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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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episode | n: a happening or story that is distinctive in a series of related events; an abrupt short period during which someone suffers from the effects of a physical or mental illness | |
schizophrenia | n: a severe mental disorder in which a person has a distorted view of reality and may experience hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thinking and behavior | |
boundary | n: a real or imaginary line that marks the limit or extent of something and separates it from other things or places | |
nebulous | adj: hazy, vague, or ill-defined; of or relating to or resembling a nebula (= an immense cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space) | |
psychology | n: the scientific study of mind and behavior | |
porous | adj: having many small holes and being able to absorb or pass through fluids | |
alter | v: to cause to change or make different | |
insightful | adj: having or showing a deep understanding and perception of a situation or subject | |
deficient | adj: lacking something needed or normal | |
acknowledge | v: to accept or admit the existence, reality, or truth of something; to accept that someone or something has a particular authority or quality; to express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for someone’s help, commitment, etc.; | |
struggle | v: to make a great effort to do something when it is difficult, or there are a lot of problems; to use force or violence to break away from restraint or constriction | |
theologian | n: an expert or student who studies theology | |
philosophy | n: the study of general and fundamental questions, such as those about existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind | |
neuroscience | n: the scientific study of the function, structure, and disorder of the brain and the nervous system | |
slippery | adj: difficult to hold firmly or stand on because it is wet or smooth; not to be trusted | |
intuitive | adj: obtained through feelings rather than facts or proof | |
disappear | v: to cease to exist or be visible | |
asleep | adj: in a state of sleep | |
reappear | v: to show up again or return after not being heard of or seen for a period of time | |
solid | adj: hard or firm; characterized by good substantial quality | |
unchanging | adj: not changing or subject to change; constant | |
permanent | adj: lasting for a long time without essential change | |
examine | v: to study or consider a person or object attentively and thoroughly to learn something about them | |
aspect | n: one part or feature of a situation, problem, subject, etc. | |
instance | n: a particular example or single occurrence of something | |
sacrosanct | adj: considered to be holy and deserving of respect and reverence | |
incorporate | v: to include something as a part of a larger entity | |
episodic | adj: happening or appearing at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady; of or relating to writing or narration | |
narrative | n: a story or a description of a series of events or process of telling a story | |
impair | v: to damage something or make it weaker or worse | |
stall | v: to stop or cause to stop making progress; (noun) small area or booth set off for the sale of goods in a market or large covered area | |
onset | n: the beginning or early stages of unpleasant something; a military attack | |
eventually | adv: finally, particularly after a long time or a lot of struggle, complications, and so on | |
scramble | v: to move or climb quickly and awkwardly, often using your hands to help you | |
sequence | n: a series of related events, actions, numbers, etc., which have a particular order | |
recall | v: to remember something | |
accurate | adj: correct and exact in all details | |
destroy | v: to ruin or damage severely or completely; to eradicate or eliminate completely | |
unclear | adj: poorly stated or described and therefore not easy to understand; not easy to perceive | |
communicate | v: to share or exchange information with others by speaking, writing, moving your body, or using other signals | |
verbal | adj: expressed in spoken rather than written words | |
spin | v: to cause something to rotate rapidly; to cause someone to feel dizzy or disoriented | |
brain | n: the organ inside the head that is responsible for one’s movement, thought, memory, and feeling | |
construct | v: to build or create something; to assemble or combine different parts to form something whole | |
disrupt | v: to prevent or stop something, especially an event, activity, or process, from continuing in the usual way by causing a problem or disturbance | |
horrific | adj: causing horror or disgust; gruesome and terrifying | |
caregiving | n: the act of providing care and support for someone who is ill, disabled, or elderly | |
nonetheless | adv: in spite of what has just been said or done; nevertheless | |
perceive | v: to become aware or conscious of something through the senses | |
doe | n: a mature female of mammals of which the male is called a buck, such as a deer or a rabbit | |
neuropsychology | n: the branch of psychology that deals with the relationships between brain function and behavior | |
alert | v: to warn or arouse to a sense of danger; (adjective) paying close attention or being in a state of readiness for action | |
xenomelia | n: the condition of feeling that one’s limbs or body parts do not belong to oneself | |
limb | n: an arm and leg of a person or animal | |
syndrome | n: a group of signs and symptoms that occur together and are characteristic of a particular condition or disorder | |
phantom | n: a ghost or a spirit of a dead person; something existing only in your imagination or perception | |
amputation | n: the act of cutting off a part of the body surgically | |
presence | n: the fact or state that someone or something exists, occurs, or is present | |
opposition | n: the act of disagreeing or resisting; the state of strong disagreement | |
extremity | n: the farthest or most remote point or the greatest or the highest degree | |
