Why Your Brain Thinks You're Full (Even When You're Not) - Vocabulary

Vocabulary practice cards featuring high-band words and definitions from the episode 'Why Your Brain Thinks You're Full (Even When You're Not)' by The Rest Is Science.

Bypass

To go around or avoid something instead of dealing with it directly; to take an alternative route that skips a normal process.

Coincided

Happened at the same time as something else; occurred together by chance or design.

Satiety

The feeling of being full and satisfied after eating; the state of having had enough food.

Tweaked

Made small adjustments or improvements to something in order to improve its performance or effectiveness.

Hitching a ride

Attaching to something larger or more powerful in order to be carried along; getting a free or easy journey by joining something else.

Trickle

To flow or move slowly in small amounts; to arrive or be released gradually rather than all at once.

Disintegrate

To break into small pieces or fall apart; to lose structure and become fragmented.

Satiate

To fully satisfy a desire, appetite, or need so that it is no longer felt.

Accelerate

To make something happen faster or increase the speed of a process.

Quell

To put an end to, suppress, or calm something (especially a feeling, desire, or disturbance).

suspend

To stop an activity, service, or process for a period of time.

Example: The company suspended its operations.

Counterproductive

Having the opposite effect to the one that was intended

Example: “Working extremely long hours without rest can actually be counterproductive.”

Incentives

Things that motivate or encourage someone to do something, often by offering a reward or advantage.

Example:“Financial incentives can strongly influence people’s behaviour.”

Staples

Basic or standard items that are regularly used, accepted, or relied upon (especially in a particular field or diet)

“Rice and bread are dietary staples in many cultures around the world.

Fluke

Something that happens purely by chance rather than by skill, design, or regular pattern;

Example:“…just by fluke alone, one of them is going to look like a real result when it isn’t

Obnoxious

Extremely unpleasant, offensive, or annoying.

Example:“It’s completely obnoxious that I’ll hear about something… and then I can only read the paper if I pay

$98 per month.”

Conceivable

Possible to imagine, believe or understand

“Every conceivable option has already been carefully considered.”

Insatiable

Impossible to satisfy completely; always wanting or needing more.

Example:“She has an insatiable curiosity about how the natural world work

Circumscribe

To restrict or limit something within certain boundaries

Example:“Don’t circumscribe people. Allow them to go, ‘Oh, I have the freedom to be different than that.’

Bluntly

In a direct, plain, and straightforward way, without trying to be polite or soft.

example: “He told them bluntly that the current plan was unlikely to succeed.

Trivial

Of little importance, value, or seriousness; not worth much attention.

example:“…they can be about the most trivial things but yet the act of talking about them is not trivial at all

Amputation

The surgical removal of a limb or other body part.

Example: e: After the accident, the doctors decided that amputation of the lower leg was necessary to save his life.

Incinerate

To destroy something completely by burning it.

Example: Hospitals often incinerate medical waste, including amputated tissue, to prevent the spread of disease.

Provenance

The origin or history of ownership of an object, especially one of artistic or historical value.

Example: Many human skeletons for sale have dubious provenance,

Dubious

Of questionable value, honesty, or legality; doubtful.

Example: Buying bones of uncertain origin raises serious ethical concerns because of their dubious history.

Indignity

Definition: Treatment or circumstances that cause one to feel shame or loss of dignity.

Example: Having one’s body stripped naked after death was considered an additional indignity.

Steward

Definition: A person who manages or looks after something; to take care of something carefully.

Example: The idea that body parts will ‘testify against you’ encourages people to be good stewards of their own bodies.

Meticulously

Definition: In a way that shows great attention to detail; very carefully and precisely.

Example: The body-snatchers meticulously stripped the corpses of their clothes

Venerate

Definition: To regard with great respect or reverence.

Example: He said he did not want his remains to be venerated; he preferred them to be treated lightly or returned to the earth.