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Anglais p.2 Flashcards

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Mindful of

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To be mindful of something means to be really attentive to something, to be aware of something.

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Mindfulness

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Mindfulness is a way of training your mind to concentrate on the present, in order to feel calm and improve your mental state. It is also the practice of giving complete and non-judgmental attention to one’s present experience.

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What does mindfulness focus on?

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Mindfulness focuses awareness on breathing and encourages positive attitudes to achieve a healthy, balanced mental state.

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Mindset

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Mental state.

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What does it mean to have a strong mindset?

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To have a strong mindset means to be mentally strong.

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Miss out on

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To fail to use an opportunity to enjoy or get an advantage from something.

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Move on to

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To accept change, shift to.

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Numb

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To numb means to make someone unable to think, feel, or react normally because of something that shocks or upsets him/her.

Example: To numb the pain.

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Emotional Numbness

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To make someone unable to think, feel, or react normally because of something that shocks or upsets him/her.

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What are signs of emotional numbness?

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Do you feel an all-encompassing sense of emptiness? Do you feel distant and cut off from other people? Have you lost interest in things that you used to enjoy?

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Nurture

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To raise, to care for.

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O.C.D.

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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder: an anxiety disorder characterized by recurrent obsessions or compulsions or both that cause significant distress.

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Open up

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To share one’s feelings.

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Outburst

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A sudden and often violent release, outpouring, or eruption.

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Outlet

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A way in which emotion or energy can be expressed or made use of.

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Outweigh

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To exceed in value, importance, influence.

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Overcome

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To succeed in controlling, to get over, to master or defeat.

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Overreact

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To react or respond to something more strongly than is necessary.

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Overstate

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To exaggerate; to state too strongly.

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Overwhelm

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To have a strong emotional effect on; to burden excessively.

Being emotionally overwhelmed means to be completely submerged by your thoughts and emotions.

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Overwhelming

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Very huge, very powerful, overpowering.

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Overworked

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Very busy; having to work beyond their capacity or strength.

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P.T.S.D.

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PTSD is an anxiety disorder that may develop after exposure to a traumatic event.

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Symptoms of PTSD

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Reliving, avoidance, hypervigilance, hyperarousal.

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Pace

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To pace means to regulate the speed of.

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Paranoid

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Extremely or unreasonably distrustful.

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Pave the way for

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To make something possible, to be leading to.

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Physiological arousal

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Aspects of arousal shown by physiological responses, such as increases in blood pressure.

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Pointless

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Without relevance or force; meaningless; useless.

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Prejudice

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Any opinion or feeling held before careful thought.

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Prevalence

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The fact that something is very common or happens often.

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Psyche

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The mental or psychological structure of a person.

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Put at risk

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To jeopardize, endanger.

Example: putting his life at risk.

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Quest

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Pursuit, search.

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Reach

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To get to or arrive at.

Example: to reach a goal.

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Reach out

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To try to communicate with a person or group to help or involve them.

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Reap benefits

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To get something good as a result of your own actions.

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Recover

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To return to a normal state of health, mind, or strength.

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Reexperiencing - Reliving

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Re-experiencing is the most typical symptom of PTSD.

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Refocus

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To focus again or in a different way.

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Relate to others

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To have the ability to understand the way people feel, to empathize.

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Release

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To liberate or let go of.

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Relevant

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Connected with the matter at hand; pertinent.

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Reliable

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Capable of being relied on; dependable.

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Relieve

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To alleviate, to lessen, to reduce pressure.

A relief = ‘un soulagement’.

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Reluctant

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To be unwilling to do something; to be hesitant.

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Rely on

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To put trust in, to depend confidently on.

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Resilience

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The ability to bounce back from adversity.

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Respondents

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Persons who answer a request for information.

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Restlessness

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Inability to remain quiet, agitation.

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Resume

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To continue doing; to start again after a pause.

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Rough

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Rough means hard, tough, difficult.

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Self-awareness

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Good knowledge and understanding of yourself.

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Self-centered

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Thinking about or interested in oneself only; selfish.

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Self-esteem

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A term used to describe a person’s overall sense of self-worth or personal value.

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Self-harm

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The practice of cutting or otherwise wounding oneself.

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Sensible

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To have common sense, to be reasonable.

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Sensitive

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To be readily or easily affected by stimuli.

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Setbacks

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Obstacles, difficulties.

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Severity

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Intensity or sharpness, as of cold or pain.

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Shorten

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To reduce, decrease.

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Shrink

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To become smaller.

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Side effect

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Any effect of a drug or medicine that is in addition to its intended effect.

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Significant

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Meaningful, important, relevant.

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Sink

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To go to the bottom, to become engulfed.

Examples: to sink into oblivion, to sink into depression.

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Social skills

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Skills used to communicate with others daily in various ways.

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Social stigma

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The disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceived characteristics.

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Stalk

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To follow someone without being seen or noticed.

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Stance

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A way of thinking about something; position, point of view.

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Stand

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To successfully accept or bear something that is unpleasant.

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Stand up to

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To deal effectively with a person.

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State-of-the-art

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The best available because it has been made using the most modern techniques.

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Step back

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To put things into perspective; to take some distance.

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Stick to

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To remain faithful to, not to move or digress from.

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Succeed in

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To achieve something that you have been aiming for.

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Suitable

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Acceptable or right for someone or something.

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Support

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To agree with and give encouragement to someone or something.

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Sustainable development

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Economic development that is conducted without depletion of natural resources.

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Sustained

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Continuing for a long time; prolonged.

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Tackle

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To work with or begin work on something to handle or solve it.

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Tailor

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To make or adapt to suit a special need or purpose.

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Tailor-made

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Specially made for a particular purpose.

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Take for granted

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To assume without questioning; to fail to properly notice or appreciate.

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Targeted treatment

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A treatment that is really adapted to the patient’s needs.

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Tease

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To irritate, bother someone with jokes or playful words.

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Toughen up

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To become stronger; to become more determined.

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Trial

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A test, an experimental attempt.

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Tricky

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Deceptive, uncertain, or difficult to deal with.

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Trigger

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To set in motion, provoke, prompt.

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Turn a blind eye to something

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To ignore something that you know is wrong.

Example: Management often turn a blind eye to bullying.

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Unbearable

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Not endurable.

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Unbiased

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Not biased or prejudiced; impartial.

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Unlikely

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Not likely to be or occur; improbable.

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Unwilling to

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Reluctant to.

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Upsetting

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Mentally or emotionally disturbing.

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V.R.E.T.

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Virtual Reality Exposure therapy is a method of psychotherapy using virtual reality technology to treat patients with anxiety disorders.

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Vicarious

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Felt or enjoyed by imagining that one is participating in the experience of others.

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Vicarious trauma

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Indirect trauma that can occur when exposed to difficult or disturbing images and stories second-hand.

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Volunteer

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To offer to do something that you do not have to do.

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Wake-up call

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Something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need.

Example: For many, this wake-up call leads them in search of a new challenge.

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Wallow in self-pity

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To feel sorry for oneself.

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Weaken

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To reduce in intensity or effectiveness.

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Wear down

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To overcome or be overcome gradually by persistent effort.

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Weigh the pros and cons

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To consider arguments for and against something.

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Willingness

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Eagerness, enthusiasm, readiness.

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Work through

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To manage, to deal with, to resolve.

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Worthlessness

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The state or quality of being unimportant or useless.

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Worthwhile

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To feel worthwhile means to feel good enough or important enough.

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Catharsis

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The release of strong, pent-up emotions.

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