Eleanor Longden: The voices in my head

http://www.ted.com/talks/eleanor_longden_the_voices_in_my_head/transcript?language=en#t-721

Gleeful - Full of joy, delighted, merry

I am going to gleefully spend my weekend.
How gleeful it would be if I were now in tropical island.


Feisty - Full of animation, energy, or courage

My friends are feisty when they are drunk.
The champion is faced with feisty challenger.


Benign - Having little or no detrimental effect; harmless, also gentle or kind

Even though media tells otherwise, in reality smoking weed is benign,
When she met him, he greeted her with a benign smile.


Hospital admission - a full stay. The formal acceptance by a hospital or other inpatient health care facility of a patient who is to be provided with room, board, and continuous nursing service in an area of the hospital or facility where patients generally reside at least overnight.


She felt so bad that we had to call ambulance. Later, she got hospital admission becouse of her illness.
Most people say that hospital food is bad, but when I was hospital admissioned for two weeks I liked the meals very much.



Reconcile - To reestablish a close relationship; to settle or resolve; to bring (oneself) to accept


At first her parents were against but with time they reconciled our marriage.
He finally reconciled himself to the change in management.

   

Kevin Briggs: The bridge between suicide and life

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_briggs_the_bridge_between_suicide_and_life/transcript?language=en#t-638297

Puncture - to make a small hole in something


She had used a ​screwdriver to puncture two ​holes in the ​lid of a ​paint ​tin.
The ​knife went through his ​ribs and punctured his ​lung.


Flail -  to ​move energetically in an uncontrolled way (especially arms or legs)


A ​wasp came towards us and Mela ​started flailing her ​arms around.
She ​ran from the ​house in a ​terrible ​rage, her ​arms flailing in the ​air.


Grisly - extremely unpleasant and frightening and usually connected with death and violence


At the end of our semester we need to face grisly exam.
Have you seen Cannibal Corpse cover of new album? It's so grisly.


Colleteral Damage -

1. (military) unintentional damage to civil property and civilian casualties, caused by military operations
2. any damage incidental to an activity 

 
The terrorist don't care about colletaral damage when they attemp suicide attack.
Mom's new vase was destoryed by colleteral damage when kids were playing in the kitchen.



Hereditary - (of ​characteristics or ​diseases) ​passed from the ​genes of a ​parent to a ​child, or (of ​titles and ​positions in ​society) ​passed from ​parent to a ​child as a ​right



Depression is often hereditary.
Becouse his title is hereditary, he will now be known as King Joffrey the First.

 

Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend

http://www.ted.com/talks/kelly_mcgonigal_how_to_make_stress_your_friend/transcript?language=en#t-518179

Impromptu - With little or no preparation

Joseph forgot to prepare tedtalk for our classes so he needed to make something up impromptu.

Being able to play the role impromptu is what only the best actors can do.

Unbeknownst - Happening or existing without the knowledge of someone specified

 Most of human slavery is unbeknowst to police.

There are many people hurt by depression and we walk by them unbeknowst.

Nudging - To push against gently, especially in order to gain attention or give a signal

I was nudging the guy buying coffee in Starbucks becouse I knew him from my highschool times.

She was frightined to go into the building so I nudged her to encourage her.

 Constrict - To squeeze or compress

Snakes constrict their prey before they eat them.

Let's constrict this lemons for a juice!

Pituitary gland  - a small, oval endocrine gland attached by a stalk to the base of the brain and consisting of an anterior and a posterior lobe (przysadka mózgowa)

Pituitary gland is positioned under the human brain and it cooperates the hormones in organism.