Vocabulary

• in some places: In certain locations or areas, but not all.
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• on the floor: Located on the ground or bottom surface of a room.
• care of: Used in an address to indicate the person who will receive the mail for someone else.
• deal with
• have to: Must do
• over time: Gradually; as time passes.
• move to: To change the place where you live or work.
• inevitable: That must happen; certain to happen
• strategy: Careful plan or method for achieving a goal
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• purpose: Reason for which something is done; aim; goal
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• research: To study in order to discover new ideas and facts
• influence: To affect or change something indirectly
• increase: To make or become larger in size or amount
• cardiovascular: Concerning the heart and vessels of the body
• encourage: To increase the chance of something happening
• exist: To be present, alive or real
• mysterious: Unusual; hard to understand or work out
• intensity: Great energy, strength, or concentration
• mean: Average of a set of numbers
• maintain: To keep saying something a certain way
• advice: Suggestion about what would help someone
• rare: (Of meat) cooked, but still red and juicy
• reach: To come to or arrive at a goal or destination
• excess: Amount that is more than necessary or over a limit
• dramatically: In a sudden or extreme manner
• genetic: Of, relating to, or controlled by genes
• journal: A diary; record of what you do every day
• insulin: Substance in the body processing sugar into energy
• intake: Amount of something that a person's body consumes
• social: Involving activity with people, e.g. in free time
• expectancy: Excited feeling that something is will happen soon
• trace: To make an outline to determine a shape
• activity: An action or task, e.g. sports, washing clothes
• census: Survey to collect data about people in an area
• peninsula: Narrow strip of land projecting into a sea or lake
• vertical: (Of a line, etc.) going up and down; not horizontal
• mediterranean: Describing the sea between Italy and Africa
• support: To give assistance or advice to someone
• longevity: Amount of time someone or something lives or lasts
• wrong: Action that is harmful, unjust or illegal
• find: To become aware of something that is happening
• healthy: In good condition physically, or financially; well
• case: Container used to carry things, e.g. clothes
• life: All the living things e.g. animals, plants, humans
• light: To cause something to burn; put a burning match to
• cancer: Any growth caused by abnormal cell division
• gym: Physical education taught as a class in school
• involvement: Act or process of joining in a particular activity
• lifestyle: The type of life that you have; the way you live
• smoke: To give off a cloud of grey gas from burning
• geographically: With respect to the earth and its natural features