or something
• inspire: To give someone an idea to do or make something
• remain: To be left behind; to continue to exist
• financial: Involving money
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• personality: Way someone is or reacts to life or other people
• settle: To make (a child, etc.) feel calm/ready for sleep
• involve: To have or be included as a part of something
• intervention: Getting involved to solve a disagreement, problem
• illness: Unhealthy condition of the mind or body
• proximity: State of being near or close to something
• independent: Making your own decisions; acting by yourself
• admission: Act of allowing someone to enter
• grid: Electrical network supplying electricity to area
• neurological: Concerning, used in or practicing neurology
• attorney: Person giving legal advice; a lawyer
• livestock: Any animals kept for use or profit
• diagnosis: Judgments by a doctor about a person's illness
• manage: To survive hardships and difficulties; to cope
• refuge: Somewhere you can find safety or hide
• chance: The way something happens without planning
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• head: To hit a ball with your head in a game
• physician: A medical doctor
• set: Prepared for something; ready
• significance: The potential for something to have a big effect
• summary: Brief, complete and accurate
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• refrigerator: An electric cool box for keeping food fresh
• prepare: To make something ready for use
• choice: Decision between two or more possibilities
• envelope: Paper cover you put around a letter to mail it
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• streamline: To make smooth or more efficient
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• quiet: Hidden, or done in a private way
• acre: An area of land 64m by 64m (4046.8 sq. m....)
• cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
• live: To be alive
• skip: Very large waste disposal bin
• ranch: Large farm, made mostly of land for raising cattle
• trustee: Person legally holding property for another
• qualitative: Of the quality of (rather than quantity)
• bingo: Game of chance played by calling random numbers