Vocabulary

• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, or disbelief.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• care for: To want or desire a thing
• being with: Accompanying someone; being in someone's presence.
• in the doghouse: In disgrace or out of favor with someone.
• in the way: Obstructing someone or something; hindering progress.
• come at: To approach someone to attack them
• at a cost: Involving loss or sacrifice.
• hear of: To know about someone or something because you have been told about them
• kick in: (Of a medicine, plan, etc.) to start to have an effect; become operative
• run to: To have enough money; be able to pay; afford
• pull into: To drive a vehicle off a road and onto a different surface or into a specific location.
• to date: Up to the present time; until now.
• in terms of
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• connected with: Related to; associated with.
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• to do with: To be about something; concern
• breathe in: To inhale; to take air into the lungs.
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• individual: Single person, looked at separately from others
• context: Set of facts surrounding a person or event
• recognize: To accept the truth or reality of something
• immune: Having a special protection from, e.g. the law
• epidemic: Disease that spreads quickly affecting many
• profound: Requiring deep thought; difficult to understand
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• realize: To become aware of or understand mentally
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• anxious: Afraid of what may happen; worried and nervous
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• decade: Period of 10 years
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• environment: Natural world in which plants and animals live
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• ability: The power, resources or skill to do something
• evolve: To develop certain features
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• offspring: Child or young of a person, plant or animal
• stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• compassionate: Feeling sympathy for people who are suffering
• evolutionary: Concerning gradual change over time
• effect: An advantage, benefit
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• switch: A change or shift from one method to another
• nervous: Concerning the system of nerves in the body
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• nerve: Fibers in the body that enable feeling, movement
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• connection: Something that joins things together; being joined
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• goal: Something you try to do or achieve; an aim
• solution: Mix of a liquid and a solid or a gas
• suffering: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• neuroscientist: Neurobiologist who specializes in the study of the brain
• sympathetic: Feeling favorable to something; wanting to support
• oxytocin: Hormone secreted by the posterior pituitary gland (trade name Pitocin); stimulates contractions of the uterus and ejection of milk
• depressed: To make someone feel sad or miserable
• pain: Strong feeling of hurt or discomfort
• affluent: Having plenty of money and possessions
• fact: Something that is known or proved to be true
• system: Set of organized, planned ideas that work together
• nurture: Care and support given to people as they develop
• loneliness: State of feeling sad because you are alone
• exceed: To be greater in number, degree than something
• readily: In a quick and easy manner
• physiology: Ways in which the parts of a living thing operate
• contentment: Satisfaction with your situation in life
• detriment: Harm; damage
• frontal: Belonging to the forward part
• oftentimes: Mainly US many times; at short intervals
• hijack: To take control of a plane, etc. by force
• wellness: State of being happy, healthy or prosperous
• cartoon: Drawing or illustration meant to make you laugh
• expend: To use a lot of something, such as time or energy
• quadrant: Quarter of a circle or land area