Vocabulary

• in public: In a place where anyone can see or hear you.
• shield from: To protect someone or something from harm or damage.
• home in: Move or direct toward a specific target or goal.
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• set out: To arrange something in an orderly fashion
• search for: To try to find someone or something.
• light on: To illuminate something.
• under the surface: Not obvious or apparent; existing out of sight.
• in plain sight: Easily visible; not hidden.
• see in: To accompany someone to the entrance of a building or room.
• in love with: Feeling romantic love for someone.
• look through: To examine carefully to see what is there
• of age: Having reached the legal age of adulthood.
• regardless of
• in pursuit: Following or chasing someone or something, typically to catch them.
• essentially: Basically; (said when stating the basic facts)
• assume: To act in a false manner to mislead others
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• compromise: To weaken your position or views
• empathy: Understanding how other people feel/suffer
• intimacy: The sharing of private and personal things
• crave: To have a very strong desire for something
• aware: Knowing or feeling that something exists
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• identify: To indicate who or what someone or something is
• combat: To fight someone or something physically
• commit: To do something bad, usually a crime
• integrate: To combine together; make into one thing
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• desire: To wish for, hope or want something
• conventional: Following the common attitudes and practices
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• bond: Rope, chain or other thing used to tie someone up
• pursuit: Act of following someone to catch them
• comfort: To try to make distressed person feel better
• adventure: An exciting and often dangerous experience
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• behavior: The way a person or thing acts; manner
• plain: Obvious; clearly so, true
• challenge: An activity you wish to try that may be hard to do
• fade: To cause to lose brightness of color
• identity: Collection of qualities that makes a person
• envision: To imagine or picture in your mind
• adolescence: Developmental period typically in the teen years
• notice: To become aware by sight, touch, or hearing
• confusion: Not knowing what to do; state of disorder
• shield: A family's coat of arms or insignia
• intuitively: In a manner based on feelings rather than facts
• intrigue: To make someone interested or curious
• fantasy: Something imagined and very different from reality
• catalyst: Person/thing causing a change or event to happen
• public: Owned by the government
• fill: To make something full
• neighborhood: Area of a town or city that people live in
• tribe: Racial group united by language, religion, customs
• loneliness: State of feeling sad because you are alone
• daily: Happening every day
• breakdown: When normal activity or behavior stops
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• hide: To go to, or put a thing where it can't be found
• great: Very good; better than before
• proverbial: As commonly spoken of; well-known
• discomfort: To cause to feel uncomfortable or not at ease
• respective: Belonging to each of two or more persons or things
• hold: To agree to keep something for someone
• carry: To have a child, be pregnant
• childhood: The time when you are a child
• know: To be familiar with a person or place, thing
• solace: Comfort in sorrow or trouble; consolation
• feel: To be aware of or experience an emotion, sensation
• fight: To argue or quarrel with someone about something
• yearn: To strongly desire something or someone
• uncomfortable: Not being relaxed; worried about something
• thorn: Sharp point on the stem/branches of some plants
• trio: Three of something, e.g. musicians
• threesome: Three people considered as a unit
• actuality: The state of existing and being real