GET A LIFE

 VERBS
Pursue: To try to achieve something over a long period of time
Collocations: Pursue a goal/aim/ambition/career
“She pursued studies in accounting”
Plank: To cover, build, or floor with planks (a long, flat piece of wood)
“I’ve reframed, replanked and redesigned”
Frame: To put together a structure (armar)
Gut: To remove the inside parts and contents of a building, usually so that it can be decorated in a
completely new way
“I’ve gutted boats”
Shrink: To become smaller or to make something smaller
Grow: To increase in size or amount
“But rather than grow the business, we shrank it back down to 2”
Relish: To enjoy or feel pleasure at something (disfrutar, deleitarse)
“After a year on the job, and after relishing every moment of it”
Reckon with: 1) To consider something important when you are making plans, and so, be prepared
for it. 2) To be forced to deal with a difficult or powerful person/thing (lidiar con)
“Galston had to reckon with the fallout from success”
Outgrow: To no longer do or enjoy something that you used to
“Friendships we have outgrown”
Vow: To make a determined decision or promise to do something (similar to pledge: To make a
serious or formal promise)
“They vowed to get a life, and did”
Pose: To cause something, especially a problem or difficulty
Collocations: To pose a threat/danger/challenge/risk/problem
“This is one of the first challenges I pose to my students”
Untangle: (literal) To remove the knots from an untidy mass of strings, wire, etc. (Metaphor) To
make a complicated subject or problem clear and able to understand
“If you untangle those questions”
Pump: To force a liquid or gas to move somewhere
Collocations: The adrenaline pums. Water/air/beer pums
Lodge: To make an official complaint about something (interponer una demanda)
“No one would lodge that charge against Larry”
Be drawn to: To be attracted by
“You start by looking at the work you’re drawn to”
Endorse: To say publicly that you support a person or action (apoyar, respaldar)
“Deborah Lee endorses this approach”
Utter: To say something or to make a sound with your voice (pronunciar algo)
“These notable figures have all uttered this all-too-familiar phrase”
Cofound: To start an organization with someone else
Confound: To confuse; to perplex and amaze by a sudden disturbance
Overlook: Not notice something; fail to see how important something is
“People overlook their environmental constraints”
Run something: (usually a business) to operate; to manage; to direct
Tackle: To try to stop a problem and deal with it
“I get the same satisfaction I got when I tackled complex software problems”
 EXPRESSIONS/COLLOCATIONS
Get a life!: Used to tell somebody that you think they are boring and should find more exciting
things to do.
Throw yourself into something: Start to do something with enthusiasm and vigour
“She threw herself into client work”
Make partner: To become partner in a firm
You name it: Used to express the extent or variety of something (etc, lo que se te ocurra)
Hold up your end: To fulfill or attend to one’s obligations; to continue to deal with difficulties bravely
and successfully
“I work only with people who are willing to hold up their end”
Take a toll: To have a very bad a effect on somebody/something over a long period of time (pasar
factura)
“He began to understand the real toll the assignment was taking”
Work up the nerve: To find the courage to do something
“It took Galston six months to work up the nerve to walk into the Oval Office”
To be out of touch: Not have the latest knowledge about a subject, situation, or the way people feel
“Children we’re out of touch with”
Hold sb back from: To prevent somebody from making progress
“What’s holding them back from taking the chance?”
