Vocabulary

• from home: Working or operating from one's residence.
• seek out: To look for and find someone or something, especially when it is not easy to find.
• rather than: More exactly; more correctly
• deal with
• at a time: Separately; one by one
• such as: For example; like
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• based on: To use something as the foundation or starting point for something else.
• cultivate: To grow plants, crops etc.
• pursue: To follow and try to catch, or to reach a goal
• integrity: Quality of being honest, fair and honorable
• therapy: Treatment to help cure an illness
• treat: To pay for the food or enjoyment of someone else
• philosophy: Study of ideas about the basic nature of life
• navigate: To direct (car, plane etc.) in the right direction
• awful: Very bad; horrible; terrible
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• legacy: Literature, arts etc. from previous generations
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• imagine: To think creatively about; form mental picture of
• rational: Able to think clearly
• calm: Without wind or storm; quiet; peaceful
• despair: To have lost all hope; lose heart
• concentration: Amount or number of something in a thing or place
• admire: To feel respect or wonder toward someone
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• avoid: To prevent from happening
• suffer: To experience pain, illness, or injury
• foundation: Base or important starting point
• confront: To make someone, e.g. who has lied, face the truth
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• moderation: Decrease in the amount of something that is high
• adopt: To legally take a child into your family
• virtue: Benefit, advantage, or good result of something
• principle: Moral rule or belief governing a person's behavior
• wisdom: Knowledge gained from experience in life
• result: Something produced through tests or experiments
• fade: To cause to lose brightness of color
• resonate: (Of ideas) to have a big impact for a long time
• curse: To use offensive language when angry; swear
• tranquility: Absence of stress, noise or movement; serenity
• harness: To capture the power of something
• fate: What will happen to you in the future, often bad
• clarity: Being easy to be seen through, heard or understood
• defeat: To beat an enemy, team, disease
• reign: To be present and felt or sensed by everyone there
• resolve: To make a decision to do something
• tolerance: Ability to adjust to changes, your environment etc.
• reconciliation: Getting two figures/accounts to match financially
• philosopher: Person studying the meaning of truth and life
• control: A device designed to operate a machine
• intrigue: To make someone interested or curious
• operate: To control or handle something, such as a machine
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• strand: Long part of a rope, someone's hair, etc.
• racial: Of or relating to race
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• believe: To think or accept that something is true
• famous: Excellent
• cardinal: Of the greatest importance; paramount
• people: Persons sharing culture, country, background, etc.
• buddhist: Someone who follows the teachings of Buddha
• center: Community place people go health or social reasons
• stoic: Person who can suffer without complaining
• temperance: Controlling what you do or say, e.g. not drinking
• humane: Compassionate; thoughtful; acting like a human
• nirvana: Extinction of desires when you reach perfect peace
• write: To compose letters and words on paper or a screen
• eventual: Coming or happening at a later or end of the time
• strongly: With strength or in a strong manner
• year: Unit of time equal to 12 months or 365 or 366 days
• africa: Continent between the Atlantic and Indian oceans
• web: Skin between ducks' toes that enables them to swim
• colonnade: A series of columns built at regular intervals
• stoicism: Indifference to pleasure or pain or suffering