Essential Vocabulary for Progress and Transformation

Posted on Sep 9, 2025 in Medicine & Health

Vocabulary for Progress, Change, and Achievement

Make improvements to: make changes to make something better.
Influencing: having an effect on someone’s decisions or behavior.
Make advances in + -ing: make progress in something.
Turning point: a time when an important change takes place in a situation.
Transform: make someone or something completely different.
Inspire: give someone the enthusiasm to do or create something.
Overcome difficulties: succeed in dealing with or controlling problems.
Make the world of difference: have an extremely important and beneficial effect on something.
Remarkable achievement: a very surprising or impressive accomplishment.
Seek ways to improve: try to find, look for, or search for methods to make something better.
Tackle or face issues/problems: to deal with or confront difficulties.

Subtle changes: changes that people would hardly notice.
Unexpected changes: changes that we were not expecting to make.
Refreshing changes: a change that is different and exciting.
Considerable change: a change that is large and noticeable.
Far-reaching change: a change that will affect a lot of people in an important way.
Dramatic changes: changes that are sudden and surprising.

Look back on: remember.
Stand up for: fight for, support.
Miss out on something: to lose an opportunity to experience something good.
Keep up with: be up to date.
Come up against: face, confront.
Get on with: to continue doing something, or to have a good relationship with someone.
Downfall: a sudden loss of power, status, or success.
Drop-off: a place where passengers are let out of vehicles.
Upbringing: the way that parents look after their children and teach them to behave.
Breakthrough: a discovery or achievement that comes after a lot of hard work.
Setback: a problem that delays or stops progress or makes a situation worse.
Changeover: a change from one method, system, or activity to another.

Orphan: a child whose parents have died.
Swipe: move your finger across the screen of a smartphone.
Asylum seeker: someone who asks to live in another country because they are in danger in their own country.
Supply chain: the process of getting a product from its origin to the consumer.

Life expectancy: the length of time that someone is likely to live.
Population growth: an increase in the number of people living in a particular area.
Senior citizens: people who are typically 65 years old or older.
End poverty: stop a situation where people do not have enough money to pay for their basic needs.
Ageing population: a population in which the proportion of older individuals is increasing.
Own their own property: possess land and the buildings on it.
Have been made homeless: to be in a situation where you are without a place to live.
A tiny minority of: a very small number of people that are part of a larger group but different in some way.
Individual privacy: the personal freedom to do things without other people watching you or knowing what you are doing.
Protect your identity: keep your personal information and who you are safe from loss or harm.

Live and learn: discover something surprising all the time.
Live and let live: accept other people’s beliefs and way of life, even if they are very different.
Lived happily ever after: had happy lives forever.
Live the dream: to be truly leading an ideal life.
Live for the moment: enjoy the present time and not worry about the future.
Live in the past: still think and talk about the past.

Appealing: attractive and interesting.
Unbeatable: better than anything else of the same type.
Worthwhile: worth the time, money, and effort.
First-rate: of the highest quality.
Well-established: having existed for a long time and having been successful or accepted for a long time.
Efficient: working well and producing good results.
Convenient: easy to use or suitable for a particular purpose.
Effortless: done well and successfully, without any effort.
Affordable: cheap enough for ordinary people to buy.
Standard: with a level of quality considered normal.