Stop short: To stop or cause to stop suddenly and abruptly (parar en seco)
“There was something about the way he sad it-a combination of sadness and fear that stopped me
short”
Call your shots: To make the important decisions
“I missed being able to call my own shots”
Drop a hint: To suggest something without saying it directly
“Phillips kept dropping hints that she liked what she saw in the department”
Follow the herd: To do what most people do (seguir al rebaño, a la masa)
“You follow the herd and you may not find out until it’s too late that the herd is leading you right off
the cliff”
To put it mildly: Used for saying that something is much more extreme than what your words
suggest (para decirlo suavemente)
To sb’s credit: Deserving praise and respect (a su favor)
Work your way up: To make progress in a process or structure
“He worked his way up to bigger boats”
Have the guts: To be brave enough
“She asked where I had gotten the guts to start my own company”
Wreak a havoc on something: To cause a lot of damage or problems (causar estragos)
“Thinking about these cutoff points can wreak a havoc on our sense of self-worth”
Stare sb in the face: If something stares you in the face, it is very easy to see or obvious
“Sometimes the answer is staring you in the face”
 PHRASAL VERBS
Bring in: To make money
“Bring in revenue”
Step off / Step into: To stop doing something; to leave something / To start doing something; to be
involved in a situation
“Phillips stepped off the partnership track and into human resources”
Get ahead: To be successful in the work that you do
Drop off: To take something somewhere
“To drop off a check”
Slow down: To be less active and relax more
“As long as our work is so vital that we can’t slow down”
Block out: To arrange to have time or space for something for something by planning in advance
“I sit down at the beginning of the year and block out 9 o 8 weeks of time away from the office”
  ADJECTIVES
Together: Someone who is together is confident, mentally and emotionally stable, and well
organized
Undisputed: Undoubted; something everyone agrees about it
“He is an undisputed master of his craft”
So-called: Commonly named; falsely or improperly named (supuesto, así llamado)
“My so-called life”
Constrained: limited, forced to do something and overly controlled (constreñido, forzado, limitado)
“But I was very constrained. My time wasn’t my own. Myself wasn’t my own”
Accomplished: (person) very skillful at a particular thing; proficient
Wide-ranging: Including a wide variety of subjects, things or people
“Smith has led an accomplished and wide-ranging career”
Rewarding: Satisfying
Duplicitous: Deceitful, deceptive (falso, hipócrita)
“Almost everyone has suffered from an arrogant boss or a duplicitous colleague”
Plum (job/role/assignment): A good job, role or assignment that pays well and that other people
wish they had
“Do you have the discipline to turn down a plum assignment if it would mean working with jerks?”
Cautionary: Giving a warning about what not to do (de advertencia)
Collocations: A cautionary statement/note/comment/tale
All-too: Overly (muy)
All-consuming: Taking almost of all your energy and time (agotador, extenuante)
“It’s all consuming to create a company”
Driven: Determined to achieve something or be successful
“A driven guy”
Committed to: Willing to give your time and energy to something that you believe in
“I’m still committed to success”
One-sided: Considering or showing only one side of a question, subject, etc, in a way that is unfair,
unequal
“And achievement-oriented people tend to make one-sided comparisons”
 NOUNS
Revenue: The income that a government or company receives regularly
Craft: An activity that involves skill in making things by hand
Deputy: A person who is given the power to act instead of, or to help do the work of another person
(also, diputado)
Aide: A person whose job is to help someone important, especially a member of a government, or a
military officer of high rank (asistente)
Wake-up call: A significant event or situation that makes you realize that you need to take action to
change a situation
“When Bill Galston got a life, official Washington got a wake-up call”
Pundit: A person who knows a lot about a particular subject and that is often asked to give an
opinion about it (erudito, especialista en)
“Career pundits looked for deeper meaning”
Prism: A glass or other transparent object in the form of prism. (Metaphor) Used to refer to the
clarification afforded by a particular viewpoint
“Fatherhood is the prism through which I see the world”
Fallout: The unpleasant results or effects of an action or event (los efectos secundarios, las secuelas)
Guru: A religious leader; a person skilled in something who gives advice (guía espiritual/maestro)
Qualm: An uncomfortable feeling when you doubt if you are doing the right thing (escrúpulo)
“My biggest qualm about taking the job was that a Cabinet secretary’s life wouldn’t allow me
enough time with my children”
Sweet spot: An optimum point or combination or factors or qualities for a particular activity or
purpose
“I think there is a sweet spot that each of us has”
Staffer: Employee
Stand-in: Someone who does what another person was going to because the other person cannot
be there (sustituto, suplente)
“HR needed a stand-in for an ill staffer who was scheduled to make an important recruiting trip”
Recruiting: The process of locating and attracting qualified applicants for jobs
Interface: The area in which two subjects links with each other (punto de contacto)
“I didn’t have to be the interface with clients all the time”
Constraint: Something that limits your freedom to do what you want
Collocations: Financial/environmental/political constraints
Response: 1) An answer, 2) A reaction that can be either verbal or non-verbal
“We can’t control our emotional responses to their behaviour”
Corrective: Something that improves a situation, an action done to rectify something
“Famous people are promoting this corrective to professional excess”
Ounce: A very small amount of something (una pizca)
“You won’t detect an ounce of regret”
MBA: Master of business administration
Cut-off point: The limit where no further action permitted or possible (tope, máximo)
“All success is relative- especially in competitions with cleat cutoff points”
Fast track: The quickest route to a successful position
“My first steps along a career path were right for the fast track”
Payoff: 1) A payment made to someone, especially as a bribe or on leaving a job (soborno;
indemnización por despido). 2) The benefit gained as the result of a previous action (recompensa,
fruto, beneficio)
“Why do so many people feel dissatisfied not with the price they’ve paid but with the payoff?”
