Academic Life Vocabulary

Academic Life Around the World Vocabulary

• Academic life refers to work done in schools, colleges, and universities, particularly studying and reasoning rather than technical skills.
• Advice means guidance or an opinion given about what someone should do.
• Afraid describes the feeling of being filled with fear, horrified, or alarmed.
• Attend means to be present at a location or event and includes the forms attending and attended.
• Attitude describes the way one thinks or feels about something, and can be expressed as view, reaction, or mood.
• Away from home indicates being in a place distant from one's residence.
• Care involves being interested, concerned, or showing affection for someone, and includes caring and cared.
• Cause means to make something happen or exist, and includes causing and caused.
• Challenge refers to something that tests strength, skill, or ability, especially in an interesting way, similar to a problem or matter.
• Comfort denotes a pleasant feeling of relaxation and freedom from pain, offering satisfaction, convenience, and relief.
• Common means belonging to or shared by everyone in a group or society, and is familiar, usual, or general.
• Community is a group of people sharing interests, religion, race, and the like, creating a society, district, or neighborhood.
• Consider means thinking about something carefully to make a choice or decision, involving forms such as considering and considered.
• Considerate describes thinking about the needs and wants of others, being careful not to upset them, and acting thoughtfully and kindly.
• Crowded means filled with many or too many people or things, becoming bursting, jammed, loaded, and packed.
• Cultural background is the experiences, knowledge, and education in a person's past related to their society's habits, traditions, and beliefs.
• Debt is the condition of owing money to someone or something, creating an obligation.
• Decision: A choice or judgement made after a period of discussion or thought.
• Excuse: A reason given to explain an action or behavior, providing explanation or justification.
• Expense: The amount of money spent on something, representing a cost or charge.
• Feature: A typical quality or important part of something, indicating quality or characterizing something distinct.
• Furnished: Provided with furniture, creating a sufficiently equipped residence.
• Get along: To have a friendly relationship with someone.
• Get through: To deal with a difficult or unpleasant experience.
• Habit: A usual way of behaving, done regularly and repeatedly and creating a specified routine.
• High-paying: Describes work for which people earn a lot of money.
• Homesick: Unhappy because of being away from home for a long period of time, resulting in feeling lonely.
• Impossible: Unable to be done or happen, resulting in hopelessness.
• Insecure: Not confident about yourself or your relationship with people, leading to nervousness.
• Interest: A feeling of wanting to learn more about or be more involved in something.
• Lifestyle: A particular way of living, encompassing various habits, preferences, and choices.
• Lonely: Unhappy because you are alone or don't have anyone to talk to, resulting in feeling isolated.
• Luxury: Something expensive that you don't need, but buy for pleasure.
• Major: The main subject studied at a college or university.
• Miserable: Very unhappy; unpleasant and causing unhappiness.
• Miss: To fail to do something or to fail to hit or catch an object that is close to you.
• Opportunity: A chance to do something or an occasion when it is easy for you to do something.
• Personality: The type of person you are, shown by how you behave, feel, and think.
• Privacy: The state of being alone.
• Private: Only for one person or group and not for everyone.
• Reason: Explains why something is the way it is, or why someone behaves a certain way.
• Rent: To pay money in return for being able to use something that belongs to someone else.
• Relate: To understand someone and be able to have a friendly relationship with them.
• Rule: Tells you what is or isn't allowed in a game, situation, etc.
• Safety: The state of not being dangerous or harmful.
• Security: Protection from bad things that could happen.
• Shared: Used, done, belonging to, or experienced by two or more individuals.
• Similar: Almost the same as someone or something else.
• Stranger: Someone that you do not know.
• Survive: To continue to live after a serious difficulty, such as an accident, war, or illness.
• Take chances: To do things that are risky or dangerous.
• Terrible: Very unpleasant, serious, or of low quality.
• Unfamiliar: Not known to you.
• Unsafe: In danger of being harmed.
• Valuable: Very helpful or important; worth a lot of money.
• Values: Important and lasting beliefs or ideals shared by the members of a culture.
• Variety: Many different types of things; a range of things to choose from.
• Waste: To use something valuable in a way that is not necessary or effective or to use more something than is necessary.
• Worth: the value of something.

