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This document provides a list of English vocabulary words with their definitions. It covers a range of common terms and phrases.

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Vocabulary English : 1. ADHD : attention de cit hyperactivity disorder 2. Accomplish : reach a goal , to achieve , to bring conclusion 3. Accurate : precise, close to true value 4. Achieve : accomplishment, be successful 5. Acknowledge : to adm...

Vocabulary English : 1. ADHD : attention de cit hyperactivity disorder 2. Accomplish : reach a goal , to achieve , to bring conclusion 3. Accurate : precise, close to true value 4. Achieve : accomplishment, be successful 5. Acknowledge : to admit to be real or true , accept as true, recognise something 6. Actual: real , existing 7. Actually: in fact, in reality 8. Addiction : dependent on something , use a substance, desires 9. Address : to deal with or discuss,give a speech 10. Aim : to direct toward a particular goal , chose a target 11. Alleviate : to make easier to endure , to make something bad as pain less severe 12. Assume : to take for granted without proof, suppose 13. Attention span : the interval during which an individuel can concentrate , duration of concentration , you can stay focused on somethings 14. Avoidance : evasion , keeping away from 15. Aware, awareness : understanding , knowledge 16. Balance : equilibrium , mental stability , harmony 17. Bene cial : good results or helpful e ects , advantageous 18. Biased: partial , prejudiced 19. Blame :hold responsible for something 20. Breakthrough : a major discovery, major progress or advance 21. Bridge a gap : connect to things or to make the di erences between them smaller, make two groups , people 22. Bully : a person who harasses , intimidate other , force using treats 23. Cleanse : to make clean, to purge, remove dirts 24. Complain : to be critical of , say something is wrong or not satisfactory 25. Concerns : worries , anxiety 26. Considerate : showing kind regard for the feeling of others , mindful of others 27. Consider: to take into account , to regard 28. Cope with : to deal with , to handle and deal with responsibilities 29. Coping : the fact of dealing successfully with problems or di culty situation 30. Crave: to strongly desire, desire 31. Cure: to heal , to relieve or rid of , recovery 32. Currently : at the present time , now 33. Deaf : person who can’t hear 34. Deal with : to address , to resolve , to cope with , 35. Deceive: to fool someone into doing somethings , fool into doing 36. Dehumanise: to deprive of human or attributes , portray as less than human , deprive of humanity 37. Demanding : taxing , challenging , asking for more than is generally felt by others to be due to 38. Desensitisation : loss of physical feeling , loss of emotional response 39. Detoxify : to stop taking unhealthy or harmful food 40. Detrimental : harmful or damaging 41. Diagnose: to determine the identity of 42. Digital addiction : dependence of the social networks 43. Digital detox: don’t use a mobile phone during the time 44. Distracted : unable to concentrate 45. Downplay : to minimise, to make something less important 46. Downside: a negative aspect , a disadvantage , a drawback 47. Dwell on : think too much about something 48. E ectiveness :the degree to which something is successful in producing a desired result, success 49. E cient : which produces the expected result, which works 50. Empathise with : to experience empathy , to be able to understand somebody’s feeling ffi ff fi fi ff ff ffi 51. Emphasise : to stress, to underline or insist on, 52. Enhance: to increase the value, attractiveness , or quality of , to improve 53. Eventually : nally, ultimately 54. Exhausted : greatly fatigued , tired physically 55. Experience : skills resulting from one’s personal history 56. Experiment : test 57. FOMO : fear of missing out 58. Fat-fetched : to be implausible , extreme 59. Fit : to be adapted to , correct size 60. Fit in : to feel that you belong to a particular groups and are accepted by that groups 61. Follow suit: to do the same, to copy 62. Ful lling : make someone satis ed or happy , rewarding , satisfying 63. Go cold turkey: to undergo sudden and complete withdrawal from a habitual activity or behaviour pattern, to stop using an addictive substance 64. Google e ects: to forget information that is readily available through search engines like google , we don’t commit this information to our memory because we know that this information is easy to access online 65. Grateful : thankful , expressing gratitude 66. Grounded : to be mentally an emotionally stable , punished 67. Growth : development , gradual increase , processes of growing 68. Hack: to hack into a system, to access illegally 69. Handy: convenient or useful , accessible 70. Harmful: causing or capable of causing harm, damaging , dangerous, hurtful 71. Hazards: risks, obstacles , dangers 72. Heal: to restore to health, to become sound or healthy again , recover , get better 73. Heighten : to increase , strengthen or intensify , make taller 74. Hyper vigilance : the state of being highly or abnormally alert to potential danger or threat, 75. Idleness : a state of, inaction, inactivity , laziness 76. Immune: no to be a ected by something or to be protected from 77. Induce : to cause , to provoke 78. Inhibit : to decrease the rate of action of or stop, repress, prevent self-expression 79. Insight: the capacity to gain an accurate and deep understanding of someone or somethings , understanding , knowledge 80. Intend: to aim to do somethings 81. Invade someone’s privacy: to cause someone to lose his or her privacy, to interfere with someone’s right to be alone or to be away from public attention , an intrusion of privacy , an invasion of privacy 82. Irrelevant : not pertinent, 83. Jeopardise : to put someone or somethings into situation in which there is a danger of loss, harm, or failure, put a risk 84. Keep up to date with something: to