Vocabulary

• stay out late: To remain away from home until after the usual time for returning.
• at midnight: At twelve o'clock at night; the middle of the night.
• drink to: To raise a glass to honor or celebrate someone or something.
• mental: Concerning the mind
• depression: Medical condition of a lack of vitality
• access: Way to enter a place, e.g. a station or stadium
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• initiative: Ability to come up with solutions by yourself
• immediately: Without any delay; straight away
• disease: Illness that affects a person, animal, or plant
• relationship: Connection between two or more people or things
• implement: To start to do something you plan to do
• burden: To weigh down with a load; impose a task upon
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• abuse: To mistreat or be cruel towards someone
• excess: Amount that is more than necessary or over a limit
• neglect: Act of failing to do something important, required
• release: To free someone from a responsibility or burden
• raise: To increase a bet above another when playing cards
• responsible: Being the cause of something that has occurred
• introduce: To open an essay to set the scene
• lead: Wire for electricity, computer, etc.; cable
• facilitate: To make an action or process easier
• persuade: To try to make someone to do, believe something
• alcohol: A colorless liquid that can catch fire (C2H5OH)
• relate: To demonstrate a logical relationship between
• reduce: To try to decrease, e.g. your weight if overweight
• leave: To go away from; depart
• treatment: Medicine or method to make someone healthier
• target: A goal or amount you are trying to achieve
• violence: Strong physical force of nature
• patch: Cover worn over an eye to protect or hide it
• limit: Point beyond which it is not possible to go
• offer: Price you say you are willing to pay for something
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• government: Group of people and system that rule a nation
• liver: Organ from animals served as food
• active: Moving around a lot or doing many things
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• endorse: To show or express approval of
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• make: To arrange or prepare something e.g. dinner
• implementation: A practical means for accomplishing something
• world: All the humans, events, activities on the earth
• tuberculosis: Disease affecting especially the lungs
• heart: A feeling of care for others; compassion
• country: An area of land that is controlled by a government
• uneven: Being good in some parts and poor in others
• midnight: 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night
• dependence: Relying on someone for (e.g. financial) support