Blue-chip company: A recognized, well-established, and successful company. (Usually IT
-information technology- companies)
Internal Revenue Service: AFIP afuera
Enterprise: Business or organization
Entrepeneur: A person who organizes and operates a business, taking on greater than normal
financial risks in order to do so
Entrepeneurship: (noun derivado del noun anterior): The factor of production involving organizing
of the other factors and risks taking; business initiative
Alma mater: The school, college, or university where you studied
“I rejoined the choir of my alma mater”
Chairman: A person in charge of a meeting or organization
Partnership track: The transition from associate to partner, which is a long-established process that
typically occurs over a set period of time
Opportunity cost: The loss of other alternatives when one alternative is chose (costo de
oportunidad)
“Too many people underestimate the opportunity cost of their time”
Line of work: The work that a person does regularly in order to earn money
“Half of all Americans would choose a new like of work if they had the chance”

MASSAGING OUT BAD MEMORIES

 VERBS
Seek: To try to find or get something
Collocations: Seek somebody’s advice/help/assistance
“She sought his help after both weight lifting and rigorous exercise added neither muscle no firmness
to her skinny, soft body”
Shiver: To shake because you are cold or frightened (tiritar)
Tremble: To shake slightly
Quiver: To shake slightly
“Her jaw quivers”
Whimper: To make quiet crying sounds because of fear or pain
Whine: Make a long, high-pitched complaining cry or sound
“The quivering and whining subside”
Yank: To pull suddenly and sharply
“My mom was yanking me by my hair”
Elicit: To cause to appear; to evoke
Collocations: To elicit the answer
“Are there possible dangers in eliciting it?”
Clench: To close or hold something very tightly (apretar, contraer)
Collocations: Clench your teeth/your muscles
“We unconsciously clench the muscles that normally would be used in expressing those emotions”
Tumble: (Literal) To fall quickly and without control. (Metaphor) To come out in a disorderly way
“It’s like opening the door to a jam-packed closet. Past feelings come tumbling down”
Trigger: To initiate a reaction, process or chain of events; to provoke; to cause to appear. If
something triggers something, this last something arises
Collocations: Triggering factor (factores desencadenantes)
“Touch alone, however, does not necessarily trigger the memory”
Uproot: (literal) To pull a plant including its roots out of the ground. (metaphor) To remove violently
“Have a bodyworker to help you uproot those memories”
Underlie: Lie beneath; to be a hidden cause of or a strong influence on something (subyacer, estar
debajo de)
“Buried memories underlie an ailment”
 EXPRESSIONS/COLLOCATIONS
Liken sb/sth to sb/sth: To say that sb/sth is similar to or has the same qualities as sb/sth else
“Daniel Alkon likens the process to a tape recording”
Loosen your grip: To reduce the power or control you have over someone/something
“Fear and anxiety gradually loosened their overwhelming grip on her”
 PHRASAL VERBS
Lift sb out of sth: To improve the situation that sb/sth is in
“Rolfing is helping her lift up and out of her collapsed body structure”
Get away: To escape from sb who is trying to catch you
“I couldn’t get away, I didn’t know how to run yet”
 ADJECTIVES
Rigorous: Very sever or strict
Needy: 1) Poor. 2) Wanting or needing affection, attention or reassurance
“Her body made her feel insecure, needy and ineffectual”
Ineffectual: Not producing any significant or desired effect; not skilled at achieving, or not able to
produce good results
Constricted: Narrowed, restricted
“My throat feels constricted”
Hostile: Angry and unfriendly towards someone
Undischarged: Not released or allowed to flow
“Undischarged energy is bound up in the form of character armour”
Inhibited: Held back, restrained
“Inhibited breathing”
Jam-packed: Completely full of people or things that are pushed closely together (atiborrado)
Embedded: Fixed and firmly. If an emotion, opinion, etc is embedded in someone, it is a strong part
of him/her
“As in Macie’s case, holding patterns can be embedded even before we’re capable of mentally
perceiving what is happening”
Bound up in sth: If something is bound up in a particular place, it is fixed in that form or contained in
that place