have or be informed about the most current and accurate information about something 85. Lack: not to have 86. Loss: not to know what to think or do, failure to win 87. Meaningful :profound, signi cant 88. Miss out on : to fail to use an opportunity to enjoy or get an advantage from somethings, fail to get an opportunity 89. Monitor : to control, to check, to supervise 90. Negative bias :negative things have a greater e ect on our psychological state that neutral or positive images 91. Numb, numbness: incapable of feeling sensations , without feelings , paralysed, 92. O.C.D.: obsessive compulsive disorder 93. Outweigh : to exceed in value, importance , in uence, consideration 94. Overcome: to succeed in controlling , to get over , to master or defeat, 95. Overcommitted: to be too much dedicated to , fi ff fi ff fi fi fl ff 96. Overreact: to react or respond to something more strongly than is necessary , react excessively 97. Over scheduled : to lack time, be overbooked , to be overworked 98. Overthink: to think too much about something 99. Overwhelming: very huge , very powerful, 100.Overworked : very busy, having to work beyond their capacity or strength 101.P.T.S.D. : anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder 102.Paranoid :extremely or unreasonably distrustful , 103.Pointless:without relevance or force, meaningless, useless , without use 104.Prejudice: any opinion or feeling held before careful thought, false friend 105.Process : to treat , to deal with somethings emotionally 106.Prone to: having a natural tendency towards something , 107.Pros and cons: advantages and disadvantages 108.Psyche: the mental or psychological structure of a person, person who have mental problem 109.Quest: pursuit , search, 110.Quit a habit: to quit or break a habit , stop doing something trait is habit, somethings bad or harmful 111.Reach: to get or arrive at 112.Reach out : to try communicate with a person or a group of persons in order to help or involve them, to o er help and support to 113.Reap bene ts : to get something good as a result of your own actions , pro t 114.Recover :to return to a normal state of health , mind, to get better 115. Refocus : to focus again or in a di erent way 116.Relate to others : to have the ability to understand the way people feel, to be able to identify with them , understands the others feel 117.Release : to liberate or let go of 118.Relive : to alleviate , to lessen, to reduce pressure , lessen worrying 119.Reluctant : to be reluctant to do somethings , unwilling to do 120.Rely on: to put trust in, depend on 121.Restore : to bring back to a former conditions ,return to original state 122.Resume : to continue doing, to start again after a pause 123.Rough: hard, tough , di cult 124.Self -awareness : good knowledge and understanding of yourself 125.Self-esteem : describe a persons overall sense of self-worry or personal value , respect of oneself 126.Self -harm: cutting , otherwise wounding oneself 127.Sensible : to be reasonable 128.Sensitive:to readily or easily a ected by stimuli, responsive to the feeling of others 129.Shorten: to make short or shorter 130.Shrink : to become smaller 131.Side e ect: any e ect of a drug , chemical, or other medicine 132.Signi cant :meaningful , important , relevant 133.Social skills: body language and our personal appearance , ability to interact 134.Speech delay : a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech 135.Stand : to successfully accept or bear somethings that is unpleasant or di cult 136.Stand up to: to deal e ectively with a person 137.Step back: to put things into perspective ,to take some distance , move backwards 138.Stick to: to remain faithful to, no to move or digress from 139.Still: as before , yet , even now, even so, 140.Stir: to around excitement , mix` 141.Stress a point : to insist on a point , 142.Succeed in : to accomplish what is intended , to achieve somethings that you have been aiming for , be successful 143.Suitable: acceptable or right for someone or something, appropriate 144.Support: to agree with, give encouragement to someone, to succeed 145.Tackle : t work with or being work on, to deal with fi ff fi ff ff ff ffi ff ff ffi fi 146.Tailor : to make or adapt to suit a special need or purpose 147.Tailor - made: specially made for a particular purpose 148.Take for granted : to assume without questioning , to not value fully 149.Take someone’s mind o something: stop someone from worrying or thinking about a problem or pain, 150.Transcendence : biological limitations, going beyond the ordinary 151.Transhumanism : type de philosophies 152.Trial: a test, an experimental attempt 153.Tricky: deceptive, uncertain, to di cult to deal with or handle 154.Trigger: set in motion , provoke, prompt, cause 155.Unfairness : lack of impartiality , injustice 156.Unwilling to : reluctant to , 157.Upload : to transfer 158.Vicarious : felt or enjoyed by imagining that one is participating in the experience of others , experience through else, 159.Vicarious trauma: it refers to the indirect trauma that can occur when we are exposed to di cult or distributing images and stories second-hand 160.Volunteer : to o er to do something that you don not have to do, often without having been asked to do it without expecting payment , doing something unpaid 161.Weaken: to reduce in intensity or e ectiveness. Become less strong , powerful 162.Wedded to: to be rmly attached to, believing strongly in something 163.Willingness : eagerness, enthusiasm, readiness , the quality being happy to do something if it is needed 164. Withdraw symptoms : a wide range of physical or emotional disorders , that occur when an individual who is addicted to a substance stops using the substances 165.Work through : to manage, to deal with , to resolve , to manage a problem that has many di erent parts step by steps 166.Worth: merit, importance , having a particular value 167.Worthless : having no value ffi ff ff fi ff ffi ff

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