Experiencing Nature Vocabulary

• Affect is to produce an effect or change in someone or something; influence.
• Asthma is a lung disorder causing breathing difficulties.
• Atmosphere is the mass of air surrounding Earth.
• Biometeorologist is a scientist studying atmospheric conditions' effects on living things.
• Blizzard is an intense, long-lasting snowstorm.
• Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas from animal respiration and fuel burning, used by plants.
• Damage is causing physical harm to something or part of it; destruction.
• Depressed: Having a serious medical condition causing someone to feel sad, hopeless, and unimportant.
• Depressing: Making you feel unhappy and without hope for the future.
• Desert: A dry land with sparse vegetation.
• Disease: An illness affecting a person, animal, or plant.
• Disorder: A mental or physical illness that prevents part of the body from working properly.
• Effect: A change caused by an event or action; result.
• Extreme: Very unusual and severe or serious; excessive.
• Flood: Large water covering dry land; deluge.
• Flu (influenza): An infectious illness resembling a bad cold, causing fever and vomiting.
• Forceful: Powerful and strong with forms such as forcefulness.
• Headache: An ache or pain in the head.
• .Heart Attack:* A serious medical condition of insufficient blood to the heart, leading to chest pain, and potentially death.
• Humidity: The amount of water contained in the air.
• Hurricane: A very large, powerful, destructive storm with strong winds.
• Increase: To become larger in size, amount, or number.
• Influence: To affect someone or something indirectly but significantly.
• Meteorologist: A scientist who studies the atmosphere and weather conditions.
• Mood/moody: The way you feel at a particular time/having moods that change often.
• Nervous: Worried or frightened about something and unable to relax.
• Pneumonia: A serious lung disease that makes breathing difficult.
• Powerful: Having the ability to control or influence people or things; having a strong effect on someone or something.
• Rain: Water falling from clouds in drops.
• Scientist: A person who studies, specializes in, or investigates a field of science.
• Slowly: In a slow way or at low speed.
• Storm: An occurrence of bad weather containing rain or snow, and often strong winds.
• Stroke: Serious illness caused when an artery in your brain suddenly breaks or is blocked.
• Temperature: A measure of hotness or coldness of a place or thing.
• Typical: Having the general characteristics or qualities of a particular group or thing.
• Weather: The state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place: the temperature and other outside conditions (such as rain, cloudiness, etc.) at a particular time and place.
• Worse: More serious or severe.

Living to Eat, or Eating to Live? Vocabulary

• Breakfast: The first meal of the day.
• Bug: A usually small insect.
• Complex carbohydrate A food (e.g. brown rice or whole wheat pasta) composed primarily of polysaccharides (i.e. many sugar molecules bonded together)
• Custom: An action/way of behaving usual and traditional among people in a particular group or place.
• Dairy: Made form milk.
• Dessert: Sweet food eaten after the main part of a meal is complete
• Diabetes: A serious disease in which the body cannot control the amount of sugar in your blood
• Diet: V: To eat less food or to eat only particular kinds of food in order to lose weight. N: The food that a person or animal usually eats.
• Discussion: A conversation about something.
• Dish: A shallow containter in which you cook/serve food.
• Element: A aprt of something.
• Fast food: Food that is usually unhealthy, but is prepared and served quickly and easily.
• Fat: An oily solid/liquid substance in food.
• Frozen: Hard because of cold.
• Gram: A unit of mass in metric system (equivalent to 1/1000kg).
• Habit: The usual way of behaving.
• Insect: A small animal that has six legs and that may have wings (ant, butterfly, beetle).
• Low-carb diet: A diet with fewer carbohydrates than usual.
• Mineral. A chemical substance like iron that is important for good health.
• Nutritionist: A people whose job it is to give advice on how food affects your health.
• Preference: A feeling of liking or wanting one person or thing more than another person or thing.
• Probably: Very likely; almost certainly.
• Soy product: Soybeans, and food products that are made from soybean.
• Universal: Done/experienced by everyone.
• Worse: More serious/severe.