This episode’s vocabulary
Influence
noun — the power to have an effect on people or things.
Formative
adj. — developing and not yet completely formed.
Encouraging
adj. — making you feel more confidence or hope.
Inconsistent
adj. — not staying the same in behaviour or quality.
Peer
noun — a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in a group.
Infuriating
adj. — extremely annoying.
Disobedience
noun — the quality of being disobedient (= refusing to do what someone in authority tells you to do).
Roughhouse
verb — to fight in a way that is not serious.
Upbringing
noun — the way in which you are treated and educated when young, especially by your parents, especially in relation to the effect that this has on how you behave and make moral decisions.
Consequence
noun — a result of a particular action or situation, often one that is bad or not convenient.
Clamp down on sth
verb — to take strong action to stop or limit a harmful or unwanted activity.
Clip around the ear
noun — a quick hit on the side of someone's head.
Prevention
noun — the act of stopping something from happening or of stopping someone from doing something.
Anticipate
verb — to imagine or expect that something will happen.
Arise
verb — to happen.
Operate
verb — to (cause to) work, be in action or have an effect.
Laxity
noun — behaviour that shows little care, attention, or control.
Anxious
adj. — worried and nervous.
Go off the deep end
idiom — get very angry about something or lose control of yourself.
Pendulum
noun — a device consisting of a weight on a stick or thread that moves from one side to the other, especially one that forms a part of some types of clocks.
Counteract
verb — to reduce or remove the effect of something unwanted by producing an opposite effect.
Dysfunctional
adj. — not behaving or working normally.
Triad
noun — three related things that form a group.
Consistent
adj. — always behaving or happening in a similar, especially positive, way.
Empowered
adj. — having the official authority or freedom to do something.
Enforce
verb — to make people obey a law, or to make a particular situation happen or be accepted.
