Advanced English Vocabulary: Health, Success, and Society

Health and Well-being Vocabulary

• Burn off
• Complexion
• Craze (a popular trend or fashion)
• Do (something/someone) the world of good
• Fad (a short-term trend)
• Get back into shape
• Mindfulness
• Pull a muscle
• Stamina
• Therapeutic
• Well-being
• Wrinkle (a crease or line in the skin)
• Aches and pains
• (As) Fit as a fiddle
• Be the picture of health
• Be back on your feet
• Be full of beans
• Hard of hearing
• (Have) A frog in your throat
• Off-colour (slightly ill)
• Alleviate symptoms
• Be prescribed medication
• Consult a specialist
• Contract an illness
• Have an operation
• Have treatment
• Miss an appointment
• Sustain an injury (suffer physical damage due to an accident)

Challenges, Progress, and Success Terms

• A long shot (a remote possibility)
• Be more than you bargained for
• On track (making progress and likely to succeed)
• Gruelling (exhausting or demanding)
• Hang in the balance
• Have nothing to lose
• Pay off (to be worthwhile or yield positive results)
• Pitfall (a hidden difficulty or danger)
• Rise to the occasion (to perform well in a difficult situation)
• Get a move on (to hurry)
• Get out of hand
• Get the hang of (something) (learn how to do something)
• Get your hands on (something) (obtain something)
• Have no effect (on something/someone)
• Have no option but to (do something)
• Make a point of (doing something) (to make a deliberate effort to do something)
• Make it
• Take an interest in (something)
• Take stock of (something) (to evaluate a situation carefully before making a decision)

Communication, Memory, and Prefixes

• Discrepancy (between something and something else)
• Fabricate (to invent something false to deceive)
• Flashback
• Make sense of (something)
• Plant (to place something secretly)
• Retrieve (to recover something)
• Slip your mind (to be forgotten)
• The gist (the main point or essence)
• Trigger (to cause something to happen)
• Vague (imprecise or unclear)
• Disrespectful
• Inconsiderate
• Mislead (to deceive)
• Misunderstanding
• Outdated (out of fashion or obsolete)
• Outgrow (to become too old for something)
• Outsell
• Overcharge
• Overprotective
• Overqualified
• Reapply
• Reconsider
• Redo
• Reintroduce
• Undercooked
• Underpaid
• Understaffed
• Unprofessional

Economy, Society, and Employment Vocabulary

• Affluent (having a lot of money)
• Be laid off (to be dismissed from employment)
• Disposable income (income available after taxes and essential expenses)
• Make ends meet (to earn just enough money to live on)
• Means (resources, especially financial)
• Outgoings (expenses)
• Overcrowding
• Pay gap (a difference in pay between different groups)
• Reform
• Tackle (to address a problem or issue)
• Tighten your belt
• Unaffordable
• Communal
• Deprivation
• Deprived
• Discrimination
• Diversify
• Expenditure (total expenses)
• Housing
• Jobless
• Manufacturing
• Plentiful (abundant)
• Powerful
• Rural
• Scarcity
• Shortage
• Suffrage
• Wealth