Half-baked: (literal) Only partly baked. (metaphor) Lacking experience and mature judgment
“Half-baked pop psychologists with the barest knowledge of transference and counter-transference”
Grounded: Mentally and emotionally stable, admirably sensible, realistic and unpretentious
“She also took up karate, which allowed her to apply her new sense of groundedness”
Meek: Quiet, gentle, and not willing to argue or express your feelings in a forceful way (manso,
humilde, sumiso)
 NOUNS
Adjunct TO: A thing added to something else as a supplementary
“Talk therapy could be a helpful adjunct to bodywork”
Evocation: The act of bringing or recalling a feeling, memory or image (evocación, recuerdo)
“Marcie’s sudden evocation of a body memory is not unique”
Connective tissue: The strong material that supports and connects the organs in the body
“When a body worker helps someone relax the muscular and connective tissue where the memories
are stored”
Holding pattern: A condition of no progress or change
Ailment: A minor, but often persistent illness
Similar words: Disease (a more severe medical problem, especially those that affect the organs.
Diseases can be communicable like malaria, influenza, etc, or non communicable like cancer or
diabetes); Illness (It is used to talk about both severe and minor medical problems, and those that
affect mental health); Syndrome (The occurrence of several associated medical sings, symptoms or
other characteristics); Disorder (A functional abnormality or disturbance).
“If you suspect that buried memories underlie an ailment”
Repression: The process and effect of keeping particular thoughts and wishes out of your conscious
mind in order to defend it or protect it
“Repression of the memory may have been the means of surviving the original trauma”
Character armour: The defense an individual an individual exhibits to others and to himself/herself
to disguise his/her underlying weaknesses
Transference: A situation in which a person who is receiving treatment transfers their thoughts and
emotions to someone else
Pop psychology: Beliefes about psychology which are not based on science

THE END OF PRIVACY

 VERBS
Pool: To collect money, information, etc, so that it can be used by all them; to combine; to put
together (hacer una vaquita, aportar)
“People are continually creating information about themselves that is recorded and often sold or
pooled with information from other sources”
Advocate: To publicly support or suggest an idea, development or way of doing something
Erode: To gradually reduce something such as someone’s power or confidence
“Privacy is doomed for the same reason that it has been eroded so fast over the past two decades”
Surrender: To stop fighting because you now the other side will win (rendirse)
Obstruct: To block
“It is more likely that laws will be used not to obstruct the recording and collection of information”
Forsake-forsook-forsaken: To renounce; to stop doing something or leave something, especially
something that you enjoy (renunciar, abandoner)
“People may prefer to forsake the huge benefits that the new information economy promises”
Prosecute: To accuse someone of a crime in a court of law (interponer una acción)
“Prosecute criminals”
Encrypt: To change electronic information into a secret code that people cannot understand or use
on normal equipment (cifrar, codificar)
“Encrypt your e-mail”
Restrain: To control the actions or behavior of someone by force, especially in order to stop them
from doing something, or to limit the growth or force of something
“Attempts to restrain the surveillance society through new laws will intensify”
Monitor: To watch, keep track of, or check usually for a special purpose (monitorear, controlar)
“If most urban streets are monitored by intelligent video cameras that can identify criminals”
Keep track of: To make certain that you know what is happening or has happened to someone or
something
Keep tabs on: To carefully watch sb/sth in order to learn what that person or thing is doing; to keep
under observation;
Trace: To find or discover by investigation (rastrear)
“Your movements can be traced”
Regain: To get sth you no longer have, especially an ability or quality
Collocations: Regain consciousness/balance/dignity
 NOUNS
Advocate: Someone who publicly supports something (Defensor)
“The goal of privacy advocates is not extreme”
Social-security number: A number given by the government to each person that needs to get a job
or pay taxes.
