Vocabulary

• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• due to: Because of; owing to
• at odds: In a state of conflict or disagreement
• in time: Eventually; after a period of time.
• at times: Sometimes; occasionally.
• look back: To think about past events
• careful consideration: Thorough and thoughtful attention or deliberation.
• demonstrate: To display a feeling or ability openly
• multiple: Having or involving more than one of something
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• consider: To think carefully about something
• reality: What is true, as opposed to what is imagined
• subsequent: Happening after; later
• shift: To change in position or direction
• prominent: Being important or well known
• traumatic: Causing upsetting emotional effects over time
• fluid: A material that can easily flow, e.g. water
• radical: Person who believes in extreme political change
• odd: Being unmatched with someone or something
• veteran: Person experienced through long service
• distinguish: To make something clearly different from others
• collapse: To fold (e.g. a stroller) down to make it smaller
• consciousness: Process by which thoughts, ideas are processed
• monologue: Long speech given by one person, often in a play
• external: Concerning foreign countries
• contrast: To compare; to show clear, obvious differences
• anonymous: Unknown; with no name revealed
• purchase: To buy something; to get by paying money for it
• essay: Short piece of written opinion on a subject
• mundane: Being ordinary and therefore boring
• seek: To ask someone for help
• tragedy: Play that has a sad ending with many deaths
• gender: State of being male or female
• suppress: To prevent the display of emotion or feeling
• fiction: Made-up stories; imagined events
• temporarily: For a limited amount of time
• possess: To enter a person's mind or body as a spirit
• seemingly: Appearing to be but may not actually be; probably
• fame: (Person, thing) being well-known by many people
• distinction: Special quality that makes something different
• deny: To refuse to allow or accept something
• collective: Business owned or controlled by its workers
• mind: To be bothered or upset by something
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• inequality: Situation where things are not equal, fair
• transcend: To achieve or go beyond normal limits of
• single: One run in cricket or a hit baseball
• protagonist: Main character in a story
• pound: The # key on a keyboard
• subjective: Using personal feelings and opinions not facts
• argue: To fight or disagree over something
• group: Two or more musicians who play music together
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• left: To go away from; depart
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• witch: Woman believed to have magical powers
• family: Close group of people or organizations
• mute: Not willing or being unable to speak
• prose: Writing that is not a poem
• depressive: Suffering a psychological lack of happiness
• house: Place where a specific activity or business occurs
• lighthouse: Tower with a light that warns ships about rocks
• warren: Large network of connecting rabbit burrows
• distil: To collect the pure form by heating liquid