Vocabulary

• due to: Because of; owing to
• at school: Present and attending school.
• shut off: To stop the movement of something, such as water
• blurt out: To say something suddenly and without thinking, often revealing something that should have been kept secret.
• engage in: To participate or become involved in something.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• at midnight: At twelve o'clock at night; the middle of the night.
• the following: Next in order or sequence.
• in other words: Stating something in a different way, often to make it clearer or more understandable.
• turn around: To change your body to the opposite direction
• awkward: Lacking smooth movement
• constantly: Frequently, or without pause
• cognitive: The process of knowing and remembering
• chronic: Always or often doing something, e.g. lying
• struggle: To try very hard to do something difficult
• approach: To get close to reaching something or somewhere
• mental: Concerning the mind
• engage: To start to fight with an enemy
• reveal: To show something that was hidden before
• trigger: Lever on a gun that you pull to fire
• tackle: To start working on a difficult problem
• scale: Size, level, or amount when compared
• experience: Thing a person has done or that happened to them
• dopamine: Drug used to treat shock and hypotension
• procrastination: Act of putting off something you ought to do
• urge: A strong desire for something
• executive: A senior manager in a business or organization
• describe: To tell the appearance, sound, smell of something
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• psychology: The study of the mind and how it affects behavior
• reward: To give something because of someone's good work
• sentence: (Of a judge) to decide the punishment of
• psychologist: An expert who studies the mind and behavior
• affect: To cause a change in something else
• brain: To strike someone forcefully on the head
• condition: To improve something to make it better
• persistent: Continuing to do something despite challenges
• explain: To make clear or easy to understand by describing
• emerge: To rise or appear out of some background
• cause: Belief, goal or organization that people support
• simply: In an easy or clear manner
• refer: To talk about or write about something
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• interrupt: To stop something from happening for a while
• visualize: To create a picture in your mind of something
• due: When something is required or expected
• persist: To continue a course of action despite opposition
• provide: To make available; to supply for use
• clinical: Concerning the treatment or observing patients
• flee: To leave somewhere urgently, to avoid danger
• internal: Being or happening in the body
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• organize: To arrange and plan things, e.g. a party
• text: To send a message by phone or other device
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• license: To give official permission to do something
• disregard: To treat something as unimportant; ignore
• psychiatrist: Doctor who treats psychological disorders
• defective: Having a defect; faulty
• pathway: A path or way that you can walk
• cutlery: Tableware implements for cutting and eating food
• mid: At (or near) the middle point
• psych: (Of an upcoming event) to cause excitement in
• accustom: To make someone or something become used to something.
• superpower: State powerful enough to influence world events