#5 What makes a good life

 

Vocabulary

1. schizophrenia(n.)

a serious mental illness in which someone cannot understand what is real and what is imaginary

📍He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

the state of having qualities or attitudes that are different from each other and do not work well together

📍Lexington, as a prison and a hospital, was an expression of America's schizophrenia about how to treat addiction.

2. sophomore(n.)

a student studying in the second year of a course at a US college or high school (= a school for students aged 15 to 18)

📍Another school took its sophomore class on a field trip.

3. octogenarian(n.)

a person who is between 80 and 89 years old

📍In summary, the women, especially the octogenarians and septuagenarians, proceeded from familiar routines, both when they went food shopping and when they cooked.

4. cholesterol(n.)

a substance containing a lot of fat that is found in the body tissue and blood of all animals, thought to be part of the cause of heart disease if there is too much of it

📍More recently, cholesterol-lowering especially for secondary prevention of stroke has been identified as a useful intervention.

5. magnify(v.)

to make a problem bigger or more important

📍The hot summer magnified the racial tensions in the community.

6. feud(n.)

an argument that has existed for a long time between two people or groups, causing a lot of anger or violence

📍Seditious word cases cannot all be regarded as drunken indiscretions or developments of private feuds, with witnesses exaggerating or fabricating evidence.

link:

https://www.ted.com/talks/robert_waldinger_what_makes_a_good_life_lessons_from_the_longest_study_on_happiness