English vocabulary

• to nurture is to help and encourage the growth of something, to care and protect
• intuitively is instinctively, based on feeling rather than reasoning
• Affectionate: showing love and care.
• To be deprived of: to not get or have something, to lack.
• Malady: disease, disorder.
• To recoil from: to feel fear or disgust at the thought of something.
• Unwittingly: without realising, without knowing.
• Discomfort: something that causes one to feel uncomfortable.
• Alleviating: making something lighter, easing, lessening.
• Attachment style: gehechtheidsstijl, hechtingsstijl.
• Infancy: the first one or two years of childhood, until the child starts speaking.
• Reliably: dependably, referring to the fact that an action can be counted on to happen.
• Clingy: too dependent emotionally.
• To self-soothe: to relieve your own anxiety or pain.
• To dread: to have great fear of.
• To inflict upon: to give somebody something that is unwelcome.
• Reluctance: unwillingness, objection.
• Survey: investigation into the opinions and feelings of a large number of individuals.
• 106 to exhibit: to show.
• 117 at any rate: in any case.
• 119 to be wary: to be cautious, to be on one’s guard.
• Self-report: opinion given about oneself.
• Boost: to improve, to push up.
• Confirm: to prove, to say that something is true.
• To hire, to employ inhuren, aanstellen.
• The little children danced and jumped around with total abandon.
• The TV host tried to engage his guest’s interest but he wasn’t very successful.
• To be busy with other matters, to have other things to do iets anders te doen hebben, verplichtingen hebben.
• It is not advisable to live in a confined space without the freedom to leave in gevangenschap houden, in gevangenschap leven.
• To arrest aanhouden, arresteren, in de kraag grijpen.
• I was completely disenchanted with the whole business after the treatment I got.
• Some people are very good at discarding their old friends when they no longer need them.
• If you have made a plan you should persevere and not give up too easily. doorzetten, volhouden.
• To leave the building het pand ontruimen, het pand verlaten.
• My brother is full of great ideas but he always abandons his plans in the end.
• The standard message to indicate that passengers have to leave a ship because it is in great danger of sinking
• During the summer holidays lots of pets are abandoned by their owners.
• Only one of the boys involved in the stabbing incident was apprehended.
• Advances: approach made to someone in a romantic or sexual way.
• The town council needs to engage with the people more if they want to get anything done.