Vocabulary

• per year: For each year; annually.
• keeping up: To understand what someone is saying
• hanging out: To spend time with your friends
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• on the brain: To be constantly thinking about someone or something; to be obsessed with someone or something.
• act on: To have an effect on something.
• for the most part: Generally; mostly; on the whole.
• have to: Must do
• anxiety: A feeling of worry, nervousness, or unease about something that might happen, especially when the outcome is uncertain.
• episode: One separate event in a series of events
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• intense: Very strong, great or extreme in degree
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• critical: Making a negative judgment of something
• grab: To take and hold something quickly
• panic: Overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
• term: Conditions applying to an agreement, contract
• improve: To make, or become, something better
• accomplish: To succeed in doing; complete successfully
• fancy: To want to have or do something; feel like
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• pressure: Anxiety caused by difficult problems
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• presentation: Act of giving a formal talk about something
• dementia: Illness characterized by loss of memory
• function: Social event, or party such as a wedding
• alert: Being aware and able to respond quickly
• stimulate: To arouse or excite emotionally
• exercise: To work out to become stronger and healthier
• regular: Having an equal amount of space or time in between
• optimal: Best or most desirable; best possible
• similar: Nearly the same; alike
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• superior: Better; higher quality
• neural: About the nerves or nervous system
• glucose: Natural type of sugar found in fruits and plants
• hippocampus: A part of the brain that is part of the limbic system and is important for memory
• generate: To create or be produced or bring into existence
• insulin: Substance in the body processing sugar into energy
• cortisol: Adrenal-cortex hormone (trade names Hydrocortone or Cortef) that is active in carbohydrate and protein metabolism
• volume: Number or amount of something e.g. sales
• consolidation: Act of combining into an integral whole
• cram: To add more to something that is already full
• breach: To break laws or barriers (e.g. walls)
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• enhance: To improve; make bigger or better
• suggest: To mention something that could be done; propose
• supplement: Added extra to support or make something complete
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• formation: Process of creating; making a particular shape
• laptop: Portable computer small enough to use on your lap
• relieve: To make less boring by making some change
• information: Collection of facts and details about something
• learn: To get knowledge or skills by study or experience
• deck: Floor built into a ship, bus, plane or home
• overly: To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
• snack: Small amount of food eaten between meals
• sponsor: Person that supports the passage of a new law
• protect: To defend someone or something from harm or danger
• remember: To give someone a gift, e.g. birthday, wedding
• part: Division of a book
• aerobic: Needing oxygen to live
• anatomical: Concerning the structure of human body, etc.
• enrich: To make someone or something better
• meal: Food for eating at a particular time, e.g. dinner
• skip: Very large waste disposal bin
• gym: Physical education taught as a class in school
• pre: A prefix meaning 'before'
• reset: To return to the original start or formation
• regeneration: Act of adding more life or energy into
• blueberry: Sweet edible dark blue berries