Vocabulary

• of yours: Belonging to you; your possession or property.
• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• to the quick: Deeply and painfully affected or hurt emotionally.
• think about: To consider something carefully.
• of age: Having reached the legal age of adulthood.
• from birth: Since the time someone was born
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• human development: The process of improvement in people's well-being and quality of life.
• check out
• lead to: To result in some action
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• significant: Large enough to be noticed or have an effect
• eliminate: To completely remove; to get rid of
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• typically: In a normal or usual way
• amount: Quantity of something
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• brand: A mark burned on an animal to show who owns it
• bit: Device put in a horse's mouth to control it
• occur: To come to pass or to happen
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
• physically: In a manner related to the body
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• grasp: Person's control over something
• recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
• hippocampus: A part of the brain that is part of the limbic system and is important for memory
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• pretty: Being attractive to the eye in a simple way
• rate: To assess something or consider its qualities
• couple: To join something to something else
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• infant: Child in the beginning stage of life; a baby
• gain: To increase in something, such as weight
• development: Act or process of growing bigger or more advanced
• appear: To be seen, become visible; come into sight
• nurture: Care and support given to people as they develop
• noggin: A human head
• normal: Standard or regular way of doing something
• master: To gain control over something
• important: Having power or authority
• substantially: In a basic, general manner
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• language: Words or signs used to communicate messages
• temporal: Concerning time
• caregiver: Person giving care or helping others
• prune: A dried plum
• triple: Group or set of three
• cute: Attractive in a pretty or endearing way