animation | n: the technique of photographing successive drawings or positions of puppets or models to create an illusion of movement when the film is shown as a sequence; enthusiasm and energy in the way you look or behave | |
incarnation | n: the embodiment of a concept or idea in a physical form; a person or thing that personifies something | |
incarnate | adj: in bodily form; embodied | |
animate | v: to make something full of interest and energy | |
misfire | v: to fail to ignite or explode as intended | |
consequence | n: the outcome of a particular action or event, especially relative to an individual | |
extreme | adj: very great in amount or degree | |
rid | v: to make someone or something free of unwanted or unpleasant tasks, objects, or person | |
amputate | v: to cut off a part of the body, especially by surgery | |
perspective | n: a confident attitude toward something; a particular style of thinking about something | |
profound | adj: extremely great; sensed or experienced very strongly; displaying a high level of knowledge or comprehension | |
implicit | adj: suggested but not directly expressed | |
accompanying | adj: being in a position next to or near something or someone | |
estimate | v: to guess or calculate the cost, size, value, etc. of something | |
out-of-body | n: an experience in which a person’s consciousness seems to detach from their physical body and float above it | |
assume | v: to think or accept something to be true without having proof of it; to take or begin to have power; to begin to exhibit a specific quality or appearance | |
anchor | n: a device, typically made of metal, that is used to moor a ship or boat in a particular place, typically by being dropped to the seabed; a central cohesive source of support and stability | |
occupy | v: to consume all of someone’s space, attention, or time | |
volume | n: the amount of space occupied by an object or substance; the magnitude of sound | |
ceiling | n: a room’s top interior surface | |
lab | n: a workplace for the conduct of scientific research; a laboratory | |
outcome | n: the result or effect of an action, event, etc. | |
embody | v: to represent or exemplify something; to give tangible form to an abstract idea | |
undeniable | adj: not possible to deny; true or certain | |
illusion | n: a false idea or belief, especially about somebody or about a situation | |
comprise | v: to include or consist of something; the act of making up or forming something | |
satisfactory | adj: meeting the requirements or expectations; acceptable | |
resolve | v: to find a suitable answer to the problems or difficulty | |
doubt | n: a feeling of being uncertain about something, especially about how good or accurate it is | |
persist | v: to continue to do and refuse to stop something despite difficulties or opposition, even if it appears unreasonable | |
liberate | v: to set free; to release or rescue from captivity or oppression | |
regardless | adv: not paying attention or considering something or someone even if the situation is bad or there are difficulties | |
attend | v: to be present at an event, to go to a place | |
emotion | n: a strong feeling such as love, anger, etc. deriving from one’s situation, mood, or relationships with others | |
modulate | v: to change the key, style, loudness, etc., of something in music to create a particular effect; to fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of something | |
cognitive | adj: of or relating to mental processes of understanding | |
structure | n: the way of construction of something and the arrangement of its parts, or a complex thing constructed of many parts | |
tight | adj: fixed, fastened, or kept together firmly or closely | |
marvel | n: someone something that causes feelings of wonder or surprise | |
millennium | n: a span of 1000 years, or the 1000th anniversary (plural: millennia) | |
modern | adj: of or belonging to the present time or recent times | |
owe | v: to be under a moral or legal obligation to pay or do something in return for something received; | |
debt | n: something, especially money, goods, or services owed by one person to another; the state of owing something | |
witness | n: a person who sees something happen, especially a crime or an accident | |
voluntary | adj: done of one’s own free will; without being forced or coerced | |
monk | n: a member of a religious community of men living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience | |
nun | n: a woman who has taken religious vows and is a member of a monastic community | |
meditation | n: the act of focusing one’s mind on a particular object or thought; activity to train attention and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state | |
biology | n: the scientific study of life and the natural processes of living things | |
circumstance | n: the specific conditions or events that surround a particular situation or occurrence | |
remark | n: a comment or observation, or something said or written about a particular subject or situation; (verb) to give a spoken statement on a particular subject or situation | |
robust | adj: sturdy and healthy in form, constitution, or construction; strong enough to withstand or overcome intellectual challenges or adversity | |
frightening | adj: causing fear or alarm, or very surprising and alarming | |
fragile | adj: delicate or easily broken or damaged | |
crack | v: to break or cause to break without dividing into separate parts; (noun) a line on the surface of something along which it has separated without breaking | |
confront | v: to face, meet or deal with a problem or difficult situation or person | |
empathy | n: the ability to share another person’s feelings or experiences by imagining that person’s situation | |
deficit | n: the total amount by which money spent is greater than money earned in a particular period of time; the property of being an amount by which something, especially an amount of money, is less than expected or required | |
attribute | v: to say or regard that something is the result of a particular thing; (noun) a quality or feature that someone or something possesses; | |
norm | n: something that is regarded as usual, typical, or standard | |
willingness | n: the state of being ready or inclined to do something |