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Word | Meaning | Advanced |
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hormone | n: a chemical substance made by organs that encourages or influences the development, growth, sex, etc., of an animal and is carried around the body in the blood | |
moodiness | n: a tendency to experience mood swings or to be easily affected by changes in mood | |
norm | n: something that is regarded as usual, typical, or standard | |
pregnant | adj: having a baby or young animal developing in the uterus | |
develop | v: to grow or expand; to improve or refine through a process of progress and refinement, often to achieve greater sophistication or complexity; to elaborate or add detail to something that is in the process of being created | |
arc | n: the shape of a portion of a circle or other curved line | |
adolescent | n: a young person who is in the process of developing from a child into an adult | |
transition | n: the process or period of changing from one state or circumstance to another | |
moth | n: an insect with wings similar to a butterfly that travels at night and is attracted to light | |
psychiatry | n: the branch of medicine concerned with the study, treatment, and prevention of mental illness | |
postpartum | adj: occurring after childbirth or delivery; (noun) the time after delivery when the mother’s body begins to recover from the effects of pregnancy and childbirth | |
reproductive | adj: connected with the process of reproduction; relating to reproducing babies, young animals, or plants | |
depression | n: a mental condition in which a person feels very unhappy and without hope for the future; a severe recession in an economy or market | |
symptom | n: any sensation or change in body or mind that is experienced by a patient and is associated with a particular disease | |
diagnose | v: to determine or distinguish the nature of a problem or an illness through a careful analysis | |
clinical | adj: of or relating to the examination and treatment of patients rather than theoretical or laboratory studies | |
depressed | adj: sad and without any hope | |
reassure | v: to cause someone to feel sure; to give or restore confidence | |
suppose | v: to think that something is likely to be actual or possible | |
insist | v: to say something clearly or demand something forcefully, especially when other people disagree with or oppose what you say | |
instinct | n: an inborn behavioral pattern that is often responsive to specific stimuli; an innate feeling that causes you to act or believe that something is true | |
naturally | adv: as might be expected; by natural manners | |
realistic | adj: having or showing a sensible and practical idea that is possible to achieve | |
discomfort | n: a feeling of being uncomfortable physically or mentally or being embarrassed; a slight pain | |
disease | n: a disorder or illness that affects the body or mind, often characterized by specific symptoms or abnormal functioning of organs or systems | |
psychology | n: the scientific study of mind and behavior | |
medical | adj: relating to the treatment of illness or injuries; relating to the practice of medicine | |
anthropology | n: the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics in both the present and past, including past human species | |
out-of-print | adj: of or relating to a book, periodical, or other printed material that is no longer being printed or produced, either due to lack of demand or the company or author choosing to discontinue it | |
essay | n: a short piece of writing on a particular topic, usually written by a student as a port of a course of study | |
frame | n: a strong border or structure of the wood, metal, etc. that surrounds something such as a picture, door, or window | |
conversation | n: an informal talk between two or more people to exchange their views, ideas, information, etc. | |
coincidence | n: an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time by chance, in a surprising way | |
morph | v: to change or cause to change something or someone smoothly and gradually from one thing to another | |
shifting | adj: constantly changing or moving | |
upheaval | n: great change, disruption, or disturbance; (geology) a rise of land to a higher elevation | |
emotional | adj: relating to people’s feelings | |
vocabulary | n: the words used by a language, group, or individual; the knowledge and understanding of words and their meanings that a person possesses | |
confuse | v: to mistake one thing for another; to make somebody hard to understand | |
patient | n: a person who is receiving medical treatment, care, or attention from a healthcare professional, such as a doctor, nurse, or therapist; a personal quality or characteristic | |
concept | n: an idea or principle associated with something abstract | |
evolution | n: a gradual process of transformation of living things | |
oxytocin | n: a hormone secreted by the pituitary which stimulates contractions of the uterus during labor (= the process of pushing out a baby) and the ejection of milk | |
release | v: to set free or allow to escape from confinement | |
childbirth | n: the act or process of giving birth to a baby | |
brain | n: the organ inside the head that is responsible for one’s movement, thought, memory, and feeling | |
zoom | v: to move along very quickly; (noun) the act of rising upward into the air | |
identity | n: the fact of being who or what somebody or something is; the features, emotions, or ideas that distinguish persons from one another | |
relation | n: the way two persons or groups of people feel and act toward one another | |
spiritual | adj: relating to or affecting the human spirit or soul as opposed to material or physical things | |
intellect | n: the ability to think logically and comprehend information, especially at an advanced level | |
mention | v: to speak or write about something or someone briefly | |
tug | v: to pull something quickly and hard, often several times | |
progression | n: the act or process of changing to the next stage or phase or moving forward | |
circumstance | n: the specific conditions or events that surround a particular situation or occurrence | |
ambivalence | n: the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about someone or something; the coexistence of opposing attitudes or emotions towards a person, thing, or situation | |
ashamed | adj: feeling guilt, embarrassment, or remorse about something because of something you have done | |
stigmatize | v: to accuse, condemn, or openly or formally consider somebody or something as not deserving respect | |
disbeliever | n: a person who does not believe in something, such as a religion or idea | |
therapy | n: the act of caring for someone through medication, remedial training, etc. | |
preserve | v: to keep or maintain a particular quality, feature, etc., especially to prevent it from decaying, being damaged, or being destroyed | |
separate | v: to force, take, or pull apart; mark as different | |
steady | adj: firmly fixed, supported, or balanced; not shaking or moving | |
matrilineal | adj: (the antonym of “patrilineal”) tracing familial descent through the mother’s side of the family, meaning that the family heritage and inheritance are passed down from mother to daughter rather than from father to son | |
profound | adj: extremely great; sensed or experienced very strongly; displaying a high level of knowledge or comprehension |