Words from reading

WORDS FROM READING

1. 
   Continuum - series of events changes features etc that all have a particular quality to different degrees
   
2. 
   Individuals - person considered separately from their society or community.
   
3. 
   Characteristics – particular quality or feature that’s typical of someone or something.
   
4. 
   Trait - particular quality in someone’s character.
   
5. 
   Optimistic – someone who is optimistic is hopeful about the future and tends to expect that good things will happen.
   
6. 
   Assertive - behaving in a confident way in which you are quick to express your opinions and feelings.
   
7. 
   Strive to – to make a lot of effort to achieve something.
   
8. 
   Inborn – something that’s inborn has existed in you since you were born.
   
9. 
   Heredity - genetic process by which particular characteristics or diseases are passed on.
   
10. 
    Transmission - the process by which a disease spreads from one person to another.
    
11. 
    Offspring – someone’s child or children.
    
12. 
    Apparent – easy to understand or see.
    
13. 
    Thrive on - to become successful or happy in a particular situation esp. one that other people would not enjoy.
    
14. 
    Inherit – to receive property or money from someone who has died.
    
15. 
    Persist into – to continue to do or say something in determined way.
    
16. 
    Altitude - the height of a place or thing above sea level.
    
17. 
    Socialization – the process in which people esp. children learn to behave in a way that’s accepted by society.
    
18. 
    Modeling - they copy the behavior of others.
    
19. 
    Manner - a way of behaving or speaking.
    
20. 
    Conditioning - the influence of things such as culture and education that make people behave or react in particular ways.
    
21. 
    Rewarded - to give someone something as a reward such as success or money.
    
22. 
    Desirable – something that’s desirable has qualities that make you want it.
    
23. 
    Undesirable – bad or harmful.
    
24. 
    Praise – to express strong approval or admiration for someone or something esp. in public.
    
25. 
    Self-reliant - able to do things by yourself without depending on smn.
    
26. 
    Extend - to continue for particular distance or in a particular direction. 26-27 pages
    
27. 
    Self-concept - an idea of something that you have.
    
28. 
    Dissatisfied - annoyed because something is not as good as expected it to be.
    
29. 
    Belief – a strong feeling that something is true or real.
    
30. 
    Sign – piece of evidence that something is happening or that something exists.
    
31. 
    Therapist - smn whose job is to help people with physical mental or emotional problems in a particular type or therapy.
    
32. 
    Dance therapist – if smn is dance therapist he or she may teach a person how to move in a graceful manner.
    
33. 
    Handicapped - smn who has a permanent injury.
    
34. 
    Instruction – explanation of smth that must be done, often given by smn in authority.
    
35. 
    Solid – a solid substance is firm and isn’t a liquid or a gas.
    
36. 
    Background – the type of family social position or culture that smn comes from.
    
37. 
    Appearance – the way that smn or smth looks.
    
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39. 
    Form – to make smth exist or develop.
    
40. 
    Friendship – relationship between people who are friends.
    
41. 
    Excel -to do smth extremely well.
    
42. 
    Realistic - able to understand and accept things as they really are.
    
43. 
    Insecure - not confident about yourself.
    
44. 
    Blend into – to seem to gradually change into smth else.
    
45. 
    Inventory – a list giving details of all things in a place.
    
46. 
    Strengths - the physical energy that smn has to lift or move things.
    
47. 
    Dwell on – to spend a lot of time thinking or talking about smth unpleasant.
    
48. 
    Overcome – to succeed in dealing with or controlling a problem.
    
49. 
    Mental – exiting in the mind!!!!
    
50. 
    Physical - relating to your body rather than your mind. Till 29.