Vocabulary

• order in: To request food from a restaurant to be delivered to one's home or other location.
• answer to: To be responsible to someone and have to explain your actions to them.
• grow up: To develop from a child into an adult
• take initiative: To be proactive and take the first step in doing something without being told to do so.
• middle child: A child who has both older and younger siblings.
• cope with: To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
• as a rule: Generally; usually
• no matter: Regardless of; it does not matter.
• lead to: To result in some action
• have to: Must do
• such as: For example; like
• thumbs up: A gesture of approval or agreement, indicated by holding a fist with the thumb extended upwards.
• crucial: Extremely important or necessary
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• impact: A striking effect or result to hit with force
• tend: To move or act in a certain manner
• convince: To persuade someone, or make them feel sure
• intelligence: Collection of secret information about something
• expect: To believe something is probably going to happen
• achieve: To succeed in doing good, usually by working hard
• interact: To talk or do things with each other
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• demand: Desire customers have to buy product, service
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• admit: To acknowledge that something is true or right
• intriguing: Interesting; arousing your curiosity or wonder
• inherently: As an essential part of
• cope: To deal with something in spite of difficulties
• divide: To split numbers by another number, e.g. 6 / 2 = 3
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• ambitious: Having the desire to be successful in life, work
• conservative: (Of an estimate, price) set fairly low
• dominant: The strongest; most powerful
• recognition: Accepting that something is true or that it exists
• account: An advantage
• compare: To consider how similar and different things are
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• analyze: To study carefully to find out the meaning of
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• receive: To get something someone has given or sent to you
• ethnicity: Ethnic group; shared origins or culture
• diligent: Showing care, continued effort and hard work
• important: Having power or authority
• welfare: Program to help poor/unemployed people with money
• order: Religious or social group, as of nuns
• conscientious: Careful to do things as you know you should do
• fairy: Small imaginary being that can do magic
• surpass: To go beyond or achieve more than someone
• overly: To a degree exceeding normal or proper limits
• ferry: Passenger boat on a regular schedule
• middle: Place that is halfway between two things
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• university: High-level educational institution; college
• choose: To select; decide between several possibilities
• outgoing: Leaving a place or a position
• leadership: Quality of being able to guide or influence others
• perfectionist: Person displeased by anything is not perfect