Vocabulary Quiz on ADHD and Attention

Vocabulary

• ADHD: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Accomplish: reach a goal, achieve, to bring a conclusion
• Accurate: precise, close to true value
• Achieve: accomplishment, be successful
• Acknowledge: admit something to be real or true, recognize something
• Actual: real, existing
• Actually: in fact, in reality
• Addiction: dependent on something, desires a substance
• Address: to deal with or discuss, give a speech
• Aim: to direct toward a particular goal, chose a target
• Alleviate: make easier to endure, lessen something unpleasant (e.g., pain)
• Assume: take for granted without proof, suppose
• Attention span: time during which someone can concentrate, duration of concentration
• Avoidance: evasion, keeping away from
• Aware/awareness: understanding, knowledge
• Balance: equilibrium, mental stability, harmony
• Beneficial: good results or helpful effects, advantageous
• Biased: partial, prejudiced
• Blame: to hold responsible for something
• Breakthrough: a major discovery, major progress or advance
• Bridge a gap: connect, make differences smaller; connect two groups
• Bully: harass, intimidate
• Cleanse: to make clean, to purge, remove dirt
• Complain: to be critical of, say something is wrong or unsatisfactory
• Concerns: worries, anxiety
• Considerate: showing kind regard for others' feelings, mindful of others
• Consider: to take into account, to regard
• Cope with: to deal with, to handle
• Coping: the act of dealing successfully with problems
• Crave: to strongly desire
• Cure: to heal, to relieve or rid of, recovery
• Currently: at the present time, now
• Deaf: unable to hear
• Deal with: to address, to resolve, to cope with
• Deceive: to fool someone into doing something
• Dehumanize: to deprive of human attributes, portray as less than human
• Demanding: taxing, challenging, asking for more than is fair
• Desensitization: loss of physical or emotional response
• Detoxify: to stop taking unhealthy or harmful substances
• Diagnose: to determine the identity of
• Digital addiction: dependence on social networks
• Digital detox: not using mobile phones for a period of time
• Distracted: unable to concentrate
• Downplay: to minimize, make less important
• Downside: a negative aspect, a drawback
• Dwell on: think too much about something
• Effectiveness: degree to which something is successful
• Efficient: producing the expected result
• Empathize with: to experience empathy, understand someone else's feelings

Additional Vocabulary (Page 2)

• Emphasize: to stress, to underline
• Enhance: to increase the value
• Eventually: finally, ultimately
• Exhausted: greatly fatigued, tired
• Experience: skills resulting from one's personal history
• Experiment: test
• FOMO: fear of missing out
• Fat-fetched: implausible, extreme
• Fit: be adapted to, correct size
• Fit in: to belong to a group
• Follow suit: to do the same (copy)
• Fulfilling: make someone satisfied, rewarding, satisfying
• Go cold turkey: stop using a substance suddenly
• Google effects: forgetting available information online
• Grateful: thankful, expressing gratitude
• Grounded: stable emotionally and mentally
• Growth: development, gradual increase
• Hack: to hack into a system illegally
• Handy: convenient, useful
• Harmful: causing harm
• Hazards: risks, dangers
• Heal: to restore to health
• Heighten: to increase, intensify
• Hypervigilance: abnormally alert to danger
• Idleness: inaction, inactivity, laziness
• Immune: not affected by something, protected from
• Induce: to cause, to provoke
• Inhibit: to decrease the rate of action or stop
• Insight: deep understanding of someone or something
• Intend: to aim to do something
• Invade someone's privacy: interfere with someone's right to be alone

Additional Vocabulary (Page 3)

• Irrelevant: not pertinent, unrelated
• Jeopardize: put someone or something at risk
• Keep up to date with something: to be informed about the current information
• Lack: absence of something
• Loss: not knowing what to do
• Meaningful: profound, significant
• Miss out on: fail to use an opportunity
• Monitor: to control, to check, to supervise
• Negative bias: negative information has a larger psychological impact
• Numb/numbness: unable to feel sensations
• OCD: obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Outweigh: to exceed in value
• Overcome: to succeed in controlling
• Overcommitted: dedicated to too many things
• Overreact: to react too strongly
• Over-scheduled: having too much scheduled
• Overthink: to think too much about something
• Over-whelming: very huge, very powerful, very busy
• Overworked: very busy, having to work beyond one's capacity
• P.T.S.D.: anxiety disorder following trauma
• Paranoid: extremely distrustful
• Pointless: without relevance, meaningless
• Prejudice: opinion or feeling held before careful thought
• Process: to treat, deal with something emotionally

Additional Vocabulary (Page 4)

• Tailor: to make or adapt to suit a specific need
• Tailor-made: specially made for a particular purpose
• Take for granted: assume something without questioning
• Take someone's mind off something: stop someone from thinking about a problem
• Transcendence: going beyond the ordinary
• Transhumanism: philosophy
• Trial: test, experimental attempt
• Tricky: deceptive, difficult to deal with
• Trigger: set in motion, provoke
• Unfairness: lack of impartiality, injustice
• Unwilling to: reluctant to
• Upload: to transfer
• Vicarious: experienced through another
• Vicarious trauma: indirect trauma experienced from exposure to another's trauma
• Volunteer: to offer to do something without being asked
• Weaken: to reduce in intensity
• Wedded to: to be firmly attached to
• Withdrawing symptoms: physical/emotional after stopping using a substance
• Work through: manage, deal with, resolve a problem
• Worth: merit, importance
• Worthless: having no value.