Neuroscience, The Internet and The Good Life

Neuroscience, the Internet and the Good Intimacy : a situation in which you have a
Life close frien``dship or sexual relationship

Profoundly: deeply or extremely (adv) with someone (n)
Endows: to give a large amount of money Culmination in/with sth: If an event or

to pay for creating a college, hospital, etc. series of events culminates in something, it
or to provide an income for it (v) ends with it, having developed until it
reaches this point
Inscribe: to write words in a book or carve
(= cut) them on an object (v) Reinforce: to make something stronger
(v)
Pitfalls: a hidden or unsuspected danger or
difficulty (n) Flourishing: growing or developing
successfully (adj)
Ushered: to show someone where they
should go, or to make someone go where Dawn : to become known or obvious (v)`
you want them to go (v)
Dwellers: a person who lives in a city,
Threatens : to be likely to cause harm or town, cave, etc (n)
damage to something or someone (v)
Pervasive: present or noticeable in every
Impersonal: without human warmth and part of a thing or place (adj)
interest (adj)
Arousing: to cause someone to have a
Dampening : to make feelings, especially particular feeling (v)
of excitement or enjoyment, less strong (v)
Amassed: to get a large amount of
Tendency: If someone has a tendency to something, especially money or
do or like something, they will probably information, by collecting it over a long
do it or like it (n) period (v)
Withdraw: to take or move out or back, Cautionary: giving a warning (adj)

or to remove (v)
Reluctant : not willing to do something Tenured: having been given tenure (=
and therefore slow to do it (adj) the right to remain permanently in a job,
usually one in education) (adj)
Deliberation: 1. considering or discussing Acknowledge: to accept, admit, or
something 2. a slow careful way of doing recognize something, or the truth or
something (n) existence of something (v)
Notoriusly: famous for something bad Traced: to find someone or something that
(adj) was lost (v)
Enlightened: showing understanding, Comprises: to have as parts or members, or

acting in a positive way, and not following to be those parts or members (n)
old-fashioned or false beliefs (adj)
Nexus: an important connection between
Adolescence: the period of time in a the parts of a system or a group of things
person's life when they are developing into (n)
an adult (n)
Subcortical: below the cerebral cortex.
Blend: to mix or combine together (v) Subcortical structures are not visible when
looking at the surface of the brain, and
Vivid: Vivid descriptions, memories, etc. include structures like
produce very clear, powerful, and detailed the hippocampus, thalamus,
images in the mind (adj) and hypothalamus (among many others).
(n)
Hesitation: the act of pausing before
doing something, especially because you Ventral striatum: part of the striatum made
are nervous or not certain (n) up of the nucleus accumbens and olfactory
tubercle. The ventral striatum is thought to
Pretend: to behave as if something is true be involved in reward processing. (n)
when you know that it is not, especially in
order to deceive people or as a game (v) Scantily: wearing very little clothing (adv)
Clad: (of people) dressed, or (of things)

covered (adj)
Altruistic: showing a wish to help or bring
Atavistic: happening because of a very old advantages to others, even if it results in
habit from a long time ago in human disadvantage for yourself (adj)
history, not because of a conscious
decision or because it is necessary now Detrimental : causing harm or damage
(adj) (adj)
Ashamed: feeling guilty or embarrassed
Ancestors: a person related to you who about something you have done or a
lived a long time ago (n) quality in your character (adj)
Abuse: to use something for the wrong Pathological: (of a person) unable to
purpose in a way that is harmful or morally control part of their behaviour;
wrong (v) unreasonable (adj)
Modulated: to change the style, loudness, Endure: 1. to suffer something difficult,

etc. of something such as your voice in unpleasant, or painful 2. to suffer
order to achieve an effect or express an something difficult, unpleasant, or painful
emotion (v) (v)
Prosocial: relating to or denoting behavior Confessing : to admit that you have done
which is positive, helpful, and intended to something wrong or something that you
promote social acceptance and friendship. feel guilty or bad about (v)
(adj)
Debilitating: to make someone or
Charitable: 1. giving money, food, or help something physically weak (Adj/v)
free to those who are in need because they
are ill, poor, or have no home 2. kind, and Frightening: making you feel fear (adj)
not judging other people in a severe way
(adj) Alienate: 1. to cause someone or a group
of people to stop supporting and agreeing
Empathetic: to be able to understand how with you 2. the feeling that you have no
someone else feels (adj) connection with the people around you (v)
Reversal: the act of changing or making
something change to its opposite (n)
Compulsively: doing something a lot and

unable to stop doing it (adv)
Detached: 1. Separated 2. describes

someone who does not show any
emotional involvement or interest in a
situation (adj)
Altruistic: showing a wish to help or bring

advantages to others, even if it results in
disadvantage for yourself (a`dv)
Brave: 1. showing no fear of dangerous or

difficult things (adj) 2. to deal with an
unpleasant or difficult situation (v)
Dismissed: 1. to decide that something or

someone is not important and not worth
considering 2. to remove someone from
their job, especially because they have
done something wrong 3. to formally ask
or order someone to leave (v)
Pretends: to behave as if something is true

when you know that it is not, especially in
order to deceive people or as a game (v)

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Neuroscience, the Internet and the Good Intimacy : a situation in which you have a

Life close frien``dship or sexual relationship

Endows: to give a large amount of money Culmination in/with sth: If an event or

Withdraw: to take or move out or back, Cautionary: giving a warning (adj)

Enlightened: showing understanding, Comprises: to have as parts or members, or

Clad: (of people) dressed, or (of things)

Modulated: to change the style, loudness, Endure: 1. to suffer something difficult,

Compulsively: doing something a lot and

Detached: 1. Separated 2. describes

Altruistic: showing a wish to help or bring

Brave: 1. showing no fear of dangerous or

Dismissed: 1. to decide that something or

Pretends: to behave as if something is true

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