Toll-booth: A special gate or line of gates on a road where drivers have to stop and pay
Chimera: A hope or dream that is extremely unlikely to come true (utopía, fantasía)
“To try to restore the privacy that was universal in the 1970s is to chase a chimera”
Surveillance: The careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army (vigilancia)
“Attempts to restrain the surveillance society through new laws will intensify”
Policing: The maintenance of law and order by a police force
Respite: A short period of rest from something difficult or unpleasant (respire)
“They may offer a brief respite for those determined, whatever the trouble or cost, to protect
themselves”
Surrender: The act of stopping fighting and officially admitting defeat (rendición)
“Will seem worth the surrender of a bit more personal information”
Bargain: 1) Something that is sold for less than its usual price; 2) An agreement between people
“You are a bargain shopper who always buys the specials on sale”
“The cumulative effect of these bargains—each attractive on their own—will be the end of privacy”
All-knowingness: Omniscience
“Escaping the claustrophobic all-knowingness of a village for the relative anonymity of the city”
Telemarketer: A person or company that sells a product or service by phone
Alibi: 1) Proof that someone who is thought to have committed a crime could not have done it,
especially the fact or statement that they were in another place at the time it happened. 2) An
excuse for something bad or for a failure
“If you are accused of murdering someone but your alibi is that you were out of town”
 ADJECTIVES
Zealous: Enthusiastic and eager (fanático, entusiasta)
“It is advice being offered by the more zealous of today's privacy campaigners”
Bitter: A bitter agreement, dispute, battle, struggle, is one in which people oppose or criticize each
other with strongs feelings of hate and anger
“Disputes about privacy will become more bitter”
Bold prediction/statement: Something that could possibly become true, but it is very unlikely
Elusive: Difficult to describe, find, achieve or remember; avoiding capture (escurridizo)
“The privacy they take for granted today will be just as elusive as the privacy of the 1970s now
seems”
Residual: Remaining after most of something has gone
“Privacy is a residual value”
Egregious: Extremely bad in a way that is very noticeable; flagrant (atroz)
“This could remedy the most egregious intrusions”
Antithetical: Exactly opposite to something (atitético, opuesto)
“Such a property right would be antithetical to an open society”
Law-abiding: Someone who is law-abiding obeys the law
“Mass invasion of personal privacy is not a concern for the law-abiding citizen”
Thriving: Successful, growing, developing, flourishing, booming (próspero)
“The thriving trade in information would not only be costly in itself”
Unprecedented: Never having happened or existed in the past (sin precedentes)
“Gives individuals unprecedented control over information about themselves”
Unlisted: Not included in the public list of phone numbers belonging to the customers of a
telephone company
Life-threatening: Capable of causing death; potentially fatal
“Not carrying the card could be life-threatening”
Prized: Considered valuable and important (apreciado)
“No means of regaining any of it without giving up your prized individualism”
Proliferating: Increasing rapidly in number
“Policing the proliferating number of databases”
 PHRASAL VERBS
Fill in: To put information in spaces provided
Opt out (of): To choose not to participate in something; exclude yourself (desvincularse, excluirse)
“Opting out of information-gathering is becoming harder and less attractive”
Hook up: To connect sb/sth to a piece of electronic equipment, to a power, supply or to the internet
“hook up electricity”
Hold back: To prevent the progress or development of something
“All these efforts to hold back the electronic intrusion into privacy will fail”
Couple with: If one thing is coupled with another, the two things happen or exist together and
produce a particular result (sumar)
“The feeling of being alone is now, for many, coupled with the feeling of being observed”
 EXPRESSIONS/COLLOCATIONS
Impose a burden: To trouble someone with something difficult or unpleasant (abrumar)
“It would also impose huge burdens on the economy”
Turn your back on: To reject or abandon
“They will not do unless they too have turned their backs on modern reality”
To be a pawn in somebody else’s game: To be manipulated or used for some purpose
“You are nothing more than a pawn in somebody else’s game”
To feel like a rat in a maze: To feel controlled or observed as if you were a rat in a psychology
experiment
Years hence: Used to refer to a time in the future, especially a long time in the future
“But 20 years hence most people will find that the privacy they take for granted today”
To say nothing of: Not to mention; used to mention another related point. (Ni hablar de)